Harrison Ford

Brando
De Niro
Pacino
Di Caprio
Denzel
Nicholson


Probably a couple slipped my mind, but those are some very fine actors

Cruise gets a mention actually

Gene Hackman for me

Excellent performances in thrillers, comedy and touchy-feely films

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Christian Bale is up there. Played the best junkie ever in "The fighter".

Played an even better emaciated skeleton in "The Mechanic", before that he gave Jack Nicholson a run for his money as the psychopathic Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Equilibrium was a load of bollocks only for he carried it, but the Batman franchise is an embarrassment from start to finish, where he was out-shone by a fantastic Heath Ledger as the Joker, who played a fantastic role in Brokeback Mountain as a straight cowboy who falls in love with another man, where he went from "Ten things I hate about you" to one thing he hated about himself.

Jack Nicholson, what can be said about the ugliest bastard in Hollywood that's not been said already, from the nut job in The Shining, to the nut job in The Witches of Eastwick, where as Daryl Van Horne he did indeed dip his wick in three of the finest ladies in Hollywood- Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon. All three just some of the greatest female actors in Hollywood including Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Hillary Swank (she hasn't been in a lot of movies, but damn when she's in them she owns the screen! I'll admit PS I love you was a ball of shìte).

"Million dollar baby" though in which she starred with Clint Eastwood was a cracker, Clint's own movie career has been more crackers than Christmas (except for those orangutan movies, they were like the shìtty toys you get inside the crackers). Just the other night I watched "Gran Turino", as somebody else mentioned earlier in the thread this was Clint "badass with a heart" Eastwood to a tee! It reminded me of Matt Dillon's performance in Crash, as the badass cop that's actually a decent guy underneath all that frustrated anger and bitterness at the world. He's never been a widely recognised actor Matt Dillon, mostly because he always went for shìte roles like playing the buffoon private investigator in There's something about Mary, and again the buffoon guidance counsellor in Wild Things (worth a watch for Denise Richards alone- "Smokin'" as Jim Carrey would say!).

Speaking of which, I'm getting carried away here myself (like an Oscar acceptance speech!), so special mention must go to Don Cheadle, always the token black guy, never the lead role, not like Denzel, who put in a fantastic performance as Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. Willem Dafoe, I was forever mixing him up with Kevin Bacon, and another Kevin often forgotten- Kevin Spacey! Honorable mentions too to Marilyn, some do indeed like it hot, and while gentlemen prefer blondes, I'm not a gentleman so I always had a hard spot for Jane Russell...

Fcuk is that the time? :pac:

Di Caprio well on his way to being a true great. Rarely in a bad movie.

I think Harrison Ford will be remembered more for some of the memorable films he appeared in than for his acting in them. At best he's an adequate actor who had a good run of films from the 70s into the mid 1990s. The Fugitive is still a cracking acting film and that's 20 years old now. He also made a pre-Star Wars appearance in a film Francis Ford Coppola made between the two Godfathers. The Conversation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation