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cryrst Flag The garden of England 09 Sep 23 10.17am Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Tom cruise.
Just watched the last Samurai (again)
How has he never won an Oscar. He puts everything in.

 

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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 09 Sep 23 10.24am Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Craig Fairbrass….always plays a really convincing brutal gangland, villain type character, scares the crap out of me anyway

 

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The groover Flag Danbury 09 Sep 23 11.55am Send a Private Message to The groover Add The groover as a friend

Mo Salah is pretty good........ Oh real actors my bad!

 

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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 09 Sep 23 12.33pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

Tom cruise.
Just watched the last Samurai (again)
How has he never won an Oscar. He puts everything in.

So does Kevin Spacey err I mean well you know....

By underrated I assume you mean the public.There are plenty of actors who are highly rated by their peers but not necessarily household names.

 


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monkey Flag Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 09 Sep 23 12.47pm Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Originally posted by cryrst

Tom cruise.
Just watched the last Samurai (again)
How has he never won an Oscar. He puts everything in.

Respect to him for doing ALL his own stunts as well, I’ve watched documentaries on the making of the mission impossible films and it’s frightening what he does. He broke his leg in one of them and they left the scene in the film where he did it, once I knew this I watched it closely and you could actually see it snap when you look close enough

As you say, he really does give a film his all

 

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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 09 Sep 23 2.11pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

i will define under-rated as 'often in a supporting role, but rarely the Star'

that bloke who played the cop to Joaquin Phoenix as Joker. If you watch closely, you will see him acting in bloody everything. But he never ever steals the limelight.

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then you have the fella below....similar. A fine actor, but he will never be an Anthony Hopkins nor a Robert De Niro

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i really like David Thewlis, the fella in the last link, but he may be too famous to qualify as 'under rated'

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supporting actors who are ugly, short, or idiosyncratic are always to be admired. Milos Forman & the Coen Brothers seem to value these.

 


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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 09 Sep 23 2.50pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

another good definition of 'underrated'......when you hear the name, you do not visualise the face.

so clearly, Ewan McGregor or Al Pacino are not under-rated.

the actors below are all excellent...i wonder if you can visualise them from the name...

- Ciaran Hinds
- Michael Ironside

- Raymond Cruz
- Johnathon Banks

Over-rated ?
surely Keanu Reeves is the worst actor with a big name ? His ham voice and awful accent in Dracula.....who else ? I don't rate any performance by Ed Norton, and yet he seems to also be a big star. any others ?

 


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beak Flag croydon 09 Sep 23 4.03pm Send a Private Message to beak Add beak as a friend

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

another good definition of 'underrated'......when you hear the name, you do not visualise the face.

so clearly, Ewan McGregor or Al Pacino are not under-rated.

the actors below are all excellent...i wonder if you can visualise them from the name...

- Ciaran Hinds
- Michael Ironside

- Raymond Cruz
- Johnathon Banks

Over-rated ?
surely Keanu Reeves is the worst actor with a big name ? His ham voice and awful accent in Dracula.....who else ? I don't rate any performance by Ed Norton, and yet he seems to also be a big star. any others ?

I thought for awhile that Ed Norton stank but one night very late they showed the Painted Veil and alongside Toby Jones he really shone,a fantastic performance.

 

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YT Flag Oxford 09 Sep 23 9.26pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

How do you even establish how much someone is rated before you decide whether that's 'over' or 'under'? It seems a bit of a meaningless pastime to me. Incidentally, why is the term 'correctly rated' never used?

Edited by YT (09 Sep 2023 9.30pm)

 


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YT Flag Oxford 09 Sep 23 9.28pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Sorry!

My posting is overrated!

Edited by YT (09 Sep 2023 9.29pm)

 


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ex hibitionist Flag Hastings 12 Sep 23 3.29pm Send a Private Message to ex hibitionist Add ex hibitionist as a friend

there are supporting actors you don't notice for about 20 years because they're so believable you take their performance for granted - the acting in Inbetweeners is great but the one I like is the bully Mark Duggan - it's probably type casting but he is so spot on you're just watching a c*nt not an actor, and it's a c*nt we all recognise. There are others who are in everything, like Glyn Edwards, Jack Watson and Don Henderson. I like actors who play baddies well, Hal Holbrook or the governor in Shawshank spring to mind, but a personal favourite is Robert Culp who plays the kiler in three Columbo's - he's just got nasty, institutionalised, middle-aged f*cker written across his features - completely convincing.

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YT Flag Oxford 12 Sep 23 4.28pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

there are supporting actors you don't notice for about 20 years because they're so believable you take their performance for granted - the acting in Inbetweeners is great but the one I like is the bully Mark Duggan - it's probably type casting but he is so spot on you're just watching a c*nt not an actor, and it's a c*nt we all recognise. There are others who are in everything, like Glyn Edwards, Jack Watson and Don Henderson. I like actors who play baddies well, Hal Holbrook or the governor in Shawshank spring to mind, but a personal favourite is Robert Culp who plays the kiler in three Columbo's - he's just got nasty, institutionalised, middle-aged f*cker written across his features - completely convincing.

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I wonder if he took his inspiration from the character of 'Passmore' in 'Tucker's Luck'?

 


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