Actors: Search and Destroy

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Let the searching and destroying commence.

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

KeaNU answers!!

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

search: gene hackman, philip seymour hoffman, toshiro mifune.

destroy: tom hanks, robin williams, kevin spacey.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 20 September 2002 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Search Jean Gabin, Brad Dourif, Gloria Grahame (I can't see a separate actresses thread), Fred Ward (not so much for how good he is, but that he is one of the best ever indicators of a film being interesting), Ruth Gordon, Alison Steadman. I'm struggling to think of any I hate. Even Michael's fine nominations above - I liked these people in Big, Mork & Mindy and The Usual Suspects. I am too soft-hearted, or possibly soft-headed.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

bill pullman
andi macdowell
gabriel byrne

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope you're not actually watching that movie, mark.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i have never seen it, only the trailer

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy:
Ben Affleck
Tom Cruise
Micheal Douglas
Kate Hudson
Gywneth Paltrow
Julia Roberts
Winona Ryder
Kevin Spacey

And that's just for starters!

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

search Jennifer Lopez's tough-bitch butch in "Angel Eyes"
destroy Jim Caviezel's stoned-out perf in same
then forget the movie ever existed

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

who's got some stage actors to talk about??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: 1960s Italian slapstick actors Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia.

Destroy: Ralph Fiennes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy:
David Arquette
Drew Barrymore
Nicolas Cage
Jim Carrey
John Cusack
Leonardo DiCaprio
Richard Gere
Mel Gibson
Heather Graham
Ethan Hawke
Jack Nicholson
Meg Ryan
John Travolta

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

don't date them...ever.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I have my way with Ethan Hawke before you destroy him?

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: Sean Penn.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 21 September 2002 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH:
Warren Oates
Harry Dean Stanton
Robert Duvall
L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin (either by themselves or as a pair)
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing ("")
Vincent D'Onofrio and Lee Ermey ("")
John Cassavettes
Klaus Kinsky
Ian Holm
Peter Lorre

DESTROY:
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Cameron Diaz
Leonardo DeCaprio
Tobey MacGuire
Tom Hanks

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuv Bill Murray.

― rainy, Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is so true. who are you people and will you all marry me?

how come i'm the only person i know who cannot stand kevin spacey?

― mbosa, Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

spacey's schtick is reaching david-spade-like depths of involuntary self-caricature that only jack nicholson stands a chance of correcting for him

reach out and touch somebody mbosa

i saw benicio del toro on the street the other day and... he looked exactly like himself! i almost melted into a puddle in my shoes. benicio del toro ES EL SENOR

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: The Finest Actor of His Generation (though we're not exactly sure who is of his generation) - Jeff Bridges.

Destroy: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everrett, Vincent Gallo.

― david h (david h), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

joe- what's wrong with cameron diaz.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What can I say? She hasn't impressed me with her work to date. That smile of hers actually kind of scares me--it looks so goofy and blank, like a cupie doll. Guess I'm in the minority there...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

well, i agree that she has been acting in some stinkers but she's OK. not for the destroy category you know.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"kewpie"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 September 2002 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"kewpie"

D'oh! :)

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

double-destroy Gallo. Jesus Christ, who the hell actually enjoys what he does, anyway? (besides P.J. Harvey, that is....)

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

she's OK. not for the destroy category you know.

Okay, well, we could take her out and replace with Jeff "Eccentric Scientist" Goldblum.

Others in the Search pile:
David Warner
Jack Nance
Dwight Frye
William Forsythe

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I detest almost everything I've heard about Gallo but I thought he was great in Buffalo 66. He looks like he's enjoying what he does.

― P. J. Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

haha ian penman sure has a hardon for that gallo record in the wire a few months back.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

in that case so do i: who are we talking abt again?

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.galloappreciation.com/vgindex.jpg

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

what a looker! < /barf>

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris Barron + Charles Manson = Vincent Gallo

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, I mean looks-wise. Never seen one of his films, and sure the fuck don't want to.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 29 September 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike is, as always, completely OTM.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 29 September 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Search (obvious ones people missed):
Robert De niro
Al Pacino
Brad Pitt
Peter Sellars

destroy:
all others destroyed above
except Jack Nicholson in the Shining
and Jim Carrey (come on! he's awesome and you know it)

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 29 September 2002 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

search:
Gene Wilder
Patrick Stewart
Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)
MICHAEL J. FOX!

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 29 September 2002 03:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike is, as always, completely OTM.

By default. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

buffalo 66 is good tho

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

search (RAWR!!):

elodie bouchez
kate winslet
jane adams

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy:

Christian Slater

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy Christian Slater? Oh, come on, search him just for "These people have nothing to offer the world except date rape and AIDS jokes".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 September 2002 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

sure "kill all goths"...

go ahead and quote HEATHERS

i hate his eyebrows and I hate the way he steals Jack Nicholson's facial expressions. *grins mischievously, squints, and shrugs*

fuckit. i just hate his face.

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Sunday, 29 September 2002 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Vincent Gallo, in that pic, looks a bit like that Scouse actor who got stabbed in Cracker (he was the sarge, I think), was in Our Friends in The North, and was in Strumpet. And was in that anti-joyriding advert that everyone sees in the cinemas, he's the one laughing at the bloodied bodies beside him. Doesn't he?

― david h (david h), Sunday, 29 September 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

christopher ecclestone

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 29 September 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
Catherine Keener
Andrew McCarthy
Crispin Glover
Phil Davis
Michael Gambon
Emily Watson
Emily Mortimer
James Spader
Geoffrey Rush
Gwyneth Paltrow
Ken Stott
Ian Holm
Nicole Kidman

Destroy:
Juliet Stevenson
Anna Friel
Rob Lowe
Helena Bonham-Carter
Lindsay Duncan
Tom Courtenay
Michael Caine
Sean Connery

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 29 September 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

absolutely agree w/ caine and connery here and i don't like paltrow.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 29 September 2002 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Why Caine, Nick? Granted, he's been in more than his share of crap (Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Blame It on Rio, Jaws: The Revenge, Mr. Destiny), but how about: Sleuth w/Olivier, The Man Who Would Be King, Mona Lisa, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Noises Off...

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunno - maybe I've just missed all his good films, but like Connery and Courtenay he just seems to have had one perfect part in the 60s (in his case, Alfie) and somehow drifted through into this position of 'respected elder statesman'. I think it was seeing his shoddy performance in 'Hannah and her sisters' again recently that cemented my disdain. Also, his whinging about how he wasn't appreciated in his own country recently. Or was that Connery?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
Ed Harris
Brian Cox
Stellan Skarsgard

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe anyone would want to destroy Rob Lowe! Did you not see St. Elmo's Fire?

Though most actors annoy me by default, I think the only one I can get worked up enough to destroy would be Julia Roberts. She is so thoroughly overrated in every way.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you not see St. Elmo's Fire?

Surely that for many is the reason why he should be destroyed. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I care not what other people think, he is wonderful and grebt. Not that I watch the West Wing, but his 80s work cannot be surpassed.

He had a wonderful mullet.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Between this and Dom DeLuise, I have no doubt that Nicole's heart is of the eighties.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Buffalo 66 ist a big fat DUD!!!

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

gallo > (caine + connery) x 100000000000000000000000000000

helena bonham-carter = johnny depp

you know it's true and you want it to be, too

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i have a bonham-carter problem (as in "am powerless before her charms and it's a problem")

search Alec Baldwin
destroy the 14 Baldwins

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(14 other Baldwins)

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Sunday, 29 September 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

also: not seeing Buffalo 66 because you think gallo is a creep is like not seeing Star Wars because you think outer space is teeming with aliens

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Sunday, 29 September 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

*works through the logic of that statement and is still confused*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 September 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy Adam Sandler and quickly!!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 30 September 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(haha ned that statement is a sleep-stealing jack-in-the-box designed to suddenly snap open at precisely 4:03 a.m., at which point you will bolt out of bed screaming YES I SEE!!)

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Monday, 30 September 2002 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Never -- that would mean I couldn't get back to sleep and would start thinking about work or something equally distressing. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 September 2002 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

search:
Jim Varney
Kevin Bacon
Christian Slater
Corey Feldman
Vincent Schiavelli
Harrison Ford

Destroy:
Treat Williams
any Baldwins

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 30 September 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot,

Destroy:
Tim Roth
Anthony Hopkins

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
Christian Bale
Jude Law

Not really because they're grebt or anything, you see.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Go to work.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 30 September 2002 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

hey nobody has mentioned owen wilson yet. search owen wilson. (the "i'm sorry i was whack" scene in zoolander was on at the video place last night and i almost fell over)

also search lee marvin and judy davis.

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Monday, 30 September 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:

Marcia Gay Harden
William H Macy
Martha Plimpton
Trevor Eve (when he had the 'tache)
Frances McDormand
Fred Ward
Richard Beckinsale

late amended entry... the actual Ms. Judy Davis

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:

Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Thelma Ritter, Lee Remick, Harrison Ford, Toshiro Mifune, Carmen Maura, Alain Delon, Susan Sarandon, James Stewart, Billie Whitelaw, Pauline Collins, Gene Hackman, Cloris Leachman, Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Harvey Keitel, Holly Hunter, Maggie Smith, Roger Moore, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, Ernest Borgnine, Debra Winger, Ally Sheedy, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Patrick Stewart,
Ellen Burstyn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Caine, David Warner, Jurgen Prochnow

Destroy:

Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Goldie Hawn, Sean Connery, Michael Douglas

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Harrison Ford? Roger Moore? Seriously? Better than Michael Douglas? In what?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Ironically. Roger's safari suits, submersible Lotus and bad puns helped me tune not only into 007 but into films in general. Watch him as "Seymour Goldfarb" in The Cannonball Run. He's great!

I liked Harrison Ford in The Conversation and The Mosquito Coast.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 5 October 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

*thinks Vincent Gallo would be kinda sexy if he took a shower*

― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

He could have me any day, just for making Buffalo 66, which I absolutely loved. Christina Ricci was magnificent in it too, better than VG actually.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ricci was magnificent in B66? at what?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Pouting?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

he wz good she wz good it wz good

but in the trailer "heart of the sunrise" wz bettah

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Just came back from Red Dragon and I'm thinking destroy Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It's the same old mannerisms every time, I'm sick of it. Kinda like Catherine Keener, except I still love her. PSH was SO HORRIBLE as a drag queen in Flawless. It was a Joel Schumacher movie, though, so maybe I should cut him some slack. Also, destroy Edward Norton, cause he's just so blah. And Nathan Lane, although his scene in Goldmember is the funniest thing in the film.

And destroy Jennifer Aniston as a film actress. Big deal she can play dumpy, it's not a "revelation".

Search:

Mick Jagger, he really should act more.
Sam Rockwell--I can't believe they're pushing him as the next big thing, finally.
The entire cast of Bully.
Patricia Clarkson.
The kid who played the slutty hustler friend in L.I.E., Billy Kay. Jane Adams.
Stephane Rideau
Virginie Ledoyen
Jenny Agutter

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Classic if only for his short screen role in Hard Eight (A.K.A. Sidney):

"Hurry up, old timer! I'm lightin' my cigarette! Shack-a-lacka-doo! Shack-a-lacka-dooby-dooby-doo! Shack-a-lacka-doo!"

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: John Cusack (& Joan), Ben Chaplin, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, James Spader, Kate Beckinsdale, Robert Redford
Destroy: Goldie Hawn, Whoopi, all sports stars

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

That kid in Gloria is at the same time completely UTTERLY crap - he's like an old man trapped in a young body - and COMPLETELY classick.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI
PHILIPPE NOIRET
Jean Rochefort
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Fabrice Luchini

― Sébastien C, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

philip seymour hoffman was great in the ripley picture

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

he was also grebt in "True West" with John C Reilly, where in the perf I saw he played the violent thief to JCR's sensitive writer.... slurred alcoholic redneck accent, and a very dangerous edge to him, like he could snap at any moment... definitely not a one-note actor

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Search:
Burt Young. (Killer Elite)
Michael Caine. (Funeral in Berlin, Get Carter)
Lance Henriksen. (Hard Target - compare to Millennium! holy shit!)
Brad Dourif. (Wise Blood)
Robert Duvall. (The Apostle, A Civil Action)
Francis Ng. (The Mission)
Takeshi Kitano. (anything)

Destroy:
Heath Ledger.
Dennis Frantz. (Is he still around? Hope not.)
Bill Paxton.
Dustin Hoffman.
That smug Buddhist, whatshisname. Er. Richard Gere.

― jot eff pe, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

seventeen years pass...

Richard Beckinsale

Kind of impressed this spinoff movie of the early 70s Richard Beckinsale/Paula Wilcox sitcom, "The Lovers", has so far mentioned Andy Warhol, the Grateful Dead and Schopenhauer.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 00:58 (four years ago)

luv me some brad pitt

― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 01:54 (four years ago)

Laura Linney is the best at swearing

― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 01:55 (four years ago)

Richard Beckinsale was great though, such a likeable and charming actor. And Paula Wilcox was so cute in this film.

― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 02:00 (four years ago)

two years pass...

I feel like Neil Morrissey is due a late career renaissance. He's never stopped getting regular work in fairly high-profile shows but nothing that's really cut through and impressed itself on the national consciousness over the last decade or so, plus he's mainly been doing serious police procedural stuff lately. If someone gives him the lead role in a lighter comedy-drama I can see there being an outpouring of affection for Neil Morrissey, elevation to national treasure status, people asserting that we as a nation had overlooked and taken for granted Neil Morrissey etc. If I were a tv executive I'd be trying to make this happen.

― soref, Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:26 (two years ago)

maybe do a follow up to Boon that shows what Rocky's up to these days. He has to play another loveable, somewhat hapless guy again, is the main thing

― soref, Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:42 (two years ago)

Search: young Mickey Rourke

Destroy: old Mickey Rourke

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:23 (two years ago)

Thought that said Mickey Rooney for a second

― Zing Harvest (Has Surely Come) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:39 (two years ago)

That would work as well, as would Al Pacino.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 19 August 2023 22:45 (two years ago)

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