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James McAvoy for me. X-Men first Class, Split, Speak No Evil, even Victor Frankenstein. If MCavoy's name is attached to it, I'm probably going to see it. Charlize Theron is next. Mad Max: Fury road, Monster, and Kubo. Old guard... she acted her heart out, but it was okay in the end. (First post)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Definitely Daniel Radcliffe

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Ed Norton is an automatic sign that even if the movie sucks, it'll be worth watching once just for his performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Jason Statham

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Watched everything he made without question until the rookie came out. Put off watching it for years but sad I did as it’s a great show!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think Nicholas Cage is a fine actor, but he's not a great actor IMO. Especially in the last 10-20 years, I feel like he's developed some subtlety but the roles he's taken have all been fuckin' weird. Mostly I like his older work like Raising Arizona, Con Air, Face/Off, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well, not in his "I do anything to reduce my crushing debt" phase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I agree.

But he is a legitimate talent. My favorite from him is "Joe." Check it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

He’s shooting Madden right now, which I’m super excited to see. It’s Nic Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. Should be good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Felicity Jones and Rachel McAdams. Either of those two are in something and it's an immediate watch for me. Odds are in their favor it's going to be decent if they signed on for it, and their acting abilities are top notch for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Tom Hanks, maybe. I used to say "he's never done a bad movie" but then I saw his WWII movie that aired on AppleTV

-I don't know if any actors are good enough to pull me in like that. There are however, a couple of major directors that guarantee I am going to the theatre. Guillermo Del Toro is probably the most likely one that comes to mind. Ridley Scott and James Cameron are likely to get me in the theatre as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Tom Hanks, maybe. I used to say “he’s never done a bad movie” but then I saw his WWII movie that aired on AppleTV

Really? I fucking loved Greyhound. It's like they surgically removed every boring movie trope they could find to leave just the best bits.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Gene Hackman. DeNiro. Pacino. J.T. Walsh. James Cromwell. J.K Simmons. Many more I can't remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'll be intrigued if any of these are in the cast.

  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Bill Murray
  • Edward Norton
  • Rebecca Ferguson
  • Evan Rachel Wood

But they've all been cast in plenty of films films I don't care about (e.g. Hopkins in Transformers and Thor, Murray in Garfield and Jungle Book) so it's not even remotely a guarantee.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Rick Moranis maybe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Also just learned who she is but I'm definitly a Florence Pugh fan now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Tom Hardy. Taboo was very good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He definitely takes risks and chooses interesting projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

And then goes and does a snooze fest like Havoc. I guess very few manage to bat 1.000.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
  • Scarlet Johansson
  • Denzel Washington
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Frances McDormand
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Scarlet was great in Jojo Rabbit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I now realize I left out the amazing actresses from my list. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Used to be Robin Williams for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

I don't know if there's any actor I feel that way about as I generally don't watch films based on the cast, but probably the closest would be Song Kang-ho. He delivers consistently great performances and works with many writers and directors that I like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago
  • Gina Davis.
  • Al Pacino.
  • Brad Pitt.
  • Edward Norton.
  • Helen Mirren.
  • Judy Dench.

There's are a few others. That don't come to mind right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Ralph Fiennes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Jodie Whittaker.

Actually, there's several people that I'd watch in anything (the nonsense I've watched specifically because of one person in it....) but she's the current fixation and these lists tend to be populated by men.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

None, good actors can't make bad films good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Damn, I misread the title and thought I was going to see people that nobody wants to see in a movie like Jared Leto and was surprised at all the nice actors that were listed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

Ryan Renolds

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