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Elvis_Christ 11-13-2006 04:38 AM

Underrated Performances
 
Horror/Exploitation are genres with many ignored and lets face it trashed performances....

Joe Spinell in Maniac

I was flicking thru Leonard Maltin's movie guide and it was funny what he said about Maniac. Nice to see he hasn't updated it in ten years. Do people actually take this cunt seriously these days?

Michael Rooker in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

....and perhaps one of the most criminallly underappreciated performances in recent cinema Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutentant.

Keanu Reeves only good role was in the River's Edge.

Seems only the nice clean cut stuff gets the props.

noctuary 11-13-2006 04:44 AM

Leonard Maltin is pretty much a joke within the critic community. And no, mainstream critics will very rarely recognize outstanding performances in a horror film. Horror is such a ghettoized genre that most critics don't want to commend it too much, for fear of losing their credibility.

Performances that I personally found fantastic:
Bill Paxton in Frailty
Koji Yakusho in Cure
Choi Min-Sik in Oldboy
Sam Neill in... well, everything.

urgeok 11-13-2006 04:45 AM

Michael Moriarity in Larry Cohen's 'Q'

brilliant ..

Vodstok 11-13-2006 05:24 AM

Brad Pitt in Se7en
Michael Moriarity in The Stuff (He really was good... The movie just sucked)
Famke Jansen in The House on Haunted HIll (Okay, that one was a joke)

urgeok 11-13-2006 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 507735)
Michael Moriarity in The Stuff (He really was good... The movie just sucked)

oh man i hated him in that...

i saw it right after Q and it smelled up the place in comparrison ..

have you seen Q ?

Vodstok 11-13-2006 05:29 AM

No. We are getting "Vongo" in the near future, so i think i will be updating my mental library soon, though.

urgeok 11-13-2006 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 507745)
No. We are getting "Vongo" in the near future, so i think i will be updating my mental library soon, though.

try to find Q - the winged serpent.


5 minutes into it you'll understand why i hate The Stuff so much.


its like, i dunno... following the brilliance of the Matrix with - oh - lets say ... the matrix 2

Vodstok 11-13-2006 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by urgeok (Post 507748)
try to find Q - the winged serpent.


5 minutes into it you'll understand why i hate The Stuff so much.


its like, i dunno... following the brilliance of the Matrix with - oh - lets say ... the matrix 2

Q, as in Quetzalcoatl?


Already sounds interesting :)

urgeok 11-13-2006 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Vodstok (Post 507751)
Q, as in Quetzalcoatl?


Already sounds interesting :)

thats the one ..

also a smooth downbeat performace by David Carradine...

Vodstok 11-13-2006 06:34 AM

Like in Hudson Hawk? :)


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