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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIs there an actor/actress you like so much that you will always watch a movie if they are in it?
Diane Keaton
Jodie Foster
Jeremy Irons
Daniel Day Lewis
Permanut
(8,005 posts)anciano
(2,196 posts)dem4decades
(13,694 posts)Iggo
(49,662 posts)dem4decades
(13,694 posts)Omnipresent
(7,308 posts)Where i live, his movies play in a loop, when you are waiting for jury duty selection.
True Dough
(25,862 posts)I hope you're not one of those 12 Angry Men!

Omnipresent
(7,308 posts)I watched Castaway and some of Big before being released.
happy feet
(1,259 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Greatest Actor ever in my opinion.
cachukis
(3,675 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,595 posts)There are others I am sure which have not come to mind
milestogo
(22,597 posts)And underrated.
yellowdogintexas
(23,595 posts)a hilarious romp with Kathleen Turner, the handsome Quaig brother and Stanley Tucci - who plays a grade Z hood who is trying to make a big score. His name is "Muerte" and every time he encounters the Blues (Turner/Quaig) mayhem ensues.
It is set in New Orleans; our good guys are named Blue and NO is famous for The Blues
All the ancillary characters are hilarious as well, even the smallest part but Muerte steals the entire movie.
milestogo
(22,597 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,595 posts)milestogo
(22,597 posts)Its also on Hulu and Amazon Prime - there are 2 seasons.
Ocelot II
(129,139 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,190 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Julia Louie Dreyfus, William Powell.
ScoutHikerDad
(91 posts)House of Roberts
(6,399 posts)Doris Day, Sally Field, Katherine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Shirley MacLaine, Maureen O'Hara, and Audrey Hepburn, for the actresses.
Towlie
(5,557 posts)I'll never miss a Quentin Tarantino movie, even if it got bad reviews.
milestogo
(22,597 posts)Towlie
(5,557 posts)milestogo
(22,597 posts)I finally watched Pulp Fiction all the way through.
I had previously bailed on it at least twice.
I have bailed on several of his other movies shortly after I started them.
Pulp Fiction did not change my mind.
Upthevibe
(10,032 posts)It's on my DVR. I also will watch any of his films. He's only going to do one more
.
I watch Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown on a regular basis or at least have them on in the background.
3catwoman3
(28,609 posts)Vertigo
Flight of the Phoenix
Shenandoah
Philadelphia Story
MIButterfly
(2,105 posts)He's really gone downhill. I will re-watch his old films so I guess that counts.
Figarosmom
(9,784 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,131 posts)I just think she's terrific.
AllaN01Bear
(28,617 posts)Paladin
(32,303 posts)Everybody from William Holden and Bette Davis, to Gary Oldman and Frances McDormand.
Dorothy V
(460 posts)TommieMommy
(2,671 posts)Pisces
(6,157 posts)yorkster
(3,687 posts)milestogo
(22,597 posts)I don't see her that much, but if I see her name I will always watch.
Midnight Writer
(25,150 posts)yourout
(8,724 posts)FarPoint
(14,560 posts)Norman Reedus.....
EarthAbides
(428 posts)Nicholas Cage
Millie Bobby Brown
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Emily Blunt
Eva Longoria
TexasBushwhacker
(21,095 posts)and he seems to be enjoying it.
CrispyQ
(40,686 posts)There are lots of actors I like, but there are genres I'm just not interested in. Antonio Banderas for example, I like him in a ton of movies but I would never watch Spy Kids. (He was scorchin' hot in Desperado. 🔥🔥🔥
)
NewDayOranges
(750 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,131 posts)I've loved her in everything I have seen her in.
catbyte
(38,665 posts)Just because he's about the most perfect being to ever walk the planet. (I admit I'm blinded by his looks.)
Torchlight
(6,320 posts)Carey Grant, Tom Hanks and Jimmy Stewart on the other hand.
(Jenna Coleman could begin ranking soon, I'm halfway through the series, Victoria, and that young woman has some serious acting chops)
Niagara
(11,546 posts)My lady folk: Mary Steenburgen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Angela Bassett, Kim Dickens, Rachelle Lefevre, Eva Longoria, Clea DuVall, Vera Farmiga, Amirah Vann, Frances Conroy, Milla Jovovich, Alfre Woodward, and Judy Norton.
My gentlemen folk: Nester Carbonell (no, he doesn't wear eyeliner), Brett Cullen, Joseph Morgan, Frank Dillane, Christopher Atkins, Jamie Foxx, Evan Peters, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Elliott, and my crush Zahn McClarnon.
Deceased favorites: Brittany Murphy (RIP),Charles Bronson (RIP), and Dennis Weaver (RIP).
I'm certain that I forgot a few.
Harker
(17,433 posts)I need to get out more.
Niagara
(11,546 posts)I'll help you if you need the help.
My preference of books, television and movie genre(s) is most likely considerably different than yours.
It sounds like you need to stay in more!
P.S. I forgot to add Bill Bixby and Dan Haggerty to my deceased favorites too!
Harker
(17,433 posts)My wife gets swoony for Sam Elliott. I can do a passable impersonation of his voice, but I refuse to let my moustache get long enough that I have to keep pulling it out while I'm drinking beer.🍺
I'll bet we overlap a fair bit... I'm reading the correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann, watching the 1965 and '66 seasons of "The Avengers", and the last movie I watched was "Five Easy Pieces."
Yep, always on the cutting edge of culture!
Niagara
(11,546 posts)Most women do get swoony for Sam Elliott. Come on, you got to get that moustache long enough so it dips into your beer!
I have yet to watch "Five Easy Pieces" but it's on my bucket list.
I'm currently re-reading "The Killers of the Flower Moon" and I watched the movie.
At home I'm currently watching MASH (on season 7), and my last two movies were Grindstone Road and The Prowler.
At my clients home I've recently watched the movies Out to Sea, The Eagle Has Landed, and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
So there's a mixed variety for sure!
skypilot
(9,099 posts)...and Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Rest in Peace)
Skittles
(169,638 posts)love them
CTyankee
(67,799 posts)She actually did something similar on Ellen's show a few years back:
Borogove
(530 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,095 posts)choie
(6,643 posts)Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracey, Robert Redford, among others.
some_of_us_are_sane
(2,775 posts)They SLAYED MY HEART at a very young age. Terrific. Both of them.
Tetrachloride
(9,393 posts)justaprogressive
(6,309 posts)"who is number 1? " "You are number 6"
Iggo
(49,662 posts)Lately, though, not so much, since Im not really interested in biopics. But barring those, I seem to enjoy anything hes in (even that weird britcop spy show lol.)
Morbius
(893 posts)Best thing about both Princess Diaries movies and Pretty Woman.
Dulcinea
(9,682 posts)to name a few. De Niro has been great in everything I've ever seen him in.
Doc_Technical
(3,740 posts)Pharlo
(1,858 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,865 posts)Cicely Tyson. Also gone, of course, Gene Hackman.
snot
(11,523 posts)Angelica Huston, Uma Thurman, Wallace Shawn, Humphrey Bogart, & many more.
Maybe Marlon Brando, Jack Black, Bob Hope, David Niven, Richard Burton, Julia Roberts, Katherine Hepburn?
Others I like though they've made a dud or two are Will Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey.
Following great actors has brought me to many great, lesser-known movies; it seems the actor saw things in the script that the critics weren't quite sharp enough to pick up on.