Philip Seymour Hoffman is the best actor ever
 

Seriously, holy shit, he is so good.

Obviously not "ever", but I will go as far to say that he is my favorite actor right now, of "our generation".

It's like, every time I see him on screen I mark out. The only other actors I do that for, really, are Pacino and Steve Buscemi (cause he is the mannn too).

He can play like any role, and he can do it perfectly. He does drama golden, of course, and even in comedy, he is classic. His role in Along Came Polly was like Will Ferrell-Old School ROFL shit.

I love him.

<font color=teal>I haven't seen many movies with him, what are some that you would recommend?</font>

You're exceedingly gay.

:-\

Happiness - His performance in that is one of, if not my favorite performance of all time.
Boogie Nights - :love:
Punch-Drunk Love - :love:
Owning Mahowny - The movie is good, not great, but his performance is gold.
Magnolia
25th Hour
Love Liza (haven't seen it yet but I heard he was amazing in it)
Along Came Polly :love:

<font color=teal>I've been thinking about getting "25th Hour", I guess I'll actually rent it this time.</font>

That's not his best performance, since he's only in a relatively small role. Try to get Happiness if you can. It was almost impossible to find it here but I did eventually in some ghetto video store.

It's my favorite movie ever.

<font color=teal>The video store around here only has the "big name" movies.</font>:-\

Oh yeah, I forgot "Flawless". He plays a transvestite alongside Robert De Niro. :love:

He's alright. I haven't seen a bad performance or a bad movie with him in it but I can say that about a few people.

I've not seen any of those. :-\

Wasn't he in Red Dragon?

Every movie I see him in his character manages to annoy the shit out of me somehow.

Yeah, he was the obnoxious tabloid reporter. I saw the movie last weekend.

Yea he's awesome... he's been in like 25 movies since 1990 or something.

Happiness, Red Dragon and 25th Hour were all great

BOOGIE NIGHTS

Ed Norton is the fu</>cking man as well, probably my current favourite actor

Yeah they call guys like him "character actors" alright Afif.

You're going to need to know these things if you really want to succeed in this business, kid.

He was pretty good in Cold Mountain, too.

He was in twister :love:

SCENT OF A WOMAN

Yea, same here. Maybe I'm too caught up in being totally fucking annoyed at the character to pay attention to his acting ability. Maybe that statement alone implies positive things about his acting? *shrug*

he's ok. nothing special

Red Dragon was great. I bet you were a big Hannibal fan.

Also, Red Dragon was like two hours long. THAT IS PRETTY STANDARD, dick.

And I don't see how you can say it's boring. It was pretty mainstreamed up and not slow paced at all.

So you are one of those "the book was better than the movie" people.

He owned that movie.