Nicolas Cage is a fine actor, but some of the roles he's been taking lately are baffling.

Yes, you're right there but he still was good I felt in the Weatherman and was solid in Lord of War(I believe the title is?).

 

But yeah, I didn't even see Next, and I had the misfortune of see him in two crappy adaptations of things I enjoyed prior to Hollywood getting it's hands on. Wickerman(one of the best horror films IMO), and Ghost Rider.

 

I loved the Weatherman. Thats one of my favorite movies of the last few years. Doesn't try to be anything more than a nice little dark comedy, but Nicolas Cage puts on a great performance.

 

Can I just say I think Gary Oldman is one of the better actors of our time, and he needs some better roles stat.

 

 

As for Denzel, he's great but he has no range whatsoever. He does "Angry black man fighting for justice" extremely well, but he hasn't really done any roles besides that that have been all that noteworthy. Training Day was one of the worst performances to win a best actor role.

 

The Weather Man was a very underrated movie. I really enjoyed it. Kind of disappointing that the director Gore Verbinski can make a great little movie like this and even The Ring and then turn around and make absolute trash in the POTC series.

Weatherman is an awesome movie

 

What kind of name is Spritz? Thats a bulls*** name. He's bulls***. He's an a**hole. I don't like his face. His a**hole face.

 

 

 

 

Oldman is the man.. Him in Leon = effing awesome

He's not American, but he IS the greatest living actor:

As far as active actors go, my vote goes to Ed Norton. He has an incredible range and every role he has played has been near perfect. That and he has been blessed with/picked some great roles during his career.

I am a big fan of Ed Norton too. I would also like to throw in Tom Hanks [talk about range!]. I think one actor being overlooked is Hillary Swank. She is really an amazing talent. It's too bad she hasn't been getting better scripts.

I don't even remember if I posted in this thread, but I'd go with Johnny Depp or Tom Hanks.