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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 13, 2024 13:02:51 GMT
How do we not have this? You realize I could be metaphorically KILLED at any time on here ffs .......  Somewhat close in age - 4 year difference ........but Maika Monroe is a noticeably better actress than Zendaya and I like Zendaya and gave Challengers a thumbs up but.......she is  |
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Post by Drish on Jul 13, 2024 13:41:19 GMT
How do we not have this? You realize I could be metaphorically KILLED at any time on here ffs ....... Somewhat close in age - 4 year difference ........but Maika Monroe is a noticeably better actress than Zendaya and I like Zendaya and gave Challengers a thumbs up but.......she is I haven't even seen Longlegs but she's just the best. Liked her since The Guest and I'm glad she's consistently delivering 😍 |
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jul 13, 2024 17:15:20 GMT
Ben Affleck is a better actor than Casey Affleck.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 14, 2024 8:26:43 GMT
Julianne Moore is good in Magnolia... |
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Post by Allenism on Jul 23, 2024 11:06:08 GMT
James Franco >> Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Post by franklin on Jul 23, 2024 13:20:14 GMT
Julianne Moore is good in Magnolia... Is that unpopular? |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 23, 2024 16:52:25 GMT
I've said this a lot but I like it because it's a good line......Put Brando, DePac, Nicholson, DDL, Olivier any of the GOATs in many Vincent Price roles and they would fail........often embarrasingly so is my guess........which is the proof that not all actors can do everything  :max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__serious_eats__seriouseats.com__images__2015__10__Knife-Vincent-crop-4414cfefb65548ff8287a8e3c848ecbc.jpg) |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 23, 2024 17:55:55 GMT
Julianne Moore is good in Magnolia... Is that unpopular? On here it seems like it at least. Also maybe me recently listening to a podcast episode on Magnolia where everyone was making fun of her performance might play into my perception of it. |
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 24, 2024 0:49:21 GMT
I haven't seen Magnolia myself, but I've always had it in my head that Moore's performance is incredibly divisive.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 4, 2024 22:11:49 GMT
Riz Ahmed is a better, or at least more distinct actor than Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver for Americans in their early 40s I'm sort of not sure of this.......but after watching The Night Of again that feels right  |
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Post by Archie on Aug 4, 2024 22:15:08 GMT
Mark Rylance is unwatchable in Bones and All and Don't Look Up. Two of the worst performances I've ever seen.
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Post by Joaquim on Aug 4, 2024 23:11:04 GMT
I didn’t really like Amy Adams in The Master as much as everyone else seems to but the other 2 performances did live up to the hype particularly Hoffman
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Post by stabcaesar on Aug 5, 2024 1:38:16 GMT
DDL is overrated in There Will Be Blood. It's a great performance, but the hyperbole is ridiculous.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 5, 2024 12:51:17 GMT
If it weren't for his weird space cult, Tom Cruise should be listed up there with his generational greats at his prime.
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Post by futuretrunks on Aug 5, 2024 22:16:33 GMT
Mark Rylance is unwatchable in Bones and All and Don't Look Up. Two of the worst performances I've ever seen. He's terrible in Don't Look Up, ridiculously one-note and overrated in Bridge of Spies, but amazing in Bones and All. Also good in that crap movie The Gunman with Sean Penn and Bardem. |
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Post by futuretrunks on Aug 5, 2024 22:21:42 GMT
Take away Gangs of New York (genius performance) and In the Name of the Father (very good work) and DDL doesn't register as a notable screen actor to me. He's doing interesting stuff technically sometimes in TWBB, but it's almost entirely related to the vocal affectation. PTA's inability to craft much of a story inevitably hamstrings the whole thing.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 9, 2024 19:46:02 GMT
I'm in the middle of a pretty obsessive Burt Lancaster deep dive - check the Great Performances thread - and I think I can argue him as ~ 4th or so of the great American actors pre-Brando after Bogart, Stewart, Clift.......that's not that unpopular but I can't think of anyone I like more or that had his length of career and quality of filmography........and before I'd have rankd him sort of equal to Cagney, Fonda, Holden.......lots of guys tbh  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2024 19:42:10 GMT
Nancy Allen can't really act - but her sexuality and how she is used by De Palma is a test case in how to make actors work despite their limitations - she is heartbreaking in Blow-Out, sweet and quite easy to root for in Dressed to Kll and very easy to hate in Carrie...... Those are great films.....her contribution to them though is often mocked.....it really shouldn't be......a better actress likely would be less distinct ........ 
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Post by ibbi on Aug 16, 2024 20:20:52 GMT
Riz Ahmed is a better, or at least more distinct actor than Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver for Americans in their early 40s I'm sort of not sure of this.......but after watching The Night Of again that feels right I don't know what you mean by 'for Americans', but Riz Ahmed is English, bruv. Don't try and claim our actors just because all yours suck. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2024 20:30:18 GMT
Riz Ahmed is a better, or at least more distinct actor than Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver for Americans in their early 40s I'm sort of not sure of this.......but after watching The Night Of again that feels right I don't know what you mean by 'for Americans', but Riz Ahmed is English, bruv. Don't try and claim our actors just because all yours suck. I just want you to know that the great pleasure I am taking in Carlos Alcaraz losing to Monfils in Cincy today has nothing to do with his British fans (um) or this uncalled for attack ^........on the contrary I appreciate the correction, and sadly fully admit to the aforementioned American Suckage |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 20, 2024 15:18:08 GMT
Riz Ahmed is a better, or at least more distinct actor than Jake Gyllenhaal and Adam Driver for Americans in their early 40s I'm sort of not sure of this.......but after watching The Night Of again that feels right I don't know what you mean by 'for Americans', but Riz Ahmed is English, bruv. Don't try and claim our actors just because all yours suck. Your "British-ness" is akin to Hugh Hudson directing Revolution. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 24, 2024 2:20:47 GMT
There s a huge career difference between Tim Roth and Oldman, DDL, Fiennes........but in talent he's closer Just sayin  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 25, 2024 22:39:41 GMT
Rebecca Hall who gave a masterclass performance in Christine is such an uncommonly sharp, perceptive actress I find her hard to even rate.....sometimes it feels like watching someone play chess when I'm playing checkers.......usually that's the kind of thing you say about Streep ffs, not someone who's never been nodded 
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