Best Performance

Sorry for double post but I forgot a couple..

Guy Pierce- Memento or Till Human Voices Wake Us
Phillip Seymour Hoffman- Love Liza
William H Macy- Magnolia
????????-The guy that sung the song "Mr. Cellophane" in Chicago. I know his name but for the life of me I can't remember

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Brad Pitt in "snatch" was fantastic. he really got into the role he was playin.

John C. Reilly, also of Gangs of New York, The Good Girl, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight, State of Grace, The Thin Red Line, The Perfect Storm, The Hours and The Anniversary Party among others.

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Thanks Holden. I knew the other films but I just for the life of me couldn't remember his name..

You cant forget Guy Pierce in L.A. Confidential

Actually I have yet to see LA Confidential. I own it but haven't gotten around to seeing it yet.

Another one I forgot was:

Tim Curry-Rocky Horror Picture Show

I loved Ian McKellan in 'LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring', he played the Gandalf so many book fans had imagined. (I would mention Andy Serkis's performance as well, but technically that was only a 'voice' performance- exactly how I heard his voice in the books though). I know Gandalf wasn't McKellan's BESTperformance ever, though it's up there.

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Ones i can currently think of................
John Travolta - Pulp Fiction and Face/Off
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
Brad Pitt - Snatch and Fight Club
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
Sean Penn - 21 Grams
Benicio Del Toro - every film he's ever been in

Why is it every one picks Donnie Darko as their favorite one by Jake Gyllenhaal. I mean I did and everything but he also have alot of other good films out there like Moonlight Mile,October Sky,The Good Girl,Day After Tomorrow, Bubble Boy even. I mean Donnie Darko was a well done film and I enjoyed it but I think that his role in The Good Girl was right up there as well and just as good if not better than the role in Donnie Darko. Sorry for going on just throwing in my two cents

I would like to Add Kate hudson in Almost Famous, to my list.

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1. Marlon Brando - Godfather
2. Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
3. Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
4. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd
5. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
6. Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot

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Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood/Pirate Of The Caribbean
Will Smith - Six Degrees Of Separation
James Woods - Once Upon A Time In America
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Robin Williams - The World According To Garp
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Love Liza
John Leguizamo - Summer Of Sam
Juliette Binoche - Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue)
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge/Dogville
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Bill Murray - Lost In Translation/Groundhog Day/Tootsie
Britney Murphy - Spun
Jason Schwartzman - Rushmore
Eric Bana - Chopper
Tom Wilkinson - In The Bedroom
Kirstin Dunst - The Cat's Meow
John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever
Sean Astin - The Lord Of The Rings: ROTK
Adam Sandler - Punch-Drunk Love
Keanu Reeves - The Matrix
Tom Cruise - Magnolia/The Last Samurai
Jim Carrey - The Truman Show/Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
David Carradine - Kill Bill: Vol. 2


That's all I can think of... At the moment

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the fact that the movie... *shudder* Troy ever got mentioned in this thread amazes me.

Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun
Jean Seberg in Lilith
and
Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear

are probably just about my top three favorite performances

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oh and it's also surprising to see all the praise Marlon Brando gets for The Godfather because I don't think it's anywhere near his best performance. Hell he was far better in Last Tango in Paris, which came out soon afterwards. I guess in The Godfather he pretty much played a role well, but I don't think it was anything too challenging.

Well, you have to realize too, that apparently there were no great performances given before 1972. Plenty of stuff the last ten years, but fifty and seventy years ago - not so much. Judging by the posts anyway.

that's cause with the invention of the VCR they could go back and watch and rewind old films to see what they were doing wrong in the days of old. This is why the best performances are within the last ten years or so.

hahah my bad, i meant the movie '12' you know the one with kevin spacey as the villan?

In no particular order:

Brad Dourif - Gemini Killer/Legion - The Exorcist III
Orsen Wells - Hank Quinlin - Touch of Evil
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates - Psycho
Naomi Watts - Betty/Diane - Mulholland Drive
Rutger Hauer - Roy Batty - Blade Runner
Sam Jackson - Jules- Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis - Cole - 12 Monkeys
Bryce Dallas Howard - Ivy Walker - The Village

[EDIT] ...and me not listing a scorsese pic....

Joe Peschi - Goodfellas
DeNiro - umm, any Scorsese picture he is in including: Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Cape Fear.....

I have yet to see Raging Bull, which deserves a double slap from The Bullet or Holden I would think....Damn DVD is OOP...

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I enjoyed Brad Pitt's performance in Se7en. Especially at the end.
Kate Blanchette outdoes her competion in most of her movies. Never saw Elizabeth. Sounds like too much of a yawner.
Sylvester Stallone in Cop Land.
Geovanni Ribisi in The Gift. I even say he overtook Kate in this one.

I'm going out on a limb here and say that justin long played his part perfectly in jeepers creepers.