Underrated Actors

[bocomo007]

Yep. He was clearly the best actor in the movie, but it wasn't anywhere near his best performance.

And for a more mainstream guy who seems to get no love despite improving every movie he enters:

Is he ever not the best performer in whatever movie he's in?

Robert Downey Jr. in Natural Born Killers

 

[beardown07]

New thread...how many of the above-mentioned are heroin addicts?....Go!

 

[beardown07]

Robert Downey Jr. in Natural Born Killers

Brilliant.

 

[bocomo007]

Michael Shannon is getting a ton of roles lately.... even watched some piss poor movie called Premuim Rush where he was great as the bad guy...

Good actor...

saw that one too

did you see this

 

[bocomo007]

Also, I like Rufus Sewell, but you never really hear about him.

not since Dark City (for me)

 

[bocomo007]

Ed Norton
Kevin Kline
Colin Firth
Gary Oldman
Tim Roth
Ed Harris
Geoffrey Rush
Viggo Mortensen
Clive Owen
Jim Caviezel
Mark Ruffalo
Gabriel Byrne
Brian Cox

 

[ladyrockess]

not since Dark City (for me)

You don't think he's been good since Dark City or you haven't heard about him since then? I saw him fairly recently in this Masterpiece Mystery series called Zen where he was a detective named Zen. He was good, but I didn't like the plot or the dialogue.

 

[beardown07]

Ed Norton
Kevin Kline
Colin Firth
Gary Oldman
Tim Roth
Ed Harris
Geoffrey Rush
Viggo Mortensen
Clive Owen
Jim Caviezel
Mark Ruffalo
Gabriel Byrne
Brian Cox

 

[beardown07]

rest are great too, but those two are a cut above personally.

 

[bocomo007]

Christian Slater:

 

[bocomo007]

You don't think he's been good since Dark City or you haven't heard about him since then? I saw him fairly recently in this Masterpiece Mystery series called Zen where he was a detective named Zen. He was good, but I didn't like the plot or the dialogue.

haven't seen him

 

[JDM]

Yep. He was clearly the best actor in the movie, but it wasn't anywhere near his best performance.

And for a more mainstream guy who seems to get no love despite improving every movie he enters:

Is he ever not the best performer in whatever movie he's in?

Definitely a great actor. I thought a few in hunger games outperformed him, though. The president, Elizabeth banks, the guy who actually ran the game, all did better with their roles IMO. Maybe it was just that he has done his role in that movie a good few times already, but others were better.

 

[beardown07]

He gets a little cred fer Pump Up The Volume, no? True Romance? Very Bad Things?....Young Guns II?

 

[Berkeley_Blues]

He gets a little cred fer Pump Up The Volume, no? True Romance? Very Bad Things?....Young Guns II?

True Romance for sure. Anyone that says otherwise is a ludicrous waif.

 

[beardown07]

 

[iowajerms]

Paul Rudd
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Jeff Daniels
Bryan Cranston

 

[beardown07]

Paul Rudd
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Jeff Daniels
Bryan Cranston

word

 

[beardown07]

other two are good too...just had to google em' first

 

[iowajerms]

I don't know if these are considered underrated or not but...

Paul Walker
John Malkovich
John Cusack

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Also, I like Rufus Sewell, but you never really hear about him.

Good pick. I hated his guts in A Knight's Tale. Plays a great evil dude.