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Post by pupdurcs on May 11, 2024 23:30:57 GMT
Acting pairings that feel like they obviously should have happened by now, but for some reason, haven't.
Like, how the fuck have these two avoided each other onscreen for so long? (and no, I don't count a phone voice in Eyes Wide Shut)
Who else feels like an obvious acting pairing, but have yet to happen?
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Post by stephen on May 11, 2024 23:39:55 GMT
Honestly, ever since Unhinged, I think the universe has been building to a Nicolas Cage vs. Russell Crowe cinematic face-off (heh) for a while now. Crowe's been sublimely entertaining in his latter-day schlock era, and I think he really could do with Panos Cosmatos scooping him up for his own Mandy.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 11, 2024 23:46:07 GMT
Honestly, ever since Unhinged, I think the universe has been building to a Nicolas Cage vs. Russell Crowe cinematic face-off (heh) for a while now. Crowe's been sublimely entertaining in his latter-day schlock era, and I think he really could do with Panospace Cosmatos scooping him up for his own Mandy. Well, that was never an obvious pairing to me, but when you put it that way, they both have the same air of former A-listers vying for King Of The B-movie space  . I want Crowe to get out of his schlock era though. He's too good an actor to be doing that stuff as his bread and butter. |
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Post by stephen on May 11, 2024 23:49:47 GMT
Honestly, ever since Unhinged, I think the universe has been building to a Nicolas Cage vs. Russell Crowe cinematic face-off (heh) for a while now. Crowe's been sublimely entertaining in his latter-day schlock era, and I think he really could do with Panos Cosmatos scooping him up for his own Mandy. Well, that was never an obvious pairing to me, but when you put it that way, they both have the same air of former A-listers vying for King Of The B-movie space . I want Crowe to get out of his schlock era though. Oh, I am not saying I want their showdown to be in schlock. I want an enterprising director to realize the sort of gold is in those hills with a potential Crowe/Cage team-up. These are still Oscar-winning talents, among the very best of their generation. But I look at Cage's last few years and realize that I want to see Crowe's Mandy and his Pig as well. Hell, give me Rusty's Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. |
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Post by finniussnrub on May 11, 2024 23:51:28 GMT
Seems too late now with his retirement, but Day-Lewis, and really any male actor near or at his stature.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 11, 2024 23:56:04 GMT
Well, that was never an obvious pairing to me, but when you put it that way, they both have the same air of former A-listers vying for King Of The B-movie space . I want Crowe to get out of his schlock era though. Oh, I am not saying I want their showdown to be in schlock. I want an enterprising director to realize the sort of gold is in those hills with a potential Crowe/Cage team-up. These are still Oscar-winning talents, among the very best of their generation. But I look at Cage's last few years and realize that I want to see Crowe's Mandy and his Pig as well. Hell, give me Rusty's Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. has been doing funky B-movies for awhile. I mean, the Rza directed The Man With The Iron Fists is absolutely the kind of movie you'd expect to find Cage in, and that was 2012. |
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Post by stephen on May 11, 2024 23:59:07 GMT
Oh, I am not saying I want their showdown to be in schlock. I want an enterprising director to realize the sort of gold is in those hills with a potential Crowe/Cage team-up. These are still Oscar-winning talents, among the very best of their generation. But I look at Cage's last few years and realize that I want to see Crowe's Mandy and his Pig as well. Hell, give me Rusty's Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. has been doing funky B-movies for awhile. I mean, the Rza directed The Man With The Iron Fists is absolutely the kind of movie you'd expect to find Cage in, and that was 2012. I actually like The Man with the Iron Fists.  |
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Post by sirchuck23 on May 12, 2024 0:00:55 GMT
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(464x139:466x141)/samuel-l-jackson-denzel-washington-1-254a7b842cd24c4a92c9d2c97f2cc9cf.jpg) Great friends and icons who both came from the New York theater scene. Both starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play A Soldier's Play in 1981. And no...I don't count Mo Better' Blues. They were both originally planned to be in Da 5 Bloods together but scheduling got in the way. Hopefully they can do a film together while both are still here. |
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 0:03:49 GMT
Seems too late now with his retirement, but Day-Lewis, and really any male actor near or at his stature. The one to make with Day-Lewis is clearly Denzel. They both in the past 15 years or so have seemed to be the consensus picks among critics and their peers for being the greatest actor alive. Since Paul Thomas Anderson is trying to do a project with Washington, the best hope of it happening is PTA having a film with roles for both of them and coaxing DDL out of retirement. Won't hold my breath though. |
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Post by getclutch on May 12, 2024 0:19:56 GMT
Great friends and icons who both came from the New York theater scene. Both starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play A Soldier's Play in 1981. And no...I don't count Mo Better' Blues. They were both originally planned to be in Da 5 Bloods together but scheduling got in the way. Hopefully they can do a film together while both are still here. Good one. I'd still add Laurence Fishburne to this equation. The three seemed to have a rivalry in the 90's if I'm not mistaken.    |
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 0:22:49 GMT
Great friends and icons who both came from the New York theater scene. Both starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play A Soldier's Play in 1981. And no...I don't count Mo Better' Blues. They were both originally planned to be in Da 5 Bloods together but scheduling got in the way. Hopefully they can do a film together while both are still here. This is even more surprising because Jackson is so ridiculously prolific, and loves to work. The odds of him being offered a substantial role in multiple Washington projects over the years is pretty high. I understand why you don't, but I do personally count Mo Better Blues as Sam and Denzel working together, because they shared at least one scene together physically (though I do believe they should do something where both have big roles). Yes, Sam is a minor character and Denzel is the lead, but I still feel like they did a project together as live-action actors. Below, Sam and his crony beating up Denzel's character in Mo Better Blues. |
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Post by sirchuck23 on May 12, 2024 0:30:10 GMT
Great friends and icons who both came from the New York theater scene. Both starred in the Pulitzer Prize winning play A Soldier's Play in 1981. And no...I don't count Mo Better' Blues. They were both originally planned to be in Da 5 Bloods together but scheduling got in the way. Hopefully they can do a film together while both are still here. This is even more surprising because Jackson is so ridiculously prolific, and loves to work. The odds of him being offered a substantial role in multiple Washington projects over the years is pretty high. I understand why you don't, but I do personally count Mo Better Blues as Sam and Denzel working together, because they shared at least one scene together physically (though I do believe they should do something where both have big roles). Yes, Sam is a minor character and Denzel is the lead, but I still feel like they did a project together as live-action actors. Below, Sam and his crony beating up Denzel's character in Mo Better Blues. I remember that scene for sure and they did interact, but when I think of an acting pairing I think two actors who have at least a few scenes together and substantial dialogue between the two. I would count something like Denzel and Christopher Walken in Man on Fire as an acting pairing. The Mo Better Blues interaction between Denzel and Sam is a little bit better than what we got with Denzel and Meryl in The Manchurian Candidate where they just looked at each other for a split second in "sharing a scene". I'm still a little peeved on that one even though it serves that story. I mean we may never get Denzel and Meryl in the same movie again. |
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Post by franklin on May 12, 2024 0:30:51 GMT
Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix.
They are almost like the DeNiro and Pacino of our time, or at least certainly they are considered by the majority as the two greatest American actors of their generation.
Possibly directed by Scorsese, PTA, or even Tarantino for his final film.
It just should happen.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 0:43:48 GMT
Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix.They are almost like the DeNiro and Pacino of our time, or at least certainly they are considered by the majority as the two greatest American actors of their generation. Possibly directed by Scorsese, PTA, or even Tarantino for his final film. It just should happen. Agreed, this is an obvious pairing. I'd add to that... Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale (though Bale reportedly had serious issues with Leo when he was younger, so I can see why that hasn't happened. I think he's over it now, as he's spoken in very positive terms about Leo in recent years). And Joaquin Phoenix and Christian Bale.I personally think Matt Damon is the best leading man of their generation, but he's already worked with Leo in The Departed and Bale in Ford And Ferrari. He just needs to add Phoenix to complete the set. |
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Post by futuretrunks on May 12, 2024 4:53:10 GMT
Nah, Phoenix was only good for that bout until 2012 or so. The real pairing would be Gosling and Leo, or Leo and Denzel.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 7:38:20 GMT
It's never going to happen at this point, considering their age and one of them being in retirement, but:
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 8:00:17 GMT
Also, these two are starting to feel overdue:
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Post by franklin on May 12, 2024 9:28:58 GMT
It's never going to happen at this point, considering their age and one of them being in retirement, but: I said it in another thread, but these two in the same picture during the 70s, 80s or 90s, would have been mindblowing. The screen would have literally burst due to the excess of charisma and swagger. |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on May 12, 2024 12:01:34 GMT
DDL AND DENZEL DDL AND GARY OLDMAN DDL AND RALPH FIENNES MERYL STREEP AND JESSICA LANGE
MERYL STREEP AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER MERYL STREEP AND SISSY SPACEK MERYL STREEP AND HELEN MIRREN
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Post by paulgallo on May 12, 2024 14:09:10 GMT
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Post by pupdurcs on May 12, 2024 21:42:13 GMT
I feel these two kind of should have happened onscreen. Longtime friends, Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor Oscar for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which Michael Douglas produced and won the Best Picture Oscar for. But they never acted together. I think particularly when Douglas came into his own as a leading man and star in the late 80's and 90"s, they'd have made for a dynamic screen pairing.
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Post by pupdurcs on May 13, 2024 3:34:30 GMT
In their prime years, both of them starring in a rom-com with a The Boy Is Mine (the Brandy/Monica song where they are fighting over the same dude) type premise probably would have been a classic for these two former Rom-Com queens.
Rumor is they've never liked each other though.
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Post by Barbie on May 23, 2024 18:40:46 GMT
I wanna see Saoirse with Jodie Foster and another movie with Saoirse and Cate. I keep saying Saoirse is the Jodie Foster of her generation. I also want to see Saoirse, Margot, and Jodie Comer in a movie together  |
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. I want Crowe to get out of his schlock era though. He's too good an actor to be doing that stuff as his bread and butter.
