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See Dead Man Walking, At Close Range, and Bad Boys and you'll see

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In Reply to: What do you expect with Penn having such a predominate role? posted by PdL on April 4, 2006 at 10:52:23:

three of the best performances by a male lead in the past 50 years.
Mystic River was flawed but his performance was believable. That howl from the street as his daughter's death became apparent... nightmarishly great.
Similarly, 21 Grams showed Sean could play a character adrift. I think you may be blaming Penn for some of the films' shortcomings. The performances in both films I found excellent (Del Toro, Watts, etc.).

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Re: See Dead Man Walking, At Close Range, and Bad Boys and you'll see - PdL 00:30:14 04/05/06 (4)
IMHO Penn's best work: At Close Range, Bad Boys, Falcon & Snowman, Dead Man Walking and Carlito's way.
Mystic River - his performance was not convincing but was over the top. In the scence you referred to I found Penn's acting to be much too forced. Very much to my surprise, the best acting in MR was done by Tim Robbins.
21 Grams - solid performances by Watts & Benico and a marginal performance by Penn. Penn has played the adrift character (very well) a few times, however I didn't think he pulled it off in 21G. I concur that the movie had many shortcomings. I don't attribute my dislike of that film solely to Penn, but as his character occupied about 1/3 of 21G, its impossible for me to not recogonize his poor performance as one of major flaws.
- Carlito's Way, the lawyer. That was the worst overacting in recent - Duilawyer 21:12:52 04/07/06 (1)
  memory. Terrible
  - Overacting? You spent a lot a time around coke heads? - PdL 16:53:07 04/08/06 (0)
    Its pretty tough to be over the top when portraying a practicing cocaine addict. Perhaps it is the lawyer role that you take issue with?
- Hey, we agree on his best and that's pretty good. You expressed - tinear 05:25:49 04/05/06 (1)
  yourself so well that, even though we disagree, I can understand your view. Robbins is an underrated performer. He doesn't get many rolls, does he? I wonder if he's spent much of his career lining up directing gigs or preparing himself for it?
  - Re: Hey, we agree on his best and that's pretty good. You expressed - PdL 14:55:34 04/05/06 (0)
    Yes, although I have only seen a couple of movies w/ Robbins, I have always been pleasantly surprised by the quality of his performances. He doesn't seem to be in many movies of late - does he do a lot of directing?
Re: Agreed (nt) - Jeff Starrs 00:07:16 04/05/06 (0)
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