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Old 11-13-2006, 04:38 AM
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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.
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Old 11-13-2006, 04:44 AM
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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.
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Old 11-13-2006, 04:45 AM
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Michael Moriarity in Larry Cohen's 'Q'

brilliant ..
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Old 11-13-2006, 05:24 AM
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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)
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Old 11-13-2006, 05:27 AM
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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 ?
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Old 11-13-2006, 05:29 AM
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No. We are getting "Vongo" in the near future, so i think i will be updating my mental library soon, though.
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Old 11-13-2006, 05:33 AM
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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
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Old 11-13-2006, 05:37 AM
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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 :)
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Old 11-13-2006, 06:01 AM
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Q, as in Quetzalcoatl?


Already sounds interesting :)
thats the one ..

also a smooth downbeat performace by David Carradine...
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Like in Hudson Hawk? :)
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