'100 Greatest Movie Stars'

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IT'S 'MOVIE STAR' YOU DOPPELFULE.

(though, still)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

why weren't you lot watching the snooker (I saw bits on sun and switched over to catch the top ten after the snooker)? we all knew the moviestars thing was gonna be shit.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

in movieworld saying "the past is more glamorous than the present" is merely a lame truism
in snookerworld it is a terrible fact

haha i wz mainly labelling unlabelled videos: this went buffy/buffy/buffy/buffy/buffy/buffy/buffy/.....

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

''in snookerworld it is a terrible fact''

I'm not an expert on glamour but its all abt playing standards mark. really. snooker is far more exciting now than even five/ten years ago.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

yes the higher the standards the more boring the game

(hence the death of billiards) (use other facts please 70s vintage)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

no the higher the standards the closer the matches and therefore this is more exciting and nerve racking for the viewer (last year's final got more ppl watching than the FA cup).

didn't you know you liked snooker mark.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thomson almost made it sound like Archie Leach had been a *pal*.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

that 'style writer' commentator in the red jumper was very creepy

dont think hopkins or spacey should have been in the top 10
(or even the top 75)

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

winslet/blanchett/weaver greater 'movie stars' than Liz Taylor ?

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

i thought hopkins and spacey were v.interesting and unexpected anomalies in the top ten, both being high-profile "character actors" (what wz the voting system?) (yes yes rigged, but how?)

i naturally find ppl whose careers are unfinished far more interesting than ppl who are dead and ca no longer evolve of their own volition eg no one had anything remotely interesting to say abt marilyn or bogart

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

how old is joe queenan btw? i tht he = same as me but he looks abt 65!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Although I do genuinely believe that Ewan is a star (YOU DELUDED FULE MARK) I still think there should be an immediate moratorium (hoho) on polls that include alive ppl. We shouldn't condemn (or elevate) Halle Berry to position 99 until she's cold in the grave, IMO.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw jq on late review once and he came across as someone intent on never finding anything but his own jokes funny - probably a misreading of a very dry and deadpan manner, but quite offputting
he does like some comedy films, right ?

mark - yes 'anomalies' is the word ok !
(i 'imagined' the criteria to be asking a random sample of public 'name 10 of the greatest movie stars evah' - gives the big & famous names of old as iconic 'stars' regardless of acting quality/heartbeat status - but it was probably self-selecting phone-in volunteers and thus youth-skewed beyond the publics real age-demographic)
i can't imagine anyone naming anthony hopkins in a what-comes-to-mind list of 10 movie stars

(was greta garbo even in the list ?)

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was the usual method - shortlist determined by C4/'panel of experts', voted by phone and interweb by self-selectors.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"panel of experts" clearly invalid since muthafuckah harvell not involved => steve guttenberg not shortlisted

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really thought that Ben Stiller had got number 2. I turned over to channel 4 at about 12, and there was a clip from "Meet the Parents", and I thought "this rules, Ben is either number one or two!". I presume it was on account of his great work in Mystery Men and Zoolander.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

No Keaton, Marx Brothers or Laurel & Hardy. So much for comedy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Seriously, how'd al pacino win? The only film of his I've ever seen is Dick Tracy.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

he has REALLY BIG EYES jel!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

and he speaks the loudest which, as everyone knows, = great acting.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who's the most serious omission? Robert Mitchum? Considering it's as much about great icons as great actors, and he was both.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robert Mitchum was possibly the biggest omission, him or Henry Fonda. On a popular vote of "actors" not "movie stars", Joe Pesci and Steve Buscemi would have come top 50 as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

If only they had used SCIENCE.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

(This query actually returns a very sensible list).

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

A bit of a weird list. Brando should obviously have been up there with DeNiro and Pacino, and I can't say I'm hugely familiar with the entire resume of Chaplin (yup, I do fail there) but as he revolutionised screen acting he should have been in the top 10. Same goes for Bogart. I'm surprised Jodie Foster or Susan Sarandon weren't recognised as the finest female performers of the contemporary period. I'd have put Ingrid Bergman higher, and Bogey deserved the top 10.

I never saw the whole list but no Chun Yow Fat? That's fucking insane! I bet they left out Barbara Steele, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff as well.

I cannot believe anyone with half a brain would think Top Gun or Die Hard are better films than Casablanca or actually vote for Arnalt Schwarzenneger, which simply beggard belief. I hate all his films (except maybe The Running Man which is kinda fun but no more or less entertaining than your average slasher movie).

― Calum, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Total Recall rox you moran.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Again, movie stars != great actors.

Nick's list is pretty good, apart from the mysterious Stella Screen.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Most glaring omission = Shahrukh Khan.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

to me john wayne is the best. he as done so much in his 50 years of acting and if he could of lived longer there no tell what he could of done. Maybe even president

― reese, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

as i mentioned in the TCM thread, today is the centennial of Rita Hayworth's birth

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/10/17/beauty-break-happy-rita-hayworth-centennial.html

Fred Astaire called her his favorite dance partner!

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link

Funny looking at the original list now,

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/06/filmnews.arts

Costner wouldn't get a look in today IMO. Cruise/Downey would be way higher, McGregor/Depp/Hopkins way lower.

It's also now something of an er.. rogues gallery. Jesus check out number 4!?

― piscesx, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link

it's a listicle. what can I say.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link

huh had forgotten I share bday with Rita

gorgeous but tragic figure obviously

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link

HBD, Οὖτις

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link

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