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Three Great Movie For Every Actor

posted 19 years ago by BillTucker1975
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All actors in there life only get three great movies but you can pick for yourself which one's they are. People like Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin only get one and it's not Bio - Dome. my choice would be Son In Law and Suspects. Cloak & Dagger and Short Time for Coleman, he only gets two but I know one day there will be a third for him.
Some movies you like to see over and over again but others like Suspects are only good for one sitting. I want to know what you think about different actors and there three great movies? This week's actor Sarah M. Geller

[–] muvphreek 18 years ago

You can add Nine to Five for Coleman in my opinion.

James Garner: (All Westerns, kinda...)
-Maverick, with Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster
-Support Your Local Sheriff
-Sunset, with Bruce Willis

Lee Marvin: Only 1
-The Dirty Dozen, of course!

Humphrey Bogart (I think these are his best three...)
-Casablanca
-To Have and Have Not
-The Maltese Falcon

Keanu Reeves gets 1 franchise and 2 movies
-The Matrix
-Chain Reaction
-Speed

And lastly, my three favs with Robert Redford:
-All the President's Men
-Sneakers
-Three Days of the Condor
(Thought Butch & Sundance STUNK!)

That's all I can think of right now...

Muvphreek, Pronounced Movie Freak

[–] doodleboy 17 years ago

dude, i wouldn't normally respond to a year-old post, but i gotta say, you really short-changed Lee Marvin, and most of these other guys.

He's on the definitive badass tough guys ever. Point Blank is a definitive movie for both him and its genre. He was Liberty Valance (a menacing badass villian in a great movie), and he great was in Cat Ballou - he won an oscar for that, too. Great comedy.

What, no Bill and Ted for Keanu? Defining performance that generations love.

Most people would throw Treasure of the Sierra Madre up there for Bogart, especially over to Have and Have Not. That movie is ok, but Treasure and The African Queen are all-time classic performances and films.

Redford had plenty of good movies, including The Sting (Best Picture for its year), Butch Cassidy, which was excellent, and the ultra-quality Jeremiah Johnson, as well as other oscar-bait pics like Out of Africa.

[–] muvphreek 17 years ago

OK, ya got me on Lee Marvin and Cat Ballou. I guess my omission there could be called a "senior moment." I beg forgiveness. However, I didn't think he was all that good in Point Blank. In fact, I thought his "tough guy" personna was over-used, and badly at that.

Bill and Ted was ok, but not one of Keanu's best IMO. Maybe its because I just didn't like the movie. I still think his three best were the one's I picked. Speed is, hands down, his best. Chain Reaction throws him up against the incomparable Morgan Freeman who really brings out Keanu's best. (BTW: Fred Ward as the FBI Agent seemed a bit out of place to me.) And of course, the Matrix franchise is what made Keanu a super star.

I thought about Treasure for Bogey, but I so much enjoy watching To Have and Have Not, even though its nothing like the book. How could he not shine with "Betty" Bacal and Hoagy Carmichael to provide beauty and musical talent while Walter Brennan shines as the comic side-kick? It was magic!
Yes, African Queen was a finalist for me and another one of Bogey's I think he did well in is Action in the North Atlantic opposite Raymond Massey, but he's better in the ones I picked, IMO. Especially Casablanca! Wow! It was so hard picking Bogey's three best...

The Sting was a good Redford movie but I thought Newman the better actor in it, so I didn't choose it for Bob. In the 3 I picked, he had a number of well-known costars, but he clearly out-shone them all.

And I want ot add Sylvester Stallone:
-Assassins (opposite Antonio Banderas with Julianne Moore)
-Demolition Man (With Sandra Bullock and don't forget Wesley Snipes, one of HIS better roles, IMO)
-Tango & Cash (With Kurt Russell and Teri Hatcher... oh yeah, and throw in Jack Palance and Brion James as the bad guys.)

He had some strong costars in those films and they seemed to bring out Sly's best.

[I know you're gonna disagree with me on Sly, so go ahead and tell me what your three chocies would be for him. I do want to know.]

In closing I thank God I was born in America, I thank my teachers I can read and I thank U.S. soldiers I can read English. 'nuf said!

Muvphreek (Trivia 4 Fun 8-10PM Eastern Sat & Sun Yahoo Pyramids Har-wer game room TONs-O-FREE fun!)

[–] tamaraleigh 15 years ago

Yep...gotta agree with Nine to Five along with this one as one of Coleman's best! Both a real hoot1!