----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I THINK ITS JUST THE NATURE OF THE BEAST WHEN YOU FIND REALLY GOOD ACTORS MAKING AWFUL FILMS OR GIVING POOR PERFORMANCES. SEEING TOMMY LEE JONES IN FIREBIRDS, FIENNES IN WUTHERING HGTS(SAVE FOR THE ENDING WHERE I FELT HE SHOWED PROMISE), OLDMAN IN ROMEO IS BLEEDING, HURT IN A TIME FOR DESTINY THESE WERE EMBARASSING TO SAY THE LEAST BUT PERHAPS FOR THIS GROUP OF ACTORS ITS SLOGING AWAY@THEIR CRAFT. ACTORS FROM THE 50'S/60'S WHO WERE THE BEST SUCH AS MONTGOMERY CLIFT ALSO MADE OR GAVE BLOODY AWFUL PERFORMANCES AND I THINK ITS SIMPLY DUE TO A VARIETY OF REASONS FROM THE DIRECTOR NOT KNOWING HOW TO UTILISE HIS TALENT TO IT SIMPLY BEING A QUESTION OF THE MONEY INVOLVED. I DON'T THINK TO MUCH OF IT BECAUSE OVERALL THESE ACTORS ARE JUST THAT!ACTORS! NOT CELEBRITIES OR FLAVORS OF THE MONTH OR THOSE EASILY LABELED AS SUCH. AS TOM STOPPARD'S PLAY WAS ENTITLED"THE REAL THING" SO TOO ARE THEY!