No. No, he is not.
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Its not very hard to give good performances when you play the exact same character in every movie. Morgan Freeman is exactly the same in every movie.
Tom Hanks at least has some range as an actor in comparison.
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akuma587 said:
Its not very hard to give good performances when you play the exact same character in every movie. Morgan Freeman is exactly the same in every movie. Tom Hanks at least has some range as an actor in comparison.
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I disagree, I mean Principal Joe Clark from Lean on Me is a much different character than the one he played in, say, Million Dollar Baby.
I would agree that he does play many of the same roles over and over, but he's demonstrated a bit of range.
@Your other post: Would you think Daniel Day Lewis fits into that category as well?
As I don't think the thread question needs to be answered, I list my top 5 instead:
Robert De Niro
Charles Laughton
Jack Nicholson
Jack Lemmon
Marlon Brando

The rock is a better actor than Ben Affleck lol
pearljammer said:
I disagree, I mean Principal Joe Clark from Lean on Me is a much different character than the one he played in, say, Million Dollar Baby. I would agree that he does play many of the same roles over and over, but he's demonstrated a bit of range. @Your other post: Would you think Daniel Day Lewis fits into that category as well? |
@ Morgan Freeman - yes, you are right, there are a few movies he has done that are different - like Driving for Miss Daisy, but for the most part his roles are almost identical. He may be a great actor, but greatest actor of all time? No way.
@ Daniel Day-Lewis - have you seen My Left Foot or Last of the Mohicans? Those are extremely different than his two most recent movies.
If we want to actually get serious, here are some actors who could contend for best actor of all time - Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Toshiro Mifune, Alec Guiness, Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
akuma587 said:
@ Morgan Freeman - yes, you are right, there are a few movies he has done that are different - like Driving for Miss Daisy, but for the most part his roles are almost identical. He may be a great actor, but greatest actor of all time? No way. @ Daniel Day-Lewis - have you seen My Left Foot or Last of the Mohicans? I have. Those are extremely different than his two most recent movies. If we want to actually get serious, here are some actors who could contend for best actor of all time - Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Toshiro Mifune, Alec Guiness, Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier.
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Agree with bolded. I think I simply read too much into your initial Morgan Freeman comment.
Sorry, I didn't mean the Daniel Day Lewis question as 'do you think he belongs into the category of having little range', I meant do you think he belongs among the best. Sorry, I was unclear about that. I mentioned it because you quoted me without having any of my text and was just curious if you had meant him included as well.
As to the last part, I was only considering active actors. None of those that were listed earlier deserve mention among those you've provided with the exception of Jack Nicolson and, in my opinion, Daniel Day Lewis.
I would have to with a resounding "NO"
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You really live up to your name 
But I'm sure either Tom Hanks or (soon to be) christian bale will be taking that crown.
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