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Poll Question: Who is your favorite?
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    Posted: July 30 2009 at 09:16
I am a music fan first but I'm also a big movie fan. The other day I was discussing my favorite movies with a friend and I realized that most of them had black actors in the starring roles. This is a list of some of the top black actors making movies today. Vote for your favorite (explain why) and list  some of their movies you like.
 
Extra Credit Question: This is intended to once and for all end an argument between my daughter and I. Do you prefer Chris Tucker or Chris Rock?
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Samuel L. Mutherfukin Jackson. LOL

The Chris question is a difficult one for me.  I lean towards the Rock.

Hey, wait a second, where the hell is Eddie Murphy? Angry


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Chris Tucker for me, because of his role in The Fifth Element.

No Forrest Whitaker?
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I didn't mean to exclude Eddie Murphy (or anyone else) but I just held it to ten choices.
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Morgan Freeman is in my top five favorite actors (a list I haven't actually generated, but whoever is in it, he's up there).
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Originally posted by GaryB GaryB wrote:

I didn't mean to exclude Eddie Murphy (or anyone else) but I just held it to ten choices.

That's OK, just be prepared that many of us will bring up the others you didn't include. LOL

I'm still in shock I got away with "Mutherfukin" without the autobleep. Tongue

LeVar Burton for Kunta Kinte in Roots and of course Jordi La Forge in Star Trek...


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The Fifth Element was my main reason for picking Chris Tucker but I also liked the Rush Hour movies. But I thought Chris Rock was pretty good in Nurse Betty.
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From the avaible choices, Samuel L. Jackson is my favourite. My third favourite actor.
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I like Rock for stand up, and Tucker for his off the wall acting.

"Lee! Lee!" LOL
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Everyone is welcome to include other names, I'll include Mos Def right now.
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Ah Morgan Freeman... I've watched Se7en a whole bunch of times in the last month just because of the performance he gives in it. An utter genius. A couple of other performances of his I love dearly are in Bruce Almighty (average film but he is superb in it) and Lucky Number Slevin.
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Originally posted by GaryB GaryB wrote:

Everyone is welcome to include other names, I'll include Mos Def right now.


I loved Mos as Ford Prefect.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Ah Morgan Freeman... I've watched Se7en a whole bunch of times in the last month just because of the performance he gives in it. An utter genius. A couple of other performances of his I love dearly are in Bruce Almighty (average film but he is superb in it) and Lucky Number Slevin.


His portrayal of Red in The Shawshank Redemption is his best.
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Definitely Morgan Freeman. Mainly because of Se7en and The Shawshank Redemption (which is insanely overrated at IMDb, but still a great movie).
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

Ah Morgan Freeman... I've watched Se7en a whole bunch of times in the last month just because of the performance he gives in it. An utter genius. A couple of other performances of his I love dearly are in Bruce Almighty (average film but he is superb in it) and Lucky Number Slevin.


His portrayal of Red in The Shawshank Redemption is his best.


I don't really think he has a best as such, but Red is definitely one of his better characters.
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I'm not surprised to see Samuel L. Jackson leading the poll. Of all the great movies he's made, I keep going back to "The Long Kiss Goodnight".
Denzel has made so many great ones as well but "Man On Fire" was incredible.
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Forest Whitaker
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Samuel L. Jackson

An honourable mention for Forest Whitaker.

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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I like Rock for stand up, and Tucker for his off the wall acting.

"Lee! Lee!" LOL
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IMO there have been three great "Drill Instructor" speeches in military movies. The first was Jack Webb in "The D.I." The second was R.Lee Ermey in "Full Metal Jacket"". The third was Samuel L. Jackson In "Basic".   "...an unfortunate training accident that I will not hesitate to repeat..."
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