Dissect your favorite actor/actress

The Great One

04-04-04

John Cleese (He's just so cool)

Birth date and location:
27 October 1939
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK

Best Films:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Time Bandits
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
The Meaning of Life
Silverado
Clockwise
A Fish Called Wanda
Mary Shelley's Frakenstein

Worst Films:
Erik The Viking
The Wind in the Willows
Fierce Creatures
Rat Race

Best Performance:
Fawlty Towers

Worst Performance:
He's always great, even if the movie isn't

Most Underrated:
Clockwise

Most Overrated:
Rat Race

Awards:
BAFTA TV Award: Best Light Entertainment Performance - Fawlty Towers (1980)
Evening Standard British Film Awards: Peter Sellers Award for Comedy - Clockwise (1986)
Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series: Emmy - Cheers (1987)
David di Donatello Awards: David Awards for Best Screenplay and Foreign Film - A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
BAFTA Film Award: Best Actor - A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden - Best Foreign TV Personality (1989)

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Ezikiel

Do you know my poetry?

04-04-04

Originally Posted by Loner

Nice choice for an actor, but I liked Stray Dog

I liked it too, but it was my least favorite Mifune film.

Originally Posted by Loner

Have you seen 1941?

No.

Fall-from-Grace

Once Upon Atrocity

04-05-04

NICOLE KIDMAN!

Best Films:
Cold Mountain
Dogville
Eyes Wide Shut
The Others

Worst Films:
Moulin Rouge (Just my opinion, I couldn't get into the movie, don't hate me)

Best Performances:
Cold Mountain
Dogville
The Hours

Worst Performance:
Yeah right.

Most Underrated:
Dogville (A lot of people don't know this exists)

Most Overrated:
Moulin Rouge

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firegod

Feel the Burn

04-05-04

Edward Norton

Birth date and location:

18 August 1969 08/18/69
Columbia, Maryland, United States

Favorite Movie:
The People vs. Larry Flynt

Least Favorite Movie:
Death to Smoochy

Favorite Performance:
Primal Fear

Most Overrated Movie:
Death to Smoochy

Most Underrated Movie:
The Score

Favorite Quote:
"Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced."
-Edward Norton

Favorite Line:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard a lot toady, and I'm not gonna go back over it, but you have to go into that room and make some decisions. But before you do, there's something you need to know. I am not trying to suggest that you should like what Larry Flynt does. I don't like what Larry Flynt does, but what I do like is the fact that I live in a country where you and I can make that decision for ourselves. I like that I live in a country where I can pick up an issue of Hustler and read it if I want to, or throw it in the garbage can, if that's where I think it belongs. Or better yet, I can exercize my opinion and not buy it. I like that I have that right. I care about it, and you should care about it too." - Edward Norton, in The People vs. Larry Flynt - American Beauty

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Philmster

Adam Loves Adam

04-05-04

Death to Smoochy wasn't rated, it got slated, big time.

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firegod

Feel the Burn

04-05-04

Originally Posted by Philmster

Death to Smoochy wasn't rated, it got slated, big time.

Well, considering that I listed it as my least favorite of his movies, shouldn't the legitimacy of how overrated I think it is be determined by just exactly how bad I thought the movie was (a factor which is unkown to you)? You can say that it wasn't rated all you want, but all I am saying is that it was much more liked by people as a whole than by me.

Philmster

Adam Loves Adam

04-05-04

Originally Posted by firegod

heh, don't take it personally, I was thinking that the "Most over-rated" part of it was the film that was most over-rated by critics/the masses. The masses hated Death to Smoochy as much as the Critics, I personally found it good enjoyment, but, thats just me

Hondo333

I must become Caligari..!

04-06-04

Originally Posted by Fall-from-Grace

Worst Films:
Moulin Rouge (Just my opinion, I couldn't get into the movie, don't hate me)

You obviously havent seen this,
Click

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firegod

Feel the Burn

04-06-04

I think the movie is more liked than you might realize. The gap between how much I liked it and how much the average person liked it is bigger than any other Norton movie gap of that kind. That = the most overrated Norton movie for me.

Fugitive

Registered User

04-08-04

Nice thread, Slay.
I couldn't attach the picture for some reason, so here's one anyway:

Jack Nicholson

Born, John Joseph Nicholson

He's had a total of eleven Oscar nominations and three wins so far. In 1994 he was given the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.

Some of the best films (in my opinion):

As Good As It Gets (1997)
About Schmidt (2002)
Shining, The (1980)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Chinatown (1974)

Sedai

A system of cells interlinked

04-08-04

Originally Posted by Revenant

24 (TV series)

I love 24! What don't you like about it? Or is it that you just don't like Sutherland's performance in the show?

_S

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Piddzilla

I am having a nervous breakdance

04-08-04

Originally Posted by Fox

Yeah, Jack is absolutely my favourite actor. (I have like 2-3 that I call "my favourite actor"

). But Seymour Hoffman was a bit more unexpected in a thread like this. But I love Jack and his shark smile!

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Revenant

I'm a yo-yo

04-08-04

Originally Posted by Sedai

I love 24! What don't you like about it? Or is it that you just don't like Sutherland's performance in the show?

_S

I don't dislike 24 or Sutherlands performance. I just think the entire show a little too overrated.
Of course I could have put down The Three Musketeers but that's not exactly a well praised movie. There was no great expectation from me for great performances.

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Aniko

Put me in your pocket...

04-08-04

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

Katharine Hepburn
Date of birth
May, 12 1907........Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Date of death
June, 29 2003........Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA.

Best Movies.......
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Stage Door (1937)

Worst Movie.......
Maybe...Rooster Cogburn (1975) ?
I still loved her with John Wayne though. They had alot of chemistry together.

Favorite Movies.......
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Stage Door (1937)
The African Queen (1951)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Stage Door (1937)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Holiday (1938)
Desk Set (1957)
Little Women (1933)
On Golden Pond (1981)
Alice Adams (1935)

Most Overrated.......
For me, none of her movies are overrated.

Most Underrated.......
Holiday (1938)
State of the Union (1948)
Alice Adams (1935)

Favorite Characters.......
Tracy Samantha Lord........The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Terry Randall........ Stage Door (1937)
Rose Sayer........The African Queen (1951)
Mary Matthews........ State of the Union (1948)
Ethel Thayer........ On Golden Pond (1981)
Bunny Watson........Desk Set (1957)
Amanda Bonner.......Adam's Rib (1949)

Awards.......
Academy Awards
1982.......Best Actress in a Leading Role.......for: On Golden Pond (1981)
1969.......Best Actress in a Leading Role.......for: Lion in Winter, The (1968)
1968.......Best Actress in a Leading Role.......for: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1934.......Best Actress in a Leading Role.......for: Morning Glory (1933)

American Comedy Awards, USA
1989.......Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy *
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American Movie Awards
1982.......Best Actress.......for: On Golden Pond (1981)

BAFTA Awards
1983.......Best Actress.......for: On Golden Pond (1981)
1969.......Best Actress.......for: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1969.......Best Actress.......for: Lion in Winter, The (1968)

Cannes Film Festival
1962.......Best Actress.......for: Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)

Screen Actors Guild Awards
1980 .......Life Achievement Award

Venice Film Festival
1934.......Best Actress.......for: Little Women (1933)

Cary Grant
Date of birth
January, 18 1904.......Bristol, England, UK

Date of death
November, 29 1986.......Davenport, Iowa, USA.

Best Movies.......
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Indiscreet (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)

Worst Movie.......
Kiss Them for Me (1957)

Favorite Movies.......
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Awful Truth (1937)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Most Overrated.......
Not sure if he has an overrated movie.

Most Underrated.......
The Talk of the Town (1942)

Favorite Characters.......
C. K. Dexter Haven .....The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Dr. David Huxley .......Bringing Up Baby (1938)
John 'Johnny' Case.........Holiday (1938)
Mortimer Brewster..........Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
John Robie.........To Catch a Thief (1955)

Awards.......
Academy Awards, USA
1970 .......Honorary Award
For his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues.

Only Nominated twice....
1945.......Best Actor in a Leading Role.......for None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
1942.......Best Actor in a Leading Role.......for Penny Serenade (1941)

BAFTA Awards
1965.......Nominated.......BAFTA Film Award.......Best Foreign Actor.......for: Charade (1963)

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LordSlaytan

The Great One

04-09-04

Holy Cow!

That's an impressive post Annie!

LTwedge

Evil spelled backwards is Live!

04-09-04

Doug Hutchison

Date of Birth and Location:

May 26, 1960

Dover, Delaware

Best Film:

The Green Mile

Worst Film:

The Chocolate War?

General Facts:

Attended Juilliard for a brief while and studied with Sanford Meisner
First Feature Film was in Fresh Horses in 1988
Has made several noteable appearances in sci-fi TV shows such as The X-Files and Millennium and Space: Above and Beyond
Has his own production company called Dark Water Inc. and teaches an acting class called 'The Art of Stillness'
Is married to Singer/Songwriter Amanda Sonic
Used to head a B-52's like group called the Yuh-uh-uh-uh-uhs

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04-09-04

Humphrey Bogart

Date of birth:
25 December 1899
New York, New York, USA

Date of death:
14 January 1957
Los Angeles, California, USA. (cancer)

Best Movie:
The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Worst Movie:
The Return of Doctor X (1939)

Favourite Movie:
The African Queen (1951)

Most Overrated:
The Left Hand of God (1955)

Most Underrated:
The Enforcer (1951)

Memorable characters:
Rick Blaine - Casablanca (1942)
Sam Spade - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg - The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Charlie Allnut - The African Queen (1951)
Fred C. Dobbs - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Frank McCloud - Key Largo (1948)
Harry Morgan - To Have and Have Not (1944)

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Sedai

A system of cells interlinked

04-09-04

This is a great thread. I'll post soon, my Hellboy review took much out of me. Maybe this weekend I'll construct a post for this....

Again, cool thread!

7thson

www.matthewmodine.com/index_noflash.html

AMC Ape

04-10-04

Matthew Modine

Date of Birth: March 22nd 1959

Youngest of 7 children born to Mark and Dolores Modine

Good friends with:

Eric Stoltz

Most notable roles:

Pvt Joker in Full Metal Jacket

Birdy in Birdy

Drake in Pacific Heights

William Shaw in Cutthroat Island

Joe Slovak in Gross Anatomy

Most Underated Peformance

Louden Swain

Vision Quest

Most Overated Peformance:

Dont think he has been overrated too much, I rarely hear much mention of him.

Photo Gallery:

Personal Thoughts:

Modine Seems to thrive when he narrates as well as stars. His voice, although monotone seems to pull you into the story. He has that "Far away" look as if he is never truly here in the present, unless he is making a point, Then he seems to be here in full force and makes sure you are too. He is a favorite actor of mine and I hope he has more success in the future.

Official Website:

(Most information gathered from IMDB)

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