Hayden or Hamill

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
ACTED Anikan? Hayden was acting?

In EpIII the only decent acting came from Nute Gunray,Mace and Yoda.

First off its Spelled Anakin...

Second...Nute Gunray?? wtf 🤨 he had like 2 lines...

and Yoda was CG...lol and Mace's acting sucked.

Hayden wins
Mark hammill looks stupid and old

you fool, first off you should be booted from this forum, second umm.... i have zero defense of anything....

Originally posted by aj_vader
Who performed better Hayden or Hammil

Mark--I actually bought all 400+ lines he had in the OT.

Hayden seemed like he was reading off a cue card. When he killed the sand people in AOTC, was best his acting in the entire PT. (probably because crying comes so natural to him)

Hayden easily. His character was much more complex and had the toughest possible decision to make : Jedi or Sith/Padme.

Luke never even debated turning to the Darkside of the force.

Hayden could have done better but he was only chosen for his looks of course, Hamill seemed much more natural and convincing but then again, ANAKIN HAD SUCH HARD CHOICES!! HE HAD TO SEDUCE THE PRINCESS, IMPREGNATE HER, KILL THE SITH, JOIN THE SITH!! Such a hard life of trying to give in to as many seductions as possible..

Hamill kicked butt.

He rocked in Ep. 4

Fighting his fear of Vader during the sabre fight was awesome.

Mark Hamill. Simple.

While both are good actors. I would have to say Mark Hamill. Hayden fit his role fine, but he had a better idea of what he had to work with at that time. He had seen all of the star wars movies and knew what people expected. The upset and angry scenes he did real well. But the happy scenes were not done so well. In paticuler was Episode 2.

Mark Hamill on the other hand performs his part perfectly. It actualy makes me believe that he is actualy Luke Skywalker. No matter the situation the acting is perfect. His acting was perfect in every situation.

With Hayden we see that he can realy only act the realy angry and upset roles. Which is impressive. But Mark on the other hand, we have seen act the upset, angry, happy, sad, serious and a whole bunch of other emotions that Luke goes through. He does them all real well.

really, sw both the ot and the pt aren't really known for the actors/actresses, coz they aren't really that good. hayden seemed like he was acting and wasn't really into his role hamill did a much better job at being luke

Mark Hamill was better..of course...but Hayden was good too....We have to remember~ Even tho I know George Lucas is a genius~ The deep dialogue is not his strongest strength....I think they both did great with what they had....Im madly in love with them both..... 😉 😇

Acting - Mark (good stuff)
Stunts - Hayden (he packed on like 12 lbs)
Saber - Hayden (a sith badass)
Dialouge - Mark (too many good ones, but background music helped)
Breakthrough - Hayden (he realy conviced me his fall to the dark side)

I think there was no way Hayden could f*ck up for some people.
Maybe it's a lack of imagination or knowledge about of what is considered convincing..

emp DIRP!

Originally posted by overlord
I think there was no way Hayden could f*ck up for some people.
Maybe it's a lack of imagination or knowledge about of what is considered convincing..

emp DIRP!

hold up, you calling me stupid homie?

at least Hayden is still gettin work. Hammil needs to retire.

Then again, Hayden is in his 20's, and Hamill is in his 40's or 50's.

Hamill was big 20 years ago.

Go figure.

Hamill because he didnt give in to the dark side like his pussy father did.

let them go at it in a celebrity death match to determine the best lightsaber fighter

Hamill. He was just so natural and I never felt inclined to scrutise his acting. I know that when I find myself scrutinising an actor's performance they are generally bad actors. Hayden just couldn't convince me.
I always invisioned Anakin as a much more serious and mature person and FAR more frightening - with a sort of air about him of I don't know what. I always thought in ep.2 he and Padme would keep their relationship TOTALLY business like until they just snap and ... dam Hayden really messed up...sobs...

Exactly.

The character wasn't who you thought he should be, he was who George Lucas thought he should be:

A petualant teenager who gets pissed when things don't go his way, and who is far too emotional and attatched to what he wants for his own good.

Hayden played the part perfectly, just as he was told to do.

This has been confirmed by Lucas, McCallum, even Ian McDiarmid (a fine actor if there ever was one) who said in Premier "He appears petulant. Movie critics were looking for their next big hero and that's not what he is."

Plus, you add the fact that he studied James Earl Jones speech patterns, and to a lesser extent Hammils, and you see what Hayden was up against.

(go back and listen to some of his lines with your eyes closed, then see if his inflection, tone, and the speed of his delivery don't match up with Jones's portrayals of Vader in the suit.)

Hayden is a far better actor, plus Hammil is a closeted homosexual.

(watch him on the docs for the OT, or on the AFI Life Achievement award given to Lucas, he's a flamer.)

Just kidding, but more points go to Hayden for bagging Natalie Portman.