Male Actors:

Gary Oldman
John Malcovich
Robert DeNiro
Kevin Spacey
Joaquin Phoenix
Edward Norton
Johnny Depp

Female Actors:

Diane Lane
Meryl Streep
Susan Sarandon
Winona Ryder

How could I forgotten Kevin Spacey? <slaps forehead>

Meryl Streep? <slaps Brad>

Male Actors:
Willam Defoe
Kevin Spacey
Edward Norton
John Malcovich
John Cusack
Sean Gullette
James Caviezel
Harvey Keitel
Vincent D'Onofrio

Female Actors:
Jennifer Connelly :)
Jodie Foster
Barbara Hershey
Milla Jovovich

<<<-- Originally posted by Nigel Moore : How could I forgotten Kevin Spacey? <slaps forehead>

Meryl Streep? <slaps Brad> -->>>

oh come on! She's great. She's not the best looking, but she's had many good performances. ;)

Billy Bob Thorton. Click here for his pic:

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I don't follow directors either.... But my list of much liked movies
from low budget to high budget and anything in between:

- 12 Monkeys
- 24 (tv series)
- Amelie
- American Beauty
- American History X
- Armageddon
- Avalon
- Beach,tThe
- Being John Malkovich
- Blade
- Bound
- Cruel Intentions
- Dark City
- Desperados
- El Mariachi
- Enemy at the Gates
- Fight Club
- Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within
- F---ing Amal (and no this isn't a porn movie)
- Godfather 1
- Green Mile, the
- Heat
- Iron Giant, the
- Lock, stock & two smoking barrels
- Magnolia
- Matrix, the
- Meet Joe Black
- Memento
- Moulin Rouge
- Nightmare Before Christmas, the
- O Brother Where ARt Thou
- Ocean's Eleven
- Requiem for a Dream
- Se7en
- Shawshank Redemption, the
- Sixth Sense, the
- Snatch
- Thomas Crown Affair, the

I'm probably missing some great ones that I can't think of
now...

Actually, I thought she was pretty good-looking in Defending Your Life and The River Wild. But I often get the sense she's performing rather than being. I prefer actors/actresses who seem to be themselves on screen.

But her performance in Defending Your Life was rather touching.

Nigel, if you think she's good-looking, go see Shallow Hal; there may be an explanation for the aberration. Just kidding.

heres my short list of WAR movie: my favorite category.

*best (all time):
- Starlingrad
- Apocalypse Now
- The Young Lions
- Cross of Iron
- Full Metal Jacket (kubrick's worst)
- Das Boat
- Saving Private Ryan
- Platoon
- Deer Hunter
- Band of Brothers (HBO)
- The Great Escape
- Patton
- Schindler's List
- Best Years of Our Lives, The

*good movie but not my best:
- BlackHawkDown
- Tora Tora Tora
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- To Hell and Back
- Bataan
- Battleground (Van Johnson ^-^)
- Paths of Glory
- Quiet on the Western Front

*worst (recent):
- Pearl Harbor
- Hart's War
- We Were Soldiers
- Windtalkers

As far as war films go, The Heroes of Telemark, Where Eagles Dare, The Battle of Britain and Stalag 17 are pretty decent.

The director/producer who did "Spider," is a master of creep. Canadian to boot. Lynch is always good.... Let's see, hmmm. Oh, yeah, Alex. I like his web movie clips. :)

<<-- Originally posted by Dylan Couper "I don't know who any of those folk are, but I'm partial to Russ Meyer and Roger Corman."-->>

I will have to agree with you on this one Dylan.

I will Add David Lynch to my list as well.

favorite films
-Eraserhead
-Blue Velvet
-Coffy
-The Big Bird Cage
-the Big Doll house
-Truck Turner
-Wildstyle
-Barbarella
-Black Caeser
-The Taking of Pelham 123
-Charley Varrick
-Enter the Dragon
-The Last House onThe Left
-Walking Tall
-The Dynamite Bros.
-man Bites Dog
-Assault on Precinct 13
-the French Connection
Sweet Sweetbacks Badass song
-Blackbelt Jones
-liquid Sky
-brazil
_Darkstar
-Urban Cowboy
-Blowout
-Foxy Brown
-In Like Flint
-Our Man flint
-etc. etc. etc.

Erik,

Have you seen "Enemy at the Gates"?

<<<-- Originally posted by Frank Granovski : The director/producer who did "Spider," is a master of creep. Canadian to boot. Lynch is always good.... Let's see, hmmm. Oh, yeah, Alex. I like his web movie clips. :) -->>>

David Cronenberg. Always an interesting directory, even though variable in quality. My favourite Cronenberg movies: THE NAKED LUNCH, DEAD RINGERS, THE FLY, THE DEAD ZONE. His early films are actually good to watch to learn how you can make an effective psychological horror film on a low budget. SHIVERS and RABID are cheap but effective.

<<<-- Originally posted by Adrian Douglas : Being Australian it's hard for me to go past the original Mad Max (Road Warrior to you Yanks). -->

Over here THE ROAD WARRIOR was the title for MAD MAX 2. I assume that's the movie you are referring to. THE ROAD WARRIOR is an excellent popcorn movie that has great direction and editing of action. It hits all the marks and it has something the new Matrix movie lacks, rhythm.