The guy has been in a lot of good to great movies.
Fight Club
Snatch
Se7en
12 Monkeys
Ocean's Eleven
Interview with the Vampire
Thelma & Louise
Inglourious Basterds
12 Years a Slave
Fury
Moneyball
The Big Short
I have to tolerate him because he is in two greatest David Fincher movies (Se7en and Fight Club). He almost ruined single handedly 12 Monkeys for me, though. But maybe it wasn't his acting, but Terry Gilliam's directing.
Not a fan of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, but in Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood he was ok.
He acts the same quite often but he's been in too many good ones.
shareHis team gets their choice of the best scripts and directors, so I'd hope he's been in quality films. I've never found him to be all that impressive, but he's OK. In most of the movies on this list, he's a supporting actor. It's not until you get to IWTV where he's the lead (amusingly, he got second billing to the bigger star and vowed to never again take on the "bitch" role). He hasn't been as able to carry a movie like Washington or Cruise or DiCaprio. Which is fine, but it's weird he's considered a gigantic movie star, especially since his films have never been wildly successful at the box office.
shareI pretty much agree. He's generally passable as an actor, and even good at times, but he's lucky to be in the movies that he's in. I don't put him anywhere near my favourite actors, but I'd put multiple of his films among my favourites.
shareSe7en, yeah.
shareInglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood certainly belong on this list, as do Burn After Reading and The Mexican, and while he had but a tiny role, I think it's fair to add True Romance, too.
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