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I think that I would have to say that guy that plays in the Mission Impossible movies ... married to the girl that played the prosecutor in that new Batman movie ... whatever his name is.
FAX THE MOVIE TRIVIA BUFF
Sully
11-16-2005, 07:27 PM
He can't be worse than the lacrosse player/ choir boy from that American Pie movie who used to date the prosecutor from the Batman movie.
Braincase
11-16-2005, 07:28 PM
First Name: Keanu...
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 07:29 PM
I think that I would have to say that guy that plays in the Mission Impossible movies ... married to the girl that played the prosecutor in that new Batman movie ... whatever his name is.
FAX THE MOVIE TRIVIA BUFFIsn't that the guy who played in that movie about jet pilots, and used to be married to that girl from another country who played in one those other Batman movies ... whatever her name is?
*By the way, what is it with him and Batman actresses?
old_geezer
11-16-2005, 07:30 PM
BEN AFFLECK
I have promised myself never to watch another movie he appears in in a major or semi-major role.
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 07:32 PM
Oh, and let's not forget that muscle-bound behemoth from Austria whose best line was "I'll be back," but somehow managed to finagle his way into the governor's mansion!
Isn't that the guy who played in that movie about jet pilots, and used to be married to that girl from another country who played in one those other Batman movies ... whatever her name is?
Yes, I believe you are correct, Mr. Nightwish. She also played in that movie about the wiggly nose witch opposite that guy that used to be on SNL ... he's a much better actor than that other guy she used to be married to.
FAX THE FILMOGRAPHY EXPERT
old_geezer
11-16-2005, 07:34 PM
Oh, and let's not forget that muscle-bound behemoth from Austria whose best line was "I'll be back," but somehow managed to finagle his way into the governor's mansion!
Ronald Regan is from Austria?
Hammock Parties
11-16-2005, 07:35 PM
Kevin Costner wins by a mile. He sucks incredible ass.
Deberg_1990
11-16-2005, 07:37 PM
Kevin Costner wins by a mile. He sucks incredible ass.
No he doesnt.....let me remind you:
The Untouchables
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Tin Cup
No way Out
Dances with Wolves
Upside of Anger
memyselfI
11-16-2005, 07:39 PM
Brad Pitt.
Hammock Parties
11-16-2005, 07:39 PM
No he doesnt.....let me remind you:
The Untouchables
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Tin Cup
No way Out
Dances with Wolves
Upside of Anger
Bad actors get cast in good movies all the time.
Kevin Costner sucks ass. He can't act. He's a pretty face and nothing more.
He did Robin Hood with AN AMERICAN ACCENT!!!!
And...Tin Cup? F*CK YOU!
Field of Dreams was a great movie ... so was Tin Cup ... but did he really "act" in those movies? If so, why did he "act" the same in both? And, if not, why were the movies so good? Plot? Screenplay? Lighting?
FAX THE PUZZLED BY ACTORS
Sully
11-16-2005, 07:40 PM
No he doesnt.....let me remind you:
The Untouchables
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Tin Cup
No way Out
Dances with Wolves
Upside of Anger
I hate to help with the hijacking of a good thread, but Costner's best role was in "Wyatt Earp". It's overshadowed by the Bubble gum-ish "Tombstone," but it is a great movie and he does a perfect job of playing Earp through his life.
Deberg_1990
11-16-2005, 07:43 PM
I hate to help with the hijacking of a good thread, but Costner's best role was in "Wyatt Earp". It's overshadowed by the Bubble gum-ish "Tombstone," but it is a great movie and he does a perfect job of playing Earp through his life.
I agree, Costners Wyatt Earp is an overrlooked film..everyone forgets about it because it came out about 6 months after Tombstone.
old_geezer
11-16-2005, 07:43 PM
I hate to help with the hijacking of a good thread, but Costner's best role was in "Wyatt Earp". It's overshadowed by the Bubble gum-ish "Tombstone," but it is a great movie and he does a perfect job of playing Earp through his life.
To continue the hi-jacking, I thought Costner's best role was in Open Range. Nicely understated performance.
I hate to help with the hijacking of a good thread, but Costner's best role was in "Wyatt Earp". It's overshadowed by the Bubble gum-ish "Tombstone," but it is a great movie and he does a perfect job of playing Earp through his life.
But, in Tombstone, the guy who played the sick gambler was really good. He was the same guy that played in that other movie where they went to Mars and he almost got stuck. That one had the girl that played in the movie about war with the machines, I think.
FAX THE CASTING AUTHORITY
Sully
11-16-2005, 07:46 PM
NOBODY played a better Doc than that guy who was in the movie where they shrunk him and injected him into the guy who used to be on SNL and gel his hair into a point and dance on his tiptoes.
andoman
11-16-2005, 07:48 PM
No he doesnt.....let me remind you:
The Untouchables
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Tin Cup
No way Out
Dances with Wolves
Upside of Anger
And he was bad in the 5 of those I saw and at least two others. Terrible, terrible actor. Christian Slater at least attempted the accent in Robin Hood.
But still not up there with Keanu's league of bad acting.
alanm
11-16-2005, 07:50 PM
But, in Tombstone, the guy who played the sick gambler was really good. He was the same guy that played in that other movie where they went to Mars and he almost got stuck. That one had the girl that played in the movie about war with the machines, I think.
FAX THE CASTING AUTHORITY
Don't forget that guy played Batman too.
munkey
11-16-2005, 07:54 PM
First thing first...
Acting is NOT acting these days..Look at the new .50. Movie...I bet it makes more $$$ than King Kong..
Hollywood IMO sucks dog ass..
Even my most anticpated movie.."Devils Rejects" sucked in comparison to the "House of 1000 Corpses"....Even Zombie went PC like the rest of them..
~waiting now for the next best horror movie~
First thing first...
Acting is NOT acting these days..Look at the new .50. Movie...I bet it makes more $$$ than King Kong..
Hollywood IMO sucks dog ass..
Even my most anticpated movie.."Devils Rejects" sucked in comparison to the "House of 1000 Corpses"....Even Zombie went PC like the rest of them..
~waiting now for the next best horror movie~
Yes, but look at Saw II. The guy who played the policeman acted just like a real dumbass which was what he was supposed to be.
FAX THE TALENT SPOTTER
milkman
11-16-2005, 08:05 PM
I agree, Costners Wyatt Earp is an overrlooked film..everyone forgets about it because it came out about 6 months after Tombstone.
And because Tombstone was a hell of a lot better movie.
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:05 PM
Tombstone sucked.
Dawson4004
11-16-2005, 08:09 PM
look, no one, and I mean NO ONE is as bad a Paul Walker....Atleast everyone else can be believed for 2 hours that they are the actully character thats in the movie setting. Because each and every person that has been named has been in atleast one entertaining movie.
Deberg_1990
11-16-2005, 08:09 PM
And because Tombstone was a hell of a lot better movie.
I like them both. Tombstone is more of a testosterone driven action flick. Wyatt Earp is more of the complete Earp Life.
NewChief
11-16-2005, 08:10 PM
First Name: Keanu...
No doubt. Wins by a freaking mile. He's so bad that it's a standing joke among just about everybody how bad he is.
Deberg_1990
11-16-2005, 08:10 PM
look, no one, and I mean NO ONE is as bad a Paul Walker....
Very Much agreed. Hes god awful. He makes Keanu look like a classically trained actor.
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:10 PM
I was entertained by Varsity Blues, and even Fast and the Furious.
... any movie with a whipped cream bikini has entertainment value.
But you are right, he is awful.
Tombstone sucked.
You are surely correct, Mr. Sully. But, I liked it anyway.
And, there weren't really any bad actors in it. Unless you count the guy who played one of the brothers who was also in that movie about the tornados with that girl who played in the movie about the guy who had some kind of syndrome and didn't like his gay neighbor and threw a dog down a laundry chute.
FAX THE MOVIE LOVER
milkman
11-16-2005, 08:12 PM
I like them both. Tombstone is more of a testosterone driven action flick. Wyatt Earp is more of the complete Earp Life.
I also liked Wyatt Earp, but Tombstone is one of my all time favorites.
milkman
11-16-2005, 08:15 PM
You are surely correct, Mr. Sully. But, I liked it anyway.
And, there weren't really any bad actors in it. Unless you count the guy who played one of the brothers who was also in that movie about the tornados with that girl who played in the movie about the guy who had some kind of syndrome and didn't like his gay neighbor and threw a dog down a laundry chute.
FAX THE MOVIE LOVER
I completely agree with that casting question, Mr. Fax, and would also add that guy who played in the TV series as a mechanic at an east coast resort island air field.
andoman
11-16-2005, 08:16 PM
Any love for Chuck Norris out there?
oaklandhater
11-16-2005, 08:18 PM
Adam Sandler Ashton Kutcher Dennis Quaid Orlando Bloom alll actors I cant stand seeing on screen.
Deberg_1990
11-16-2005, 08:19 PM
Any love for Chuck Norris out there?
Right here dude...i actually love early Norris.....Before he started making those awful Cannon films back in the mid 1980's....
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:20 PM
You are surely correct, Mr. Sully. But, I liked it anyway.
And, there weren't really any bad actors in it. Unless you count the guy who played one of the brothers who was also in that movie about the tornados with that girl who played in the movie about the guy who had some kind of syndrome and didn't like his gay neighbor and threw a dog down a laundry chute.
FAX THE MOVIE LOVER
The woman who played the whore who traveled with the retired dentist in Tombstone, and was also in the S & M movie which also starred the chubby former talk-show host, and who also had a recurring, though fleeting role in the 80s show (The best show, EVER) with the guy who starred in the movie about the Germans who took over the office building (Nakatomi Towers) and he saved the day, was hot.
Miles
11-16-2005, 08:26 PM
Keanu by far.
Another that is up there is Orlando Bloom.
milkman
11-16-2005, 08:27 PM
The woman who played the whore who traveled with the retired dentist in Tombstone, and was also in the S & M movie which also starred the chubby former talk-show host, and who also had a recurring, though fleeting role in the 80s show (The best show, EVER) with the guy who starred in the movie about the Germans who took over the office building (Nakatomi Towers) and he saved the day, was hot.
The woman who played the whore who traveled with the retired dentist isn't the same woman that did all the other things mentioned.
That woman who did all the other things metioned played the actress that traveled with a company that included the actor that played in the movie about a ship that sank in the Atlantic that included the actor that starred in the movie about the builder of the a big airplane.
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:28 PM
You are right. I stand corrected...
The woman who played the whore who traveled with the retired dentist in Tombstone, and was also in the S & M movie which also starred the chubby former talk-show host, and who also had a recurring, though fleeting role in the 80s show (The best show, EVER) with the guy who starred in the movie about the Germans who took over the office building (Nakatomi Towers) and he saved the day, was hot.
I totally agree, Mr. Sully. If I'm not mistaken, she was also in that movie about the Russion detective where the villian was running some kind of fur scam. That was the one with the guy who was also in that movie where his girlfriend convinced him to commit murder so she could collect the insurance and retire to the beach. That actress was hot also.
FAX THE ACTRESS RATER
headsnap
11-16-2005, 08:37 PM
~waiting now for the next best horror movie~
http://www.deathtunnel.com/trailer.htm
Distributed by Sony Pictures, release date sometime in December TBA. Already released overseas and doing well there.
Soundtrack Dist by Sony Records(bastards better not copy protect), includes two 9vR(headsnaps band) songs. 9vR music is also featured in the trailer.
:)
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:38 PM
Not sure I saw either movie, but her sister, who is also hot, was in that movie about the gangster who was played by the comedian who played a banjo during his act in the 70s and the other comedian who was in the movie with the giant candy monster that was actually the embodiment of a ghost and who also had a recurring skit about two Canadians and was joined in said skit by the guy who was in the TV show that starred the tall blonde former alcoholic and has recently been on the show that has the guy whose sister used to be in the show with the hippie family who had the very conservtive son, in which the title sequence ended with the family picture turning into a sketch.
Extra Point
11-16-2005, 08:38 PM
Reagan. Made for the best SNL skit ever, though
Not sure I saw either movie, but her sister, who is also hot, was in that movie about the gangster who was played by the comedian who played a banjo during his act in the 70s and the other comedian who was in the movie with the giant candy monster that was actually the embodiment of a ghost and who also had a recurring skit about two Canadians and was joined in said skit by the guy who was in the TV show that starred the tall blonde former alcoholic and has recently been on the show that has the guy whose sister used to be in the show with the hippie family who had the very conservtive son, in which the title sequence ended with the family picture turning into a sketch.
That's interesting. I didn't know she had a sister, but I remember that she is also the actress who played in that movie where she hung out in lesbian nightclubs with her husband who was an arms dealer. The guy in that movie was really, really bad. He was in that movie about the high school students who had to come into study hall on a Saturday for punishment.
FAX THE TRYING DESPERATLY TO FOLLOW THIS
Sully
11-16-2005, 08:51 PM
I don't know that movie, either. But are you talking about the guy who was in the movie about the hockey team which also starred the guy who later in his career was in the teen show with the actor who was in the movie about the Texas high school football team? Or the guy who was later in the TV show with the woman who earlier in her career was in the show with the guy who was in the basketball movie with the guy who was in the baseball movie with the guy whose brother was in the original saturday detention movie we were speaking of?
I don't know that movie, either. But are you talking about the guy who was in the movie about the hockey team which also starred the guy who later in his career was in the teen show with the actor who was in the movie about the Texas high school football team? Or the guy who was later in the TV show with the woman who earlier in her career was in the show with the guy who was in the basketball movie with the guy who was in the baseball movie with the guy whose brother was in the original saturday detention movie we were speaking of?
I'm not really certain.
But I do know that the guy to whom I am referring is the guy who was in the detention movie but isn't the guy whose dad plays the president on tv. That guy is the guy who played in the movie about the western juveniles and his brother is the guy who was in the movie about Vietnam with the guy who played the nutty rich guy in the movie about the guy who gets bit by the radioactive spider.
FAX THE UNSURE OF ANYTHING AT THIS POINT
pak1983
11-16-2005, 08:59 PM
BEN STILLER SUCKS ASS!!! ANYBODY COULD PLAY A STUPID **** ROLE LIKE IN ALL OF HIS MOVIES. HE IS ALWAYS THE JOKE.
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:01 PM
The move with the western juveniles that also had a small role in it with the originally mentioned actor in this thread?
See... everything comes full circle.
BEN STILLER SUCKS ASS!!! ANYBODY COULD PLAY A STUPID **** ROLE LIKE IN ALL OF HIS MOVIES. HE IS ALWAYS THE JOKE.
Thank you, Mr. Pak1983, for using a proper name.
FAX THE NUMB
The move with the western juveniles that also had a small role in it with the originally mentioned actor in this thread?
See... everything comes full circle.
Funny. I don't remember him in that movie.
FAX THE PUZZLED
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:24 PM
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/192759~The-Outsiders-Posters.jpg
Is this the movie we were discussing, or was I off base.
Edited for a better pic...
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/GLO/FLM00031_a.jpg
Is this the movie we were discussing, or was I off base.
Difficult to tell from the infitessimally small pic, Mr. Sully. However, after a good squint, it appears to me that these may be outlaws of a sort, but not the ones to which I was referring. The movie I'm thinking of was a western where the guy played a famous outlaw along with a bunch of other guys.
FAX THE NEARLY BLIND NOW
DaneMcCloud
11-16-2005, 09:29 PM
Hayden Christensen, by far. Single-handedly ruined what could have been "salvagable" Star Wars movies. Horrible in "Life as a House". Horrible in everything. More wooden than Bill Pullman.
True story: I was at the gym earlier this year just before Episode 3 came out and saw Hayden at the gym. I'll pretty much talk to anyone, especially when they ask for a spot. But I was speechless. The guy is so talentless. Anyway, I told a director friend that I saw him at the gym. He replied "Was he unconvincing as himself?"
I still haven't stopped laughing at that comment.
Dane
plbrdude
11-16-2005, 09:30 PM
jumping to tv land, that one guy who played a texas ranger, he's a bad actor.for some strange reason when i see him in that show, i always think of those little stuffed monkeys made from socks.
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:33 PM
I put a bigger pic up. I now get what movie you are talking about. It had the guy in it who is on the TV show that is about terrorists and each episode is one hour out of a day.
I'm not really certain.
That about sums up this thread for me :toast:
Mark M
11-16-2005, 09:36 PM
Reagan. Made for the best SNL skit ever, though
Makka johnny hey, makka johnny ho!
Hands down one of the better SNL skits of all time.
MM
~~ROFL
Frazod
11-16-2005, 09:37 PM
I can't believe nobody mentioned Shatner. He may be an icon and all, but Bill can chew scenery with the best of them.
I put a bigger pic up. I now get what movie you are talking about. It had the guy in it who is on the TV show that is about terrorists and each episode is one hour out of a day.
Yeah - that's the guy. He's the guy that's been in a lot of movies with the other guy I'm talking about. Your guy was also in that movie with the guy who played the amoral publicist who also played the arch-villian in the movie with the really hot girl who does the tv show about the CIA agent and the really bad actor who played the guy who gets conned into helping rob a casino by the guy who also went to Mars.
FAX THE THINKING MORE CLEARLY NOW
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:39 PM
The guy from Star Trek is fairly good right now in a role on a Lawyer TV show with a guy who played the jerky guy in a teenie-bopper movie in the 80s about a girl who wore pink to the prom.
KCChiefsMan
11-16-2005, 09:40 PM
I've liked a lot of Tom Cruise movies, I think most guys are afraid to admit it because chicks think he is hot
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:41 PM
I've loved a bunch of Tom Cruise movies. One of his movies is in my top 5... but he is a horrid actor on par with Jeff Goldblum.
Mark M
11-16-2005, 09:42 PM
I can't believe nobody mentioned Shatner. He may be an icon and all, but Bill can chew scenery with the best of them.
I think you missed the point of the thread. See Sully's post for a primer.
MM
~~:)
I've liked a lot of Tom Cruise movies, I think most guys are afraid to admit it because chicks think he is hot
He was good in that movie about the vampires, Mr. KCChiefsMan. The one with the guy who played in that movie with the girl who plays that video game hero. But, mainly he seems to have a narrow range.
FAX THE OVERLY CRITICAL I KNOW
The guy from Star Trek is fairly good right now in a role on a Lawyer TV show with a guy who played the jerky guy in a teenie-bopper movie in the 80s about a girl who wore pink to the prom.
I'm not sure which jerky guy you're speaking of. Is he the same jerky guy that played the superhero in that lame tv series?
FAX THE LOST A LITTLE
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:46 PM
The movie that has the girl who was in the movie in which she used ejaculate as hair gel, that also stars the guy mentioned initially in this thread, and ALSO stars they guy who played the lawman in the western movie that was named after the town and not the man which was also mentioned earlier in this thread was a great movie.
It was directed by the guy who also directed the movie about th 16-year old boy travelling with a band in the 70s and who also compiles GREAT soundtracks to all his movies.
Frazod
11-16-2005, 09:46 PM
I think you missed the point of the thread. See Sully's post for a primer.
MM
~~:)
Oops. Sorry, I was watching Lost.
listopencil
11-16-2005, 09:47 PM
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2102/kylerayner21hs9po.png
I'd like to se a good Green Lantern movie. Know of any?
Sully
11-16-2005, 09:48 PM
I'm not sure which jerky guy you're speaking of. Is he the same jerky guy that played the superhero in that lame tv series?
FAX THE LOST A LITTLE
No... the jerky guy who was in a movie about folks who were erotically aroused by getting into car wrecks and which also starred the woman who was in the movie about television news from a behind the scenes angle.
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/2102/kylerayner21hs9po.png
I'd like to se a good Green Lantern movie. Know of any?
Not off hand. But I bet Green Lantern could kick Batman's ass.
FAX THE GREENSTER
KCChiefsMan
11-16-2005, 09:50 PM
He was good in that movie about the vampires, Mr. KCChiefsMan. The one with the guy who played in that movie with the girl who plays that video game hero. But, mainly he seems to have a narrow range.
FAX THE OVERLY CRITICAL I KNOW
I couldn't care less about his range, I've enjoyed watching a lot of his movies, same with Nicholas Cage, he has no range either but I've enjoyed a lot of his movies.....the purpose of a movie is to enjoy it, if you don't like the movie because the actor doesn't have range than that's a bad reason to dislike it....unless he is trying to act past his range and does poorly at it
listopencil
11-16-2005, 09:50 PM
Not off hand. But I bet Green Lantern could kick Batman's ass.
FAX THE GREENSTER
Yeah, but Batman is still a better character.
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 09:52 PM
Okay, I know I'm probably going to get skewered and burned for heresy for saying this ... but ...
Hugely popular, hero to millions, American pop culture icon ...
... without an ounce of acting talent:
John Wayne
(or Elvis Presley, take your pick)
plbrdude
11-16-2005, 09:53 PM
sometimes talent just isn't necessary
listopencil
11-16-2005, 09:59 PM
... without an ounce of acting talent:
John Wayne
(or Elvis Presley, take your pick)
Yeah, I would agree. They both just played themselves. Compelling nonetheless.
No... the jerky guy who was in a movie about folks who were erotically aroused by getting into car wrecks and which also starred the woman who was in the movie about television news from a behind the scenes angle.
Are you speaking of the guy who played the guy who went through a wormhole to another planet with the guy who is married to the actress that starred with him in the movie where she got amnesia?
Or are you talking about the guy who was in the movie about Guadalcanal with the guy who played the mentally retarded guy in the movie where he wants custody of his son?
FAX THE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED AGAIN
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 10:03 PM
Yeah, I would agree. They both just played themselves. Compelling nonetheless.
Whoah, I just noticed your location! Are you a fellow Pastafarian? Up the Pirates!
Miles
11-16-2005, 10:13 PM
Are you speaking of the guy who played the guy who went through a wormhole to another planet with the guy who is married to the actress that starred with him in the movie where she got amnesia?
Or are you talking about the guy who was in the movie about Guadalcanal with the guy who played the mentally retarded guy in the movie where he wants custody of his son?
FAX THE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED AGAIN
Your first guess is the correct one. Unless there is some other movie movie about people getting off to car crashes.
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:21 PM
First Name: Keanu... I usually think people tend to just "hate on" the most popular actors... but Reeves is really bad.
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:27 PM
I think that guy who played Batman once, and played a blind guy, who recovers his sight for a brief time.. is a really stone-faced, boring actor.
Except for the time he played Doc Holliday, which was brilliant.
KCMIZZOU THE CATCHING ON
listopencil
11-16-2005, 10:29 PM
Whoah, I just noticed your location! Are you a fellow Pastafarian? Up the Pirates!
Yes I am. But I try to remain humble about it lest He touch me in wrath with His noodley appendage.
Miles
11-16-2005, 10:34 PM
I think that guy who played Batman once, and played a blind guy, who recovers his sight for a brief time.. is a really stone-faced, boring actor.
Except for the time he played Doc Holliday, which was brilliant.
KCMIZZOU THE CATCHING ON
I really like most of his stuff. Some of his recent good ones have been the one about the speed junkies, the one about the guy with the large package, and the one about the kidnapped president's daughter.
Sully
11-16-2005, 10:39 PM
Are you speaking of the guy who played the guy who went through a wormhole to another planet with the guy who is married to the actress that starred with him in the movie where she got amnesia?
Or are you talking about the guy who was in the movie about Guadalcanal with the guy who played the mentally retarded guy in the movie where he wants custody of his son?
FAX THE SOMEWHAT CONFUSED AGAIN
I'm talking about the former. He was also in that movie with the woman whois now one of the hottest (in all senses of the word) actresses in Hollywood before she made it big in which she was dressed in a very skimpy lace thingy in bed in which he ripped it off her. Costarring in that movie was the guy who was in the movie in which he was engaged to a character played by a singer from the 70s, 80s and 90s, who fell in love with his character's brother, who had a wooden hand and was played by the guy who went on to star in the movie about alcatraz, also starring the guy who used to be James Bond.
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 10:39 PM
Okay, I know I'm probably going to get skewered and burned for heresy for saying this ... but ...
Hugely popular, hero to millions, American pop culture icon ...
... without an ounce of acting talent:
John Wayne
(or Elvis Presley, take your pick)
You've never seen The Searchers or True Grit, have you?
Not to say that he was a great actor, but to say he had no acting talent is assanine.
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 10:40 PM
I just have to ask, are you all by chance stoned?
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:42 PM
I just have to ask, are you all by chance stoned?No.
KCMIZZOU THE SLIGHTY BUZZED
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 10:45 PM
No.
KCMIZZOU THE SLIGHTY BUZZED
Just wondering.
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:46 PM
Just wondering.Don't blame ya.
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:49 PM
Hayden Christensen, by far. Single-handedly ruined what could have been "salvagable" Star Wars movies. Horrible in "Life as a House". Horrible in everything. More wooden than Bill Pullman.
Haven't seen "Life as a House" but I agree. Even in the last, and best, new Star Wars... he was really bad, IMO.
KcMizzou
11-16-2005, 10:49 PM
http://www.deathtunnel.com/trailer.htm
Distributed by Sony Pictures, release date sometime in December TBA. Already released overseas and doing well there.
Soundtrack Dist by Sony Records(bastards better not copy protect), includes two 9vR(headsnaps band) songs. 9vR music is also featured in the trailer.
:)Wow... that's really cool. Congrats man.
*edit* The music in the trailer is badass.
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 10:54 PM
I really like most of his stuff. Some of his recent good ones have been the one about the speed junkies, the one about the guy with the large package, and the one about the kidnapped president's daughter.
I enjoy the one where he is a bridge builder in Africa and is forced to deal with a couple of nasty lions.
Miles
11-16-2005, 11:00 PM
I enjoy the one where he is a bridge builder in Africa and is forced to deal with a couple of nasty lions.
I always forget about that one. Good flick.
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 11:03 PM
You've never seen The Searchers or True Grit, have you?
Yes, to both, and neither served to sway my opinion. If anything, his acting in True Grit reinforced it.
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 11:24 PM
Yes, to both, and neither served to sway my opinion. If anything, his acting in True Grit reinforced it.
The reason he won the Oscar for True Grit is because he played something different than usual. Granted, his acting in that was not on the same level as in The Searchers (the one he really should have won it for), but it was not his typical role. And The Searchers, well, I can't think of anyone that could have played that role any better than he did. And that certainly was not a typical Duke role, it was darker and more serious than the characters he usually portrayed.
Of course my old man would say that, "The knock on John Wayne was that he only played John Wayne, but nobody played John Wayne better."
Nightwish
11-16-2005, 11:29 PM
Yeah, he had a few departures from his more stereotypical characters. What I think made him (or appeared to) a great actor was that rather than the writer's writing a movie, then casting John Wayne, so that he had to modify and conform to the characters that were written, they instead began with the idea of John Wayne as the lead role, and wrote the characters and stories to fit his acting style and personality.
Frazod
11-16-2005, 11:30 PM
I always thought Wayne's best performance was his last - The Shootist. Probably my favorite John Wayne movie, too.
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 11:38 PM
Yeah, he had a few departures from his more stereotypical characters. What I think made him (or appeared to) a great actor was that rather than the writer's writing a movie, then casting John Wayne, so that he had to modify and conform to the characters that were written, they instead began with the idea of John Wayne as the lead role, and wrote the characters and stories to fit his acting style and personality.
That was certainly the case some times, but not always.
GoTrav
11-16-2005, 11:45 PM
I was entertained by Varsity Blues, and even Fast and the Furious.
... any movie with a whipped cream bikini has entertainment value.
But you are right, he is awful.
hehe enjoyed both of the Fast and Furious movies. But he does suck. There are a lot more memorable characters in Varsity Blues though.
"I love that dog"
Raiderhater
11-16-2005, 11:46 PM
I always thought Wayne's best performance was his last - The Shootist. Probably my favorite John Wayne movie, too.
That one gets a special mention. His performance was better in that than in a good deal of his films. Of course I have a certain prejudice towards the film given that he plays a man dying of cancer, and in real life he would do just that not long after. So there is an emotional side to it (or at least there is for someone who views The Duke as a hero). Of course, that didn't exist to the level it does now that he has passed away, and even were it not for that, it would still be a great film. I have to put it into my top 5 favorites for sure, maybe top 3, depends on what day it is with me.
KCChiefsMan
11-17-2005, 11:34 PM
I think that guy who played Batman once, and played a blind guy, who recovers his sight for a brief time.. is a really stone-faced, boring actor.
Except for the time he played Doc Holliday, which was brilliant.
KCMIZZOU THE CATCHING ON
he did a good job acting in The Doors
ExtremeChief
11-18-2005, 06:55 AM
he did a good job acting in The Doors
He was in a movie with a guy who was in another movie trying to get a guy to join up in some spy stuff, but the movie had alot of twists. The guy that guy was trying to get to join up was in a weird movie where he was on the phone throughout the whole movie. The guy that guy was talking to kicks ass.
kregger
11-18-2005, 09:17 AM
No doubt. Wins by a freaking mile. He's so bad that it's a standing joke among just about everybody how bad he is.
Bad acting aside, he was wise enough to take a cut on the profits of Matrix, making him top 5 in wealthiest Hollywood scum. MOst of the other top 5 are listed in this thread.
Dr. Johnny Fever
11-18-2005, 09:24 AM
BEN AFFLECK
I have promised myself never to watch another movie he appears in in a major or semi-major role.
Couldn't agree more.
I also think Jack Nicholson sucks as an actor. He's talks the same way, uses the same facial expressions, same basic demeanor in no matter what role he's playing.
Baby Lee
11-18-2005, 09:32 AM
Haven't seen "Life as a House" but I agree. Even in the last, and best, new Star Wars... he was really bad, IMO.
Thought he did a decent job in the one where he was the hotshot reporter who was making everything up, the one that co-starred the girl who got raped by Casper while passed out, and later made some mouth love on that one dude's junk, the one who hates Roger Ebert. Also co-starring the guy who's presently training the guy who loves the Corps, huah!!
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