Movie Top Ten Someone, take over the baton

[Karin Schill]

My Stellan Skarsgård list:

1. Mamma Mia! (2008)
2. Arn: Tempelriddaren (2007)
3. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
4. Arn: Riket vid vägens slut (2008)
5. The Railway Man (2013)
6. Breaking the Waves (1996)
7. Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
8. Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
9. Good Will Hunting (1997)
10. Glasblåsarns barn (1998)

 

[Karin Schill]

Last chance to take part in this round.

 

[Karin Schill]

And we have a result. Your favorite Stellan Skarsgård movie is not a movie at all but a mini-tv-series:


Chernobyl (2019)
This is a mini-tv-series from HBO that depicture the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in 1986.
Stellan won a golden globe for his portrayal of the russian minister Boris Sjtjerbina in this series.

You gave it a total of: 39 points.

Here's a trailer for the Tv-series:

Then your favorite Stellan Skarsgård movie is:


The Railway Man (2013)
This is a British-Australian war film that depicture how a British officer who fought in the second world war still suffers from psychological trauma 30 years later when he returns to the prison camp where he was held captured by the Japanese.

You gave it a total of: 21 points.

Here's a trailer for that movie too:

Then here's the rest of the list:

Mamma Mia! (2008) 18 p.
Good Will Hunting (1997) 17 p.
Angels & Demons (2009) 17 p.
Breaking the Waves (1996) 15 p.
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) 10 p.
Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End (2007) 10 p.
Arn: Tempelriddaren (Arn: The Knight Templar) (2007) 10 p.

Avengers/Avengers Assemble (2012) 9 p.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) 8 p.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) 7 p.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 7 p.
Arn: Riket vid vägens slut (2008) 7 p.
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) 6 p.
Melancholia (2011) 5 p.
The Democratic Terrorist (1992) 5 p.
Borg (2017) 5 p.
Good Evening, Mr Wallenberg (1990) 4 p.
The Simple-minded Murderer (1982) 2 p.
Glasblåsarns barn (1998) 1 p.

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in this round.

 

[Karin Schill]

Okay up next is this actress...


Glenn Close is an American actress and producer. She was born on March 19th, 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. He father was a doctor and her mother a socialite. Close grew up with two sisters and two brothers. She lived in Belgian Congo in Africa as a teenager. She also spent time in Switzerland studying at St. George’s school.

Close studied drama in college and embarked on a career on the stage in 1974. She performed in a lot of Broadway productions. Her movie debut came in 1982 with The World According to Garp, which earned her the first of seven Academy Award Nominations. So far she has not won an Oscar. But she has won three Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and Three Golden Globes.

All together Close has made approximately 50 movies so far. But which one is your favorite?

Totals: In October.

This star was requested by @Angela Channing

 

[Crimson]

I'm honestly shocked to realize how few Glenn Close movies I've seen and liked. I thought her filmography was more robust than it actually is; she moved into supporting roles and, well, kind of junky or obscure films pretty quickly in her career.

1. DANGEROUS LIAISONS
2. REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
3. FATAL ATTRACTION

I guess I could have padded my list with movies like 101 DALMATIONS (which I don't really like) or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (which I love, but her role is not much more than a cameo).

 

[Ome]

1. Jagged Edge
2. Fatal Attraction
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. 101 Dalmations
5. Air Force One
6. Mars Attacks!

 

[Angela Channing]

This star was requested by @Angela Channing

I don't remember doing that but I think I made a good choice. I think she's a great actress, much underrated and never won an Oscar even though she has been nominated numerous times.

My top 10.

1. Jagged Edge (the first film I saw her in and the one that made me a fan of hers)
2. The World According To Garp
3. Dangerous Liaisons
4. Fatal Attraction
5. The Natural
6. Albert Nobbs
7. The Big Chill
8. Air Force One
9. Reversal of a Fortune
10. The Wife

 

[Barbara Fan]

Jagged Edge (the first film I saw her in and the one that made me a fan of hers)

its such a great film, it had me on the edge of my seat and i like watching the court room scenes as continuity got it all wrong with her suits in court! Blue to brown and back or vice versa and it starred Leigh Taylor Young pre Dallas!!

 

[Barbara Fan]

My top Glen Close films, some i dont like so not included - its a short list of 2

1. Jagged edge
2. Fatal attraction

 

[Angela Channing]

i like watching the court room scenes as continuity got it all wrong with her suits in court! Blue to brown and back or vice versa

Your other film choice, Fatal Attraction, has another continuity error. The scene when she's in bed after having sex with Michael Douglas, they must have film 2 versions: one when she's sat up in bed with her breasts exposed and another version when they are covered with a blanket. However, when they edited the film, they used a mix of both versions so they keep cutting to her with her breasts out and then covered every few seconds.

 

[Emelee]

1. Dangerous Liaisons
2. The Elephant Man
3. Air Force One

I don't want to vote on 101 Dalmatians even though I´ve seen it.

 

[Toni]

@Karin Schill, this time I´ll take the liberty of making two lists, one for my Glenn Close favorite films, and another for "special mentions", movies that I don´t see here but I think people who likes Close may enjoy so much. (PS: The Elephant Movie with her is a TVM, not the David Lynch one)

1- Albert Nobbs (2011)
2- The World According to Garp (1982)
3- Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
4- The House of the Spirits (1993)
5- Fatal Attraction (1987)
6- Reversal of Fortune (1990)
7- Meeting Venus (1991)
8- Cookie´s Fortune (1999)
9- Nine Lives (2005)
10- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

Honorable mentions:
- Paradise Road (1997)
- Something About Amelia (1984) TVM
- Mars Attacks (1996)
- The Wife (2017)
- Sarah (1991) TVM
- Hamlet (1990)
- Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) TVM
- In the Gloaming (1997) TVM
- The Lion in Winter (2003) TVM

Obviously, Meryl stole away from her (and the other actresses of their generation) the biggest movie parts of the 80s, but Glenn did the same thing with the TV flicks: you won´t see a Hallmark movie done by her ever! Only the best, with a lot of Emmy awards and nominations.

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[Ukdallasfan]

Jagged Edge was great. First watched it at university. Glenn was marvellously mad in Fatal Attraction but, for me, it has to be Dangerous Liaisons. As the Marquise De Merteuil she smashed it, particularly in the scene where she goes mad at John Malkovich. What a screenplay

 

[Karin Schill]

Well it's been a while but yes you did request Glenn Close.

My 2 Suggestions for Stars To Be Spotlighted

Morgan Freeman
Glenn Close

I agree that it was a good choice.

 

[DallasFanForever]

I loved Glenn Close in The Natural. Maybe I’m partial to that role cause I’m a baseball fan but I thought her character was well written and the best one in that movie by far. In a movie filled with terrific actors and actresses you can make the argument that she carried it sometimes. Arguably her best performance

 

[Sarah]

Hope I'm not too late!

1. Jagged Edge - scares the living bejesus out of me - that music!!!
2. Fatal Attraction - what a superb stalker she made!
3. Air Force One - as Madam Vice President!
4. The Wife - subtle role but shows her softer side as the brains of the relationship
5. 101 Dalmatians - although the whole premise of this as an animal lover makes me scream and cry, she was a fantastic Cruella De Vil, even though I wanted to punch her face in.
6. The Wilde Wedding - really entertaining with some other favourites - a movie star playing a movie star
7. The Stepford Wives - spooooky!
8. Dangerous Liaisons - not my favourite type of movie but her costume was fabulous!
9. Mars Attacks! - absolutely hilarious in this role even though the movie itself is like WTF?!
10. Albert Nobbs - she's amazing in this, and it was filmed in Dublin too!

 

[Sarah]

Your other film choice, Fatal Attraction, has another continuity error. The scene when she's in bed after having sex with Michael Douglas, they must have film 2 versions: one when she's sat up in bed with her breasts exposed and another version when they are covered with a blanket. However, when they edited the film, they used a mix of both versions so they keep cutting to her with her breasts out and then covered every few seconds.

They should have just had one in and one out

 

[Karin Schill]

Last chance to take part in this round.

 

[Karin Schill]

My own Glenn Close list:

1. The Stepford Wives (2004)
2. 101 Dalmatians (1996)

I know it's short.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

I haven't seen too many of her films, but I'll list the ones I have seen in order of preference:

Fatal Attraction- She elevated it from a conventional thriller with a one note villainess.
The Jagged Edge
Something About Amelia
Dangerous Liasons
The Natural- Not as good as the book, but she was wonderful.
The World According to Garp