Best Scene: "She's My Rushmore Max"
Best Scene: Suen after being used for target practice.
Best: The doctor talks to his son one last time.
Best Scene: Walter disposes of the ashes.
Best Scene: Captain Staros refuses to send his men to the slaughter.
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- Elias Koteas in The Thin Red Line
- Sean Penn in The Thin Red Line
- Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan
- John Goodman in The Big Lebowski
- Giovanni Ribisi in Saving Private Ryan
- Donald Sutherland in Without Limits
- James Coburn in Affliction
- Jeremy Davies in Saving Private Ryan
- Tom Wilkinson in Shakespeare in Love
- Kiefer Sutherland in Dark City
- Robert Duvall in A Civil Action
- Dylan Baker in Happiness
- Thomas Bo Larsen in Festen
- Stephen Rea in The Butcher Boy
- Ben Chaplin in The Thin Red Line
- Woody Harrelson in The Thin Red Line
- Geoffrey Rush in Elizabeth
- Henning Moritzen in Festen
- Michael Goorjian in SLC Punk!
- Song Kang-ho in The Quiet Family
- Dash Mihok in The Thin Red Line
- Til Schweiger in SLC Punk!
- Mike Myers in 54
- Herbert Knaup in Run Lola Run
- Richard Attenborough in Elizabeth
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Happiness
- Mark Margolis in Pi
- Ralph Fiennes in The Prince of Egypt
- John Cusack in The Thin Red Line
- John Savage in The Thin Red Line
- Noah Emmerich in The Truman Show
- Ben Gazzara in Buffalo '66
- Gary Farmer in Smoke Signals
- Choi Min-sik in The Quiet Family
- Michael Parks in Niagara Niagara
- Park in-hwan in The Quiet Family
- Patrick Tam in Beast Cops
- Ed Harris in The Truman Show
- Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State
- Ben Affleck in Shakespeare in Love
- Callum Keith Rennie in Last Night
- Sam Lee in The Longest Summer
- Chris Cooper in Great Expectations
- Chan Sang in The Longest Summer
- Bill Murray in Rushmore
- Edward Norton in Rounders
- Jason Priestley in Love and Death on Long Island
- Sam Lee in Beast Cops
- Ewan McGregor in Velvet Goldmine
- Robert De Niro in Great Expectations
- Alan Arkin in Slums of Beverly Hills
- Francis Huster in The Dinner Game
- Jerzy Radziwiłowicz in Secret Defense
- Tom Sizemore in Saving Private Ryan
- Ben Gazzara in Happiness
- David Krumholtz in Slums of Beverly Hills
- Jon Voight in The General
- Jeff Daniels in Pleasantville
- Don Cheadle in Out of Sight
- Willem Dafoe in Affliction
- Barry Pepper in Saving Private Ryan
- William Hurt in Dark City
- Stan Shaw in Snake Eyes
- Stellan Skarsgard in Ronin
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine
- Bill Murray in Wild Things
- Dian Bachar in Baseketball
- Robert Downey Jr. in U.S. Marshals
- J.T. Walsh in The Negotiator
- Adam Goldberg in Saving Private Ryan
- Benicio del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Jon Lovitz in Happiness
- David Kelly in Waking Ned Devine
- Jean Reno in Ronin
- Christopher McDonald in SLC Punk!
- Steve Zahn in Out of Sight
- Seymour Cassel in Rushmore
- Jared Harris in Happiness
- William Hurt in One True Thing
- Sam Elliot in The Big Lebowski
- David Cronenberg in Last Night
- Jon Voight in Enemy of the State
- Robert Ashby in Jinnah
- Stacy Keach in American History X
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- J.T. Walsh in Pleasantville
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- Ben Gazzara in The Big Lebowski
- Gary Busey in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Steve Buscemi in The Big Lebowski
- Brent Briscoe in A Simple Plan
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Big Lebowski
- Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 4
- Brian Cox in Rushmore
- David Huddleston in The Big Lebowski
- Jason Patric in Your Friends and Neighbors
- Kevin Corrigan in Buffalo '66
- Roy Cheung in Beast Cops
- Michael Lonsdale in Ronin
- Chelchie Ross in A Simple Plan
- Patrick Godfrey in Ever After
- Mickey Rourke in Buffalo '66
- Moritz Bleibtreu in Run Lola Run
- Vin Diesel in Saving Private Ryan
- Daniel Craig in Elizabeth
- Jared Leto in The Thin Red Line
- Max von Sydow in What Dreams May Come
- Steve Martin in The Spanish Prisoner
- David McKay in My Name Is Joe
- Paul Giamatti in The Negotiator
- Rupert Everett in Shakespeare in Love
- Jason Segel in SLC Punk!
- John C. Reilly in The Thin Red Line
- Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan
- George Clooney in The Thin Red Line
- Gary Cole in A Simple Plan
- Aaron Eckhart in Your Friends and Neighbors
- Sam Neill in The Horse Whisperer
- Elias Koteas in Apt Pupil
- Ethan Suplee in American History X
- Cuba Gooding Jr. in What Dreams May Come
- Tom Wilkinson in Rush Hour
- Lou Diamond Phillips in Another Day in Paradise
- Gene Hackman in Antz
- Albert Brooks in Out of Sight
- Peter Vaughn in The Legend of 1900
- Daniel Prévost in The Dinner Game
- Kevin Bacon in Wild Things
- Jon Lovitz in The Wedding Singer
- Kevin Spacey in A Bug's Life
- Steve Buscemi in The Wedding Singer
- Robert Duvall in Deep Impact
- Larry Hagman in Primary Colors
- John Turturro in Rounders
- Dennis Farina in Out of Sight
- Leonardo DiCaprio in Celebrity
- William H. Macy in Psycho
- Billy Bob Thornton in Primary Colors
- Ving Rhames in Out of Sight
- Christian Bale in Velvet Goldmine
- Edward Furlong in American History X
- Ben Stiller in Zero Effect
- Christopher Walken in Antz
- Maximilian Schell in Vampires
- Gary Sinise in Snake Eyes
- Jeremy Irons in The Man in The Iron Mask
- Michael Byrne in Apt Pupil
- Vincent D'Onofrio in Claire Dolan
- Paul Giamatti in The Truman Show
- Kevin Corrigan in Slums of Beverly Hills
- Adrien Brody in The Thin Red Line
- Viggo Mortensen in Psycho
- Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4
- Tzi Ma in Rush Hour
- Don Cheadle in Bulworth
- Billy Bob Thornton in Armageddon
- Tony Shalhoub in The Siege
- William H. Macy in Pleasantville
- Peter Greene in Permanent Midnight
- Sylvester Stallone in Antz
- Philip Baker Hall in Rush Hour
- Tim Guinee in Vampires
- Chazz Palminteri in Hurlyburly
- Jim Broadbent in Little Voice
- Peter Vaughn in Les Miserables
- James Fox in Jinnah
- Harry Dean Stanton in The Mighty
- Nick Moran in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Jason Flemyng in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Dexter Fletcher in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Steven Mackintosh in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Vinnie Jones in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare in Love
- Tobey Maguire in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Tony Shalhoub in A Civil Action
- Oliver Platt in Bulworth
- Martin Landau in Rounders
- Ryan O'Neal in Zero Effect
- Patrick Stewart in The Prince of Egypt
- Owen Wilson in Permanent Midnight
- Lee Evans in There's Something About Mary
- Matthew Glave in The Wedding Singer
- Jonathan Pryce in Ronin
- Brent Spiner in Star Trek: Insurrection
- Kevin Spacey in Hurlyburly
- David Hyde Pearce in A Bug's Life
- Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact
- Chris Penn in Rush Hour
- John Malkovich in The Man in The Iron Mask
- Jared Harris in Lost in Space
- John Lithgow in A Civil Action
- Maximilian Schell in Deep Impact
- Will Patton in Armageddon
- David Schwimmer in Apt Pupil
- Robert Englund in Urban Legend
- Gabriel Byrne in The Man in The Iron Mask
- Bob Gunton in Patch Adams
- David Strathairn in Simon Birch
- Jim Broadbent in The Avengers
- Stuart Wilson in The Mask of Zorro
- Ernest Borgnine in Baseketball
- John Travolta in The Thin Red Line
- Robert Patrick in The Faculty
- Andre Braugher in City of Angels
- William H. May in A Civil Action
- Michael Lerner in Godzilla
- Richard Crenna in Wrongfully Accused
- Robert Duvall in The Gingerbread Man
- Bruce Norris in A Civil Action
- Nick Stahl in Disturbing Behavior
- Lloyd Bridges in Jane Austen's Mafia
- Richard Kind in A Bug's Life
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in Patch Adams
- Robert Vaughn in Baseketball
- Peter Stormare in Armageddon
- Tony Shalhoub in Paulie
- Oliver Platt in Simon Birch
- Simon Callow in Shakespeare in Love
- Mark Addy in Jack Frost
- Dennis Franz in City of Angels
- William Sadler in Disturbing Behavior
- Bruce Willis in The Siege
- Mickey Rooney in Babe: Pig in the City
- Phil Hartman in Small Soldiers
- Steve Buscemi in Armageddon
- Jeff Goldblum in Holy Man
- Tom Berenger in The Gingerbread Man
- James Nesbitt in Waking Ned Devine
- Robert Forster in Psycho
- Joe Pantoliano in U.S. Marshals
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- Colin Firth in Shakespeare in Love
- Jack Warden in Bulworth
- Ben Stiller in Your Friends and Neighbors
- Gary Oldman in Lost in Space
- Sean Connery in The Avengers
- Avery Brooks in American History X
- Colm Meaney in Claire Dolan
- Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan
- F. Murray Abraham in Star Trek: Insurrection
- John Malkovich in Rounders
- Michael York in Wrongfully Accused
- Chris Elliot in There's Something About Mary
- Bruce Greenwood in Disturbing Behavior
- Jean Reno in Godzilla
- Peter Boyle in Dr. Dolittle
- Harrison Young in Saving Private Ryan
- Josh Harnett in The Faculty
- Daniel Baldwin in Vampires
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- Henry Winkler in The Waterboy
- Jack Warden in Dirty Work
- Oliver Platt in Dr. Dolittle
- Corbin Bernsen in Major League: Back to the Minors
- Rance Howard in Psycho
- Robert Loggia in Holy Man
- Hans Matheson in Les Miserables
- Gary Oldman in Quest for Camelot
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- Harry Shearer in Godzilla
- Robert Downey Jr. in The Gingerbread Man
- Christopher McDonald in Dirty Work
- Jeffrey Tambor in Meet Joe Black
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- Gerard Depardieu in The Man in the Iron Mask
- Joseph Cross in Jack Frost
- Peter Firth in Mighty Joe Young
- Kevin Dunn in Small Soldiers
- Michael Clarke Duncan in Armageddon
- Jay Mohr in Small Soldiers
- Chris Rock Lethal Weapon 4
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- Jake Weber in Meet Joe Black
- James Gandolfini in The Mighty
- Michael Rosenbaum in Urban Legend
- Thomas Ian Griffith in Vampires
- Rade Serbedzija in Mighty Joe Young
- Breckin Meyer in 54
- Matt Leblanc in Lost in Space
- Hank Azaria in Godzilla
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- Jack Plotnick in Gods and Monsters
- Jerry Reed in The Waterboy
- Jack Johnson in Lost in Space
- Rob Schneider in The Waterboy
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Lew Ayres in All Quiet on The Western Front
Herbert Marshall - Murder!
Walter Huston - Abraham Lincoln
Emil Jannings - The Blue Angel
Lew Ayres - All Quiet on the Western Front
Lew Ayres - The Doorway to Hell
William Powell - Street of Chance
Lon Chaney - The Unholy Three
John Wayne - The Big Trail
Richard Barthelmess - The Dawn Patrol
Wallace Berry - The Big House
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - The Dawn Patrol
Louis Wolheim - All Quiet on the Western Front
David Torrence - City Girl
Awesome lineup, although I do think Baker should be much higher in the overall ranking. He might actually be my personal choice.
Louis: Ratings & Thoughts on Wilkinson and Affleck in Shakespeare in Love.
Louis: ratings and thoughts on the supporting cast of American History X. And, just because I know your thoughts on his performance will probably make me laugh, rating and thoughts on Rob Schneider in The Waterboy
Louis, what is your current Top 5 for Best Actress for 2014?
Lead:
Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front
Herbert Marshall in Murder!
Richard Barthelmess in The Dawn Patrol
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in The Dawn Patrol
Supporting Actor:
Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front
Tyrone Power, Sr. in The Big Trail
I have nothing more to add to these performances,
Ratings and thoughts on Tea Leoni in Deep Impact and Anne Heche in Psycho?
Koteas wins it all! <3
I have nothing to add for 1930: Ayres and Wolheim deserve to win here.
Can anyone help in telling me what time the Screen Acting Guilds noms and the Golden Globe noms are on at, US or UK time, because I am excited and dont want to miss them.
The Globes are at 11am ET (on the 11th obviously) and the SAGs are at 6am PT (on the 10th).
Thank you CR7 =D
Tom Hardy Wins LAFCA, really surprised, but extremly pleased for him.
am I the only person who thinks that Tom Hardy is Marlon Brando, except that Hardy never gives bad performances and is pretty much the 51,52,53,and 54 Brando roled into 1 =D.
Rating and toughts on Dane Cook In Mr Brooks, would you consider reviewing him for alternative suporting performances of 2007?
Wilkinson - 3.5(Wilkinson should have been the one nominated, if someone needed to be, especially since he steals every scene from Rush. He does the imposing money well having a comedic bent but still enough of a menace. He does a great job though of turning that on his head in a funny yet honest feeling manner when his character seems quite nervous at the prospect of being in the play itself)
Affleck - 3(Perfect casting really in that Affleck, in his prime hammy phase, his playing a hammy actor. His quite enjoyable though at being such an overly indulgent performer by giving an overly indulgent performance. Honestly the more I think about Shakespeare in Love the more I wish they had just forgotten the love part of it, oh and go get Ralph instead)
Mark:
Furlong - 3.5(He gives a pretty good performance and his own minor transformation that goes along with Norton's. His first scenes are good as he brings out that overly confident punk personalty, but does not put on too thickly that way it fairly naturally wears away when his brother who is his idol changes)
Keach - 3(Keach is always great at doing some good old fashioned sleaze)
Brooks - 2(Brooks certainly is intense in the role, but it feels awfully over the top and out of place compared to all the other performances in the film)
Schneider - 1(Sorry to disappoint you but it's much more fun to talk about a terrible performance in a dramatic film especially daring ones. There's nothing daring about Schneider's performance, it's just obnoxious lowest common denominator stupid face making, and over the top line readings. He's not funny, he's just annoying)
Anonymous:
1. Marion Cotillard - Two Days One Night
2. Jessica Chastain - The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
3. Julianne Moore - Still Alice
4. Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
5. Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
Robert:
Leoni - 2.5(Yet another that I haven't seen in a long time. I recall her being a bit bland most of the time, but I do remember her perhaps being fairly moving with her scenes with Schell particularly their last scene together)
Heche - 2(She does a great job of showing why Leigh was so great in the role. It's interesting to compare the performances as Heche suggests just so much less in her silent reactions. It is intriguing that she does play the character very differently, but that with a lot less allure and potential moral duplicity. There's just something very plain and bland about her character. Leigh's Crane we might have followed throughout a different film, here she is not much more than dead meat. Also, like Vaughn, she suffers from recreations of scenes that seems opposed to her performance and shows why the shot for shot idea is so stupid. To compose the same scene it appears Van Sant required them to do the same physical actions no matter what. For example in the parlor scene when Leigh held up the napkin it just seemed to be a natural part of her performance, and just a choice she made while doing the scene. Heche on the other hand holds the napkin like she's posing for an uncomfortable portrait, I mean you know it's a bad film when it makes napkin holding seem unnatural)
John Smith:
Haven't seen him, that year is packed though.
RatedRStar:
Question I have to ask. Do you know the name of the guy who played the Triad boss in The Longest Summer? As he'd be at least in the top 50 of this ranking.
Louis: What Films have you seen in the past week, also when will Ayres's review and the results be posted for '30 Lead & Supporting.
Luke:
Still Alice
The Skeleton Twins
Fury
30 will probably be up tomorrow.
Louis: Ratings & Thoughts for Performances you would give a 3 or more from each film.
Still Alice:
Moore - 4.5(Moore is actually very good here in her portrayal of a woman who gets Alzheimer's Disease at a particularly young age. What I liked about her performance was actually how it really was not very melodramatic. Of course she does have her breakdowns which are earned and well performed. They don't make up the majority of her performance though and I like the way Moore shows the day to day normalcy of the effects of Alzheimer's Disease. She is most moving in showing how a little more seems to be lost from her after every scene, and is terrific here by not really playing broad for the big emotional payoffs but rather quietly earning them)
The Skeleton Twins:
Hader - 3.5(Hader proves that he does have some dramatic chops here. He does the mannerisms usually associated with playing a gay character but he does them really well. It always feels natural and true to his character. Oddly enough I think the comedic portions were the weakest parts of his work as some of the one liners seemed a bit off. Not his fault mind you as he delivers them best he can. The highlight really is his chemistry with Wiig)
Wiig - 3.5(She also proves fairly capable although I don't feel she's quite as assured as Hader, and again I do feel the comedy side is the weakest side. The chemistry though is key though as they do develop the strange relationship between the two rather beautifully. As they suggest the mutual love yet bitterness between the two incredibly. I wish the film had made a better use of that relationship)
Wilson - 3.5(I actually thought he was best of the cast as I thought he did the best to combine the drama and the comedy elements of the film. Wilson is quite funny in portraying the all around super guy who might just be too super for his own good. Wilson goes just far enough without becoming too much. Most importantly he plays the part with so much sincerity that when Wiig's makes her confession, his reaction is quite sad actually)
Fury:
I don't know I might have to save Labeouf for the moment.
Pitt - 3(Leaning more towards a 2.5, but I wanted to talk about him. Wardaddy I think had the potential for a 5 performance, the problem is Pitt does not realize it. First of all let that Aldo Raine accent go, thankfully it only is slight here, but still it only worked for that character. This seems to be a fight between the often great character actor Pitt against bland leading man Pitt. Bland leading man Pitt seems to win out here though as there were too many moments that he undersold, especially one scene where he was forcing the new recruit to kill a German. That scene should have been a powerhouse moment, but Pitt just does not give it the emotional intensity it needs. He does have a few great reactions that suggest what could have been but I'd much rather have seen someone like Matthew McConaughey in the role as he probably would have made the most of it)
What were your thoughts on Fury as a film and ratings and thoughts on Lerman?
Fury - (I actually thought the weakest thing about Fury was the acting although that was heightened by the weak characters given to Jon Bernthal and Michael Pena. Of course I don't think they helped matters all that much especially Pena. I also thought the writing to create the last stand at the end could have built it up a bit more to make it make a little more sense out of why Wardaddy wants to do it so badly. Of course a better performance may have been able to convey a stronger insanity in the man making more sense of it. Also it does feel more like it stops rather than ends, and it is not exactly unpredictable. Having said all that I thought it had some exceptional action sequences that had quite the visceral impact, and I felt there was just enough character, mainly brought by one very unexpected place, to make the scenes feel meaningful as well.)
Lerman - 2.5(A re-watch could potentially help him, as I'm not completely sure how I feel about his performance. He definitely is no Jeremy Davies though. Like Pitt I also felt he failed to really bring out the power of his pivotal scenes. Not that I thought he was terrible, and perhaps he had some good moments here and there, but his transformation never became quite compelling enough or even entirely convincing)
@Louis: The guy who plays Big Brother Wing, Its Chan Sang who I only seemed to find credited on some of the sites, I was quite surprised by The Longest Summers ending, the fact that it shows a really ehh camera shot of a guy with his cheek blown apart was quite shocking lol
Thoughts/ratings on:
Noah Emmerich in The Truman Show
Don Cheadle in Out of Sight
Willem Dafoe in Affliction
Bill Murray in Wild Things
Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State
Toughts and rating on Patton Oswalt In Young Adult
What are your thoughts and ratings on Kirsten Stewart in Still Alice? I've heard she's good.
Finally managed to see Nightcrawler, best dark comedy I have seen in ages and Gyllenhaal is truly FAN-freaking-TASTIC. Tops every other performance in the year so far.
RatedRStar: Thanks. It's strange that he's not even listed on imdb, since he probably had the third largest role in the film.
GetDonaldSutherlandOscar:
Emmerich - 3.5(He gives an interesting performance that's stands a good counterpoints to Linney's. Emmerich is good at showing the duplicitous nature of his character as he still advertises beer as well as continues to trick Truman, but perhaps suggesting that he does care about Truman to at least some extent)
Cheadle - 3.5(The more character given to Cheadle usually the better. Here his role is not that substantial as he just plays the nasty rival to Clooney. Cheadle plays it well though bringing some humor while still creating the appropriate threat with the character)
Dafoe - 3.5(Dafoe, despite having a fairly small role, is effective in showing how the younger brother fits into the occasion. Instead of going off the deep end as Nolte does, Dafoe is very good in portraying the subtle way the abuse has caused him to have this certain intensity while being withdrawn)
Murray - 3(An enjoyable bit of classic style Murray)
Hackman - 3.5(The idea that he's Harry Caul I would say is wrong since Hackman plays him as a completely different person. He's not paranoid here, he just completely knows that everyone is watching, and it is not the withdrawn man, at least not by nature, that was Caul. Hackman though is good as per usual. It's not exactly his most daring performance but he still carries the drama incredibly well)
Anonymous:
Haven't seen in Oswalt.
Anonymous:
I thought she was fine, but I did not feel as though she made that much of an impact.
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