Sooooooo i just ate a chocolate covered oreo, OMG amazing. I mean it sounds stupid right? Why do you need to put chocolate around and oreo when the cookies are already chocolate? To people who take up this argument I say, 'Havee you ever bitten into deliciously creamy chocolate coating a crisp crunchie oreo filled with soft, sugery icing?' and I guarantee you the answer is no. They're fantastic, it's true. Though if you were to propose the idea to me yesterday you would have found me most skeptical :P
Right, it's friday and more importantly it's not MY friday. Sorry for the late post!!
Let me just say, before getting to the friday question that Harry Potter #1 was so much fun to see in theatres!! It was like going back in time with all the retro special effects :P yay movie marathons!!
Okay, having read each of your lovely and most interesting answers to the friday question, I realize that I'm having a hard time deciding who I think is a really really fantastic actor.....wait. I could definitely say Heath Ledger (not because he's hot, or Australian :P) because of his fantastic, though slightly disturbing, transformation into The Joker from The Dark Knight. When you look at his previous characters he was often in the role of love interest. I'm thinking specifically about the movie 10 Things I Hate About You (a 100% chick-flick), but even in these light, fluffy movies that, at first glance, seem to have no more depth than necessary to placate a teen girl he manages to give the character a bit of dimension and make his reactions and actions way more believable than I think a lot of actors could have done with the same character and lines.
But THEN, woah nelly he goes full throttle into a character that kills people with no mercy, wears scary makeup, definitely does NOT have an Australian accent...I mean this guy is amazing he goes from one extreme to another leaving no trace of the other character, not.one.trace. I swear I had goosebumps every time he came on screen when I went to go see Dark Knight in theaters, he was seriously scary.
SO. Having said that, there ARE some other actors that I am totally impressed with that I'd like to just mention; Daniel Day-Lewis, basically because I watched this movie once (A Room With A View - loved it!) and during the opening credits I saw his name and was like 'OMG he's IN this? That's hilarious!' and then when he actually showed up on screen I totally didn't recognize him EVEN though I not only knew he was going to be in this film but I've seen him in other stuff too, it wasn't until afterward when I wanted to show my brother the song in the opening credits that I saw his name again and was like 'Wtf? He was Cecil?? Since when!?'; Katherine Hepburn, she's just so strong and her acting always feels so natural, even during dramatic scenes and stuff; Javier Bardem, because I feel like people don't know who he is even though he's won awards and stuff, I really like his acting, seriously he went from playing a hit-man-serial-killer guy using a captive bolt pistol to kill people to playing the Spanish lover for like three women in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, it's craziness; and despite the risk of being called lame and pathetic for the rest of my life Amanda Bynes-WAIT! Before you start yelling at your computer screen let me specify that it's her comedic acting that's got me so impressed, I just like that she makes me laugh so much AND she's a girl (actresses represent!) AND she managed to get for reals famous for it. She doesn't just run around doing weird stuff and putting on weird voices...well okay she does, but it's not that easy! It has to be funny, she has to time stuff just right and she has to be okay with making herself look utterly ridiculous. Her dramatic acting is just so-so in my opinion, it's the comedic acting that so awesome :D She makes me laugh!
K so I went and looked up a few lists of 'Best actors ever' to get a feel for what other people thought and the only actress within the first like 20 is Meryl Streep! Either that saying that women have to do twice as much work as men to get half as much recognition is true or there are not too many actresses who are very talented. Or maybe there aren't very many good roles for women that showcase their talents...just too many that showcase their breasts - Ha! that was a good one eh? :P *Ahem, In any case I totally agree with Miah, that Meryl Streep is completely amazing when it comes to acting. When I think about what makes an actor good the first thing that comes to mind is 'Do I believe them? Do they make me believe that this person is real and do they make sense?' I mean people are interesting so when I watch a movie I want to find the characters interesting, but the actor first has to make me believe. Ha! That sounded like a commercial for something didn't it? And Maryl Streep MAKES YOU BELIEVE. She's phenomenal.
Wow, think I've rambled enough?
Alrighty friends it's time for me to sign off!
Till next time,
Evie :D
Ps. I definitely agree with Lee and Rae about Gary Oldman and Tom Hanks :) They're awesome to the max!
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