Fck yeah, Gary Oldman
From Sid Vicious to Beethoven, the man has range!
He’s no Matthew Broderick.
True but he’s picked some shitty, shitty roles over the last 8-10 years. So the fact that he’s not where he should be along the hollywood totem pole is at least partly his fault.
British actors tend to get to a certain status and age then pull an Olivier and start acting in anything just to pick up a paycheck.
Yeah, I can’t watch him in Harry Potter. :/ It’s a shame he never reached the same success as many of his less talented peers, but it’s also not surprising. It’s not just his choice of roles, but he’s not a pin-up, even though I find him incredibly sexy.
He has moments but like Pacino relies too much on bombast.
David Thewlis can do the same type of role better imo
No one could have done better in Tiptoes though, very good film
He has way more range than Pacino, and he can do quiet and loud, and everything in between.
aww i love sirius black :) that’s my fave potter film
I LOVE him as Sirius Black. So damn good. I’ve always thought Gary Oldman was hot too.
I used to hate Leo DiCaprio but recently I’ve come around. Conversely I used to love Johnny Depp but the whole Pirates sequels ad infinitum has turned me off.
I just hate the Harry Potter franchise. Gary’s good in it, though.
sirius black was definitely hot. i think depp wears that pirate costume in real life now :/ not hot
Johnny Depp lost it for me when he became Tim Burton’s bitch. I liked him in his younger days. Still, his sexiness back then had more to do with his face than talent or charm. JD reminds me of insufferably vain art school boys.
Good times!
I would still shag JD – he’s pretty. But why hasn’t someone told him (and Helena Bonham Carter) that it’s time to ditch his collaboration with Tim Burton? He can do nothing for Depp’s career at this point or his own.
The last movie I saw with Gary Oldman was The Unborn and when me and Mr.Kyo figured out that he was in that crap this was our face o_0!
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Yeah, I used to love HBC before Tim Burton absorbed her.
I’ve always felt there were two Gary Oldmans out there!
One, a great risk-taking actor:
SID & NANCY
PRICK UP YOUR EARS
JFK
THE CONTENDER
STATE OF GRACE
TIP TOES
and then there’s that guy who was in:
LOST IN SPACE
HARRY POTTER & THE BROKEN GLASS (catch all)
THE SCARLET LETTER
^ I rented the SCARLET LETTER movie in High School for obvious reasons and tried to watch it with friends. After 45 mins we turned it off and went back to the video store asking for our money back. At first the guy was like “Uh, we don’t really do that here” but when he saw what movie it was he made an exception and let us do a store credit exchange for another film.
There is something cringe inducing about seeing a great actor slumming it in a crappy movie.
Range is vastly overrated.
@Malik — That’s a pretty meaningless statement unless you elaborate on it. Also, range is just one aspect of his talent.
can we add to that second list:
the fifth element and romeo is bleeding?
Gary Oldman is smart, sexy and can morph into any role that he is given! What is not to like?
“You can hear the insects-zzzzzzzz!”
My favorite working actor—often better than the film he’s in.
I’m with Den. But he is excellent in several roles, I wont argue with that. But Al Pacino > Gary Oldman… (hides)
He’s also the best thing about Nolan’s Batmans.
^ Christian Bale certainly isn’t.
gary oldman is kind of short…
@Kate
It’s not meaningless, it’s succinct and says everything it needs to be said. Heralding anyone because they have more range than another has always been silly at best. Not only outside of the whole ‘jack of all trades’ issue but because there is equal merit in mastering a single skill set.
^ I agree. I like actors that dig in, like many of the best Old Hollywood actors.
House of Leaves: I agree, which is a shame, because, theoretically, I like Bale.
Bale was extremely good in The Fighter and elsewhere, but his Batman voice makes me want to pee down his cowl.
Ahem,
So good.
Kate
Whip smart and charismatic, at turns light and dark, hot and cold, urbane and gritty, with a dash of working class swagger and a smidgen of street-honed scrappiness, distilled into a potent, intoxicating mix.
Not only is he a brilliant actor, no doubt in the top three working today, but he possesses the kind of charm that comes along so rarely that I can only think of a handful of other names: Marlon Brando, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Orsen Welles, Laurence Olivier…
Hollywood is saturated with wannabes and ripoffs — James Franco, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even Johnny Depp (yep, I said it) — but Gary Oldman is the real deal.