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Has anyone seen Hiding Out starring Jon Cryer?
It's an 80s film, i love that era, Jon Cryer gives a good performance portraying a high school student.
 
gandolfini - the sopranos
Pitt - Fight Club - ****en legendary
Phoenix in Joker
Damon and Williams in Good Will Hunting
 

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sorted said:
I thought I would throw some in from left field.

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast
Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting
Matthew McConaughey in True Detective series 1
James McAvoy in Split.
Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear
Kevin Spacey in K-Pax
Charlize Theron in Monster
Julianne Moore in The Hours
Chris Cooper in American Beauty
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds.
Anthony Hopkins in Westworld series 1
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Absolutely great call on Chris Cooper from American Beauty
 
Chris Cooper - American Beauty
Malcolm McDowell - Clockwork Orange
Sean Young - Bladerunner
Daniel Day Lewis - There will be blood
Naomi Watts - Mulholland Drive
Javier Bardem - No country for old men
Ted Levine - Silence of the lambs
Martin Sheehan - Apocalypse now
Halle Berry - Monsters ball
Louise Fletcher - One flew over the cuckoos nest
 
Cazale is arguably one of the biggest losses to Hollywood in the last 50 years.

Pretty much stole the show in just about every performance he gave in film, in some of the greatest movies of all time sharing scenes with some of the greatest actors of all time.

Would of gone down as good as De Niro or Pacino imo. I’d argue he had more in his locker than those two as well, which is saying something when it comes to De Niro.

He’s one of the most talented actors in history.
 
Pykie said:
Cazale is arguably one of the biggest losses to Hollywood in the last 50 years.

Pretty much stole the show in just about every performance he gave in film, in some of the greatest movies of all time sharing scenes with some of the greatest actors of all time.

Would of gone down as good as De Niro or Pacino imo. I’d argue he had more in his locker than those two as well, which is saying something when it comes to De Niro.

He’s one of the most talented actors in history.
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Agreed. Great talent.
 
Depp and Pacino in Donny Brasco are like Ham n Cheese.



Brilliant combination. A spicy 1-2 punch.
 
yep Ledger as the joker along with Joaquin are ****n dynamic.



Loved Washington and Crowe in American Gangster. Watched a bit of A.G again yesterday and love the story how he worked for the Mafia boss, respected him, grew into him and saw all the punk-leach's that disrespected him after his death and Denzel himself. Great story to it which is real btw and have only saw the true story of the film in more recent times. When I went to see it at the cinema's and even many years after I didn't take in it's true roots and stories within the movie.



Quality.
 

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Rusty in A Beautiful Mind i thought was better than his Gladiator performance.
Jack in Chinatown
John Hurt as the Elephant Man was ******** brilliant
Daniel Day Lewis in anything
Denzel in Cry Freedom and Glory i think is up there in terms of his best performances ever.
 

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iluvparis said:
Green Book really is a great film - for some reason I just love when they are eating fried chicken in the car

'What do we do with the bones?'

Lip: 'We do dis" - and just chucks the bones out the window as they are driving along :D
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Quite a few film critics rag on it for Best Picture.

I flipping love it though, I think it's a brilliant film.

Both performances are two of the best imo.
 
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I love Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea. Never seen trauma articulated with such accuracy. It’s so often overdramatised.
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The great back story to that is that Matt Damon gave up the opportunity to star in it as the main role.

He was the producer of Manchester by the Sea and thought he was slightly "too famous" for it and would have detracted from the story, despite being a slam dunk Oscar winning part (Damon has never won an Oscar for acting and it would have been one of his best opportunities - his only Oscar is for screenwriting with Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting).

So he gave it to long term friend Casey Affleck, who obviously went on to win Best Actor.

Has been mentioned by many critics as one of the best, most selfless casting decisions in recent movie history.
 
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The great back story to that is that Matt Damon gave up the opportunity to star in it as the main role.

He was the producer of Manchester by the Sea and thought he was slightly "too famous" for it and would have detracted from the story, despite being a slam dunk Oscar winning part (Damon has never won an Oscar for acting and it would have been one of his best opportunities - his only Oscar is for screenwriting with Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting).

So he gave it to long term friend Casey Affleck.

Has been mentioned by many critics as one of the best, most selfless casting decisions in recent movie history.
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You can find a bad story about basically anyone who has ever been famous. I seriously don't think I have ever, ever heard a bad word about Matt Damon.

Edit: Apparently he caused a stir during the Me Too fiasco when he advocated for a behavioural spectrum regarding the seriousness of the transgressions of those involved.
 
Pykie said:
The great back story to that is that Matt Damon gave up the opportunity to star in it as the main role.

He was the producer of Manchester by the Sea and thought he was slightly "too famous" for it and would have detracted from the story, despite being a slam dunk Oscar winning part (Damon has never won an Oscar for acting and it would have been one of his best opportunities - his only Oscar is for screenwriting with Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting).

So he gave it to long term friend Casey Affleck, who obviously went on to win Best Actor.

Has been mentioned by many critics as one of the best, most selfless casting decisions in recent movie history.
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Interestingly if you try to picture Matt as the lead in that movie I don't think he would have been able to do it to the way Casey did.. and that does make me question if its because of Damon's fame or just how he is as an actor. He suits various roles quite well - thought he was tops in Ford v Ferarri recently, but this type of broken man type role doesn't seem like his type.

On the subject of broken movies and the Afflecks, I thought Ben was very good in 'The Way Back' on netflix just recently.
 
Poetic Justice said:
Interestingly if you try to picture Matt as the lead in that movie I don't think he would have been able to do it to the way Casey did.. and that does make me question if its because of Damon's fame or just how he is as an actor. He suits various roles quite well - thought he was tops in Ford v Ferarri recently, but this type of broken man type role doesn't seem like his type.

On the subject of broken movies and the Afflecks, I thought Ben was very good in 'The Way Back' on netflix just recently.
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He played a broken down emotional type in Good Will Hunting?

I think it’s in his wheel house.

He made the right decision though.
 

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