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Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 1:49 am
by doug rr
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I like this thread.
Thanks
Okay.

Why are you being weird?
Also, do you think I could be a good actor?
i think you could pull off dustin hoffman in marathon man...
Thomas "Babe" Levy (lenny) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa (malice), becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:01 am
by doug rr
clint eastwood?
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:03 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Meh. He's fine if your are casting for a part that needs to squint all the time
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:06 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
doug rr wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jorge wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I like this thread.
Thanks
Okay.

Why are you being weird?
Also, do you think I could be a good actor?
i think you could pull off dustin hoffman in marathon man...
Thomas "Babe" Levy (lenny) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa (malice), becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
Thank you.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:49 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:50 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Another vote for Fichtner rules
Mark Ruffalo?
Yes to both.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:51 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Jake Gyllenhaal
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:57 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 2:58 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 3:05 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Ok I’d give that to Adam Driver, but Gyllenhaal is way way up there
Oh he's easily one of my very favorites, but i'm not sure what the general consensus here is at least.
Those two, Oscar Isaac, and Tom Hardy are probably my favorite non-character actors of this era. I'm sure there's a few others that are right behind, but my mind is blanking a bit on specific names.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 3:25 am
by Strat
tragabigzanda wrote:Ok I’d give that to Adam Driver, but Gyllenhaal is way way up there
This kind of surprises me but im not sure why!
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 3:28 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Brenden Gleeson may actually go ahead of one or two on that list. And Nic Cage. It's difficult to narrow down.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 4:36 am
by spike
Buck Naked
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 9:49 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:epilogue wrote:Jorge wrote:I love TC and he's great in the roles he plays. Really don't care that he's not a showy actor with a broad range
He doesn't have a broad range but he's the poster child for showy.
I don’t think this is fair. I think he had a vast knowledge of his film works — the technology and the marketplace — and he’s become uncannily good at picking projects that will showcase his particular range
What part of my post is unfair? That he doesn't have a broad range?
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 9:49 pm
by epilogue
Jorge wrote:epilogue wrote:Jorge wrote:I love TC and he's great in the roles he plays. Really don't care that he's not a showy actor with a broad range
He doesn't have a broad range but he's the poster child for showy.
We're obviously defining it differently
What do you mean by showy?
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 10:51 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Can you guys just user names for once? Who the fuck is TC?
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 10:59 pm
by macphisto
Tommy Chong
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 11:43 pm
by wease
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Can you guys just user names for once? Who the fuck is TC?

Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Wed December 15, 2021 11:58 pm
by oasisfan35
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Can you guys just user names for once? Who the fuck is TC?
Hearken the sentiment here, it's Tom Cruise.
Agree with Jorge that he has a limited range but this may have more to do with the roles he selects to portray than talent which trag noted.
Re: Good Actor or not?
Posted: Thu December 16, 2021 12:04 am
by spike
TC changed his body like Christian Bale for Tropic Thunder, people.