Greatest Living Actor or Actress

[ryanjumpman420]

Robert Downey is def one of my favorites right now to watch but he doesn't match up with Gary Oldman's impeccable range

 

[blakep267]

Gotta be DDL. He can play anything and maybe Meryl. Kate wins let and blanchett are up there too

 

[SC kid]

Gotta be DDL. He can play anything

Dude is so good wen i see him at award shows i think hes acting THERE lol

Gangs of ny and there will be blood
Last of the mohicans too.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

DDY and Dustin Hoffman both have great performances where they played "mentally challenged"
DDY - My Left Foot
Hoffman - Rain Man
I'm throwing Hoffman in there too.

 

[SC kid]

Hoffman is underated too.

Hero wit gena davis
Tootsie
Dude played captain hook lol

 

[Warmachine85]

Will smith?

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Somebody show me somebody with this type of range as Gary.

Jus some of the roles Oldman has played. Some of which u prob didn't even know it was him. A true chameleon.
-drug addicted mob dealer (The Professional)
-american southern Dwarf - (tiptoes)
-Beethoven
-Sid Vicious
-Dracula
-wizard - (Harry potter)
-M16 agent - (Air Force One)
-Commissioner Gordon (dark knight)
-Elvis
-crazy ceo of Zorg enterprises(Fifth Element)
-pimp - (True Romance)
- Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK)
- Spy - (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)

 

[blakep267]

Gotta be DDL. He can play anything

Dude is so good wen i see him at award shows i think hes acting THERE lol

Gangs of ny and there will be blood
Last of the mohicans too.

Man last of the Mohicans is so underrated. That score alone makes it too good

 

[blakep267]

Will smith?

Too safe in the roles he chooses. He has talent though but for brand purposes doesn't use it to its fullest

 

[Warmachine85]

Too safe in the roles he chooses. He has talent though but for brand purposes doesn't use it to its fullest

True just trying to throw names out there that havent been mentioned.

 

[SC kid]

Six degrees of separation was good.

Also wit oldman it blew my mind wen i found out he was english.
he has that david bekham type accent.
It was a long time after i saw the professional and was like

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Too safe in the roles he chooses. He has talent though but for brand purposes doesn't use it to its fullest

They got him to do that Six Degrees Of Separation tho. I agree with you tho.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Six degrees of separation was good.

Also wit oldman it blew my mind wen i found out he was english.
he has that david bekham type accent.
It was a long time after i saw the professional and was like

beat me to it on the 6 degrees of separation . Yea Oldman is something else man. When u go back and really look at all the characters he's played. From southern american accents to Russian accents to New York accents to ghetto american accents all from a noble Brit.

 

[cruthik3]

There should probably be some criteria for this. I mean 'living actor' would include Pacino and DeNiro, while they have been straight trash for over 15 years.

 

[calypso chanta]

Somebody show me somebody with this type of range as Gary.

Tom Hanks

Meryl Streep

Daniel Day

are all better than Oldman. I don't really see how its a question.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Hell I didn't even know that was Gary Oldman in Harry Potter or the 5th Element.

 

[blakep267]

Too safe in the roles he chooses. He has talent though but for brand purposes doesn't use it to its fullest

They got him to do that Six Degrees Of Separation tho. I agree with you tho.

that was early on though. Post ID4 Will-early 2000's Will would've never done that movie. I can't blame him though. It's sorta like RDJ now. He's been doing the Tony Stark persona these past few years in every movie he's been in, but that's what makes him the bucks

 

[SC kid]

Thread is like

 

[sarnia19]

Christopher Walken

 

[SC kid]

Oh yea frank white versatile as hell



Wat about christian Bales tho.

Son was like 12 in empire of the sun.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

that was early on though. Post ID4 Will-early 2000's Will would've never done that movie. I can't blame him though. It's sorta like RDJ now. He's been doing the Tony Stark persona these past few years in every movie he's been in, but that's what makes him the bucks

Yea they ridin with the money. Miss those old days of RDJ like in Natural Born Killers playin Wayne Gale as a media nut with that British accent. Great underrated performance by RDJ.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Christian Bale was good in "American Hustle" Pretty rangy for Bale.

 

[Deleted member 87369]

Jake Gyllenhaal is that dude and vastly underrated.

 

[SC kid]

Hell yea hes good.

I just saw some movie where he was a cop looking for a missing person.
Hugh jackman was in it too.

 

[ryanjumpman420]

Jake was really good in Jarhead i thought. no comment on BBM.