Favorite movie starring...Mark Wahlberg

[Hyorinmaru]

Big surprise here right? This is only my favorite movie of all time and I watch it constently. I love the plot line (which is loosely based off the John Wayne, Dean Martin's 1965 film The Sons of Katie Elder). This move is what got me liking Mark Wahlberg's films and I've watched most of his movies since watching this one. All 4 main characters do a great job and the supporting cast desrves a lot of credit as well. It's a great movie and if you haven't watched it I highly suggest you pick it up and give it a watch.​

 

[Coco]

I'll go with The Departed. Wahlberg really added a lot to that film. He swears rather well. Him exchanging obscenities with Alec Baldwin was a true moment in cinematic profanity captured masterfully by through the aging but never lazy eyes of one Martin Scorsese, movie house profanity provider extraordinaire. Couple that with tha manner in which Leo DiCaprio drips of intensity when Wahlberg swears at him and the superb, rat-riddled scene where Wahlberg gets the last laugh and you have the makings of a Mark Wahlberg classic. It needs to be seen to be believed. The world needs plenty of bartenders but there's only one Marky Mark.

 

[Ferbian]

I've had a few of Mark's movies that I have enjoyed, but none quite like this one. I'm not exactly sure why, because at times I tend to enjoy an action movie more than these sort of music drama films. But this one just had a lot of great things in it. Some cool songs, a bit of action if you will, and of course.. Jennifer Aniston looking great as always.

I'd like to say that this is Mark's best movie to date, and probably will remain to be the movie I will remember him for, and besides The Italian Job the movie he will be remembered for in general.

An honorable mention would go to the movie "Shooter" which of course was an action film. But a more "calm" intriguing one that had the aspect of a sniper, something you don't necessarily see a lot in movies. As well as the whole man-hunt thing being pretty cool in general. And once again, just like Jennifer in Rock star, in this movie Kate Mara looked pretty good.

 

[Mitch Henessey]

Fear.

Wahlberg did an outstanding job in this movie. In Fear, Wahlberg plays this psychotic boyfriend/stalker who terrorizes Reese Witherspoon and her family. Wahlberg's character could be sweet and innocent at times, but he could also be VERY creepy and evil. There is a scene in this movie where Wahlberg continuously punches himself in the chest. This takes place after Witherspoon's father warns him to stay away from his daughter. Of course, Wahlberg's character did this after Witherspoon's father left the scene of the "crime." Wahlberg's character did this because he wanted to show Witherspoon how sick her father was. It was such a disturbing scene. Fear is a very entertaining thriller film, and I do think this is one of Wahlberg's most underrated performances.

 

[Aeon Mathix]

Im going with Shooter. Wahlberg played a complete badass and had me on the edge of my seat the entire movie. It had a great plotline with him being an ex service member and being blamed for shooting the president. I haven't seen a lot of movies where Wahlberg has been the lead role in something and usually when he is in them I find them to be less than steller (the lovely bones anyone?) thats just my opinion though, he is awesome to watch in an action movie of course. Shooter just takes it for me because ive seen that movie probably 4 times now and I still can't get tired of it. I am a sucker for action movies though.

 

[Final Form Snyper.]

Basketball Diaries.
Made 1995.
Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio and Mark Walhberg.

This is about a group of friends who have it made. Good looks, youth and a goal to achieve that is within reach. Until they are pulled into the seedy side of life with drugs. This is a slow paced redemption for Leo's character to become clean again.

 

[LitasRevenge79]

Yes!!

FEAR...I was told to see this movie by my younger sister when it was in theaters. Never got around to it until it was on dvd. When I did... I was in shock, I was thinking "Mr Funky Bunch is a psycho!" I even asked my sister " is he hitting himself in the chest for?" She told me to wait and see, there was SUCH a method to the madness, and the commercials to advertise it, the fish-eye effect when he was looking in the peephole for the front door...ooohhh, to this day I still get chills watching that. Anything he did, the carving in his chest, the dogdoor (ooh...I'll leave that one at that...) he was so creepy. You almost didn't know if he was just doing that to be psychotic, or because he truly felt like he needed that family. He did such a good job, it was a great cast for that family, William Petersen from CSI as the dad, Reese Witherspoon as the girlfriend, I think they all were perfect in this movie. Wahlberg is so good in this movie.

BOOGIE NIGHTS...I wasn't sure what to think at first. Sure I was thinking "Oooh..I hear you get to see his junk at the end." But as I watched it, I saw him start out as a young teenager not sure what to do with his life. He realizes this is something kind of cool he has and thinks he could make a quick buck doing something fun. Then he starts to see that the porn life is more than meets the eye. He gets into the drugs, sex, and other vices that comes along with it. Slowly he becomes jaded and falls into the trap that steals peoples' souls. I think the pivotal point for me was the drug deal where the dude's 'boytoy' shooting m-80's in the living room, and 'Dirk' is realizing that they are now in over their head. Then you see how he goes to the edge and back. I love that it was a movie about getting to the brink and how does it play with your mind. I think that's how Mark Wahlberg has grown as an actor and each role takes him further, he seems to evolve more.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

The Departed

While not one of the main 2 characters, Wahlberg has a very important role to play as the foul mouthed assistant to Martin Sheen. He is phenomenal in the scene where Di Caprio is trying to become a state trooper and Wahlberg is just laying into him over his familys criminal past...awesome

Also, gotta love the ending with Wahlberg gets his revenge.

Brilliant movie

 

[LSN80]

It has to be The Departed for me. Walhberg plays his character well, and his interactions with DiCaprio in this movie were epic. -It was hard not to hate the guy but you came to realize through the course of the movie that he had just become hardened because of all the corruption within the police department. His character was simplistic in that he was a hardass that only knew one way, but he truly was one of the good guys in a movie where the lines were blurred with some. He obviously played a simple, yet pivotal part in the end, which blew me away. Such a great movie, and Wahlberg was the perfect fit. He played his role well. The movie did a great job at exposing the obvious flaws within each character in the movie, and they were easily evident in his. But it was good to see him involved in the ending, and a nice surprise at the same time.

 

[JGlass]

I think for me, it has to be The Italian job. While I will agree that Wahlberg has been in better films (The Fighter, The Departed, Boogie Nights, The Perfect Storm), The Italian Job is probably my favorite to watch. It's a great action-comedy with one hell of a cast, including one of my favorites in Edward Norton, Donald Sutherland, Seth Green, Jason Statham, and an amazingly sexy Charlize Theron. The action sequences are nearly as sophisticated as Ocean's 11, and the movie takes itself just about as seriously. In fact, I would say The Italian Job is a lower-scale version of The Italian job.

While The Italian Job is not Wahlberg's best film, it is certainly my favorite.

 

[J-Dogg]

Im a Mark Wahlberg fan, i've liked the movies i have seen him in, i won Four Brothers, i've seen The Departed and a few others, but The Departed and his role in it was brilliant and his dialogue was hilarious, he's able to play his roles well which i like, he can play a hoodlum or a cop or just an average guy. It sucks that some people shit on his acting.

Anyway here's the scenes that you've all talked about in The Departed

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[Syn]

FEAR is probably my overall favorite movie where Wahlberg is one of the main stars. For one of his first movies, he does an amazing character acting job in the film. The character he plays of course was written to go from the nice perfect guy to a psychopath, but Marks ability to portray that character the way he does makes his performance stand out.

Departed is one of my favorite movies of all time and Mark does a great job in it, even though hes not a lead.

And for a light hearted Mark film, The Big Hit would be my favorite. Although completely over the top, there was just something about it that kept me watching from start to finish and enjoyed every minute of it.

 

[Oracular Spectacular]

The Departed really didn't star Mark Wahlberg. It just fetured him. If you are going to say "The Departed; Starring Mark Wahlberg." Then you could say "The Departed; Starring Martin Sheen...or Alec Baldwin"

I actually enjoy Wahlberg in roles like this so I would learn toward The Departed in that sense.

Then I saw The Fighter....

Fantastic film and easily makes up for all the crap Marky Mark has done in the past few years.....Max Payne *Shudder*

 

[SorgFamily]

Yes!!

BOOGIE NIGHTS...I wasn't sure what to think at first. Sure I was thinking "Oooh..I hear you get to see his junk at the end." But as I watched it, I saw him start out as a young teenager not sure what to do with his life. He realizes this is something kind of cool he has and thinks he could make a quick buck doing something fun. Then he starts to see that the porn life is more than meets the eye. He gets into the drugs, sex, and other vices that comes along with it. Slowly he becomes jaded and falls into the trap that steals peoples' souls. I think the pivotal point for me was the drug deal where the dude's 'boytoy' shooting m-80's in the living room, and 'Dirk' is realizing that they are now in over their head. Then you see how he goes to the edge and back.

I'm surprised that only one person mentioned this film. Great movie and it's not REALLY his junk at the end, that's a movie myth. I guess it was a rubber synthetic type of thing. Not that I checked the movie out and did research just on that subject....................I'm married, really I am. Anyways, great movie with a superb cast: Burt Reynolds, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, obviously Wahlberg and a couple more that I can't think of.

 

[INDYjon22]

I've never been a big fan of Mark Wahlberg but I have always loved A Perfect Storm. It does have the benefit of having some tremendous actors who I do really like but I thought he did a fairly decent job in his role. He definitely fit the location that the film was set in. The Departed would be a close second, once again not exactly because of him but the people around him though I did find his character to be really funny, in the tough cop smart ass kind of way. Not a terrible actor by any means, but not one I really go out of my way to watch.