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Originally Posted by dyna mo
right on, a well-written role makes the difference in this case. i meant to add earlier, bale in american psycho was xcllnt and that was not a well-written role or well-done movie for that matter. he pulled it off. even the voice-over, which usually drives me crazy  |
That movie was pretty damn odd, but he made it not only watchable but actually entertaining, and I agree...the voice-over was actually spot on for it.
Another good acting performance IMO was Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love. I not only had some of the tendencies his character did in the movie in my early adulthood but know at least a couple people similar to that, and while he's obviously a bit of a quirky guy anyways, I doubt he's endured the same issues his character did in that movie and I thought he pulled it off spot-on. I encourage people who are tired of his other kinds of movies to watch that because I think they'd be surprised. In general I think it's a pretty underrated movie...probably doesn't outshine Magnolia (hard to since that's epic and PDL is literally about half the length) but still pretty good.
Along the same lines was Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine...kind of similar to Guy Pierce in Memento in that the oddity of the movie makes the role more difficult but I think in addition to that he pulled off the shyness of the character pretty well given he's Jim Carrey, lol. Just because he generally does only funny slapstick roles doesn't mean he can't act when he's had the chance to. Kate Winslet did just about as well and was another actress I was trying to think of in my last post in terms of someone branching out in roles vs. picking the same standard role over and over.