In Reply to: Re: Two examples of Penn's fine acting after your examples: posted by rico on February 19, 2005 at 13:54:02:
More seriously, I couldn't agree more. Lone Star is an amazing movie and his performance is magnificent. I liked him as well in American Beauty, with all its faults (outweighed by the strenths, in my book).
Liam Neeson is another underrated guy: consider
Rob Roy, Shindler's List, and several other roles.
Jurgen Prachnow, though pretty much wasted since he came to Hollywood, still deserves immortality because of Das Boot.
Spacey and Malkovich are also extremely talented. Benecio del Toro in Usual Suspects, 21 Grams, Traffic. Very strong leading man.
Ralph Fiennes for Schindler's, Quiz Show (?), and (though I hated the movie) The English Patient.
Jet Li, Beat Takeshi, and the Fat guy from Crouching Tiger, to mention a few Asians.
Denzel, Morgan Freeman, Samuel Jackson...to name a few A-As. And how about Travolta???
Jeff Bridges belongs in this list somewhere, as well.
I know I'm forgetting about half the guys, too. Actually, this is a pretty good age for movie stars/actors (males, anyway).
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Follow Ups
- Better send him some mouthwash. - tinear 16:35:27 02/19/05 (11)
- Re: Okay, okay, there ARE a couple... - Gee LP 19:41:47 02/19/05 (10)
- You're absolutely correct about current females, - tinear 12:13:38 02/20/05 (1)
- Re: I agree! - Gee LP 14:08:44 02/20/05 (0)
- See Penn in Bad Boys, Fast Times, and At Close Range - tinear 12:09:57 02/20/05 (7)
- Re: Do I HAVE to see any more Penn films? - Gee LP 14:18:01 02/20/05 (6)
- At Close Range showed a complete actor in - tinear 04:34:33 02/21/05 (3)
- Re: Bob Dylan's hobo period - Gee LP 10:37:14 02/21/05 (2)
- Re: "...narrow range..."? - rico 02:55:32 02/22/05 (1)
- Re: Rico, what about "I am Sam", too? - Gee LP 10:19:44 02/23/05 (0)
- Yes, you must see All The Kings Men this fall w/Penn starring. *nt* - Road Warrior 17:01:28 02/20/05 (1)
- Re: Yes, I am planning to see All The Kings Men this fall w/Penn starring. *nt* - Gee LP 22:31:32 02/20/05 (0)