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Posted: 12/7/2018 8:05:35 PM EST

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JK Simmons.

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Weird, was just watching "Burn After Reading" last night.

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Richard Jenkins
Guys has be good in everything.

Weird, was just watching "Burn After Reading" last night.

Richard Jenkins and JK Simmons are both in Burn After Reading. I love that movie. Not just for the plot (which is hilarious) but just for the sheer talent:

John Malkovitch
Brad Pitt as a ditzy personal trainer
Frances McDormand
Richard Jenkins mooning over Frances McDormand
George Clooney (yes, he's a liberal dick, but he's a great actor)
JK Simmons as an upper-level fed.gov bureaucrat who only cares about CYA

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:06:15 PM EST

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OP if you like Sam Rockwell, check out the movie Moon

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:07:13 PM EST

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The main bad guy in Boys Don’t Cry. Also he was in K19. Too lazy to look it up

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:08:24 PM EST

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Actually came in to say Casey Affleck and Giovanni Ribisi. Both were mentioned right away

Also, don't know if he necessarily qualifies as underrated, but GD really likes to shit on Nic Cage because he never turns down a payday no matter how shitty the script. But he is a phenomenal actor. Just watch movies like Matchstick Men or Leaving Las Vegas

Other notable mentions are Michael Peña and David Morse.

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Agreed, in fact that movie was the one that made me take notice of Rockwell. For Cage, other customer: "Hey have you ever heard of a line?" Cage: "Have you ever been dragged onto the sidewalk and beaten until you PISSED BLOOD?"

Good stuff.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:11:12 PM EST

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Keanu Reeves. He has such range.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:11:40 PM EST

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Robin Williams in any dramatic role. ETA: I'm serious.

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Posted: 12/7/2018 8:11:50 PM EST

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John Turturro

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:13:06 PM EST

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Barry Pepper - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a must see.

Dwight Yoakam

Billy Bob Thornton

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I gotta agree on the first two. Thornton is a pretty big name actor. Sling blade and bad Santa alone made him awesome even if that was was his only two.

Yoakam, good Lord. That dude can play the best asshole I may have ever seen. Completely believable. Met him in Odessa, TX. Great personality and seemed like a nice guy.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:15:26 PM EST

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I gotta agree on the first two. Thornton is a pretty big name actor. Sling blade and bad Santa alone made him awesome even if that was was his only two.

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Don’t forget Armageddon.

Seriously though he was fantastic in Goliath.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:15:56 PM EST

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Michael Shannon. He is in a lot of Jeff Nichols films, who is the brother of Ben Nichols who is the lead singer of Lucero. Always good soundtrack in his movies.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:16:36 PM EST

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Joaquin Phoenix.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:17:48 PM EST

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I see a lot of folks who play heavies as under rated. For your good guy, lead to shine, they have to be there for contrast.

Read an article about how casting folks rate actors. It is called a "Q" rating. Tom Cruise types have a high Q and get lead rolls. Someone like Bruce Dern has a low Q and is cast heavy in most cases. Acting ability usually has nothing to do with it. It is more about charisma and looks. John C Reilly would be a low Q, with a certain charisma and likeability. He can kill it doing comedy support, but can turn on the creep factor.

Another like that that I admire is the guy who plays the holograph doctor on Star Trek Voyager. His name is Rober Picardo. On that show he played a likeable doormat-servant to the crew. In one episode he accidentally corrupted his own personality profile and became evil. He could easily play a Mafia hit man as easily as he could play the doc. The man has some serious acting skills.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:18:19 PM EST

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Man, you beat me to it.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:19:07 PM EST

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Jeremy Renner.

After Wind River, he made my VERY short list of actors who I will watch in anything. The others being Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy.

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This he is one of my favs
He was great in the town too

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:20:40 PM EST

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Eric Bana

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:23:01 PM EST

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Michael Shannon. He is in a lot of Jeff Nichols films, who is the brother of Ben Nichols who is the lead singer of Lucero. Always good soundtrack in his movies.

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fuck that guy. He was one of the mouthiest Trump-hating libs in Hollywood, and that's saying a lot.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:24:00 PM EST

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I agree he is pretty good, also part of the cast of the movie I mentioned. I'd kinda think he's well known enough not to be considered underrated though.

John Totturo was mentioned and I think he fits the category. Versatile too.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:24:53 PM EST

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fuck that guy. He was one of the mouthiest Trump-hating libs in Hollywood, and that's saying a lot.

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Michael Shannon. He is in a lot of Jeff Nichols films, who is the brother of Ben Nichols who is the lead singer of Lucero. Always good soundtrack in his movies.

fuck that guy. He was one of the mouthiest Trump-hating libs in Hollywood, and that's saying a lot.

Well, he is married to the queen bitch of Hollywood, Ashley Judd.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:25:32 PM EST

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This

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:25:40 PM EST

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Yep, liked him in Ex Machina, iirc. Another I don't remember the title of, where he plays kind of a murderous drifter in the mojave or some such location.

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Yep, the movie your talking about is Mojave....that's when I realized how good of an actor he was. Really liked that movie, and had never heard of it before....just a bored Netflix pick, and then WHAM :)

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:26:44 PM EST

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Chris Cooper. Phenomenal actor. The Man has carried many a movie.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:27:05 PM EST

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Brian Cox.

He was the chief in Super Troopers, Agamemnon in Troy (simply outstanding in that role), he was in Red with Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren, etc.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:28:26 PM EST

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GD is a f%$#^* disappointment tonight.

James "Savage" Woods.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:29:53 PM EST

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Came to post this

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:30:25 PM EST

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Chris Cooper. Phenomenal actor. The Man has carried many a movie.

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Agreed. Had to look him up to remember him. This is the point of the thread. Great actors that aren't household names. I suppose I could've been more specific.

Jarhead was only decent during his scenes and he made the movie Breach.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:31:44 PM EST

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This, dude upstages everyone. So upset when Russell Crowe shoots him in Yuma.

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Ben Foster

This, dude upstages everyone. So upset when Russell Crowe shoots him in Yuma.

Ben Foster is who I thought of when I read the thread titled. 3:10 to Yuma put him on the map for me, now I’ll watch just about anything with him in it.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:32:35 PM EST

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John Cusack.

A number of his movies are on my "will watch over and over again" list.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:34:10 PM EST

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Ryan Gosling.

Dude has range.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:35:21 PM EST

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Ben Foster - 3:10 to Yuma and Hell or High Water, Lone Survivor

Scott Glenn - Silverado, Hunt for Red October, Urban Cowboy

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:36:45 PM EST

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Ben Foster is who I thought of when I read the thread titled. 3:10 to Yuma put him on the map for me, now I’ll watch just about anything with him in it.

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Ben Foster

This, dude upstages everyone. So upset when Russell Crowe shoots him in Yuma.

Ben Foster is who I thought of when I read the thread titled. 3:10 to Yuma put him on the map for me, now I’ll watch just about anything with him in it.

He has quite a range. So much so that I'd suspect he's led a fairly troubled life prior to film. In Alpha Dog, he had the ability to make you think he was legit psycho. The few fight scenes were just awesome. Only parts of that movie worth watching except the Olivia Wilde scenes. Though, I'd rather just look at her than watch her perform, acting that is.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:37:22 PM EST

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John Cusack.

A number of his movies are on my "will watch over and over again" list.

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Hate him, same whiny bitch in every movie.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:37:24 PM EST

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Ryan Gosling.

Dude has range.

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Is my sarcasm meter broken?

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:37:45 PM EST

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Kathryn Hahn

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Posted: 12/7/2018 8:37:50 PM EST

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Ian McShane

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Posted: 12/7/2018 8:38:06 PM EST

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Tom Berenger
Vincent D'onofrio
Tom Selleck

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:38:23 PM EST

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Thomas Jane kicks ass..

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:40:31 PM EST

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Posted: 12/7/2018 8:40:52 PM EST

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Ryan Gosling.

Dude has range.

Is my sarcasm meter broken?

He's been in some decent films, but is fairly one dimensional. Though I actually prefer the blade runner sequel for that reason. He fits the bill of synthetic human to a t.

Eta: he's probably overrated. Bitches love to see him on screen is why he is successful. I did like ho's early performance in that Jew turned Nazi movie, though. Don't remember the title.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:42:48 PM EST

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Speaking of Sam Rockwell, his voice talents on F Is For Family (as the voice of "Vic") are amazing. Dude is perfect.

I would nominate Dwight Yoakam. He's never really thought of as an actor, even though he's basically killed it in every movie he's ever been in.

Second, I would mention John Goodman. His range is out of this world, and he's never mentioned in the same hallowed company as the more familiar greats.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:43:30 PM EST

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He's been in some decent films, but is fairly one dimensional. Though I actually prefer the blade runner sequel for that reason. He fits the bill of synthetic human to a t.

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Have you seen “The Good Guys”? Yes, it was all pretty over the top, but he was great (and hilarious) in that role.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:44:21 PM EST

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Woody Harrelson.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:45:57 PM EST

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Woody Harrelson.

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meh, he's like Will Smith and Tom Cruise. Fun to watch, but he always plays the same fucking guy: himself.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:46:26 PM EST

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Ray Liotta.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:48:06 PM EST

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I can't think of the guys name, he's been on tons of movies and shows. Did the voiceover for half a dozen Simpson's characters and plays a drunk sports commentator in some show now. He is underrated, whatever his name is.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:48:47 PM EST

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And Daniel Day Lewis

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... Gary Oldman

And Daniel Day Lewis

And Michael Caine

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:49:35 PM EST

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I can't think of the guys name, he's been on tons of movies and shows. Did the voiceover for half a dozen Simpson's characters and plays a drunk sports commentator in some show now. He is underrated, whatever his name is.

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Hank Azaria? Not sure I spelled that correctly.

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:50:44 PM EST

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I can't think of the guys name, he's been on tons of movies and shows. Did the voiceover for half a dozen Simpson's characters and plays a drunk sports commentator in some show now. He is underrated, whatever his name is.

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Hank Azaria?

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:53:55 PM EST

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Robert Pattinson

Posted: 12/7/2018 8:54:16 PM EST

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Speaking of Sam Rockwell, his voice talents on F Is For Family (as the voice of "Vic") are amazing. Dude is perfect.

I would nominate Dwight Yoakam. He's never really thought of as an actor, even though he's basically killed it in every movie he's ever been in.

Second, I would mention John Goodman. His range is out of this world, and he's never mentioned in the same hallowed company as the more familiar greats.

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Yoakam is just badass at whatever he applies himself to, as I've previously said. I'm a huge fan of country music from his day going back. That said, he's a better actor, maybe due to having not as large a musical repertoire as say, George
Strait .