Best Acting Performances

Yeah yeah another movie topic.

What has been the best acting performance that you have seen?

Examples for me:

Heath Ledger - The Joker - The Dark Knight
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood
Kevin Spacey - 'Verbal' Kint - The Usual Suspects

Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
Leo DiCaprio - Basically any movie in the last 3 or 4 years.

Good call on Leo, BOMBER. If you had to pick one role, though, which would it be?

Don't make fun of me on this...

jack nicholson/tom cruise - a few good men
ledger- joker and brokeback mountain
Will Smith - Ali
Spacey - Usual suspects
Sean Penn - i am sam

funny thing is, my fav actor used to be tom hanks...i coudl throw him in there for saving private ryan...otherwise, not so much.

I know what you mean about Tom Hanks, Drago. I still consider him one of the best actors in terms of consistency at such a high level, though. For me his best roles were in Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, and Road to Perdition.

RCBooba wrote:Good call on Leo, BOMBER. If you had to pick one role, though, which would it be?

Probably Blood Diamond. He was great in The Aviator but that movie dragged on so long that's all I really remember. And there's The Departed of course - he somehow managed to outshine all the other stars in that movie.

i would have said decaprio in departed had you not said it already. that was just a great movie.

daniel day lewis in gangs of new york was better than in there will be blood

Mr. Reynolds wrote:daniel day lewis in gangs of new york was better than in there will be blood

Both characters are amazing, and Daniel Day definitely did an unbelievable job with both, but I think the character of Bill the Butcher is a lot more animated than Daniel Plainview, and thus automatically is thought of first. However, seeing both movies at least 3 times I think he did a better job with Plainview. He was able to show more of a progression with the character throughout the course of the film, and even in the first 10 minutes you had a sense of what the character was about without any speaking.

I thought booba would say DDL for gangs of new york for sure...weren't you the one that was impressed with him staying in character even off camera?

will smith in i am legend was pretty good, but i don't think he was up in decaprio and lewis

drago wrote:I thought booba would say DDL for gangs of new york for sure...weren't you the one that was impressed with him staying in character even off camera?

I am impressed with DDL's method acting, and me saying I choose TWBB over GONY is saying I'll take a 10.5/10 over 10/10.
In terms of method acting, Heath Ledger takes the cake. The dude holed up in a motel for about a month in character as the Joker, keeping a diary. No wonder the dude couldn't sleep when the movie was done.

Is that what they said? id din't know he kept a diary. I heard he was taking uppers and downers at the same time to keep him on edge. Messed up stuff, really sad he died.

yea that's what i heard, he OD'd