Great roles, great actors?

**RICHARD** · 07-08-2007, 10:50 PM

Paul Newman as Cool Hand Luke!

Steve McQueen-Great Escape, Bullitt.

Charlton Heston-Omega Man.

**rkidsrcats** · 07-09-2007, 12:18 AM

Reading all these lists...I start remembering the whole movie. I love movies....

OK, this is perhaps the weirdest suggestion, and if I hadn't actually seen the movie, I would have said "no way could this guy do this part"....but Al Pacino played Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" (2004 version) and he was so good, I was cheering at the end when he doesn't get his pound of flesh.
And Lynn Collins plays Portia and she is brilliant - a native Texan who pulls off a great Shakespearian role.

**Lady's Human** · 07-09-2007, 12:20 AM

I have to agree, he was great as Shylock. That whole movie was a very pleasant surprise.

**RICHARD** · 07-11-2007, 03:02 AM

Oh my goodness....

I love quirky, "low" budget movies.

This one had three ALL-STAR stars and roles.

The Professional- Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman.

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Raising Arizona- Nick Cage.

Raging Bull-De Niro.

**dukedogsmom** · 07-11-2007, 04:08 AM

Michael Douglas in Falling Down. Awesome movie.

**cloverfdx** · 07-11-2007, 09:10 AM

Judd Nelson as Jon Bender in the Breakfast Club.

Chevy Chase in all the National Lampoons movies.

John Candy in the Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck etc.

**rkidsrcats** · 07-11-2007, 11:16 AM

John Turturro keeps turning up in some of the best roles in offbeat movies. A favorite is his trash talking bowling creep character Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski.
The more I watch that movie, the more I laugh - Coen Brothers stuff is truly funny.