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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: masterofsparks on August 28, 2010, 12:38:42 PM
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For those who haven't already listened to the excellent interview with Tom on Ken Plume's podcast (http://www.asitecalledfred.com/2010/08/23/tom-scharpling-ken-plume-chat/), there's a point in the conversation where they each try to name actors that they find compelling in anything, regardless of how bad the movie itself might be (I can't remember all of their choices, but Tom mentions Bill Murray and, I believe, Warren Oates, and Ken mentions Gene Hackman). I started thinking of my own responses while they were talking and it seemed like a good discussion. So who are yours?
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Bill Macy. Yeah, I'd watch Marmaduke. I don't plan on it, but I would if I had to.
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Steve Buscemi
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Oops, forgot to give mine. The ones that jump to mind are Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Lee Marvin. For modern folk, I'll say Richard Jenkins.
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Sam Rockwell, Mia Farrow.
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Vin Diesel, but not for the reason one would expect, nor in the actual spirit of this survey - I laugh at every tortured word that escapes his gaping maw.
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Catherine Denueve. Catherine Keener. Robert Duvall. Dwight Yoakum, believe it or not.
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Dwight Yoakum, believe it or not.
Yoakam is fun in the Crank films.
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Jeffrey Wright
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8441/18862169.jpg)
Romy Schneider
(http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2812/romyschneiderretrouvee.jpg)
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Warren Oates is a great choice. Sterling Hayden. Brando. Tom Waits.
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Oates, Hackman, Duvall, Matthau, Mitchum
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Gary Oldman, Catherine Keener, Gene Hackman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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Sir Vincent Gallo
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I could watch Vincent Gallo having his fingernails pulled out, but "in anything," not so much.
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I haven't seen every movie he's done but I always find Nic Cage pretty compelling.
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There are a bunch of people that, when I see them or even just their names in the opening credits, I get a rush of pleasure. There are also a bunch of big time actors and actresses I love but I feel like it's the ones where you have to go and figure out who they are on your own ... those are the guys that "make" the movie.
Paul Dooley
Thelma Ritter
Barbara Barrie
Udo Kier
Frances Sternhagen
David Straithairn (he's gotten sort of big lately, but before I mean)
Ruth Gordon
I'll think of more I'm sure.
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Daniel Day Lewis, Laura Linney, Maggie Cheung, Frances McDormand, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin
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Crispin Glover
Phil Hoffman
Bobby Duvall
Madeline Kahn
Mink Stole
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Richard Hell
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Catherine O'Hara
Dennis Hopper
TIMOTHY CAREY
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I'll add M. Emmet Walsh and Ned Beatty to my list.
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Also:
Edmond O'Brien
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Mink Stole
Aww, warms me heart.
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I agree with most of this.
Also, Judi Dench. (I'm kind of a square.)
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Annette Bening
Robert Downey Jr.
John Slattery
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Sir Vincent Gallo
He was great in Tetro.
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All i can think of is John Hawkes.
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Joan Cusack
Parker Posey
Rosie Perez
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Parker Posey
YESSS!
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Don McKellar
Rhys Ifans
Catherine Keener
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Ben Gazzara
Harry Dean Stanton
Richard Farnsworth
Hal Holbrook
Yaphet Kotto
Michael Fassbender
Bill Murray
Kevin Corrigan
Alain Delon
John Paul Belmondo
Jacques Tati
Albert Remy
Linda Manz
Gael García Bernal
Tilda Swinton
J.K. Simmons
David Rasche
Vincent Cassel
Ray Winstone
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Robert Mitchum
John Cassavetes
Peter Falk
Seymour Cassel
Ray McKinnon
Philip Baker Hall
Patricia Clarkson
Holly Hunter
Sam Rockwell
Paul Dooley
Barry Corbin
Sissy Spacek
William Forsythe
Josh Hamilton
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My list would overlap with a lot of the names already mentioned:
Surprised no one has mentioned John C. Reilly or Cary Grant
Alain Delon
Lemmon/Matthau, especially if they're together
Bill Murray
PSH
Mitchum
Harry Dean Stanton
Klaus Kinski
Toshiro Mifune
Juliette Binoche
Maggie Cheung
Tony Leung
Don Cheadle
Catherine Deneuve
A big one for me as a kid was Charles Grodin in the first two Beethoven movies and The Great Muppet Caper. And I still love him.
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Gene Hackman
Walter Matthau
Jeff Bridges
Jack Lemmon
Ed Harris
Paul Newman
Character actors: J.T. Walsh, Martin Balsam, Allen Garfield, Scatman Crothers
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Jeff Bridges
Forgot about him.
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Peter Falk and Ray Winstone are great choices that I can't believe I forgot.
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William Holden
Klaus Kinski
...and for some odd reason, Alan Rickman and Taylor Negron
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Tony Leung, SECONDED. That guy just breaks my heart. Has anyone said Bryan Cranston yet? Also, I know they're not actors qua actors, but I never get tired of watching David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. And pretty much the entire cast of Mad Men -- I could watch it with the sound off. Also, Juliette Binoche, Humphrey Bogart, Jesse Eisenberg (I know, what can I say), Toshiro Mifune, Elliot Gould, Forrest Whittaker, Clive Owen, Method Man, Michael K. Williams, Billy Crudup, James Gandolfini (though, unlike a few on this list, that didn't get me to see the Broadway play he was in), Peter O'Toole, Bill Murray, Audrey Hepburn, Parker Posey, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Isabella Rosellini, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dennis Hopper, Audrey Tautou (I know, I know again). Also, most people here know James Urbaniak as the voice of Dr. Venture, plus maybe from those Hal Hartley films, but he is possibly one of the best stage actors I have ever seen.
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Tony Leung, SECONDED. That guy just breaks my heart.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Seriously. Leung is fantastic.
Can't believe I forgot about Ejiofor, he's one of my newer favorites.
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John Cusack.
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Joan Cusack!
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Two guys recently that make me put down the remote if I see them in anything is Garret Dillahunt and Michael Shannon.
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Garret Dillahunt
YES.
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Grote, you have impeccable taste. I like every pick of yours.
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i third Tony Leung.
I think Roger Ebert said that anything that M. Emmett Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton are in are always in some way redeemable.
Ben Gazzara. But I haven't seen everything he's in. Peter Falk. And any other Cassavettes regular.
I disagree with Klaus Kinski. He was in some serious bad movies. But Werner Herzog as an actor always delivers. (And any time he's in one of his own "documentaries" he is acting.)
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Larry David.
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Oh. Stephen Root.
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I wanted to say John Turturro because he has been fantastic in everything I've seen but then I checked out the IMDB page and I'm probably not going to watch a good chunk of that.
Will Ferrell might be getting stale but I still really enjoy his brand of humor and I'll keep watching.
A few others:
Bill Murray
Steve Buscemi
Marilyn Monroe
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Thanks, Jouster. I was thinking a few people would give me grief over Jesse Eisenberg or Audrey Tautou, but I find them both very watchable.
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Audrey Tautou
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Robert Duvall
Elliot Gould
John Cazale
Peter Boyle
Paul Reubens
Michael K. Williams
Dolly Parton
Emily Watson
Cissy Spacek
Michael V. Gazzo
Bibi Andersson
Frank Vincent
Tony Sirico
Michael Pitt
Patrick Fugit
Ryan Gosling
Paul Schneider
Emily Mortimer
Anna Karina
Marty Feldman
David Gulpilil
John Goodman
Emile Hirsch
Jane Adams
Will Oldham
John Lurie
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
Ron Livingston
Michael Murphy
Tony Roberts
How awesome would a John Lurie and Vincent Gallo buddy movie be?
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Peter Falk and Ray Winstone are great choices that I can't believe I forgot.
Cant believe i didn't think of Peter Falk, him and Cassevetes i'll watch in anything.
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Thanks, Jouster. I was thinking a few people would give me grief over Jesse Eisenberg or Audrey Tautou, but I find them both very watchable.
Im with you on Eisenberg i even watched that Fred Durst movie he was in and im probably going to see that Facebook movie even though a movie about Facebook sounds idiotic.
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I honestly don't think there's anybody that I could watch in _anything_ except straight up babes who I'm only watching for J-O appeal. sorry to be risque.
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I'll see your Jesse Eisenbergs and raise you a Michael Cera. Yeah, that's right. No, I haven't seen Year One yet, but I am never going to get tired of awkward nerdy guys and I don't give a rip.
Also co-signing Sam Rockwell. Did anyone mention Mark Ruffalo or Timothy Olyphant, yet? Those guys. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Hmm, that's a lot of DUDES.)
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Thanks, Jouster. I was thinking a few people would give me grief over Jesse Eisenberg or Audrey Tautou, but I find them both very watchable.
Im with you on Eisenberg i even watched that Fred Durst movie he was in and im probably going to see that Facebook movie even though a movie about Facebook sounds idiotic.
The screenplay is actually pretty good. It was written by Aaron Sorkin.
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I think Roger Ebert said that anything that M. Emmett Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton are in are always in some way redeemable.
Emmett Walsh brought to mind David Huddleston. Kris Kristoferson always gets me, and he has been in some terrible pictures, but I sit through them regardless. Most of mine are character actors like Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Hitchcock, or John Michael Higgins. Really all of the Christopher Guest regulars would fall into this list.
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Emile Hirsch
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
If I were to create a list of people that ruin good things that I want to watch simply by their involvement; these 4 are in the top 10.
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Robert Duvall
Elliot Gould
John Cazale
Peter Boyle
Paul Reubens
Michael K. Williams
Dolly Parton
Emily Watson
Cissy Spacek
Michael V. Gazzo
Bibi Andersson
Frank Vincent
Tony Sirico
Michael Pitt
Patrick Fugit
Ryan Gosling
Paul Schneider
Emily Mortimer
Anna Karina
Marty Feldman
David Gulpilil
John Goodman
Emile Hirsch
Jane Adams
Will Oldham
John Lurie
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
Ron Livingston
Michael Murphy
Tony Roberts
How awesome would a John Lurie and Vincent Gallo buddy movie be?
Has anyone read this article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend)
Only the abstract is online:
ABSTRACT: DOWNTOWN CHRONICLES about John Lurie. From 1984 to 1989, everyone in downtown New York wanted to be John Lurie. Or sleep with him. Or punch him in the face. Lurie, the star of the Jim Jarmusch films “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down by Law” and the saxophone-playing leader of the jazz-punk group the Lounge Lizards, was intensely charismatic. He wore a Borsalino fedora and old suits and painted expressionist album covers and picked up girls at the Mudd Club and snorted coke at the Palladium. In the nineties, he let his acting career go, but “Fishing with John,” his tongue-in-cheek cable show showcased his ingenuity and candor. A year and a half ago, however, at the age of fifty-six, Lurie disappeared. What happened first was that Lurie was stricken with a mysterious disease that confined him to his SoHo apartment for six years. Then, in 2008, he and his closest friend, a younger artist named John Perry, had an explosive rupture, and Lurie went into hiding in the belief that Perry intended to kill him. This was a reasonable point of view, as Perry was stalking him. In October, Lurie began living incognito in a rented house in Palm Springs, California. Perry and Lurie got to know each other in the early nineties, at the SoHo restaurant Lucky Strike. In the fall of 2008, Perry asked Lurie to pose for him for an instructional TV pilot called “The Drawing Show.” A few hours in, Lurie was clearly ill, wincing and slumping in his chair. Sometime after 10:30 P.M., Lurie left and then he collapsed in the hallway. In the days that followed, Perry called Time Warner Cable and discovered that Lurie had ordered a pay-per-view boxing match shortly after he left the shoot. Lurie e-mailed Perry to say, “I suffered agony for you—it was met with disappointment and derision.” Perry, stung, began speed-dialing Lurie’s apartment, and then he appeared downstairs at his apartment building. That night, Lurie moved out to the Bowery Hotel and in the morning he sent Perry an e-mail saying that his threats amounted to extortion. Perry promptly filed a police complaint against Lurie, making up a claim that Lurie had threatened to hit him with a baseball bat. That afternoon, Lurie filed a police complaint against Perry for harassment. Both men were avowedly heterosexual, but Lurie felt that Perry’s behavior suggested a rebuffed lover. In February of 2009, Lurie moved to Flea’s house in Big Sur to paint. Mentions Lurie’s assistant, Nesrin Wolf, and “Good Morning America”’s Bill Stanton. A number of Lurie’s friends now felt that Perry was his default topic, and paranoia his default mode. Neither man wants to apologize unilaterally—or, really, at all. However, Perry did tell the writer, “I regret the whole thing, it was silly and cruel.” The protracted duet has become a kind of living performance piece, but neither man is able to see it as art: Perry because he views himself solely as a painter, and Lurie because he never before associated art with a fear of death.
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Jason Statham - though I will admit I have never got up the courage to watch Death Race. Too edgy for me.
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Emile Hirsch
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
If I were to create a list of people that ruin good things that I want to watch simply by their involvement; these 4 are in the top 10.
You didn't like Diego Luna or Emile Hirsch in Milk? I've heard Casey Affleck is the only reason to watch The Killer Inside me and he was pretty good in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Robert Duvall
Elliot Gould
John Cazale
Peter Boyle
Paul Reubens
Michael K. Williams
Dolly Parton
Emily Watson
Cissy Spacek
Michael V. Gazzo
Bibi Andersson
Frank Vincent
Tony Sirico
Michael Pitt
Patrick Fugit
Ryan Gosling
Paul Schneider
Emily Mortimer
Anna Karina
Marty Feldman
David Gulpilil
John Goodman
Emile Hirsch
Jane Adams
Will Oldham
John Lurie
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
Ron Livingston
Michael Murphy
Tony Roberts
How awesome would a John Lurie and Vincent Gallo buddy movie be?
Has anyone read this article:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend)
Only the abstract is online:
ABSTRACT: DOWNTOWN CHRONICLES about John Lurie. From 1984 to 1989, everyone in downtown New York wanted to be John Lurie. Or sleep with him. Or punch him in the face. Lurie, the star of the Jim Jarmusch films “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down by Law” and the saxophone-playing leader of the jazz-punk group the Lounge Lizards, was intensely charismatic. He wore a Borsalino fedora and old suits and painted expressionist album covers and picked up girls at the Mudd Club and snorted coke at the Palladium. In the nineties, he let his acting career go, but “Fishing with John,” his tongue-in-cheek cable show showcased his ingenuity and candor. A year and a half ago, however, at the age of fifty-six, Lurie disappeared. What happened first was that Lurie was stricken with a mysterious disease that confined him to his SoHo apartment for six years. Then, in 2008, he and his closest friend, a younger artist named John Perry, had an explosive rupture, and Lurie went into hiding in the belief that Perry intended to kill him. This was a reasonable point of view, as Perry was stalking him. In October, Lurie began living incognito in a rented house in Palm Springs, California. Perry and Lurie got to know each other in the early nineties, at the SoHo restaurant Lucky Strike. In the fall of 2008, Perry asked Lurie to pose for him for an instructional TV pilot called “The Drawing Show.” A few hours in, Lurie was clearly ill, wincing and slumping in his chair. Sometime after 10:30 P.M., Lurie left and then he collapsed in the hallway. In the days that followed, Perry called Time Warner Cable and discovered that Lurie had ordered a pay-per-view boxing match shortly after he left the shoot. Lurie e-mailed Perry to say, “I suffered agony for you—it was met with disappointment and derision.” Perry, stung, began speed-dialing Lurie’s apartment, and then he appeared downstairs at his apartment building. That night, Lurie moved out to the Bowery Hotel and in the morning he sent Perry an e-mail saying that his threats amounted to extortion. Perry promptly filed a police complaint against Lurie, making up a claim that Lurie had threatened to hit him with a baseball bat. That afternoon, Lurie filed a police complaint against Perry for harassment. Both men were avowedly heterosexual, but Lurie felt that Perry’s behavior suggested a rebuffed lover. In February of 2009, Lurie moved to Flea’s house in Big Sur to paint. Mentions Lurie’s assistant, Nesrin Wolf, and “Good Morning America”’s Bill Stanton. A number of Lurie’s friends now felt that Perry was his default topic, and paranoia his default mode. Neither man wants to apologize unilaterally—or, really, at all. However, Perry did tell the writer, “I regret the whole thing, it was silly and cruel.” The protracted duet has become a kind of living performance piece, but neither man is able to see it as art: Perry because he views himself solely as a painter, and Lurie because he never before associated art with a fear of death.
I didn't know about Luries disease. Who is John Perry just some psychotic stalker?
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Thanks, Jouster. I was thinking a few people would give me grief over Jesse Eisenberg or Audrey Tautou, but I find them both very watchable.
Im with you on Eisenberg i even watched that Fred Durst movie he was in and im probably going to see that Facebook movie even though a movie about Facebook sounds idiotic.
The screenplay is actually pretty good. It was written by Aaron Sorkin.
I don't get whats so great about Aaron Sorkin and ive only really liked one Fincher film that i can think of.
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I agree with the above mentions i forgot all about Seymour Cassel and Kris Kristofferson.
I would also add Clair Daines, Michelle Williams, James Franco, and Philip Baker Hall.
I would throw Tom Noonan in there too he's pretty great on the latest episode of Louie.
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Jason Statham - though I will admit I have never got up the courage to watch Death Race. Too edgy for me.
I've also been putting off Death Race, since I know it can't measure up to the original, even though I'm sure Statham himself would have been game to try based on his career thus far. He does excellent work in The Expendables where he shows he's the only one of the cast who knows how to make action actor faces, and is rewarded with all the best Kill Poses. (To be fair, neither Stallone nor Rourke are capable of moving their faces anymore.)
What I admire most about Statham's career thus far is that he's slowly but surely assembling a list of amazing character names that could someday match the roster of character names put together by all-time co-champions "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
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Emile Hirsch
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
If I were to create a list of people that ruin good things that I want to watch simply by their involvement; these 4 are in the top 10.
You didn't like Diego Luna or Emile Hirsch in Milk? I've heard Casey Affleck is the only reason to watch The Killer Inside me and he was pretty good in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Luna was really annoying in Milk, although that seemed to be mostly intentional. I think JGL is one of the more interesting and excellent younger actors working today. He's fantastic in Mysterious Skin. Casey Affleck is also really good, especially in Jesse James.
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Steve Buscemi can even make Miami Vice enjoyable especially when he gets beat up by Willie Nelson.
Steve Buscemi on Miami Vice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztQhGg2uRc#)