Geoffrey Rush: one of the two or three best actors alive
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 02:33 PM)
I've always rated Rush as one of my top three who still do great stuff (maybe along with DDL and Guy Pearce). Amazing actor, but seems to be almost unknown to most movie-watchers. I gather he's in The Rule of Jenny Pen (which I haven't seen yet), along with Lithgow, who is also a decent actor.
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Sophie Fevvers
— 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 02:57 PM)who you think i am? i've already seen it long time ago. yes Rush is great in it and Phoenix was a baby back then. however, after that Phoenix grew into an icon and became an immensely lauded acting talent and awards winning superstar picking up leading roles left and right whereas Rush still only plays supporting characters who no one EVER remembers, except as a pirate.
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 03:06 PM)
He'll be remembered by serious filmgoers for Quills, Shine, Swimming Upstream and a half dozen other films. Phoenix will be remembered as the cringe actor who did The Joker. When he gets older he will try to destroy all copies of the film, but it'll be too late….
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Sophie Fevvers
— 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 03:12 PM)you damn know i'm right about Rush. as for Phoenix, he won an Oscar (among ca 80 other award nominations) for playing The Joker. idk why he would want to destroy that film lol. he also got nominated for
Walk the Line
playing Johnny Cash, for his lead role in PT Anderson's masterful
The Master
and for
Gladiator
when he was barely 27 years old. that's what he will be remembered for.
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 03:23 PM)
I liked him in
Gladiator
(the only film of his I liked; but then Russell Crowe was glorious in that). I couldn't watch more than a few minutes of
The Joker
–one of the worst films I've ever seen (or not seen, if you want to quibble). He was decent in
You Were Never Really Here
. I haven't seen
Walk the Line
(I hear he was good in that). I stand by what I said: a cringe actor who is desperate to be Robert De Niro but can't pull it off. -
Sophie Fevvers
— 10 months ago(May 22, 2025 03:31 PM)then you have to knock it off with your baseless Phoenix bashing and do your homework catching up with watching his best performances, namely
Beau Is Afraid
,
The Master
,
Her
,
Inherent Vice
,
Irrational Man
,
The Immigrant
, and
Walk the Line
before you can form a qualified valid opinion on him, please and thanks.
as for Rush, i think he's good enough. i can give you that. okay?