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Performances in movies that blew you away

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    #62
    Corcs001
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    Jim Carrey in The Truman Show is one of my favourites.

    Also love Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.


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    #63
    SmokeyEyes
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    Have to give a nod to Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler too, something about that performance really stayed with me


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    #64
    JP Liz V1
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    Ellen Burstyn is just sublime in Requiem for a Dream
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    #65
    Seans_Username
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    Ed Norton in American History X.
    Fuck me that was something else. I still remember watching it for the first time when it was on BBC really late one night. Shame he didn't win an Oscar for it, not that it really matters, but it does deserve to go down as one of the best performances in the last 20 years in my opinion


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    #66
    quickbeam
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    Both Pacino and Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon - perfect film for me. Pacino was good in some of his more famous roles but I think DDA is his best.

    At least 11 of the actors in 12 Angry Men (Fonda I thought was actually the weak spot), but special mention for Balsalm, Cobb and Marshall.

    Both films mentioned by the same director, probably no co-incidence.


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    I recently saw 50/50 and have to say that Joseph Gordon Levitt's performance absolutely blew me away - I was not expecting it whatsoever,


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    #68
    The Wild Bunch
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    Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone was sensational


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    #69
    MfMan
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    Seans_Username wrote: »
    Ed Norton in American History X.
    Fuck me that was something else. I still remember watching it for the first time when it was on BBC really late one night. Shame he didn't win an Oscar for it, not that it really matters, but it does deserve to go down as one of the best performances in the last 20 years in my opinion

    Original director would probably disagree. Norton apparently had the film edited such that his part was by far the most prominent.


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    #70
    MfMan
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    quickbeam wrote: »
    Both Pacino and Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon - perfect film for me. Pacino was good in some of his more famous roles but I think DDA is his best.

    At least 11 of the actors in 12 Angry Men (Fonda I thought was actually the weak spot), but special mention for Balsalm, Cobb and Marshall.

    Both films mentioned by the same director, probably no co-incidence.

    Good call. Thought Fonda was also the big weakness in Once Upon A Time ...West; much too righteous to portray a villain effectively.


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    #71
    colmufc
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    I know its nit a film but ive just finished wstching rescue me box sets and the performance by John Scurti in the final episode is amazing completely different from what he was like thru out the show but stunning actor


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    #72
    enda1
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    I forgot one: Massimo Troisi in Il Postino (The postman).
    What a beautiful performance.


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    #73
    Ironman76
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    My favs are

    DDL in There Will Be Blood

    Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

    De Niro in Raging Bull

    Val Kilmer in The Doors was incredible. Just amazing as Jim Morrison.

    Richard Harris as Bull Mc Cabe in The Field.


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    #74
    bottlebrush
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    Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men


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    #75
    Ironman76
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Ellen Burstyn is just sublime in Requiem for a Dream

    Agreed. Awesome performance.


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    #76
    LuckyLloyd
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    Sir Gallagher wrote: »
    Christian Bales's early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when American Psycho came out in '00 I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically.

    His performance is hillarious yet disturbing, we see a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gave his career a big boost.

    He's been compared to Di Niro, but I think Christian has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

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    MfMan wrote: »
    Original director would probably disagree. Norton apparently had the film edited such that his part was by far the most prominent.

    With respect, who gives a ****? Maybe Kaye's first two cuts were superior, who knows and who cares. The end product is utterly riveting with an astonishing central performance.

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    One shout I haven't seen is Hilary Swank's performance in Boy's Don't Cry. Forgotten about now but that was powerful stuff at the time. Difficult film to watch in parts, but she goes the whole hog with the role.


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    #77
    SnowDrifts
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    Another Al Pacino - "Scent of a Woman"


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    #78
    Easy Rod
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    Ben Mendlesohn in 'Animal Kingdom'.

    You just felt a constant sense of threat and menace when watching him on screen. He's far from physically intimidating and even his slight lisp isn't something you'd associate with a villain but Jesus he was creepy.


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    #79
    MfMan
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    SnowDrifts wrote: »
    Another Al Pacino - "Scent of a Woman"

    Same as Devil's Advocate, Scarface and Heat, wholly scenery-chewing and OTT.
    Why does no-one mention his comparatively restrained turns in Donnie Brasco and The Insider?


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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Pat Shortt in Garage, anyone?

    Surprising as he's not someone you associate with serious acting and on top of that an amazing performance even for a serious actor.


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    #81
    Kunkka
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Pat Shortt in Garage, anyone?

    Surprising as he's not someone you associate with serious acting and on top of that an amazing performance even for a serious actor.

    He was brilliant in that to be fair to him. Good shout


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    #82
    Corholio
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    Joaquin Phoenix in 'The Master'

    This really blew me away, even as good of an actor that I knew he was. He completely inhibited the character of Freddie in the movie, so much that I was genuinely worried for how the hell he just went back to being normal after making that film.

    The 'interview scene' with Hoffman is one of the greatest scenes of film in the past 15 years or so IMO.


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    #83
    cosatron
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    SmokeyEyes wrote: »
    Have to give a nod to Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler too, something about that performance really stayed with me

    "i'm just a broken down piece of meat". Rourke was brilliant in all fairness. Just seen 12 years a slave and I was blown away by fassbender in it, what a performance, I was in shock leaving the cinema. The first scene in there will be blood, is the best scene I ever seen by a actor. Lewis is a legend and will go down as an all time great. And finally bale in the machinist was amazing.


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    #84
    SuperGrover
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    Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


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    #85
    DrumSteve
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    Paddy Considine in Dead Mans Shoes.


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    #86
    JP Liz V1
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    James McAvoy in Filth
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    #87
    deadybai
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    James McAvoy in Filth

    That film was messed up :eek:


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    JP Liz V1
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    deadybai wrote: »
    That film was messed up :eek:



    McAvoy was superb :p
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    #89
    bnt
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    James Cromwell in L.A. Confidential
    Takeshi KItano in hana-bi
    Frances McDormand in Fargo
    Christina Ricci in Buffalo '66
    ... Maggie Gyllenhall in Secretary. :o

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    #90
    Fr Tod Umptious
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    Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.


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    #91
    Adamocovic
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    Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull and also loved Sam Rockwell in "Moon"


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