Oh but you know about 300, females went nuts over it because of the half-nude dudes and the UFC-like abs of the actors.

Thats another stupid thing about the movie. They forgot to put their armors on....

In overall, I think about my favorite male actors and it's pretty much like this :

Al Pacino (especially for the godfather, scarface and also the devil advocate)
Denzel Washington (man on fire, training day, malcom x, and some more
Leonardo Dicaprio (the departed, blood diamonds )
What else... maybe Tom Hanks

Oh, I really liked Dustin Hoffman in Rainman too.

haha yea
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i think alot of the abs were sprayed on too

300 isn't based on the actual battle as much as it is based on a very stylistic graphic novel giving a fictionalized account of the battle.

I remember the director of the film saying that the movie was "90 % historically accurate"

I seriously laughed my off.

I'll encourage you to start a discussion of Al's performance(26 years ago) among friends and notice their passion then compare it to a Heath's which was just 2 to 3 years.

The fact Heath died changed the perception of many.

We all love Al Pacino, don't get me wrong. But Brian De Palma movies are usually overdone bloody massacres, which is fine if you like that. But he isn't an actor's director.
Like you I defended Scarface to the teeth until one friend said "Watch it again". I took him up on his challenge, and felt he was right.

I wonder how many of the staunch defenders of Al Pacino's acting in the film as powerfully moving and challenging have actually seen it in the last couple years.

They were talking about Heath's performance and Oscar before he died.

You must have been laughing when he went on to say it was more "opera than documentary" and called it a "fantasy film" narrated by a narrator who " who knows how not to wreck a good story with truth."