ICBM
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Post by ICBM on Aug 28, 2015 21:09:20 GMT -5
Outstanding performances on film or TV.
Joffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers...wow man. Sellers was famous for playing several roles in the same film. Dr.Stragelove, Lolita etc. Rush not only played Sellers straight man comedian under duress, but he'd play a Sellers character or family member as Sellers as a narrator between transitions. Mind blowing stuff man.
Edward Norton in American History X. Watch that back. He plays the same character three different ways and ties them all together (well I suppose editing and story placement does that but he gave the performances). The charismatic racist zealot who has natural leadership ability, the out of place awkward victim in prison, the changed man who sets things to rights. A bonus snippet shows him before all of it happened and how normal he was until the chataclysm of his father's death. Great movie, great role, great performance
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Post by General Adam on Aug 28, 2015 21:14:41 GMT -5
Gregory Peck in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Jiren
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Post by Jiren on Aug 28, 2015 21:23:31 GMT -5
Micheal Keaton as Beetlejuice
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Post by hossfan on Aug 28, 2015 21:27:00 GMT -5
William Macy in Fargo
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Post by Sephiroth on Aug 28, 2015 21:28:28 GMT -5
George Reeves?
I'll show myself out now.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 28, 2015 21:37:40 GMT -5
The moment the TNG producers realized, "oh yeah we have a critically acclaimed Shakespearean actor, we should probably give him some weighty material".
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Aug 28, 2015 21:47:27 GMT -5
Robert Blake?
I'll follow the other guy out...
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Post by ERON on Aug 28, 2015 22:01:05 GMT -5
Going way back, Bela Lugosi as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein. He may be best remembered as Dracula, but this was the finest performance of his career.
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Post by Big Poppa Pumpkin on Aug 28, 2015 22:25:09 GMT -5
Adam Sandler in Jack & Jill
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Post by Raskovnik on Aug 28, 2015 23:12:12 GMT -5
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler immediately comes to mind. Forest Whitaker in Ghost Dog. He made a role that sounds ridiculous on paper Stephen Dillane as Stannis in Game of Thrones. He IS Stannis. Shoutouts to Jaime and The Hound, too. Cho Min-sik in Oldboy. Cho Min-sik in everything he's in, really. He's one of those dudes who I'll gladly watch anything he's in, he's that fantastic. Song Kang-ho's chilling performance as the father in Mr. Vengeance is another, while I'm on the topic of Korean films. It really stuck out to me. He looks disarmingly average for being in a leading role which his portrayal all the more haunting to me.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 28, 2015 23:29:09 GMT -5
Steve Railsback in "Helter Skelter".
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Post by Some Guy on Aug 28, 2015 23:31:54 GMT -5
John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Annette O'Toole, Richard Thomas and Dennis Christopher sure did. Well, not really sure Dennis Christopher technically did but he was there.
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Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Aug 29, 2015 0:38:06 GMT -5
I really like Ol' Nic Cage in Lord of War. Felt like his detached style added way more to it.
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Post by karl100589 on Aug 29, 2015 0:48:33 GMT -5
Aside from the ones mentioned Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, the best example of a single performance turning an ok film into a great one.
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Post by CuJ0 Will Keep Dancing on Aug 29, 2015 0:55:53 GMT -5
Heath Ledger as the Joker/Mark Hamill as the Joker/Jack Nicholson as Jack Nicholson...
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Post by Cela on Aug 29, 2015 1:06:33 GMT -5
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds
Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate/Scent of a Woman
Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men
And for a wild card... Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Aug 29, 2015 1:39:16 GMT -5
Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2015 1:42:14 GMT -5
Kevin Spacey in American Beauty
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Post by Raskovnik on Aug 29, 2015 1:43:10 GMT -5
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate/Scent of a Woman Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men And for a wild card... Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl. Can't believe I forgot Rosamund Pike. I hadn't seen her in anything else, nor did I know anything about what the movie was about. Without delving into spoilers, I'll just say I went from thinking she was a surprisingly bad actress considering the caliber of everyone else in the movie in the beginning to thinking she deserved at least a nod if not an outright win for Best Actress by the end. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 29, 2015 3:31:20 GMT -5
JK Simmons in Whiplash
Everyone in Glengarry Glenn Ross (espically Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin)
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