18-06-2003 18:04									#1
	Do you guys consider John Turturro to be a good actor? Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I was just thinking about this the other day. I rarely see him mentioned when favorite actors are being talked about, so i was wondering, do you people rate him as an actor, and if not, why?

	18-06-2003 18:32									#2
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I was about to post "no way", but then I realized that you were talking about John Turturro and not John Travolta.

	18-06-2003 18:34									#3
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Turturro is good. I've seen him in cop/mob roles, as well as comedy roles.

	18-06-2003 18:49									#4
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Didn't you ask this on the SDMB?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...threadid=191252

	18-06-2003 19:11									#5
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I loved him in Barton Fink, and the few other of his roles that I've seen. I wonder if he got better by getting older, but so far, excellent impression

And how could I forget Jesus in the Big Lebowski ? He absolutely ruled ! The best scene of the Big Lebowski, along with Gutterballs

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	18-06-2003 19:28									#6
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He is normally excellent, but I've seen him turning in a few sketchy performances. Overall, though,

	18-06-2003 19:33									#7
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As long as you don't see too many movie featuring him in close succesion.

	19-06-2003 00:40									#8
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quote: Originally posted by alva As long as you don't see too many movie featuring him in close succesion.

Agreed. I can only see him so much at a time.
It isn't a fault of his acting though, it's just his personality that gets on my nerves sometimes.
I hope he doesn't appear in anymore Adam Sandler movies either.

	19-06-2003 01:23									#9
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Who?

	19-06-2003 01:23									#10
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It's not so much that he get's on my nerve as the fact that he usualy is typecasted.

	19-06-2003 01:37									#11
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He's AWESOME.

	19-06-2003 01:51									#12
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quote: Originally posted by monolith94 He's AWESOME.

Ditto. He was good in Barton Fink. He was great in O Brother Where Art Thou. He and John Mac were the the only redeeming qualities to that god awful movie Mr. Deeds. He's been good in basically everything I've seen him in, even in bad movies he's great.

	19-06-2003 21:08									#13
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quote: Originally posted by BustaMike Ditto. He was good in Barton Fink. He was great in O Brother Where Art Thou. He and John Mac were the the only redeeming qualities to that god awful movie Mr. Deeds. He's been good in basically everything I've seen him in, even in bad movies he's great.

Didn't like O Brother at all. It's my least favourite Coen Brothers movie.

	19-06-2003 21:12									#14
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I love Jesus Quintana in Big Lewbowski.

Apart from that, strange how he would ask that question in 2 forums.... johnnyboy dear, are you John Turturro?

	19-06-2003 21:29									#15
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I thought he was great in Barton Fink, hysterical in The Big Lebowski, excellent in o Brother, and so on and so on.

	19-06-2003 21:32									#16
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Nobody f*cks with the Jesus.

	20-06-2003 00:37									#17
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Jou said it mang!

	20-06-2003 01:10									#18
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Great Actor.
I think he was in Mr. Deeds

"I think you are underestimating the sneakiness sir."

	20-06-2003 03:24									#19
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Who is he? Someone care to post a picture, I may recognise him...

	23-06-2003 04:27									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Who is he? Someone care to post a picture, I may recognise him...

	23-06-2003 04:32									#21
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That's a pretty crappy picture.

	23-06-2003 04:40									#23
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Was also in the best movie ever; O Brother Where art thou?

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Apparently he has the main support role to Matthew McConaughy in the upcoming Dirk Pitt action adventure movie Sahara. It seems like a reasonable choice of actors except for one thing - they wouldn't look right as best friends

	23-06-2003 09:17									#25
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Sahara!

They are making a movie out of Sahara!

I know what movie I want to see this summer...

	23-06-2003 10:19									#26
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He was great in "Brain Donors" as well.

	23-06-2003 10:22									#27
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quote: Originally posted by obiwan18 Sahara! They are making a movie out of Sahara! I know what movie I want to see this summer...

Try the following summer, perhaps. They haven't started shooting yet, and they intend to do it right, so don't hold your breath!

	23-06-2003 10:29									#28
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no wonder I never heard of him. a quick imdb search, and I don't remember him in any of those movies. I have seen fear, but I don't remember him.

I still haven't seen the Big leboswki. They never show it on hbo and such. I want to see it.