Best Scene: His "the claw."
4. Dan Aykroyd in Grosse Pointe Blank - Aykroyd isn't the first man you'd expect as a hitman, and in turn this is a most entertaining oddball turn from him.
Best Scene: Breakfast
3. J.T. Walsh in Breakdown - Walsh gives a wonderfully sinister turn by being both believable as a caring trucker and of course the duplicitous bastard his character is in truth.
Best Scene: Breakfast
2. Bruce Greenwood in The Sweet Hereafter - Greenwood gives a powerful portrayal of a man dealing with grief both in moments of raw heartbreak and of confronting the fallout of it head on.
Best Scene: Watching the accident
1. Masato Hagiwara in Cure - Good predictions Matt Mustin, Calvin, Michael Patison, RatedRStar, Tahmeed, Aidan and Luke. Hagiwara gives a quietly terrifying performance that aids the film greatly in his quietly unnerving turn that slowly gets under your skin.
Best Scene: Hypnotizing the doctor. 
Next: 1979 Lead
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Malcolm McDowell - Time After Time/Caligula
Alexander Kaidanovsky/Anatoly Solonitsyn - Stalker
Steve Martin - The Jerk
Frank Langella - Dracula
James Mason/Christopher Plummer - Murder By Decree
George C. Scott - Hardcore
Ken Ogata - Vengeance Is Mine
Klaus Kinski - Woyzeck
Patrick Dewaere - Série Noire
Scott, Ogata, Kinski and Dewaere are musts.
Ben Gazzara - Saint Jack or Ray Winstone - Scum
Louis: Ratings/Thoughts on the remaining Lead Performances.
Supporting performances with a 3.5 or higher.
And final female rankings with ratings.
Louis: Is it not Phil Davis in Face instead of Waddington.
And Greenwood hasn't been moved up yet.
And Hopkins in Amistad.
Louis, lowest 4 in the ranking.
I was not expecting Forster for the win, but I am DELIGHTED by it.
Louis: Your top ten performances in Tarantino films?
Luke: I think you can stop with the "so and so" hasn't been moved up yet and stuff like that. Give him some time to edit, at the very least.
Louis: Is Forster's work in JB an all-time great supporting performance for you? Also, if you don't mind, could I get your updated top ten male supporting performances of the 90s?
Kinski
McDowell
Langella
Ogata
Martin
Steve Martin, The Jerk
David Bennent, The Tin Drum
Ken Ogata, Vengeance is Mine
Alexander Kaidanovsky, Stalker
Patrick Dewaere, Série Noire
Klaus Kinski, Woyzeck
Malcolm McDowell, Time After Time
Jerzy Stuhr, Camera Buff
Ray Winstone, Scum
Ben Gazzara, Saint Jack
Sam Neill, My Brilliant Career
Nick Nolte, North Dallas Club
Tatsuya Nakadai, Hunter in the Dark
My request is Kiefer Sutherland in Dark City.
My request is Joe Seo - Spa Night (2016 Lead).
Also, hooray Forster!
Matt: Oohhh, that is going to be a good one.
Louis: Your ranked top ten favourite acting moments of 1997.
Anonymous: Well, #1 has to be all the film critics pretending Titanic was a good movie.
Titanic IS a a good movie. Great, even. We need to stop the narrative that it's bad.
(Avatar still sucks, though)
Frank Langella in Dracula
Malcolm McDowell in Time After Time
Alexander Kaidanovsky/Anatoly Solonitsyn in Stalker
Steve Martin in The Jerk
Frank Langella in Dracula
James Mason in Murder By Decree
Ray Winstone in Scum
Klaus Kinski in Woyzeck
Jerzy Stuhr in Camera Buff
Nick Nolte in North Dallas Forty
Ben Gazzara in Saint Jack
Tatsuya Nakadai in Hunter in the Dark
Bonus review: Malcolm McDowell in Caligula
Matt: It's up to him whether he wants to rectify it or not in a short space of time. If he decided to wait abit, I've no issue with it at all.
Louis: I was reading how you felt that Jeanette Nolan was just there in Welles' Macbeth. Before settling on Nolan, he apparently had Vivien Leigh, Agnes Moorehead, Tallulah Bankhead and Mercedes McCambridge in mind for the part.
What do you think? Not gonna lie, Bankhead seems like a perfect choice for me. Also, do you think Claire Trevor would have also worked? I've read somewhere that it was a role that she wanted to play on stage or something.
Louis: My request is Irrfan Khan in Maqbool (2004 Lead).
Louis: Ridley Scott has finished filming Napoleon, there's now a possibility it might be released at the end of the year.
i watched Deliverance for the first time. Jesus, this was great. Solid plot, visually interesting, perfect pacing and a terrific ensemble. Legit, i have no complaints.
Voigt - 5
Reynolds - 4.5
Beatty - 4
Cox - 4
Also, some ideas i had for a remake:
Ed: Paddy Considine
Lewis: Josh Holloway
Bobby: Paul Walter Hauser
Drew: Alfie Allen
I myself would love seeing reviews for Alexander Kaidanovsky and Anatoly Solonitsyn in Stalker. Two often underappreciated performances from one of the greatest films of all time.
Would love seeing a review of Ogata in Vengeance Is Mine too, as he is probably one of the most underrated actors ever in my opinion. Would love seeing some appreciation for him.
Even though the performance hasn't clicked with me fully yet, I have to say that I love seeing the Forster win. Planning on giving Jackie Brown another spin soon
Tahmeed: LMAO, nailed it 😂😂. I agree though.
Ogata
Scott
Kinski
Winstone
Dewaere
Luke, who do you think will take the lead actor overall win.
Louis: what would be your Top 25 performances of 1997?
Glenn: Either Roy Scheider (All That Jazz, I think he's going up), Dourif or Ogata.
I think Roy Scheiders work in All That Jazz is a testament to someone being completely miscast on paper and then being surprisingly great.
RIP Vangelis, One of the all-time greats.
RIP Vangelis
RIP Vangelis
RIP Vangelis
RIP Vangelis
R.I.P. Vangelis
Luke:
No changes to the female rankings.
Guest - 4(An entertaining performance by just artfully playing the delusion of the "true" artist at the height of his powers. Guest plays around with the right sense of ego and inadequacy that is measured in the right amount of delusion. He's especially entertaining, as most of the cast is, in the performance of the actual show where Guest's work is properly ridiculous by being portrayed with the utmost confidence.)
Pryce/Wilby - (Both give entirely respectable performances in an entirely respectable film. It is an example though where it doesn't quite ever get past that certain respectable quality though, even if entirely good.)
Willard/Levy - (Both are very entertaining as to be expected in bringing what they do in their roles. Willard portrays the right sense of delusion in his work in every moment in portraying this quiet pompousness about his character the whole time. Levy on the other hand portrays well this sort of detachment from the idea of an ego that is entertaining in just how pure the character is in his attempts to entertain no matter what way he can.)
Naji - (Just a quietly moving portrayal in bringing the right combination of the warmth of a father, with the stoic toughness, but also this sadness that always seems within him at times where he seems a bit unable to be the perfect father. His moments of pathos are powerful as he portrays them so effectively in moments of simple quietude. He is terrific in portraying a man that isn't quite perfect, but there is the attempt to attempt to be what he can be.)
Arkin - (He nicely plays the role of neither too big nor too small. He creates the right easy going humanity for the man who doesn't like everything he can represent but also still needs to represent what he can. Arkin gives a simple wisdom to his performance and in turn, also creates the simple empathy for the man who finds himself in such a difficult situation simply by being the wrong man at the wrong time.)
Voight/Rhames - (Rosewood's one of those films that you're surprised you hadn't heard of but after you watch it, you understand why. It is dealing with very difficult subject matter, the kind where if you're not great, unfortunately, it seems like you fall even shorter. While it genuinely isn't a bad film, it actually is more than decent, it never quite finds the right path for the material in the way films like Schindler's List or The Killing Fields could. It has decent things about it. Voight and Rhames are both good. The latter is perhaps too stoic the hero, but he does play that well. The former actually has the most interesting character of the piece, and Voight I think does find some of that complexity, but the film leaves you wishing there was more. In turn, the actors are left with roles that just aren't quite there. Not terribly written, but not truly well-written either.)
Everett - (Everett is the only performance I liked in the film, as kind of the prototypical "gay best friend" per the romantic comedy trope. Everett though manages to bring some actual charm and proper comedic energy that you could actually imagine in a Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges film. I don't think anyone else is giving him something to properly work with, but Everett is fun, finding the right sense of wit and the absurd with his performance.)
Tahmeed:
With some of the reactions to Avatar's 2 trailer, I'm convinced that Cameron has the powers of mass hypnotism and only a few of us are immune to it.
Judging from the Armageddon Time reviews, it seems that Hopkins could very much be in play for a Supporting Actor nod.
Tahmeed:
1. Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
2. Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
3. Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
4. Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
5. Walton Goggins - The Hateful Eight
6. Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
8. Samuel L. Jackson - Django Unchained
9. Samuel L. Jackson - The Hateful Eight
10. Kurt Russell - The Hateful Eight
Marcus:
I certainly like it a lot, I'd rather not do any more decade reshaping until I'm done with decades that way gives me more time for reflection and thought.
Anonymous:
1. Interrogation of the "Killers" - L.A. Confidential
2. Jackie and Max say goodbye - Jackie Brown
3. Max reflecting on his life - Jackie Brown
4. After Bud's early entry - L.A. Confidential
5. A conversion - The Apostle
6. The Mystery Man - Lost Highway
7. Good Cop Bad Cop - L.A. Confidential
8. Jessie's Girl - Boogie Nights
9. Mitchell recounting saving his daughter's life - The Sweet Hereafter
10. Couple not quite reconciliation - Nil By Mouth
Shaggy:
1. Guy Pearce & Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
2. Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
3. Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
4. Robert Duvall - The Apostle
5. Philip Baker Hall - Hard Eight
6. Tony Leung - Happy Together
7. Robert Blake - Lost Highway
8. Kathy Burke - Nil By Mouth
9. Ray Winstone - Nil By Mouth
10. Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter
11. Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
12. Kevin Spacey - L.A. Confidential
13. Masato Hagiwara - Cure
14. Don Cheadle - Boogie Nights
15. Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco
16. James Cromwell - L.A. Confidential
17. Samuel L. Jackson - Jackie Brown
18. Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
19. Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
20. Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
21. Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights
22. Bruce Greenwood - The Sweet Hereafter
23. Samantha Morton - Under the Skin
24. Alfred Molina - Boogie Nights
25. Katrin Cartlidge - Career Girls
Calvin:
Well either way looking forward to seeing another Hopkins turn of note.
RIP Vangelis, his music will not be lost like tears in rain.
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Any of those choices would've been better. Bankhead indeed would've been interesting. Trevor seems ideal.
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