Underrated Actors/Actress'
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AltarNation
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Brolin was good in the Coen Bros' remake of True Grit too. He is a talented guy, it will be interesting to see where he goes from here.
I've had my eye on Ryan Gosling since he did Drive and Ides Of March. I don't know though, he's iffy. Good potential though. Speaking of Ides Of March, I wish more people would notice how fucking awesome Philip Seymour Hoffman is, though he is pretty sucessful overall. I still feel not that many people know how awesome he is. While I'm on that movie I will say that I think Clooney has come into his own in his later years in a big way. Obviously he is also a very well known actor and might not qualify as underrated, but it definitely depends on who you ask, a lot of people seem to hate him, lol.
Let's see, actually underrated actors... I was just in the netflix thread and I mentioned I've been watching a lot of Matthew Broderick movies. (Watching Godzilla right now!) I feel he qualifies as underrated even though he's really well known. He really bombed in the 90's-00's but has been making new stuff lately that I feel has a lot of meaning and depth to it... and the early stuff from the 80's is quality, as everyone knows.
Shiiiit who else... there are a lot of underrated actors but unfortunately their under-casting tends to make them hard to think of, LOL. How appropriate.
I don't know, there are a LOT of actors that I feel are underrated but still have a lot of notoriety and are well known, like Broderick. Alan Alda has done some interesting stuff later in life. A lot of actors kind of fall off radar later in life after their first big bout of success... but sometimes they come resurfacing like a tiger, haha. And some fall right off the fucking boat and drown. (Adam Sandler...)
I'm a wicked movie buff... love this shit.
I'm a big fan of Jon Krasinski, the guy that played Jim on The Office. I don't know if he qualifies as underrated because obviously he was massively successful and loved as Jim, but I do feel that he has struggled in the movie industry and hasn't really become a well known name in cinema despite his efforts, which tend to kind of fall by the wayside and not quite make it to the A-List even though they're pretty solid.
Same can be said about a lot of other television actors who struggle to break into big film... pigeonholing is an ugly thing unfortunately... a lot of Star Trek TNG's actors were broadway quality, but you don't see them in much after the series because they were solidly pigeonholed. Exception being Patrick Stewart, who I fuckin' love, and certainly is a well known name, but I do feel that most people don't appreciate his acting ability, he's a very talented dude.
I've had my eye on Ryan Gosling since he did Drive and Ides Of March. I don't know though, he's iffy. Good potential though. Speaking of Ides Of March, I wish more people would notice how fucking awesome Philip Seymour Hoffman is, though he is pretty sucessful overall. I still feel not that many people know how awesome he is. While I'm on that movie I will say that I think Clooney has come into his own in his later years in a big way. Obviously he is also a very well known actor and might not qualify as underrated, but it definitely depends on who you ask, a lot of people seem to hate him, lol.
Let's see, actually underrated actors... I was just in the netflix thread and I mentioned I've been watching a lot of Matthew Broderick movies. (Watching Godzilla right now!) I feel he qualifies as underrated even though he's really well known. He really bombed in the 90's-00's but has been making new stuff lately that I feel has a lot of meaning and depth to it... and the early stuff from the 80's is quality, as everyone knows.
Shiiiit who else... there are a lot of underrated actors but unfortunately their under-casting tends to make them hard to think of, LOL. How appropriate.
I don't know, there are a LOT of actors that I feel are underrated but still have a lot of notoriety and are well known, like Broderick. Alan Alda has done some interesting stuff later in life. A lot of actors kind of fall off radar later in life after their first big bout of success... but sometimes they come resurfacing like a tiger, haha. And some fall right off the fucking boat and drown. (Adam Sandler...)
I'm a wicked movie buff... love this shit.
I'm a big fan of Jon Krasinski, the guy that played Jim on The Office. I don't know if he qualifies as underrated because obviously he was massively successful and loved as Jim, but I do feel that he has struggled in the movie industry and hasn't really become a well known name in cinema despite his efforts, which tend to kind of fall by the wayside and not quite make it to the A-List even though they're pretty solid.
Same can be said about a lot of other television actors who struggle to break into big film... pigeonholing is an ugly thing unfortunately... a lot of Star Trek TNG's actors were broadway quality, but you don't see them in much after the series because they were solidly pigeonholed. Exception being Patrick Stewart, who I fuckin' love, and certainly is a well known name, but I do feel that most people don't appreciate his acting ability, he's a very talented dude.
hsfkush
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It is pretty hard to think of some underrated actors with out someone else claiming they're not underrated. I guess it's all a matter of opinion. I find myself sitting there complaining about how overrated the majority of highly commercialised actors are.
There are a couple that spring to mind now that I've thought about it. Tom Hardy(Layer Cake, Inception, Lawless etc) is very good I feel, he plays small roles usually but you just know he's there, he has a certain presence about him.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Colm Meany is someone who was flawless in Layer Cake(he plays Gene) but I haven't seen much of him since. Perhaps he's just been given roles which don't suit his acting personality. I think he makes a great gangster type actor, he has that certain look about him which is made very prominent in Layer Cake.
Lennie James(Snatch, The Walking Dead), he's also a very good actor who's been used in the wrong way. I like his character in The Walking Dead, he does an acceptable American accent, unlike Andrew Lincoln who I'd imagine is an embarrassment to the accent. Every "ing" has to sound like "ang" and it really pisses me off!
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RPM371
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I've been a big fan of Steve Zahn since That Thing You Do. He's one of those guys that you don't know his name but you know his face. He plays Davis on HBO's Treme and has a long list of credits that include National Security, Sahara, Rescue Dawn and Happy, Texas. He teamed up with Timothy Olyphant in A Perfect Getaway. Timothy has been a favorite of mine since Deadwood and I really love his new series Justified.
Both those guys are highly underrated.
Both those guys are highly underrated.