im looking around for somenew dvds and i recently saw denzel washingtonin john q and i liked it a lot you guys know any other good movies with african american actors?

im looking around for somenew dvds and i recently saw denzel washingtonin john q and i liked it a lot you guys know any other good movies with african american actors?




check out Training Day starring Denzel Washington and Blade 1& Blade 2...starring Wesley Snipes.

I like "He got game" with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.

"Hurricane" is worth a watch too. It's one of the best more or less boxing movies around.

There are more, just don't come to my mind right now.

Don Cheadle is a great actor. You can see him in "Boogie Nights", "Oceans11/12", "Traffic" and I hear that he could win an Oscar for his movie "Hotel Rwanda" thats out now.

I like "He got game" with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.

Yea, that was an awesome movie. I'm a fan of comedy so my personal favorite black actor is Dave Chapelle, dudes guest appearences are always funny. Next to him is that little short guy that had a show with Malcom from the Cosby show. Eddie something.. ;)

Yea, that was an awesome movie. I'm a fan of comedy so my personal favorite black actor is Dave Chapelle, dudes guest appearences are always funny. Next to him is that little short guy that had a show with Malcom from the Cosby show. Eddie something.. ;)


Eddie Griffin

Malcom & Eddie was the name of the show.

You could always go to a video store and rent the miniseries "Roots". It was very good and just chock full of negroes! :p

You mean there are black actors?! I thought the ones in the movies were just keeping it real... :eek:

I like Samuel L. Jackson, Lawrence Fishburn, Ice T, among others...

I like Dark Vader because he is black :D

I like Samuel l. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith and Denzel Washington.

Go and get yourself the movie "Goodburger" That is a movie that should have been up for an award....

Samual Jackson in pulp fiction, very good.

I like Samuel l. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith and Denzel Washington.

Wow.....what an interesting, unique group of black actors you like there....

In da House with D. Ali G. He deserves an award for that movie. But he isn't African American he is uh African English....

Badasssssss! With Mario Van Peebles.

Don Cheadle is a great actor. You can see him in "Boogie Nights", "Oceans11/12", "Traffic" and I hear that he could win an Oscar for his movie "Hotel Rwanda" thats out now.

Don Cheadle was on my plane to Kansas City last month.


The movie "Cadence" with Charlie Sheen where hes in the army and gets thrown into the brig that is full of black dudes is a good movie.

Cheadle made a movie a few years back about a famous high school basketball player who fell into drugs and then formed a pick up basketball league in Harlem. I can't remember the name of it. The character's nickname was "The Goat" It was a great movie. I think it was The Story of Don Manigault? Help me out someone.

Also early Richard Pryor movies were great. Which way is up? was classic. His stuff before he tried to make "nice" movies were funny as hell...Brewsters Millions, The Toy, etc were pathetic.

Cheadle made a movie a few years back about a famous high school basketball player who fell into drugs and then formed a pick up basketball league in Harlem. I can't remember the name of it. The character's nickname was "The Goat" It was a great movie. I think it was The Story of Don Manigault? Help me out someone.

Also early Richard Pryor movies were great. Which way is up? was classic. His stuff before he tried to make "nice" movies were funny as hell...Brewsters Millions, The Toy, etc were pathetic.

Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were a great team.

Why does it have to be a black actor??

Denzil Washington and Samuel Jackson are the best black actors, most films with them in are good.

Will Smiths a chump but i-robots a good film

I really don't mind Will Smith. He can act, and if he is given good material can be pretty good.

I really don't mind Will Smith. He can act, and if he is given good material can be pretty good.

I dont really like his style(playing the fool)

You shouldnt need good material to be a good actor, if you look at guys like Tom Hanks, Denzil Washington, Samuel Jackson, John Travolta, etc, there always good.

Will Smiths the fresh prince, and always will be.

IMO Morgan Freeman is the best black actor in America and may be the best actor of any color.

Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson are the best now.

IMO Morgan Freeman is the best black actor in America and may be the best actor of any color.

I agree. He can be anything.

Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson are the best now.

Tell me your joking. Please...

IMO Morgan Freeman is the best black actor in America and may be the best actor of any color.

I'd say Tom Hanks is the best actor around, he can play any role.

My favourite actor is probably John Travolta and i think Ed Norton's a very talented actor.

Morgan Freeman is definitly good, very good.

Tell me your joking. Please...

A bit.... I watched Goodburger this weekend and I was trashed. I laughed my ass off. A co-worker and I keep going around spouting lines from the movie. They do have potential. My personal Favorite Black actor is Samual Jackson. Favorite Actor is Robert Denario with Al Pachino a close second. Samual is third.

A bit.... I watched Goodburger this weekend and I was trashed. I laughed my ass off. A co-worker and I keep going around spouting lines from the movie. They do have potential. My personal Favorite Black actor is Samual Jackson. Favorite Actor is Robert Denario with Al Pachino a close second. Samual is third.

Ive seen Goodburger and those guys are pretty funny. They are the stars of the new Fat Albert movie right?

I think so, I need to see that. I grew up withy the original cartoon.

I'd say Tom Hanks is the best actor around, he can play any role.

My favourite actor is probably John Travolta and i think Ed Norton's a very talented actor.

Morgan Freeman is definitly good, very good.

i like edward norton to, hes probably my favorite actor. i finaly got to see american history x just recently. i really like him in fight club and death to smoochy.

I think so, I need to see that. I grew up withy the original cartoon.


That's more the reason to NOT see the movie.

I agree. He can be anything.

"He's a man who can get things".....Shawshank Redemption

"Get busy living, or get busy dying"

Freeman is a tremendous actor. An early role he played is worth a Blockbuster rental. Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve was not a very good movie, but Freeman was incredible in that flick. It was his breakout role.

I like Samuel l. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith and Denzel Washington.


...four great black actors right there!!!!

I really dont like Will Smith...I thought casting him as Ali was horrible. BUT I-Robot surprised me, it's pretty good. Some other black actors I like along with Denzel and Snipes are Ving Rames(check out Dawn Of The Dead),Michael Clarke Duncan(check out The Green Mile)...and Samuel L. Jackson.

anyone see ricochet with denzel washington and john lithgow? i thought that was pretty good. both of them good actors.... john lithgow is another good actor. he can play a badass in one and a klutz in another convincingly.

anyone see ricochet with denzel washington and john lithgow? i thought that was pretty good. both of them good actors.... john lithgow is another good actor. he can play a badass in one and a klutz in another convincingly.

Yea, and he was the mean preacher dad in Footloose.

So richochet is a good movie? I need a good flic to watch this weekend.

So richochet is a good movie? I need a good flic to watch this weekend.
it's an old one but i liked it, but that's just my opinion.... someone could go ebert on me and go the other way :D

I really dont like Will Smith...I thought casting him as Ali was horrible. BUT I-Robot surprised me, it's pretty good. Some other black actors I like along with Denzel and Snipes are Ving Rames(check out Dawn Of The Dead),Michael Clarke Duncan(check out The Green Mile)...and Samuel L. Jackson.


Ving Rames is also from Pulp fiction and Con Air. He is definitely another good actor.

Who wins

Denzel Washington vs. Samuel L. Jackson?

Ving Rames is also from Pulp fiction and Con Air. He is definitely another good actor.


oh yeah...who can ever forget Marcellus Wallace. :D

A bunch of my favorite actors are blacks.

I liked Carl Weathers in Rocky.

Eddie Murphy's a great actor but he's typecast mostly in comedies.

Wesley Snipes (Passenger 57), Samuel Jackson (The Negotiator) and Denzel W Ttraining Day, Hurricane, Man on Fire, John Q) are great in action flicks. I like Morgan Freeman in dramas.

Will Smith was good in Enemy of the State.

Cheadle made a movie a few years back about a famous high school basketball player who fell into drugs and then formed a pick up basketball league in Harlem. I can't remember the name of it. The character's nickname was "The Goat" It was a great movie. I think it was The Story of Don Manigault? Help me out someone.

It was the true story of EARL the Goat whom Kareem Abdul Jabbar once called the best he'd ever played against.

In da House with D. Ali G. He deserves an award for that movie. But he isn't African American he is uh African English....

that show is****ing hilarious!!!!!!!!! hahaha borat is my favorite chaaracter he plays

It was the true story of EARL the Goat whom Kareem Abdul Jabbar once called the best he'd ever played against.

that's it

thanks B-dog!!

great movie and performance by Cheadle

It was the true story of EARL the Goat whom Kareem Abdul Jabbar once called the best he'd ever played against.


Yeah I was gonna say it was Earl "The Goat" Manigault. He could take a quarter off of the top of a backboard.

Cheadle is excellent in almost every movie he's in. He is great in Boogie Nights and is up for an Oscar this year for Hotel Rwanda, finally getting his due.

Jamie Fox is also up for an Oscar with Ray. He was excellent in that and was great in Collateral.

Eddie Murphy and Vin Deisel! In anything pretty much!

A ACTORS
sydney poitier
morgan freeman
denzel washington
samuel l jackson
louis gosset jr.

Finally someone mentions Sidney Poitier - on page 5?

Anyone watch any movies before 1990?

I thought of Poitier on page one..."Lilies of the Field", "To Sir With Love", "In the Heat of the Night", ......list goes on and on.
Mr. Poitier is that rarity though....you don't think of him as a "black actor", just as a fine actor.

Cuba Gooding gets an Oscar but no love from the BoxingScene folks...

I'm surprised not to see any mention of Forrest Whitaker or Billy Dee Williams as well...

(I double checked Page 1 to apologize to you, 'Dog, but I didn't see Mr. Poitier's name)

It's just been recently that African-American actors were able to land major roles in big-budget, mainstream films where they didn't play slaves, servants, or criminals. I recently saw Melvin van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baad Assss Song (1971), which is by no means a "good" movie, but broke down many barriers and is one of the most memorable Black actor roles I've ever seen...Some other memorable roles that wouldn't make my "best of " lists, but were fun nevertheless include Richard Roundtree in Shaft , ****e Lee in Do The Right Thing, and Pam Grier in Foxy Brown.

SOME OF MY FAVORITES - A SPONTANEOUS 'BEST OF' (by no means a complete list or an edited one)

STARRING ROLE

James Baskett, Song of the South
El Hedi ben Salem, : Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption
Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon
Danny Glover, The Saint of Fort Washington
Cuba Gooding Jr., Boyz N The Hood
Samuel L. Jackson, 187
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson, A Time to Kill
Martin Lawrence, Life
Cleavon Little, Blazing Saddles
Eddie Murphy, 48 HRS.
Eddie Murphy, Boomerang
Eddie Murphy, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy Raw
Eddie Murphy, Trading Places
Sidney Poitier, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Sidney Poitier, A Raisin in the Sun
Tupac Shakur, Gridlock'd
Tupac Shakur, Poetic Justice
Will Smith, Six Degrees of Separation
Chris Tucker, Friday
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
Denzel Washington, Training Day

SUPPORTING

Ossie Davis, Get on the Bus
Dwight Ewell, Chasing Amy
Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire
Delroy Lindo, The Cider House Rules
Delroy Lindo, Clockers
Brock Peters, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ving Rhames, Pulp Fiction
Denzel Washington, Glory
Marlon Wayans, Requiem for a Dream

WOMEN ( I know if I make a separate thread for actresses, there will be tons of Heather Hunter and Janet Jacme answers in addition to "Name the movies where Halle Berry gets naked, so I'll include female actors here...)

Angela Bassett, Strange Days
Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Tisha Campbell, School Daze
Ruby Dee, A Raisin in the Sun
Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets & Lies
Queen Latifah, Set it Off
Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind
Jada Pinkett, Set it Off

i like edward norton to, hes probably my favorite actor. i finaly got to see american history x just recently. i really like him in fight club and death to smoochy.

Ed Norton was brilliant in American history X, same with fight club but The Score was the film what made me think, this guys one of the best actors i've ever seen.

I've never seen death to smoochy, i've never even heard of it!? Should i watch it?

Ed Norton was brilliant in American history X, same with fight club but The Score was the film what made me think, this guys one of the best actors i've ever seen.

I've never seen death to smoochy, i've never even heard of it!? Should i watch it?

Death to Smooch is terrible, but fun to watch Norton in.

See also The People vs. Larry Flynt, and most of all, Primal Fear.

Who wins

Denzel Washington vs. Samuel L. Jackson?

Samuel Jackson wins, pulp fiction makes the choice easy.

Regarding Edward Norton:
Primal Fear is the first thing I saw him in and IMO, his most impressive work but..you guys DO realize that he's not black, right?

Death to Smooch is terrible, but fun to watch Norton in.

See also The People vs. Larry Flynt, and most of all, Primal Fear.

Good, i'll make an effort to watch them :cool:

Primal Fear is the first thing I saw him in and IMO, his most impressive work but..you guys DO realize that he's not black, right?

Someone went off in a tangent on one of the middle pages...guess he didn't want to search for the "Favorite Actor" thread...

Primal Fear is the first thing I saw him in and IMO, his most impressive work but..you guys DO realize that he's not black, right?

Yeah, i went a little off the black track and named my favourite actors. :D

Favorite Jewish basketball players for 400, Alex! :D

Regarding Edward Norton:
Primal Fear is the first thing I saw him in and IMO, his most impressive work but..you guys DO realize that he's not black, right?I agree Primal Fear was his best acting performance to date.

I agree Primal Fear was his best acting performance to date.


....Ed Norton is awesome!! None of you guys mentioned James Earl Jones. How could everyone forget the voice of Vader!!! Clear and Present danger, Field of dreams, Luke, I am your father. Need I say more?

How can you mention James Earl Jones and not "The Great White Hope"? His portrayal of Jack Johnson put him on the map.

I like "He got game" with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.

"Hurricane" is worth a watch too. It's one of the best more or less boxing movies around.

There are more, just don't come to my mind right now.


"He got game" is a fantastic film, another great "black" film is also one of my all time favorites, " Dead Presidents" starring Larenz Tate. if u want to know what it was like to be black in the 60's and 70's, and serve in Vietnam check this film out. Also Larenz Tate is GREAT actor, in the film he goes from innnocent 17 year old high school kid to a hardened soldier to a cold, ruthless gangster, and he's such a talented actor it's one of the most real portrayals i've ever seen. IF Tate were white he'd be starring in movies with Gwyneth paltrow and doing Shakespeare on the stage, but because he's black he'll be playing homeboiyz til he's fifty. also keith david is in the film and he's also a great black actor

someone once said " once you go black, you'll never go back" :D

How can you mention James Earl Jones and not "The Great White Hope"? His portrayal of Jack Johnson put him on the map.


it's great film too, Jones becomes Jack Johnson, another film i'd watch again and again

I think "Bamboozled" and "Antoine Fisher" are two of the better black movies I've seen in a while.Just know that Bamboozled is a ****e Lee film.Some people just don't find his type of satire funny.I happen to think his satire is hilarious.Derek Luke is amazing in Antoine Fisher.

I like Dark Vader because he is black :D

LMAO@DARK(DARTH) Me being a black man almost cried when I was a kid and DARTH Vader took of his helmet and u truned out to be a frail white man..... How they going to play James Earl Jones like that ........made me want to slap graorge LUCUS

LMAO@DARK(DARTH) Me being a black man almost cried when I was a kid and DARTH Vader took of his helmet and u truned out to be a frail white man..... How they going to play James Earl Jones like that ........made me want to slap graorge LUCUS
It was intentional bro because of the topic so I write dark. What can you say about this Philippine actress Myles Fernandez?

http://pinayxposed2.web1000.com/galleries/nov20/november.JPG

It was intentional bro because of the topic so I write dark. What can you say about this Philippine actress Myles Fernandez?

http://pinayxposed2.web1000.com/galleries/nov20/november.JPG

HELL YEAH *****

when stella got her groove back

HELL YEAH *****

Yeah? She likes showing her butt. Look!!

http://pinayxposed.web1000.com/galleries/sep8/arch_scan_myles_hernandez.jpg

It was intentional bro because of the topic so I write dark. What can you say about this Philippine actress Myles Fernandez?

http://pinayxposed2.web1000.com/galleries/nov20/november.JPG


...Yeah, she looks pretty good, but she would look much better with my load dripping out of her. :)

Yeah I was gonna say it was Earl "The Goat" Manigault. He could take a quarter off of the top of a backboard.

Cheadle is excellent in almost every movie he's in. He is great in Boogie Nights and is up for an Oscar this year for Hotel Rwanda, finally getting his due.

Jamie Fox is also up for an Oscar with Ray. He was excellent in that and was great in Collateral.

Oscar nominations don't come out til Jan. 25

Denzel Washington
Morgan Freeman
Sidney Poitier
James Earl Jones
Samuel L. Jackson
Larenz Tate
Cuba Gooding Jr.

Are all great Black Actors

Do the right thing is a great "black movie" so is Boyz n the hood

You can call me late, but I just recently saw Man on Fire. The movie is so good I have to watch it again, and again, and again, and again..

It wasn't a great movie, but I had fun with Barbershop 2 since the last time I posted on this thread...

:( :( :(
How could you?

Guess I got a weak spot for a movie with its heart in the right place (insert mushy smiley icon here)

limited on time, so if I repeat anything, go **** yourself...cause I'm not sorry (okay, sorry)...

First
"I'd say Tom Hanks is the best actor around, he can play any role."

I totally disagree, can't stand Tom Hanks, partially because every other ****ing person in the world loves him. He hasn't impressed me that much at all. Has Hanks ever played a convincing bad guy? And don't go saying Ladykillers, cause that movie sucked.

Marlon Wayans actually has LOTS of promise as a serious actor. Watch Requiem for a Dream and tell me if you disagree.

I too didn't like Will Smith cast as Ali. I'm not saying he didn't try, but he just seemed like some guy doing a hokey impression of Ali the whole movie. I liked Ali a lot better when I saw it the first time than I did when I saw it all the times since then. Damn that movie drags on forever. Mann just had to have that horrible love plotline. I don't mind a love plotline if it is actually good, but the one in Ali did nothing but bring the film to a standstill.

Eugene Byrd seems decent. I mainly remember him from Perfect Harmony, which was a good TV movie.

You CAN judge some movies by their covers. If the cover looks crappy and the film isn't distributed by a company you've heard of, there is a very good chance the film will suck.

On the other hand, good covers don't mean good movies either. The cover and even the title to this film starring Snoop Dogg was Urban Menace. Sounded cool, but the movie f'n sucked! Of course, I did say starring Snoop Dogg right? That fool better keep the word "Oscar" out of his mouth. Only Oscar he'll ever be getting is one that comes inside a hotdog bun. Yeah, that was lame, oh well.

Basic was a good movie. And I don't like war/military movies, but this one was good. Had Sam Jackson and Travolta.

Larry Fishburne is very good in Just Cause. Check that movie out.

oh yeah so is blair underwood

BIG
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Turner and Hooch
Splash
Road to Perdition
Catch Me If You Can

All excellent performances by Hanks. If you don't like him because of all of the girly movies he's in, then that's one thing...but don't try and say that he's not an excellent actor because you sound foolish. The only other actors that I have seen in my lifetime that are on his level are Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, and Mel Gibson.

Oscar nominations don't come out til Jan. 25


I guess I had the inside scoop.

BIG
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Turner and Hooch
Splash
Road to Perdition
Catch Me If You Can

All excellent performances by Hanks. If you don't like him because of all of the girly movies he's in, then that's one thing...but don't try and say that he's not an excellent actor because you sound foolish. The only other actors that I have seen in my lifetime that are on his level are Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, and Mel Gibson.

WTF? Mad Max is on the top tier of actors now? Come on, Gringo, I'll buy a Hanks argument. You won't get me to concede when it comes to this guy. Gibson's never even gotten an Oscar nomination for acting, so it's not like I'm just playing devil's advoacate...

Ok I can only comment on movies that I've seen, so I will.

Turner and Hooch? Excellent performance? Catch Me If You Can? Excellent? Hardly. I'm not saying it was bad, but it wasn't excellent. It was a decent performance. Turner and Hooch was what it was, which isn't excellent. I don't hold movies like that against Hanks. Movies like Turner and Hooch and The Burbs, a lot of actors I like have a few of those.

Tom Hanks was good in Forrest Gump. But Sean Penn was better in I Am Sam, and Dustin Hoffman was better in Rain Man.

The only films I'd say I liked because of Tom Hanks were Big, A League of Their Own, and Toy Story.

I'm just not all on Hanks' dick like everyone else.

I'm on Sean Penn's dick a lot more. Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Spacey, Larry Fishburne, and Gary Cole are all better ACTORS than Hanks. Hanks is just a bigger star than any of them.

But Ashton Kutcher is probably a bigger star than most of them right now as well. Although over time I doubt he'll be.

Ok I can only comment on movies that I've seen, so I will.

Turner and Hooch? Excellent performance? Catch Me If You Can? Excellent? Hardly. I'm not saying it was bad, but it wasn't excellent. It was a decent performance. Turner and Hooch was what it was, which isn't excellent. I don't hold movies like that against Hanks. Movies like Turner and Hooch and The Burbs, a lot of actors I like have a few of those.

Tom Hanks was good in Forrest Gump. But Sean Penn was better in I Am Sam, and Dustin Hoffman was better in Rain Man.

The only films I'd say I liked because of Tom Hanks were Big, A League of Their Own, and Toy Story.

I'm just not all on Hanks' dick like everyone else.

I'm on Sean Penn's dick a lot more. Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Spacey, Larry Fishburne, and Gary Cole are all better ACTORS than Hanks. Hanks is just a bigger star than any of them.

But Ashton Kutcher is probably a bigger star than most of them right now as well. Although over time I doubt he'll be.


HAHA....Kevin Bacon? Oh yeah...please name those excellent, academy award nominated Kevin Bacon roles PLEASE. Wild Things was a real winner but Denise stole the show, Tremors should have won a major award, Diggin to China was a real heartwarming tale, Hollow Man was the role of a lifetime...NOT.

Saying Sean Penn is better than Hanks is a stance you aren't likely to change, much like I won't change mine. Sean Penn is a great actor and I loved Sweet&Lowdown among others. But Forrest Gump was in every way better than I Am Sam, and Hanks was spot on. Dustin Hoffman was excellent in Rainman. The only other similar role that I can think of where an actor was as good or better than Hanks would be Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot...or Edward Norton in Primal Fear.

Larry Fishburn is a good actor, but is in no way even close to the actor that Hanks is. Did you really just compare Kutcher to Hanks? You must really hate his guts. Next time you should just name off the whole cast of Mystic River and claim that they are all better actors than Hanks it would save you some time.

WTF? Mad Max is on the top tier of actors now? Come on, Gringo, I'll buy a Hanks argument. You won't get me to concede when it comes to this guy. Gibson's never even gotten an Oscar nomination for acting, so it's not like I'm just playing devil's advoacate...


I was waiting for this response...

Braveheart - Gibson portrays William Wallace in probably the greatest war period piece ever made IMO. Better than Gladiator and Alexander and all that **** (even though Gladiator was great too). I'm pretty sure he won Best Actor and Best Director but you might want to check me on that one.

The Man Without A Face

Conspiracy Theory

The Lethal Weapon Series

Ransom

The Patriot

Now, I know the dudes been in some joke movies like everyone has, but he can ****in act. He's also an incredible classically trained shakespearian actor. I can't hate on him. I always used to think he was kind of a joke but he's really put together some very good movies IMO.

Check that last post it was Cage who won in '95

I gotta disagree big time here. Mel Gibson is definitely a star, a personality more than an actor.

Did you actually watch Hamlet? OMG what a ****ing joke! I have NEVER EVER seen someone so up their own ass in any role ever. It was like Gibson was stepping outside of himself and watching himself, very pleased, as he "played" Hamlet. It was simply a disgusting portrayal.

Don't think I'm just hating on Mel Gibson though. I like a lot of his movies. But really, he isn't that great of an actor. He plays basically the same role over and over. There aren't any HUGE differences from role to role, most of the time, for Gibson.

I personally thought Braveheart was overrated. Last of the Mohicans was a better period piece, imo. I'm not saying Braveheart sucked, it didn't. It was good.

The Lethal Weapon movies were OK. Pretty run of the mill action movies though, to be truthful.

I liked Conspiracy Theory a lot. Also liked Payback and Ransom. And I personally liked Maverick a lot.

The Mad Max movies just weren't my thing at all.

Whoa oldgringo, back up.

Kevin Bacon has been in plenty of good roles. Mystic River, Sleepers, Trapped, Wild Things (yes it was a good movie), The River Wild, JFK, A Few Good Men, White Water Summer (surprisingly he did good in this). No, I'm not including Footloose, lol.

I thought we'd already established that most actors have been in some pure crap. Hence why I didn't go after Tom Hanks for movies like That Thing You Do, Joe and the Volcano (some crap like that), or Bosom Buddies.

Fishburne nowhere near Hanks? I beg to differ. Just Cause, Mystic River, King of New York, Matrix, Othello (there's your good shakespearean performance), Boys in the Hood, and Higher Learning.

I personally liked I Am Sam better than Forrest Gump, but I'm probably in the minority there.

Penn though, man he has come a long way. I Am Sam was good, so was Mystic River, but check him out in Carlito's Way. OMG that's one of my favorite Sean Penn roles! I ****ing HATE Klienfeld, the snotty little prick lawyer. Just seeing him, I wanted to beat the living **** out of him.

http://henancius.martin-scorsese.net/carlito/images/carlito18.jpg

They even based a character off Sean Penn's Kleinfeld in GTA Vice City and San Andreas...

http://gta.kvalitne.cz/ken_rosenberg.gif

yeah Nicolas Cage is one of those guys who although he can't ****ing act for ****, still manages to go very far on VERY limited talent. I've liked some of his movies. 8MM, Con Air, Face Off, a couple others I'm sure.

I got some respect for Cage on changing his name. He's originally Nicholas Coppola, aka Francis Ford's nephew. Changed his name to make a name for himself rather than life off his uncle's fame. That's definitely a risky, admirable move.

Hear Cage is set to ruin the Ghost Rider series with a horrible ass movie by the guy that brought us Elektra and Daredevil? Might not be totally Nick Cage's fault.

Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

Boyz N the hood

Do the right thing

Cuba Gooding gets an Oscar but no love from the BoxingScene folks...

I'm surprised not to see any mention of Forrest Whitaker or Billy Dee Williams as well...

(I double checked Page 1 to apologize to you, 'Dog, but I didn't see Mr. Poitier's name)

It's just been recently that African-American actors were able to land major roles in big-budget, mainstream films where they didn't play slaves, servants, or criminals. I recently saw Melvin van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baad Assss Song (1971), which is by no means a "good" movie, but broke down many barriers and is one of the most memorable Black actor roles I've ever seen...Some other memorable roles that wouldn't make my "best of " lists, but were fun nevertheless include Richard Roundtree in Shaft , ****e Lee in Do The Right Thing, and Pam Grier in Foxy Brown.

SOME OF MY FAVORITES - A SPONTANEOUS 'BEST OF' (by no means a complete list or an edited one)

STARRING ROLE

James Baskett, Song of the South
El Hedi ben Salem, : Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption
Danny Glover, Lethal Weapon
Danny Glover, The Saint of Fort Washington
Cuba Gooding Jr., Boyz N The Hood
Samuel L. Jackson, 187
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson, A Time to Kill
Martin Lawrence, Life
Cleavon Little, Blazing Saddles
Eddie Murphy, 48 HRS.
Eddie Murphy, Boomerang
Eddie Murphy, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy Raw
Eddie Murphy, Trading Places
Sidney Poitier, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Sidney Poitier, A Raisin in the Sun
Tupac Shakur, Gridlock'd
Tupac Shakur, Poetic Justice
Will Smith, Six Degrees of Separation
Chris Tucker, Friday
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
Denzel Washington, Training Day

SUPPORTING

Ossie Davis, Get on the Bus
Dwight Ewell, Chasing Amy
Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire
Delroy Lindo, The Cider House Rules
Delroy Lindo, Clockers
Brock Peters, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ving Rhames, Pulp Fiction
Denzel Washington, Glory
Marlon Wayans, Requiem for a Dream

WOMEN ( I know if I make a separate thread for actresses, there will be tons of Heather Hunter and Janet Jacme answers in addition to "Name the movies where Halle Berry gets naked, so I'll include female actors here...)

Angela Bassett, Strange Days
Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Tisha Campbell, School Daze
Ruby Dee, A Raisin in the Sun
Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Secrets & Lies
Queen Latifah, Set it Off
Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind
Jada Pinkett, Set it Off

You watch lots of movies I've never heard of.

Some of my favorites:

Raven from That's So Raven is in The Cheetah Girls

The guy from Fat Albert and Good Burger and Barbershop with the fish in the floor

The silly guy from Revenge of the Nerds who is also in Cobra Kai

That fat girl from Road Trip

Ja Rule in anything (IT's MURDER!)

Fro-Zone in The Incredibles

The entire cast of You Got Served, except for the kid who switches sides and makes them lose the money

The guy with the Whoopi-hair from 8 Mile

The social worker from Lilo and Stitch

Gordon from Sesame Street

im looking around for somenew dvds and i recently saw denzel washingtonin john q and i liked it a lot you guys know any other good movies with african american actors?



....I thought "man on fire" with Denzel was awesome. You will see a side of him you rarely see. I also recomend the classic comedy "I'm gonna get you sucka" with the Wayans brothers.

I just wanted to respond to the comment that movies that come out from unknown studios with not-so-great covers/posters are probably **** - I disagree, I'd take any foreign language film or even locally made movie over the over-produced, over-acted pieces of **** Hollywood churns out every day of the week. Do you guys ever ask what happened to the golden age of movies before CGI, before shocking sequels and obvious grab-for-cashes with famous stars (i omit the word 'actors')?

The 70's -> early 90's is where its at! What a great time for classics. I go back, watch any movie before early 90's, and its just so real and believable (good ones, obviously there were **** movies but you get my point). These days I just dont see that.

Here here to the bagging of Nick Cage - most monotone low skilled star to make it as big as he has. For some reason a lot of chicks really like him too? WTF?! Why?!

See Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, its my fav. flick ever.

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Oh and for black actors? James Earl Jones - from Vader to the junk yard owner in The Sandlot he's just too damn cool.

So maybe Gibson was a stretch...and I just realized that reading my posts over again. I was tired as fuk when I wrote all that **** but I realize that he shouldn't be in that elite group. He IS a good actor however...his performance in Braveheart was about as inspiring as you get.

I'd still say that no one performance that Fishburn has done has been anywhere near Hanks in Philadelphia or FG. He's a good supporting actor but I wouldn't say he's any better than Don Cheadle or Sam Jackson...who are often amazing when featured in supporting roles.

I know that Bacon has had some 'nice' roles, but nothing grounbreaking or worthy of an Oscar. I honestly turned off Wild Things after I saw Denises titties a couple times...I actually liked him in Tremors the most outta anything believe it or not.

I think Mekhi Phifer, like Marlon Wayans has potential as a good serious actor if he could land a few good roles. He was very good in Clockers.

So maybe Gibson was a stretch...and I just realized that reading my posts over again. I was tired as fuk when I wrote all that **** but I realize that he shouldn't be in that elite group. He IS a good actor however...his performance in Braveheart was about as inspiring as you get.

I'd still say that no one performance that Fishburn has done has been anywhere near Hanks in Philadelphia or FG. He's a good supporting actor but I wouldn't say he's any better than Don Cheadle or Sam Jackson...who are often amazing when featured in supporting roles.

I know that Bacon has had some 'nice' roles, but nothing grounbreaking or worthy of an Oscar. I honestly turned off Wild Things after I saw Denises titties a couple times...I actually liked him in Tremors the most outta anything believe it or not.

I think Mekhi Phifer, like Marlon Wayans has potential as a good serious actor if he could land a few good roles. He was very good in Clockers.

Kevin Bacon turned in the best supporting performance of 1995 with his portrayal of an incarcerated thief/turned insane murderer in the film Murder in the First. No Oscar nomination but he was nominated by the Screen Actors Guild, which is probably a better gauge of a great performance than the Academy.

Apparently, his turn in The Woodsman was incredible, but I can't see anyone playing a pedophile in an independent movie getting Oscar hype. I haven't seen that movie yet.

Using Tremors to gauge the ability of Kevin Bacon is like using The Ref to measure Kevin Spacey's or the Next Karate Kid to judge how talented Hilary Swank is.

Gibson is a movie star rather than an actor, and is a notch below even Tom Cruise or Jim Carrey when it comes to those who can turn both good performances and blockbusters...

my favorites
dead presidents--lorenz tate
menace to society--lorenz tate
boyz in da hood-- ice cube, cuba gooding

Gibson is a movie star rather than an actor, and is a notch below even Tom Cruise or Jim Carrey when it comes to those who can turn both good performances and blockbusters...


I beg to differ about the movie star rather than an actor portion.

I beg to differ about the movie star rather than an actor portion.


....Mel was great in The Bounty and The year of Living dangerously.

The only thing I didn't like about Dead Presidents was how the linked the scenes.

....Mel was great in The Bounty and The year of Living dangerously.

I forgot about The Bounty. That was a great flick, and a very nice acting job by Gibson. Overall though he has not earned the title "great actor". Niether has Kevin Bacon.

Sir John Gielgud is a great actor.

Hanks and Penn are both very good actors. I prefer Penn overall, but Hanks did a great job Big and Philadelphia.

I'll play devils advocate. Is there anyone who is a better PURE actor than Ben Kingsley? It seems like he's always very good in everything he's in. I haven't seen all of his movies but the ones I have seen (Ghandi, Bugsy, Schindlers List, House of Sand and Fog, parts of Sexy Beast) he's great in. If theres anyone who can play every role, I think its him.

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im looking around for somenew dvds and i recently saw denzel washingtonin john q and i liked it a lot you guys know any other good movies with african american actors?
I would recommend anything with the wayens brothers. Lots out there! Mo money, Major Payne, etc.

anyhting with richard pryor and gene wilder in it is a classic. See no evil hear no evil. Stir crazy .among the classics

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HELL YEAH that movie is funny as ****!!!!

Who wins

Denzel Washington vs. Samuel L. Jackson?

samuel l jackson gets my vote. denzel is a whining chump.

limited on time, so if I repeat anything, go **** yourself...cause I'm not sorry (okay, sorry)...

First


I totally disagree, can't stand Tom Hanks, partially because every other ****ing person in the world loves him. He hasn't impressed me that much at all. Has Hanks ever played a convincing bad guy? And don't go saying Ladykillers, cause that movie sucked.

Marlon Wayans actually has LOTS of promise as a serious actor. Watch Requiem for a Dream and tell me if you disagree.

I too didn't like Will Smith cast as Ali. I'm not saying he didn't try, but he just seemed like some guy doing a hokey impression of Ali the whole movie. I liked Ali a lot better when I saw it the first time than I did when I saw it all the times since then. Damn that movie drags on forever. Mann just had to have that horrible love plotline. I don't mind a love plotline if it is actually good, but the one in Ali did nothing but bring the film to a standstill.

Eugene Byrd seems decent. I mainly remember him from Perfect Harmony, which was a good TV movie.

You CAN judge some movies by their covers. If the cover looks crappy and the film isn't distributed by a company you've heard of, there is a very good chance the film will suck.

On the other hand, good covers don't mean good movies either. The cover and even the title to this film starring Snoop Dogg was Urban Menace. Sounded cool, but the movie f'n sucked! Of course, I did say starring Snoop Dogg right? That fool better keep the word "Oscar" out of his mouth. Only Oscar he'll ever be getting is one that comes inside a hotdog bun. Yeah, that was lame, oh well.

Basic was a good movie. And I don't like war/military movies, but this one was good. Had Sam Jackson and Travolta.

Larry Fishburne is very good in Just Cause. Check that movie out.


dude basic kicked major ass. i love that flick.

Morgan Freeman, Eddie Murphy, Samuel L Jackson actor

Halle Berry actress

I just wanted to respond to the comment that movies that come out from unknown studios with not-so-great covers/posters are probably **** - I disagree, I'd take any foreign language film or even locally made movie over the over-produced, over-acted pieces of **** Hollywood churns out every day of the week. Do you guys ever ask what happened to the golden age of movies before CGI, before shocking sequels and obvious grab-for-cashes with famous stars (i omit the word 'actors')?

The 70's -> early 90's is where its at! What a great time for classics. I go back, watch any movie before early 90's, and its just so real and believable (good ones, obviously there were **** movies but you get my point). These days I just dont see that.

Here here to the bagging of Nick Cage - most monotone low skilled star to make it as big as he has. For some reason a lot of chicks really like him too? WTF?! Why?!

See Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, its my fav. flick ever.

[/end big off-topic rant]

Oh and for black actors? James Earl Jones - from Vader to the junk yard owner in The Sandlot he's just too damn cool.


Yeah I can't believe I forgot James Earl Jones. Probably just the fact that he's like 2 generations ago for me. Great White Hope and Coming To America were also good movies.

I'm not saying no movies with these crappy coverboxes and unknown distributors are bad, just most of them. I work at a video store currently (unfortunately), and we get A LOT of B movie garbage.

Foreign films get more credit just for the fact that they're foreign anyhow. And they shoot movies differently than CHC style like we're used to seeing. A lot of them are definitely good, but there's plenty of foreign crap too.

I'm not saying low budget movies aren't good and can't be good. Far from the truth. Robert Rodriguez, to me, is the all-time king of making good low budget movies. El Mariachi was amazing for only $7,000. If you're wanting to learn some cool stuff about film making, check that movie out and listen to Rodriguez's commentary. He really goes pretty in depth.

Desperado, a much better known movie, an action movie with explosives and all, was made for only $7 million, which is chump change. Commentary on there from Rodriguez is great also. Most action movies like that would cost upwards of $40-50 Million.

Clerks was a classic indie film, only what like $50 k. Kevin Smith is one of the other good budgeting masters, well actually I guess its really Scott Mosier who is, since he produced most of those Smith movies.

Films I'm talking about are movies like Full Moon films or hell a lot of Troma films are crap. Then there are companies similar that I haven't even heard of. Method with Elizabeth Hurley was this horrible indy film. Coverbox just had that Hong Kong flea market feel to it, and it was right on, crap. That's what I'm talking about.

Oh and avoid Open Water, it sucked.

Has anyone seen Mario Van Peebles' new movie Badasssssss? It is excellent.

yea he was great in the movie, I have to also go with boysn the hood

Yeah I can't believe I forgot James Earl Jones. Probably just the fact that he's like 2 generations ago for me. Great White Hope and Coming To America were also good movies.

I'm not saying no movies with these crappy coverboxes and unknown distributors are bad, just most of them. I work at a video store currently (unfortunately), and we get A LOT of B movie garbage.

Foreign films get more credit just for the fact that they're foreign anyhow. And they shoot movies differently than CHC style like we're used to seeing. A lot of them are definitely good, but there's plenty of foreign crap too.

I'm not saying low budget movies aren't good and can't be good. Far from the truth. Robert Rodriguez, to me, is the all-time king of making good low budget movies. El Mariachi was amazing for only $7,000. If you're wanting to learn some cool stuff about film making, check that movie out and listen to Rodriguez's commentary. He really goes pretty in depth.

Desperado, a much better known movie, an action movie with explosives and all, was made for only $7 million, which is chump change. Commentary on there from Rodriguez is great also. Most action movies like that would cost upwards of $40-50 Million.

Clerks was a classic indie film, only what like $50 k. Kevin Smith is one of the other good budgeting masters, well actually I guess its really Scott Mosier who is, since he produced most of those Smith movies.

Films I'm talking about are movies like Full Moon films or hell a lot of Troma films are crap. Then there are companies similar that I haven't even heard of. Method with Elizabeth Hurley was this horrible indy film. Coverbox just had that Hong Kong flea market feel to it, and it was right on, crap. That's what I'm talking about.

Oh and avoid Open Water, it sucked.

dissing Troma films in your rant shows you don't understand their appeal or understand the intention of Lloyd Kaufmann's films. Why not just tear into John Waters while you're at it?

You're playing that game that Tom from Office Space invented...Jump To Conclusions.

I didn't say all Troma films are crap, I said, as you quoted, a lot of Troma films are crap. You can't argue that. Come on, nobody is going to say Chopper Chick in Zombie Town was good.

Troma has some halfway decent stuff, but they also have a lot of crap. I liked Toxic Avenger 1 and 4. Even bought Citizen Toxie DVD, which is another great thing for film making nerds like me to watch. I still want to see Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD and some of Troma's other, yet few, gems.

I'm completely down with Lloyd Kaufman, was going to go to this convention just to meet him, but couldn't get anybody to go with me to Atlanta.

Kaufman didn't write or produce a lot of the films that Troma distributes.

And as much as I like Kaufman (he's funny as hell to listen to, and brilliant), I don't know that I'd want to be famous for making Troma movies. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are from that whole Indy film world too and they've clearly, undeniably done much better work than Kaufman ever will.

That's not to say that Spy Kids 3-D (Rodriguez, what were you thinking?!) was better than Toxic Avenger. Cause...it wasn't.

With many Troma films, making a piece of crap isn't just acceptable, it's the goal. Fans wouldn't expect anything else...

When your title is Surf Nazis Must Die, crap was the whole idea from the first day of the project...

I don't fully understand the appeal. Making movies, even bad movies, takes too much work to set out to TRY making bad movies. Doing it a couple times? okay fine.

Making a career out of it? It is a fear of trying to make good films because the attempted good films may turn out to suck. That's my theory, sort of, which maybe it is wrong, but I don't think its fully wrong.

There is a definite cult audience for trashy films. Sometimes I "get" the films, sometimes they just bother me. I'd rather watch a Troma movie, though, then a straight to video sequel with a new cast, or a straight to video "hip hop movie" or a big budget summer movie about a natural disaster or a romantic comedy starring someone making the transition from sitcoms...

lol yeah I agree with all that. Yeah I hate those natural disaster movies. and I also hate any movie dealing with water. must be a subconscious fear of water I have.


Or maybe I hate baths.

Morgan Freeman is probably my favorite. His performance in Shawshank Redemption deserved an Oscar.

Denzel isn't far behind.

Since I last posted in this thread, I was also impressed with Sharon Wilkins in Palindromes and with the film City of God...

I like Dark Vader because he is black :D
:lol1: :rofl: :lol1:

one of my favorite movies is always outnumbered by laurence fishburne

I like "He got game" with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.

"Hurricane" is worth a watch too. It's one of the best more or less boxing movies around.

There are more, just don't come to my mind right now.

Both of those are great choices.

I like Samuel l. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith and Denzel Washington.


All those guys are great.

Another great movie with many black actors is ****e Lee's "Do the right thing".

Fallen with denzel, also so good white actors as well. Good casting.

Deep Cover with Lawerence Fishborne (sp) an old movie but really good