Is there a better actress than Meryl Streep?

Heineken Helen
Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
edited January 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I've just watched 'doubt' and the acting from all is absolutely brilliant. It's rare to see a film like that with a simple storyline but carried by a great script and fantastic acting. But, of course, Streep steals the show... she completely transformed into her character.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,814
    She very rarely doesn't become her character. One of the BEST all time.


    She's one of those that , For me , if shes in it , It's worth seeing. I don't need to know anymore about it.
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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    I thought about it and all the people I love (Jodie Foster, Jessica Lange, Laura Linney) and, nope. Meryl wins.
  • threefish10
    threefish10 Posts: 7,392
    i can't recall ever seeing a streep movie.


    she was in devil wears prada right? my wife made me watch that, other then that i'm not sure.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    mickeyrat wrote:
    She very rarely doesn't become her character. One of the BEST all time.


    She's one of those that , For me , if shes in it , It's worth seeing. I don't need to know anymore about it.
    I agree... I don't think I've seen a film of hers that I didn't like :oops: although I've a feeling I did, none springs to mind.

    She's one of the few, and possibly the only one, who's up there with the great male actors. She always becomes the character and yet, in interviews, still seems like a lovely lovely woman.

    Iralle, I agree about Jodie Foster, she's fantastic too... but still nowhere close. I still usually see her as Jodie Foster... rather than the character :oops: . I think Cate Blanchett is wonderful and has potential to be one of the greats.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    threefish10 wrote:
    i can't recall ever seeing a streep movie.


    she was in devil wears prada right? my wife made me watch that, other then that i'm not sure.
    Yeh, she was. Well this is her 15th oscar nomination... she's been nominated more than anyone.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    Cate Blanchett. period.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Ooohh... I'm forgetting Susan Sarandon... but I still think Meryl wins.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Two words........Tara Reid!!! :twisted: :lol:
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    no. absolutely not.
    seriously, i don't think there is any actress who is even on par with her, nevermind being superior at the craft of acting. of course, just imo...but none the less....it definitely seems she is more than deserving for all the accolades she receives, and i dare say she doesn't get enough, it's almost always *expected* of her. she deserves every word of praise!
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  • pretext
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    I just remembered Deer Hunter. Damn, was that fine.
  • Lizardjam
    Lizardjam Posts: 1,121
    Many better.
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    anyone who would agree to do "mama mia" will get NO respect from me :?

    including james bond!
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  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    CJMST3K wrote:
    Cate Blanchett. period.


    Not even close.
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    Lizardjam wrote:
    Many better.

    -1. There aren't any better.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jenna Jameson.


    i think Kate Winslet is better though... but thats because Kate Winslet is my next wife.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    smithnic wrote:
    Lizardjam wrote:
    Many better.

    -1. There aren't any better.

    Your avatar is brilliant.
  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,413
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Yeh, she was. Well this is her 15th oscar nomination... she's been nominated more than anyone.



    has she one any? or is she the buffalo bills of the acting world?
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    sgossard3 wrote:
    anyone who would agree to do "mama mia" will get NO respect from me :?

    including james bond!



    wow.....in your world NO one gets to make a bad call or two? or, in her mind...maybe it was just fun? i haven't seen it, don't care for muscials...but for what it is, i heard she was excellent in it. hell, colin firth was in it, love him! seriously...that's a bit too stringent imo, besides which.....her amazing talent has and continues to be expressed many times over in soooo many films. she also did she-devil and death becomes her......and yet, i still think there's no denying her amazing, enormous talent.


    sophie's choice
    out of africa
    the french leutenant's woman
    the deer hunter
    silkwood

    and on, and on, and on......yea, a couple of throwaway roles i can certainly accept from such a talented actor.
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    There's certainly not a more arrogant one, that's for sure. :roll:
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    AmentsChick wrote:
    There's certainly not a more arrogant one, that's for sure. :roll:



    are you serious?
    have you met her personally to make this assessment?
    i honestly have never read a thing that would make me think she is arrogant, not in the least...thus why it surprises me so to read this. and, even if she is arrogant...i highly doubt she is the most arrogant.


    beyond that, arrrogance or no...her talent speaks for itself.
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