View Full Version : Ok...best actor by picking their 5 best movies
cantthinkofanything
07-29-2014, 04:43 PM
as a main role
Al Pacino:
Godfather II
Dog Day Afternoon
Heat
Scarface
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 04:47 PM
Clint Eastwood:
Josey Wales - The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Dirty Harry - Dirty Harry Series
Trainer - Million Dollar Baby
Racist Old Guy - Gran Torino
cantthinkofanything
07-29-2014, 04:49 PM
De Niro:
Taxi Driver
Godfather II
Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
Jackie Brown
shit...this one's tough...
cantthinkofanything
07-29-2014, 04:51 PM
Clint Eastwood:
Josey Wales - The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Dirty Harry - Dirty Harry Series
Trainer - Million Dollar Baby
Racist Old Guy - Gran Torino
I just went back through Eastwood's movies. Hard to find anything that wasn't watchable. Only thing off the top of my mind is Bridges of Madison County.
Avante
07-29-2014, 04:56 PM
Marlon Brando
1.On the Waterfront
2.Steetcar Named Desire
3.The Godfather
4.The Wild One
5.Mutiny on the Bounty
One of the greatest scenes in moviedom history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVq1e6JKlw
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 04:56 PM
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs series
King Richard - The Lion in Winter
James Stevens - The Remains of the Day
John Avery - The Looking Glass War
Richard Nixon - Nixon
Spurminator
07-29-2014, 05:00 PM
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Departed
China Town
A Few Good Men
Batman
Hard to pick just five for Jack...
Dick Jones
07-29-2014, 05:01 PM
Pauly Shore
1. Encino Man
2. Son In Law
3. Bio Dome
4. In The Army Now
5. Jury Duty
cantthinkofanything
07-29-2014, 05:06 PM
Denzel (no racist)
Training Day
Remember the Titans
Man on Fire
Courage Under Fire
Flight
that's good work thura
Spurminator
07-29-2014, 05:12 PM
Denzel (no racist)
Training Day
Malcolm X
Flight
Glory
Crimson Tide
that's good work thura
Fixed, tbh
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 05:16 PM
Nicolas Cage
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Rock
Con Air
Face/Off
Lord of War
/thread
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 05:20 PM
Denzel (no racist)
Training Day
Remember the Titans
Man on Fire
Courage Under Fire
Flight
that's good work thura
No Glory? By far his defining moment...but then again, it might've been a secondary role. I still can't watch that movie and not get the feels when they go off on their final battle. Dem some brave niggras.
Spurminator
07-29-2014, 05:20 PM
Steve Guttenburg
Police Academy
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
No other entry necessary
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 05:23 PM
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump
Capt. John H. Miller - Saving Private Ryan
Andrew Beckett - Philadelphia
Jimmy Dugan - A League of Their Own
Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 05:23 PM
No Glory? By far his defining moment...but then again, it might've been a secondary role. I still can't watch that movie and not get the feels when they go off on their final battle. Dem some brave niggras.
i would have Glory and Crimson Tide
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 05:25 PM
i would have Glory and Crimson Tide
He was superb in Crimson Tide--I'll give that one too. Glory was his breakout moment and that sent him on his way. Flight was the accumulation of his skill to the pantheon of great actors.
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 05:27 PM
Tom Cruise
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W̶a̶r̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶W̶o̶r̶l̶d̶s̶
A Few Good Men
Top Gun
Mission Impossible series
Jerry Maguire
Edge of Tomorrow
baseline bum
07-29-2014, 05:36 PM
De Niro:
Taxi Driver
Godfather II
Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
Jackie Brown
shit...this one's tough...
No Analyze This? :cry
baseline bum
07-29-2014, 05:38 PM
Clint Eastwood:
Josey Wales - The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Dirty Harry - Dirty Harry Series
Trainer - Million Dollar Baby
Racist Old Guy - Gran Torino
Fuck that movie, I hated it so much. I can't watch boxing movies since every punch is something that would kill the other guy in real life. Every boxing movie makes Gatti-Ward 1 look like a bunch of faggy dancing.
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 05:40 PM
as a main role
Al Pacino:
Godfather II
Dog Day Afternoon
Heat
Scarface
Glengarry Glen Ross
hard to argue, but i'd have to make a spot for Scent of a Woman
gnsf0946
07-29-2014, 05:48 PM
hard to argue, but i'd have to make a spot for Scent of a Woman
Remove Glengarry Glen Ross in that case. It was more of a secondary role (more so than Godfather I) and Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin really owned that movie.
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 06:03 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio
i personally think his acting ability is overrated but he's been in some great movies...
Inception
The Departed
Gangs of New York
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shutter Island
mrsmaalox
07-29-2014, 06:14 PM
Remove Glengarry Glen Ross in that case. It was more of a secondary role (more so than Godfather I) and Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin really owned that movie.
Ahem, Kevin Spacey "Will you go to lunch. Go to lunch. WILL YOU GO TO LUNCH!!!!"
bigzak25
07-29-2014, 06:18 PM
Steve Guttenburg
Police Academy
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
No other entry necessary
Short circuit bro! More input, jonny 5...ALIVE!
The Gemini Method
07-29-2014, 06:33 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio
i personally think his acting ability is overrated but he's been in some great movies...
Inception
The Departed
Gangs of New York
The Wolf of Wall Street
Shutter Island
Basketball Diaries should take the place of Shutter Island or Wolf--your choice.
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 06:36 PM
Basketball Diaries should take the place of Shutter Island or Wolf--your choice.
take out wolf then. nothing like a skinny cokehead basketball movie
DarrinS
07-29-2014, 06:51 PM
Fuck that movie, I hated it so much. I can't watch boxing movies since every punch is something that would kill the other guy in real life. Every boxing movie makes Gatti-Ward 1 look like a bunch of faggy dancing.
Well, she did get pretty fucked up. Besides, that movie isn't really about boxing.
Franklin
07-29-2014, 07:21 PM
Scarlett "Goddess" Johansson
Lost in Translation
Love song for Bobby Long
The Avengers
Match Point
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
bigzak25
07-29-2014, 07:26 PM
Arnold.
Predator.
Commando.
Running Man.
Total Recall.
Terminators.
DarrinS
07-29-2014, 07:27 PM
Scarlett "Goddess" Johansson
Lost in Translation
Love song for Bobby Long
The Avengers
Match Point
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Is she in any good movies?
bigzak25
07-29-2014, 07:29 PM
Pauly Shore
1. Encino Man
2. Son In Law
3. Bio Dome
4. In The Army Now
5. Jury Duty
I'd watchem again. Except for biodome. No thanks. You have to draw the line somewhere.
Franklin
07-29-2014, 07:34 PM
Ain't "Lost in Translation" (an Oscar winner) a good film? Not to say the likes of Bobby Long and Match Point, both of which were nominated for multiple golden globes.
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 07:38 PM
Arnold.
Predator.
Commando.
Running Man.
Total Recall.
Terminators.
you need to make room for his best work tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGdxXc2hzeM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhK5WdUNQM8
spurraider21
07-29-2014, 07:38 PM
Pauly Shore
1. Encino Man
2. Son In Law
3. Bio Dome
4. In The Army Now
5. Jury Duty
Son in Law and In the Army now are 2 of my all time favorites :tu
Twisted_Dawg
07-29-2014, 07:41 PM
De Niro:
Taxi Driver
Godfather II
Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
Jackie Brown
shit...this one's tough...
Shame on you...
Good Fellas
Casino
Twisted_Dawg
07-29-2014, 07:44 PM
Remove Glengarry Glen Ross in that case. It was more of a secondary role (more so than Godfather I) and Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin really owned that movie.
Ahem, Kevin Spacey "Will you go to lunch. Go to lunch. WILL YOU GO TO LUNCH!!!!"
One of my favorite parts was when Pacino called Spacey a ****. A man calling another man a ****....powerful.
Edit: Okay, wtf is going on when the word cun_ is now censored?
mrsmaalox
07-29-2014, 11:46 PM
One of my favorite parts was when Pacino called Spacey a ****. A man calling another man a ****....powerful.
Edit: Okay, wtf is going on when the word cun_ is now censored?
Yes that's a good scene.
I didn't know that word was censored either--someone must have been offended :huh
howbouthemspurs
07-30-2014, 12:24 AM
Rory Culkin
Signs
Chasing 3000
Lymelife
Scream 4
The Chumscrubber
nuff said! :tu
Infinite_limit
07-30-2014, 01:24 AM
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump
Capt. John H. Miller - Saving Private Ryan
Andrew Beckett - Philadelphia
Jimmy Dugan - A League of Their Own
Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
Aside from being a jerk in League of Their Own, has Tom played the villain before?
Aside from being a jerk in League of Their Own, has Tom played the villain before?
Do you have another alt? Cuz you're about to get banned son. :lol
Infinite_limit
07-30-2014, 01:42 AM
http://norwaytoday.info/uploads/news/1404631803_sylvester_stallone_.jpg
Rocky (1976)
First Blood (1982)
Demolition Man (1993)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Cop Land (1997)
Infinite_limit
07-30-2014, 01:42 AM
Do you have another alt? Cuz you're about to get banned son. :lol
No. Is that sig inappropriate?
Infinite_limit
07-30-2014, 01:45 AM
Alright changed
No. Is that sig inappropriate?
Why dont you find out? lol
100%duncan
07-30-2014, 02:57 AM
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Departed
China Town
A Few Good Men
Batman
Hard to pick just five for Jack...
The Shining?
Denzel (no racist)
Training Day
Remember the Titans
Man on Fire
Courage Under Fire
Flight
that's good work thura
Dejavu?
Nicolas Cage
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Rock
Con Air
Face/Off
Lord of War
/thread
Any National Treasure?
spurraider21
07-30-2014, 02:58 AM
Any National Treasure?
i liked national treasure as well
Avante
07-30-2014, 03:58 AM
Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Sleep
Key Largo
I can't believe nobody has...
John Wayne
James Cagney
Jimmy Stewart
Gregory Peck
Clark Gable
Robert Mitchum
Edward G. Robinson
Then there's the only one with just three.
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
Giant
CavsSuperFan
07-30-2014, 10:08 AM
Kathy Bates
Dolores Claiborne
Titanic
The Waterboy
The Blind Side
Fried Green Tomatoes
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 11:20 AM
Shame on you...
Good Fellas
Casino
I actually gave up while making the list...
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 11:21 AM
Aside from being a jerk in League of Their Own, has Tom played the villain before?
Philadelphia
Lady Killer
Road to Perdition
Fpoonsie
07-30-2014, 11:39 AM
Mark Wahlberg
Boogie Nights
The Departed
I Heart Huckabees
Fear
Ted
spurraider21
07-30-2014, 11:45 AM
Mark Wahlberg
Boogie Nights
The Departed
I Heart Huckabees
Fear
Ted
:lol the happening
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 12:00 PM
Philadelphia
Lady Killer
Road to Perdition
Wit. I assume. Philadelphia he was the gay w/ aids. On this board of weak wristed homophobes, that's a villainy asunder. Lady Killer he was the murderer but even as that you couldn't help saying aww Tommy Hanks! Road to Perdition is the same way. He plays this bad mobster guy but at the end your emotions counter with ah man he was a lot more easier to follow than Jude Law.
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 12:03 PM
Wit. I assume. Philadelphia he was the gay w/ aids. On this board of weak wristed homophobes, that's a villainy asunder. Lady Killer he was the murderer but even as that you couldn't help saying aww Tommy Hanks! Road to Perdition is the same way. He plays this bad mobster guy but at the end your emotions counter with ah man he was a lot more easier to follow than Jude Law.
There's no doubt. But same with League of Their Own. Calling him a "villain" in that role is a stretch. The easy answer to your question is "no", he doesn't play the true villain.
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 12:08 PM
There's no doubt. But same with League of Their Own. Calling him a "villain" in that role is a stretch. The easy answer to your question is "no", he doesn't play the true villain.
Truly the last of the pure good guys in cinema. Probably the best since Jimmy Stewart...
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 12:18 PM
Truly the last of the pure good guys in cinema. Probably the best since Jimmy Stewart...
Green Mile should be on that list above.
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 12:35 PM
Green Mile should be on that list above.
Yeah, but still, he wasn't the baddest of the bad in that movie...
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 12:48 PM
Yeah, but still, he wasn't the baddest of the bad in that movie...
no...not the bad guy list. I mean the list of his best movies.
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 01:00 PM
no...not the bad guy list. I mean the list of his best movies.
Oh ok--I don't have any qualms with that choice. Though a sad story is that my ex gf was the nurse that tried to save Michael Clark Duncan's life and said that though they said they were trying to save him @ Cedars Sinai hospital, that he was already dead on arrival. Said he was such a large human that it took a group of people to move his body to the morgue.
lefty
07-30-2014, 01:07 PM
Is she in any good movies?
The Avengers, but she was shit in it
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 01:10 PM
Oh ok--I don't have any qualms with that choice. Though a sad story is that my ex gf was the nurse that tried to save Michael Clark Duncan's life and said that though they said they were trying to save him @ Cedars Sinai hospital, that he was already dead on arrival. Said he was such a large human that it took a group of people to move his body to the morgue.
damn for real? that sucks.
although, it would have been kind of funny if she placed her mouth over his and breathed in real loud. then look around at everyone staring..."what? you know...Green Mile."
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 01:35 PM
damn for real? that sucks.
although, it would have been kind of funny if she placed her mouth over his and breathed in real loud. then look around at everyone staring..."what? you know...Green Mile."
I don't have anything to say bad about the ex. However, if she was a witch, I would've probably hoped she would've done that. :lol
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 01:39 PM
I don't have anything to say bad about the ex. However, if she was a witch, I would've probably hoped she would've done that. :lol
either that or check his Johnson out...lol
The Gemini Method
07-30-2014, 01:45 PM
either that or check his Johnson out...lol
On a dead guy? That would have been hilarity but something I'd probably not want to know :sick
cantthinkofanything
07-30-2014, 01:51 PM
On a dead guy? That would have been hilarity but something I'd probably not want to know :sick
it'd be funny as hell. if I saw someone do that, I'd have a hard time not giggling.
Sportcamper
07-30-2014, 02:25 PM
it would have been kind of funny if she placed her mouth over his and breathed in real loud. then look around at everyone staring..."what? you know...Green Mile."
CTO- you are so crazy...:lmao
bigzak25
07-30-2014, 02:45 PM
I think tom hanks plays a bad guy in cloud atlas...I've only seen parts of it.
Sportcamper
07-30-2014, 02:53 PM
I think tom hanks plays a bad guy in cloud atlas...I've only seen parts of it.
Good call Zak...That was a great scene...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyObQH1RmLo
spurraider21
07-30-2014, 04:57 PM
The Avengers, but she was shit in it
she had a bigger role in Captain America 2
Thread
07-30-2014, 10:55 PM
Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump - Forrest Gump
Capt. John H. Miller - Saving Private Ryan
Andrew Beckett - Philadelphia
Jimmy Dugan - A League of Their Own
Jim Lovell - Apollo 13
I apologize here. I thought I'd referenced the post about Steven Guttenberg not Hanks, so keep that in mind.
They've been showing "The Bedroom Window" on the Cable of late and 30 years has improved this film. He underplays it and it sustains this film. Might give it a second look.
He also has a harrowing bit in "The Boys From Brazil"...though in that film he's his frenetic MO. Still it is a nice turn.
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