Actors who are always in good films
 

This is an issue I touched on in another thread earlier today that I thought deserved a thread of its own: which actors do you think manage to consistently make good films?

If you'd like, you can choose actors that may be involved in many great films, but have had roles in many terrible ones, as well. The kind I have in mind, though, are those who don't just end up in strong films, but consistently avoid the bad ones.

The best example of this, for me, would be Tom Hanks. Here's how his last 15 major roles break down for me:

Great to Very Good

• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Cast Away (2000)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• That Thing You Do! (1996)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Forrest Gump (1994)

Some of these have significant flaws, to be sure, but some of them are borderline masterpieces, and all of them are worth going out of your way to see. Also of note is the intense concentration of quality; of these 10 films, 6 of them came in just a 4-year period (1998-2002), and all of them within an 8-year span.

Pretty Good to Decent

• The Terminal (2004)
• The Ladykillers (2004)
• You've Got Mail (1998)

I have serious issues with both The Terminal and The Ladykillers, but both had parts I liked a great deal, and I didn't regret seeing either, so they slide by under "Decent." And while I don't expect many MoFos to concur, I actually enjoyed You've Got Mail very much. Stop snickering.

Haven't Seen

• The Da Vinci Code (2006)
• The Polar Express (2004)

Haven't seen either, but I'm sure the former will be mildly entertaining at worst, and the latter seems to have been very well-received.

The ratio doesn't lose much going back further, as this list still leaves out some of his most heralded roles; Philadelphia, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, and A League of Their Own, most notably.

Earlier, the ratio drops significantly, but you've got to go back over 15 years to find Hanks going through more than a few roles without adding a fantastic film to his resume. He's seen a bit of a dropoff lately; I'd say his last great film was 2002's Catch Me If You Can, but his pace before that was remarkable (and probably unsustainable), and most of his efforts have been above-average since. He also looks poised to star in some potentially fantastic films over the next few years, as well. Among them is Charlie Wilson's War, based on the real covert actions of a Texas Congressman who, as it would happen, was a classmate of my Grandpa Bob's at the Naval Academy.

So, what other actors do you think consistently find their way in the best films, while avoiding the critical flops?

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Whilst racking my brains to think of anyone, I saw a trailer on tv for another new Nicholas Cage film and I thought that if there is someone who is the exact opposite of what you are looking for, it's him...

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I always see Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt usually do good in all the films they're in.

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Anthony Hopkins!
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Yeah, there have been some bad movies with him in, Alexander, for one. But even when the movie is not so good, he is often the best performance in the movie.

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EDIT: Whoops. I responded to the wrong thread.

Anyway, Sean Penn, who I mentioned in the other thread is in consistently decent (if not alway great) films.

Brad Pitt is really noteable in this topic though. He's a good actor but I wouldn't say one of the best. But if anything that (and the fact that at first he just seemed like he would be another pretty celebrity) just makes it even more surprising and impressive how well he's avoided being pigeonholed and stuck to interesting films and film-makers.

I think George Clooney is in this camp as well. Apparently starting with his partnership with Soderbergh.

For actresses I'd say Sarah Polley.

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Tom Hanks is an obvious choice for me, all his films seem to do well even his mediocre roles are quite good.

just looking down the filmography and Robert Deniro seems to pop up often in good and popular movies,

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John Cazale only appeared in 5 films (all great!)

The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Deerhunter (1978)

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How about Jim carrey?

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The only name that comes to my mind is Robin Williams. I may not like every film I've seen him in (and I haven't seen ALL of his), but I can't say there wasn't something appealing or thought provoking about them. He's done some really interesting work.

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You've got to be joking.


I also agree that John Cazale starred in nothing but great movies and he was going to be my choice as soon as I saw the thread title. Apart from him, I don't think there are any actors who starred in nothing but good movies.

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Johnny Depp: Almost all his movies are great. He picks movies that are non-convential and gets into the charactor so imensely that the charactor is known for him having potrayed it so well, instead of the other way around. i think he rocks and hes not bad to look at iether. check him out........

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Dakota Fanning

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That girl has always freaked me out for some reason.

I recently saw Edward Scissorhands again. In that movie at least he looked clean. I don't like it when he looks dirty. It is such a good little film!

I agree that he does pick good projects with unusual characters. The bolded above statement that you made is absolutely true IMO.

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So, let me get this straight. You didn't like anything about Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven but think the fella who's career choices include RV, Patch Adams, Jack, Flubber, Toys, Man of the Year, Death to Smoochy, The Big White, Father's Day, Jakob the Liar, The House of D, The Night Listener, What Dreams May Come, Jumanji and Hook among other disappointments and/or travesties can really do no wrong?!?

'Kay.


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"Deserve's got nuthin' to do with it."...OBVIOUSLY.

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You've got the right of it though I obviously don't consider most of his work travesties or disappointments. I also haven't seen ALL of his work. Did you see The Final Cut (2004) btw?

However, I'm more curious about what others think is so incredible and wonderful about Unforgiven. I'm honestly interested. I'm not trying to start anything. I simply didn't see what was so good about it. I certainly wish I had.

I'd love to hear from others what they did love about it.

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I used to dismiss Hanks as just another silly young 20-something type doing light, silly films like Joe and the Volcano. Just never took him serious from his "Bosom Buddies" beginning. Then I saw him play a fat, middle-age drunk in League of Their Own and realized, hey, this boy can act! Philladelphia and Forrest Gump really convinced me. I won't say that everything he touches turns to gold, but I'm usually willing to risk the price of a ticket on him. On the other hand, I've found out that virtually the only time I can stand Robin Williams is when he's voicing a Disney cartoon--with the one exception of when he played half of a homosexual couple in the US version of that French movie with the title I can't pronounce, much less spell! He was great in that because he toned it all down! Otherwise, you gotta hide behind a cartoon character before I can stay in the same room with him.

Dustin Hoffman is always interesting to watch, but even he has been in some stinkers! Can't think of anyone who is always enjoyable, although Cagney was about as close as one can get.

Whoops, just thought of one guy who really was about near perfect on screen--Paul Muni! Someone in this group was citing Johnny Depp for his unusual roles and I agree he's very good. But if you want to see someone who would really disappear into a role, check out Muni as a gangster in the original Scarface, as the President of Mexico in Juarez, or a denizen out of hell in Angel on my Shoulder. He even played a Chinese man who you would have thought was right off the boat from China--can't think of the film, The Good Earth? Most of you youngsters probably don't remember Muni at all, but man could he act! You ought to look up his old films.

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Robert De Niro?

- Raging Bull
- The Deer Hunter
- Godfather Trilogy
- Meet the Parents
- Mean Streets
- Taxi Driver
- Once Upon a Time in America
- A Bronx Tale
- The King of Comedy
- Brazil
- Cape Fear
- Ronin

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I love De Niro, and he's been in a number of fantastic films, but he's made some very bad ones, too, such as Godsend, Showtime, 15 Minutes, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, and Analyze That. And that's just this decade.

The last two I find kind of interesting, actually. They make me wonder, alongside better films like Meet the Parents, whether or not De Niro is trying to pull off some kind of Walkenesque transition to comedy, or even self-parody. Whatever the intention, the dude never seems to stop filming, and I think it occasionally shows in the quality of his filmography.

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Robert DeNiro 1973-1997 or so? Yeah, maybe. At the very least you can make a case for it. While there were a few noble failures in that run (The Last Tycoon, True Confessions, New York, New York), some very average affairs (Falling in Love, Stanley & Iris, Backdraft) and a couple flat-out stinkers (The Fan, Frankenstein, We're No Angels), there are so many good to great films and more than his fair share of bonafide modern classics that those years are difficult to fault his choices much.

But his career has been in freefall since the late '90s. For my money CopLand, Wag the Dog and Jackie Brown were that last three movies even approaching great he was in, and those were all released in 1997. I'll give you the first installments of Meet the Parents and Analyze This. I think they're very safe, easy, barely above-average comedies that didn't even try to be anything spectacular. However both sequels are damn near unwatchable. But they are masterpieces compared to the sh!tty-*****-***** he's been cranking out with regularity: Showtime, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Shark Tale, 15 Minutes, Flawless, Godsend, Great Expectations, City by the Sea, Men of Honor, The Score, Hide & Seek...these are some truly bad movies. And there's lots of them. They'd be bad career choices for a third or fourth tier actor, but for one of the best and most influential thespians of his generation it's downright shameful.

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And such a continued run of horrible, horrible flicks means even though he has a Hell of a career on balance, you can no longer make any kind of realistic argument that Bobby De Niro is "always in good films". I dare you to watch Showtime, 15 Minutes and Hide & Seek back-to-back-to-back some evening and come out the other side singing DeNiro's praises.

I really liked The Good Shepherd a lot and hope he directs more (A Bronx Tale was very good, too). There's always hope he can pull his career out of the toilet, reputation wise (because certainly he's getting paid a lot of moolah to appear in those stink-fests). Some of the upcoming projects he's attached to have promise. On paper, anyway. But this period of 1998-2005 takes him off the unerring list.

I think.


***END RANT NOW***

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Have you all forgot Kevin Spacey and Leonardo Dicaprio
i dont recall a roll that they havent done incredible in
American Beauty , Usual Suspects , Blood Diamond , Basketball Diaries EtC

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Jacky chan..

rush hour 1, 2 and 3..

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I don't think that any actors are always in good films, but i do think that Toni Collette is good in any film.

http://www.undercover.com.au/pics/tonicollette.jpg

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That's a great picture of her. She usually look so pale.

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I feel kind of stupid saying this, but Judi Dench! Recently she's been in some box office hits (Casino Royale, Pride and Prejudice), some Oscar-heralded films (Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat), some severely underrated (Iris), but most of which are pretty good. She doesn't have a huge role in any of them, but I think she's pretty good at choosing her movies.

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Agreed on Dench!

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Hmm, I've always felt that Naomi Watts give 110% in every film she performs in, no matter how small or big the budget is. I'm surprised she hasn't won an Academy Award already. Agree with the comments about Judi Dench. Morgen Freeman also springs to mind. His performance is consistent, even if the film itself is awful.

Oh, and name ONE film in which Christian Bale was bad in?

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steve buscemi

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John Cusac is one actor that I believe is always good in his films. If he's in it, I'll watch.

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I agree...she's fantastic.

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Leonardo DiCaprio (The Quick and the Dead wasn't great, but I forgive the man), Al Pacino (***1/2+, always), Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando (haven't seen quite enough yet, though), Jack Nicholson, Edward Norton, James Stewart.

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I would agree that Dame Judi, Toni Collette, Kevin Spacey and Christian Bale always give 100% and I'd like to add Viggo Mortensen to that list!

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Samuel L. Jackson, without a doubt.

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Kevin Bacon anyone?

Murder in the First
She's Having a Baby
Wild Things
He Said She Said
A Few Good Men
Footloose

Just to name a few.

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I would love to be able to list my personal hunny and sweetie -- the one man I've loved longer than any other, the one whose fan club I belonged to, whose scrapbooks in my house now total four, GENE WILDER. But alas, that would be a stretch. He had a real run of it in the '70s, back when I fell in love with him (at age 13), and I never let the fact that he's about eight years older than my dad stop me from adoring him.

But, aside from about a half-dozen films, he's made a lot of bad choices.

I'm surprised this thread has made it to page 2 without anyone mentioning Meryl Streep. Recent or past, you can count on her to give a riveting performance. She also seems to uplift the performances of the other actors in the films she's in.

Some of my faves she was in:

A Prairie Home Companion
Adaptation
Sophie's Choice
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Hours
Bridges of Madison County
Angels in America
Out of Africa
Silkwood
The Deer Hunter

Granted, even she has made a FEW bad choices (She-Devil, Death Becomes Her [which did have a few fun moments--she almost saved that movie]), but they're few and far between.

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I have to agree on Depp and Pitt -- they're the sort of actors whose names alone make me give a film a chance. I'm not overly fond of most of Depp's politics and personal views, but I could watch him in Secret Window twice a day and not get tired of his performance.

I even think he came close to saving the Wonka remake singlehandedly! (Close...) And, coming from me, the Gene Wilder fanatic (see above post), that's saying something!

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Don't forget about The Devil Wears Prada

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I haven't seen that one yet, which is why I didn't list it in either category. The snippets I've seen make me suspect she carries that movie singlehandedly too. Sometimes I'm amazed that such diverse characters are all her, just acting. She's a joy to watch on the screen.

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I'll agree with DiCaprio, as of late his work seems to be getting more impressive.

Bale, again, another fine choice. Even the hokey Reign of Fire was a good film (Bale brought it up a notch).

I'll agree with Holden on DeNiro. The 97 and on are definitely the "sell-out" years.

My pick, is Nic Cage. Even if the film is horribly bad, Cage somehow brings a certain magic and charm that makes the film actually bearable. I have yet to see The Wicker Man or Next, both look pretty drastic. Here's a list of films that Cage saved with his performance.

Face/Off
The Family Man
Gone in 60 Seconds
Bringing Out The Dead
8MM
Snake Eyes
Con Air

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http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.co...las-cage02.jpg

Seriously.


Hahahahaha.

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Stir of Echoes is a badass film too.

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TREMORS, baby, TREMORS! :)

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:yup:

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I forgot a few

Sleepers
Apollo 13
The River Wild
JFK

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All right, I know this will piss some people off, but hear me out. lol. I personally think Christian Bale is quite overrated. I think he's a very theatrical actor, and I'm not too sure that he belongs in film. I've seen him in numerous roles, and he's been very hit and miss for me. I thought he was great in American Psycho and quite good in The New World, but weak in several others (Shaft, Swing Kids and, yes, The Prestige). I also thought he was REALLY miscast in Batman Begins, and I know a lot of people love that film, but I just can't see where all the rave is coming from. I find that he overacts a lot of his dialogue and attempts a degree of intensity that he just doesn't possess.

He's a very dedicated actor, I will give him that (his drastic weight loss for The Machinist is commendable) but he rarely convinces me in his roles. I also find it really irritating when people call him the next De Niro, and I tend to hear it all the time.

Debate, anyone? :D

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I am surprised that Robert Redford didn't get on this list yet. Extremely talented actor and director.

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Yeah, Redford's really good too. I thought The Sting was amazing.

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Here is my list of actors:

Johnny Depp
Brat Pitt
Jacky Chan
Tom Cruise

:)

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Tom Cruise has one hell of a filmography too. He's one of my favorite actors. Eyes Wide Shut, Collateral, Rain Man, Vanilla Sky, Born on the Fourth of July, The Last Samurai, A Few Good Men... the list goes on. I have a lot of respect for him.

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Hopkins would be my pick. He seems to either have starred in good movies or act that well he makes them good :D

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I disagree, admittedly I've not seen all his films but I've enjoyed every one I have seen, notably Batman Begins, American Psycho, The Machinist & The Prestige.

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will smith
samuel jackson
morgan freeman

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For me, Gene hackman, Hanks, Brando, Hopkins, Johnny depp, Al pacino, Paul newman, and the versatile king of roles Robert deniro.

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Robin Williams:

Bicentennial man
Patch adams
Good will hunting
Hook
dead poet society
Mrs. Doubtfire

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There have been a lot of good names thrown about in this thread. During the discussion of Meryl Streep, I'm surprised no one mentioned The Manchurian Candidate remake (at least I don't think you did). It was an okay movie, but I Thought Streep was just astounding in it. Pretty much the way I felt about Angela Lansbury in the original.

Anyway, allow me to throw out a couple of other names that haven't been mentioned:

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Chris Cooper
One of the best actors working today, IMHO. I can't pretend to have seen anything close all of his movies, but he's been great in everything I've seen him in.

I was also about to mention Chow Yun-Fat, but then I remembered The Replacement Killers and Bulletproof Monk, so never mind. :)
Still, overall I like the guy.

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I think it is near impossible, to find an actor who is 'always in good films'. Even the greatest living actors like Robert De Niro (Showtime, Hide and Seek) and Al Pacino (Gigli, People I Know) have been in some very bad movies. However, i will still maintain that De Niro is, by quite a margin, the greatest living actor. His immersion into 'the method' allows him to become truly absorbed into a character. He can adopt a minimalistic approach, while still developing a characters' mental awareness in such a chilling way (Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy). He can also portray a character with fervent intensity, the heralded Pacino-esque shout and spit technique, if you will (Raging Bull).

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Even looking back, acting greats like James Stewart (Airport '77), Cary Grant (None But The Lonely Heart) and Humphrey Bogart (Tokyo Joe) have all been in some average films.Granted, these films are not unmitigated disasters but these actors didn't live back in the day when you could get paid $20 million for acting in unadulterated garbage like Showtime and Gigli.

The only actor i can think of that hasn't been in a bad film is the late John Cazale, who appeared in The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter and The Conversation. There are three masterpieces (The Godfather I & II, The Deer Hunter) and two very good films (Dog Day Afternoon, The Conversation) in that filmography.

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Al Pacino, Matt Damon, Edward Norton

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Robin Williams
Tom Hanks
Kevin Spacey
Will Smith
Heath Ledger

Julia Stiles
Natalie Portman
Helana Bonham Carter
Judi Dench
Anna Sophia Robb(Up & Comer)

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I'm not sure I can find any actors whose films I have seen all of. However, actors I have yet to see them in a bad film...

Guy Pearce
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Has turned in some pretty good (and varied) performances, and none of the films I have seen him in have been bad. I didn't especially love The Proposition, but it wasn't exactly a bad movie (and he wasn't bad in it.)

I am yet to see a bad movie featuring Daniel day Lewis

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I think Heath Ledger is great, but having seen Casanova, I don't think he deserves to be on this thread. :nope:

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How about Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood. These guys make the movies they are in good, if not great just by being there.

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What movie is that from?

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Laura Linney turns in solid performances even when she's in a stinker movie like Congo.

Some of her best:
Mystic River
The Squid and the Whale
Kinsey
You Can Count on Me

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Nicholas Cage
Jackie Chan
Tom Cruise

I can only think of three now, well I guess that's it!!!

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The title of this thread immediately made me think the direction it would probably go, at it does seem to have, is not so much actors who are always in good movies, but actors who are typically in good movies, but even when they are in a mediocre movie, their performance tends to stand out as being a good part within it (sometimes even the past part of the movie).

What about someone like Peter O'Toole, or Richard Harris. I'm thinking of them more recently for their respective roles in Troy and Gladiator. I honestly don't know either of their entire filmographies, so I'm not going to say whether I think they SHOULD be on such a list of great actors, but from what I do know, they both seem like good possible candidates.
Troy has had some nasty things said about it (I thought it was OK, not great, but some good 'ole popcorn at least), but I thought O'Toole did a great job with the role he was given. Gladiator has been generally very well received, and again, I liked it for its popcorn value, but I thought Harris' also did a really great job with that role.

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Dunno So Many Good Actors.. Good Topic Yew Have Picked x

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For me it's: Anthony Hopkins Robert De Niro Tom Hanks Robbie Williams John Travolta Nicolas Cage They are really great actors.

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Well, the question wasn't about who's a great actor, though, but about which actors avoid ending up in bad films.

Travolta, for example, has made Mad City, Basic, Look Who's Talking Too, Look Who's Talking Now, and one of the most mockable films of all time, Battlefield Earth.

Cage has had the misfortune of appearing in so many bad films that I actually had to defend him in another thread from someone who claimed he never makes any good ones. Among his alleged missteps are Next, Windtalkers, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Face/Off and especially The Wicker Man.

And, alas, while Robert De Niro is a fantastic actor who has found his way into some of the best movies of the last few decades, he isn't very choosy. In fact, another member mentioned De Niro in this very thread back in June (page 1) and both myself and Holden (in consecutive posts) enumerated some of the many, many poor films he's been in.

Anthony Hopkins is a better choice, but far from perfect. He was in both Alexander and Instinct, two huge bombs, and Bad Company. But I agree his track record is quite good overall.

And obviously I think Hanks is a pretty good choice, too. :)

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brad pitt
johnny depp
anthony hopkins
tom cruise
robert de niro
sean penn
tom hanks
robin williams
nicolas cage

good films or bad films...i don't mind as long as these guys are in. ;)

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I think Will Smith has been in some fantastic films (apart from Wild Wild West) it seems what ever he is becomes a box office smash. He is one of my favorite actors. I think Hancock is going to be awsome, really looking forward to seeing this.

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Also Samuel Jackson he never seems to be in any bad films.

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Ron Perlman. He is flat out awesome. The way he carries himself in his movies and his characters he plays is kick ass. His upcoming The Mutant Chronicles rocked !!! :cool:

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Hmmm,

Christian Bale seems an obvious choice to me, I can't think of any bad films he's been in off hand.

The trouble is the older an actor gets the likelihood of them being in a turkey increases. Almost all actors will end up in a stinker at some stage, just as most directors end up making the odd flop. This usually happens at the beginning or end of their careers. Though sometimes it happens in the middle, Michael Caine in 'The Swarm' for example, mind you he's been in lots of bad films.

Juliet Binoche? can't think of a bad film she's been in either.

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Christian Bale is a great actor his performance in american psycho was fantastic and also I cannot thik of any bad films that he has been in.

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How about Reign of Fire? ;) Besides that one, I agree.

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When he was still pretty young Newsies and Swing Kids are embarrassing. And Harsh Times is rubbish. But yeah, Bale's got a better batting average than most, and now he's really been getting his pick of projects.

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Even his worst films (Bale) are not all that awful. In the big picture (P.I.) he is solid. D.D.L. is a bit above as well as P.S.H. Yeah?

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I've never seen Newsies, so I can't comment on just how embarrassing it really is. But any flick that can contribute (even in reputation alone) to a moment of comedy this inspired is alright in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdciDiFI0E

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Are you serious? Snakes on a plane. Jumper. 1408. and many other garbo movies.

He is quite a fantastic actor though, as shown especially in Coach Carter, Pulp Fiction, etc, just he chooses the wrong movies to be in.

And lol at everyone talking about Nicholas Cage. He's a horrible actor IMO because he doesn't know how to express EMOTIONS. Ghost rider, wicker man, all those movies I turned off within 30minutes because I simply could not stand Nicholas Cage. The only movie which he is actually palatable in is National Treasure, and that movie wasn't good either.

For me, after reading this, I agree that Di'Caprio/Hanks seem to be in many great films. De Niro was in many great films in the past, but imo, I find James Stewart to be in many great classics. =)

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I can only really hold actors to this once they have reached the point they can turn down scripts--so holding Newsies (a movie I like) against Christian Bale is not especially fair.

Since her breakthrough role in The Secretary, Maggie Gyllenhaal has had stupendous role selection. Each role showcases a different aspect of her range and ability.

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Clint Eastwood has to me always been good in every movie I have seen him in.

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Have you seen Adaptation? Raising Arizona? Bringing out the Dead? Leaving Las Vegas?


He's good in some stuff, but, more so than Jackson, can't seem to pick his films very well...

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im gonna say brian cox im sure there is something hes done that somebody wont like but hey thats preference for yaand i was gonna say kurt russell til i remembered escape from la

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I considered making a "Yeah, River Phoenix hasn't made a bad movie in years" kinda joke, but I decided that would've been some pretty bad taste on my part.

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Morgan Freeman and Tom Hanks, also Swazernager is good.

Morgan Freeman

-The Bucket List
-Unleashed
-The Shawshank Redemption

Tom Hanks
-Cast Away
-Forest Gump

Swazernager
-Terminator 1 and 2
-Comando
-True Lies

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<H1>Arnold Schwarzenegger

</H1>good:
T1
T2
T3

bad:
Just about everything else.

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The actors I feel are good in anything (and some of my favorite films they were in):

Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Fugitive, Witness, Regarding Henry)
Michael Keaton (Batman, Beetlejuice, My Life, Mr. Mom)
Tom Hanks (The 'Burbs, Money Pit, Catch Me If You Can, Cast Away)
Bill Murray (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Stripes, Scrooged)
Jimmy Stewart (It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take It With You)
Clark Gable (It Happened One Night, Gone With the Wind, Mutiny on the Bounty)

I haven't seen everything they've done, but I've always enjoyed the films I've seen.

Audrey Hepburn

Clint Eastwood

Tom Hanks

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Paul Newman
http://blogs.woodtv.com/files/2008/0...20-240x300.jpg

Cool Hand Luke, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, The Hustler....

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Cary Grant
http://hitchcock.tv/people/img/grant2.jpg

His Girl Friday, Charade, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace....

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Steve Buscemi

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/20...cemi-thumb.jpg

K-PAX was a good film?!?!?! :nope:

Yes. K-Pax was a good film. I quite enjoyed it.:yup:

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Yeah, K-Pax was ok. I don't know how much that had to do with Jeff Bridges, but I thought the film was alright.

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K-Pax was awful! That said, I still like Jeff Bridges. I don't think there's any actor who hasn't been in a bad movie.

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Steven Seagal

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K-Pax was great, not enough exposition for an american film eh?

There's no way an actor or actress has done all good work, even if you didn't start from some shoddy role just to get noticed, you took a poor script for a paycheck you needed to continue doing good films

You think Jeff Bridges isnt worthy of this thread?!

Joe Vs The Volcano?! The Man With One Red Shoe?! Oh yeah they were keepers :laugh: