Garden State

[DiscoDave]

It's playing at the theater by the Freeway, and I thought it was really good. :rup:

[Expunge]

You just set a record for thread with most views without post.

I thought I'd stop it before it got out of hand ;>

[Stumanji]

I saw it the day after it opened at the AMC in downtown Seattle... and I give it forty :tup: 's. It was a great movie: drama and comedy... good stuff. An excellent film for a first time director (who also wrote and starred in the movie). And, I've never seen a better performance out of Natalie Portman.

[ghrogels]

And, I've never seen a better performance out of Natalie Portman.
she's acted before? (lol @ starwars)

[Jobe16]

It's playing at the theater by the Freeway, and I thought it was really good. :rup:

and the award for the least heterosexual post goes to. /opens note "dave!"

Lol, gotta have a Harold and Kumar quote

[Verbal]

she's acted before? (lol @ starwars)

She's done a TON of other movies, but that was her largest role. She has been acting since she was a little girl... I think she was 10 in her first big movie, Leon the Professional.

[DiscoDave]

she's acted before? (lol @ starwars)
I dare you to find a single decent performance in any Star Wars movie from anyone other than Harrison Ford, who was no fan of Lucas' writing himself. I claim the only reason Ford did a good job in the role was because unlike everyone else, he never put his trust in Lucas to understand the characters and the way dialogue should flow.

Portman is a solid actress, but you're right...she never "acted" in the Star Wars movies.

[Stumanji]

I dare you to find a single decent performance in any Star Wars movie from anyone other than Harrison Ford.

Dare accepted. There were a handful of quality performances that often over looked because for every good performance, there's about 30 BAD performances. Naturally, these performances come from the original trilogy, where the actors weren't intimidated by George Lucas (after all, he was still a rookie back then), where they got to work with different directors, and where the story was more fleshed out, filmed on REAL sets, and didn't rely on 70% CGI backgrounds.

Aside from Harrison Ford, I give these actors a nod at playing their role well:

Sir Alec Guinness - Obi Wan Kenobi (Ep IV, V, VI)
James Earl Jones - the voice of Darth Vader (Ep III, IV, V, VI)
Peter Cushing - Grand Moff Tarkin (Ep IV)
Billy Dee Williams - Lando Calrissian (Ep V, VI)
Ian McDiarmid - Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine, Darth Sidious (Ep I,II,III, V, VI)

Unfortunately for Star Wars fans, we can't add names like Natalie Portman, Samuel L Jackson, Ewen McGregor, Christopher Lee, or Jimmy Smits. And reportedly (it's not on IMDB.com) Gary Oldman was to do the voice for General Grievous - but dropped out for Union reasons... instead, John Rhys-Davies (of LotR's Gimli fame) is rumored to do the voice.

Hopefully, these actors can rebound from two bad films and make a great one.

[DiscoDave]

Dare accepted. There were a handful of quality performances that often over looked because for every good performance, there's about 30 BAD performances.
You actually think those were GOOD performances? Not good compared to the rest of the cast, but GOOD on their own merits?

I think you've got a point with James Earl Jones, if voice acting even qualifies, but the rest of the performances you listed strike me as being extremely wooden with the exception of Williams who seemed like a cartoon character to me.

[Stumanji]

I think, as stand alone performances, they were good. :yes:

[Maddeh]

I thought the guy who played Stormtrooper #657462 did a pretty good job.

[DiscoDave]

I thought the guy who played Stormtrooper #657462 did a pretty good job.
His aim sucked.

[Ender]

What's this thread about?

And madman, you silly ewok, the stormtroopers name was tk421. He did a good job - the one you mentioned is the one who hit his head on the door in the death star. ;)

[Stumanji]

And madman, you silly ewok, the stormtroopers name was tk421. He did a good job - the one you mentioned is the one who hit his head on the door in the death star. ;)

:rofl: Funniest... blooper... ever... :rofl: