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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Trim on January 30, 2014, 02:17:53 PM
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Interesting fact: If you ask theater professors who were here when Stonestreet was, he wasn't really regarded as a great actor. He was obviously above average, but nothing incredibly special. Acting seems like such a crap shoot. Lots of good actors will work their ass off and never make it, and a lot of crappy ones will catch a break early.
I've never been able to recognize good acting. Like, obviously somebody can suck at acting enough to be disqualified from getting a role, but I don't appreciate anyone's acting skills in anything I watch. If it's a decent show, they're all good enough for whatever they're doing. I either enjoy the show/movie or I don't. What are people seeing that makes them think that an actor a is better than another would've been in a role or that an actor a is better than another in the same show?
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can you tell how a person is feeling based on their facial expression?
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can you tell how a person is feeling based on their facial expression?
I think so, usually.
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Watch two broke girls and then watch what's eating gilbert grape. Tell me if you see a difference between leo and the girls.
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do they hold your interest, even if not doing anything interesting.
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Watch two broke girls and then watch what's eating gilbert grape. Tell me if you see a difference between leo and the girls.
I'm not going to watch either of those, but I think one's a generic sitcom and the other's an old movie.
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
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do they hold your interest, even if not doing anything interesting.
I can't think of anything like that.
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Watch two broke girls and then watch what's eating gilbert grape. Tell me if you see a difference between leo and the girls.
Might be some difference in the writing.
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Watch two broke girls and then watch what's eating gilbert grape. Tell me if you see a difference between leo and the girls.
Might be some difference in the writing.
It's @whitneycummings
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Michael Richards says hi
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Michael Richards says hi
Vince Vaughn
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Michael Richards says hi
That's typecasting. There's no reason to thin that Michael Richards couldn't do just fine in a different role in a well-produced show or movie, aside from the whole bigoted stand-up episode.
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Michael Richards says hi
Vince Vaughn
VV was pretty good in the remake of Psycho. That was a very un-VV esq role.
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I assume you saw The Dark Knight? Heath Ledger gave a pretty good performance in that. He made the character seem like a real person, or at least a real comic book person, played him consistently throughout, and added some bizarre quirks to keep your interest.
I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
I don't know if that makes any sense, and I'm really just talking about great acting performances in oppose to great actors. But I don't really want to erase all that to go back and answer your actual question.
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I guess if you can convince ppl that you're in love with your Ipad device and want to bang it, that might be good acting.
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Watch two broke girls and then watch what's eating gilbert grape. Tell me if you see a difference between leo and the girls.
Might be some difference in the writing.
It's @whitneycummings
1)this exchange was very funny
2)trim has already answered his own question. he doesn't notice a difference because he doesn't care about it and it's not important to him. eskimos have seven different words for snow and trim has one for people in movies and on tv-actor type people/things.
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Vince Vaughn
IMDB says he played Norman Bates in the 2000 remake of Psycho.
EDIT: someone already mentioned that.
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
OK, but can't any adequate actor do that? Who's an example of an actor whose subpar skills prevent him (OR HER!) from being able to play a variety or roles yet has the skills to work as an actor in a singular role?
Michael Richards says hi
Vince Vaughn
VV was pretty good in the remake of Psycho. That was a very un-VV esq role.
Also Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World.
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diversity is pretty important to me. being able to play a variety of roles make you a very good actor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman & Jeff Bridges
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I assume you saw The Dark Knight? Heath Ledger gave a pretty good performance in that. He made the character seem like a real person, or at least a real comic book person, played him consistently throughout, and added some bizarre quirks to keep your interest.
I couldn't tell. The dude was in face paint. I'm convinced it became a thing to say stuff like what you said because he OD'd.
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When you are watching a movie, if in the back of your mind you are referring to them as the character instead of as the actor then they are probably doing a pretty good job.
Gary Oldman comes to mind.
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I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
Could other actors have done the same thing? Maybe it was a well-written/produced/directed movie. I haven't seen it.
I also don't really get directing and producing.
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I assume you saw The Dark Knight? Heath Ledger gave a pretty good performance in that. He made the character seem like a real person, or at least a real comic book person, played him consistently throughout, and added some bizarre quirks to keep your interest.
I couldn't tell. The dude was in face paint. I'm convinced it became a thing to say stuff like what you said because he OD'd.
It's probably the reason that ticket sales were so high, and probably why a lot of LAIQ people noticed his performance, but I don't think HAIQ people were swayed by his death to say it was a better performance than it was.
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
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here's a good example. Denzel has always been pretty well-regarded as an actor with enough talent and charisma to carry a movie by himself. But he is always the same guy. *EXCEPT* in 2001 (Training Day) he portrayed a very different type of character from his norm, and he was rewarded for it by winning the best actor oscar. So talent is one thing but diversity is definitely another
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I assume you saw The Dark Knight? Heath Ledger gave a pretty good performance in that. He made the character seem like a real person, or at least a real comic book person, played him consistently throughout, and added some bizarre quirks to keep your interest.
I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
I don't know if that makes any sense, and I'm really just talking about great acting performances in oppose to great actors. But I don't really want to erase all that to go back and answer your actual question.
Drugs
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I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
Could other actors have done the same thing? Maybe it was a well-written/produced/directed movie. I haven't seen it.
I also don't really get directing and producing.
No, that movie would not have been up for Best Picture if Daniel Day Lewis didn't play the lead. I'm 100% serious.
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When you are watching a movie, if in the back of your mind you are referring to them as the character instead of as the actor then they are probably doing a pretty good job.
Gary Oldman comes to mind.
I often wouldn't know either. It's very important that the characters' looks stay consistent throughout whatever I'm watching.
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I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
Could other actors have done the same thing? Maybe it was a well-written/produced/directed movie. I haven't seen it.
I also don't really get directing and producing.
No, that movie would not have been up for Best Picture if Daniel Day Lewis didn't play the lead. I'm 100% serious.
How do you know?
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I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
Could other actors have done the same thing? Maybe it was a well-written/produced/directed movie. I haven't seen it.
I also don't really get directing and producing.
gd'it. i already answered your question but yet your still babbling on about how you haven't seen anything and how you won't watch it and how you don't "get" directing and producing. we get it. you don't know and don't care. man this thread isn't at three pages and it's already insufferable.
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
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i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt :ck:?
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
:lol: slow day at work, trim?
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here's a good example. Denzel has always been pretty well-regarded as an actor with enough talent and charisma to carry a movie by himself. But he is always the same guy. *EXCEPT* in 2001 (Training Day) he portrayed a very different type of character from his norm, and he was rewarded for it by winning the best actor oscar. So talent is one thing but diversity is definitely another
I saw the one with him bingeing and flying the plane not long ago. He was fine.
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I think the best acting performance I've seen is Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. It's on Netflix if you have any desire to watch it. He doesn't have many spoken lines, but demonstrates his emotion through facial expressions. It's not over the top (anyone can show a sad face to show that your sad) but it's believable. Like you have to see through the facade that his character is putting on to know what the character is really thinking. So as an actor, he has to play a character on two different levels.
Could other actors have done the same thing? Maybe it was a well-written/produced/directed movie. I haven't seen it.
I also don't really get directing and producing.
No, that movie would not have been up for Best Picture if Daniel Day Lewis didn't play the lead. I'm 100% serious.
How do you know?
I'm very good at predicting hypothetical situations.
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here's a good example. Denzel has always been pretty well-regarded as an actor with enough talent and charisma to carry a movie by himself. But he is always the same guy. *EXCEPT* in 2001 (Training Day) he portrayed a very different type of character from his norm, and he was rewarded for it by winning the best actor oscar. So talent is one thing but diversity is definitely another
Same could be said for a lot of A-list actors. Leonardo DiCaprio is another one that many people regard as great, yet he plays very similar characters in several of his movies.
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i'm not sure one musician is anymore talented than another. if i like the song i like it.
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highschool, college, pros? who knows and how can anyone tell? it's just all guys in helmets running around tackling each other.
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
:lol: slow day at work, trim?
No, I was listening to one of those grantland pop culture podcasts yesterday at the gym with them going on and on about acting performances and oscars and crap and was thinking about it then. Stevesie posted that thing about stonestreet so I thought of it again today.
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wait. you guys actually think one kind of pizza is better than the other. crust, sauce, cheese. so riddle me how one is better than the other when they both make people full after they eat them which i'm just assuming because i don't even eat them because i don't like pizza.
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i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt :ck:?
That's the thing - that situation or something fairly close can occur and it's clear to see why/how one did better than the other. Actors don't get put in near-identical roles to be able to see who makes for a better result.
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here's a good example. Denzel has always been pretty well-regarded as an actor with enough talent and charisma to carry a movie by himself. But he is always the same guy. *EXCEPT* in 2001 (Training Day) he portrayed a very different type of character from his norm, and he was rewarded for it by winning the best actor oscar. So talent is one thing but diversity is definitely another
Same could be said for a lot of A-list actors. Leonardo DiCaprio is another one that many people regard as great, yet he plays very similar characters in several of his movies.
Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
You know who's really good at playing similar characters yet still making them completely different? Tom Hanks.
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i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt :ck:?
That's the thing - that situation or something fairly close can occur and it's clear to see why/how one did better than the other. Actors don't get put in near-identical roles to be able to see who makes for a better result.
what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip? :lol: omg trim
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here's a good example. Denzel has always been pretty well-regarded as an actor with enough talent and charisma to carry a movie by himself. But he is always the same guy. *EXCEPT* in 2001 (Training Day) he portrayed a very different type of character from his norm, and he was rewarded for it by winning the best actor oscar. So talent is one thing but diversity is definitely another
Same could be said for a lot of A-list actors. Leonardo DiCaprio is another one that many people regard as great, yet he plays very similar characters in several of his movies.
Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
You know who's really good at playing similar characters yet still making them completely different? Tom Hanks.
yes
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i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt :ck:?
That's the thing - that situation or something fairly close can occur and it's clear to see why/how one did better than the other. Actors don't get put in near-identical roles to be able to see who makes for a better result.
what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip? :lol: omg trim
That's based on the role.
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sorry but i'd never pay $3 for coffee when i could just make the same exact thing at home for less than fifty cents. why no i don't drink coffee and no i don't plan on ever really drinking coffee. why do you even ask?
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what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip? :lol: omg trim
That's based on the role.
the other guy probably would've been adequate, tho
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
:lol: slow day at work, trim?
No, I was listening to one of those grantland pop culture podcasts yesterday at the gym with them going on and on about acting performances and oscars and crap and was thinking about it then. Stevesie posted that thing about stonestreet so I thought of it again today.
you need to watch more Ben Affleck flicks. start with paycheck, daredevil and then if you haven't had enough, gigli. hes generally a bad actor, imo, but if you get him in a role that's very similar to who he actually is (a guy from Boston) he can do pretty well. see: the town
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he was the bomb in phantoms
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tonya have you not seen Extract? jfc
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what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip? :lol: omg trim
That's based on the role.
the other guy probably would've been adequate, tho
Probably, if they were both adequate enough to get to the final audition.
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he was the bomb in phantoms
:thumbs: was waiting for that
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
:lol: slow day at work, trim?
No, I was listening to one of those grantland pop culture podcasts yesterday at the gym with them going on and on about acting performances and oscars and crap and was thinking about it then. Stevesie posted that thing about stonestreet so I thought of it again today.
you need to watch more Ben Affleck flicks. start with paycheck, daredevil and then if you haven't had enough, gigli. hes generally a bad actor, imo, but if you get him in a role that's very similar to who he actually is (a guy from Boston) he can do pretty well. see: the town
I've seen almost all the clerks movies and daredevil.
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Just looked it up and I've seen The Town.
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i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt :ck:?
That's the thing - that situation or something fairly close can occur and it's clear to see why/how one did better than the other. Actors don't get put in near-identical roles to be able to see who makes for a better result.
what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip? :lol: omg trim
That's based on the role.
maybe you can look at consecutive batmans. It should be pretty clear for you to see that george clooney was a better batman than val kilmer.
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eff ETHAN HAWKE
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You know who's really good at playing similar characters yet still making them completely different? Tom Hanks.
Huge Hanks fan here... He's the BITB.
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eff ETHAN HAWKE
i was actually going to bring that up too. does Denzel owe Ethan some gratitude for making Denzel look so good by working next to an absolutely garbage and unwatchable actor (don't bring up all the Linklater movies stevesie or whoever else jerks those off)
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seems to me like a hamburger is a hamburger so i'm not quite sure how anybody could screw it up.
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Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.
It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.
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Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.
It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.
Have you not seen 2 Guns!?!
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whatever your well is, i can't tell the difference anyway.
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whatever your house is, i can't tell the difference anyway.
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oh i don't care. bud light i guess?
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sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.
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sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.
Same goes for the music industry.
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whenever i see a thread that trim starts i just assume that GPC trim is playing a prank on us here at goEMAW
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sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.
Same goes for the music industry.
yes. maybe worse in music, because then there are dozens of copycat acts to try and catch on to the buzz. like all of these lame folky sounding bands.
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker kroger brand ryan dunn is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.
no, no he didn't.
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.
see also: keanu reeves
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Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.
It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.
Have you not seen 2 Guns!?!
No, but I was referring to Leo. Sorry that I didn't make that clear.
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is there such a thing as an invisible actor? someone that acted so well that they weren't even noticed, you didn't even know they were in the movie? they're invisible?
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.
see also: keanu reeves
The worst except in the Lake House. He was good in that one.
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maybe they weren't in the movie, maybe they were. prove it. $1000 bet, i win every single time. great bar trick too.
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invisible cloaks? do they exist? stealth technology used in hollywood, and on actors. E News hasn't reported that, now have they?
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some acting SHOULD be unnoticed.
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is there such a thing as an invisible actor? someone that acted so well that they weren't even noticed, you didn't even know they were in the movie? they're invisible?
Josh Brolin in Goonies.
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
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I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.
God rest his soul.
He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.
see also: keanu reeves
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/431621/december-18-2013/keanu-reeves
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
Ben Affleck is the bruceketball of acting. When he is in a great movie, he is typically great. When he's in a terrible movie like Boiler Room, he's horrific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Pu_JuPILw
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Boiler Room is a rough ridin' classic :dubious:
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Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.
I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.
Ben Affleck is the bruceketball of acting. When he is in a great movie, he is typically great. When he's in a terrible movie like Boiler Room, he's horrific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Pu_JuPILw
Hey, I've got Boiler Room on DVD! I can't say I've truly watched it all the way through though. I got a used copy from a long time ago when I worked at blockbuster and my only dvd player was a ps2. It skipped in a few spots and I never tried rewatching. Maybe it was the disc, maybe it was the ps2.
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the role and being able to believe that person is that person makes an actor, imo. its all about perception.
can you picture clint howard in the titanic? no, would it be hilarious.. probs
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How has Kevin Costner not been mentioned yet? I mean seriously, he is the same dude in every movie he has ever been in. Christ almighty anyone remember Robin Hood Prince of Thieves? Holy jesus he couldn't even muster a british accent in that one.
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the role and being able to believe that person is that person makes an actor, imo. its all about perception.
can you picture clint howard in the titanic? no, would it be hilarious.. probs
I think I agree. I take way more interest in the role than the actor. There'll be tons of actors DQ'd from any given role based on physical things, but still a large pool of qualified actors who can pull off the look and hold up their end of the job.
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Boiler Room is a rough ridin' classic :dubious:
Boiler Room is cool if you like watching Vin Diesel flounder his way through a movie without blowing crap up. Every character in Boiler Room is less believable as a stockbroker than Shia LaBeouf in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. That's hard.
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I thought Daniel Day Lewis way over-acted in that oil baron movie. But he won lots of awards so there you go.
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DDL is great at being an evil bastard (he was also great in Gangs of New York imo, which was crap). Keanu was very good in Street Kings, which was also surprisingly enjoyable. Also Point Break, just a fabulous film. Christoph Waltz is outstanding at playing an evil German guy. The worst contemporary actor that still got a lot of work is Hayden Christensen. What a piece of crap that guy.
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How has Kevin Costner not been mentioned yet? I mean seriously, he is the same dude in every movie he has ever been in. Christ almighty anyone remember Robin Hood Prince of Thieves? Holy jesus he couldn't even muster a british accent in that one.
He was damn good in Open Range. Great movie.
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I thought Daniel Day Lewis way over-acted in that oil baron movie. But he won lots of awards so there you go.
Maybe, but it really works for me. I rough ridin' loved him in that. Really, really enjoy it everytime I see it (him pretending to be that guy).
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good actors make you forget who is playing the character and become the person.
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This thread :Lurk:
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Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.
It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.
Growing Pains.
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
:D :lol:
just an incredible power move by that guy
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
:D :lol:
just an incredible power move by that guy
yeah that's genius id have a buncha pics all over of me on the set
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just as many things as possible lying around the house that could potentially bring up the topic of horse racing and/or the movie Seabiscuit
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I've been fortunate thus far to avoid having to use "Who is your favorite actor?" as an account login security question.
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Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.
Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.
It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.
Growing Pains.
:D
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val kilmer
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Oh, sure. It's not like I believed that I shot somebody, but I absolutely know what it feels like to pull the trigger and take someone's life.
You understand how it feels to shoot someone as much as a person who has actually committed a murder?
I understand it more. It's an actor's job. A guy who's lived through the horror of Vietnam has not spent his life preparing his mind for it. He's some punk. Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that's why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn't get on the football team, couldn't finagle a scholarship. They didn't have the emotional equipment to handle that experience. But this is what an actor trains to do. I can more effectively represent that kid in Vietnam than a guy who was there.
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I enjoyed Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, and in Hook. He's a good one.
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That Kilmer interview with Klosterman is the best interview I've ever read. Amazing. I don't read many interviews though. Val was great in a lot of stuff. Mad Mardigan, Doc Holiday, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Ice Man, Victor Cunth. I really like the guy.
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I hate Hoffman. I haven't seen him in anything that I wouldn't have preferred he not be in. Not one thing.
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yes, he sucks.
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Hoffman rules
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Watch the scene where pullo kills Gaia in Rome. Some good actin there. I am an expert at acting and detecting good acting.
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Watch the scene where pullo kills Gaia in Rome. Some good actin there. I am an expert at acting and detecting good acting.
which one was gaia
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Watch the scene where pullo kills Gaia in Rome. Some good actin there. I am an expert at acting and detecting good acting.
which one was gaia
Get on my level...
The key to screen acting is all in the eyes. Stage acting is in the core.
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I don't really get the hype over Jonah Hill's role in WOWS. It's like, the same role he played in Superbad and 21 Jump Street, but this time he's wildly rich.
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Watch the scene where pullo kills Gaia in Rome. Some good actin there. I am an expert at acting and detecting good acting.
which one was gaia
Get on my level...
The key to screen acting is all in the eyes. Stage acting is in the core.
Yeah Gaia eyes looked like they were going to pop right out at one point in that scene. I mean when she opened her eyes for that brief moment her eyes said "you're actually choking me!"
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you say you had biscuits and gravy for breakfast? biscuits huh, funny, I love biscuits.. you know my favorite little biscuit?
A great story told on the big screen of americas favorite horse seabiscuit
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:lol:
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
:D :lol:
just an incredible power move by that guy
yeah that's genius id have a buncha pics all over of me on the set
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He cleaned up.
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
your friend was a plumber on Workaholics tonight
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
your friend was a plumber on Workaholics tonight
Great show.
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My roommate in college was an extra in the movie seabiscuit. I'm pretty sure someone could have done a better job of walking around drinking moonshine and smoking a cigarette.
P.S.- He always had the movie playing in the background at our house parties. :dubious:
your friend was a plumber on Workaholics tonight
Great show.
It is, also that plumber is actually the show's director.
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Acting is confirmed pud. I'm going to move to LA.
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Acting is confirmed pud. I'm going to move to LA.
if philip seymour hoffman wasn't so deep into drugs, he'd hang out with metalhead (he'd probably just hang out anyways)
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Acting is confirmed pud. I'm going to move to LA.
if philip seymour hoffman wasn't so deep into drugs, he'd hang out with metalhead (he'd probably just hang out anyways)
what makes you think I wouldn't have been chasing that dragon with him?
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Acting is confirmed pud. I'm going to move to LA.
if philip seymour hoffman wasn't so deep into drugs, he'd hang out with metalhead (he'd probably just hang out anyways)
what makes you think I wouldn't have been chasing that dragon with him?
yeah, that's why i had to make sure the parentheses part was in there :eye:
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Acting is confirmed pud. I'm going to move to LA.
if philip seymour hoffman wasn't so deep into drugs, he'd hang out with metalhead (he'd probably just hang out anyways)
what makes you think I wouldn't have been chasing that dragon with him?
yeah, that's why i had to make sure the parentheses part was in there :eye:
:thumbs:
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Directing and producing.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Are the new episodes on Comedy Central? I haven't seen any episodes this season and I need to dvr those this weekend.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Are the new episodes on Comedy Central? I haven't seen any episodes this season and I need to dvr those this weekend.
yes.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Saw that, thought that.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Are the new episodes on Comedy Central? I haven't seen any episodes this season and I need to dvr those this weekend.
yes.
Thanks!
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Saw that, thought that.
Maybe Mrs. Gooch was on to something and I really am Adam DeVine and, like, when I pass out at night I sleep-travel to California to put together the show.
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I'm starting to think the guys from workaholics read gE.
Saw that, thought that.
Maybe Mrs. Gooch was on to something and I really am Adam DeVine and, like, when I pass out at night I sleep-travel to California to put together the show.
Well you have done a bang up job the last two weeks. very :lol:
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I wish I was Blake or ders, but I'm probably a karl :frown:
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I wish I was Blake or ders, but I'm probably a karl :frown:
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Hmm, will take over karl
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rnFJ9QEow
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Ray Liotta's now my new (first) favorite actor.
http://youtu.be/-yKx2a4Gjs8
Unless he was acting through this whole interview when he described how pud acting is and that it's just kids pretending to be cops and robbers. And if he was and got over on me, good acting.