Daniel Day Lewis

• DeyDurkie5

  

  GOAT?
  
  
  [video=youtube;RKQ3LXHKB34][/video]
• cat_lover

  Not GOAT but top ten and possibly top 5.
  My top five in no order
  Eastwood
  De Niro
  Pacino
  Duval
  Brando
• LJ

  

  GOAT
• Manhattan Buckeye

  The GOATest.
• hoops23

  

  Nah. Very good though.
• Classyposter58

  

  Al Pacino IMO is. Mine are....
  
  Pacino-Unreal in the Godfather and Scarface, played those roles beyond incredibly
  
  Hanks-Has been the star of so many great movies the past 25 years
  
  De Niro-He could be here on Goodfellas alone imo
  
  Hoffman-Again he has not only played legendary roles, but the spectrum of them is tremendous
  
  Washington-If you've watched Training Day or American Gangster you know why
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "Pacino-Unreal in the Godfather and Scarface, played those roles beyond incredibly"
  
  Agree with that (and I'll throw in Dog Day Afternoon), ever since Scent of a Woman he just plays the same "Hoo ah!" character. He's barely recognizable from his earlier work. In Jack and Jill? Really? Hoo ah!
• Laley23

  

  Damn close. He is still young enough to make a few more top moves and get into serious talks.
  
  Top 5, for me (numbered not in order after Bobby):
  1. De Niro
  Jack Nicholson
  Paul Newman
  Daniel Day-Lewis
  Dustin Hoffman
• hoops23

  

  No Edward Norton? Leo DiCaprio?
• Laley23

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1122649 wrote:"Pacino-Unreal in the Godfather and Scarface, played those roles beyond incredibly"
  
  Agree with that (and I'll throw in Dog Day Afternoon), ever since Scent of a Woman he just plays the same "Hoo ah!" character. He's barely recognizable from his earlier work. In Jack and Jill? Really? Hoo ah!

  For me, he cant be in talks for the top. I dont mind a guy playing the same role all the time and being awesome in it, cause Pacino is. But the others, in my list, have been able to be awesome in other roles as well (Scent of a Woman was kind of different). Pacino is easily in my top 10 though.
• Laley23

  

  hoops23;1122658 wrote:No Edward Norton? Leo DiCaprio?

  Talking to me? (bad pun...I know)
  
  Top 5?
  
  No. If we are talking current actors...Leo yes, Norton top 10.
• gut

  Wow...this is really tough. Steve McQueen and Paul Newman have had some great films (great scripts, too). And hard to argue with Pacino or Deniro. Denzel is very solid, and Nicholson is great.
  
  Let me add Gene Hackman to the list - some truly great performances in great films (Hoosier, Mississippi Burning, to name just a few). Sean Connery may not always turn out the best performances, but he'll always be the best 007 for many. You really can't ignore the excellent & diverse body of work from Johhny Depp, either.
  
  I couldn't stand Dicaprio in the Titanic days, but he's really become a great actor
• DeyDurkie5

  

  There will be blood sealed his GOATness for me. Greatest performance by an actor ever IMO.
• dwccrew

  

  There has been so many great ones and it really is a matter of preference, but I have to agree that Daniel Day-Lewis is the GOAT of GOATs. The way he prepares for his films (I read that for 'Last of the Mohicans' he lived off the land for a time frame and learned to track, hunt with a musket and skin his meals) is like no other. His greatest roles (in no order), IMO, are Last of the Mohicans as Nathaniel, There Will Be Blood as Daniel (Best Actor Oscar) and Gangs of New York as Bill the Butcher. I want to see the other movie he won an Oscar for, 'In the Name of the Father'.
• tcarrier32

  

  not even a question. GOAT. to say otherwise is just wrong.
• OSH

  

  DeyDurkie5;1122674 wrote:There will be blood sealed his GOATness for me. Greatest performance by an actor ever IMO.

  Just watched it the other night.
  
  He is no doubt amazing in the movie. He trained for over a year for that role. What is amazing is Paul Dano (who played Eli Sunday AND Paul Sunday) only trained a month for the role of Eli Sunday -- that is an amazing feat there. He did tremendous as Eli.
• like_that

  

  GOAT.
• Skyhook79

  

  like_that;1122777 wrote:GOAT.

  This isn't about PeeWee Herman.
  
  Clint Eastwood is the Goat.
• like_that

  

  trollhook79;1122791 wrote:This isn't about PeeWee Herman.
  
  Clint Eastwood is the Goat.

  When I saw you posted, I was wondering how you could actually troll my post. For a second, I forgot you completely fail in everything, including trolling.
  
  I award you 0 points and may god have mercy on your soul.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  God I hate Paul Dano. He was horrible in There Will be Blood. DDL pwned though.
• Sonofanump

  I concur:
  
  [video=youtube;7tiKM4fxY1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah9XCamPyKA&feature=related[/video]
• vball10set

  Nope.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  He is the GOAT. He's playing Abe Lincoln next. Gonna be awesome.
• Sonofanump

  here is my top four in order, I'd have to think some more to get a top 10:
  
  Daniel Day Lewis</SPAN>
  Harrison Ford</SPAN>
  Jimmy Stewart</SPAN>
  Edward Norton</SPAN>
• Skyhook79

  

  like_that;1122819 wrote:When I saw you posted, I got all excited because I couldn't wait to see how you pwn'd me yet again.
  

  I know.