How would you rate these actors?

[johnnyboy]

Hey guys! I'm new to this wonderful site and would like to ask everyone, how would you rate some of these fine actors in the scale of 1 to 10, and if you can be bothered then tell a reason, why you rated them that way too, ok here goes:
Johnny Depp(Edward Scissorhands, Fear And Loading In Las Vegas, From Hell, Donny Brasco)
Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, Carlito's Way)
Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys, Kalifornia, Se7en)
Denzel Washington(Malcolm X,Training Day, Philadelphia)
Tom Hanks(Castaway, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan)
Jimmy Stewart(It's A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window)
Russell Crowe(Insider,A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
Marlon Brando(The Godfather, On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire)
Robert De Niro(Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
Edward Norton(Fight Club, American History X, Primal Fear)
Al Pacino(Scarface, Scent Of A Woman, Godfather)
Kevin Spacey(American Beauty, Usual Suspects)
I put some films in there too, in case someone doesn't recognise the names.:-)

Johnny Depp 7
Sean Penn 8
Brad Pitt 7
Denzel 10
Tom Hanks 10
Jimmy Stewart 10
Russell Crowe 8
Marlon Brando 10
Robert De Niro 10
Edward Norton 9
Al Pacino 10
Kevin Spacey 9.5

Thats how i would rate them, what about you guys?

Thanks!

[thop]

well i do not know what this is all about, but here we go:

Depp 10
Penn 8
Pitt 7
Denzel 6
Hanks 6
Stewart ?
Crowe 6
Brando 5
De Niro 10
Norton 9
Pacino 8
Spacey 6

[KvHagedorn]

Depp 5
Penn 6
Pitt 7
Denzel 4
Hanks 6
Stewart 9
Crowe 6
Brando 8
De Niro 9
Norton 7
Pacino 7
Spacey 10

Kevin Spacey might be the best actor ever to appear on film. Cary Grant, Alec Guiness, and Trevor Howard come damned close.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

hell i have the time..

Depp 6
Penn 7
Pitt 10
Denzel 5
Hanks 8
Stewart who?
Crowe 6
Brando 6
De Niro 10
Norton 9
Pacino 6
Spacey 6

[Indiana]

@thop and Lizzie:
Don't say you never saw at least one of these Alfred Hitchcock movies or a western with James Stewart?!?

Todays kids...

[Lizzard[MPE]]

haha i didnt notice Thop didnt know who he was either.. oops.






i have seen every western there ever was....

( trust me on that one.. spent lots of time with my father in the summers watching star treks, westerns, and jeopardys..)

I guess i wud know by his picture unfortunetly right now the only website that is actually letting me connect to is the murc.

Just cant picture the name ...and i havent seen these (It's A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window)

and if one of those was a western.. i lied in the first statement. lol

[Lizzard[MPE]]

AND.... before anyone says i rated brad pitt a 10 because he is popular with the women.. i want to explain.. cos ive heard that over and over again.

Brad Pitt is a 10 as an actor. He can play any character. And so many characters he plays are unique and would be hard to play i would think.

Kalifornia.... 12 Monkeys... Snatch... Fight Club..

[KvHagedorn]

Westerns starring Jimmy Stewart:

Destry Rides Again (1939)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
The Naked Spur (1953)
TheFar Country (1954)
The Man From Laramie (1955)
Night Passage (1957)
Two Rode Together (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
How The West Was Won (1962)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Shenandoah (1965)
The Rare Breed (1966)
Firecreek (1968)
Bandolero (1968)
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
The Shootist (1976)

[Electric Amish]

This won't be very popular, but here we go...

Depp 9
Penn 5
Pitt 3 (Except for 12 Monkeys and Snatch where I give him a 10)
Denzel 8
Hanks 5
Stewart 9
Crowe 9 (because of Beautiful Mind)
Brando 6
De Niro 9
Norton 6
Pacino 9
Spacey 10

[Indiana]

Well here is a picture of James Stewart from "Vertigo":

[Lizzard[MPE]]

oh yes. of course. i know now

[Schorsch]

Depp 7
Penn 8
Pitt 5
Denzel 7
Hanks 8
Stewart 9
Crowe 8
Brando 9
De Niro 10
Norton 8
Pacino 9
Spacey 8

[Gurm]

Re: How would you rate these actors?

I'll work on a scale of 2-9. Nobody on this list deserves either a 1 or a 10.

Johnny Depp(Edward Scissorhands, Fear And Loading In Las Vegas, From Hell, Donny Brasco)

6 After a rough start (21 Jump Street, anyone), it turns out that Depp is a versatile actor.

Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, I Am Sam, Carlito's Way)

2. Some people seem to feel that Sean Penn is some amazing actor. As far as I can tell he always looks like he's just been hit in the face, and acts about the same. What Robin Wright saw in him I have NO idea.

Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys, Kalifornia, Se7en)

7. Brad can, amazingly enough, act. The fact that he's a super-prettyboy means nothing to this particular rating.

Denzel Washington(Malcolm X,Training Day, Philadelphia)

Hmm. 6. Denzel is a bit TOO intense for his own good sometimes. He was great in training day, because the character was SUPPOSED to be that intense.

Tom Hanks(Castaway, Philadelphia, Saving Private Ryan)

8. Hanks is good. But maybe too good. He's very good at "Joe Average", whether or not Joe Average gets stuck in a bigger-than-life situation (Private Ryan), or gets a raw deal (Philadelphia). But his range is limited, keeping him from getting a 9.

Jimmy Stewart(It's A Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window)

2. Why? Because he made an entire career out of a speech impediment. Many old-time actors did. There were good actors (Gregory Peck), and bad ones (Jimmy Stewart). I, too, can talk out the side of my mouth - it doesn't mean I deserve accolades.

Russell Crowe(Insider,A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)

5. Crowe is very interesting, and may deserve a higher rating as time goes on. As for "A Beautiful Mind" - see my rant on psychos later on.

Marlon Brando(The Godfather, On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire)

2. Again, a speech impediment and propensity for eccentricity, combined with good looks at a young age. Feh.

Robert De Niro(Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)

7. Started off poorly. Everyone said he was amazing right from the start, but I'm sorry - he was TERRIBLE in Taxi Driver. Acting like a psycho doesn't make you a good actor. I fail to understand why psychos and retards seem to make for "seminal roles" for actors.

Edward Norton(Fight Club, American History X, Primal Fear)

7. He's good, but all his performances are basically the same.

Al Pacino(Scarface, Scent Of A Woman, Godfather)

9. Pacino rules.

Kevin Spacey(American Beauty, Usual Suspects)

9. Spacey rules.

- Gurm

[thop]

Gurm 3

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by thop
Gurm 3

You forgot to elaborate on that one, thop.

"A propensitiy for triteness and exaggeration. Always feels like he has to sacrifice some commonly revered icon to prove a point (no matter how much it might detract from his own credibility)"

You're right about Brando, Gurm.. I too feel that he's somewhat overrated. A shame he did his best work in an X-rated foreign film. He deserves more than a 2 though.

About Stewart you're dead wrong. He's got a lot more going for him than his silly stammering.. or did you just judge him based upon Johnny Carson's lame impersonation? Stewart could communicate more with a subtle look than many actors today do with a whole performance. He made millions identify with him, just like Tom Hanks does today. Ironically, Hanks is pretty much a modern day Stewart, with some comic timing thrown in.. yet you rate him an 8..

Let's do directors next.. I feel they contribute far more to a film than do actors, generally.