Mark Wahlberg has been joking that sharing a screen with a teddy bear has been easier than doing
so with other actors, the star referring to his role...
Not exact matches
Few have acknowledged an alternate understanding (Fareed Zakaria being one exception) which argues that Iran is acting rationally, calculating costs and benefits, but not necessarily doing
so with the same goals or values as
other actors.
This is especially
so in the case of Syria,
with multiple non-state armed groups interacting
with each
other, multiple foreign state
actors, and no legitimate government.
Like the directors that
so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among
others)
so often did
with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the
actor / director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a film.
The
actors put it all across
with flair — especially Bateman and McAdams, who complete each
other's thoughts
so gracefully that they really do seem as if they've been married forever, and Plemons, who steals every scene he's in through deft underplaying.
It's a lot of fun to see all these characters interacting
with each
other, and there's a tremendous amount of meta - humor involved (
actors recurring in different roles, people casting embarrassed glances at the fourth wall, and
so on).
Even as characters are tweaked and
actors bring a slightly different energy than his
other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation
with drama
so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.
The lead
actors are typecast,
with Ferrell being goofy SNL - style, Vince Vaughn doing the loudmouth jackass thing he did
so well in Swingers and Made and Luke Wilson acting as the straight man like in Bottle Rocket or Legally Blonde, but the refreshing thing is how the three play off each
other.
So while White, Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Victor Garber, Kristin Chenoweth, and
other reliable
actors do their best
with You Again, they can't do much beyond shining some bright spots on a dull surface.
Yet unlike
so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting
actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist
with each
other.
In fact, there aren't any
other actors with the necessary talent in
so many different spheres.
There's not much in the way of character for anyone to work
with, save our torturer, and
so the
other actors need only fix one pained expression on their faces and wait to die, disappear, or be rescued.
I sat down
with the real - life heroes, now
actors, to discuss the fascinating concept of them playing themselves, what they learned about themselves and each
other after doing
so, and what the film says about bringing a community together to conquer despair.
So by the time we got ready to shoot Lincoln, and I had spent the time
with the
other actors, most of my work was
with everybody else,
with Tommy Lee Jones,
with Joseph Gordon - Levitt,
with Sally Field,
with David Strathairn, who plays Secretary of State Seward, because we hadn't spent that time discussing this together.
Adams» response was
so deeply - felt as to be difficult to watch, but it speaks to the depth of the connection that Philip Seymour Hoffman created
with other actors.
Lara Croft does not emerge as a person
with a personality, and the
other actors are also ciphers, but the movie wisely confuses us
with a plot
so impenetrable that we never think about their personalities at all.
All of the
other actors do their best
with the material they are given (particularly Shaye, who has never been more fun), but they can only do
so much
with Dekker's script, which unfortunately does them no favors.
Padukone has chemistry
with pretty much every
other actor besides Diesel, but this is his show,
so we're supposed to be invested in the romantic sparks that he fails to generate.
If Owen is the standard to which all
other performances must rise Foster proves to be the bare minimum you can get away
with, playing a character
so deeply rooted in some ethical and moral grey area you're not sure if she's being intentionally vague or if the
actor ever believed in the part.
With two
other projects in play this year as well, 2015 is quite possibly going to be the year of Gyllenhaal,
so he's my early pick right now to take home Best
Actor.
I would say that I was pretty blessed that my first day had Ed Begley Jr. and Harry Dean together,
so I was in really good and seasoned hands
with people who were not only great
actors but who knew each
other really, really well and knew the material really, really well.
The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to,
with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along
with Sangster are the only
actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason
other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and
so on.
While none of Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum or any of the
other names in the film has the drawing power that Roberts did in 2000, the fact that
so many recognizable
actors were assembled for the same film made them a type of collective draw — a fact which the film's marketers seized upon
with highly colorful promotional posters highlighting the above names and many more.
But I loved working
with a cast of such a high caliber: Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper, and
so many
other great
actors.
And the deaths of
actors like Shepard, Della Reese, Jerry Lewis, Martin Landau, Harry Dean Stanton, and
so many
others, all of them legends, were especially poignant for me in a year that was also rife
with fresh discoveries, the faces I hope to see carrying Hollywood's legacy forward.
I can't think of any
other actor of his stature
so generous
with his costars,
so content to cede center stage.
We've seen plenty of
other trailers for Dunkirk
so far, but it's cool that they're promoting this
with a discussion among the
actors talking about making this film.
In the
other major categories, John Hawkes won best
actor in the deeply moving The Sessions for his brilliant and sensitive portrayal of a severely disabled man who, as a virgin, decides to hire a sex surrogate
so he can experience the joys of intimacy
with a woman.
But The Death Cure
actor who is done the biggest disservice by sharing the screen
with so many
others is Goggins, who gives a brief but truly memorable performance as Lawrence.
I wish every
other director except Sergio Leone who ever worked
with Steiger had been able to
so constructively get the
actor to dial it down.
So we were able to draw from the experiences of each
other as
actors and the time that Pen, Paul, or any of us spent
with the people, or talking
with J.C., or meeting J.C.'s dad, who was on set
with us for a couple of days.
There are times when I laughed at a random line here or there
so it's not one of the year's worst, but audiences deserve better than a movie that simply replicates clichés from
other movies, ties them in a neat package
with a few solid
actors and then says it's something new.
Some shots will never be rid of their overexposed softness, but
others look as good as any classic western,
with detail
so fine you can see the contrast of real dirt caked over fake blood, or the excessive bronzer applied to white
actors playing Native Americans (a sadly ubiquitous sight in the genre and a compromise to standards in the otherwise full - throated subversion of racist Hollywood tradition).
What we know
so far is that the film is led by Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman,
with a whole bunch of
other name and character
actors in supporting parts that may or may not have been cut via Malick's notoriously ruthless editing process, in the tale of an insecure womanizer who tries to find himself.
The director and his DP, Harris Savides, shot the movie largely on digital, but the film
so often favours steady, patiently held compositions that allow its
actors to move around within the frame and interact
with each
other, showing spatial relations in much the same way that Fincher is drawing connections between the facts of the case.
It seemed that the voice
actors delivered all of their lines individually without having the benefit of working
with the
other voice
actors so that conversations seemed more organic.
Sure, we'd focus on trying to match
actors and directors up
with the correct films to snag that award, but when it came to every
other award we both had amazing casts,
so most of the time the winner came down to luck.
You
other so called «MGS Fans» that are okay
with a new voice
actor, can just deal it.
I've done voice set mods for a lot of RPGs now over the years and a few
other kinds of games in my spare time (all the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games, Neverwinter Nights, Temple of Elemental Evil, and several more), and I've spent a lot of time
with other audio files (mostly getting
other games» audio files
so that I can use them for custom voice sets; I like to use my favorite voice
actors, Nolan North and Roger Craig Smith, as player voice sets in RPGs).
We're making use of techniques like performance capturing -
so we get really good physical performances from
actors along
with their facial expressions and voices and their interaction
with other actors - to build a game that has a really strong narrative component that isn't just a highly replayable shooter.