Who'sthe best actor?

[thepaulo]

OuentinTarentino
Kevin Smith
Spike Lee
M. Night Shyamalan

[PapaBear]

I vote for M. Night. He acted like someone who could make more than one good movie, and his performance was good enough to fool Hollywood.

[Yerdaddy]

OuentinTarentino
Kevin Smith
Spike Lee
M. Night Shyamalan

I enjoy QT's performances the most but I'd hardly call them good acting. It's the writing.

I think they're all bad actors, which takes nothing away from their directing - the first three are great and Shamalamadingdong has been very good and very bad.

Scorsese is a better actor than all of them, but still not very good - he just makes a great cameo, especially in Taxi Driver.

I'm not even that impressed with the acting of John Huston, although the only role I really remember was in Chinatown. I think that's a better example of casting as his creepy old man look and mannerisms suited the role of a megamillionaire who knocked up his own daughter, but still his effectiveness is probably more for the cameo effect of having the director of The Maltese Falcon tunring up in the best revival of film noir to date. But cameo-nostalgia-creepy effects aside his Noah Cross isn't that believable in my opinion. The difference between good and bad detective stories - and films - is realism, as Chandler expressed in The Simple Art of Murder. Noah Cross is the only character that I didn't really find believable in that movie, however much I like him in it. (I've been reading literary criticizm lately; sorry to bore-ass.)

Thing about this topic though is that it point out that actors make better directors than vise-versa:

Who's the best director of these actors:

Clint Eastwood
John Turturo
Kevin Costner
Steve Buscemi
Mel Gibson
George Clooney
Sydney Pollack
Robert redford
Woody Allen
Penny Marshall
Ron Howard
...

[oh_kee_pa]

Clint Eastwood
John Turturo
Kevin Costner
Steve Buscemi
Mel Gibson
George Clooney
Sydney Pollack
Robert redford
Woody Allen
Penny Marshall
Ron Howard
...

yea, trick question...
but my vote is probably.....
yea i got nothing

[King Hippos Bandaid]

QT all the Way

:king:

[donnie_darko]

Quentin definitely writes himself the most interesting roles.

and he always manages to say "Nigger"

[torker]

Spike Lee as Mookie in Do the Right Thing is the best performance out of this group. In general, these guys are too self-conscience when they appear on screen.

[buzzard]

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[The Silencer]

QT :smoke:

[JimBeam]

Kevin Smith is easily the more likeable.

Tarantino's characters are always too over the top.

[BoondockSaint]

OuentinTarentino
Kevin Smith
Spike Lee
M. Night Shyamalan


You should be on the list, Paul. From what I've seen I think you'll be bridging the Gap to an Oscar. Geh geh geh

[thepaulo]

The first four I mentioned are hardly actors and it shows.....
Then Yerdaddy brings up the Actor/Director....and there are tons of them....
Paul Mazursky
Mark Rydell.....

of course a big one is Warren Beatty who is great Producer as well as a great Director

then there's Penny Marshall's ex husband....Rob "Meathead" Reiner
and his dad, Carl Reiner

and then you can go back in time to one of the earliest successful women directors, Ida Lupino....

but the big one......the biggest fattest most revered movie actor/genius director of them all

is of course......


ORSON WELLS

[scottinnj]

Who's the best director of these actors:

Clint Eastwood
John Turturo
Kevin Costner
Steve Buscemi
Mel Gibson
George Clooney
Sydney Pollack
Robert redford
Woody Allen
Penny Marshall
Ron Howard
...


Wow, good list! I'd have to say.......tied between Clint and George

[scottinnj]

Scorsese is a better actor than all of them, but still not very good - he just makes a great cameo, especially in Taxi Driver.


Best cameo of a director in his own film, Francis Ford Coppola-as the producer directing the Air Cav soldiers after they landed on the beach:

"Just go past the camera like you're fighting! LIKE YOU'RE FIGHTING!"

[bobsnin]

I'll say Spike just for Mars Blackman

[thejives]

From the first list I would say Spike Lee.
At least I think he has the best stage presence.

From the second list ... I'll go with Steve Buscemi.
He has the most experience and range (of miserable loner characters).

But what about this list. Who's the best actor out of these singers:

Mariah Carey
Mandy Moore
Jennifer Lopez
Lindsay Lohan
Queen Latifa

[SinA]

the question is not who, but what?

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[thepaulo]

there are lots of actors who become novelist but very few novelists who become actors.....
Truman Capote and Gore Vidal both showed up in movies....I think Norman Mailer might have even wrote, directed and starred in one.......

but like i say actors always try and write.....

for instance, Ethan Hawke just directed and starred in an adaptation of his novel.....
so it's Ethan Hawke Actor-Novelist-Director-Screenwriter

now if he could only start writing music...

[clarkgrizzwald]

Spike Lee

His performance in Malcolm X was pretty damn good not to mention She's got to have it.

[barjockey]

I gotta give it to Clint

[Yerdaddy]

Best cameo of a director in his own film, Francis Ford Coppola-as the producer directing the Air Cav soldiers after they landed on the beach:

"Just go past the camera like you're fighting! LIKE YOU'RE FIGHTING!"

Not to sound like a Nancy Know-it-all but Scorsese talked about shooting his wife in the pussy, and Terentino coined the phrase "Dead Nigger Storage".

But I'll give you a change to top me with this category: Best Acting in a Cameo By a Director's Mother:

Beat the Zucker Brothers' mother as the woman who smears lipstick all over her face in Airplane!

From the first list I would say Spike Lee.
At least I think he has the best stage presence.

From the second list ... I'll go with Steve Buscemi.
He has the most experience and range (of miserable loner characters).

But what about this list. Who's the best actor out of these singers:

Mariah Carey
Mandy Moore
Jennifer Lopez
Lindsay Lohan
Queen Latifa

My second list was best director of those actor-turned-directors. Buscemi is a really good director though. Trees Lounge is the best movie about alcoholism since The Lost Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives.

Your list: Queen Latifa

I'll throw out some more music-to-acting stars:
Mark Whalberg
Ice Cube
Ice T
Mick Jagger's had some good roles.
David Bowie in Labyrinth of course and played an outstanding Andy Warhol in Basquiat, among other roles.
Jewel showed off some fine acting talent and her perfectly-cast Civil War teeth in Ride With the Devil.

My favorite = Dwight Yokam - Absolutely phenominal in his first role in Sling Blade. And he's been real good in The Minus Man and Panic Room and some other shit.

Cameos:
Chris Isak played the SWAT team leader in Silence of the Lambs.
Corey Glover, lead singer of Living Color, shared a foxhole with Sheen in Platoon and had the line at the end getting carried off on a stretcher"... we gonna get hi-igh!"

This is a whole other thread isn't it?

[A.J.]

But I'll give you a change to top me with this category: Best Acting in a Cameo By a Director's Mother:

Beat the Zucker Brothers' mother as the woman who smears lipstick all over her face in Airplane!

Estelle Reiner in "When Harry Met Sally".

"I'll have what she's having."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/WhenHarryMetSallyIllhavewhatsheshaving.jpg

[AJDELAWARE]

Kevin Smith, just because he usually plays roles as opposed to cameos.

I know QT is the cool kids answer, but the dude really isn't a great actor. He just talks really fast and it kind of wows you, but with a few exceptions, he rarely has to show any sort of emotional range (hes usually just angry.)

But that being said, ist not like Silent Bob is the epitome of Oscar worthy director cameos.

[A.J.]

But I'll give you a change to top me with this category: Best Acting in a Cameo By a Director's Mother:

Beat the Zucker Brothers' mother as the woman who smears lipstick all over her face in Airplane!

Estelle Reiner in "When Harry Met Sally".

"I'll have what she's having."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/WhenHarryMetSallyIllhavewhatsheshaving.jpg

And I almost forgot Katherine Scorsese in "Goodfellas". She was also funny in "Casino".

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[Beelzebub]

Great director... John Cassavetes and also actor who punched The Gipper.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MfqhByIba4

[zerothehero]

Great director... John Cassavetes and also actor who punched The Gipper.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MfqhByIba4

That was one of the most fake movie punches ever.

[Recyclerz]

I vote for M. Night. He acted like someone who could make more than one good movie, and his performance was good enough to fool Hollywood.

:clap::thumbup:
How does this thread get to Page Two without PapaBear getting props for that answer?

[barjockey]

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[ralphbxny]

I say the best director and actor is Ron B....for directing that crew everyday and acting like the show is going good!

[RADIO-SHARK]

John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Deniro, And The Guy Who Directed China Town,slept With A 13yr Old,left The U.s, Manson Family Killed His Wife, Was Also In Fearless Vampire Killers, What The Hell Is His Name?...

[RADIO-SHARK]

Small Guy, Beady Eyes, Big Nose, French I Think????....

[thepaulo]

Roman Polanski who just did some very weird acting in Rush Hour 3.....

[suggums]

if we're including directors that primarily were actors, brando has them all beat

[clarkgrizzwald]

Roman Polanski who just did some very weird acting in Rush Hour 3.....

Was it me or were they having fun with his... ummm shall we say... checkered past

[thepaulo]

Brando took over the direction on One Eyed Jacks after Kubrick dropped out and then that was it....If Brando had real ambition to be a director it would have been amazing....But he was already being beset by an inner anarchy...that time and time again threatened to sabotage his career.....

I still wince at the way he tortured Frank Oz on The Score.....

[thepaulo]

this is insane.....I mentioned Norman Mailer in passing as a director.....then i see the Harvard film archive is featuring the cinema of Norman Mailer including the two films he directed and co-starred with Rip Torn.....

Just shows it is impossible to know the full scope of film....It was in the back of my head, half forgotten, and then Harvard shows me what an idiot i am.....

[thepaulo]

sean penn directed Into the Wild

actor Larry Fessenden directed the Last Winter

both out this week


(I know, I know...who the fuck is Larry Fessenden....He was the crazed killer in the convenience store in The Brave One)

[Yerdaddy]

Spike Jonze in Three Kings

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"I don't really have a day job, sir."