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Best Actor of the modern era?

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    #302
    BailMeOut
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    21 pages later and no mention of Meryl Streep who has to be one the greatest actors ever.


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    #303
    Hamsterchops
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    Ha, I deliberately didn't mention any female actresses as I thought we were listing actors, then I just remembered that actresses are now actors too.

    When I was growing up actors were male and actresses were female, I guess that's all changed now.


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    #304
    Yamanoto
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    #305
    DavidLyons_
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    BailMeOut wrote: »
    21 pages later and no mention of Meryl Streep who has to be one the greatest actors ever.

    Possibly because she’s scum. An avid supporter of a confessed and convicted drugger and rapist of a child.

    Very likely knew more about Weinstein’s shenanigans than she let on too.

    Apart from The Deerhunter and Doubt, I’m struggling to think of any good films she had a prominent role in.


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    #306
    MonkieSocks
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    "The Dude" Jeff Bridges :D

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    Lots of great performances.......The Vanishing 1993,Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 are memorable movies for me.


    Also love all Liam Neeson Movies

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #307
    Rothko
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    DavidLyons_ wrote: »
    Possibly because she’s scum. An avid supporter of a confessed and convicted drugger and rapist of a child.

    Very likely knew more about Weinstein’s shenanigans than she let on too.

    Apart from The Deerhunter and Doubt, I’m struggling to think of any good films she had a prominent role in.

    Kramer Vs. Kramer


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    #308
    DavidLyons_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭DavidLyons_


    Rothko wrote: »
    Kramer Vs. Kramer

    Yeah, I suppose. 40 odd year old film out of the guts of I would guess 100 she has made.

    Hoffman‘s film though in my opinion. Streep won the Oscar for it but I seem to remember she had very little screen time (it may even have been a record for the least screen time for an Oscar winner).

    Additionally, when Hoffman fell afoul of the Meetoo movement, it was only then that she decided would be a good time for her to accuse him of physical abuse on the set.


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    #309
    [Deleted User]
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    I love Christophe Waltz, and Michael Sheen as mentioned above. Anthony Hopkins is always compelling, even in a bad role. Leonardo DiCaprio is a good actor, but I find it hard to put him in the same bracket as Daniel Day Lewis as some do. DeNiro is making terrible choices the last few years, and then phoning them in. I suppose it keeps him off the streets. Honorable mention to the late Robin Williams whom I watched in One Hour Photo for the first time recently, he was fantastic in it and it's a shame he didn't do more straight roles.

    Ann Dowd, the actress behind the most terrifying character on tv ever (Aunt Lydia, THT) is fantastic, and Margo Martindale is an exceptional character actress. Charlize Theron sometimes picks awful roles and sometimes her beauty overshadows her talent, but she is a phenomenal actress. Helen Mirren is always good.

    It's hard to pick one above all that talent.


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    #310
    Errashareesh
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    Re Meryl Streep:

    Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady, Silkwood, Ironweed, Postcards From The Edge, Florence Foster Jenkins, Angels In America (she's unbelievable in the TV adaptation, August Osage County, The Hours, Cry In The Dark, Out of Africa.

    It's true she had very little screen time in Kramer vs. Kramer. I think she's brilliant - still behaved dreadfully for sure though.

    Like Polanski however, I can't help still liking her work.


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    #311
    [Deleted User]
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    I know that Streep is objectively a great character actress, but I've never warmed to her or been able to forget that it's Meryl Streep on the screen.

    The exception was Big Little Lies where she plays Kidmans characters MIL, she managed to make herself mousy and small and massively aggressive at the same time. Impressive stuff.


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    #312
    DavidLyons_
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    Errashareesh wrote: »
    Re Meryl Streep:

    Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady, Silkwood, Ironweed, Postcards From The Edge, Florence Foster Jenkins, Angels In America (she's unbelievable in the TV adaptation, August Osage County, The Hours, Cry In The Dark, Out of Africa.

    It's true she had very little screen time in Kramer vs. Kramer. I think she's brilliant - still behaved dreadfully for sure though.

    Like Polanski however, I can't help still liking her work.

    Yep, Sophie’s Choice (the rest....Meh) is a good film and yep, she’s a vile human being.

    Enormously overrated too in my view. She’s no Theron, Blanchett, Weaver, Julianne Moore, Johansson etc.


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    #313
    1990sman
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    me at work :)


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    #314
    niallo76
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    Tommy Wiseau...


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    #315
    Bobblehats
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    Joel Tobeck


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    #316
    CrankyHaus
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    Errashareesh wrote: »

    Like Polanski however, I can't help still liking her work.

    I'm like that Spacey. And Mel Gibson.


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    #317
    The Nal
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    DavidLyons_ wrote: »
    Yep, Sophie’s Choice (the rest....Meh) is a good film and yep, she’s a vile human being.

    Vile because she applauded Polanski 20 years ago?

    What about Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Adrien Brody, Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly et al who have all worked with him since?


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    #318
    DavidLyons_
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    The Nal wrote: »
    Vile because she applauded Polanski 20 years ago?

    What about Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Adrien Brody, Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly et al who have all worked with him since?

    Well done. Hollywood is a hypocritical cesspool. Or are you suggesting she get a pass because she wasn't alone in supporting him? I was responding to a post that specifically mentioned Meryl Streep.

    The vast majority of those that you have named haven't really positioned themselves as virtue signalling moral guardians in the same fashion as her since. She very much knew what Polanski did and that he was guilty of same but chose to support him anyway. Not to mention the insinuations that she was more in the know regarding Weinstien's behavior than she let on.

    As I said, I also feel she's bizarrely overrated in a big way in any case. I don't find many of her films enjoyable and the critical acclaim always seems a little sycophantic from the luvvies.


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    #319
    Temptamperu
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    Willem Dafoe is always great. Especially in The Lighthouse.


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    #320
    Yurt2
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    In the last twenty years, I'd have Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was incredible with Joaquin Phoenix in The Master. Capote, Magnolia and A Most Wanted Man also standouts. Also played Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman on stage, which you'd feel he was made for.

    Leo DiCaprio gets written-off as a pretty-boy by many, but he has chops. Revolutionary Road was his best performance in my book and a movie I go back to a lot.


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    #321
    Yurt2
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    BailMeOut wrote: »
    21 pages later and no mention of Meryl Streep who has to be one the greatest actors ever.

    Hollywood luvvie. Solid actor, but can't think of a single performance where you'd stand back and say 'wow.' Although her Maggie Thatcher was good, but not mind-blowing.

    Female actors wise, I'd rate Frances McDormand and Julianne Moore far above her.


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    #322
    Itssoeasy
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    Tom Hanks for me. Any film I’ve ever seen him in he’s just always excellent regardless of whether the film itself is good. He will always put in a great showing.


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    #323
    Yurt2
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    Musefan wrote: »
    I think Shia LaBeouf has had some great performances recently. Honey Boy & Peanut Butter Falcon were particularly good.

    His John McEnroe in Borg Vs McEnroe was excellent.


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    #324
    nj27
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    Has Brendan Gleason been mentioned? I can’t remember a bad performance by the guy and I’ve seen almost everything he has been in. He’s probably my favourite actor though so biased here.


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    #325
    DavidLyons_
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    Paddy Considine. Toby Kebbell. Sam Rockwell. Laura Linney. Frances McDormand. Jake Gyllenhaal.


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    #326
    El Gato De Negocios
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    Probably been mentioned already but Stephen Graham has matured into an exceptional actor, he adds an unparalleled air of reality to most everything he is in.


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    #327
    fatherted1969
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    Denzel Washington for me


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    #328
    billyhead
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    Ben and Casey Affleck are good actors.


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    #329
    riclad
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    There's actors like Tom Cruise who star in action films, he's not a great actor, he plays the good guy, hero in every film.

    A good actor plays a wide range of roles like jeff bridges Jesse eisenberg.
    I think joaquin phoenix is a great actor.
    He has played a wide variety of characters in comedys, action and more realistic type roles.
    He is not always the hero in the films he appears in.


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    #330
    AllForIt
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Tom Hanks for me. Any film I’ve ever seen him in he’s just always excellent regardless of whether the film itself is good. He will always put in a great showing.

    Probably one of the nicest guys of the top Hollywood elite.


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    Temptamperu
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    I'm gonna say it. Colin Farrell.


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