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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:47 am    Post subject: Best Individual Acting Performance that You've Ever Seen?

This is all your opinion, so obviously there is no right answer.

It would be better if it was from a Movie, but I guess TV and theater count.

Here's a few of mine:
Bill Murray, Lost in Translation
Christian Bale, American Psycho
Daniel Day-Lewis, There will be Blood
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Tom Hanks, Castaway
Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

and my wild card:
Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder

best acting job by non-traditional actor:
Meatloaf, Fight Club
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:24 am    Post subject:

I forgot:
Kevin Spacey, Usual Suspects
Edward Norton, American History X
Alec Baldwin, Glengarry Glen Ross
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:12 pm    Post subject:

Ed Norton-American History X
Cristolph Waltz-Inglorious Basterds
DDL-Gangs of New York
DDL-There Will Be Blood
Ryan Gosling-Blue Valentine
Salma Hayek-Frida
Jodi Foster-Taxi Driver
Robert Deniro-Taxi Driver
Robert Deniro-Raging Bull
Al Pacino-Godfather 2
Anne Hathaway-Rachel Getting Married
Robert Downey Jr.-Tropic Thunder
David Strathairn-Good Night and Good Luck
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:50 pm    Post subject:

Andre Royo "Bubbles" - The Wire
Nicolas Cage - The Bad Lieutenant
Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan
Natalie Portman - Black Swan

agree with you guys on
DDL - There Will Be Blood
Ledger's Joker - DKR
RDJ - Tropic Thunder
Christoph Waltz - Basterds
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:27 pm    Post subject:

(bleep), how could i forget? Samuel L Jackson-Pulp Fiction.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:31 pm    Post subject:

frijolero01 wrote:
(bleep), how could i forget? Samuel L Jackson-Pulp Fiction.


He also did a superb job in Unbreakable. "They called me Mr. Glass"
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:13 pm    Post subject:

I watched the Dark Knight for the first time a month or two ago (yes, I've been living in a cave) and was so impressed with Ledger's joker portrayal, I made it my avatar.

Unbelievable performance
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:23 pm    Post subject:

anything Al

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjgCK1_tAYl
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:34 pm    Post subject:

Great One wrote:
anything Al


Justice for all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjgCK1_tAYl


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsf0XynGz8


AGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:42 am    Post subject:

Find it hard to disagree with most all of your picks.

My odd favorite - Val Kilmer in Tombstone
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:29 pm    Post subject:

I totally forgot about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WCcKIkMp8Y
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:58 am    Post subject:

Quote:
Nicolas Cage - The Bad Lieutenant


Good movie. But, Cage's character in "Leaving Las Vegas" was even better.

DiCaprio - The Departed
Ray Liota - Good Fellas
Vincent D'Onofrio - Full Metal Jacket
Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront
Sidney Poitior - In The Heat of the Night
Hofman - The Graduate
Sean Penn - Mystic River
Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Denzel Washington - Training Day
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:12 pm    Post subject:

Marlon Brando - On The Waterfront
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Ed Norton - American History X
Christian Bale - American Psycho
Cristolph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
Dustin Hofman - The Graduate
Robert DeNiro - Raging Bull
Gene Hackman - The Conversation

There are soo many more...
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:17 pm    Post subject:

Sean Connery in The Untouchables.

Saw that one night and when we left I predicted that he would win the Best Supporting Actor award...and he did.

It was just that good of a performance.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:25 am    Post subject:

Everybody in the movie The Fighter....Most well acted movie I've ever seen.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:35 am    Post subject:

LALtripleOcho wrote:
Everybody in the movie The Fighter....Most well acted movie I've ever seen.


I thought everyone in that movie was really hamming it up. Lots of overacting.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:51 am    Post subject:

DeNiro's performances in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver leap to mind. That's when he was at the peak of his powers. It's so hard to see him in Focker mode now.

Maria Falconetti's performance in The Passion of Joan of Arc is often hailed as the best acting performance ever and it's certainly a great one. If there's a case to be made that acting is all in the eyes then that performance is your thesis statement.

Also, Martin Sheen is incredible in Badlands and Apocalypse Now.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:43 pm    Post subject:

Denzel - Malcolm X
Delroy Lindo - Malcolm X
Jamie Foxx - Ray
Denzel - Crimson Tide
Denzel - Remember The Titans
De Niro - Heat
Pacino - Heat
Pacino - Scarface
Ed Norton - American History X
Avery Brooks - American History X
Hackman - Crimson Tide
Hackman - The Firm
Morgan Freeman - Glory
Denzel - Glory
Andre Braugher - Glory
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:45 pm    Post subject:

Emma Watson in Harry Potter 7: Part 1. - She played her part superbly.

Jodie Foster in Contact. - Bloody brilliant!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:07 pm    Post subject:

Recently, this one really struck me, Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator. Consider that he made this movie before we entered the war, and it was his first talking picture.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:14 pm    Post subject:

ocho wrote:
LALtripleOcho wrote:
Everybody in the movie The Fighter....Most well acted movie I've ever seen.


I thought everyone in that movie was really hamming it up. Lots of overacting.


Well where I live, the crack heads act EXACTLY like Bale. Nice people but they're drugies.

Parents and over protective sisters act EXACTLY like the woman who won the Oscar and those girls.

Thats what I classify as truly great acting.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:15 pm    Post subject:

Mark Hamill playing the voice of The Joker. When I went to a convention long time ago, I saw Mark Hamill and did The Joker voice. Still amazes he did the voice of it.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:34 pm    Post subject:

I just rewatched a few good men the other day...
and Jack Nicholson's You can't handle the truth speech is still one of the best.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:39 pm    Post subject:

Heath Ledger - Dark Knight
Guy who was the jew hunter in Inglourious Basterds
Walter White in Breaking Bad
Leonardo DiCaprio - whats eating gilbert grape (my first time seeing leo, I thought he was actually stunted and i was wondering how they got him to remember lines so well)
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
Michael C Hall - dexter
Whoever plays Batiatus in Spartacus (the starz show)
Willem Dafoe - Platoon
Paul Giamatti - Private Parts
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:39 am    Post subject:

Nicholson - The Shining

He scares me as Torrance to this day.

Christian Bale - American Psycho

Great versatile character and I didn't even know he wasn't American until years later.
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