I've yet to see that one. Bug was the performance that really shook my world. I didn't know that acting could be like that.

dude seriously!? watch it. i don't want to overhype it or anything but i went into it blind and it ended up being one of my favourite films of last year. my boner for Jake Gyllenhaal aside, the rest of the cast ****ing killed it too.

oh damn he was in Mud too, forgot about that. he's still not Daniel Day-Lewis but yeah he's got some solid work under his belt for sure.

I'm a massive Tom Ford fan so it's on the list.

I put him ahead of Day-Lewis because Shannon has so much realism to his performances while DDL is more of a character actor. I suppose it comes down to preference.

Lot's of movies that I love are kind of flawed. I just hope that it is at the very least interesting in some way.

Oh and I love Fassbender. Especially for his lead roles in Shame and Frank respectively.

I need to watch that one. NEED to watch it. Really bad.

He's great. A top 10 actor/actress of our time for sure, if anyone asks me.

oh yeah, that's totally fair. i think a lot of the time it's easy to forget how good an actor who strives for realism is because if they're doing it well enough it feels like they aren't even acting. whereas someone like DDL is so eccentric and larger than life in his roles that it's very easy to see how great he is at it.

he's easily my favourite actor. i have the utmost respect for him for his film choices, it's actually hard to name bad films he's been in.

he's done some okay films like southpaw and everest but in terms of good films i can't think of many actors with a better track record post 2000.

- Enemy
- Prisonners
- Nocturnal Animals
- Nightcrawler
- Brokeback Mountain
- Zodiac
- Source Code
- End of Watch
- Demolition
- Jarhead
- Donnie Darko

and i'm sure i'm missing some

he's just the real ****in' deal man

Haven't seen all of those yet, but I loved these: Nightcrawler (best modern thriller, pretty much), Jarhead and Zodiac. Need to catch up to some of those. Especially Demolition and Prisoners.

oh my god dude. you need to see Prisoners ASAP. it's probably Denis Villeneuve's bench mark film at this point. there's not many better examples of how to take a fairly "basic" narrative and elevate to such a level that it becomes a near perfect film. it's one of those films that will stick with you days after seeing it. cannot recommend enough. it edges out Nightcrawler and Nocturnal Animals for me by a little bit.

The thing is, I'm not too big a Villeneuve fan... (I know, I know - call me a philistine), but I still want to see it because I think Gyllenhaal is great, and because I think it sounds like an interesting movie. I've seen both Incendies, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049 (all Denis Villeneuve films), but didn't really connect with either... It is what it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯