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Posted: July 17 2012 at 13:01
Snow Dog wrote:
The T wrote:
All his Mission Impossible ones, Valkyrie (where he somehow nails the role of Von Stauffenberg) and The Last Samurai are my favorites. The media hates him for some reason but I think he's one of the most consistent actors of this generation.
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 13:06
The T wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
The T wrote:
All his Mission Impossible ones, Valkyrie (where he somehow nails the role of Von Stauffenberg) and The Last Samurai are my favorites. The media hates him for some reason but I think he's one of the most consistent actors of this generation.
I loved MI 1, but 2 I found underwhelming.
It's the inferior of the four for sure.
I thought MI:III was pretty bad as well. JJ Abrams may be good at TV, but I have been quite unimpressed with his movie career.
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 13:57
thellama73 wrote:
The T wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
The T wrote:
All his Mission Impossible ones, Valkyrie (where he somehow nails the role of Von Stauffenberg) and The Last Samurai are my favorites. The media hates him for some reason but I think he's one of the most consistent actors of this generation.
I loved MI 1, but 2 I found underwhelming.
It's the inferior of the four for sure.
I thought MI:III was pretty bad as well. JJ Abrams may be good at TV, but I have been quite unimpressed with his movie career.
Haven't watched MI:III yet but I'm hoping for an improvement. I've bought it so I'm to go....
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 14:05
Snow Dog wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
The T wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
The T wrote:
All his Mission Impossible ones, Valkyrie (where he somehow nails the role of Von Stauffenberg) and The Last Samurai are my favorites. The media hates him for some reason but I think he's one of the most consistent actors of this generation.
I loved MI 1, but 2 I found underwhelming.
It's the inferior of the four for sure.
I thought MI:III was pretty bad as well. JJ Abrams may be good at TV, but I have been quite unimpressed with his movie career.
Haven't watched MI:III yet but I'm hoping for an improvement. I've bought it so I'm to go....
It's a big improvment on MI:II, but given how bad that film was it couldnt have been worse. Still, an entertaining film.
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 14:55
I'm afraid I have never forgiven him for Top Gun. The closest I have been to walking out of a film (I was with a girl I liked so I couldn't) . So the only one I have seen here is WotW and not all that good
I agree that Born On The Fourth Of July was one of his better movies. Willem Dafoe also gave a memorable performance and the movie was based on a real person.
As I mentioned earlier, this list reflects his later movies because he has an extensive filmography. A second poll for his earlier movies was considered.
These are some of the movies that would have been on a second poll:
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 21:40
The movies that I think he is best in, you left out....
Tropic Thunder, The Color Of Money, A Few Good Men, and Rain Man.
I've really never seen him as that great of an actor really, mainly his action movies though, I've hated all the Mission Impossibles, Minority Report is one of a very few movies I just could not finish watching, and the Last Samurai I didn't think was too great. But out of this list, I have to give it to Valkyrie, because that isn't a type of role he normally gets, but he did pretty good in it.
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Posted: July 17 2012 at 22:21
HolyMoly wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
I think he woks best when his character is supposed to be unsympathetic or evil because then he doesn't have to try to convince us he is a good person. His breakdown in that awful Magnolia looks like a parody. I guess he's just not in touch with those kind of human feelings.
You may be right. I forgot about Magnolia, but I loved that movie, and I think his role in that was kind of a parody of his real-life persona (i.e. an overconfident dick). I always saw it that way, anyway. Almost like the part was made for him.
I agree with this sentiment totally. He just isnt all that naturally likeable to me. For this reason I voted for WoTW.
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Vanilla Sky is a great film, plus Sigur Ros's Njosnavelin was featured in it. 
Pretty good acting in it as well. 
