Comments on: Who Is The Best American Actor?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:13:12 +0000

Donnie Brasco was a great performance by Pacino. One of his best. He’s great in The Insider as well. And his Shylock in The Merchant of Venice was inspiring. He’s passable in Insomnia. But for every one of his good performances, you have movies where he is phoning it in and awful. Like S1m0ne or The Recruit or Gigli or 88 Minutes or Righteous Kill or… you get the picture.

By: Jc

Jc — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:52:04 +0000

The publisher isn’t that knowledgeable about acting.

1. Pacino’s work since 1992 has been extraordinary. Donnie Brasco? The Insider? Insomnia? Angels in America? I’ll leave out YDKJ because this list was made in 2008.

2. De Niro actually has considerable range. He was good in Meet the Parents and the first Analyze movie was good as well.

3. I’m personally not a fan of him, but Denzel Washington is the second most technically skilled actor on this list. He’s played weak characters (The Manchurian Candidate), he’s one of the only American actors that has gone and done Shakespeare and the like. Your argument against him is weak and ignorant.

4. Gene Hackman is probably my third of fourth favorite on here, but he has the least amount of range of all the actors listed…

By: Zarathustra

Zarathustra — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:00:32 +0000

A short post, I’d like to debate this out once! And Why did you not even include Marlon Brando! Hackman surely is brilliant, I think Brando is better (Not A fanboy), and I place HAckman 3rd on my list, but solely because well I immensely enjoy Jacks presence, it is just stupendous and the voice! But thats personal bias. My only argument is the non-existence of Brando on this list…

By: MovieFan

MovieFan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:06:17 +0000

HAckman is definately the best, most consistent, never has a false moment, can do comedy and dramas with ease, elevates weak material. He doesnt get teh credit he deserves but im glad he has on this website.

By: connor

connor — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:43:15 +0000

everyone what about sylvester stallone!!!

you put this great actors because you have seen them in many gangster films, but when you really think of it you cant really name ten movies what al picino or the others have been in, besides they are good actors no thought about it but sylvester stallone has written his own movies!!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:04:34 +0000

Brando is magnificent, but if you read the beginning more closely you’ll see that the argument and conversation is about the Best American Actor alive. Last time I checked, Brando was busy pushing up the daisies. But if we were to expand the conversation to living and dead actors, you can be sure that Brando would be at the top of the list.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:02:29 +0000

So you’re not a fan of good teeth? Is dental hygiene the new breeding ground for latent racism? Would you still cry racism if you knew that I wasn’t white? Actually, my people do have a bit of latent cultural racism as seen in our choice of toothpaste which you can find here.

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By: Jacques Pugh

Jacques Pugh — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:14:16 +0000

Although, I agree with you on many counts about your list of great American acotrs, both the manner in which couched your comments about Denzel, and what you said specifically, especially the “teeth” comment which harkens one back to minstrel times, indicate that you are, if not overtly, racist – latently racist.
Think about, and then, perhaps seek out an effective therapist to help you with this increasingly silly, and archaic, social pathology.

By: JBrown

JBrown — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:41:19 +0000

It’s pretty well-known in Hollywood among the best that Brando is and always will be the king.

Here’s a quote from Jack Nicholson on the topic:

“So I mean it when I say that if you can’t appreciate Brando, I wouldn’t know how to talk to you. If there’s anything obvious in life, this is it. Other actors don’t go around discussing who is the best actor in the world, because it’s obvious – Marlon Brando is.”

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:31:45 +0000

Ok. Mentioning Night Moves as one of Gene Hackman’s best roles.