Ok so name a *really* good, I mean monster fuck off performance in the movies it's so good you ca.

[Pigs_in_Space]

@Beware_of_Doug

R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Of all the famous performances on film, this is the one you will never see anybody on the internet riffing on, parodying, or satirizing.

I take it you haven’t seen thisinsurance commercial?

[Zoe]

Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice – considered by some critics to be the best acting performance on film

[Kizarvexius]

Peter O’Toole in The Lion in Winter
Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus
Anne Baxter in All About Eve
Edward Norton in Primal Fear
Bruno Ganz and Corinna Harfouch in Downfall
Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons
Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren in The Madness of King George
Robert Preston in The Music Man and Victor/Victoria

Every single cast member in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Pigs_in_Space

@Beware_of_Doug

R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Of all the famous performances on film, this is the one you will never see anybody on the internet riffing on, parodying, or satirizing.

I take it you haven’t seen thisinsurance commercial?

1. It may be on the intertent, but it’s not of the internet.
2. Compared to the role that made him famous, R. Lee himself is in Namby Pamby Land here.

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

Heath Ledger’s Joker is considered a career-defining performance.

[Moonchild]

Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right. Layered and nuanced and genuine and she nails the whole Psychobabble California Lesbian thing perfectly. Full of heart, sadness and conflict. Great performance.

[gallows_fodder]

Both Casey Affleck and Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[Jaledin]

Gena Rowlands, “A Woman Under the Influence” (Cassavetes)
Stacy Keach, “Fat City” (Huston)
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Aviator” (Scorsese)
Jack Nicholson, “The Last Detail” (Ashby)

…

Cybill Shepherd, “Daisy Miller” (Bogdanovich)

…

I got nothing.

[BrainGlutton]

@Beware_of_Doug

R. Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. Of all the famous performances on film, this is the one you will never see anybody on the internet riffing on, parodying, or satirizing.

The only possible response to Hartman is awed acceptance, because to anyone who considers himself both an American and a man, Stanley Kubrick is saying, “This is what God looks like to you.”

Speak for yourself. Looking around, this American man thinks God has a lot more in common with the Joker, or possibly Rain Man.

[Valgard]

@jjimm

But IMO without peer, especially as it’s a cameo, is Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Came in to say this.