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Brad Pitt Is The Top Male Actor..Period!


Just a post to support what I believe is the Top Male Actor of my time.From Fight Club to Troy,to The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford,to Inglorious Bastards,to Money Ball,to Killing Them Softly,to World War Z,to 12 Years A Slave,he is as real as an actor can get in portraying the characters he does.Haters can hate,and lovers can loath him,I'm neither,but I am an avid supporter of his work.I just call it like I see It,and when I see actors,that when they portray a character do it in a way that makes you not even see them as an actor,but as that character,I support them.Other actors I support that fit this mold,are actors such as Samuel L. Jackson,John Travolta,Denzel Washington,and several others.People always give him a hard time,because he has the looks,or he has the woman,or he seems cocky,and I say it's because he is from another section of reality that most of us will never understand.That reality is the reality of a major movie star,one who has to prepare for a major role constantly,from growing hair long,or cutting it all off,to becoming that character so much so that we as the audience understand it,or feel for that character.This reality is one that many don't understand,you need only look so far as Heath Ledger to see how immersed an actor can get into portraying characters.I personally appreciate when I see an actor in one movie look a certain way,then 4 months or so later and see the same actor,with maybe a full beard and long hair,or short hair,and I don't mean when they have fake hair,etc applied.This shows how much preparation was taken into portraying that character,and I surely respect that.Say what you will,but Brad Pitt is my pick for Top Male Actor from 1998 on.Thanks C.Young

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Dwayne Johnson a better actor than Brad Pitt? Ha ha ha ha! I can't stop laughing. Dwayne Johnson has the range of navel lint. He's good in action movies, but he's never going to perform Shakespeare.

The very best male actors working in recent memory are Daniel Day-Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Denzel Washington, Ralph Fiennes, Russell Crowe and Collin Firth. I would put Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman in the same class from a pure ability standpoint, but they haven't done anything I would consider great in some time. Likely the scripts they have been offered don't meet the same level of films we have seen from them in the past (in fact, I believe Pacino has referenced this). Jack Nicholson, too. Joaquin Phoenix is a gifted actor, but he's eccentric as hell. He's right there. Liam Neeson and Kevin Spacey are in there, as well, though they haven't done anything on film that's really grabbed me in a while (though Spacey is outstanding on House of Cards.)

Slightly below that tier, I would put Christian Bale, Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Johnny Depp (who frustrates me to no end. Hopefully Depp's forthcoming turn in Black Mass will spur him back to the complex, interesting roles he used to take), Leonardo DiCaprio, Javier Bardem, and the one guy I think will be the actor here before too long, Michael Fassbender. His presence, and abilities, are downright frightening. If there is a worthy successor to Hoffman and Day-Lewis, he's it. I'm torn as to who I'd like to see as the next James Bond-Fassbender and Elba would both be compelling choices. But at the same time, I don't want to see them in the 007 role because while I am a huge fan of the series, the character is limited by precedent, and I'd hate to think that prolonged filming of a Bond movie might cost them the opportunity to do something truly great. Besides, Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Connery, and I'd watch him playing chess with M for two hours. Craig is a fine actor, and I look forward to more of his work after Bond.

There are a few other actors that I've heard good things about, but I haven't seen enough of their film work to comment on where they fall within the acting hierarchy. I've heard people speak highly about Ryan Gossling's abilities, and certainly I want to see more from David Oyelowo and Michael Shannon (so good on Boardwalk Empire!)

Brad Pitt's performances of late have been outstanding. I watched Fury last night, and loved it. He's capable of great things, but needs to continue choosing these same kind of challenging roles to show it. I think he's pretty close to being in that second tier now. A few more turns like Fury, and 12 Years a Slave (which was, admittedly, brief), and he's there.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions-Dag Hammarskjold

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cruise is better...

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He is very talented actor and have been in some great movies.

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