Collin Firth as Mr.Darcy in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. He was totally awesome, but then again, they all were. I love that movie, it's long but enjoyable.
It's long because it's not a movie, it's a mini-series. :-)
1.Chow Yun Fat: The king in Anna and the King and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
2.Johnny Depp: Secret Window and The Pirates of the Caribbean
3.Clark Gable: Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
4.Patrick Swayze: Johnny in Dirty Dancing
5.Vicent D'Onofrio: Robert E. Howard in The Whole Wide World and Detective Goren in Law and Order Criminal Intent.
Edit: I forgot, Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
Johnny Depp is wonderful at everything! Great Choice!
Johnny Depp in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Read the book then saw the film. They could not have cast a better person for the role!!
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence in The Shining. Nobody can top that. "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"..."Danny doesn't live here anymore Mrs Torrence"...REDRUM REDRUM!
The Shining is one of my fave movies of all time "Honey....I'm home" - just love it. My other fave is Linda Blair as Regan in The Exorcist.
Mila Jovovich as Leeloo is The Fifth Element
George Clooney in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Clint Eastwood... too many movies to name
Man, I'm still to sleepy to think of any others
Matthew Borderick, Alan Ruck and Ben Stein in Ferris Buellers Day Off
"Bueller......Bueller......Bueller"
John Malkovich & Uma Thurman in Dangerous Liasons
John Cusack in Being John Malkovich
All the guys of Resevior Dogs
Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver
George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
And I definetly have to agree with the following:
Jack Nicholson in the Shining
Ellen DeGeneres in Finding Nemo ...."Just keep Swimming, just keep swimming" :)
Wow! You guys have named some really great movies! Now I need to go to blockbuster! I haven't seen, Michael J. Fox anywhere on the list,
Could ANYONE else have played his role in Back To The Future?
Wow! You guys have named some really great movies! Now I need to go to blockbuster! I haven't seen, Michael J. Fox anywhere on the list,
Could ANYONE else have played his role in Back To The Future?
Sorry for jumping in, continue on...... :-)
...or can you imagine anyone else being Doc besides Christopher Lloyd???? Priceless!!!
Best that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-men
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone (surprised I didn't see it here yet)
John Travolta and Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction (worth repeating)
Woody Harlson in Natural Born Killers
Juliet Lewis in everything she’s ever done.
The entire cast of Lord of the Rings (worth repeating)
Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray in Caddyshack
The drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket (don’t know his name)
Let's see. I'm the movieman, so my opinion counts more than any of yours. :)
Uh,
Bjork in Dancer in the Dark (No one will ever top that performance)
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, Coffee and Cigarettes (and virtually anything she's in)
Ellen Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
My mind is fried, maybe I'll think of some more later.
Bjork in Dancer in the Dark (No one will ever top that performance)
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth, Coffee and Cigarettes (and virtually anything she's in)
Ellen Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
Ditto. I can't believe I forgot that Ellen Burstyn role - it's one of the best I've ever seen. Jennifer Connelly was great in that too, but I was amazed by her performance in A Beautiful Mind, which I also forgot to mention.
How about Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird? If I sit at the computer long enough, I'll just keep adding names and roles to this list. Maybe I should take a break. :-)
Peter Sellers in Being There
Dustin Hoffman - yet again - but for The Graduate
Kate Beckinsale in the Last Days Of Disco (should also go in the soundtrack thread)
Eric Sykes in The Plank
ps edit: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence in The Shining. Nobody can top that. "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"..."Danny doesn't live here anymore Mrs Torrence"...REDRUM REDRUM!
I've always thought that was the best movie based on a Stephen King story ever made, period, based mostly on Jack Nicholson's performance. But from what I've heard, Stephen King hated it. Go figure...
