Ranking the Five Best Brad Pitt Movies | The Big Picture | The Ringer

[@TheRingerNBA]

Any 'Babel' fans in the comments? Did Sean and Amanda miss one of your favorites? Let us know!

[@SchulzEricT]

I thought it was best Brad Pitt performances (the title says "Best Movies" but Fennessey said "performances"); I'd've had "12 Monkeys" in my top spot. Definitely not my favorite movie of his (although it's great), but his performance... I was surprised he was nominated for it because it definitely deserved an award. Performances: 1 - 12 Monkeys 2 - Moneyball 3 - Burn After Reading 4 - Se7en 5 - Snatch Favorite Movies: 1 - The Ocean's Trilogy (12) 2 - Troy 3 - Moneyball 4 - Se7en 5 - Fight Club Honorable Mentions: Burn After Reading, 12 Monkeys, The Big Short, Cool World

[@dbag3345]

dumb

[@frankmatthews6966]

Fight club!!!

[@votdfak]

The Artist fan here. Sean can eat 💩.

[@lilpenny1982]

Terrible movie

[@KyleTims]

Please PLEASE release all of the Big Picture episodes in video like this. I love watching you all talk, not just listening!

[@jondennismerrill]

AGREE.

[@_CoasterNinja]

Same goes for all their shows. Put up the vids dudes!

[@BXMarathoner26]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Fight Club Ocean's Eleven Inglorious Bastards Seven I still love Sean's view that "He's a Character Actor trapped in an A-Lister's Body." I use that line and sound brilliant in conversations. So thank you for that.

[@lilpenny1982]

Good list

[@awenner]

I would argue that you sound like a douche if you say in conversation

[@ConnorOld]

Finally I can see Amanda's face when Sean says "you're looking at me funny, what are you thinking" LOL Love the show!

[@nf2203]

The Big Picture is one of the best podcasts out there. Love Sean and Amanda, keep up the great work!

[@davidburros8619]

Ocean's 11 is such a good movie and it is so easy for actors, writers, directors -- the whole crew -- in a movie like that to completely mail in their performances and they don't.

[@kevinw712]

i think oceans 11 is probably the single biggest competitor with john carpenter's the thing for greatest remake of all time, at least going with the metric of difference and improvement over the original. granted i've never seen the 50's the thing but i've heard plenty, and the original o11 is almost unwatchable it's so boring, like that cast didn't give a flying fuck beyond the on set hang experience lol

[@ianrobinson4200]

They are spot on about Moneyball, it's one of my favourite movies of the last 20 years and I'm not a baseball fan at all. And it probably is his best performance, should have won the Oscar that year 100%

[@BishopWalters12]

It's just Pitt playing Pitt in Moneyball.

[@savage_skirt5386]

see, I didn't love it

[@davidhodge7461]

Moneyball is criminally underrated. Think yalls lists are really good.

[@realmatic10]

1: Assassination of Jesse James 2: Fight Club 3: Babel 4: Seven 5: Benjamin Button

[@Juice-ig3jz]

Babel?? Whew alright then

[@jr8612]

Brit viewer here - I can confirm the Irish gypsy accent in Snatch was spot on.

[@122kot]

Thank you haha! Reading all these comments and not seeing recognition for Snatch is wild. Amazing movie and a great Pitt performance.

[@aidxn97]

I have a hard time not putting moneyball on the top of my Pitt list, but as a British listener his role in snatch is phenomenal. Number 1 on my list for sure

[@davidburros8619]

Another great point by Amanda -- he is so relaxed AND anguished in Moneyball at the same time. and he makes it look so easy.

[@lanceroberson3089]

Please do a top 5 Leo list!

[@billrayburn2775]

What about "Spy Game" with Redford? That scene on the top of the building where Pitt goes off and flings the steel chair down into traffic, was powerful.

[@dannyvitullo27]

1. Moneyball 2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 3. Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4. Fight Club 5. Se7en (Haven’t seen Ad Astra yet)

[@MaxwellSchreck66633]

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2. Inglorious Basterds 3. Fight Club 4. Se7en 5. True Romance

[@ChriKei2]

1.Fight Club 2.Kalifornia 3.12 Monkeys 4.Benjamin Button 5.Assasination of Jesse James 6.Every-other-movie-he's-been-in (All of them)

[@FirstNameLastName-kt3zn]

Good list

[@tonyc8752]

Fight Club. Nobody can swing their dead leg over their other leg and light a cig and look believably beat nearly to death like Brad

[@JeffNighswander]

A River Runs Through It is a beautiful film. I lost my brother recently and the themes that are playing out in the film really speak to me, but they have since I saw it when it came out. It's honestly in my top ten films of all time. I think the idea that it's "boring" is an unfortunate product of the era we live in where every film has to be part comic book film, even the dramas.

[@DanielBuckley5]

The cinematography on this ep just raised the bar. When do we get a Roger Deakins shot episode?

[@thebaseballprofessor]

Pitt's performance in A River Runs Through It is underrated by the hosts.

[@jonloc8535]

1. Snatch 2. Ocean's Eleven 3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4. Se7en 5. Inglorious Basterds Honorable mention: Deadpool 2

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

How the hell does Fightclub not get into the top 5. It's one of the best films ever made.

[@The-Dom]

That's all Edward Norton. Pitt is barely in it, and his role (though he did a fantastic job) doesnt really call on his skills very much.

[@xanderallen5687]

@@The-Dom That's absolute nonsense.

[@hawkssoccer03]

@@The-Dom you've never seen fight club if you think he's barely in it

[@splytlyckety]

@GCT10/31/1990 dude fuck off snatch is the greatest movie ever

[@evanwalker3513]

It’s a great movie but not a top 5 Pitt performance.

[@davidburros8619]

i hear what sean is saying about how over-the-top and noticeable his performance in Inglorious Basterds is, but, the entire friggin movie is so over-the-top. It'd be weird if he wasn't. And, as usual, he's a huge part of what makes it so good.

[@savage_skirt5386]

well, he is 29 in A River Runs Through It and he does look great in it. I've never thought he was all that great as an actor --- but he followed it up with Kalifornia, which was an interesting performance

[@GiantSandles]

1) Seven (by a pretty big margin honestly) 2) Inglourious Basterds 3) True Romance 4) Fight Club 5) Burn after Reading

[@jorgevaldez9257]

The best Pitt roles are when he's NOT front and center, but where he can sink his teeth in good character roles. His role in Snatch is good. But the one where he DISAPPEARS BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES is 12 Monkeys. You forget it's Brad Pitt. You forget it's Pitt with Bruce Willis. That specific role really just made me see him more that women eye candy, but an excellent & very capable actor.

[@kinggrantking]

Ocean's 11 is absolutely his best performance. There's no more "Brad Pitt" Brad Pitt performance. Soderbergh makes everything in that movie super slick and cool, and Pitt is somehow slicker and cooler than anyone else. Moneyball is his best for serious performances.

[@joncumber2020]

Moneyball, Killing Them Softly, Jesse James. Hon. mention for Mr and Mrs Smith - pure star power entertainment:)

[@davidburros8619]

excellent, excellent point! Brad created the Aldo Raine character.

[@patricija4179]

Why are people hating on Troy?

[@sparksdrinker5650]

Because its boring as hell

[@rxtsec1]

I like Troy & I really like his character however I can't put it in top 5

[@Juice-ig3jz]

Who are the people hating? Are they in the room with us right now?

[@nocuh]

Snatch Moneyball Fight Club Se7en Ocean's 11 (long overdue for rewatch but stands out in memory, through the haze)

[@johnpaulroman3498]

Ocean’s 11 really holds up. Saw it for the first time earlier this year and it’s just one of those fun movies they don’t make enough of today.

[@nocuh]

It is a good example of remake done right. Skip Ocean's 12, you wont get that time back...

[@MrGMovieReviews]

Fight Club Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Inglourious Basterds Moneyball Killing Them Softly

[@ChaunceyGardenr]

1.) Snatch 2.) Inglorious Basterds 3.) Babel 4.) Moneyball 5.) Snatch 6.) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 7.) Burn After Reading

[@kramer1372]

1.snatch 2.fight club 3.kalifornia 4.moneyball 5.benjamin button

[@TheWaynos73]

My Brad top five: 1. Moneyball 2. Oceans 11 3. Seven 4. Fight Club 5. Benjamin Button

[@coryking7778]

Se7en Snatch Fight Club Inglorious Bastards Oceans 11 You can't tell the story of his career without these performances. Also, and I know everyone has a film they love that the world hates, and if you enjoy classic films from the 40s, 50s and 60s, then you appreciate Meet Joe Black. It has 5 to 10 lines which have stuck with me my whole life and 5 scenes that I would stack up against any scene for dialogue.

[@schrisdellopoulos9244]

Basterds.

[@rjmacready9828]

No fight club?!!????!?? You guys are crazy

[@ianrobinson4200]

Could throw in Meet Joe Black, I do like that movie and it's not easy to play a blank slate which is sort of what Pitt had to do in that

[@eboooo]

Wow Amanda should have done this with Mal

[@angelmatos9143]

Snatch! Period!

[@podegenst0ner303]

I like dags

[@isuriadireja91]

1 Se7en 2 Moneyball 3 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 4 Fight Club 5 Burn After Reading

[@danielh5980]

Moneyball no question is Brad Pitts best performance but not having fight club in your top 5??? I know it’s more memorable for the ed norton performance but damn brad pitt kills it in that movie too

[@122kot]

As a Brit, I can't put into words how impressive Brad Pitt was in Snatch.

[@bmillz6243]

In no particular order: Troy Once Upon a Time In Hollywood Inglorious Basterds Killing them softly Moneyball

[@davidburros8619]

for me, Moneyball is #1 b/c he makes it so look so stinking easy. He is in almost every shot. He IS the movie, it is so entertaining. He makes it look SO SO EASY.

[@lilpenny1982]

My Top 5: #1 Legends of the Fall #2 Se7en #3 Seven Years in Tibet #4 Troy #5 Meet Joe Black

[@lilpenny1982]

My next Top 5: #6 Money Ball #7 Interview with the Vampire #8 Inglorious Bastards #9 Ocean's Eleven #10 Benjamin Button

[@Juice-ig3jz]

Might be the only bad list on here tbh

[@lilpenny1982]

@@Juice-ig3jz No list, no opinions please. LMAO

[@pat7504]

Firstly Snatch is a great film and for 'British Gyspy' read 'Irish traveler' and supposedly - according to some Irish travelers - his accent was pretty sport on.

[@mRakmYaer]

Two very smart people demonstrating that even thoughtful commentary can't overcome women liking "women's movies" and men liking "men's movies"

[@terry7907]

Which one is Fennesy?

[@MrOctober44]

No Sleepers, Kalifornia, Killing them softly. And Fight Club and True romance only honorable mention?!

[@wwk68tig]

new to your channel..........oh, wow, did you two miss appreciating "A River Runs Through It". ("Burn After Reading"?.......oy)...........but reasonable people can agree to disagree. thanks for posting.

[@davidburros8619]

i admittedly haven't seen many of his movies pre-Seven, but the main reason i always say he's a character actor stuck in a movie star's face is b/c there are so many beautiful people are sh*tty actors but he's not one of them. even if he's choosing supporting parts -- he chooses well. there is absolutely a skill to choosing parts and then executing on a high level.

[@Jboogie_81]

1.-seven 2.-moneyball 3.-fight club 4.-fury 5.-spy game

[@Deevy8_]

Fight Club

[@justingabel8031]

Curious Case of Benjamin Button is #1 for me….just go back and watch it and I don’t understand how your not absolutely blown away by how great that movie is

[@AficionadoOfArt]

Boggles my Mind why Fight Club is not on their radar…………where was CR and BS????? Aweful, take.

[@alesele20]

Can not wait to see Ad Astra

[@mjm5081]

If QT is happy with BP that's good enough for me.

[@bryantownsend3604]

Legends of the Fall! Feel like such a great movie that never gets the credit it deserves. Am I alone on this one?

[@Biggiiful]

Nope. That and A River Runs Through It are fantastic

[@BishopWalters12]

It's superior compared to Moneyball which is so forgettable.

[@Cinemaheals]

Please make one for Leo and Denzel!!

[@jeipee87]

Am I the only person that loves “Troy” ?

[@SchulzEricT]

You are not. I think the Ringer has thrown shade at it a few times, but I see at least one other person on here who had it on his list. I fucking *love* Troy, it's so good. Three of the best battle/fight scenes of all-time (they span the gamut: a big battle scene - when Troy takes the beach ahead of the entire army - a fucking fantastic one-on-one battle - Achilles vs Hector - and a great one that establishes Achilles' badass cred - Achilles vs Boagrias (sp?). The only other fighting scene I'd put up there in that tier is Dread Pirate Westley vs Inigo Montoya; maybe not technically as good as Achilles vs Hector - although it's close - but more satisfying because of the banter). And what a great cast too. That movie might not be as high a quality as some of his other stuff like Se7en, Fight Club, Moneyball, or The Big Short, but goddamn it's a fun fucking movie.

[@terry7907]

No. My favourite movie by him, and one of the great anti war movies of all time.

[@ericlytle2209]

Anyone actually really love him in World War Z?

[@79dmcjr]

How to tell someone's age without asking their age: having a Brad Pitt top 5 and not including his most famous role

[@davidhojnacki1043]

I do t care what this list says fight club is #1

[@jbc00l]

Fight Club went 0-2 nani

[@HawksFanMattMan]

I'm a huge Brad Pitt fan, but I have never understood the love for Moneyball. I recently re-watched that movie to try and see what I missed and I still found it so boring and uninteresting. I'm a huge sports fan too, but I just thought that this particular subject matter was so dull for a movie plot.

[@arsenymun2028]

No 12 Monekys though?

[@tenfoldtuesday5917]

1. Fight Club 2. Inglourious Basterds 3. 12 Monkeys 4. The Tree of Life 5. Snatch

[@MrGMovieReviews]

No it's not complicated why he lost to Spacey, Spacey was incredible in that movie. Sure he's a creep, but he deserved the award

[@mjm5081]

Exactly.

[@BishopWalters12]

Exactly, I like Pitt but Spacey is a superior actor,

[@MrGMovieReviews]

@@BishopWalters12 that performance in usual suspects is GOAT level. Brad Pitt achieved that with Hollywood and also won so it all comes around.

[@btran213]

come seven is the best. i think he deserved an oscar. "whats in the box"???

[@sophies5640]

I gottta go with Money ball for the #1.

[@amalakin4444]

being from the uk brads role an accent in snach was pretty accurate and he's Irish gypsy btw lol

[@amalakin4444]

and the food gimmick is so funny oceans deffo started it lol thought I was the only one that noticed it in other films tho haha

[@ibjmac187]

The Artist is a bad movie? It wasn’t Fight Club or anything, but come on. Also, Tyler Durden was Brad’s best role. Most iconic for sure.

[@blackholesupersloth3276]

Where is fight club? Not even mentioned

[@TagusMan]

The real question is... What is the most badass Brad Pitt character? Put them all in a ring, who comes out alive?

[@ibjmac187]

That’s easy: Tyler Durden.

[@jazzprincemusic]

Is it bad I really almost like all of them?

[@OhCanada613]

Se7en is his best movie

[@johnpaulroman3498]

Some great character development in Se7en

[@hughmackechnie2104]

These people are really good at talking.

[@brewer921]

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2. The Tree of Life 3. Inglourious Basterds He does such a great job of capturing men of that WWII-Korean War generation. Weathered men who have seen too much. 4. Moneyball 5. The Counsellor

[@c.jarmstrong3111]

Seven, Fight Club, and Inglourious Basterds are his best performances imo, in that order. I haven't seen Fury or Once Upon a Time, so spare me those two

[@leedobson]

Pitt is a good character actor who gets underrated because he's movie star handsome

[@randycunningham7318]

A model who acts. Another DiCaprio.

[@williamdillard5060]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Pitt was magnificent.

[@chucknorrislife]

I don't feel Sean and Amanda took the seriousness of Brad Pitt's epic career, Fight Club is his best ever, and 12 monkeys was his breakout as a contending actor, for G's sake he got nominated for an Oscar for this. He also had very good movies in Spy Game, Babel, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Tree of Life. Kalifornia is also pretty good. Amanda's list is extremely superficial. I appreciate Sean for including Snatch and Seven.

[@kenwell3498]

he's a movie star looking character actor with an eye for quality

[@MRjammjar1]

Irish* not British my friend, that's pretty dangerous territory.

[@standardyeepz]

I’ve seen dialect coaches criticizing his southern accent in inglorious basterds, but I think they’re missing the point. Without brad Pitt as Aldo I don’t think that movie is as iconic as it is today. People will be quoting him for the next 100 years

[@gavinmurphy420]

Assassination of Jesse James Once Upon a Time Inglorious Fight Club Se7en

[@BenjaminDaniel]

Unclear why it was necessary to shade Will Smith and Tom Cruise when discussing the kind of actor Brad Pitt is. What's the point? That they make/made different choices? What's Will Smith on Instagram and Tom Cruise dancing have to do with Brad Pitt's performances?

[@terry7907]

Nice to see what they look like, after listening to their pod for years. He looks about twelve.

[@AficionadoOfArt]

I liked Amanda Dobbins before she admitted she ain’t fuckin w the Coens

[@mattshive6806]

where in the world is fight club

[@Tech-Sam]

I think his best movie is Interview With A Vampire.

[@__hjg__2123]

Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club Troy

[@bigblue2real]

What a beautiful woman Amanda is. I love her mind. Her voice. Wow 👏

[@rambammer2000]

The thing that annoys me is that you guys are talking in a gear too high. It's a bit tiring to have to listen to. Take a deep breath, relax.

[@rambammer2000]

Props on picking Moneyball btw.

[@davemccrea9000]

our greatest living movie star? You ever hear of a guy named Al Pacino? Daniel Day Lewis? Sean Penn?

[@gdawgs101]

Sean Penn shouldn't be on that list. Replace him with DiCaprio. Plus Daniel Day Lewis is a phenomenal actor, one of the best ever, but he's not really a "movie star".

[@SchulzEricT]

@@gdawgs101 DDL is definitely an actor, not a movie star. I'd say Leo is more often actor than movie star, although he does dabble in movie stardom. The big, supernova movie stars? I'd say it's Tom Cruise, Will Smith (probably still), and then Brad Pitt. Maybe Tom Hanks too. I'd argue that Cruise and Smith and probably more bankable, so it depends on what you mean by "greater", but if we're talking about somebody who is a 5-tool star? Definitely Brad Pitt, hands down. (The acting, the choices he makes, and of course the charisma/movie stardom.)

[@davemccrea9000]

@@gdawgs101 nonsense. if we're talking best living actor who does lead roles, it's Sean Penn and Daniel Day Lewis and everyone else is below them, Brad several notches down as he's not a particularly good actor.He has like one schtick - the cocky guy. If we're talking bankable movie stars right now, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Denzel, Will Smith, Jake Gyllenhaal all will get you more bums on seats. You could even argue Tom Hardy moves the needle as much as Brad Pitt right now.

[@gdawgs101]

@@davemccrea9000 But guess what? We're talking about best living *movie stars* not best living actors who do lead roles. Two different things. We're talking about the most marketable superstars not the best character actors. Nicholas Cage explains the difference between a movie star and an actor: "An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them. Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn’t disappear." Movie Stars: Tom Cruise, the Rock, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Wayne, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Will Ferrell, ect. Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Ed Norton, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, ect.

[@okeybuckeye524]

Denzel does all of the above.

[@chucknorrislife]

I cannot Inglourious Basterds as one of his best, considering the epicness of Christoph Waltz character "Hans Landa" and besides the bar fight PRELUDE does not include Pitt.

[@omieg89]

Michael Ryan the two best scenes in the movie are the dairy farm and the bar and Pitt isn’t in either scene.

[@rxtsec1]

For me I enjoy the performance not because it's his best work but it literally is a good bad performance like it's on purpose & being made fun of & it has aged well. Of course Kristoph owns the movie

[@matthogg2252]

The degree of difficulty in the Oceans movies is like a 1/10. Give me a break.

[@kevinw712]

"is there any precedent to brad pitt? no there is not" -- umm, robert redford? lol

[@rjmacready9828]

No order Fight Club Inglorious Basterds Se7en Oceans 11 Moneyball