Is Christopher Walken the greatest actor alive....

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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    well sounds like we're just gonna start calling out all our faves...so I'm saying MORGAN FREEMAN is the best actor ever!
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  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
    And now we present Morgan Freeman in The Narrator:
    "Ever since I was a young boy people have enjoyed the sound of my voice. Why even now I am just sitting in a room reading a script..."
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  • Kat
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    Christopher Walken...one of the all time best, yes. :)


    more cowbell.


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  • Binaural
    Binaural Posts: 1,046
    Kat wrote:
    Christopher Walken...one of the all time best, yes. :)


    more cowbell.


    Love and peace,
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    Arnie will beat him to that post and you know it :p
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  • Bathgate66
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    no, he is not.
    I'll dig a tunnel
    from my window to yours
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He's shite. Like the rest of them.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Somebody who gets overlooked a lot in this category of great actors is Robert Redford. He's done some amazing work.
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    oh, jimmie........he is.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Kat wrote:
    Christopher Walken...one of the all time best, yes. :)


    more cowbell.


    Love and peace,
    Kat

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=71770844627024590
    The only time I might consider him "great" is in his breakout role in "The Deer Hunter" and then in some funky movie where he plays a sort of bi-curious mob boss character in a bathrobe making deals with a gun or over the phone half the time. I don't remember the name of that movie.

    For his longevity in the business, which is admirable, I don't think he stands out all that much for performance.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Kat wrote:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=71770844627024590

    You know what's really funny about that clip is that any band that has spent more than a few times together in the studio has probably experienced an episode much like that.

    :)
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  • MasterFramer
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    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Like deniro and Pacino, he still always seems to just play... Jack Nicholson though :o

    Can you really be the greatest actor alive if you simply act the exact same way in pretty much EVERY film?

    Not making a case either way but have you seen this film?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257360/
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    MasterFramer wrote:
    Not making a case either way but have you seen this film?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257360/
    Yep.. that's the one he played the exact same character as in 'as good as it gets'
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    gue_barium wrote:
    Somebody who gets overlooked a lot in this category of great actors is Robert Redford. He's done some amazing work.
    hmm... I actually agree there... always very natural and believable.

    Sean Penn of course and my personal 'possibly the most versatile of all' favourite: Daniel Day Lewis. I don't like a lot of his films but there's no doubting the man can act anything that's put in front of him.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    I'm gonna throw Johnny Depp into the mix. His versatility and choice of roles is incredible.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    The exchange between Walken and Hopper in True Romance was gold Jerry, gold.

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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    no one mentioned
    The Deer Hunter.
    He is a certified Bad Ass!
    Not even close in for greatest actor but probably Top Ten for Greatest Support Actors.
    EDIT: someone did mentioned The Deer Hunter.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    tom hanks or daniel day lewis.

    not the best actor but definately the best badass: Clint Eastwood
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    MrSmith wrote:
    tom hanks or daniel day lewis.

    not the best actor but definately the best badass: Clint Eastwood
    You gave me an idea.
    thanks.
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    no it's Bruce Cambell
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