PeterK

Best Movie, actor and perfomance of all time?

I have a hard time narrowing down my very favourite movie. I would have to say Contact, then TOOTSIE. I think the best actor would definately be Dustin Hoffman (although he was in this terrible movie I saw on tv about some sort of killer virus that was destroying a town) and my favourite performance would also be by Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.(although his performance in The Graduate and Rain Man are also close behind)


What does everone else think is the greatest of all???

Brandon_T

Hey, that was Outbreak with Cuba Gooding JR., Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland, and Rene Russo. I like that movie! :b

Ernest Rister

Movie: Rock-A-Doodle
Actor: Kenny Rogers (Gambler, Gambler 2, Gambler 3, Gambler 4, Six Pack)
Performance: Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons ("Time to DIE!!!!)

Bobby*K

Movie: Vanilla Sky

Actor: Al Pacino

Performance: Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector

** so many great performances out there that picking only 1 is almost unfair.

Michael Elliott

I try to keep my "favorites" and my opinion of the "greatest" seperate so I'll go with the "greatest" here since that was the question.

Those Ernest picked were all #2 on my list.

Movie: On the Waterfront
Actor: Marlon Brando
Performance: Brando (Last Tango in Paris)

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LanieParker

This is a hard question to answer. I haven't seen every movie every made. Questions like this also seem to be more of a " what was your favorite" type of thing.

I don't know I'll have to think about it longer.

JonZ

Movie: 2001 A Space Odyssey

Actor:Toshiro Mifune

Performance:Takashi Shimura in Ikiru

Jason Co

Always a great topic for some arguments. I don't know if you can consider them all time greats but off the top of my head 2 performances that really affected me were Ed Norton in Primal Fear and Tom Cruise in Magnolia. I really feel that that was Cruise's best performance in a career that has had quite a few good ones.

J

p.s. Go Twins

george kaplan

Movie: The Apartment

Actor: Jack Lemmon (though I could easily list lots of others here)

Performance: Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (though again, I could easily list lots of others here)

"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder

"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.

"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk

ThomasC

I have yet to see lots of classics (Casablanca, 2001, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather Trilogy, etc.), so keep that in mind:

Movie: Traffic
Actor: No particular favorite
Actress: Julianne Moore
Performance (absolutely no doubt): Peter Sarsgaard (Shattered Glass)

The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.

Rob Gardiner

I abstain on the first 2 questions, but the Best Performance of All Time is Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria

Michael_Q

Mine change all the time, but at the moment...

Movie: Lawrence of Arabia
Actor: Denzel Washington
Performance: Marlon Brando as The Godfather