Top 5 Favorite Hackman Performances (1 Viewer)

[Eephus]

Is somebody keeping score?

 

[Mr. Mojo]

The French Connection
Unforgiven
Mississippi Burning
The Poseidon Adventure
Uncommon Valor (last 5 minutes are my favorite Hackman performance)

 

[Eephus]

I've already posted my five but if you're looking for a movie to stream this weekend, The Package is a 1989 Cold War spy thriller with Hackman as an Army sergeant trying to prevent an assassination. Hackman probably took the role just to pick up a check but he's solid as always as is the picture which was directed by Andrew Davis who made The Fugitive.. It's available free w/ ads on PlutoTV.

Looks like Tommy Lee Jones is also in the cast, so

Dennis Frantz does Dennis Frantz things as well.

 

[Todem]

Birdcage was also a classic. Lord I love that movie.

 

[Ilov80s]

Birdcage was also a classic. Lord I love that movie.

I watched it again over the pandemic, unsure if it would hold up so many years later. It absoltely does, even wached it again this summer. It's become a favorite comedy of mine.

 

[rustycolts]

1.Scarecrow
2.French Connection
3.Unforgiven
4.Mississippi Burning
5.Bite the Bullet.

 

[ghostguy123]

I'll go with Quick and the Dead and Uncommon Valor as my two favorite.

To be fair, I haven't seen most of the other movies mentioned.

 

[Navin Johnson]

1. Hoosiers
2. Mississippi Burning
3. No Way Out
4. French Connection
5. Runaway Jury

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I'm not going for a hot take here, but I never could buy into Norman Dale's character in Hoosiers. I don't think I'm intelligent enough to say why, but something is missing there for me. I doubt it's Hackman's performance; maybe it's the way he was written or the shoehorned semi-romance with Barbara Hershey. I like the film a lot; just my opinion.

 

[TripItUp]

Is somebody keeping score?

Good idea

NOT IT

 

[Tau837]

My favorite 5 movies including Hackman:

1. Hoosiers
2. Mississippi Burning
3. Absolute Power
4. No Way Out
5. Crimson Tide

 

[Ilov80s]

I saw Under Fire was streaming on Prime and watched it earlier today. I had never seen it but it seemed like an interesting movie. It'sa 1983 movie about 3 journalists in Nicaragua during their revolution. This war journalism nanogenre was a big thing in the early 80s with The Years of Living Dangerously, The Killing Fields, Salvador and this. It was good. Hackman was more the 3rd wheel and this was clearlty a Nick Nolte vehicle. If you like movies in the realm of war and politics and journalism, this is worthwhile watch.

 

[rustycolts]

For those of you that have never seen Scarecrow you should give it a shot. Hackman and Pachino were great in it. Hackman considered it one of his best films.

 

[Jayrok]

1. Crimson Tide
2. Unforgiven
3. Uncommon Valor (underrated imo)
4. Hoosiers
5. The Firm

Hackman was a great villain... an awesome actor who provides a nice library of work for folks to enjoy for years to come.

 

[nirad3]

I'm not going for a hot take here, but I never could buy into Norman Dale's character in Hoosiers. I don't think I'm intelligent enough to say why, but something is missing there for me. I doubt it's Hackman's performance; maybe it's the way he was written or the shoehorned semi-romance with Barbara Hershey. I like the film a lot; just my opinion.

I completely and unequivocally disagree. I thought he was absolutely perfect.