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For me it’s Karl Urban, Angelica Houston, Ryan Gosling, Tilda Swinton, Gary Oldman, and Jeff Bridges. Honorable Mention to Weird Al Yankovich.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was Heath Ledger.

Now I’m just sad :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, A Knights Tale is just so good. Where I first saw Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm trudging

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We shall grieve together.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Willem Dafoe. The man has never delivered a bad performance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And boy some of them are WILD. Maybe even most. LOL

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tom Cruise, Christian Bale, Jake Gylenhaal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tom Cruise gets a lot of hate, but he's an amazing actor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cruise is one of those actors who is good if the role is within his range. I think it's fair to say he is an okay actor at best, but AMAZiNG for choosing his roles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like Cruise and especially in his latter years has really gotten a knack for understanding good scripts in the Action/SciFi genre. If he decides to be in the movie, it’s a good chance it’s going to be good. Edge of Tomorrow, THM, MI have been excellent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yup. I'm a straight man, but he is objectively beautiful. Also a very good (underated?) actor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Mads Mikkelsen

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed on Karl Urban and Gary Oldman. Probably Tilda Swinton too.

Also Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Rockwell, Judi Dench, Anna Kendrick and Jean Reno. And likely more...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Johnny Depp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My first choice would be Leonardo DiCaprio.

First of all he is a great actor, who consistently delivers good performances. But besides that he is also very picky with his projects, while at the same time apparently getting offered almost everything Hollywood has to offer. So I know it'll also be a strong script.

Unlike for example Nicolas Cage who can definitely act, but over his career has taken on a mixed bag of movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but there are also few people who have been in the sheer VOLUME of films that Nicholas Cage has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, and he arguably always seems to try and not just phone it in occasionally (unlike many other stars with high output). But with high volume it just isn't possible for everything to hit, which is why i couldn't give him a blank check.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Gary Oldman. Olivia Colman. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cate Blanchett. Tommy Lee Jones. Charlize Theron. Val Kilmer. Emily Blunt. Lee Pace. Sydney Sweeney. Walton Goggins. Laura Donnelly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mahershala Ali.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Christopher Walkin

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Jim Carrey, Steve Coogan, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jimmy Stewart, Hugo Weaving, Kristen Wiig, Jemaine Clement, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon. Just looking at that list I realise I probably quite like comedy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ian Tracey.

He was doing mostly bit parts from what I'd seen (X-files, Highlander, Poltergeist: The Legacy, etc, etc) until I caught Intelligence (2005-2007) on early Netflix and from there on I was sold.

I then went back and caught the DaVinci's stuff and enjoyed that.

Then he popped up in Sanctuary, Continuum, and Bates Motel. At this point I know anything I see him in, I'm going to enjoy without fail.

I really should get around to listing the actors whose names I see in the credits and automatically relax and start enjoying myself because I know it'll be good. Matthew MacFayden and Keeley Hawes are two more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mark Wahlberg, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jason Statham, Jason Mantzoukas, (geez that looks like a trend haha).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jason Momoa, Jason Bateman, Jason Segal, Jason Alexander, Jason Voorhees, Jason and the Argonauts, JASON DERULOOOooo!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

JASON! JASON! JASON!

That last one got me good haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Jasons!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, I tried running through the list in my head, and most of them are dead. I'm getting fucking old.

Ed Norton is still alive. Steve Martin. Patrick Stewart. Ian Mckellan.

Fuck, that's about it. And there's no actresses alive on my list. Weeelll, maybe Susan Sarandon, but isn't she semi officially retired? I think she is anyway. I guess you could count Helen Mirren, but I wouldn't go see a movie just because she's in it. I would, however, watch a movie that she's in, even if it isn't a movie I would otherwise be interested in.

If I use that criteria, you can add Ryan Reynolds to the list as well. I'll give his stuff a watch just to see how it is, though I won't go out and hit the theater just because he's in something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think dead ones can still count. I feel that way about Jimmy Stewart and Carrie Grant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I feel that. Danny Kaye, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, and Bette Davis added to those are on my list. Hell, as cheesy as it is, John Wayne too. Not because he was always great, but even when he was just meh, he kinda worked anyway because his screen presence made up for the occasional bad movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hugo Weaving

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Margot Robbie

Florence Pugh

Harry Styles

Zendaya

Tom Holland

Leonardo DiCaprio

Matt Damon

Eliot Page

Bella Ramsey

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peter Falk, Edward G. Robinson, or Patrick McGuigan.

I'm not normally drawn to actors, but I could sit and watch these guys read the phone book, if they were alive and there were phone books still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do LOVE Peter Faulk. I really wish they would reboot Columbo with Mark Ruffalo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ruffalo would be an interesting replacement, but personally I can't see Columbo without Falk.

I could actually see a reboot working too, Ruffalo taking down the ultrarich with gotcha moments at the end -- like him taking down a Musk stand in, or some crypto/A.I. bro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am all the way there for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

steve martin. charlie day. alison brie

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