I Had No Idea That Actor Could Actually ACT!
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Movies: The Cutting Room Floor (The Movies Kitchen Sink): People in Film: I Had No Idea That Actor Could Actually ACT!
By Dude on Friday, August 30, 2002 - 2:26 pm:

Has that ever happened to you? You get used to seeing performers that are trapped in typecast hell, then sudenly they manage to squeeze their way into a part that the masses have been conditioned to beleive they simply can't handle, and then WAM, they blow you away with an Oscar worthy performance.

By ScottN on Friday, August 30, 2002 - 2:30 pm:

Tom Arnold -- "True Lies"

By Brian Webber on Friday, August 30, 2002 - 3:15 pm:

Stallone in CopLand.

By Sven of Nine on Friday, August 30, 2002 - 6:32 pm:

Billy Connolly - "Mrs. Brown"

By Lolar Windrunner on Friday, August 30, 2002 - 8:47 pm:

Jim Carrey in The Truman Show

By Merat on Saturday, August 31, 2002 - 11:45 am:

Robin Williams, though cast as only a comic for a very long time, is an EXCELLENT dramatic actor.

By Meg on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 7:32 pm:

Brendan Fraizer- God and Monsters

By Adam Bomb on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 7:10 am:

Taking the opposite approach-Al Pacino has become so bombastic and overacting in his recent films, especially Devil's Advocate and City Hall.

By Michael Conlon on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 1:49 pm:

Over the years, and to my great surprise, I've grown a respect for Adam Sandler as an actor.

By Brian Fitzgerald on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 9:07 pm:

Kirsten Dunst - Crazy Beautiful

By Craig `CR` Rohloff on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 7:19 am:

I thought she (Dunst) was good way back in Interview with a Vampire, but then again, look whom she was acting with.

By Brian Fitzgerald on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 10:55 am:

I didn't see that movie until this year.

By Meg on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 4:04 pm:

Keanu Reeves. Now don't scoff yet. There is one scene in Devil's Advocate, (SPOILER) when his wife stabs herself (END SPOILER) that he acually seems to really give some deep emotional acting. I praise him for that scene,

Unfortnately everything else he's been in he sleepwalks through, including the rest of Devil's Advocate.

By LUIGI NOVI on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 2:16 am:

I'm with you, Meg. Keanu gets a lot of bad smack about his acting, but he does an adequate job as far as I'm concerned. Speed was fun in part because the performances of him, Sandy and Jeff Daniels, I thought he did a very good job in Devil's Advocate, and he was downright SCARY in The Gift, which was otherwise a forgetful movie. He also gets kudos for actually being interested in doing some non-mainstream and stage work, and for choosing to tour with his band rather than do Speed 2, which was a very smart move.

By Scrye on Friday, March 07, 2003 - 12:20 am:

I thought Brad Pitt was very good in 12 Monkeys. For several months I did community service at a daycare center for kids with, ah, mental disabilities, including someone who has whatever mental disorder Pitt's character has. I don't know its name, but Pitt got it down so well I could tell after about two minutes.

By The Spectre on Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 11:43 am:

But if you can't remember what it's called, what good is identifying it?

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