Acting

[Stevesie60]

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.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.

[mocat]

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

[Gooch]

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

[Stevesie60]

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.

[Trim]

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.

[Trim]

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?

[Dr Rick Daris]

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.

[Trim]

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.

[puniraptor]

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            ?

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

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.

  slow day at work, trim?

[Trim]

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.

[Stevesie60]

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.

[TownieCat]

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.

[Dr Rick Daris]

i'm not sure one musician is anymore talented than another. if i like the song i like it.

[Dr Rick Daris]

highschool, college, pros? who knows and how can anyone tell? it's just all guys in helmets running around tackling each other.

[Trim]

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.

  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.

[Dr Rick Daris]

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.

[Trim]

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            ?

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.

[Stevesie60]

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.

[mocat]

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            ?

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?  omg trim

[mocat]

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

[Trim]

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            ?

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?  omg trim

That's based on the role.

[Dr Rick Daris]

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?

[Tobias]

what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip?  omg trim

That's based on the role.

the other guy probably would've been adequate, tho