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Name your favorite actor and actress and why. Cite movies. Seriously, people have such varying tastes. I want to know who thinks who is good and what they have done to win you over.

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[ posted by meredith at 12/16/2004 11:28:45 AM ]
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meredith [email] said at 11:31 AM 12-16-2004:
PS - You can also name people you hate and why.
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:34 AM 12-16-2004:
Favorite Actor:

Daniel Day Lewis: "Because it is my naaaaaaaame and I cannot have another!"

"You can tell him that I will paint the Five Points red with his blood! Two coats! I will festoon my bedchambers with his guts. As for you Mr. Tammany Fucking Hall, if you show your face in the Five Points again, I'll dispatch you with mine own hand!"
    meredith [email] said at 11:37 AM 12-16-2004:
    Okay, what movie is that from? I have never seen it. What else has he been in?
      brianbibbly [email] said at 11:44 AM 12-16-2004:
      The first quote is from the end of The Crucible (sp?). A bad movie, but a cool performance.

      The second one is from Gangs of New York. My favorite DDL performance. I was upset that he didn't win the Oscar for that one.
    julie [email] said at 11:39 AM 12-16-2004:
    I really began to love DDL the day I rented My Beautiful Laundrette. I also like him a lot in the Unbearable Lightness of Being.

    He's a fun actor to like, because he doesn't go around ruining your conceptions of how awesome he is by getting drunk at strip clubs or appearing on talk shows.
      brianbibbly [email] said at 11:45 AM 12-16-2004:
      Yeah, that and he is totally dedicated to his craft. Crazily so.
        julie [email] said at 11:47 AM 12-16-2004:
        When he was preparing for that role in the Crucible, he contacted my friend's mom (who worked for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities) and asked permission to live alone in this historic 400-year old log cabin for 3 months. She had to deny his request for legal/insurance reasons. But yeah, he's a straight-up Method man, to a scary degree.
      josh [email] said at 11:52 AM 12-16-2004:
      He spends his free time making shoes using traditional methods.
      myriam [email] said at 11:54 AM 12-16-2004:
      I haven't seen either of those, but he was amazing in "My Left Foot" and I've been a fan ever since. I cannot imagine how demanding that performance must have been, and since it was the first thing I'd seen him in, I literally could not believe it later when I found out he wasn't really lame.
      zack [email] said at 5:42 PM 12-16-2004:
      you want him to stay SOBER in strip clubs????? WTF kind of fun is that?
    josh [email] said at 11:55 AM 12-16-2004:
    The way he trained himself to tap the knife on his eye is fucked up and impressive.
      Darryl X. said at 12:50 PM 12-16-2004:
      You can do it! Really! I once saw an Amazing Randi special about "Psychic Surgeons" where the fraudulent surgeon touches a guy's eye with a scalpel without any medication. So the Amazing Randi says "Big fuckin' deal" does it to himself without flinching. "It simply doesn't hurt!" Randi said.
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        rick [email] said at 12:52 PM 12-16-2004:
        I linked to Randi's website ( www.randi.org) long ago. The United States need more people like Randi.
julie [email] said at 11:40 AM 12-16-2004:
I have too many favorites to list. I think the list of my hates is shorter, lemme see if I can work on that...
andrew [email] said at 12:09 PM 12-16-2004:
Peter Sellers just because
    myriam [email] said at 12:18 PM 12-16-2004:
    yes. i love that man!
    andrew [email] said at 12:18 PM 12-16-2004:
    ...mostly for "Being there". I don't think anybody's done two back to back films as awesome as Dennis Hoffman in The Graduate and Midnight Cowboys. Ben Stiller is good too. I had a crush on Isabelle Huppert for a long time.
      andrew [email] said at 12:41 PM 12-16-2004:
      I forgot Bobby Duvall.
        andrew [email] said at 12:48 PM 12-16-2004:
        Lonesome Dove, Tender Mercies, The Apostle, Geronimo, Days of Thunder...yessir.
          andrew [email] said at 1:05 PM 12-16-2004:
          What had he done for me? He's been there. I'd watch anything with him in it. The scene where he walks into Dixie's house carrying that little dufflebag in Tender Mercies is one of my favorites.

          Also Nick Cage. I like the way he uses a shoe horn with a long handle in Raising Arizona.
      josh [email] said at 1:58 PM 12-16-2004:
      Dennis? Dustin!
Darryl X. said at 12:14 PM 12-16-2004:
Favorite Actor-Juergen Prochnow. He can act in four languages.
Least Favorite Actor--Bruce Willis. Scenery chwere extraordinaire.

Favorite Actress--Meryl Streep. In "Sophie's Choice" she speaks German with a POLISH accent. Damn.
Least Favorite Actress--Renee Zellweger. Ironically, she was in a film with Meryl Streep that was my first exposure to her. "One True Thing." I have never seen worse acting. Then, "White Oleander." Overact-fest.
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    ed [email] said at 12:21 PM 12-16-2004:
    Haha! Your worst actor is my favorite. And your best actress is the one that will make me flatly refuse to see a movie, even if it looks otherwise awesome. I can't stand her.
      myriam [email] said at 12:23 PM 12-16-2004:
      Ed just end it already and get a room with him.
        ed [email] said at 12:49 PM 12-16-2004:
        Right, because Darryl and me, well, we're known for long, drawn-out debates about NOTHING AT ALL that only end up proving that the most important thing in the world to either of us is making the other person admit they're wrong. Well, that and the horizontal mambo.
          rick [email] said at 12:51 PM 12-16-2004:
          I will be using the term, "horizontal mambo," on a daily basis from now on.
          Darryl X. said at 12:53 PM 12-16-2004:
          Rhumba, man. Rhumba.

          And, come to think of it, I don't know if I admire Meryl Streep's acting ability as much as I do her attention to detail. I mean, imagine learning to speak lines in a foreign lanuage in the accent of ANOTHER foreign language.

          As a polyglott, stuff like that impresses me.
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    Nathank said at 5:54 PM 12-16-2004:
    I like M. Streep alot for her delivery - she has a sexy inflection.
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ed [email] said at 12:20 PM 12-16-2004:
Bruce Willis - I don't know what it is, but man, I love everything I've seen him in. He even made the Space-Turd (Armageddon) watchable. Favorites include Blind Date, The Fifth Element, and MOST ESPECIALLY Hudson Hawk. I also totally loved Moonlighting, but that was teevee.

Favorite actress. Hmm. I'm not actually sure I have one. But if I chose one off the top of my head, it would be Jennifer Connelly. She's gorgeous, of course (although anorexia's working hard to wipe that out), but I fell in love with her in 1986, when Labyrinth hit the big screen. Career Opportunities was a highwater mark, obviously not for the acting. But she's grown and learned her craft well, and now I'm definitely more inclined to see a movie if she's in it.
    meredith [email] said at 12:25 PM 12-16-2004:
    I do like Mr. Willis.
      rick [email] said at 12:27 PM 12-16-2004:
      You are dead to me.
        meredith [email] said at 12:42 PM 12-16-2004:
        Why do you hate Bruce Willis? Why do you hate freedom?
          rick [email] said at 12:45 PM 12-16-2004:
          Because he makes bad films. I was talking to Johnny Walker Lindh and he totally agreed with me. One weekend we saw "Armageddon" and "Dude, Where's My Car?" and "Battlefield Earth" and we realized America was the Great Satan and ever since then we have been on the jihad.
            meredith [email] said at 12:46 PM 12-16-2004:
            Why do you hate bad films? Why do you hate America? Why do you hate Freedom!??!?!
              rick [email] said at 12:48 PM 12-16-2004:
              When I say "bad," I mean that Satan has put no fun and nothing provocative in it.

              I love bad films like "Over The Top."

              I saw "Naked Gun Two And A Half" the other day and laughed several times. I guess I ought to be ashamed.

            ed [email] said at 1:03 PM 12-16-2004:
            You say bad films, yet the only example you've brought forth is Armageddon, which I acknowledged was a turd from the onset. So what other movies do you think were bad? Were they bad movies that he was in, or were they movies that would have been good with a different actor in his stead?

            Not arguing, just honestly curious.
              rick [email] said at 1:10 PM 12-16-2004:
              I would actually prefer it if you argued.

              "The Story Of Us" -I almost decided there was no such thing as Love after seeing this. And before you call me a jaded asshole, a couple I know ( who in spite of this film later got married) saw it and reported the same thing

              "The Jackal"-most remakes are bad so I guess I should not be too hard on him

              "Four Rooms" -he was one of many, many factors but it is a bad film nonetheless

              "Striking Distance" -this film had one of the worst taglines ever to it and it was just bad too.

                rick [email] said at 1:11 PM 12-16-2004:
                He has made decent films besides the ones I mentioned above but stuff like "Striking Distance" and "Armageddon" and "Story Of Us" were just awful.
                  ed [email] said at 1:21 PM 12-16-2004:
                  See, I haven't seen "Striking Distance" or "Story of Us", so I have no frame of reference.

                  I'll take your word for their el stinkoness, though.
                Darryl X. said at 1:31 PM 12-16-2004:
                "Hudson fuckin' Hawk." Officially one of the worst films of all time, according to the book "The Worst Movies of all Time" by Michael Sauter. And "Bonfire of the Vanities"! Another toilet-filler.
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                josh [email] said at 2:32 PM 12-16-2004:
                "They shouldn't have put him in the water, if they didn't want him to make waves."
    brandonA [email] said at 12:27 PM 12-16-2004:
    Jennifer Connelly is a terrible actress. She's way way too hammy.
    rick [email] said at 12:29 PM 12-16-2004:
    Oh, Ed, I am going to have to tear out my eyes, fling them on the floor and set them on fire after having read this.

    "Armageddon" = pure cinematic excressence

    Bruce Willis has made some good films ("Twelve Monkeys," "Sixth Sense") but I cannot think of any that were good because of him necessarily ( although he proved he can act if he so chooses in "Twelve Monkeys").

      brianbibbly [email] said at 12:37 PM 12-16-2004:
      Hello motherfuckers!!? Die Hard!?? DIE HARD!!!!!????
      julie [email] said at 12:48 PM 12-16-2004:
      Pulp Fiction. He doesn't blink once, in that whole take. "That's pride, fucking with you."

      Die Hard and Die Hard 3 are good.

      He was also good when he guest-starred on Friends and dated Rachel.
        rick [email] said at 12:49 PM 12-16-2004:
        "Die Hard 3," if that is the one with Mr. Jackson, then I have to disagree. Not even the vodka I was drinking could sweep away the tedium of that film.
          julie [email] said at 1:25 PM 12-16-2004:
          If you can't appreciate Die Hard With a Vengeance, I don't know how to help you. Simon Says Die Hard 3 is a fucking good black/white buddy movie with an awesome sexy bad guy, children in peril, and a cool bank heist. What more does a movie need?
            abby [email] said at 1:27 PM 12-16-2004:
            i agree with julie.

            you can't possibly be a human being.
              rick [email] said at 1:33 PM 12-16-2004:
              No. I am a cyborg sent from the future to fill Killoggs with meaningless minutiae and childish bickering.

              I saw the film when I was still an adolescent so maybe it would be better now to watch it but I somehow doubt it.

                abby [email] said at 1:40 PM 12-16-2004:
                I saw the film when I was still an adolescent so maybe it would be better now to watch it but I somehow doubt it.

                thats when die hard's appeal was at its PEAK OF FRESHNESS!
                  brianbibbly [email] said at 3:27 PM 12-16-2004:
                  Dude, Die Hard totally caught me at my FRESHNESS PEAK! Lovin' it. That motherfucker stole all the detonators.
                josh [email] said at 3:47 PM 12-16-2004:
                wait- you saw die hard as a teen and you didn't like it?

                FUCKING PUSSY
            reggie [email] said at 1:04 AM 12-25-2004:
            Die Hard With a Vengeance is an awesome movie. Die Hard 2 is piece of turd, unless you're watching it on regular TV. "Yippee Cayee Mister Falcon!"

            Of course that tends to be my reaction to any movie that says Directed by Renny Harlin...except Deep Blue Sea that movie is bad fun.
        ed [email] said at 12:54 PM 12-16-2004:
        AGREED.

        Except for the Friends thing, cause I haven't seen it.
      josh [email] said at 2:00 PM 12-16-2004:
      DIE HARD, YOU FUCKING PUSSY
meredith [email] said at 12:31 PM 12-16-2004:
I like Reese Witherspoon. And Ewan McGregor.
art said at 12:57 PM 12-16-2004:
Hate: Nicholas Cage
Hate: Nick Nolte
Hate: Steven Segal (sp?)
Hate: DiCraprio
Hate: Chevy Chase
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    art said at 1:03 PM 12-16-2004:
    Oh yeah - speaking of Connollys -

    Extra Harsh Hate: Billy Connolly

    He makes me want to vomit up all that is holy
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    ed [email] said at 1:15 PM 12-16-2004:
    Although I was really fond of Cage in Raising Arizona and Wild At Heart, he is otherwise not my cup of tea.
    myriam [email] said at 1:16 PM 12-16-2004:
    yes i HATE nick cage. i simply do not see why people think he is a good actor.

    also, my roommate and i disagree: he thinks val kilmer is an unsung hero of cinema, i think he's a potatohead with a moveable mouth wired up to a speaker.
      julie [email] said at 1:20 PM 12-16-2004:
      I am 100% with you on Nic and Val.

      The appeal of Nic Cage ...wtf? I'm tempted to call this the biggest mystery in Hollywood today, except for the fact that you can't spell Cage without C-o-p-p-o-l-a.

      Val is a meathead who is lucky he didn't ruin Heat. He owes America an apology. And Willow on DVD.
      ed [email] said at 1:23 PM 12-16-2004:
      Okay, Honey of Hate... who DO you like? All you've done is say who you don't like.

      Val Kilmer gets a lifetime pass for coolness because of Real Genius.
        ed [email] said at 1:30 PM 12-16-2004:
        DOH!

        That's HONKEY of hate.
        myriam [email] said at 1:34 PM 12-16-2004:
        i did!

        also you already said jimmy stewart. i love cary grant, too.

        actually there are more i like than that i don't like, but it is harder to think of the ones i like simply because there are so many.

        and i am at work, my brain is like 95% concentrated on a lighting schedule right now.
          ed [email] said at 1:43 PM 12-16-2004:
          Well, I said that in the same minute you said who you liked, so I hadn't yet seen it.
          art said at 1:48 PM 12-16-2004:
          Just blow off the lighting schedule, the ones we get are always half missing anyways. Don't ruin things by trying to be thorough. We subs won't know what to do if we start getting all kinds of useful information
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            myriam [email] said at 2:11 PM 12-16-2004:
            i'm spec'ing particular bulbs, porcelain sockets, escutcheons, etc... my lighting schedule even has *pictures* of each item in it AND contact info for the suppliers! we do things right, thank you.
              art said at 2:20 PM 12-16-2004:
              cool! often that stuff is left to the electrical sub and we have to call again and again to find out what they are using (they just blame the architect)

              Have you checked out Hubbardton Forge? We used this stuff in our house and really liked it. Not so good for commercial, perhaps.
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      josh [email] said at 2:02 PM 12-16-2004:
      nick cage HAS done good work, in the past.

      val kilmer...well, not so much but i've liked him in some movies... like, uhm... well... i loved real genius when i was a kid!
craig [email] said at 12:58 PM 12-16-2004:
Gary Oldman
    ed [email] said at 1:09 PM 12-16-2004:
    YES.

    He was a delightful find in The Fifth Element, and I started seeking out his other films after. He's the shiz.
      rick [email] said at 1:12 PM 12-16-2004:
      Avoid "Lost In Space."
        ed [email] said at 1:17 PM 12-16-2004:
        Too late. Haha! But I did not see it just because of him, so I don't blame him for those wasted hours and IQ points.
          rick [email] said at 1:34 PM 12-16-2004:
          I am sure a dumptruck full of cash was driven to his home so he should not be blamed.

          He is a fantastic actor but he has been in some very bad films. I remember him being the best part of "Hannibal."

            julie [email] said at 1:38 PM 12-16-2004:
            Speaking of dumptrucks, there are some REALLY COOL dumptrucks in Die Hard 3!

            Oh, and did I mention gold bars?

            GOLD BARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
              rick [email] said at 1:41 PM 12-16-2004:
              Well, I cannot argue with a dumptruck/gold bar combination. Julie has converted me to "Die Hard With A Vengeance" fandom.
    meredith [email] said at 3:54 PM 12-16-2004:
    I KNOW I've seen him, but I can't think of him right now. What else has Gary Oldman been in?
      ed [email] said at 6:12 PM 12-16-2004:
      He was Sid, in "Sid & Nancy", among many others.
      pokey [email] said at 11:02 PM 12-16-2004:
      He was Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the nut cop in Leon (The Professional) and Beethoven in Immortal Beloved, and the dreadlocked dealer in True Romance, and Sirius in Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as a host of other shit.
abby [email] said at 1:00 PM 12-16-2004:
i don't think i have a favorite. i generally enjoy bill murray and NAS
    myriam [email] said at 1:19 PM 12-16-2004:
    NAS?
      abby [email] said at 1:23 PM 12-16-2004:
      why am i the only person in america that has seen belly?

      actually i am sure no one outside of america has seen this movie, either.
      abby [email] said at 1:50 PM 12-16-2004:
      Belly (1998)

      Tommy Brown (DMX) and his friend Sincere (Nas) are gangsters who have learned how to make a good living by dealing drugs and pulling armed robberies. Tommy and Sincere have been able to move out of the ghetto in Queens where they were raised and relocate to an upscale section of Manhattan; they would seem to have it made, but both realize that their lives are headed toward a dead end. Sincere begins getting in touch with his African roots and tries to convince his girlfriend Tionne (T-Boz) that they should emigrate to the Motherland, while Tommy has a religious awakening and joins the Nation of Islam.
ed [email] said at 1:15 PM 12-16-2004:
Ooh, ooh! How could I forget Dennis Hopper!? LOVE him.
ed [email] said at 1:20 PM 12-16-2004:
And of course, those are contemporary. If I expand the horizons to include all of filmdom, Willis wouldn't even be in the top 10, most likely. I love love love the oldtimers. Bogey, Cagney, Jimmy Stewart... oh, THOSE were actors.
myriam [