Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2000: Results

10. Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons - The best part of his atrocious film, however doesn't achieve the true brilliance of a performance of its ilk.

Best Scene: Blood in the sky.

9. Lucas Black in All The Pretty Horses - Brings a moving authenticity that is bluntly missing from the rest of his film.

Best Scene: Being taken off.

8. Stephen Tobolowsky in Memento - Tobolowsky in his brief screentime finds the humanity in his odd state.

Best Scene: Insulin.

7. Sean Connery in Finding Forrester - Connery one last time brings out his actor in delivering a properly charismatic yet also troubled turn as a recluse.

Best Scene: Explaining why he is recluse.

6. Kyle MacLachlan in Hamlet - MacLaclan gives a powerful portrayal that manages to modernize the role of Claudius while also mine the greatness of the character in his traditional form.

Best Scene: Limo phone call.

5. Song Kang-ho in Joint Security Area - Song gives a brilliant portrayal of man who puts on a facade of the cold soldier, and reveals the empathetic human within.

Best Scene: The Event.

4. Joaquin Phoenix in The Yards - Phoenix proves his measure early on here in his remarkable and intense portrayal of a wannabe gangster coming to terms with himself. 

Best Scene: Final scene.

3.  Emilio Echevarria - Amores Perros - Echevarria gives a terrific portrayal of man struggling with empathy so naturally seguing from a broken animal lover and a callous hitman.

Best Scene: Finding the dogs.

2. Paddy Considine in A Room For Romeo Brass - Considine delivers an absolutely stunning debut turn that manages to be equally every bit of the mess of a man both terrifying yet also heartbreaking.

Best Scene: The threat.

1. Malcolm McDowell in Gangster No.1 - Good predictions Razor, Ytrewq, Shaggy (X2), and Brazinterma. McDowell delivers a proper ferocious portrayal of a vicious gangster, yet is also oddly heartbreaking in his portrayal of a man realizing the meaningless of his life.

Best Scene: "Number one"

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Alternate Best? Supporting Actor 2000: Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons

Bad Actor Struggling not to laugh at Good Actor's HAMMM

Essential awkward boot shot

Jeremy Irons did something in 2000's I think, to say he did not receive anything would be a bit silly in this instance he's playing Mage Profion or something I think, I'm shoe give a sjit. Thora Birch certainly doesn't who gives the greatest performance of someone not caring about anything evne slightly since Bunny Breckinridge in Plan Nine Frm OIuter S[ace. How about that CGI dragon as well, and to think this was mde only a year befroe Fellowship of the Ring, even by the same studio. Anyway I guess Im';m ahere ot trtiteiona baout Jeremy Irons in this film. H'e's argeat actor I think that is obvious, thiss isn't his finest work infa ct you could say you see a man who is eyeing his pay check the whole time and can obviously tell is director's sddnest particualry careaobuanta kkmcuh of anything bit like youtrs truly trightn now. Nw I've covereed performances of great actors in abad films before, although suprirsekd to say this, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Street Fighter are both much better films than this rare is the day you can say that. Irons also unlike Alan Rickman and Raul Julia isn't in this film much so how much entertainment the talented actor can bring to garbage is limted anyaways. I actually I'll amdit aafiafand Birch's reading slowly off cue cards more entertaining by its level of lifeliness. 

Random Guy: Remember the Paycheck Jeremy, Jeremy: I Know.

 

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"I'm Sleepy"

 

"I know this is a bad movie...but that's your take Thora? Maybe I'm trying too hard"

"Eh, screw it! let's live it up!!!!!"

Okay okay, I'll try a little harder than this film....though then why did a do so many pictures....just a little harder though in terms of writing because I want to praise Raul Julia and Alan Rickman a bit who I think pulled off something Irons doesn't quite do here. This is as much as both those performances are riffing on their films there is devotion to their audience in a way all the same, and their conviction within a scene actually is evident despite their purposeful lack of subtly at times...to put it subtly. They both want to entertain us despite their less than stellar material. Irons on the other hand is mostly doing whatever to entertain himself mostly it seems, in the basic exposition scenes Irons goes for a general gravitas, but he'll randomly grit his teeth and "RAGE", which is kind of funny, but also maybe a little too random. These are too brief, I'll give it to him for his "LET THE BLOOD RAIN FROM THE SKY" he was clearly entertaining himself as he earned his castle payment, but I was entertained too. Mostly though Irons is doing more than this film deserves, but not quite enough for him to truly go beyond its awfulness. He's hamming it up, but...not quite that honey glazed good stuff. It's a little fatty, a little chewy, a couple of good bites, but....eh not quite there. And that's why you're chopped...or you get it a three on the Shaw scale.