Best Scene: Peter's "goodbye".
Best Scene: The O.K. Corral
Best Scene: Sam leaves the house as well as his past.
Best Scene: Just before the transformation.
Best Scene: Fred visits an old bomber.
- James Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life
- Dana Andrews in The Best Years of Our Lives
- Jean Marais in Beauty and the Beast
- Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep
- Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives
- Van Heflin in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- Paul Muni in Angel on My Shoulder
- Cary Grant in Notorious
- Burt Lancaster in The Killers
- John Mills in Great Expectations
- Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine
- Edmond O'Brien in The Killers
- Edward G. Robinson in The Stranger
- Basil Rathbone in Terror By Night
- David Niven in A Matter of Life and Death
- Claude Jarman Jr. in The Yearling
- Orson Welles in The Stranger
- Glenn Ford in Gilda
- John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Dean Stockwell in The Green Years
- Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia
- Tom Drake in The Green Years
- Gregory Peck in The Yearling
- Bud Abbott in The Time of Their Lives
- Lou Costello in The Time of Their Lives
- Bob Hope in The Road to Utopia
- Bing Crosby in The Road to Utopia
- Joseph Cotten in Duel in the Sun
- Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge
- Gregory Peck in Duel in the Sun
- Larry Parks in The Jolson Story
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Vincent Price - Dragonwyck
Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore and Thomas Mitchell - It's a Wonderful Life
Claude Rains - Deception
Roger Livesey - A Matter of Life and Death
Victor Mature - My Darling Clementine
RatedRStar: Your rating & thoughts on Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game.
Louis: My request is Clive Owen in Children of Men
Henry Travers - It's A Wonderful Life
Lionel Barrymore - It's A Wonderful Life
Roger Livesey - A Matter of Life and Death
Alec Guinness - Great Expectations
@Luke:
Cumberbatch (4.5) I think Cumberbatch is well cast, because his calculated style of acting works for Turing just as it does Sherlock, he does carry the film and is definately watchable, his scenes of passion in the machine are very effective, and he does make himself sympathetic, the only problem is down the film which never really gets into Turing as much as I would have liked, the film feels a bit too safe, so thats why I felt a 4.5 was neccessary as I feel Benedict is kinda let down by the film itself in terms of writing.
Everyone: For the First nomination list, I put Giamatti and Mortensen down because I just don't think they're as respected as they should be by the academy.
RatedRStar: For me personally, I would much rather if he had a 4.5 than less than that since I would like the academy to get it right for the second year in a row, Bale Excepted. So I guess Redmayne's the one to worry about now.
My winning request is actually a bonus review Louis, since Alternate Best Actor 2011 has been done, it is a performance close to my heart.
Jakub Gierszal - Suicide Room
Everyone: Your ratings on Clive Owen in Children of Men.
How many requests are there for 2007 lead?
Currently three.
mcofra7: Someone should correct me for this but there should be about 2 or 3.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Lust Caution (Can't remember exactly, but I think his performance is one of them).
Lau Ching Wan - Mad Detective.
Winning Request: Brad Pitt in the Assassination of Jesse James
Someone suggested Leung but did not request him.
Here are the three:
Lau Ching Wan - Mad Detective
Joaquin Phoenix - We Own the Night
Casey Affleck - Gone Baby Gone
finlay currie great expectations
Louis: Was James McAvoy not requested awhile back for Atonement, despite giving him a 2.5 rating before the request was made.
No he wasn't.
Louis: OK
So I'm guessing that fifth slot is between Jake Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, Josh Brolin in NCFOM, Ryan Gosling in Lars and the real girl, Tony Leung in Lust Caution and Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, although you should save him for the bonus rounds.
Actually I did request McAvoy when I won for my prediction for Alternate Best Actor 1933, but I don't mind if you don't want to review him. If you don't want to review him I can change my request.
Anonymous: I'll review him..... as long as you're the real anonymous.
Louis: What decade will you be doing next, also for the 00s, which are you covering first 06 or 07.
I'll probably do the 30's next and probably 06 first.
Louis: I know this maybe a bit selfish of me, but if you are doing the 30s next, can you pick the least time consuming of the remaining years, that year possibly being 30 or 32 because I'm dying to get to the 90s and 06 especially.
Also for the 06 lead lineup prediction, will you be sticking to the first 5 requests or choose at random out of all 7.
Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life
Finlay Currie in Great Expectations
Henry Travers in It's a Wonderful Life
I've just seen Nightcrawler and I just loved it. It's brilliant and Jake Gyllenhaal is sensation. I also thought that Rene Russo was great as well, what are everybody else's thoughts on her performance? I think I'd give her a 4.5
Thoughts/Ratings on:
Paul Muni in Angel on My Shoulder
Burt Lancaster and Edmund O'Brien in The Killers
John Mills in Great Expectations
Claude Jarman Jr. in The Yearling
Orson Welles in The Stranger
John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice
Dean SJoseph Cotten in Duel in the Sun tockwell in The Green Years
Louis, what are your thoughts and/or ratings for Choi Min Sik for Lucy?
So, I finally saw Interstellar. I'm still trying to gather my thoughts so for now I'll just say I thought it was completely amazing. My ratings for the cast:
McConaughey-5
Hathaway-4
Chastain-4.5
Gyasi-3
Irwin-3.5
Caine-3.5
Bentley-2
Foy-4
Burstyn-2.5
Lithgow-2.5
Affleck-2.5(wasted, but does the best he can)
Damon-2
I'll give specific thoughts on the performances if requested.
This weekend I saw Interstellar, Nightcrawler, and Gone Girl (finally!), but I have a 15-page research paper due Thursday, so I won't write anything on them until after then, but here's my cast ratings for each:
Interstellar:
McConaughey-5
Hathaway-3.5
Chastain-4 (maybe a 4.5)
Gyasi-3
Irwin-3.5
Stewart-2.5
Caine-3
Bentley-2.5 (if he changes, he'll go down)
Foy-3.5 (maybe a 4)
Lithgow-2.5
Damon-2.5 (if he changes, he'll go down)
Affleck-3 (maybe a 3.5)
Burstyn-2.5
Nightcrawler:
Gyllenhaal-5
Russo-3.5 (maybe a 4)
Ahmed-3.5 (maybe a 4)
Paxton-3 (maybe a 3.5)
Gone Girl (Generally speaking I think I liked it more than most people here did):
Affleck-4.5 (maybe a 5)
Pike-5
Harris-2.5
Perry-4
Coon-4
Dickens-4
Fugit-3
Wilson-2
Pyle-3.5
Ward-2.5
I may as well share my feelings on the casts of Nightcrawler and Birdman;
Nightcrawler:
Gyllenhaal: 5
Russo: 3.5
Ahmed: 3.5
Paxton: 3
Birdman:
Keaton: 5
Norton: 4
Stone: 4
Galifianakis: 4 (bordering on 4.5)
Watts: 4
Riseborough: 4
Ryan: 4.5
Duncan: 4
I clearly liked Russo more than you, I thought she was great and she made her moral decay incredibly effective. I haven't seen Gone Girl, but my ratings on the casts of Interstellar and Nightcrawler are:
Interstellar:
McConaughey - 4.5 (almost 5)
Hathaway - 3.5 (almost 4)
Chastain - 4 (almost 4.5)
Foy - 3.5 (almost 4)
Gyasi - 2.5
Irwin - 3
Bentley - 2
Affleck - 2.5
Caine - 3
Burstyn - 3
Lithgow - 2.5
Damon - 2
Nightcrawler:
Gyllenhaal - 5
Russo - 4.5
Ahmed - 3.5 (almost 4)
Paxton - 3
@Matt Mustin: I'd like to hear your thoughts on McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, Caine, Foy and Damon if you don't mind :)
GetDonaldSutherlandAnOscar:
Muni - 4(He did not surprise me here because I've always felt Muni did his own biggest disservice by hamming it up because he definitely had talent. He does a little bit of his trademark overacting in doing the gangster mannerisms early on. Thankfully he settles down pretty quickly and gives a very effective depiction of slowly bringing some humanity to the gangster caricature he starts with)
Lancaster - 3.5(He actually peaks early with his performance as his best scene is when his character accepts his demise at the beginning. Due to the flashback nature of his character we get basically the highlights of his life which Lancaster does well with but I would not have minded if the film devoted a little more time for his character)
O'Brien - 3.5(Ah another performance where he has to play the straight man to the more emotional characters. O'Brien is good though and does a fine job of carrying his scenes which are completely detached Lancaster's)
Mills - 3.5(Pip really is not much of a character, he's mainly there to facilitate more interesting characters. Mills does manage to do a good job of reflecting what he's going through at any given moment stopping him from being completely overshadowed by the more flamboyant characters)
Jarman - 3.5(Out acted his adult co-stars as far as I'm concerned. He gets slightly one note in a few moments here and there but that's mostly due to the writing. He mostly gives a fairly endearing and honest depiction of a child gaining than painfully losing his companion)
Welles - 3.5(A couple of his moment are a bit over the top, but when he has his moments of quietly philosophizing he is quite chilling)
Garfield - 3(Garfield is someone I've yet to see the greatness that people speak of him. He has moments where he can be effective enough which are in this performance, but I always feels there is this certain awkwardness about his performances that keeps him from going the distance)
Stockwell - 3(A couple of his other child performances seemed slightly actorly, but he's rather good here. He's has a genuine sweetness and I really enjoyed his scenes with Charles Coburn)
Cotten - 2.5(I did not find him to be aggressively bad like his other leading co-stars but there was only so much he could do with such a underwritten role)
Honestly, I would have given a 1.5 to Gregory Peck in Duel in the Sun. He was really terrible, a 2 is still too generous.
Anonymous:
McConaughey(Perfect at just being the leading man to follow through the story, but as well his emotional moments are just exceptional)
Hathaway(Effective at first in being the cold, logical scientist, and later fairly moving when more is revealed about her)
Chastain(She has most of the key emotional moments in the film outside of McConaughey and she excels completely)
Caine(Offers his usual solid support and is surprisingly powerful in his final scene, even if the revelations regarding his character are questionable)
Foy(Absolutely perfect casting, as she actually seems like the spitting image of a young Jessica Chastain. In addition I felt she and McConaughey had great chemistry and she succeeded in her limited screentime in creating a sympathetic character)
Damon(His character is easily the worst part of the movie to me, as I felt he was distracting and just plain out of place. It's not entirely the fault of his performance, but he doesn't do anything to change the fact that his character is pointless.
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