underappreciated performances
underappreciated performances
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#2re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 1:11amToni Collette in THE HOURS.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 1:25amEveryone hates the film, even the cast, but I truly feel that Malcolm MacDowell gave his best performance in CALIGULA. He had the perfect take on the Roman emperor: Cunning, charming, psychopathic. Some may complain that he was merely repeating his performance from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE but I would disagree. The performances are similar, yes, but where Alexander DeLarge was a naive innocent, Caligula is older, wiser, and even more insane. The fact that his performance showed through at all despite Bob Guccione's hack job in the editing room is truly a testament to how wonderful MacDowell is in this role.
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#4re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 1:32amI look no further back than last year and Michael Sheen's brilliant performance in The Queen. Helen Mirren won every award imaginable, and deservedly so, but Michael Sheen was definitely her equal and should have been nominated for everything along with her. I'm afraid the same thing may happen with the film of "Frost/Nixon". Langella will take all the honors, and Sheen will get some great notices, but no awards or nominations. Great actor!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 2:02amJames MacIvoy in The Last King Of Scotland. While Forrest Whitaker took home all the praise for the film, it really is the story of the doctor, and I think MacIvoy's performance got overshadowed by the bombastic personality of Whitaker's character. But I was so taken in by MacIvoy's performance that I was really quite disappointed to realize that the character was largely fictional.
#6re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 2:18amCouldn't agree more about Toni Collette in THE HOURS, I'd have voted for her to get an Oscar nod, she just gave one of those scene-stealer supporting roles that only have one scene and yet help make the movie.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#7re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 2:29amRAY: What'd you think of William Hurt in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE?
#8re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 3:24amI've yet to see HISTORY OF VIOLENCE though everyone keeps recommending it to me.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#9re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 4:49amTammy Grimes in "Can't Stop The Music". She was very funny.
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#11re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 3:58pmI would hardly call Julie Christie's performance in Darling, underappreciated. I think it was overappreciated. Besides, she won a Best Actress Oscar for it!If that isn't appreciation, then I don't know what is. The same year, she starred in a film that contained an underappreciated performance from both she and Rod Taylor, Young Cassidy.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 4:22pm
John Cazale in DOG DAY AFTERNOON, or basically John Cazale in just about anything. His Sal in DOG DAY is one of my very favorite screen performances. He's dim and scary and pathetic, never more so than when he answers Pacino's question about what foreign country they should go to by saying "Wyoming."
A terribly under-rated actor, criminally never nominated for an Oscar, his premature death was a very great loss.
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#14re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 5:45pmI just watched "Almost Famous" again the other night, and while I still think Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand gave great performances, I was really taken with Jason Lee's.
#15re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 9:23pmI think Donald Sutherland is rather overshadowed in Ordinary People by Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton, but he still gives a brilliant performance.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 11:09pm
G., I think you met the real guy behind Chris Sarandon's character. John Cazale played Sal, Al Pacino's partner in the robbery, who does not survive.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#17re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 11:26pmI just happened to pop Mrs. Doubtfire in the other day after not having seen it for awhile, and I really have to say Pierce Brosnan does a great job. His reactions are absolutely priceless and wonderfully subtle, as opposed to nearly everyone else chewing the scenery.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/23/07 at 11:32pmLoretta Swit's groundbreaking performance as Princess Puffer in EDWIN DROOD. I still have dreams about it.
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#20re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/24/07 at 2:26amMena Suvari in American Beauty.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#21re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/24/07 at 3:04amDefinitely, Ravioli. She and Chris Cooper were the best things about that movie.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#22re: underappreciated performances
Posted: 7/24/07 at 8:39amActually, Dolly, Loretta Swit's hysterical performance in S.O.B., is completely underappreciated.
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