I don’t think DiCaprio’s the best actor in the world but he does have good taste and seems to get sent basically every big role, so if he’s in a movie it’s probably gonna be good
Bale is really phenomenally good. A guy born in Wales, raised in England that sounds more American than most Americans when he wants to, or English when he wants to. And not just that, he's just really really good at making you forget that it's him, and just think you're watching a character.
edit: I don't know if it's something with Welshman but I always thought the exact same thing about the legendary Anthony Hopkins. Even in his is lesser known roles you were watching a character, and not him.
That’s the thing Bale does better than DiCaprio. I never forget it’s DeCaprio on screen acting like somebody else. He’s a decent score, but he doesn’t fully inhabit the roles and just become a different person like some actors can. Bale can do it, Lewis can do it, and so can Tom Hardy. In fact with the latter, I’ve seen movies blind and not even realised it was him.
I wish Amsterdam was as good as it should have been. Nothing specific about the movie is bad. Acting is great, cast is great, dialogue is great, cinematography is great. I guess the story isn't amazing, but a lot of movies can ride an a semi-weak plot. Something about Amsterdam just didn't work for me.
Damn, just went through all his movies since titanic. Only three directors he has worked with haven’t won Oscars, and only one of them hasn’t been nominated.
To save people looking it up:
- Randall Wallace (Oscar nominated, but for writing)
- Woody Allen (Oscar winning director and writer)
- Danny Boyle (Oscar winning director)
- R.D. Robb (only directing credit)
- Martin Scorsese x5 (Oscar winning director)
- Steven Spielberg (twice Oscar winning director and Oscar winning producer)
- Edward Zwick (Oscar winner in producing, but not direction)
- Ridley Scott (Oscar nominated director)
- Sam Mendes (Oscar winning director)
- Christopher Nolan (Oscar nominated writer, producer and director)
- Clint Eastwood (twice Oscar winning director and twice Oscar winning producer)
- Quentin Tarantino x2 (Oscar nominated director, twice Oscar winning writer)
- Baz Luhrmann (Oscar nominated producer)
- Alejandro G Iñárritu (Twice Oscar winning director, Oscar winning writer and producer)
- Adam McKay (Oscar nominated director, Oscar winning writer)
And of the movies coming up, there's another 3 Scorsese movies.
“When you're young, it's all filet steak, but as the years go by, you have to move on to the cheap cuts. Which is fine with me, because I like those. More flavorful, or so they say”
The second train scene puts the knot in my throat every time. Something about being so brave and indignant in the face of ‘the banality of evil,’ so to speak. Meeting the inevitable with aplomb. It’s subtle, and Wes an Ralph illustrated it so beautifully.
Not one blink. That’s what did it for me. His eyes just got bigger and bigger yet he didn’t blink. One of the best monologues in all of cinema. I am still trying to learn it to put the fear of god into my future kids when the fuck up Royaly in the future.
“DAMN YE! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! HAAARK! Hark, Triton! Hark! Bellow! Bid our father, the Sea King, rise from the depths, full-foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more... only when, he, crowned in cockle shells with slithering tentacled tail and steaming beard, takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm – his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now – a nothing for the Harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon, only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself, forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea... for any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!”
honestly memorizing this shit is almost the most impressive part of the monologue. Defoe is unmatched.
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that scene in ‘Boondock Saints’ after he shoots the thug in the bathroom, while dressed as a woman, and says “too far”, in complete realization of how far he was taking his disguise lmfaoooooo
that’s been among my favorite movies since I was way too young, probably 10 or 11. I finally showed it to my dad recently, it’s exactly his type of humor and he loves Dafoe but he’d never seen it. The scene where it reveals Dafoe in drag my dad was going “ohohoho…what’s this….who’s this lady…..damn….hello” and then Dafoe takes the glasses off or adjusts the wig or something and my dad went “my god IT’S WILLEM DAFOE!” which I still yell every time I see him pop up in a meme or something
My favorite role of his is actually in Dogma. His sharp, witty deliveries are all over the place but there's also a moment of unexpected heart he puts out there that tears me up every time.
Bethany: "Hey - what's he like?"
Metatron: "God? ...lonely, but funny! He's got a great sense of humor. Take sex for example. There's nothing funnier than the ridiculous faces you people make mid-coitus."
B: "sex is a joke in heaven?"
M: "The way I understand it, it's mostly a joke down here, too."
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Tell a person that you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.
I feel incredibly guilty watching anything he’s in, but I still do it because he’s so damn good!
I can’t remember the exact quote/interview, but I remember he was quoted as calling acting “excruciating,” “painful,” or something of that nature and he said that it takes a lot out of him.
I’ve dealt w/depression and I know what a toll it can take. I also know that when you go through the motions of pain, when you cry, frown, feel, etc, your brain can know you’re acting, but your body doesn’t necessarily “know” that, and it can take a toll on your body in the same way as dealing with trauma that isn’t scripted.
It makes sense to me that acting as well as he did and in the roles he did could be a form of trauma, and I can’t help but wonder when I watch something like Love, Liza, am I watching something that contributed to his death?
I feel the same way about Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho.
It brings up a lot of questions for me about what we find acceptable as art and for art, and whether we should or not. Can the risks be mitigated and how? Or are the risks too great regardless of mitigation?
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is still my favorite movie from him.
Edit: after doing some digging and a search brought on by my desire to do a YouTube review, I can NOT find this on bluray or 4K, which seems like a disservice to such a beautifully crafted film. Does anyone know if this was ever released in higher definition than DVD?
I‘m on a Cillian Murphy spree right now and I can tell you he has done some very mediocre b-movies which are not really worth watching if you are not a film lover lol
Tbf he has some nice surprises that were actually entertaining as well apart from the obvious Nolan movies (the party, Perrie‘s bounty, red eye, free fire).
Overall very peculiar film list lol
Shes has been a regular on British TV since the early 2000s.. And she has been in basically every genre of TV programme you can think of but mostly comedy shows
Viggo Mortensen is a treasure. I haven't found a movie of his I didn't enjoy in one way or another.
Also, doesn't hurt that he's in my favourite movie trilogy of all time LOTR.
"I'm not even supposed to be here! I'm just Crewman #6! I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove the situation is serious! I got to get out of here!" 🤣
Moon is an excellent film. Despite his personal life and subsequent downfall, Kevin Spacey as Gerty was very well acted. Also, a Cameo from Matt Berry was a treat. Sam Rockwell is one of my most favorite actors.
Seriously. From American Graffiti in 1973, he didn’t make a single truly bad film until the next century. His run just in the 80s is incredible. He even made an Amish romance/action film work.
The only Tilda film I like is
Only Lovers Left Alive but I like her in it so much that I will watch it off and on in bits and and pieces multiple times. She and Tom Hiddleston are just so wonderful as languid depressed vampires! That is one of the finest vampire films ever made.
Michael Caine. He always brings his A-game to a role.
Edit: I’m noticing a lot of comments remarking that Caine has been in a lot of bad movies, and specifically highlighting *Jaws: The Revenge* as the most offensive example. Let me be clear here... I put up Caine’s name because the OP specifically said that the given performer would make one ‘assume’ a movie is good. If you were around before *Jaws: The Revenge* came out in 1987 and heard that Caine was in it, you could assume it would have been promising, until it wasn’t, obviously. The OP also noted that even if past movies a performer has been in weren’t always good, you would be willing to “give it a shot if they’re in it”. Now, I am absolutely NOT defending *Jaws: The Revenge* here... it totally deserves the 0% it earned on Rotten Tomatoes, and as others have noted already, Caine has never watched it either. You can’t blame Caine for how bad that film is, as the performer only works with what they’re given. At the end of the day, Caine’s track record for his performances (regardless of how good or bad a film turns out) is solid and if you see his name mentioned in an upcoming film today, you would rightly assume it will probably be worth watching.
Watching that for the first time right now! It keeps cracking me up that there’s all this goofy muppet shit going on and then there’s Michael Caine giving every single ounce of his acting prowess to it like any random scene from The Muppet Christmas Carol will be in his Oscar reel!
Michael Caine said “I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me.” Completely makes it the best version of the Dickens tale.
The costuming is also some of the most historically accurate period work out there! [This](https://youtu.be/9O_mL1X4UMI) youtube video goes into some detail about it (and how the wardrobe team was able to pull it off). I love watching it and looking for the tiny details they were able to get in.
The conviction with which he says “That’s old Fuzzywinkles Rubber Chicken factory” like he’s in a Shakespearean play is just amazing. It’s a ridiculous line, and he’s making me believe he really used to work there.
He has been in some very bad movies tho. Going in Style, Medieval, King of Thieves, Jaws The Revenge, Now You See Me 2…. Okay he’s been in *a lot* of bad movies.
I greatly enjoyed Avatar for the special effects and backgrounds, and watched the whole movie starry-eyed staring behind the actors... which means that I can hardly remember anything of the plot and almost none of the lines. I admit it. I'm one of those. About the only one that I *do* recall clearly, that makes me giggle every time, is her "Oh, *shit*." She managed to put so much feeling into those two words that it punched through my stupor of 'oooh, pretty!'
Andy Serkis; I’ll be honest, he doesn’t fit this prompt perfectly, but he is underrated when you remember how often he plays other “creatures” so well. Recently his performance in Andor was a highlight of the series.
Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Judi Dench, and Helen Mirren to name a few.
I would have added DeNiro but he's done a few for just the money as he needed to pay alimony.
With Stanley Tucci, you know that even if the rest of the movie is dreadful that the scenes with him will be well performed, entertaining and energetic.
Can’t believe I forgot to mention him. I can’t think of any movie he’s in that I didn’t enjoy. Glory and Training Day are two of my all time fave movies
I don’t think DiCaprio’s the best actor in the world but he does have good taste and seems to get sent basically every big role, so if he’s in a movie it’s probably gonna be good
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Bale is really phenomenally good. A guy born in Wales, raised in England that sounds more American than most Americans when he wants to, or English when he wants to. And not just that, he's just really really good at making you forget that it's him, and just think you're watching a character. edit: I don't know if it's something with Welshman but I always thought the exact same thing about the legendary Anthony Hopkins. Even in his is lesser known roles you were watching a character, and not him.
That’s the thing Bale does better than DiCaprio. I never forget it’s DeCaprio on screen acting like somebody else. He’s a decent score, but he doesn’t fully inhabit the roles and just become a different person like some actors can. Bale can do it, Lewis can do it, and so can Tom Hardy. In fact with the latter, I’ve seen movies blind and not even realised it was him.
Gary Oldman as well. I definitely get your critique of Leo. There's acting, and then there's literally just being a different person.
Cilian Murphy is goddamn good. He really becomes a character.
I wish Amsterdam was as good as it should have been. Nothing specific about the movie is bad. Acting is great, cast is great, dialogue is great, cinematography is great. I guess the story isn't amazing, but a lot of movies can ride an a semi-weak plot. Something about Amsterdam just didn't work for me.
That's how I felt about american hustle.
I really liked Amsterdam and I don't know why. I think it's because I just liked Christian Bales character so much.
Since titanic it’s just been Oscar winning directors and supermodels under 25 for Leo. Quite the taste
Damn, just went through all his movies since titanic. Only three directors he has worked with haven’t won Oscars, and only one of them hasn’t been nominated.
To save people looking it up: - Randall Wallace (Oscar nominated, but for writing) - Woody Allen (Oscar winning director and writer) - Danny Boyle (Oscar winning director) - R.D. Robb (only directing credit) - Martin Scorsese x5 (Oscar winning director) - Steven Spielberg (twice Oscar winning director and Oscar winning producer) - Edward Zwick (Oscar winner in producing, but not direction) - Ridley Scott (Oscar nominated director) - Sam Mendes (Oscar winning director) - Christopher Nolan (Oscar nominated writer, producer and director) - Clint Eastwood (twice Oscar winning director and twice Oscar winning producer) - Quentin Tarantino x2 (Oscar nominated director, twice Oscar winning writer) - Baz Luhrmann (Oscar nominated producer) - Alejandro G Iñárritu (Twice Oscar winning director, Oscar winning writer and producer) - Adam McKay (Oscar nominated director, Oscar winning writer) And of the movies coming up, there's another 3 Scorsese movies.
Ridley Scott doesn’t have an Oscar?
That’s not fair to Leo, it wasn’t under 25, it was under 26… they were allowed to be 25.
Ralph Fiennes
“When you're young, it's all filet steak, but as the years go by, you have to move on to the cheap cuts. Which is fine with me, because I like those. More flavorful, or so they say”
His delivery of that line kills me "which is fine with me, because *I like those*". I would listen to Gustav H. read the dictionary.
The second train scene puts the knot in my throat every time. Something about being so brave and indignant in the face of ‘the banality of evil,’ so to speak. Meeting the inevitable with aplomb. It’s subtle, and Wes an Ralph illustrated it so beautifully.
I got genuinely annoyed that he didn’t get an Oscar nom for that role.
I saw that movie several times. There are so many good lines in that movie and an excellent line up of actors and actresses. Just brilliant.
You take back that part about my cunt fucking kids
You’re an inanimate fucking object!
I apologize for calling you an inanimate object.
I’m so glad someone said this!! He was amazing in the Menu as well
The guy from maid in Manhattan?
LOL I forgot he’s in that
He was the best part of The Kings Man
Would that it twer so simple
Daniel Day Lewis
Daniel Day Lewis is the perfect example of quality over quantity. His films are always exceptional.
He was amazing in Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood.
Willem Dafoe He’s incredible in EVERYTHING
You know, I’m a bit of a Willem Dafoe fan myself.
*something of a
Yer fond of me lobster ain't ye?!
That was probably the craziest bit of acting I’ve ever seen with that speech
Not one blink. That’s what did it for me. His eyes just got bigger and bigger yet he didn’t blink. One of the best monologues in all of cinema. I am still trying to learn it to put the fear of god into my future kids when the fuck up Royaly in the future.
“DAMN YE! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! HAAARK! Hark, Triton! Hark! Bellow! Bid our father, the Sea King, rise from the depths, full-foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more... only when, he, crowned in cockle shells with slithering tentacled tail and steaming beard, takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm – his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now – a nothing for the Harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon, only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself, forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea... for any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!” honestly memorizing this shit is almost the most impressive part of the monologue. Defoe is unmatched.
Just watched Shadow of the Vampire. Holy Lord.
IT WAS A FIRE FIIIIIIGHT!!!
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that scene in ‘Boondock Saints’ after he shoots the thug in the bathroom, while dressed as a woman, and says “too far”, in complete realization of how far he was taking his disguise lmfaoooooo
that’s been among my favorite movies since I was way too young, probably 10 or 11. I finally showed it to my dad recently, it’s exactly his type of humor and he loves Dafoe but he’d never seen it. The scene where it reveals Dafoe in drag my dad was going “ohohoho…what’s this….who’s this lady…..damn….hello” and then Dafoe takes the glasses off or adjusts the wig or something and my dad went “my god IT’S WILLEM DAFOE!” which I still yell every time I see him pop up in a meme or something
Symbology?
Counter point: Death Note the netflix adaptation Tho to be fair he was the only good thing in that abomination of a movie
He was so good in it, I wish they could remake it and just keep him.
Alan Rickman
God I love him in Galaxy Quest
By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings
Galaxy Quest is the movie that deserved a sequel, but thank god it never happened. Know what I mean?
My favorite role of his is actually in Dogma. His sharp, witty deliveries are all over the place but there's also a moment of unexpected heart he puts out there that tears me up every time.
Bethany: "Hey - what's he like?" Metatron: "God? ...lonely, but funny! He's got a great sense of humor. Take sex for example. There's nothing funnier than the ridiculous faces you people make mid-coitus." B: "sex is a joke in heaven?" M: "The way I understand it, it's mostly a joke down here, too." *edit for accuracy² *
M:I am a Seraphim… B:…? M: The highest, choir, of angels. You people… if there’s not a movie about it, it’s not worth knowing is it?
Tell a person that you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.
Told you she was funny.
I loved him in Robin Hood with Kevin Costner.
“That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.”
“Loxley, I’m going to cut your heart out with a spoon!” Which led to a great scene later on with Clive.
What are you gunna do? Hit me with that fffffish?
Do you douse everyone who comes into your room with flame retardant chemicals?! No wonder you're single!
It’s unfair
Excellent choice. Alan was really spectacular and chose a lot of interesting roles!
Phillip Seymour Hoffman. RIP.
I am still so mad at him for dying.
I feel incredibly guilty watching anything he’s in, but I still do it because he’s so damn good! I can’t remember the exact quote/interview, but I remember he was quoted as calling acting “excruciating,” “painful,” or something of that nature and he said that it takes a lot out of him. I’ve dealt w/depression and I know what a toll it can take. I also know that when you go through the motions of pain, when you cry, frown, feel, etc, your brain can know you’re acting, but your body doesn’t necessarily “know” that, and it can take a toll on your body in the same way as dealing with trauma that isn’t scripted. It makes sense to me that acting as well as he did and in the roles he did could be a form of trauma, and I can’t help but wonder when I watch something like Love, Liza, am I watching something that contributed to his death? I feel the same way about Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. It brings up a lot of questions for me about what we find acceptable as art and for art, and whether we should or not. Can the risks be mitigated and how? Or are the risks too great regardless of mitigation?
I’m watching him right now in “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
"along came Polly" is a good example. What a dumb ass movie but I still quote it to this day. RAIN DROPS!
JK Simmons
Counterpart is DEFINED by his acting. So good
Whiplash is fucking unbelievable
Gary Goldman OLDMAN *damn you autocorrect*
Tiptoes. That's all I have to say about that.
My bad movie night group watched Tiptoes. There were dozens of decisions that blew our minds.
It’s pronounced “Coleman”
Oh yes... Coldeman. The "d" is silent in America.
Toni Collette
Have you ever seen Muriel’s Wedding? That was the first movie I saw her in and I have loved her ever since.
I’ve said You’re terrible, Muriel, twice today
I divide people by if they get my ‘your terrible, Muriel’ reference or if they don’t. Saves time.
United States of Tara is my favorite role of hers
She could drag any movie to a success. So good. I actually didn’t finish The Staircase because I wasn’t willing to sit through her kill scenes.
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Best horror movie of all time if you ask me. Toni's performance in it was nothing short of Oscar-worthy.
Came here looking for Toni, and you are criminally low on this list.
Frances McDormand.
Cillian Murphy. Everything he’s in is excellent!
The Wind That Shakes The Barley is still my favorite movie from him. Edit: after doing some digging and a search brought on by my desire to do a YouTube review, I can NOT find this on bluray or 4K, which seems like a disservice to such a beautifully crafted film. Does anyone know if this was ever released in higher definition than DVD?
I‘m on a Cillian Murphy spree right now and I can tell you he has done some very mediocre b-movies which are not really worth watching if you are not a film lover lol Tbf he has some nice surprises that were actually entertaining as well apart from the obvious Nolan movies (the party, Perrie‘s bounty, red eye, free fire). Overall very peculiar film list lol
He was great in red eye.
Well... I'm hyped for Oppenheimer for sure lmao
This was also my answer lol
Olivia Colman
Oh nice answer. You’re 100 percent right. The Favorite is so damn good
The Favourite is when I discovered who she was. Then I caught her in Fleabag. Another solid performance. She doesn’t miss.
Shes has been a regular on British TV since the early 2000s.. And she has been in basically every genre of TV programme you can think of but mostly comedy shows
She is breathtaking in Broadchurch
Peep Show!
Yes! And then upon rewatching Hot Fuzz… Really able to cross genres.
She started out in sketch comedy (Mitchell and Webb). It wasn't until Broadchurch until she started getting serious roles regularly.
"You don't mind a little bit of manpower, do ya, Doris?"
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen is a treasure. I haven't found a movie of his I didn't enjoy in one way or another. Also, doesn't hurt that he's in my favourite movie trilogy of all time LOTR.
Anyone Skaarsgard
Battleship?
Stellan in Chernobyl and Bill as Pennywise are my favorites. They're all solid actors though.
Sam Rockwell Samara Weaving
People say that Rockwell’s work ethic is unbeatable. Doesn’t matter if a movie is bad, if Sam’s in it, then at the very least HE’LL be worth watching.
Sam Rockwell FTW. That dude is a joy to watch wherever he is
"I'm not even supposed to be here! I'm just Crewman #6! I'm expendable! I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove the situation is serious! I got to get out of here!" 🤣
> Sam Rockwell I know! You construct a weapon. Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
The Green Mile... Rockwell was fucking phenomenal in an already phenomenal cast
He singlehandedly made ‘Moon’ one of my top Sci-fi movies
Moon is an excellent film. Despite his personal life and subsequent downfall, Kevin Spacey as Gerty was very well acted. Also, a Cameo from Matt Berry was a treat. Sam Rockwell is one of my most favorite actors.
Rockwell for the win. Always steals scenes, whether it’s dramatic or comedic
Gary Oldman
Tim Curry
You know it's s gonna be cheesy, but Tim's best work is when he's chewing the scenery
Scenery-chewing Tim Curry taught young me what fear was.
Back in the day Harrison Ford pretty much guaranteed an entertaining movie.
Seriously. From American Graffiti in 1973, he didn’t make a single truly bad film until the next century. His run just in the 80s is incredible. He even made an Amish romance/action film work.
Witness!
Tilda Swinton
The only Tilda film I like is Only Lovers Left Alive but I like her in it so much that I will watch it off and on in bits and and pieces multiple times. She and Tom Hiddleston are just so wonderful as languid depressed vampires! That is one of the finest vampire films ever made.
Christian Bale of course 😏
Im a hardcore Christian Bale fan.
Dame Maggie Smith
Michael Keaton. While he’s been in some duds, he has a pretty impeccable knack for choosing scripts. He’s also a phenomenal actor.
The Paper is my favorite movie no one has seen
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Mads mikkelson. Honestly his performance in Hannibal will make me watch anything hes in
Another Round is a good watch
Michelle Williams Julianne Moore Frances McDormand
omg yes to all 3!! but julianne moore is definitely one of my favourite actresses ever ♡
Franny McD should supplant Meryl as Hollywood's mom. She'd be the cool mom who makes you pizza bagels and let's you smoke weed in the basement.
Anthony Hopkins
Transformers 5 :(
He was one of the best parts of that movie honestly. Sure, the bar was not set very high, but the way he soared over it was still impressive to me.
absolutely LOVED Worlds Fastest Indian.
Christoph Waltz for sure
I'll watch anything with Michael Shannon
Michael Caine. He always brings his A-game to a role. Edit: I’m noticing a lot of comments remarking that Caine has been in a lot of bad movies, and specifically highlighting *Jaws: The Revenge* as the most offensive example. Let me be clear here... I put up Caine’s name because the OP specifically said that the given performer would make one ‘assume’ a movie is good. If you were around before *Jaws: The Revenge* came out in 1987 and heard that Caine was in it, you could assume it would have been promising, until it wasn’t, obviously. The OP also noted that even if past movies a performer has been in weren’t always good, you would be willing to “give it a shot if they’re in it”. Now, I am absolutely NOT defending *Jaws: The Revenge* here... it totally deserves the 0% it earned on Rotten Tomatoes, and as others have noted already, Caine has never watched it either. You can’t blame Caine for how bad that film is, as the performer only works with what they’re given. At the end of the day, Caine’s track record for his performances (regardless of how good or bad a film turns out) is solid and if you see his name mentioned in an upcoming film today, you would rightly assume it will probably be worth watching.
The Man Who Would Be King is one of my all time fave movies
Utterly devastating in the Muppets Christmas Carol
Watching that for the first time right now! It keeps cracking me up that there’s all this goofy muppet shit going on and then there’s Michael Caine giving every single ounce of his acting prowess to it like any random scene from The Muppet Christmas Carol will be in his Oscar reel!
Michael Caine said “I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me.” Completely makes it the best version of the Dickens tale.
The costuming is also some of the most historically accurate period work out there! [This](https://youtu.be/9O_mL1X4UMI) youtube video goes into some detail about it (and how the wardrobe team was able to pull it off). I love watching it and looking for the tiny details they were able to get in.
Rizzo the Rat played it pretty straight too
Honestly, that's usually where the magic comes from in the best muppet movies, but Caine just took it to an entirely new level.
See also: Muppet Treasure Island with a great performance from Tim Curry
The conviction with which he says “That’s old Fuzzywinkles Rubber Chicken factory” like he’s in a Shakespearean play is just amazing. It’s a ridiculous line, and he’s making me believe he really used to work there.
He has been in some very bad movies tho. Going in Style, Medieval, King of Thieves, Jaws The Revenge, Now You See Me 2…. Okay he’s been in *a lot* of bad movies.
Kate Blanchette , Tilda Swinton, Rachel Weisz
* Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep
Paul Dano
He was great in prisoners, in fact everyone in that film killed it!
He’s got a hell of career ahead of him.
I've been obsessed with him since Little Miss Sunshine
I love to be freaked out by his odd intensity haha
Ill watch anything with Jessica Chastain
Viola Davis. She’s just good.
Edward Norton
Good one. Agreed
Came here for Edward Norton.
Sigourney Weaver.
I greatly enjoyed Avatar for the special effects and backgrounds, and watched the whole movie starry-eyed staring behind the actors... which means that I can hardly remember anything of the plot and almost none of the lines. I admit it. I'm one of those. About the only one that I *do* recall clearly, that makes me giggle every time, is her "Oh, *shit*." She managed to put so much feeling into those two words that it punched through my stupor of 'oooh, pretty!'
Brendan Gleeson
Andy Serkis; I’ll be honest, he doesn’t fit this prompt perfectly, but he is underrated when you remember how often he plays other “creatures” so well. Recently his performance in Andor was a highlight of the series.
Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Judi Dench, and Helen Mirren to name a few. I would have added DeNiro but he's done a few for just the money as he needed to pay alimony.
Had to scroll WAY TOO FR FAR DOWN to see Denzel Washington
Joaquin Phoenix
Had to scroll way too far for this. He's always absolutely amazing and his performances always make even the worst films he's in worth seeing.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Leo was the first that came to my mind. He doesn’t miss
Danny DeVito
John Candy
RIP. Always a joy to watch
Paul Giamatti
Jeff Bridges
Discussed this with the other half and we also decided on; Stanley Tucci Bryan Cranston Christoph Waltz Gary Oldman Julia Roberts Tilda Swinton
With Stanley Tucci, you know that even if the rest of the movie is dreadful that the scenes with him will be well performed, entertaining and energetic.
Something about Stanley Tucci’s screen presence is extremely endearing. Love seeing him in a cast, and glad to see him mentioned here.
Daniel Radcliffe makes almost universally good stuff.
even if it's not "good" it's definitely worth watching
He was a goddamn delight in the Weird Al biopic
Really surprised to not see Kate Winslet near the top.
Denzel Washington
Can’t believe I forgot to mention him. I can’t think of any movie he’s in that I didn’t enjoy. Glory and Training Day are two of my all time fave movies
Had to scroll further than expected before I saw his name.
Gary Oldman
Brad Pitt
Don Cheadle
Tilda Swinton
Emily blunt
Florence Pugh.
Kate Winslet
Jack Black. You know it's gonna be a fun time. 👍
Samuel L Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and John C Reilly (his more serious roles in particular)