I say that because let's face it name a actor or actress that has been around for over 40 years.
And has made some of the greatest films of all-time:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) who has not seen this gem!
Becket (1964) It's a must see.
The Lion in Winter (1968) Katharine Hepburn and Peter are to die for!
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) What a underrated flim.
And a few nice-gems:
The Stunt Man (1980) not seen it yet but I want to.
My Favorite Year (1982) I will see this one soon.
Supergirl (1984) And I think he was great in this picture.
The Last Emperor (1987) one of my all-time fav-movies.
It makes me very sad to think that Peter will never win an Oscar for best actor.
But then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences I think is out-touch in the sense of real art in flim making.
Shannon Nutt
07-28-07, 03:28 PM
He was awesome in Caligula. ;)
RyoHazuki
07-28-07, 03:29 PM
our time?
William Fuld
07-28-07, 03:35 PM
I say that because let's face it name a actor or actress that has been around for over 40 years.
I tried...but failed. :sad:
Ronnie Dobbs
07-28-07, 03:37 PM
our time?
haha i was about to post that.
gryffinmaster
07-28-07, 03:45 PM
I say that because let's face it name a actor or actress that has been around for over 40 years.
What about Kirk Douglas?
chris_sc77
07-28-07, 04:07 PM
I just gotta say that my favorite Peter O' Toole performance is in The Ruling Class.
He is awesome to watch in that movie.
FRwL
07-28-07, 04:19 PM
As for not winning best actor, there's always the bottle!
GuessWho
07-28-07, 04:22 PM
our time?
http://www.netwalk.com/~truegger/ftrh/pizza7.jpg
If I'm here... and you're here... doesn't that make it our time? Certainly there's nothing wrong with a little pizza on our time.
cranberries fan
07-28-07, 04:35 PM
What about Kirk Douglas?
He is great to but has not bend acting much as of late(his health is not very good these days).
wilky61
07-28-07, 04:41 PM
Plenty of actors have been around for 40 years... Hoffman/Nicholson/Deniro/Pacino/Hackman/Lemmon/Newman/Eastwood/Arkin, etc.
And, I have to confess, I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia... :sad:
cranberries fan
07-28-07, 05:37 PM
Plenty of actors have been around for 40 years... Hoffman/Nicholson/Deniro/Pacino/Hackman/Lemmon/Newman/Eastwood/Arkin, etc.
And, I have to confess, I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia... :sad:
Yes those are very-fine actor's (I love De Niro & Pacino) but which of those has the power make you look and listen to everthing to on screen?
Peter has for me in almost ever flim.
Ps: you got to find time to see Lawrence of Arabia it was his first flim and still the best.
movieking
07-28-07, 06:18 PM
I thought that Venus was a great movie as well.
PopcornTreeCt
07-28-07, 07:24 PM
Yes those are very-fine actor's (I love De Niro & Pacino) but which of those has the power make you look and listen to everthing to on screen?
Jack Nicholson.
DeputyDave
07-28-07, 09:03 PM
"My Favorite Year" is one of my favorite O'Toole movies. :up: See it soon!
chris_sc77
07-28-07, 09:25 PM
I cant wait to see him in Stardust .
al_bundy
07-28-07, 09:33 PM
He was awesome in Caligula. ;)
the orgy on the boat rocked
MoviePage
07-29-07, 01:36 AM
Yep. He's good.
....
That's all I've got.
nateman
07-29-07, 08:51 AM
Peter O'Toole always puts on a brilliant performance.
Althrough I'm sure besides Academy Award voters, movieking, and me not many people have seen Venus but it's one of the best movies i've seen in awhile & it's at least original unlike most of the movies as of late. Jodie Whittaker put on a pretty damn good performance in the movie as well & I hope to see her in more things in the future.
Naturally my favorite O'Toole movie is Lawrence of Arabia. Even if you didn't think it was the best movie you've ever seen, you at least have to show a respect for that masterpiece. It definitely ranks up their as one of my all-time favorite movies & I don't think any movie in the near future will ever surpass it.
Oh, and you can't forget his for-sure Academy award win for his work in Ratatouille ;) .
I think he might just be the greatest live actor of are time or their time or whatever time.
rexinnih
07-29-07, 11:15 AM
Peter O'Toole will always rank in my top 5 of actors past or present. Looking back on his many Oscar worthy performances, it is hard to find one I like the best. I only hope he has a few more performances left in him.
Rad14
07-29-07, 01:39 PM
Peter O'Toole is indeed one of the greatest actors of all time, but there are his contemporaries as well:
Hopkins, Caine, Connery, Finney, Plummer, etc
RyoHazuki
07-29-07, 02:14 PM
:lol: at Connery
thematahara
07-29-07, 02:37 PM
I say that because let's face it name a actor or actress that has been around for over 40 years.
Kurt Russell
Rad14
07-29-07, 02:56 PM
:lol: at Connery
Did you ever see Connery in The Hill or The Offence? Both directed by Sydney Lumet, both from a long time ago and both worthy of being included in anyone's list of Best Performances.
mllefoo
07-29-07, 03:17 PM
"My Favorite Year" is one of my favorite O'Toole movies. :up: See it soon!
Two of the best lines ever:
"I am not an actor. I am a MOVIE STAR!"
and
"Death is easy. Comedy is hard."
That movie was almost biographical for O'Toole. The whole scene where he and Benjy are walking through the park talking was ad-libbed. The story that Alan Swann was telling was O'Toole talking about his own life.
DrRingDing
07-29-07, 04:21 PM
our time?
60% of the time, he's right ALL the time...
-ringding-
toddly6666
07-29-07, 05:50 PM
I'm sure O'Toole was good in his early days, but since his post-Last Emperor days, I always thought of him as a last resort substitute: If you can't get Richard Harris, Ian McKellen, or Michael Caine in your movie, then you get Peter O'Toole. It's the same way that I thought of Harrison Ford in his golden years. If you can't get Harrison Ford in your movie, then you get Michael Douglas or Dennis Quad.
chris_sc77
07-29-07, 06:00 PM
He was da bomb in Phantoms!
MWB
07-29-07, 06:15 PM
http://www.netwalk.com/~truegger/ftrh/pizza7.jpg
If I'm here... and you're here... doesn't that make it our time? Certainly there's nothing wrong with a little pizza on our time.
Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Are parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's are time. It's are time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket.
Charlie Goose
07-30-07, 12:20 PM
If you can't get Richard Harris, Ian McKellen, or Michael Caine in your movie, then you get Peter O'Toole.
Has Michael Caine ever actually turned something down?
DieselsDen
07-30-07, 02:22 PM
He was awesome in Caligula. ;)
And in SUPERGIRL.
Groucho
07-30-07, 02:33 PM
A few years ago, Richard Harris was on a talk show (Letterman?) and told the story of how he and O'Toole went out drinking one night before a theater performance. They lost track of time, and got back late. Harris stumbled on stage, slurring his lines.
"You, sir, are drunk!" shouted one outraged patron.
"If you think I'm drunk, just wait until you see O'Toole!" was Harris's deadpan response.
cranberries fan
08-02-07, 11:52 PM
Well I have now seen My Favorite Year what a blast that movie was.
And after I was done watching this one guess what next flim was:
The Third Man_____man that was a "COOL" movie.
And I think Har-- L-m- is not dead at the end movie.
cranberries fan
09-11-07, 08:02 PM
Well today (sept,11th) I watch Venus what marvelous show spot-on-acting from Peter It does not get any better than this "BRAVO".
Mr. Salty
09-11-07, 09:06 PM
The Third Man_____man that was a "COOL" movie.
And I think Har-- L-m- is not dead at the end movie.
That's a lame attempt at hiding an uncalled-for spoiler. Why don't you go back and add spoiler tags?
cranberries fan
09-12-07, 01:16 AM
That's a lame attempt at hiding an uncalled-for spoiler. Why don't you go back and add spoiler tags?
I'm bad I would think everyone here has seen The Third Man by now.
FinkPish
09-12-07, 01:57 AM
What smoke you? And if not, what brained your damage?
mwbmis
09-12-07, 02:20 AM
Long been one of my absolute favorites. It's good to see his career getting a bit of a resurgence in the last few years. There wasn't much in the 90s.
I know he personally didn't care for the movie, but I thought he gave Troy quite a bit of gravitas.
Boba Fett
09-12-07, 03:28 AM
Has Michael Caine ever actually turned something down?
"I haven't seen it, but all accounts say its absolutely terrible; I have seen the house that it built, and its terriffic." -Michael Caine on starring in Jaws: The Revenge
Looking at some of his other roles (Bewitched, Miss Congeniality, On Deadly Ground), I'd say as long as he gets paid, no role is too awful.
nateman
09-12-07, 11:24 AM
Well today (sept,11th) I watch Venus what marvelous show spot-on-acting from Peter It does not get any better than this "BRAVO".
Finally someone who else who also loves Venus, the film not the planet.
I thought Peter O’Toole’s performance as Maurice was absolutely terrific. I wish Venus got more of a wider release & a better “buzz” when it was released on DVD because it was one of the better films I’ve seen in the past 2 years.
The supporting cast was just as strong & I was pleasantly surprised to see Pie In the Sky’s, Richard Griffiths in the film. Jodie Whittaker was the perfect person to play Maurice’s friends, niece.
The whole ‘in love with an extremely older woman’ thing was fresh & different, which is rare today.
As much as I loved Mr. O’Toole’s performance in Venus, I think Forest Whitaker deserved that Academy Award for, ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role’ for The Last King of Scotland. Peter deserved it as well but their can only be one winner.
Giles
09-12-07, 11:30 AM
I am soooo stoked - I'm seeing 'Lawrence of Arabia' tonight over at the AFI Silver Theatre in 70mm!!
cranberries fan
09-13-07, 02:27 AM
I am soooo stoked - I'm seeing 'Lawrence of Arabia' tonight over at the AFI Silver Theatre in 70mm!!
Lucky Dog I would just die to see that on the big-screen.
marty888
09-14-07, 10:53 PM
Long been one of my absolute favorites. It's good to see his career getting a bit of a resurgence in the last few years. There wasn't much in the 90s.
In the 90s he was doing theater in the U.K.
If you can accommodate R2 DVDs, get your hands on <i>Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell</i>, a play by Keith Waterhouse that was recorded live at the Old Vic. O'Toole is incredible as an alcoholic journalist (there really was a Jeffrey Bernard) who get locked up overnight in a pub. This is one of the funniest plays I've seen in a long time, and the supporting cast is perfect.
Lemdog
09-17-07, 02:43 AM
I see there is no love for Tony Leung Chiu Wai, in this thread.
cranberries fan
09-19-07, 01:03 AM
I see there is no love for Tony Leung Chiu Wai, in this thread.
Well let me be the first to show mad-love for Tony Leung Chiu Wai I have only a few of his flims:
Infernal Affairs (all 3 of them)
Hero
What other flims of his would you think I should check out?
Lemdog
09-19-07, 01:32 AM
Well let me be the first to show mad-love for Tony Leung Chiu Wai I have only a few of his flims:
Infernal Affairs (all 3 of them)
Hero
What other flims of his would you think I should check out?
Love Me, Love My Money - Romantic Comedy with Shu Qi (I heart Shu Qi)
In the Mood for Love - One of the greatest films of all time
Flowers of Shanghai - Tough to find a good version
Happy Together - Another Kar-Wai film
Ashes of Time - supposed to be a re-release of this (Sony Pictures Classic)
Chungking Express - A must.
Dong Cheng Xi Jiu - :lol: Truly an amazing cast, for this comedy. :lol:
Hard-Boiled - Good old John Woo
Lust, Caution - Coming soon!
A good TV series would be - Luk ding gei. This is classic HK/Chinese TV.
Buy: