..or at least a stern talking to.

Sorry… just finished watching SNL dvd on Netflix with Chris. :)

I like Dustin Hoffman though I can’t for the life of me say why. There’s just something about him that gets my attention.

Alan Rickman – for his amazing portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as well as metatron in Dogma, Hans Gruber in Die Hard and for voicing Marvin the Android in Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Johnny Depp – I will pretty much watch any film with him in, he’s a great actor, and an incredibly generous soul. love him – totally stole the show in Pirates, and I just loved him as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow.

Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes – and just a damned fantastic and funny guy who doesn’t take himself too seriously.

Morgan Freeman – I think you’d have to go a long long way to find an actor with this level of presence on screen. And again, he’s just someone I really like when I’ve seen him outside of movies too (and he own’s a blues club – how can I not love the man)

Will Smith – an actor of superb talent, whether it’s a serious or comedic role.

Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa, Chow Yun Fat, Ziyi Zhang (or Zhang Ziyi depends on the movie – so many great martial arts epics between these people. I love a great martial arts movie, as it relies heavily on my favourite aspect of action films – Fight Choreography, there’s something about those brilliantly scripted action sequences that still blows my mind.

Other notable mentions:

Anyone from the LOTR movies – be they actors, director, producers, sound engineers, prop makers or the people who make the tea. For allowing these films to happen and give me 4 years (if you count the wait for the final extended cut on DVD) of cinematic joy. The most important movies of my life. Here’s hoping the Hobbit movies will be as epic.

Joss Whedon – Firefly was wonderful, Fox should BURN for axing it, if it had been given the time it deserved to mature it would have stood out as one of the great Sci-Fi epics of TV history. And then Came Serenity – perhaps my favourite film, I must have watched it 50 times and it still makes me laugh and cry in all the same places. The only movie I’ve ever been to here in the UK where there was a standing ovation at the end.

Gladiator – I have to mention the film – as it’s the whole that makes the parts shine. There is nothing about this film I dislike, and it still has the best damned soundtrack I’ve ever heard.

Brotherhood of the wolf – I love this movie, the camerawork is brilliant, the soundtrack is so evocative, the fight’s are brilliantly put together, and the cast is pretty cool too. Watch it in french with subtitles though, as the dubbing is bloody awful.

Heath Ledger as the Joker – utterly demented, crazy and damned scary. Nobody will ever be able to play this role again without being compared to him, RIP Heath.

I’d go on to my book/fiction heroes, but my reply would end up longer than a bearwall :P
sorry for the long reply.

on jackman, good actor, very diverse roles. Perhaps heath ledger, I liked knight’s tale, and i’m told dark knight is good, just haven’t gotten around to it.. And I know I’ll probably get strung up for it, but I actually liked “10 things I hate about you.” The scene that cemented that movie as epic win, is julia stiles flashing the teacher to get ledger out of detention. you see it from her back view, the movie is still family friendly. He was a fairly good actor,

but there is no one stand out for me. I guess it depends on the mood i’m in,