[JP78]

scent of a woman...hoo haa!

[launche]

Anyone seen Pacino's "Cruisin", what are your thoughts?

[jimdgoulding]

He did a credible job with the ambiguity that was called for.  He had that innocense thing going, too.  Likes him in Sea of Love better in which in plays a NYC detective, also, but a veteran hard boiled type.  Don't imagine that part was as challenging, tho, as the title might suggest.  The movie under discussion may actually be one of his ten best performances.  We are probably talking about our greatest living actor overall, excluding things like Devil's Advocate and, don't stone me for this, Scarface.

[Turnandcough]

I think that most of the big guns of that generation(Hoffman, DeNiro, Pacino, Nicholson, etc)  have their best work waaaay behind them.They all look tired and uninspired to me. I think the last one I still enjoyed watching was Nicholson. However after watching The Bucket List I felt that he too may have lost his edge as an actor. Another thing I noticed is that often I'm more captivated by unknown actors than by too familiar ones. The characters are just more credible. I remember the first time I saw Ben Kingsley in Gandhi it really felt like I was watching Gandhi and not an actor. If I were to watch the same movie today, after seeing Kingsley in a dozen or so movies, it wouldn't be as credible.
But then again I still get a kick out of actors like Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins.     

[launche]

He did a credible job with the ambiguity that was called for.  He had that innocense thing going, too.  Likes him in Sea of Love better in which in plays a NYC detective, also, but a veteran hard boiled type.  Don't imagine that part was as challenging, tho, as the title might suggest.  The movie under discussion may actually be one of his ten best performances.  We are probably talking about our greatest living actor overall, excluding things like Devil's Advocate and, don't stone me for this, Scarface.

Jim is your post referring to "Cruisin"?

I agree their best work is behind them, although I think they both have at least one really good movie left in them, if they stop doing the Hollywood retread's.  No stones Jim, again Scarface at the time I saw it as a youngster was mesmerizing.  if watching it repeatedly or again today it would hold much less impact I imagine.  But watching that movie when I was not supposed to, wow.

[jimdgoulding]

Yes, Joey, it were.