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11 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Easy on Arnold 

best terminator 1

worst total recall

His best is T2.  “I know now why you cry, but it is something I can never do.”

If you didn’t choke up when he said that, you don’t have a soul.

Christian Bale

Best: The Prestige

Worst: Terminator 4

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10 hours ago, mdmost said:

Mark Wahlberg

Best-Boogie Nights

Worst-everything else except The Departed where he was playing himself. 

Playing himself? Wahlberg is a burly, sloppy dressing cop with a foul mouth? If he were to play himself, it would be a priest that works out every morning at 4am and has never consumed a carb. 

He’s for sure playing somebody from his neighborhood, but not himself. 

 

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I don’t think Hanks has a worst. He’s been in some shitty movie, but his performance always lifts the film. 

edit: Just remembered Elvis. Holy shit. Worst accent in the history of movies. I think he had long Covid while they were filming it. 

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10 hours ago, mdmost said:

Mark Wahlberg

Best-Boogie Nights

Worst-everything else except The Departed where he was playing himself. 

He's great in both Shooter and The Other Guys. 

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41 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I don’t think Hanks has a worst. He’s been in some shitty movie, but his performance always lifts the film. 

edit: Just remembered Elvis. Holy shit. Worst accent in the history of movies. I think he had long Covid while they were filming it. 

Red show diaries?

 

Underrated Tom hanks movie was the money pit

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2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Playing himself? Wahlberg is a burly, sloppy dressing cop with a foul mouth? If he were to play himself, it would be a priest that works out every morning at 4am and has never consumed a carb. 

He’s for sure playing somebody from his neighborhood, but not himself. 

 

No, he's playing a bully, Boston asshole...himself. Say hi to your motha for me. 

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1 hour ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Ed Norton

Fight Club

Italian Job 

I think Primal Fear rivals Fight Club. I’ve also read that he was contractually obligated to be in Italian Job and very much didn’t want to be there. Pretty much mailed in his performance on purpose and it showed. 

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15 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I don’t think Hanks has a worst. He’s been in some shitty movie, but his performance always lifts the film. 

edit: Just remembered Elvis. Holy shit. Worst accent in the history of movies. I think he had long Covid while they were filming it. 

Ladykillers, terminal, everytime he’s Robert Langdon, cloud atlas.

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On 3/15/2024 at 6:39 AM, closetohumping said:

I’ll start

 

Matt Damon- 

Best-Good Will Hunting.  Thought he nailed the role.  Great flick

 

Worst- Legend of Baggar Vance

Really? You're going to start over?

 

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27 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Ladykillers, terminal, everytime he’s Robert Langdon, cloud atlas.

Yeah there are several times Hanks either wasn't very good or was miscast. Esp as Robert Langdon. Reading the books, you'd never think, "Oh yeah. This guy's gonna be played by Tom Hanks".  I'll add Road to Perdition. Not terrible, but not very good, and he just didn't fit imho. And that Tom Parker accent is one of the worst things in the history of cinema.

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1 minute ago, wood said:

Yeah there are several times Hanks either wasn't very good or was miscast. Esp as Robert Langdon. Reading the books, you'd never think, "Oh yeah. This guy's gonna be played by Tom Hanks".  I'll add Road to Perdition. Not terrible, but not very good, and he just didn't fit imho. And that Tom Parker accent is one of the worst things in the history of cinema.

I think he’s good in Road but I agree about not quite fitting the type. He’s obviously one of our greats but he’s made a few weird choices along the way 

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Yeah I watched that very recently and thought he was fantastic. I think part of the film's charm is that he doesn't look like a typical hit-man but that's who he is through and through. Like he just wound up in the wrong line of work. 

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