Overrated and Underrated Actors and Actresses

[Trouty]

I have to push back, just a little bit.

Pitt's characters in Inglorious Basterds, Fight Club, and Snatch are all the same. Just a southern, normal, and Bavarian (?) accent separating them. Testosterone-driven, bravado, violent, no-regrets. These three roles, for me, are indistinguishable, acting-wise.

He isn't one of the greats. He lacks true range. Show me a film where he performs as Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York, or Capote, where he becomes Capote.

Or where he takes on any role the way Daniel Day-Lewis does.

Many of Pitt's characters come from the same well. He isn't a character actor, and for me the best of the best are. He's fun. Box office. Has a little range (bad or tough guy/good guy). Probably not overrated like I said earlier, but he certainly isn't one of the true artists. Just my opinion.

A John Cazale he is not.

Peace.

 

[Tabascocat]

Ah, Snatch. He was character-developed and believable as the gypsy, there. He was also good in 12 Years a Slave. Same in Inglorious Basterds. Perhaps he chooses the wrong roles, sometimes, and gems other times. Perhaps I'm being a boob

I think Pitt will be polarizing on this topic, it appears.

You are a boob

Pitt can do anything. I am not even a Fight Club fan but he was hilarious in The Mexican and awesome in Fury!

 

[Trouty]

You are a boob

Pitt can do anything. I am not even a Fight Club fan but he was hilarious in The Mexican and awesome in Fury!

You think Pitt can perform Capote as Phillip Seymour Hoffman did? Lincoln as Daniel Day-Lewis did? Rudolf Abel as Mark Rylance beautifully portrayed?

 

[Trouty]

You are a boob

Pitt can do anything. I am not even a Fight Club fan but he was hilarious in The Mexican and awesome in Fury!

Fury is so fun! But again, same character as the aforementioned ones of his.

 

[Trouty]

Easily up there with Redford. And I'm a huge Redford fan! HUGE...





I made sure my wife watched Sneakers last night huge.

Redford in All is Lost is better than anything I've seen Pitt do. And Redford was like 80. And I've easily seen a dozen or more Pitt films than that of Redford's.

 

[Trouty]

All in fun, fellas.

Go Cowboys

 

[Trouty]

Paul Giamatti in Sideways is fantastic. Any fans?

 

[Trouty]

Jude Law made his own mistakes in the roles he chose, but you're right.
He's a terrific actor. I would have liked to have seen him working different opportunities.

There’s a really good thriller (as best as I can describe it — it certainly isn’t “coming of age” LOL), Closer, if you haven’t seen it. Law is devastatingly great in it. One of Portman’s best performance ever, too, imo.

 

[Melonfeud]

Bruce Durn ,*Jack ELAM, Peter Sellers TOTALLY underated


Whoopi Goldberg ,Jane Fonda,
* Bea Arthur over hyped



* if you're ever surfing YOUTUBE with a few minutes, you won't ever regret pulling up " Jack ELAM'S - whatever happened/ where are they now , video story


* MAUDE was in MOTOR-T stateside ,during WWII ,USMC

 

[Trouty]

Bruce Durn ,*Jack ELAM, Peter Sellers TOTALLY underated


Whoopi Goldberg ,Jane Fonda,
* Bea Arthur over hyped



* if you're ever surfing YOUTUBE with a few minutes, you won't ever regret pulling up " Jack ELAM'S - whatever happened/ where are they now , video story


* MAUDE was in MOTOR-T stateside ,during WWII ,USMC

Bruce Dern, my brother, is incredible. Nebraska was such a beautiful movie. And he was the most vibrant of all the working parts that made it an incredible film.

 

[Melonfeud]

Pitt is a terrific actor, a very wide range.

Sure,as long as ' inbred cracker redneck' is apparent in his characters persona,,,think about it?
what's his most memorable parts that you enjoyed seeing in where that WASN'T obvious,,,


after that weirdness with Jon Voight's baby girl daughter Angela,,, once ol' BRAD horned on in,,, ol' BILLY BOB THORNTON'S casing-liner pretty much crashed-n- burned,,,,I loved his part in Sean Penn's "U-TURN" flick

 

[Trouty]

Sure,as long as ' inbred cracker redneck' is apparent in his characters persona,,,think about it?
what's his most memorable parts that you enjoyed seeing in where that WASN'T obvious,,,


after that weirdness with Jon Voight's baby girl daughter Angela,,, once ol' BRAD horned on in,,, ol' BILLY BOB THORNTON'S casing-liner pretty much crashed-n- burned,,,,I loved his part in Sean Penn's "U-TURN" flick

Dude. Bro.

 

[cowboyec]

All in fun, fellas.

Go Cowboys

AMEN.

 

[cowboyec]

Bruce Dern, my brother, is incredible. Nebraska was such a beautiful movie. And he was the most vibrant of all the working parts that made it an incredible film.

sorry bro....but I can't lie to ya....I hate bruce dern.....he shot The Duke in the back.
can.
not.
do.
that.
'Merica

but helluva actor tho.

 

[Trouty]

sorry bro....but I can't lie to ya....I hate bruce dern.....he shot The Duke in the back.
can.
not.
do.
that.
'Merica

but helluva actor tho.

Watch Nebraska, then get back to me about 'Merica

(But I hear ya, EC )

 

[cowboyec]

Watch Nebraska, then get back to me about 'Merica

(But I hear ya, EC )

but it's The Duke.
I could take it if it was a gun fight....but in the back.
John Wayne.
'Merica,man.......but.....only bruce dern could pull that off.
but still cant forgive him.

 

[cowboyec]

goin' old school here.....old school under-rated...Brian Keith.
•Nevada Smith
•With Six You Get Egg Roll
•The Rare Breed
•Mountain Men
•Hooper
•Hardcastle and McCormack....great tv show.

 

[Melonfeud]

but it's The Duke.
I could take it if it was a gun fight....but in the back.
John Wayne.
'Merica,man.......but.....only bruce dern could pull that off.
but still cant forgive him.

I liked the part where he wads up that kids pair of wire rimmed eyeglasses & throws em' to the ground,,,

 

[ESisback]

Im glad Clint Eastwood FINALLY gets some love from the oscars and film critics because in the 70s and 80s....HOW IN THE HELL does he not get some nominations for Dirty Harry...or The Gauntlet....and he shoulda won for The Man with No Name.
not under-rated now....but in his prime....absolutely.
He was as GREAT an actor THEN as he is as a director now.

and the same for John Wayne....he is not only owed an award or 2 for The Searchers and Sands of Iwo-Jima...but an apology by the academy for being IGNORED at the time.
He was a GREAT actor....watch the scene from Wings of Eagles when his character was learning to walk.....that man was a damn fine actor.
under-rated then.....under-rated now.
recognised as a hollywood legend yes....but Im talkin about recognition for being a master of his craft....as GREAT as any of'em.

Although I LOVED Dirty Harry, Pale Rider, Josey Wales, and High Plains Drifter, I thought Clint’s best work was in:

Unforgiven
Grand Torino
Trouble With The Curve

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Lets hear it for Christoph Waltz,


Jared Leto