Over rated Actors

Michael Caine, and Sean Connery are always the same in any film they do
Keira Knightley and Niclole kidman irritate the hell out of me, Keira cannot act, how in the hell she still gets work is beyond me, and do not get me started on Gwyneth Paltrow!, she should never have been given that Oscar.

BTW i thought Halle Berry was amazing in monsters Ball and Jimmie Dean would have been fantastic had he lived past his 25th birthday.
 
Ryan Gosling.

'Total Film' may think he is God on earth to acting, but he was frankly awful in 'Fracture', where Anthony Hopkins acted him off the screen.

An overmannered, stagey, overdeliberate method performance, whereas Sir Tony barely broke sweat outacting him with an intelligent and subtle performance.
 
Conversley I think he is massivley underated and if Jonathan Rhys Meyers (I mean please!)and Eric Banna can play Henry VIII then why not Ray winstone ?
 
I know acting styles have changed quite a bit over the years but Humphrey Bogart never really impressed me as an actor even compared to his contemporaries.

He's very effective in some of his films.....but also more limited than is generally acknowledged IMO.
 
Looks like those crazy RABers giving an opinion again. Will they never stop with their conjecture and subjective whimsy? Will no-one think of the children?
 
Actually Marlon Brando set the tone for method acting.

So what are your opinions on the likes of De Niro, Pacino, Depp etc. who took on board 'method acting' and were/are the contemporaries of Dean and Brando?

And i was stating my opinion. I would rather watch actors who show complete & unlimited emotions through method acting then plain, wooden, unemotional & limited expressions.
 
Well actually Marlon Brando AND Montgomery Clift set the tone for method acting. Marlon is always getting the credit when Monty was just as brilliant and just as important. He got there first aswell, Red River with John Wayne is the first truly great example of method acting on film. His influnece on James Dean was substanial. None of the 3 are overated IMO.
I have to say method acting is brilliant when it is used properly by the likes of Mike Leigh and Pacino/DeNiro.
But personaly self important humourless eejits like Sean Penn get right on my wick.
 
Sean Connery
Nicolas Cage
Pierce Brosnan
Michael Caine
John Wayne
James Dean - I think some people confuse smouldering looks with great acting.
Julia Roberts
 
Renee Zellwegger

Seriously I think she is hopeless, she just scrunches her face up and puts on an annoying voice.

Gwyneth Paltrow - HOW did she win an oscar??

Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint - 2 worst & overpaid child/teen actors ever surely!
 
The two characters mentioned are pretty much the same part except for the accents. Even when Pacino does soemthing different like Shylock in Merchant of Venice he still plays Michael Corleone.

But like I say, I don't like De Neiro either, I'm not getting involved in any debate which I didn't even know existed.
 
It would seem my problem is that I'm not as funny as I think I am. :o

My joke, of course, was to point out that no-one could 'know' - and that was rather the point. Why challenge someone's conjecture on this issue in such a way?
 
No Saigo they werent. Michael Corleone a gangster of Italian herritage. Tony Montana was a cuban immigrant who became a gangster on his arrival in america. The fact that they are both involoved in the criminal underworld is were the simmilarites end. The two have nothing in common beyond that. That is like saying one doctor is the same as another or one teacher is interchangable with another.

marjangles these two charachters couldnt be more different. Michael Corleone is one of the most sutble charachters ever created. Everything is underplayed, he is cold and calulating, look at the coldness with which he ploted revenge on his own brother, how long he waited for the right moment to strike. He keeps his carRAB so close to his chest that you barley realise what he is thinking or feeling 'it is all in the eyes 'as my mum would say.

Monatana in the other hand is the complete opposite. He is a tour de force, he is possibly the least sutble and most overplayed charchter ever, he wears his heart on his sleave and reacts instictivley. Pacino plays both to perfection.
 
You call it 'challenge', I call it asking a legitimate (and harmless) question.

And by challenging me surely you're just committing the same offence you're objecting to.

Again, let's agree to differ otherwise it's going to be a very long week.:yawn:
 
I'm not entirely sure what we're 'agreeing to differ' on, but fair enough.

If I assume you're query was a kind of of "What makes you think that?", then I'm onside with what you're asking. Otherwise, I'm just confused by it.

Anyway, I was just trying to make a comment on the question in a "funny" way - and it seems it fell completely flat. Never mind.
 
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