Your favorite performances

[bixby]

Some of my personal favorites.

Robert Mitchum in Night Of The Hunter
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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone
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Deniro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
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Pacino as Michael Corleone, mostly in the Godfather 2
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Jason Robards as Cheyenne in Once Upon A Time In The West
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Some other ones would probably be Heath's Joker, Kevin Spacey back in 94-95 when he played Keyser Soze (omgz spoilerz) and John Doe (now he's in the "where's my paycheck?" phase of his career), Kurt Russell as MacReady in The Thing, Johnny Depp as Agent Sands in Once Upon A Time In Mexico, a pretty lame and forgettable movie, with a fucking awesome performance from Depp.

[vasili denisov]

I don't want to pick obvious ones which already have a lot of cred, so I'll go with less well known work.

John Cusack in Thin Red Line

There's a scene after a major attack with major loss of life where Nick Nolte gives this rambling speech trying to justify his actions to himself and Cusack. You have these long cuts to Cusack where he just looks silently at Nolte, and his stares are full of myriad reactions. He thinks Nolte is brutal, foolish, brave, and arrogant. He hates him but he's also saddened, because the man has so many good qualities and yet he's thrown away the lives of his soldiers like chaff.

Frank Vincent in Casino

Everything in his movement and speech gives you a sense of a man who's been in the gang banging life since high school, but everything's modulated, his calm's just another symptom of a long time in a criminal place. Even when he loses it at the end, it's out of necessity, and in reaction to someone else's lack of self control.

[goldsoundz]

alain delon in le samourai

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peter lorre in m

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marcello mastroianni in 8 1/2

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cosign on mitchum. in the same sort of role, joseph cotten in shadow of a doubt

[Archetype]

Gary Busey in Black Sheep.

[Spanky]

Mark Rolston - Shawshank Redemption

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Gets me hard everyti-

I mean, ugh, good performance.

[Titus_Pullo]

Donatas Banionis in Solyaris (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)

The way he carried himself throughout the film made you feel this guy was lugging around a bevy of regret and emotional turmoil.

[Bastard]

Jackie Chan Fearless Hyena
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Jackie Chan The Young Master
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Jet Li Fist of Legend
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[Neohesh]

Christan Bale - American Psycho.....simply chilling.

[bixby]

A Bale performance that doesn't get enough love is Rescue Dawn. Check out the parts at 2:28 and and 5:00 for awesome line delivery.

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Surprisingly a movie about a POW Camp shows how good Bale would do in a comedy, given the right role. It also shows how restrained his performance as Bats/Bruce Wayne has been so far, so he's had to be really subtle in his acting--I hope they let him cut loose a bit more in Batman 3.

[Jericho]

I liked him in Harsh Times

[Bill Paxton]

Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda. He plays such an insufferable dick that you just have to love and hate his character. His whole gung ho american persona is perfect.

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[Bill Paxton]

Bill Paxton also has some of my favorite roles of all time...

Simon in True Lies...

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Hudson in Aliens...

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Severen in Near Dark...

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[detroitwilly]

Rory Chocrane, Anthony LaPaglia, Johnny Whitworth, and Brendan Sexton III - Empire Records

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[Bill Paxton]

Ahhh, can't forget this one. Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer were perfect in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Pretty much every scene they are in together is gold, but this is one of my favorite's...

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[Mr. Brown]

Pacino in Scent of a Woman, Devil's Advocate, Glengarry Glen Ross, Donnie Brasco

[Fiend1138]

Gary Oldman. The Professional. 'Nuff Said.

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[ksul]

I love DeNiro in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Both very scary performances. I'm also very fond of M. Emmett Walsh in Blood Simple and Frances McDormand in Fargo. The Coens really know how to get great performances out of their actors.

[bixby]

A couple more I forgot:

Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke. Absolutely amazing performance of a loner who won't conform to society's rules, simply because that's not a part of who he is.
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Ed Norton in American History X. The transition he makes from angry, hateful young man to somebody who reforms and tries to get rid of the hatred he has is absolutely fantastic.
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[Molotov]

Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger in Candy.
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[opasewq]

Put that coffee down

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Alec Baldwin

[Fiend1138]

Traci Lords - Any Film Prior To 1987

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[Neohesh]

I know there will be bandwagon talk, but..

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

[ExplosionMonkey]

Daniel Day Lewis: There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York

Brad Pitt: Fight Club

Anthony Anderson & Forrest Whittaker in The Shield

Heath Ledger: The Dark Knight

Ed Norton - Primal Fear

Russell Crowe - 3:10 to Yuma

[thestronz]

Christan Bale - American Psycho.....simply chilling.

Agreed. Two scenes stand out, the part with "Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it" and..

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Bale was also great in The Prestige. Other personal notables include Willem Dafoe in The Life Aquatic and Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta.

[CTricksterGirl]

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo and Val Kilmer as Doc...two amazing performances..

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Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint in Usual Suspects..
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[bixby]

Bale was also great in The Prestige. Other personal notables include Willem Dafoe in The Life Aquatic and Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta.

Good call on those two. I didn't like Vendetta at all, but Weaving's performance is pretty memorable. I still fucking hate that movie, though.

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Bale's performance in The Prestige was one of the best of that year. Both him and Hugh Jackman were kickass in that movie.

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[TheImpossibleMan]

I thought the Prestige was a shitty film.

[bixby]

Congratulations.

[Change]

Al Pacino as Tony Montana
Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken & Stuntman Mike

[Da Raider]

Michael Rapaport in anything.

Worst actor evar!

[zero]

Val Kilmer - The Doors

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Leonardo Decaprio - The Departed

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[Philip Lombard]

Michael Rapaport in anything.

Worst actor evar!
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[The GWD]

Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. John Goodman gets all the big laughs, but Bridges' character drives the film and is really one of my favorite people portrayed on anything ever.

[MDiver01]

Brad Pitt-Fight Club
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Paul Newman-Cool Hand Luke(50 eggs)

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[Bastard]

Kevin Spacey was outstanding as the boss from hell in Swimming with Sharks.
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[teamusa]

brad pitt in snatch

[Bastard]

Ben Kingsley was great in Sexy Beast.

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[Archangel]

Chaplin, The Great Dictator. Pacino, The Merchant of Venice. De Niro, The Godfather Part II. You try acting all your lines in a foreign language.
Whoever says that Val Kilmer sucks should go re-watch Heat, where he more than holds his own against two veritable giants.
Speaking of Michael Mann, I loathe Tom Cruise, but I found him rather frighteningly convincing in Collateral. Bale, The Machinist. Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner. Clive Owen, Croupier. Terrence Howard, Hustle and Flow.

It's funny how no actresses have benn mentioned so far, so let me say that I found Joan Allen riveting in The Contender. Also, Natalie Portman in Léon. I didn't like The Brave One much, but Jodie Foster was pretty good in that one, I thought.

[art_vandelay]

brad pitt in snatch

Nice... Brad Pitt in Snatch.

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[evilash]

Just to mention a few performances that haven't already been mentioned...

Samuel Jackson & Kevin Spacey in The Negotiator
Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan
George C. Scott in Patton
Denzel Washington in Training Day
Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Ray Liotta in Goodfellas

...and my favorite of all time - Bruce Campbell - Army of Darkness / Evil Dead

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[nirvanasaves]

Quint from Jaws. Favorite character. Best movie ever.

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[bixby]

Robert Shaw wrote the dialogue for that scene himself, too.

[nirvanasaves]

I never heard that. Is that true?

[merlin13]

Brucce Willis in Mr. Bates and Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction

[bixby]

I never heard that. Is that true?
Yeah (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/fullcredits#writers).

Robert Shaw got the last rewrite for the scene. I think he actually wrote it on set.

[nirvanasaves]

Robert Shaw got the last rewrite for the scene. I think he actually wrote it on set.

Shit. That's awesome

[bdjlo09]

Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
Schwargenegger in T2 and Predator
Stallone in First Blood

[Night Hawk]

Stallone in First Blood and Rocky
PSH in Capote
TH in Castaway

Sorry.. odd taste but thats what came to mind right away.

[Night Hawk]

Yeah (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/fullcredits#writers).

Robert Shaw got the last rewrite for the scene. I think he actually wrote it on set.


Interesting you say that. I was just reading that this scene was just titled..

Travis Looks into mirror.. and that the rest of the scene was ad-libbed by Deniro

For me, it makes this scene much greater.

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[Axel]

Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' in Gangs of New York

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[vasili denisov]

Mr. Willis.

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[Da Raider]

Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' in Gangs of New York

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I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on the streets can see. That's what preserves the order of things. Fear.

[nirvanasaves]

Daniel Day-Lewis does great job with most of his roles. I wasn't the biggest fan of this movie on a whole though.

[BillyZoom]

Kurt Russell - Backdraft
Christopher Walken - True Romance
Tom Berenger - Platoon
Michael Douglas - Wall Street
Val Kilmer - Thunderheart
Donald Sutherland - MASH

[Axel]

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[Andy1234]

DDL in There Will Be Blood

[Archangel]

Way to bump a two month dead thread, n00b tard.

[the creeps]

ledger in the dark knight
downey jr in topic thunder.

those are roles that people will talking about for years to come.

[Archetype]

Lt. Ray Garcia

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[moe_blunts]

Linda Lovelace