Somehow I had missed Deja Vu - but it was on one of the movie channels this week and I watched it. It really was a good movie. Usually Denzel's movies are good ... a couple serious duds, like that one where he takes over the hospital (bo-ring) and The Preacher's Wife (uber bo-ring) - but everybody gets to be given a break when they've made as many good ones as he has. One of my favorites - which didn't get much attention - was Devil With a Blue Dress. I had read the book series about Easy Rawlins and I thought they did an excellent job of recreating the feel of the books...and such good complex mysteries!

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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
...Christian Nestell Bovee

I can't stop laughing...

..and then turn around and do "The African Queen" and play a man incredibly noble and decent (in spite of his shortcomings). Bogies had gift that's rarely seen these days. IMO, the only actors I can think of today that come anywhere near the depth and range of Bogie would be Denzel Washington and Jack Nicholson (I'm sure some here will disagree).

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

Interesting.

I have always found Jack Nicholson played Jack Nicholson. Now, he's very GOOD at playing Jack Nicholson...but I've never believed in his characters particularly. I don't think of him as the same kind of movie star as Bogie - i think of him more as a Cary Grant (who was very good at playing Cary Grant - but that's ALL he ever was).

I believe Edward Norton, Sean Penn, Daniel Day Lewis are just three of the actors today who are capable of completely immersing themselves into various kinds of roles.

Edited to add: omg - how could I forget Johnny Depp? He has the most astonishing range as an actor!

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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
...Christian Nestell Bovee

I like Michael Caine, Gene Hackman. I am forgetting so many people here. But I have always enjoyed their work.

I think that he gets cast a lot as characters that fit his persona, but he has an extraordinary ability to step into whatever character he wants to.

Edward Norton is a guy that I'd put pretty high up on the scale of great actors, but Penn's never impressed me that much and I haven't really seen of D.D. Lewis to really judge his ability.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."