>> ^Golgi:

I'm pretty sure that's Al Pacino's Nicaraguan cousin, Sal Pacino.


Oh damnit, that one got me to snort laugh, damn you sir, and your clever quips!

I'm pretty sure that's Al Pacino's Nicaraguan cousin, Sal Pacino.

>> ^rottenseed:
Every actor on this list except for De Niro has played the same character every movie they've been in.

You tell the angels in internet heaven you've never seen pwned so singularly personified as in the comments that sent you there. Are you completely fucking stupid?

Pacino: Corleone, Serpico, Sonny, Roma, Lefty, Lowell, Shylock.
Eastwood: Harry, Preacher, Gunny, Frank, Everett, Dunn.

Pacino wins, because he's the only one of them that makes me forget the actor and only see the character.

I would have voted Gary Oldman if he were on the list, but since he wasn't I had to go with Bobby De Niro. You compare the characters he creates between Awakenings, Cape Fear and Midnight Run, there is no contest. Pacino is a close second.

Freeman is a one note actor. Pacino is a ham and De Niro is over-rated. He's great but still over-rated.

From this list I'd go for Clint because as Farhad said he's got presence.

Oh and Spacey? I think he's terrible. He's one of those actors who appears in too few good films.

>> ^dag:
Kevin Spacey


I just watched Glengary Glen Ross again just now. Everyone in that movie was perfect! Kevin Spacey was great, but I'd have to declare he was the weakest of the main cast. Maybe Alan Arkin was a bit less than him, but that has a lot to do with his role, I think.

Al Pacino, Jack Lemon, Ed Harris and (even that little part they wrote for the film) Alec Baldwin! Wow! The movie is brilliant. It also helps that it's the best Mamet play/screenplay to date.

>> ^peggedbea:
it looks like im gonna have to actually agree with blankfist.
i couldnt chose between pacino and deniro so i eeny meeny miny mo'd it.


Bwahahaha! You agreed with me! You will now have to take a shower to wash all that liberty off!

I think it's safe to say we all like all 5 actors. Let's stop apologizing for our votes. This is war!

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Al Pacino wears womens underwear.

I do love Raging Bull, Scarface etc. Pacino and De Niro are legends. No question about it. But they stopped making good movies. Morgan Freeman is great but he is very type cast imo. Gran Torino? Clint is still kicking ass. Polls like this are tough because they're all awesome.

also .. I think there at least a dozen other actors that should be in the list instead of James Earl Jones.

it looks like im gonna have to actually agree with blankfist.

i couldnt chose between pacino and deniro so i eeny meeny miny mo'd it.

^Have you ever seen Bruce Almighty?

Al Pacino and De Niro's past acting history can carry any crappy movie they make from here until their deaths. Scarface! Goodfellas! Glengary Glen Ross! Raging Bull! These guys are legends. Morgan Freeman is awesome, and so is Clint Eastwood, but they don't hold a candle to Pacino and De Niro.

I'm constantly amazed by Pacino's talent. Even though I'm more often than not, repulsed by the characters he plays. I don't know if it's a case of type-casting, or if he just prefers these roles, but he seems to play nothing but assholes...even if they're doing good things (like Slade), they seem to find the obnoxious way possible to do it.

And yet, I'll watch anything he's in...he's just that good.

>> ^gwiz665:
Fuck yeah, he is so cool.
About Pacino's Lucifer, I think that because he is featured more prominently in the movie (Devil's Advocate) he loses some of his power. In this and the Prophecy he is basically all-powerful - in both movies we've built up that Gabriel is pretty powerful, and Lucifer just "brushes them off". Pacino's lucifer is more of a manipulator, plans within plans within plans, kind of type. I like his monologues though.
I think I like Darth Sidius for the same reason - he's much like Lucifer, powerful, manipulating.


Yeah i agree there. I think the more you familiarise with a character the less of an enigma they are.

That's one of the selling points for pacino's role for me though. You're very familiar with him, he's talking to keanu like a father to a son. But he still repulses me a little at times, and i'm always slightly unsure of him. Like when they're at the party and he's getting noshed on under the table, and he looks at keanu and smiles, and i can't help but retract from something like that. And the monologues and rages that he goes into.. yeah love those bits.

But then again, like you said, the plots are a bit different - advocate has him as a manipulator, using our god given free will to trap us. But then, the bit after the suicide, when he wakes up and does a mental keanu "whoa". Pacino gets another go - vanity. And maybe he'll win that time. That's my favourite bit - you never win for good, you never beat him for good, you have to always beat him, every single time.

Hell now i'm just talking about advocate But i do love the way that keanu is presented with a choice - no guilt, no responsibility. God is all-powerful, and with the new child he would create with his sister, god could lose. And keanu could live forever in absolute bliss, literally forever, literally without responsibility or guilt, literally with the most intense bliss he could ever imagine. And he chooses not to take it - why? Because it's just wrong.

Fuck yeah, he is so cool.

About Pacino's Lucifer, I think that because he is featured more prominently in the movie (Devil's Advocate) he loses some of his power. In this and the Prophecy he is basically all-powerful - in both movies we've built up that Gabriel is pretty powerful, and Lucifer just "brushes them off". Pacino's lucifer is more of a manipulator, plans within plans within plans, kind of type. I like his monologues though.

I think I like Darth Sidius for the same reason - he's much like Lucifer, powerful, manipulating.

>> ^enoch:
>> ^gwiz665:
I thought this whole scene was freaking great. I always love the Lucifers. Same thing in The Prophecy where Viggo Mortensen plays him.
I liked Gabriel through the whole movie too.

you mean this prophecy?
http://www.videosift.com/video/viggo-mortensen-as-lucifer-the-proph
ecy-1995

SPOILERS IN THIS POST (for the devil's advocate)

>> ^gwiz665:
I thought this whole scene was freaking great. I always love the Lucifers. Same thing in The Prophecy where Viggo Mortensen plays him.
I liked Gabriel through the whole movie too.


I absolutely *LOVE* the religion warring in the modern day type films, they really appeal to me. And like you, i have a massive crush on these lucifers. I think john abruzzi (lol) does a great job in this film as lucifer, there's something almost reptilian about his looks to kick off with, and the way he speaks reminds me of G-man from the half life series. It's just all great.

And aragorn was pretty good as well, i'll admit, but i think you missed on one of the greatest showing of the devil in modern times - pacino. Don't get me wrong, i think pacino has been a bit of a hasbeen for a long time, his heart just isn't in the job anymore and he's become a stereotype of himself. But in "The Devil's Advocate", he hits the nail RIGHT on the head. Before you realise he's the devil, he comes across excellently. You know there's something wrong with him but you're not quite sure what, because although he's a nice guy with the people you see him with, he has odd quirks and mannerisms that blow the cover of 'normal guy'. And finally when he shows that he's the devil, his attitude is just fantastic.

Oh, and as for this film - i loved it, i thought it was one of the better films of the time that didn't recieve a lot of attention (at least, over here). Never read the comics.