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^^He was also in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Depp. I thought he was pretty funny in that film in an unassuming way.

Did anyone watch the new Wolfman? He's starring in that film, but I've read some mixed reviews.

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I have to agree with Robert Deniro & Al Pacino, "Heat" one of my all time favorite!

TheCunningStunt

21 Grams is really overrated - it's good, but it isn't brilliant.
The acting from Watts and Penn really carry it through IMO.

Shit yeah! I knew I recognised him from somewhere when I watched 21 Grams.
He was okay in F&LILV, but 90s Depp was on another level.
Depp's performance kind of overshadowed his, but he was good nonetheless.

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ThePhanastasio

Bette Davis still remains my absolute favorite of all time and my acting idol, but I do love the work of a lot of other actors / actresses as well:

Actresses: (and a standout role)
Shirley MacLaine (The Children's Hour)
Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Actors: (and a standout role)
Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
Crispin Glover (Willard)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Love Liza)
William H. Macy (Fargo)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
James Stewart (Harvey)

From all of these, I've spent a lot of time observing the way that they, well, act. In a lot of ways, it's been just as educational as 14 years of theatre training has been, because I'm actually able to watch the greats at their craft and learn from them. I never try to emulate, but I do observe them and try to figure out exactly what their thought process was going into a given role, little nuances of their performance, and things of that nature. The performances of these 12 folks (13 counting Bette Davis who is my absolute hero) are perfect representations of the things I love about acting.

NumberNineDream

^ I expected reading Richard Burton's name in the actor's list, when seeing the insertion of Liz Taylor's role in Who's afraid of Virginia Woold?. Now, she just seems lonely without her other destructive half. After this film, I somehow started to regard them as the same person.

Anyway, great list. I'll be searching for some of the films mentioned above, should be a good watch.

Cheers.

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debaserr

depp is really bad.

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ThePhanastasio

Thank you!

I am a fan of Richard Burton's as well, absolutely. I had to omit a lot of people, though, because my list would have been even more incredibly long had I not!

And those are definitely some of my favorite movies - The Children's Hour is one which it seems few people are familiar with, but it has a shining performance by Shirley MacLaine and an impressive performance by Audrey Hepburn. It's adapted from one of my favorite plays as well, by Lillian Hellman. There was a previous "adaptation" of the play in the 30s I believe (when the play was written) by director William Wyler who later went on to direct the Hepburn / MacLaine version. In the original, he changed the name to These Three and the film was adapted to be a heterosexual love triangle because he wasn't allowed to keep the true themes of the play intact. When he had the opportunity to remake it more true to the actual form (with the storyline of main characters Karen and Martha being accused of being lesbians by a child at their boarding school) he was much happier with the end result.

TheCunningStunt

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dankrsta

Nicolas Cage is so much fun. Half of that clip is from 'Vampire's Kiss' and he's at his craziest there. Great film, absolutely hilarious and absurd.

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