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Post by msdemos on Sept 2, 2018 17:55:48 GMT
......most surprising you with their range ??  SAVE FERRIS |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 2, 2018 20:01:28 GMT
Amy Adams. For a while, I just associated her with playing Giselle in Enchanted.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 2, 2018 20:10:20 GMT
Heath Ledger in TDK is still the ultimate. He had previously surprised me in Brokeback, where before I just considered him a flavor of the week heartthrob. Then I, like everyone else on Earth, thought he was strange casting as The Joker, until I saw the trailer and had my mind blown.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 2, 2018 20:15:12 GMT
Charlize Theron. She started out as eye candy with small parts in films like “That Thing You Do” and “2 Days In The Valley” (both 1996). For the next six or seven years she very slowly built a resume of supporting roles small and large in, mostly, fairly good movies – but still, A-list stardom seemed far away. I was following her career through all these years, wondering if that was all she had. Then she was (as the saying goes) an overnight success as a dramatic actress after almost a decade of work with “Monster” (2003). The rest is history.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 2, 2018 20:16:05 GMT
Sometimes I will see someone in a movie and just assume they are playing themselves.
Linda Hamilton -- I thought her mousey voice in Terminator was her normal one until Terminator 2 when she was totally different.
Veronica Carlson -- I had only seen her as the mopey love interest in Hammer films but then she did the Ghoul where she was quite different
Barbara Ewing -- played the low class barmaid in a Dracula movie but didnt realize it was the same person in Torture Garden who was completely different.
Stephen Boyd -- I had no idea he had an Irish accent until seeing the Squeeze.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Sept 2, 2018 20:17:56 GMT
Matthew McConaughey was an asswipe of a bimbo actor until he gave some surprising performances.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 2, 2018 21:20:46 GMT
Jake Gyllenhaal
Robert Pattinson
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 21:53:03 GMT
Jake Gyllenhaal Robert Pattinson In agreement with Pattinson. Both he and Charlie Hunnam surprised me in The Lost City of Z. That was also a really underrated film that didn't get near enough attention. |
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 2, 2018 22:13:11 GMT
Jake Gyllenhaal Robert Pattinson In agreement with Pattinson. Both he and Charlie Hunnam surprised me in The Lost City of Z. That was also a really underrated film that didn't get near enough attention.I agree with all of that. |
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Post by jesserebel on Sept 2, 2018 22:22:41 GMT
Zoe Saldana. I always felt she kind of sucked but she did impress me with the behind the scenes footage for Avatar and in Infinity War.
Zac Efron... its a shame he kind of only gets offered Bro Comedies (minus a few here and there) cause he is actually talented and surprised me. I always just thought of him as a teen heartthrob and gimmick almost
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 3, 2018 0:09:38 GMT
Robin Williams
Who knew he could pull of serious and dramatic and even sometimes creepy roles real well?
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 3, 2018 0:10:02 GMT
Jennifer Anniston - can do both drama and comedy very effectively...
Jimmy Cagney who could do song and dance and gangsters... |
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Post by jamesbamesy on Sept 3, 2018 0:13:59 GMT
Bella Thorne and Zendaya. Seriously, after Shake It Up, I didn't think they'd be starring in more than they've had been recently.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 3, 2018 0:29:47 GMT
Edmund Gwynn - who did the Lovable Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street and a murderous assassin in Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent.
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Post by Bad Snorkasaurus on Sept 3, 2018 4:22:54 GMT
David Tennant-my least favorite of the new Doctors, he really surprised me in the Fright Night remake and now Bad Samaritan.
Robert Carradine-I first knew him from the Nerds movies. He's nothing like Lewis Skolnick in his earlier films The Pom Pom Girls, Joyride (1977), Heartaches
Jenna Elfman-she was cute as Dharma, she's kind of complex in her new role of June on Fear the Walking Dead. I didn't know she could do cheezy drama/survival horror.
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Post by darkpast on Sept 3, 2018 5:11:13 GMT
somewhat Channing Tatum, still limited, but very watchable now
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 3, 2018 5:35:36 GMT
The one who really has shown range like no other, I think, has just got to be Sissy Spacek. Her Carrie White and her Loretta Lynn are total polar opposites.
One character is sad, lonely, "creepy", introverted, tormented and possibly psychotic. The other character is an extrovert in the extreme; she is The Toast of the Town, The Life of the Party and The First Lady of Country Music. One character was starved for love and affection. The other character was brimming with love and affection.
And Sissy Spacek was a marvel in both roles. I am biased toward her Carrie White, but it really is a toss up as to say which character she plays more convincingly. She is 100% believable and compelling in both roles.
And within the role itself, Spacek's performance in "3 Women" really is astounding. Her range is off the charts in that one, and again, totally convincing the whole time.
I would say, "all other actresses, take note", except for this talent or gift or ability or whatever you want to call it is probably unteachable; it likely
comes from inside the person. And on the basis of watching Sissy Spacek do a talk show interview, I would never have guessed in a million years that she could run the emotional gamut like she's done. She seems absolutely ordinary, almost to the extent of being slightly boring.
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Post by Sulla on Sept 3, 2018 6:24:55 GMT
Renée Zellweger -Of the few films I've seen she can become different characters.
Secretary and single mother Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire.
Average English woman in Bridget Jones's Diary. Oscar nominee.
Singing and dancing murderess Roxie Hart in Chicago. Oscar nominee.
Appalachian farm girl Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain. Oscar winner.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Sept 3, 2018 10:31:37 GMT
The one who really has shown range like no other, I think, has just got to be Sissy Spacek. Her Carrie White and her Loretta Lynn are total polar opposites. One character is sad, lonely, "creepy", introverted, tormented and possibly psychotic. The other character is an extrovert in the extreme; she is The Toast of the Town, The Life of the Party and The First Lady of Country Music. One character was starved for love and affection. The other character was brimming with love and affection. And Sissy Spacek was a marvel in both roles. I am biased toward her Carrie White, but it really is a toss up as to say which character she plays more convincingly. She is 100% believable and compelling in both roles. And within the role itself, Spacek's performance in "3 Women" really is astounding. Her range is off the charts in that one, and again, totally convincing the whole time. I would say, "all other actresses, take note", except for this talent or gift or ability or whatever you want to call it is probably unteachable; it likely comes from inside the person. And on the basis of watching Sissy Spacek do a talk show interview, I would never have guessed in a million years that she could run the emotional gamut like she's done. She seems absolutely ordinary, almost to the extent of being slightly boring. I am on a Streep thing at the moment and in spite of any criticisms I may have with her mannered and head space technique in some of her roles, I can't deny that her range has always been impressive. I am focusing on her comedic roles at the moment, like She Devil - 89' and Death Becomes Her - 92' and her dramedy role in Postcards From The Edge - 90' which I think is perhaps a neglected performance of hers. I wouldn't say underrated, because she was given a deserved Oscar nomination for it, but she was just great with the lines that Carrie Fisher wrote for her. She had that throwaway quality to them and she pulled it off wonderfully. It was also beautifully balanced with the more serious aspects of her character's persona and she and MacLaine had great chemistry together.
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Post by dirtypillows on Sept 3, 2018 10:50:19 GMT
The one who really has shown range like no other, I think, has just got to be Sissy Spacek. Her Carrie White and her Loretta Lynn are total polar opposites. One character is sad, lonely, "creepy", introverted, tormented and possibly psychotic. The other character is an extrovert in the extreme; she is The Toast of the Town, The Life of the Party and The First Lady of Country Music. One character was starved for love and affection. The other character was brimming with love and affection. And Sissy Spacek was a marvel in both roles. I am biased toward her Carrie White, but it really is a toss up as to say which character she plays more convincingly. She is 100% believable and compelling in both roles. And within the role itself, Spacek's performance in "3 Women" really is astounding. Her range is off the charts in that one, and again, totally convincing the whole time. I would say, "all other actresses, take note", except for this talent or gift or ability or whatever you want to call it is probably unteachable; it likely comes from inside the person. And on the basis of watching Sissy Spacek do a talk show interview, I would never have guessed in a million years that she could run the emotional gamut like she's done. She seems absolutely ordinary, almost to the extent of being slightly boring. I am on a Streep thing at the moment and in spite of any criticisms I may have with her mannered and head space technique in some of her roles, I can't deny that her range has always been impressive. I am focusing on her comedic roles at the moment, like She Devil - 89' and Death Becomes Her - 92' and her dramedy role in Postcards From The Edge - 90' which I think is perhaps a neglected performance of hers. I wouldn't say underrated, because she was given a deserved Oscar nomination for it, but she was just great with the lines that Carrie Fisher wrote for her. She had that throwaway quality to them and she pulled it off wonderfully. It was also beautifully balanced with the more serious aspects of her character's persona and she and MacLaine had great chemistry together.
That's funny, Toasted Cheese, because I just watched "Death Becomes Her" today, for the first time since 1992. Streep and Hawn both had some funny moments and made for good sparring partners. Bruce Willis was boring, and I really liked Isabella Rosselini. I watched DBH because of the fact that I watched "She Devil" a couple of days ago. I've always liked "She Devil", and today I decided that I prefer it to DBH, which still had good stuff in it. "She Devil" almost has a sitcom feel to it. It was a cute little movie, easier to sit back and turn brain off and watch, and also Sylvia Miles is in it. Streep has incredible range, she is the ultimate here, really even more so than Spacek or anybody else since Bette Davis. But what I think she generally lacks is depth. I liked all of her performances in the 80s and early 90s. I liked her very much in "Postcards from the Edge", with that throwaway quality that can be so charmingly when the actress has a handle on things. Have you read Carrie Fisher's novel? It is extremely entertaining. Miss Fisher was one smart cookie, very observant, very well-developed sense of humor (especially about herself.  ) |
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