IMQ #16 - People in Film - Favorite Male Performance (actor and film)

[Chaplin]

Getting into some good ones here. Your FAVORITE Male performance. Name the actor and the movie.

Tough one, but I really like Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not

Honorable Mentions:
Kenneth Branagh - Much Ado About Nothing
Robert deNiro - Raging Bull
Russell Crowe - The Insider
Cary Grant - North by Northwest
Toshiro Mifune - Seven Samurai
Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Willem Dafoe - Platoon & The Last Temptation of Christ

 

[AzStevenCal]

John Wayne in Big Jake.
Russell Crowe in LA Confidential.
Mel Gibson in Payback.
Denzel and Hackman in Crimson Tide.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II

 

[MrYeahBut]

Eastwood in Unforgiven.
Denzel in Man on Fire
Rod Steiger in Heat of the Night
Always thought Berenger was better in Platoon.
Have to agree with deNiro in Raging Bull

 

[Cheesewater]

Edward Norton - American History X

 

[jf-08]

Sasha Baron Cohen - anything he does
Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption
Alexandre Rodrigues - City of God

 

[Cheesewater]

Billy Connolly - Mrs Brown

 

[Bert]

Jeff Bridges as The Dude ofcourse.


And Chap I cant believe you would bring up Much Ado About Nothing and leave out Keanu!

 

[NJCardFan]

Jim Carrey-Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Harrison Ford-Regarding Henry
Tim Roth-Reservoir Dogs
The entire cast of 12 Angry Men
James Stewart-It's A Wonderful Life
Anthony Perkins-Fear Strikes Out
Charlton Heston-Ben Hur

 

[Chaplin]

Jeff Bridges as The Dude ofcourse.


And Chap I cant believe you would bring up Much Ado About Nothing and leave out Keanu!

In a "Favorite" Male Performance thread?? HA!

 

[Bert]

In a "Favorite" Male Performance thread?? HA!

What was someone thinking when they cast him in that role lol?

 

[Chaplin]

What was someone thinking when they cast him in that role lol?

Keanu definitely wanted to branch out, no question. So why not? He didn't force his way into the movie. He wasn't good in it, but he didn't really hurt it much. I still love the film.

 

[NJCardFan]

Keanu definitely wanted to branch out, no question. So why not? He didn't force his way into the movie. He wasn't good in it, but he didn't really hurt it much. I still love the film.

What was that sappy movie he did when he played a travelling candy salesman who had to pretend to be married to that Mexican girl who's family owned the vineyard? Anthony Quinn was in that. A Walk in the Clouds or something like that.

 

[AzStevenCal]

What was that sappy movie he did when he played a travelling candy salesman who had to pretend to be married to that Mexican girl who's family owned the vineyard? Anthony Quinn was in that. A Walk in the Clouds or something like that.

It was sappy but watchable. Everybody always knocks his acting but I dare anyone to watch I Love You to Death and tell me he didn't act circles around William Hurt.

 

[Bert]

For the record I wasn't trying to start a bash Keanu session, I like Keanu.

he just wouldn't be my first choice for Shakespeare. lol

 

[AzStevenCal]

For the record I wasn't trying to start a bash Keanu session, I like Keanu.

he just wouldn't be my first choice for Shakespeare. lol

He wouldn't be my first choice either, probably not my 1,000th choice. He doesn't have the widest of range but I think he does a solid job with roles in his wheel house.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Robert DeNiro - Midnight Run.

 

[Bert]

Robert DeNiro - Midnight Run.

LOL Midnight Run makes me laugh because I lived in Globe as a kid, and let me tell you our little town was buzzing for that movie to come out.

MIDNIGHT RUN! FILMED HERE IN GLOBE! It was like the biggest thing that ever happened.

 

[MrYeahBut]

LOL Midnight Run makes me laugh because I lived in Globe as a kid, and let me tell you our little town was buzzing for that movie to come out.

MIDNIGHT RUN! FILMED HERE IN GLOBE! It was like the biggest thing that ever happened.

Fill in the blanks... "Here comes 2 words for you... **** *** **** **"

love it!!

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Bruce Dern - Smile

Paul Dooley - Breaking Away
Clark Gable - Saratoga
Paul Newman - The Long, Hot Summer
James Spader - The Watcher
Sidney Poitier - Lillies of the Field
James Garner - Murphy's Romance
Paul Henreid - Now Voyager

The cast of Zodiac

 

[Hoop Head]

Tom Hardy - The Drop

Michael Douglas - Falling Down
Colin Farrell - In Bruges
Woody Harrelson - Natural Born Killers

 

[Bada0Bing]

Russell Crowe - Gladiator

 

[oaken1]

Clint Eastwood- The Outlaw Josey Wales

Russel Crowe- Gladiator

Dustin Hoffman- Rain Man

Tom Hanks- Forrest Gump

Bruce Willis- Armageddon(Go ahead and scoff...dude made me snivel like a lil'girl in this one..probably his best work)

 

[Shane]

Tom Hanks: Castaway and Forest Gump

Val Kilmer: Tombstone

Will Smith: Concussion

 

[Covert Rain]

This is so hard and impossible. There are so many GREAT ones. Here are just a few:

De Niro - Taxi Driver
Hoffman - Rain Man
Hanks - Forrest Gump
Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Williams - Fisher King
Denzel Washington - Malcom X
Ledger - The Dark Knight
Brando - Godfather
Jamie Foxx- Ray
Nicholsen - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York