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Re: See Dead Man Walking, At Close Range, and Bad Boys and you'll see

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In Reply to: See Dead Man Walking, At Close Range, and Bad Boys and you'll see posted by tinear on April 4, 2006 at 17:39:05:

IMHO Penn's best work: At Close Range, Bad Boys, Falcon & Snowman, Dead Man Walking and Carlito's way.
Mystic River - his performance was not convincing but was over the top. In the scence you referred to I found Penn's acting to be much too forced. Very much to my surprise, the best acting in MR was done by Tim Robbins.
21 Grams - solid performances by Watts & Benico and a marginal performance by Penn. Penn has played the adrift character (very well) a few times, however I didn't think he pulled it off in 21G. I concur that the movie had many shortcomings. I don't attribute my dislike of that film solely to Penn, but as his character occupied about 1/3 of 21G, its impossible for me to not recogonize his poor performance as one of major flaws.

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Carlito's Way, the lawyer. That was the worst overacting in recent - Duilawyer 21:12:52 04/07/06 (1)
memory. Terrible
- Overacting? You spent a lot a time around coke heads? - PdL 16:53:07 04/08/06 (0)
  Its pretty tough to be over the top when portraying a practicing cocaine addict. Perhaps it is the lawyer role that you take issue with?
Hey, we agree on his best and that's pretty good. You expressed - tinear 05:25:49 04/05/06 (1)
yourself so well that, even though we disagree, I can understand your view. Robbins is an underrated performer. He doesn't get many rolls, does he? I wonder if he's spent much of his career lining up directing gigs or preparing himself for it?
- Re: Hey, we agree on his best and that's pretty good. You expressed - PdL 14:55:34 04/05/06 (0)
  Yes, although I have only seen a couple of movies w/ Robbins, I have always been pleasantly surprised by the quality of his performances. He doesn't seem to be in many movies of late - does he do a lot of directing?

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