Favorite Actors
Submitted by buddy on Mon, 05/09/2005 - 06:01
Tags:
- Living
- Bill Murray
- Cate Blanchette
- Toni Collette
- Johnny Depp (how can someone this pretty be this talented? Equality, my butt.)
- Giovanni Ribisi
- Ewan McGregor
- Clive Owen
- Annette Bening
- Alan Rickman
- Tony Shalhoub
- John Turturro
- Stanley Tucci
- Al Pacino
- Timothy Hutton
- Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge is a real treat - watch her acting as an actress who's struggling to act. Brilliant!)
- Steve Martin (Cheaper By the Dozen notwithstanding)
- Donald Sutherland
- Morgan Freeman
- Michelle Yeoh
- Marcia Cross (my sole TV entry)
- Catherine O'Hara
- Gary Oldman
- Ed Norton
- Deceased
- Cary Grant
- Charlie Chaplin
- Jimmy Stewart
- Gregory Peck
- Audrey Hepburn
- J.T. Walsh
- Sometimes
- Jim Carrey
- Adam Sandler
- Steve Buscemi (I really want to like him, but then he shows up in pap like Con Air, acting way OTT)
- Brad Pitt
- Uma Thurman
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Scarlett Johanssen
- Drew Barrymore
- I Keep Extending Good Will Because of One or Two Roles I Really Liked
- John Cusack (though his actual personality seems to be off-putting, he wins my love for his work in Grosse Point Blank and Better Off Dead)
- Vin Diesel (Pitch Black)
- I want to hate, but have to grudgingly admit they've done a role or two I thought was well-done
- Gwyneth Paltrow (for Sliding Doors)
- Ethan Hawke (for Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Gattaca)
- I continue to like, despite the lack of any respectable work at all
- Angelina Jolie (and no, I don't think Girl, Interrupted is evidence of good acting - just charisma)
- The Rock
- Jack Black (because I don't think he's a great actor, just great at being Jack Black)
- Peaked
- Kevin Spacey (rein in the ego, pal, and you might be able to do good work again)
- Robert Deniro (oh, how the mighty have fallen)
Author Comments:
I'm cloning Jim's list. I'm sure there are at least a few more I need to add, but I'll have to give it a think.
Cloned From:
Excellent! I stole a few to include on my list. Thanks!
Edward Norton?
Good call. Duly added. He was awesome in The Score, or The Heist, or whatever the generically-titled film he did with Brando and DeNiro was called.
Jack Nicholson? He was doing amazing movies ages ago (The Shining, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) And Still is now (The Departed).
While I have no argument that he's all kinds of awesome, for some reason I've never really considered Jack one of my personal favourites. He's never enough reason alone for me to see a film.