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A super list, (Reply to this comment)
by virtuelle2
if there ever was one. Agree with most of your choices (James Woods always annoys me, and I just don't like Carlyle's looks). The rest have a special place on my own unofficial list of great ones, too.
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Oct 23 '05
4:38 pm PDT
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yup (Reply to this comment)
by garym
Props to McDormand, slops to Cameron. Highlights of the most sane list Iīve come across, and I donīt mean that at all in a sexual way.
I do agree that Hopkins, Jones and Pacino are outstanding, but they all suffer from a developing tendency to overact. A guy should get better with time and experience. They sometimes are the acting equivalent of Grisham and Clancy.
As someone mentioned, Jones was outstanding in the Gary Gilmore movie.
Gary
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Feb 17 '05
10:37 am PST
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Re: Mandatory Titles On Comments Suck (Reply to this comment)
by nsign
Thanks for the comment - Trainspotting is indeed a classic. When I was a student in Glasgow the pub where Begbie throws a glass over the balcony was right next to our halls of residence, and we spent many hours drinking on that balcony wondering whether we should follow in his footsteps. Perhaps wisely, we never did.
For some reason I can't get links to work, but the opinion I mentioned is at:
http://www.epinions.com/content_4139229316
Laters
Steve
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Feb 14 '05
1:25 am PST
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Mandatory Titles On Comments Suck (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
You had me nodding my head and laughing more than once. Some solid selections too... particularly Anthony Hopkins and Robert Carlyle. (I can never get enough of Trainspotting. I wonder what that says about me...)
By the way, I'm still good for a comment response on that unsavory "Bush" review you were kind enough to read through and respond to for me. You mentioned writing a similar review (in your comment) that you wanted me to take a look at; got a link or a title for me?
Cheers, Steve,
--29th
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Feb 12 '05
9:13 pm PST
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When I Was Laid-Up In A Long Recovery Of My Knee Back In 1990... (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
...it gave me the chance to read through some very large novels I'd been saving for a rainy day, so these days when health inconveniences you do have their upside!
Anyway, a couple of sure bets for me are movies in which Shirley Temple or Mare Winningham play roles.
I wasn't aware that The Elephant Man was played by Hopkins. I just remember watching the movie and thinking that The Elephant Man was a true studmuffin, because he was so sweet, gentle, and sensitive on the inside!
Warm Fuzzies!
AJ :o)
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Feb 09 '05
11:04 am PST
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Thanks for (Reply to this comment)
by George_Chabot
giving some ink to some underappreciated thespians: James Woods, Bruce Campbell, Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, all are favorites of mine, too.
Anthony Hopkins - loved him also in Ridley Scott's "Hannibal" a send up of the whole Hannibal Lecter thing. Charmed the hell out of me.
"Krippendorf's tribe" is also a fav of mine. Dreyfuss was superb and funny as all get out.
Joe Mantegna is great in "House of Games" if you can ever snag a copy.
Thanks for provoking some thoughts!
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Jan 25 '05
7:16 am PST
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Stallone (Reply to this comment)
by joshg2fl
Sylvester Stallone - Has performed David Copperfield-style vanishing act.
In May my wife, brother, and I were in New York City looking down into Rockefeller Center where there was a big party going on. All of a sudden Sylvester Stallone walked by. 30 seconds after that there was a crazy mob around him taking pictures and getting autographs.
Anyway, he's been spotted, although not recently. I think he's helping produce something for NBC, but I'm not positive. ...Please, no more Rocky movies!!!
Good article. I enjoyed it. Joshua
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Jan 19 '05
10:11 am PST
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by nsign
I detested his gross overacting as Hannibal Lecter, but I watched him again in "The Elephant Man" and was mightily impressed with his work there.
"Elephant Man" is one of my favourite films. Hopkins did overact with the Lector stuff but I found it enjoyably hammy. He's an actor of huge talent when not dicking about in Hollywood fluff.
Ed Harris as that serial killer - That was in "Just Cause", was it not? I seem to remember he was superb, if underused.
Robert Carlyle - I think the problem here may be that in the US you'll only be aware of his movie work, some of which has been admittedly mediocre. He was a brilliant and acclaimed TV actor before all that. There's a series called "Looking After Jo Jo" in which he's a revelation, and he recently played Hitler brilliantly in something I can't remember the title of. He made his name as a serial killer in an episode of a crime drama called "Cracker", which you can get on DVD and is one of the best TV dramas ever.
"Krippendorff's Tribe"? Never heard of it, will investigate. Thought Dreyfuss vanished after "Mr Holland's Opus"..
Cheers
Steve
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Jan 19 '05
1:14 am PST
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Oooh.... (Reply to this comment)
by millinocket
Good choices! Ed Harris has long been one of my favorites, and Woods, Moore, Blanchett and McDormand are all right up there. Nobody plays crazy like James Woods - try to catch "The Onion Field" sometime if you haven't seen it, he's fabulous.
Sorry about the whole flu thing, hope you're feeling better. If it's any solace, I know someone who actually bought a laminator from QVC during a similar delirious/ill/bored TV viewing marathon. A laminator.
Oh, the humanity.
Sue
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Jan 18 '05
10:04 pm PST
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