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  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.worldActors who always improve a movie
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    23 days ago

    Eugene Levy. Much of his career as an “ensemble man” where he constantly stole the show. He nails every line, intonation, and timing in ever scene in every movie or show he’s ever done. Rembrant of comedy.

    Keanu Reeves. Not because his movies, scripts, plots, co-stars have all been aces, but because, per your premise, he adds to each of his movies, and some of them he doesn’t necessarily define. Someone with the range to play in Branach’s Much Ado about Nothing as well as Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure.

    Bill fucking Murray. So many of those flix could have been horrid but he made them classics, Stripes is a good example, if you take him out it’s a zero.















  • Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.

    The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.

    Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.

    We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.

    Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.

    Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.

    Nice country you got here.