Your favourite acting performances?

[SuperFerret]

Robert Shaw as Quint in JAWS

 

[elgato]

Michelle Pfeiffer-Batman Returns/The Fabulous Baker Boys
Heath Ledger-The Dark Knight
Marion Cotillard-La Vie en Rose/Love Me if You Dare
Angelina Jolie-Girl, Interrupted
Wynona Ryder/Gary Oldman-Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bela Lugosi-Dracula
Uma Thurman-Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill
Jack Nicholson-Batman
Max Shreck-Nosferatu
Klaus Klinski/Isabelle Adjani-Nosferatu (Remake)
Johny Depp-Public Enemies/Sleepy Hollow
Drew Barrymore-Riding in Cars with Boys

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Geoffrey Rush- As Captain Hector Barbossa POTC COTBP.

Alan Rickman- As Severus Snape-All Harry Potter film the man is one of the best Scene stealers who ever performed.

Gary Oldman- Bram Stokers Dracula.

Viggo Mortensen- As Aragorn LOTR All 3 Films.

Robert Downey Jr- Iron Man.

Eric Bana- Troy.

John Malcovich-The Man In The Iron Mask.

Tommy Lee Jones-The Fugative.

Ian McKellan- As Gandalf The Grey.

Russell Crowe - Gladiator.

 

[CWP]

Love the acting in The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Elijah Wood as Frodo, Sean Astin as Sam, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, and Andy Serkis as Gollum to name a few. Very believable performances.

Then there's Tom Hollander as Cutler Beckett, Bill Nighy as Davy Jones, Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, etc. Even James Norrington and Mr. Gibbs rounded off a great cast. I don't care much for Keira Knightley or Orlando Bloom's performances, however.

Also, some may not agree with me, but I like Shia LaBeouf's acting. It's very raw and suits a lot of different genres.

Edit: The post above mine reminded me of Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, too. Needed more of him in the films; he could have his own spin-off...

 

[BloodyWolverine]

After the next two movies i don't think Severus will be spinning anywhere.

 

[Schlosser85]

Also, some may not agree with me, but I like Shia LaBeouf's acting. It's very raw and suits a lot of different genres.

I don't get the hatred for Shia LaBeouf either. I've found him very likable in everything I've seen him in. He takes some flack for Transformers, but those movies' crappiness isn't his fault.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Jack Nicholson- Once Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sam Rockwell- Moon and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Robert Downey Jr- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Bruce Willis- Unbreakable

Johnny Depp- Ed Wood and Fear and Loathing

Robert DeNiro- Taxi Driver

Mickey Rourke- The Wrestler

Jim Carey- Eternal Sunshine

Robin Williams- The Fisher King, Good Will Hunting

 

[TLH]

Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects, American Beauty

Jackie Earle Haley - Watchmen (...awesome as Rorschach)

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Jackie Earle Haley WAS Rorschach

 

[cerealkiller182]

Jeremy Renner- The Hurt Locker

Jackie Earle Haley- Watchmen

Ron Perlman- Hellboy

Jeff Bridges- The Big Lebowski

Jamie Fox- Collateral

Michelle Monaghan- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Charlize Theron- North Country

 

[matrix_ghost]

There are lots more but because i just saw these two movies after a long time

Henry FOnda in 12 Angry Men
Ben Kingsly In Gandhi

 

[gwynplaine]

Sean Connery as Robin Hood in "Robin and Marian."

 

[VenomVsSpidey]

macaulay culkin & elijah wood - the good son

 

[nite-owl]

James Cagney - White Heat

 

[bullets]

Parker Posey - The House of Yes

 

[Bruce Banner]

Eli Wallach- The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Robert De Niro-Taxi Driver

Edward Norton-25th Hour

Jack Nicholson-The Pledge

Nicolas Cage- Bringing Out the Dead/Leaving Las Vegas

Gene Hackman- The French Connection

 

[TKing]

Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
Helena Bonham Carter - Fight Club
Helen Mirren - The Queen

 

[BoBalow7]

Bruce Willis - Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengence, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable

Clint Eastwood - Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad The Ugly, Unforgiven, Gran Torino

Denzel Washington - Malcom X, Training Day, Fallen

Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction, Die Hard With A Vengence

Liam Neeson - Schindler's List, Taken

Javier Bardem - No country For Old Men

Robert Downey Jr. - Heart and Souls, Iron Man

Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

John Wayne - The Searchers, The Longest Day

Heath Ledger - Lords of Dogtown, The Dark Knight

John Goodman - The Big Lebowski, Fallen

Tom Hanks - Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away

Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven

Sharlto Copley - District 9

 

[[A]]

Jackie Earle Haley - Watchmen (...awesome as Rorschach)

Jackie Earle Haley WAS Rorschach

Yes. He was Rorschach. But he wasn't Walter Kovacs.

 

[gwynplaine]

Bruce Willis - Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengence, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable

Clint Eastwood - Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad The Ugly, Unforgiven, Gran Torino

Denzel Washington - Malcom X, Training Day, Fallen

Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction, Die Hard With A Vengence

Liam Neeson - Schindler's List, Taken

Javier Bardem - No country For Old Men

Robert Downey Jr. - Heart and Souls, Iron Man

Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

John Wayne - The Searchers, The Longest Day

Heath Ledger - Lords of Dogtown, The Dark Knight

John Goodman - The Big Lebowski, Fallen

Tom Hanks - Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away

Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven

Sharlto Copley - District 9[/quote]


Agreed. Welcome to the Hype.

 

[SuperFerret]

Andy Serkis as King Kong

 

[gwynplaine]

Andy Serkis as King Kong

Good one. I also liked him as gollum, and still in the mocap domain, I really enjoyed Crispin Glover as Grendel.

 

[omid17]

Bruce Willis - Die Hard, Die Hard With A Vengence, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable

Clint Eastwood - Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad The Ugly, Unforgiven, Gran Torino

Denzel Washington - Malcom X, Training Day, Fallen

Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction, Die Hard With A Vengence

Liam Neeson - Schindler's List, Taken

Javier Bardem - No country For Old Men

Robert Downey Jr. - Heart and Souls, Iron Man

Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

John Wayne - The Searchers, The Longest Day

Heath Ledger - Lords of Dogtown, The Dark Knight

John Goodman - The Big Lebowski, Fallen

Tom Hanks - Big, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away

Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven

Sharlto Copley - District 9

 

[King K]

Val Kilmer- Tombstone

Gary Oldman- True Romance

Every single actor in The Crow (1993).

 

[returntovoid]

Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction as Jules Winnfield was brilliant. The best I think he has ever acted and his dialogs were easily quotable/memorable.

Bruce Willis as John McClane in the first Die Hard was great. I think he played the most human action hero to date, his sarcastic humor was hilarious no matter how serious the film got and the dialogs he got were gold, very quotable/memorable.

I'll think of more acting performances.