[morphing libertarian]

For your consideration:

Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Don Cheadle, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis

Pick your own: http://www.imdb.com/list/JVz-JF8ZW-M/

[Colonel_Flagg]

Bale and Gosling in the same class as Bogie? No thanks.

I liked Hoffman in Moneyball, but nobody will ever confuse his portrayal of Art Howe with Rick Blaine. Gosling, I will grant you, has come a long way since The Mickey Mouse Club but compared with Bogart? Don’t think so.

I’ll give you five others:

Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier. We don’t have anyone like any of them today, either.

Some of it is due to scriptwriting and plot, which are lost arts in most movies of today. Perhaps if movies told stories again, the quality of today’s acting might show up better.

JMO.