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whygohome · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:36 pm **Posts:** 62

This is just something that, for some reason, popped into my head this morning. I was thinking about actors and actresses who surprised me with a role they played. Not neccessarily Oscar caliber, though they can be, but just good performances that you weren't expecting.

Some, off the top of my head, are:

Brad Pitt in Snatch
Christian Bale in American Psycho
Marky Mark in Boogie Nights
Maomi Watts in 21 Grams

That's all for now, have a good day everyone.

Ensign9 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:26 pm

Whoever plays Angel in X-men 3

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

Ensign9 wrote:

Whoever plays Angel in X-men 3

youre taking this a little too hard, i promise you, everything will be a-ok

Clubber · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:20 pm

Rodney dangerfield in Natural Born Killers as a child molesting father. He was so funny in that role.

Ed Norton in AHX - where did he get that jacked up body from?

Sean Penn in Carlitto's Way - amazing job playing the jew lawyer

Garden of Stone · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:17 pm

Robin Willams - Creepy guy in One-Hour Photo

Tom Cruise - Bad guy in Collateral

Go_State · **Posted:** Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:24 pm

Keanu Reeves - Anything that talentless assclown stars in.

Too Big a Man Too Say · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:24 am

Garden of Stone wrote:

Robin Willams - Creepy guy in One-Hour Photo

Thats what first popped into my head as well

Mitchell · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:27 am

every time i see "popped," i think "pooped"

Spike · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 40914

bob saget as the guy who sucked dick for coke in half-baked

jeremyvedder · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:51 am

Mitchell613 wrote:

every time i see "popped," i think "pooped"

lol, this is my new signature

zeb · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:33 am **Posts:** 17101

Jim Carey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

j.

Sunny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:56 am

zeb wrote:

Jim Carey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

j.

Precisely! I can't picture that guy doing anything seriously.

-Sunny

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:59 am

Tom Hanks in The Terminal

Hinny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:06 am

SuneilKumar wrote:

zeb wrote:

Jim Carey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

j.

Precisely! I can't picture that guy doing anything seriously.

-Sunny

Man On The Moon was pretty serious, to a degree.
The Majestic wasn't a comedy, but it wasn't much good either.
The Truman Show wasn't a comedy in the strictest sense.

Hinny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:11 am

Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love takes the cake. Take a look at his career. There's one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb, and this thumb sticks out longer than his arm.

lunkin · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:35 am

denzel washington- training day

Dr. Van Nostrand · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:55 am

Spike wrote:

bob saget as the guy who sucked dick for coke in half-baked

its not really suprising anymore since its from a while back, but at the time john travolta in pulp fiction was a suprising role

Go_State · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:56 am

Well, since Bob Saget popped up (and that probably does take the cake), I feel Neil Patrick Harris in "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" deserves a mention.

McParadigm · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:07 pm **Posts:** 12393

Spike wrote:

bob saget as the guy who sucked dick for coke in half-baked

Agreed.

Quote:

Brad Pitt in Snatch

That doesn't suprise me. It seems like a lot of his roles (minus the early years and the last few) have been rockin' and odd.

Doubt me? 12 Monkeys.

jeremyvedder · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:28 am

leslie neilsen doing airplane (at the time)

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