Like how in the name of all that is good in this world did Pan's Labyrinth not get best foreign language oscar?
Most overrated actor or actress
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Ok...oscars are a back slap fest, but it still suggests that when it comes to back slaps, Hanks deserved more than the others, and he's shite.
Don't even get me started on Shawshank - practically the definition of over-rated.
And the Green Mile - Hank wank extreme!
Don't even get me started on Shawshank - practically the definition of over-rated.
And the Green Mile - Hank wank extreme!
But shawshank became popular because normal people liked it, it was critically quite unacclaimed. In other words, it became big Without Your Permission. 
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
big and shit. Soppy, sentimental, melodrama of the worst kind.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I quite like Shawshank but it's not exactly a timeless piece of art. If anything it's an illustration of how Stephen King's non-horror stuff generally results in solid films, and his horror stuff generally doesn't.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
the phelge is spot on. it's hokum.
re: hanks in philadelphia - shit shit shit - that scene where he's listening to maria callas and interpreting the lyrics was such obvious sickening oscar bait
re: hanks in philadelphia - shit shit shit - that scene where he's listening to maria callas and interpreting the lyrics was such obvious sickening oscar bait
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
But shawshank became popular because normal people liked it, it was critically quite unacclaimed. In other words, it became big Without Your Permission.
it was quite well received
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It is hokum but I think it's good quality hokum.
Philadelphia is just toilet. An Oscar for that is like a Nobel Peace Prize for Kissinger.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Yes Rudd
Abigail Breslin is a product. She is little manufactured shit. Nothing original there.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
tom hanks is the name that leapt to mind on reading the thread title - not that being a one-trick-pony is a bad thing in a film actor (see michael caine and sean connery) but his perennial success at the oscars is telling a slightly more 'respected' story. we have no objective benchmarks of quality in acting - the oscars are as respected an indicator as any.
keanu reeves and hugh grant are irrelevant nominations. No one has ever called them 'good actors'.
My own nominations are ewan mc gregor and ralph fiennes - both do well in parts which any actor would consider a gift... but both have made some really, painfully badly crafted work. See also uma thurman. (in fact, see the avengers movie for fiennes and thurman being shit together).
keanu reeves and hugh grant are irrelevant nominations. No one has ever called them 'good actors'.
My own nominations are ewan mc gregor and ralph fiennes - both do well in parts which any actor would consider a gift... but both have made some really, painfully badly crafted work. See also uma thurman. (in fact, see the avengers movie for fiennes and thurman being shit together).
Badger Kitten
oof
Kiera Bloody Knightley.
I would hate to be trapped in a paper bag with her, and have to act our way out.
I would hate to be trapped in a paper bag with her, and have to act our way out.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
abigail breslin is an odd choice. kids in general would be, ime.
kids don't 'act' in the same way as adults. they aren't junior actors: it's a completely seperate thing. acting involves the invocation of experience. child actors are mimics and rely on directors showing them what to do.
that's why child actors seem 'manufactured'. because it's pretty much essential.
kids don't 'act' in the same way as adults. they aren't junior actors: it's a completely seperate thing. acting involves the invocation of experience. child actors are mimics and rely on directors showing them what to do.
that's why child actors seem 'manufactured'. because it's pretty much essential.
Mc gregor was good in Trainspotting and the film about Nick Leeson, but apart from that is very ordinary
and think she is overrated Yeah McGregor came across as quite a nice guy in that thing about him motorbiking around asia, but he really is very very ordinary
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
no, him and charlie boorman come across as overpriviledged wankers. the wool is easily pulled over your eyes fella.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i really like michael caine as an actor but he's a tax-dodging right wing cunt and a comment he made recently about his recent film, harry brown, really annoyed the shit out of me. he heavily implied that he deserved an oscar for his performance cos he cries. it's a low-budget deathwishalike movie and very unlikely to be nominated in any category, so it shows what weird reality actors live in.
mind you, i bet he fucking wins an oscar now i've said that.
mind you, i bet he fucking wins an oscar now i've said that.
I was never that arsed about Caine until the Batman films...
Meh, so do most westerners in asia. At least they tried going to some unusual places lke kazakhstan and genuinely did do some hardcore travelling...
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
he's great in sleuth, alfie, the man who would be king, kidnapped, the harry palmer films, zulu and the italian job. he's ace in the eagle has landed. quite like him a pissed literature professor in educating rita and he's brilliant in the fourth protocol and the quiet american.
can't quite believe you only took him seriously when he played a butler to a psychopath who dresses up as a bat.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
they're still cunts. put anyone in that situation and they'd behave the same way.
i was fishing
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
for what?
To be honest I haven't seen half the films you mention...
pennimania
still dre and drooling
I can't stand Caine.
I hate his flat south London accent - have held off from saying so because I thought evryone would think I was being a transpontine snob
but I detest/I]t the way he speaks.
I hate his flat south London accent - have held off from saying so because I thought evryone would think I was being a transpontine snob
but I detest/I]t the way he speaks.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I can't stand Caine.
I hate his flat south London accent - have held off from saying so because I thought evryone would think I was being a transpontine snob
but I detest/I]t the way he speaks.
You dirty rotter
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