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Marlin Brando once said "To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication." Just a short generation later, Jim Carrey would observe "Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass." Yes, there is no recipe for what makes great acting and no surefire way to distinguish it from the talking asses of the world, perhaps in no small part because when it's at it's best, it doesn't seem like acting at all. Ranking artistry is never easy, if not downright impossible. It's undeniably subjective, contentious, and almost sure to offend. Of course, that's never stopped us before.
Rankings were made taking into account overall ability and range, strength of the roles taken, longevity, influence, and awards won. Listed alongside are each actor's best works, also loosely ranked according to how each exemplifies their talents.
With all due respect to the likes of Dennis Hopper, Heath Ledger, and Paul Newman, actors must be living and relatively active for consideration.
- Robert De Niro: The Godfather II, The Deer Hunter, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Heat, Cape Fear, Casino, Meet the Parents, Once Upon a Time in America.
- Al Pacino: The Godfather, The Godfather II, Scarface, Heat, Scent of a Woman, Carlito's Way, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Donnie Brasco, The Insider.
- Jack Nicholson: The Departed, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Easy Rider, Chinatown, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, Terms of Endearment, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pledge.
- Daniel Day-Lewis: There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, My Left Foot, The Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father, The Age of Innocence, The Crucible, The Boxer, Nine, A Room With a View.
- Tom Hanks: Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Cast Away, A League of Their Own, Big, Philadelphia, Apollo 13, Catch Me if You Can.
- Sean Penn: 21 Grams, Mystic River, Milk, Dead Man Walking, Carlito's Way, The Thin Red Line, I Am Sam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Colors, Sweet and Lowdown.
- Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Dirty Harry, Gran Torino, Escape from Alcatraz, In the Line of Fire, The Bridges of Madison Country, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Hang Em High.
- Michael Caine: Sleuth, Alfie, Dark Knight, The Cider House Rules, Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters, Little Voice, The Quiet American, The Italian Job, Harry Brown.
- Anthony Hopkins: Silence of the Lambs, The Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Nixon, Amistad.
- Morgan Freeman: The Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven, Se7en, Glory, The Dark Knight, Million Dollar Baby, Gone, Baby, Gone, Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart, The Sum of All Fears, Batman Begins, Outbreak, Amistad, Along Came a Spider, High Crimes.
- Robert Duvall: The Godfather, The Apostle, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Great Santini, A Civil Action, Get Low, To Kill a Mockingbird, MASH, The Natural.
- Dustin Hoffman: Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie.
- Denzel Washington: Malcolm X, Training Day, Glory, American Gangster, Inside Man, Remember The Titans, Courage Under Fire, Philadelphia, The Hurricane, Crimson Tide, The Bone Collector, The Manchurian Candidate, The Siege, Antwone Fisher, He Got Game.
- Ben Kingsley: Gandhi, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog, Sexy Beast, Shutter Island.
- Leonardo DiCaprio: Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Basketball Diaries, Shutter Island, Inception, Gangs of New York, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Titanic, Revolutionary Road, The Man in the Iron Mask.
- Geoffrey Rush: Shine, The King's Speech, Quills, Pirates of the Caribbean.
- Martin Sheen: Apocalypse Now, The Departed, Badlands, The American President, Wall Street.
- Kevin Spacey: Se7en, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, LA Confidential, The Negotiator, A Time to Kill, Glengarry Glen Ross, Outbreak, Superman Returns, The United States of Leland.
- Russell Crowe: LA Confidential, Gladiator, The Insider, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind, Romper Stomper, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Master and Commander, Blood Oath.
- Ed Harris: Pollock, Apollo 13, The Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind, The Hours, Gone Baby Gone, A History of Violence, Empire Falls, The Rock, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Abyss.
- Willem Defoe: Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boondock Saints, Shadow of the Vampire, To Live and Die in L.A.
- Ralph Fiennes: Schindler's List, Harry Potter Franchise, The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, Bernard and Doris.
- Jon Voight: Coming Home, Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Runaway Train, Ali.
- Gene Hackman: The French Connection, Unforgiven, Mississippi Burning, Superman, The Royal Tenenbaums.
- Harrison Ford: Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Fugitive, Bladerunner, Witness.
- Warren Beatty: Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Bugsy, Bulworth.
- Richard Dreyfus: Jaws, American Graffiti, The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Holland's Opus.
- Matt Damon: The Departed, Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, Rounders, The Bourne Identity, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's 11, Syriana, School Ties, Dogma.
- Brad Pitt: Se7en, Fight Club, The Asassination of Jessie James, Twelve Monkeys, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, Sleepers, Ocean's Eleven, Babel, Inglourious Bastards, Snatch, True Romance, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Legends of the Fall, Interview with the Vampire.
- Christian Bale: The Machinist, The Prestige, The Fighter, The Dark Knight, American Psycho, Batman Begins, 3:10 to Yuma, Empire of the Sun, Rescue Dawn, I'm Not There.
- Ian McKellan: Gods and Monsters, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Richard III, X-Men, Apt Pupil.
- Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Blow, Finding Neverland, Donnie Brasco, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Platoon, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood.
- Edward Norton: Fight Club, American History X, Rounders, The Illusionist, 25th Hour, Primal Fear, Keeping the Faith, The Italian Job, Red Dragon, The People vs. Larry Flynt.
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Capote, Magnolia, Doubt, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Charlie Wilson's War, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Flawless, Punch-Drunk Love.
- Liam Neeson: Schindler's List, Kinsey, Batman Begins, Taken, Michael Collins.
- Tom Cruise: Rain Man, Magnolia, A Few Good Men, Born on the Fourth of July, Minority Report, Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, The Last Samurai, The Firm, Mission Impossible, Tropic Thunder, Top Gun, Vanilla Sky, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicle.
- Jeff Bridges: The Big Lebowski, Crazy Heart, True Grit, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys.
- Christopher Walken: The Deer Hunter, Catch Me If You Can, A View to Kill, The Dead Zone, At Close Range.
- Benicio Del Toro: The Usual Suspects, Traffic, 21 Grams, Che, Sin City, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Guerrilla, The Argentine, The Pledge, The Way of the Gun.
- Tommy Lee Jones: The Fugitive, JFK, No Country For Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, Men in Black.
- Gary Oldman: JFK, The Dark Knight, Leon, Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
- Javier Bardem: No Country For Old Men, Biutiful, Before Night Falls, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Mondays in the Sun.
- Harvey Keitel: Mean Streets, Bugsy, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver.
- Mel Gibson: Braveheart, The Patriot, Lethal Weapon, Ransom, Mad Max.
- Will Smith: The Pursuit Of Happiness, Ali, Six Degrees of Separation.
- Robin Williams: Goodwill Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, One Hour Photo, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire.
- Don Cheadle: Hotel Rwanda, Traffic, Crash, Devil in a Blue Dress, Ocean's Eleven.
- Samuel L. Jackson: Pulp Fiction, A Time to Kill, Jackie Brown, The Negotiator, Against the Wall.
- Billy Bob Thorton: Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, The Man Who Wasn't There, Friday Night Lights.
- Paul Giamatti: Sideways, Cinderella Man, American Splendor, The Illusionist, Cold Souls.
- Joaquin Pheonix: Gladiator, Walk the Line, Quills, The Yards, Ladder 49.
- Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, JFK, The Untouchables, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
- Michael Douglas: Wall Street, Traffic, Wonder Boys, The American President, Basic Instinct.
- John Hurt: The Elephant Man, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alien, Scandal, The Hit.
- Bruce Willis: The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, Sin City.
- Kevin Bacon: Animal House, The Woodsman, Sleepers, Apollo 13, Mystic River.
- Robert Downey Jr.: Chaplin, Tropic Thunder, Less than Zero, Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes.
- George Clooney: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Good Night, and Good Luck, Syriana, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air.
- James Woods: Salvador, Once Upon a Time in America, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, Contact.
- Bill Murray: Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Rushmore, Ghostbusters.
- Josh Brolin: No Country for Old Men, W., Milk, True Grit, Goonies.
- Tim Robbins: The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player.
- Jim Carrey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man on the Moon, The Truman Show.
- Forest Whitaker: Last King of Scotland, Good Morning, Vietnam, Bird, Panic Room, American Gun.
- John Travolta: Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Primary Colors, A Civil Action.
- Donald Sutherland: MASH, The Dirty Dozen, JFK.
- John Malkovich: Places in the Heart, The Killing Fields, In the Line of Fire, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich.
- Colin Firth: The King's Speech, A Single Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
- Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler, Sin City, Diner, Barfly, Angel Heart.
- Viggo Mortenson: Lord of the Rings, A History of Violence, The Road, Eastern Promises.
- Steve Buschemi: Fargo, Living in Oblivion, Ghost World, The Big Lebowski, Reservoir Dogs.
- Jamie Foxx: Ray, Collateral, Any Given Sunday.
- Joe Pesci: Goodfellas, Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Casino, Lethal Weapon, Home Alone.
- Gary Sinise: Forrest Gump, Of Mice and Men, Ransom.
- Laurence Fishbourne: The Matrix, Apocalypse Now, What's Love Got to Do with It.
- Nick Nolte: Affliction, The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Tides, Cape Fear.
- Nicholas Cage: Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, The Rock, Face/Off.
- James Franco: Pineapple Express, Milk, 127 Hours, Spiderman, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
- William H. Macy: Fargo, Seabiscuit, Boogie Nights.
- Mark Wahlberg: Boogie Nights, The Departed, The Fighter, Three Kings, Fear.
- John Turturro: Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Quiz Show, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing.
- Daniel Craig: Casino Royale, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Road to Perdition, Defiance, Munich.
- Chris Cooper: American Beauty, The Bourne Identity, Capote.
- Christoph Waltz: Inglourious Bastards
- Casey Affleck: Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, Chasing Amy.
- Mark Ruffalo: The Kids Are All Right, Shutter Island, You Can Count on Me.
- William Hurt: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Children of a Lesser God, Broadcast News.
- Adrien Brody: The Pianist, King Kong, The Jacket.
- Ryan Gosling: Half-Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl, Blue Valentine, Drive, The Ides of March.
- Jude Law: Road to Perdition, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain.
- Guy Pierce: Memento, LA Confidential, The King's Men.
- Colin Farrell: In Bruges, Minority Report, Phone Booth.
- Tom Wilkinson: Michael Clayton, In the Bedroom, The Full Monty.
- Jeremy Renner: The Hurt Locker, The Town, Dahmer.
- Elijah Wood: Lord of the Rings, Sin City, North, The Good Son.
- Woody Harrelson: White Men Can't Jump, The People vs Larry Flynt, The Messenger, Natural Born Killers, Kingpin.
- Clive Owen: Children of Men, Closer, Inside Man.
- Jake Gyllenhaal: Brokeback Mountain, Donnie Darko, Zodiac.
- Andy Serkis: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Longford, Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Ewan McGregor: Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, Star Wars Prequels.
Definitive Dose presents the 40 best directors working in Hollywood today. - Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York, Casino, Shutter Island, The Last Waltz, Cape Fear, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Aviator, The Age of Innocence, Mean Streets, Kundun.
- Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Jaws, ET, Poltergeist, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Amistad, Munich, War of the Worlds.
- Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather, The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, You're A Big Boy Now.
- Christopher Nolan: Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Insomnia, Following.
- Joel/Ethan Cohen: No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, Blood Simple, A Serious Man, The Hudsucker Proxy.
- James Cameron: Terminator 2, Avatar, Titanic, Aliens, The Abyss.
- Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Inglourious Bastards, Jackie Brown.
- David Fincher: Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, Zodiac.
- Darren Aronofsky: Requiem For a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Pi, The Fountain, Below.
- P.T. Anderson: There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Hard Eight, Punch-Drunk Love.
- Oliver Stone: Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers.
- Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Mystic River, The Bridges of Madison County.
- Ron Howard: A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon, Cocoon, Apollo 13.
- Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist, Tess, Pirates.
- Brian De Palma: Scarface, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables, Carrie.
- Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Romancing the Stone.
- Ridley Scott: Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, Thelma and Louise, American Gangster.
- Steven Soderbergh: Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven, Che, Out of Sight.
- Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo.
- Peter Jackson: The Return of the King, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, King Kong, The Lovely Bones.
- David Lynch: Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Wild atHeart, The Straight Story.
- Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ragtime, Man on the Moon.
- Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Big Fish.
- Terry Giliam: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
- Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Sense and Sensibility, Life of Pi, The Ice Storm.
- Michael Mann: Heat, The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, Ali.
- Mel Brooks: History of the World Part I, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein.
- Rob Reiner: A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, Misery.
- Gus Van Sant: Goodwill Hunting, Milk, Finding Forrester, Drugstore Cowboy, Elephant.
- Edward Zwick: Glory, Blood Diamond, Courage Under Fire, The Last Samurai, The Siege.
- Sam Mendes: American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, Away We Go.
- John Carpenter: Halloween, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Big Trouble in Little China.
- Kevin Smith: Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
- Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Darjeeling Limited.
- Alejandro González Iñárritu: 21 Grams, Amoss Perros, Babel, Biutiful.
- Barry Levinson: Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, The Natural, Sleepers, Bugsy.
- Spike Lee: Malcolm X, Clockers, Do the Right Thing, Inside Man, 25th Hour.
- Terrance Malick: The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven.
- Danny Boyle: Slumdog Milloinaire, Trainspotting, 127 Hours, 28 Weeks Later, The Beach.
- Guillermo Del Toro: Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy, Cronos.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine. The terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, and pushes its hero Batman to breaking point and beyond.
Lincoln (2012) Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tommy Lee Jones. Based on the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The sixteenth President of the United States guides the North to victory during the Civil War.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labrynth). Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug.
The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013)
Skyfall (2012) Starring Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, and Javier Bardem. James Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Total Recall (2012) Starring Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale, and Ethan Hawke. As the nation stations Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he is on.
Man of Steel (2012) Starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, and possibly Russell Crowe with writing contributions by Christopher Nolan.
Human Nature (2013) Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring George Clooney. A man who is cryogenically frozen for years awakens to a world where humans are no longer the dominant species.
Django Unchained (2012) Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christoph Waltz. A slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner. 
The Dictator (2012) Directed by Larry Charles, written by Sacha Baron Cohen and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Megan Fox, Ben Kingsley, JB Smoove, John C. Reily, and Anna Faris. The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
The Master (2012) Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Adams. A 1950's-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.
Kill Bill Volume 3 (2014) Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Uma Thurman.
Silence (2013) Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro. In the 17th century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
Sin City 2 (?) Written and directed by Frank Miller. In the dark bowels of Sin City, Dwight plans to have his vengeance against the woman who betrayed him, Ava Lord, while Nancy is trying to cope with Hartigan's death.
The Comedian (2014) Directed by Sean Penn. Starring Robert De Niro and Kristen Wiig. A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Leningrad (2012) Written by Sergio Leon and starring Al Pacino. The histrical epic depicts the seige of Leningrad by the German army during World War II. The Russians suffered terrible losses but the the Communists would not give up the birthplace of the Russian revolution.
Sinatra (2013) Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The life story of legendary singer and actor Franck Sinatra.
The Three Stooges (2012) Directed by the Farrelly Brothers. Set in modern day and centering on the slapstick adventures of Moe, Larry, and Curly.
Pablo Escobar (2012) Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and written by David McKenna (American History X).
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Starring Leonardo Dicaprio. Based on the autobiography of Jordan Belfort. A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
Cogan's Trade (2012) Starring Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo, Casey Affleck, Ray Liotta, and James Gandolfini. Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.
Lombardi (???) Starring Robert De Niro and written by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump). The story of Green Bay Packers coach Vinco Lombardi and how he led his team to victory during the 1967 NFL Champioship.
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Written and directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Frances McDormand, and Jason Schwartzman. A pair of lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out and find them.
Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father (2012) Directed by Barry Levinson. Starring Al Pacino, John Travolta, and Joe Pesci. The story of crime boss John Gotti and his son.
Savages (2012) Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro and Uma Thurman. Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
The Wizard of Lies (2012 on HBO) Starring Robert De Nero as Bernie Madoff.
Untitled Whitey Bulger Project (2014) Directed by Ben Affleck and starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck. The story of notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger
The Trade (2012) Written by Ben and Casey Affleck. A chronicle of the 1970s scandal caused by New York Yankees Fritz Petterson and Mike Kekich, who admitted to swapping wives with one another.
Hemingway and Fuentes (2012) Starring Anthony Hopkins, Annette Benning, and Andy Garcia. Directed and written by Andy Garcia. Ernest Hemingway befriends boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, who inspires him to pen the famous tale "The Old Man and the Sea."
Twelve Years A Slave (2014) Starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. A man living in New York during the mid-1800s is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the deep south.
The Gangster Squad (2013) Starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Brian Cranston. A chronicle of the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s
The Lone Ranger (2013) Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer.
The Avengers (2012) Starring Robert Downey Jr, Scarlet Johanssen, Samuel L Jackson, and Jeremy Renner. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agency brings together a team of superhumans to save the Earth from annihalation by extraterrestrial invadors.
Interstellar (2014) Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Jonathan Nolan. An exploration of physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields, wormholes and several hypotheses that Albert Einstein was never able to prove.
Waco (2012) Starring Adrien Brody, Sharon Stone, and Kurt Russell. A retelling of the 1993 stand-off between the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas.
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (2013) Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and produced by Martin Scorsese. A look at the formative years of the 26th President, from his transformation from a privileged New York politician to commander of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
Gambit (2012) Written by the Coen brothers and starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz. An art curator enlists the services of a Texas steer roper to con a wealthy collector into buying a phony Monet painting.
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) Starring Will Ferrell, Zack Galifianakis, John C. Reilly, Jeff Goldblum, and Will Forte.
Rush (2013) Directed by Ron Howard and written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland). Starring Chris Hemsworth, Russell Crowe and Olivia Wilde. A biography of Formula 1 champion driver Niki Lauda and the 1976 crash that almost claimed his life. Mere weeks after the accident, he got behind the wheel to challenge his rival, James Hunt.
Lovelace (2012) Starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard and Sharon Stone. The story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband before taking control of her life.
The Mission (2013) Directed by David O. Russell and starring Brad Pitt (rumored). An action thriller about the 2008 rescue of 15 hostages from a guerrilla group in the Columbian jungle.
The Great Gatsby (2012) Starry Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maguire. An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, mad
ness, and tragedy await.
The Odyssey (?) Directed by George Miller. Odysseus and his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War, during which he is confronted by natural and supernatural threats including shipwrecks, battles, monsters, and the sea god Poseidon. Tale is told through Odysseus' son Telemachus.
On the Road (2012) Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) Starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, and Steve Buscemi. Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation living in the here and now during the Fifties. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Written and directed by the Coen brothers. Starring Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Justin Timberlake (rumored) A singer-songwriter navigates New York's folk music scene in the 1960's.
Arrested Development (?) Starring Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Michael Cera, and Jeffery Tambor. Presented by Ron Howard (executive producer). A big screen adaptation of the critically-acclaimed television series centering on the adventures of the dysfunctional Bluth family.
Brave New World (?) Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (rumored)
Hamdam v. Rumsfeld (?) Produced by George Clooney and written by Aaron Sorkin. A thriller set against the backdrop of the war on terror, The Challenge tells the inside story of a historic Supreme Court showdown. At its center are a Navy JAG and a young constitutional law professor who, in the aftermath of 9/11, find themselves defending their nation in the unlikeliest of ways: by suing the president of the United States on behalf of an accused terrorist in order to prevent the American government from breaking the law and violating the Constitution.
The Bourne Legacy (2012) Directed by Tony Gilroy and starring Jeremy Renner and Edward Norton.
World War Z (2012) Starring Brad Pitt and Brian Cranston. A UN representative, writing a report on the great zombie war, interviews survivors in the wake of World War Z.
Flight (2012) Directed by Robert Zemekis. Starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo and John Goodman. An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfuctions reveals something troubling.
Broken City (2013) Directed by Allan Hughes and starring Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. A neo-noir about a New York City private eye who gets pulled into a shady mayoral election.
The Irishman (??) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Liberace (2013 on HBO) Starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas. The life of celebrated pianist Liberace.
Yellow Submarine (??) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. A 3-D adaptation of the classic Beatles animated feature.
The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) Directed by RZA. Written by RZA and Eli Roth. Starring Russell Crowe, Jamie Chung and Lucy Lui. In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he has to depend himself and his fellow villagers.
Prometheus (2012) Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Guy Pierce.
1) Biff Tannen Back to the Future
2) Shooter McGavin
Happy Gilmore
---"Damn you people. Go back to your shanties."
3) Sensei John Kreese
The Karate Kid
---"Sweep the Leg"
4) Walter Peck
Ghostbusters
---"Frankly there have been a lot of wild stories in the media and we want to assess any possible environmental impact from your operation like the presence of noxious, possibly hazardous waste chemicals in your basement. Now either you show me what is down there or I come back with a court order."
5) Fred O'Bannion
Dazed and Confused
---"Y'all ready to bust some ass?"
6) Clark
Good Will Hunting
---"I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapitalism..."
7) Bill Lumbergh
Office Space
---"Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too..."
8) Percy
The Green Mile
---"I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet."
9) Ernie McCracken
Kingpin
---"Do me a favor, will you? Would you mind washing off that perfume before you come back to our table?
"10) Eric Gordon
Billy Madison
---"Well, 'sorry' doesn't put the Triscuit crackers in my stomach now, does it Carl?"
11) Caledon Hockley
Titanic
---"Where are you going? To him? To be a whore to a gutter rat?"
12) Charlie Dillon
School Ties
13) Harry Ellis
Die Hard
---"Hey babe, I negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast. I think I can handle this Eurotrash. "
14) Derek
Step Brothers
---"I am the VP of the biggest executive helicopter leasing company on the western seaboard. I haven't had a carb since 2004. Check these out."
The Princess Bride
---"Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped."
16) Sack Lodge
Wedding Crashers
"I hunt quail, Jeremy. They're overpopulated in this region and they're decimating the grubworm population. You got a fucking problem with that?"
17) Principal Ed Rooney
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
---"I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind."
18) Judge Smails
Caddyshack
---"Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too."
19) Dean Gordon 'Cheese' Pritchard
Old School
---"This is me leaving."
20) White Goodman
Honorable Mentions:
Carter Burke- Aliens, Douglas C. Neidermeyer- Animal House, Buzz McCallister- Home Alone, Mike Damone- Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Richard- Van Wilder, Stifler- American Pie, Ace Merrill- Stand By Me, Pat Healy- There's Something About Mary, Tony Perkis- Heavyweights, Stan Gable- Revenge of the Nerds, Col. William Tavington- The Patriot, Dave Harken- Horrible Bosses.
Say what you will about Ben Affleck the person, but its getting harder and harder to argue with the merits of Ben Affleck the screenwriter and director. Bennifer 2.0 has come along way since the hollywood punchline days of Gigli and Daredevil (both of which garnered him a worst actor golden raspberry) and has found new life as the screenwriter and director of Gone, Baby, Gone and the newly acclaimed The Town. Even better, he's gone above and beyond to put Boston back on the cinematic map. Seemed like a good time to break out the ten best Boston-based flicks of the generation.
The Departed- Good Will Hunting
- Gone, Baby, Gone
- Boondock Saints
- Mystic River
- The Town
- Blown Away
- Monument Ave
- Soul Man
- 21
Here are the 50 most well-crafted, intriguing, mesmerizing, or just plain bad-ass characters of the past 50 years.
- Vito Corleone- The Godfather
- The Joker- The Dark Knight
- Hannibal Lector- Silence of the Lambs
- James Bond- Goldfinger
- Anton Chigurh- No Country for Old Men
- Jules Winnfield- Pulp Fiction
- Tyler Durden- Fight Club
- John Doe- Se7en
- Gollum- Lord of the Rings
- Red Redding- Shawshank Redemption
- Daniel Plainview- There Will Be Blood
- Luke- Cool Hand Luke
- The Dude- The Big Lebowski
- Darth Vader- Star Wars
- The Man With No Name- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Forest Gump- Forest Gump
- Indiana Jones- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Tony Montana- Scarface
- Marty McFly- Back to the Future
- Travis Bickle- Taxi Driver
- Han Solo- Star Wars
- Wooderson- Dazed and Confused
- Costello- The Departed
- John McClain- Die Hard
- The Terminator- The Terminator
- Michael Corleone- The Godfather
- Harry Callahan- Dirty Harry
- Michael Vronsky- The Deer Hunter
- Edward Scissorhands- Edward Scissorhands
- Patrick Bateman- American Psycho
- Ron Burgundy- Anchorman
- RP McMurphy- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Detective Alonzo Harris- Training Day
- Butch Cassidy- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Jack Torrence- The Shining
- Carl Spackler- Caddyshack
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting- Gangs of New York
- Mr. Blonde- Reservoir Dogs
- Austin Powers- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Walter E. Kurtz- Apocalypse Now
- Ferris Bueller- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- William Wallace- Braveheart
- Sgt. Elias Grodin- Platoon
- Derek Vinyard- American History X
- Derek Zoolander- Zoolander
- William 'Bill' Munny- Unforgiven
- Bluto-Animal House
- Tommy DeVito- Goodfellas
- Max Cady- Cape Fear
- Lil Dice- City of God
After much deliberation, here are Definitive Dose's picks for the 80 most memorable, iconic, and quotable movie quotes of the past forty years....
- "Make him an offer he can't refuse."--The Godfather
- "Life is like a box of chocolate; you never know what you're gonna get." --Forest Gump
- "May the force be with you"--Star Wars
- "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Silence of the Lambs
- "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"--A Few Good Men
- "Bond. James Bond"--James Bond
- "Heeeere's Johnny!"--The Shining
- "Say hello to my little friend!"--Scarface
- "But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"--Dirty Harry
- "If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"--There Will Be Blood
- "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."--Apocalypse Now
- "Yippee kay-ay motherfucker"--Die Hard
- "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."--Pulp Fiction
- "E.T. Phone home" --E.T the Extra-Terrrestrial
- "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."--Dazed and Confused
- "You lookin' at me?"--Taxi Driver
- "Freeedooooom!!"--Braveheart
- "I see dead people." --The Sixth Sense
- "I'll be back." --Terminator
- "What's in the box?!!"--Se7en
- "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."--The Usual Suspects
- "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." --Wall Street
- "When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"--The Departed
- "Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!"--A Time to Kill
- "Show me the money!"--Jerry Maguire
- "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"--No Country For Old Men
- "King Kong ain't got shit on me!"--Training Day
- "These go to eleven"--Spinal Tap
- "I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!"--Snakes on a Plane
- "Houston, we have problem"--Apollo 13
- "If you build it, they will come"--Field of Dreams
- "Yo. Adrian"--Rocky
- "My precious"--Lord of the Rings
- "I'm the king of the world"--Titanic
- "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"--The Shawhank Redemption
- "You're going to need a bigger boat" --Jaws
- "Heineken?!! Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!!--Blue Velvet
- "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."--Back to the Future
- "I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."--Full Metal Jacket
- "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."--Fight Club
- "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- "I like them French fried potaters."--Sling Blade
- "You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work."--Remember the Titans
- "Warriooors. Come out and plaaaay"--Warriors
- "I feel the need--the need for speed."--Top Gun
- "Aaaallllrighty then"--Ace Ventura
- "Now. Where was I?"--Memento
- "Never underestimate the power of denial."--American Beauty
- "I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air."--Requiem For A Dream
- "Why So Serious?"--Dark Knight
- "It's not your fault." --Good Will Hunting
- "There's no crying in baseball" --A League of Their Own
- "Shomer fucking Shabbas!"--The Big Lebowski
- "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell."--The Exorcist
- "Whoo-ah!"--Scent of a Woman
- "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"--Speed
- "Free your mind, your ass will follow."--Platoon
- "Do you like scary movies?"--Scream
- "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."--Ferris Bueller
- "We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even."--Animal House
- "I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"--Trainspotting
- "You have smoked yourself retarded"--Half Baked
- "I wish I knew how to quit you." --Brokeback Mountain
- "I am serious. And don't call me surely." --Airplane!
- "I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. May God bless you. I
have no legs..."--Kids - "Is that my daughter in there?!!"--Mystic River
- "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."--Unforgiven
- "I'm a golden god!"--Almost Famous
- "If you're gonna spew, spew into this."--Wayne's World
- "One time at band camp..."--American Pie
- "America. Fuck yea!"--Team America: World Police
- "Look what ya did ya little jerk!"--Home Alone
- "Funny like how?"--Goodfellas
- "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! --The Princess Bride
- "Your royal penis is clean, your Highness" --Coming to America
- "Attica! Attica! --Dog Day Afternoon
- "Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time."--American History X
- "Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anywhere else on the face of the earth?"--My Cousin Vinny
- "I am not an animal! I am a human being. --The Elephant Man
- "It's in the hole. It's in the hole!" --Caddyshack
- Sean Connery- James Bond, Marko Ramius (The Hunt For Red October), John Mason (The Rock)
- Arnold Swarteznegger- The Terminator, Harry Tasker (True Lies), Douglas Quaid (Total Recall), Jack Slater (The Last Action Hero)
- Charles Bronson Paul Kersey (Death Wish)
- Sylvestor Stallone- John Rambo (Rambo Series), Gabe Walker (Cliffhanger),
- Bruce Lee- Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, Fist of Fury
- Steven Seagal Casey Ryback (Under Siege), John Hatcher (Marked For Death), Orin Boyd (Exit Wounds).
- Jean-Claude Van Damm Frank W. Dux (Bloodsport), Luc Devereaux (Universal Soldier), Chance Boudreaux (Hard Target), Guile (Street Fighter), Max Walker (Time Cop).
- Chuck Norris Cordell Walker (Walker, Texas Ranger), Scott McCoy (Delta Force)
- Kiefer Sutherland- Jack Bauer (24)
- Bruce Willis- John McClane (Die Hard), John Hartigan (Sin City)
- James Bond --22 films by 6 Bonds with no end in sight.
- Star Wars
Lord of the Rings- The Godfather
- Harry Potter -- Highest grossing film series of all time at $7.5 billion.
- Indiana Jones
- Rocky--The series that taught roman numerals to a generation.
- Terminator
- The Clint Eastwood Dollars Trilogy--The third installment of "The Man With No Name," The Good, the Bad and the Ugly might be the greatest western ever made.
- Die Hard
- The Bourne Trilogy--An fourth film, The Bourne Legacy is in the works with Jeremy Renner the new headliner.
- The Hannibal Lector Movies
- Matrix
- Spiderman
- Batman (The Shumacher-Keaton Series)
- Superman
- X-Men
- Star Trek--The JJ Abrams installment (11th overall) was a huge success, and 2 more are in the works.
- Alien
- Back to the Future
- Lethal Weapon
- Shrek--The highest grossing animated film series ever at nearly $3 billion.
- Pirates of the Carribean--One decent movie and three stinkers. Still, you can't argue with $3.7 billion grossed.
- Dirty Harry
- Cheech and Chong
- Naked Gun--OJ's second greatest acting job.
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Austin Powers
- Friday the 13th-- 12 films and counting...
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Jurassic Park
- Nightmare on Elm St
- Halloween-- 10 films and counting...
- Ocean's Trilogy--The modern day rat-pack earned over a billion on this trio.
- Scream
- Saw
- Jaws
- Mad Max
- Robocop
- Karate Kid
- The Exorcist
- Major League--Would be much higher if not for the putrid Back to the Minors installment.
- Rush Hour
- Child's Play --A "darker and scarier" remake of the original 1988 Child's Play is supposed to be in the works.
- Blade
- The Mummy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--Another TMNT is reported to be likely.
- The Fast and the Furious
- Mighty Ducks
- Rambo
For those of you who do not know me, your boy has full-blown insomnia. If I'm lucky, I'm able to haul in between 4-5 hours of sleep per night. Most people would argue that this is a debilitating problem for a 23-year-old, but I see it as a blessing for one simple reason: I get to view movies while the rest of the country lays to rest. No BS, The BEST movies are shown at 3am, and no perverts, I am not talking about the naughty ones. One random sleepless evening, I turned on Encore, the worst premium movie channel out of the 6,000 channels I have with digital cable. It has become a nightly ritual to tune in on a weeknight and find some god awful romantic comedy staring Freddie Prinze Junior or Jason Biggs, or if I am lucky, a hilariously unrealistic action movie staring Steven Segal or Jackie Chan.
Last week Moses must’ve been smiling down upon me, because I hit the jackpot. Point Break was on. This movie kills it for so many reasons. It’s got man’s man Keanu Reeves, the late Patrick Swayze and best of all, GARY BUSEY. At the time I wasn’t sure what was keeping me glued for the duration of the film, but it is now clear to me. Gary Busey is an American hero. I mean the Miller/Gold agency should try and land this guy. Just looking at his distorted face and uneven eyes is enough to illicit uncontrollable laughter and an inexplicably sickening interest in whatever he is doing. Busey has made a career of saying and doing outrageous things, making him popular amongst, well, anyone with a pulse. So I figured I’d do everyone a favor and discuss five moments in Busey’s career, portraying his undeniable versatility. Granted there are more than five, but I want to keep this short and sweet. You’ll thank me after, guaranteed.
I’m With Busey: A Gary Busey fan’s dream come true. Some random nerd and a camera crew followed the guy around while he performed simple everyday tasks. It was as if God shined his almighty light down upon Gary Busey for a half hour. Not to mention Busey would torture the portly host of the show. It was like hazing without pinecones and electrocution. Why this show went off the air we will never know. I still have not gotten over it, much like the Sopranos finale.
Point Break: A watershed moment in Busey’s career, playing a law enforcement officer (Angelo) and Keanu’s partner. The best part is when Busey is sitting in the car with Keanu ranting about meatball sandwiches, oranges and Calvin & Hobbes. “Utah, get me two.” This movie takes a depressing turn when Busey gets shot up at the airport. I have not cried this much since the end of Forrest Gump.
Predator 2: Busey the badass. Did anyone besides me notice how jacked this guy was in this movie? Made Arnold look like an anorexic prom queen. I’d like to see the Predator take on Busey without the Predator and all his crazy lasers and rockets and vanishing act. I’d take whatever is left in my embarrassing bank account and bet the farm on Busey, no questions asked.
Rookie of the Year: Chet Stedman? Unbelievable. He didn’t “do” autographs. He didn’t care what people thought about him. But he was a figurehead in the Cubs first World Series since 1908. He revived his career and the behest of Henry Rowengartner. And was there a more gutsy performance in a big game? Plus, the Dude’s nickname was ‘Rocket”, Clemens didn’t have shit on this guy. Plus this was John Candy’s masterpiece. The cinematography and editing techniques should have put this one up for an Oscar, and you can guess who would’ve won best actor.
Black Sheep: I am a firm believer that Busey was playing himself in this one. I mean he made Chris Farley seem mild. He played a militant ex-soldier, lived in a school bus in the woods and had a couch that smelled like urine. If that is not the life of Gary Busey, somebody please tell me what is. Drake Sabitch, war hero.
Think I missed something? Feel free to e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with more moments in Busey history and we can add ‘em right here at the dose. Believe me, I have the time to read them.
