Sunday, April 5, 2009
You Make a Movie?
Here we go, back to the Silver Screen for this Top 5. List your Top 5 actors/actresses who move you in mysterious ways. No genre restrictions here, just the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the top of the hill, the bee's knees, baddest of the bad, the last of the Mohicans, the greatest of the great...
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1. John Cusack - In a word, wonderful. Men want to be him and want want him to drink wine with them while talking about their days. He's the romantic comedian who keeps getting smoother.
ReplyDelete2. Alan Alda - No comment necessary, just Alan Alda.
3. Matt Damon - Matt Damon will kick your ass and insult your intelligence whilst he does so. In addition, he's a fucking humanitarian; I mean, look how long he's let Affleck suckle from his teet.
4. Tom Cruise - BAT SHIT CRAZY, but holy shit does this guy know how to rule on screen.
5. Mel Brooks - Funniest man alive? Probably.
Down to business....
ReplyDelete1. Nathan Fillion. He is not the best actor out there. He is however, my favorite actor.
2. Ben Affleck. Wonderful can make all the stabs he wants. Affleck is waaay underated. You can see it if you look close. He's going to be Alec Baldwin someday ( Credit to Jeremy on that realization). His next decade of work is going to be hugely different than his previous decade. It's going to be awesome.
3. Robert Shaw. For only two movies. The Taking of Pelham 123 and one of my top 5 favorite films of all time, Jaws. Quint was a complex, tragic character and my favorite element of Jaws. The Indianapolis monologue is one of my favorite in film.
4. Michael J. Fox. Even though Back to the future is in my top 5 movies he did so much more than that! His dramatic ability equals his comedic. Also, Laugh at me all you want for being sappy but he's one of the most inspirational people i've ever seen.
5. Cate Blanchett. I'm not sure there is anything she can't do.
1. Bill Murray (specifically Rushmore - current day). Bill portrays endless emotion without saying a word. The melancholy, downtrodden, immature, constantly fumbling everyman. Now he's fucking college girls at Williamsburg loft parties. I love this guy.
ReplyDeletefilms of note:
- Rushmore
- Lost in Translation
- Broken Flowers
- Royal Tennenbaums
- Life Aquatic (perhaps the most misunderstood slam-dunk performance ever)
2. Dennis Hopper - The fact that this man has been trumped from previous lists by the likes of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck makes me miserable in ways most men cannot even imagine. Dennis Hopper will fucking kill you. Dennis Hopper would have been the e-joke that became Chuck Norris, except Dennis Hopper isn't funny. Just brutal and terrifying. He also takes photographs of womens asses as a side hobby. A god among men.
films of note:
- Blue Velvet
- Jesus' Son
- True Romance
- Apocalypse Now
- Super Mario Bros!!!
3. Ben Affleck - This guy was great as the butt-fuckist in Mallrats, the stupid friend in Good Will Hunting and the TOTAL BADASS in Phantoms. Sadly, All of those movies were made like 10 years ago. This guys sucks dick now!
4. Pacino - STRAIGHT TO THE FILMS:
SERPICO
MEAN STREETS
FUCKING HEAT
THE GODFATHER
DONNIE BRASCO
HOLY SHIT WHAT A FILMOGRAPHY.
5. Julianne Moore - Awesome actress. The films she has been in are totally suckable, and her boobs have earned endless critical acclaim.
Films -
- Boogie Nights
- Big Lebowski
- Children of Men
- The Hours
- Magnolia
1. Rufus Sewell - One of the greatest tragedies of modern film is that Rufus Sewell can only seem to get cast as a villain, or at the very least, the antagonist. A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, The Illusionist. But in 1998, he made a little movie called Dark City. This is a protagonist. This is a man I want to root for. His performance is utterly heartbreaking and stands as one of my favorites of all time.
ReplyDelete2. Orson Welles - Sure, Citizen Kane changed the way movies were made, but Welles changed the was actors ACTED. He was doing method twenty years before Marlon Brando and James Dean. The fact that he was only 25 when he made Kane speaks to his ability, being able to portray the character at every stage of his life so perfectly. Also good in The Third Man and Touch of Evil.
3. Tommy Lee Jones - The man doesn't act. He IS. He simply IS Marshal Gerard. He IS Agent K. He IS Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. When Tommy Lee Jones delivers a line of dialogue it instantly becomes a classic. And I'll give him a pass for Batman Forever.
4. Christopher Lloyd - Reverend Jim. Doc Brown. Judge Doom. Christopher Lloyd bleeds comedy. He never winks to the viewer, no matter how ridiculous his character. He maintains at all costs, delivering some of the richest comedic performances of his generation, but always with heart. His commitment is second only to...
5. Christopher Guest - Frankly, I don't know what Christopher Guest is really like. The famous story is that Rob Reiner (who had already directed him is This Is Spinal Tap) didn't recognize him for a week on the set of The Princess Bride. When an actor is referred to as a chameleon, they are in my mind immediately put up against Guest. He disappears in his characters, but never gets dramatic about it. He doesn't NEED to be method when he's just that GOOD.