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Favorite Performance (Besides Tony Soprano)?

posted 5 years ago by Moviebuff1 (2835)
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For me, it's Lt. Gen. George Miller from In the Loop.

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

Enough Said co-staring Julia Lewis Davis.

[–] charliekelly (1018) 5 years ago

Tom Valco in "Surviving Christmas" (2004) - very underrated Christmas comedy.

[–] blue1981 (6459) 4 years ago

I don't know why that movie is hated. I love it.

[–] Galilguy (2327) 3 years ago

He played a great uptight Col. In The Last Castle. A role I never hear people talk about..

[–] CaptainCrozier (598) a year ago

He played a great uptight Col. In The Last Castle. A role I never hear people talk about..

YES!

Gandolfini's possibly most underrated performance.

[–] pjl69 (2433) 3 years ago

Terminal Velocity (played a russian gangster playing an american lawyer). Also True Romance altough its a very small part.

[–] jewoogle (2269) 3 years ago

nice i didnt know he was in true romance?!? that is one of my favorite movies and sopranos is one of my favorite show. i had no idea he was in that

[–] jewoogle (2269) 3 years ago

i was gonna say the general for that movie too

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

A small but memorable role in True Romance.

[–] degray9 (1126) 2 years ago

Definitely his role as the gay hitman in “The Mexican.” Gore Verbinski said he was this generation’s Marlon Brando.

[–] Kowalski (58229) 2 years ago

ENOUGH SAID OR THE MEXICAN...HE WAS AMAZING IN BOTH...PROBABLY GIVE THE EDGE TO ENOUGH SAID.

[–] roger1 (2277) 3 months ago

A small but memorable role in True Romance.

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Spouting Tarantino dialogue (but directed by Tony Scott) and in a great scene opposite Brad Pitt..with whom he would reunite in "The Mexican" and, not long before his death, in "Killing Them Softly."

That said, Gandolfini's BIG scene in the movie is opposite only Patricia Arquette, in a motel room and its bathroom -- an ugly, gory QT fight to the death.

He also played a nice guy suitor to Geena Davis in Angie(1994) so he could be shown as nice to women, too.

By the time The Sopranos came along in 1999, I knew exactly who James Gandolfini was. He was good before The Sopranos and after The Sopranos.

And now he's gone.