Churchill: Lithgow vs Oldman

I like Lithgow's Churchill and it was my favorite until I saw Oldman's


Watching the Crown it was clear that it was John Lithgow playing Churchill

Watching The Darkest Hour, I didn't see Gary Oldman once, I only saw Churchill

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At one point I was thinking: "How lucky am I to watch live footage of Winston Churchill neutering Stannis Baratheon?"

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Am i crazy to think that Lithgow’s Churchill in The Crown was just as good if not better than Oldman’s in Darkest Hour?

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lithgow's is such a hammy over the top performance.

Brendan Gleason's Winston Churchill was light years better than Lithgow's. Haven't seen Oldman yet, but Gleason's will be tough to top for me

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At one point I was thinking: "How lucky am I to watch live footage of Winston Churchill neutering Stannis Baratheon?"

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Don't forget Thomas Jefferson. Churchill neutered all sorts of important people.

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This ... because Oldman is one of the greatest performers of all time.

He has not gotten the credit he deserves because he is a Conservative British fellow.

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Hate them Conservative British Fellows. If you use the wrong spoon at high tea, they will harrumph at you in a vaguely disapproving manner.

But rather than jumping straight to politics -- I really like Oldman but I (and, I suspect, 98% of the population) have literally no idea what his politics are, nor do I care -- we might want to step back a bit and observe that he's actually a pretty widely-acclaimed actor whose name the average citizen recognizes. He's not exactly laboring in obscurity.

Also, and as much as I do like him, he can be pretty damned hammy on occasion, eating scenery like it's a chorus girl's honey-flavored pussy. It's a risk great actors take, and even the best of them will fall into that trap. Oldman sometimes goes absolutely all-out in that regard. It's his particular flaw.