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[Manics]

Over rated:

Al Pacino. All he does is yell.

Now you've crossed the line. I'm gonna squirt water in your face when I see you.

 

[Manics]

Paul Giamatti is more appreciated than ever!

Underrated:
Philip Seymour Hoffman


Overrated:
Edward Norton
Brad Pitt(he wouldn't work at all if he looked like Paul Giamatti!)

I agree with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the underrated category. I disagree with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in overrated. They're both fine actors.

 

[Solid]

overrated

nicole kidman
jack nicholson

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

overrated

jack nicholson

Burn in hell!

 

[Regniws]

Overrated
Ben Stiller = Crap
Jimmy Fallon = May God have mercy on his soul
Kiefer Sutherland = Every movie he has been in has sucked, and my friends still won't stop talking about him due to 24, the day where man defines god and never goes to the bathroom.

Underrated
Ewan McGregor = Trainspotting truly shows the versatality of him
Harrison Ford = Han Solo and Indiana Jones, only two of the greatest characters of all time
and the most underrated actor of all time is.....

Bruce Campbell... Hail to the king baby!

 

[shantyman]

I agree with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the underrated category. I disagree with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in overrated. They're both fine actors.

He always plays the repressed weirdo. ALWAYS. I just watched 25th Hour and he was playing, yes, a repressed weirdo with longings for his high school student.

 

[Manics]

He always plays the repressed weirdo. ALWAYS. I just watched 25th Hour and he was playing, yes, a repressed weirdo with longings for his high school student.

Not ALWAYS. He was a fairly normal lovesick priest in Keeping the Faith, a Neo-Nazi asshole turned good in American History X and a lawyer in People vs. Larry Flynt. Guy's a great actor period.

 

[jenov4]

I think Edward Norton is a great actor.

And I vote Bolo Yeung for underrated actor, I think he had like 2 lines in Bloodsport and that was enough to put fear into my heart!

 

[Blackace]

Whoever listed Al Pacino as overrated should be shot on the spot.

Denzel is not overrated except for his performance in TRaining day.

underrated:
Bruce THE FUCKING MAN CAmbell
Ethan Hawke
Jim CArrey
Uma Thurman
Bill Paxton


Overrated
Sam JAckson
Julia Roberts
Jodie foster
Gwenth Paltrow
Jamie fox

Sam Jackson.. can pick bad roles....true... but when he has a good role he rocks! but I am a big fan of his.. Amos and Andrew rocks and when he go shot in the back of the head in Goodfellas he stole the scene!


But really all is forgiven for me because of Jules in Pulp Fiction!

 

[darscot]

Philip Seymour Hoffman, is off the hook everthing he does is gold.
Ed Norton is a great actor.
Bill Paxton is another great actor but he knows how to pick a role that suits him.
Brad Pitt can act sure he's pretty but he has skill.
Sean Penn is a brilliant actor, I am Sam, enough said.
Dakota whomever from I am Sam and Man on Fire is the best child actress right now. I bet she makes Tom Cruise look like an amateur in War of the Worlds.
Dinero is great he's just getting a little long in the tooth.

 

[VistraNorrez]

Sean Penn is a brilliant actor, I am Sam, enough said.

Uh, NO! Garbage he was absolute shit in that. Nothing impressive about that. Uninspired drivel.

 

[darscot]

Uh, NO! Garbage he was absolute shit in that. Nothing impressive about that. Uninspired drivel.

You have to be kidding? :lol

 

[Kabuki Waq]

You have to be kidding? :lol

No he is right. That whole movie including his performace was over the top and way too melodramatic.

 

[darscot]

Wow I guess you can't please everyone. The fall scene with the cake is acting brilliance. The countless scenes were he is working with handicapped actors are great and he pulls brilliant performances from all of them. Granted the director did some brilliant work with color in the film but even the directing excellence doesn't over shadow his performance.

 

[Mashing]

I most definately agree with Dakota Fanning as the best child actor (I even mentioned this to my coworkers just yesterday--she was amazing in Man on Fire). That girl is a hell of an actor. Gotta love young actors acting much older than they are.

 

[darscot]

Dakota "Fanning" thank you that has been bugging the shit out of me.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

I most definately agree with Dakota Fanning as the best child actor (I even mentioned this to my coworkers just yesterday--she was amazing in Man on Fire). That girl is a hell of an actor. Gotta love young actors acting much older than they are.

She is decent but honestly not the most believable actor when playing a KID!.


She would be great if she was 35.

 

[Willco]

Yeah, I hate people who praise child actors because they act so mature, well in reality (for the most part), they're playing fucking kids.

 

[Nameless]

Overrated:

Helen Hunt
Nicholas Cage
Tommy Lee Jones
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Chris Rock

Underrated:
Vince Vaughn
Ashely Judd
Anne Hace
Owen Wilson
Donnie Yen(just as good..if not a little better..than jet li)

 

[darscot]

Kabuki Waq, I just noticed your post of above and we'll just have to agree to disagree as our taste in actors is very different.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

I stopped reading this thread after "De Niro". Fucking kids these days...

 

[Nameless]

Who ever listed Al Pacino as overrated, should soak his eyes in battery acid, stick firecrackers in their ears, then go around to every movie theater, movie rental place, and retail store, piss and shit on the manager causing them to be banned from said locations for life.

,..........fuckin Cockroaches..

 

[Nameless]

Damn almost forgot......Jackie Chan.....most overrated guy in history.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Damn almost forgot......Jackie Chan.....most overrated guy in history.

maybe as an actor yes ....but as an entertainer no way is he overrated. The guy broke every bone in his body for our entertainment.

 

[Nameless]

maybe as an actor yes ....but as an entertainer no way is he overrated. The guy broke every bone in his body for our entertainment.

Drunken Master was awesome, as was that one flick where his fighting styles reflect his emotions, but aside from Rush Hour films(due mostly to Chris Tucker) everything hesput out sucks..From The Medallion, The Tuxedo, Around the World in 80 days, to the movies he brought over save Rumble in the Bronx which was pretty cool.

 

[Mashing]

Yeah, I hate people who praise child actors because they act so mature, well in reality (for the most part), they're playing fucking kids.

Well, I guess we look for different things in a kid. It was the same with Haley Joel Osment in The 6th Sense for me. Acted well beyond his age. I also liked him a lot in Secondhand Lions (then again he was older in that movie and surrounded by two top notch actors).

 

[Belfast]

UNDERRATED:

 

[Forgotten_Taco]

Paul Giamatti is more appreciated than ever!

Underrated:

Patricia Clarkson
Jeffrey Wright
Philip Seymour Hoffman


Overrated:

Edward Norton
Russel Crowe
Tom Hanks
Brad Pitt(he wouldn't work at all if he looked like Paul Giamatti!)

Did you just say Tom Hanks? I'm going to have to cut you.