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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Private "Gomer Pyle" wasn't played particularly well?! Fuck you and your whole family, TINY! D'Onofrio is a GOD.
Never been a huge fan, but he's a fine actor, yes.
Agreed, really great actor. (Great mumblecore actor, too.  ). True story: when James Lipton asked Amy Adams (we're being chauvinist pigs here, by the way — Adams destroys at least 90 to 95% of male actors out there) what working with Bale was, she said she had met him, and he was "lovely", but she felt she had worked with Dicky and Irving, not with Christian Bale. There's a Method man for ya.
Anyway, as for who truly is THE MAN in this day and age, there can be only one answer:
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D'onofrio was excellent in Full Metal Jacket, but that's more because everything in that film was excellent. He did what he was told, and he did it well. Still not a brilliant performance, just a really memorable character and a particularly mind-blowing segment of a near-perfect film.
Re: Shannon (that is Michael Shannon, yeah?) he's very good, but not the best out there.
And yeah, Amy Adams annihilates just about everyone. Tidal Swinton is something else too. As is Cate Blanchet. But Amy... oh, Amy.