Actors/Stars with no integrity.

Pigman II

I'm hoping to compile a list here of actors/actresses who can be great in roles but in general it would appear seem to have a thing for the old-$$$ and of whom a vast majority of their movie role choices could be best described as 'questionable'.


Anyway, to get the ball rolling:

John Cusack. Every five years or so he'll appear in something top-notch like High Fidelity or Gross Pointe Blank but in general seems to have a thing for a appearing in crappy rom-com's and slick thrillers.

John Travolta : Remember him in Pulp Fiction? Well that was a long time ago by my watch. I get the feeling this guy will do absolutely ANYTHING as long as the money is right.

Robert DeNiro : Some defend him as deliberately reinventing himself as comedy star , but my word he has appeared in some dross over the past 15 years or so!



Feel free to add more.....

elurhs

Samuel L. Jackson: Has the man ever said no to a movie script? I swear he takes every part offered to him, regardless of the quality.

Dont be at yourself

Surely it's easier to compile a list of those with integrity.

Cactus Col

elurhs wrote:

Samuel L. Jackson: Has the man ever said no to a movie script? I swear he takes every part offered to him, regardless of the quality.

He said no to Get Rich Or Die Trying, seemingly because 50 cent isnt an actor.


And Sharon Stone, prooved she was a decent actress in Casino, but seems to take any muck (catwoman)

Pigman II

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Surely it's easier to compile a list of those with integrity.

True. But wheres the fun in that? Anyway I'm only after the main offenders here so I shouldn't be that big of a list (I hope).

lostexpectation

I think your are being a bit harsh, show me any good actor who has never done a **** film for the money, and so that they can do better indie films that we may never see.

ok there plenty of **** actors out there, but not John Cusack and Robert DeNiro.

Although I read an interview with Harrison Ford in Empire and it told us that he gets heavily involved in the producion of films he is in, he seemed sorta proud of Firewall, which I don't get it looked such a corney thriller.

John Cusack doing that film about dog romcom is nealy unforgivable though.

Dudess

Oh I hate the way John Cusack does those lame rom-com films - Serendipity, America's Sweethearts, Pushing Tin and, yeah, Must Love Dogs. If he was a crap actor, it wouldn't be so criminal.

Bodhidharma

Brendan Fraiser - With Honors, School Ties, Crash, The Quiet American
Brendan Fraiser - George of the Jungle, Monkey bone, The Mummy

Same guy?

Robert De Niro sold his integrity after Heat, didn't need it anymore.
All great actors and directors need to work constantly to stay on the radar for the better films.Spike Lee directed that heist thing that just came out, that will probably finance his next two films.

Christopher Walken, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Denis Hopper. All great actors who regularly appear in complete sh**e.

Beano

No mention yet of Michael Caine? He even admits it.

The Equalizer

Ralph Fiennes and Gabriel Byrne both starred in tripe flicks Maid in Manhattan and Ghost Ship respectively and then they both appeared in David Cronenberg's excellent Spider later that year where both actors got paid way less than normal! "I'll ease the pain of wrecking my head shooting an introspective Cronenberg mindf*** by pocketing a few million sleepwalking my way through Ghost Maid or Manhattan Ships!!"

missingtime

My theory on this is that the actors just need something to bull**** their way through. If you notice that Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, Jamie Fox amongst others seem to do the hard hitting tough acting then possibly for shi*s and giggles do some nice and easy tripe to wind down.

Maybe its a stupid theory I dunno.

Anyway an actor that always seems to do tripe is Milla Jovovich or Meg Ryan. I had another in mind but couldnt think of them.

lostexpectation

well maybe jovovich really likes doing action films, i think she has been in a few indies but i reckon she really likes learning stunt fighting...

the question is are these really the only well paid films they can find?

im do really hae to do films that are _that_ bad

BlackSabbath

tom cruise. that or he is a real dumbass. "war of the worlds" could be considered a kid movie, it's so much of a joke film.

Juggalo

Michael Madsen, he's in Blood Rayne, a Uwe Boll film. Nuff said.

Atrocity

Richard E Grant seems to have no artisitic integrity whatsoever

He was in Withnail and I and How To Get Ahead In Adertising but he was also in the Spice Girls Movie and Argos adverts. Although there is about twenty more bad movies you could tack on there.

Christopher Walken was a good one.

Laguna

You have to remember that there's major bureaucracy in Hollywood, the saying goes for actors - "You do one picture for yourself and two for the industry". Sometimes these actors who appear in dross films are indeed just doing it for the paycheque, but sometimes they are contractually obliged to OR have to appear in a certain picture as to rub the studio the right way to be able to do another film with them (the studio) that they actually want to do. A good example of contractual obligation was Edward Norton having to appear in the remake of the Italian Job.

lostexpectation

so is there any actor we would know of who has manage to be 'successful' and avoid most crap dirge?

tell us about eddie norten?

richard e grant does loads of in does stuff!

2 crap films to one decent one thats a terrible ratio?

could somone not just do moderate films?

Atrocity

on the whole these people don't seem to care about reputations or critics; maybe early on in someone's career there's going to be a lot of stuff you do just to pay the bills but when you're in a position to choose and you do every piece of rubbish that comes up regardless..

Rcuomo

yea as someone said above, ed norton doesnt seem to do stuff for the money...

the only reason he did the italian job was cos he was contractually obliged.

SoupyNorman

lostexpectation wrote:

I think your are being a bit harsh, show me any good actor who has never done a **** film for the money, and so that they can do better indie films that we may never see.

Daniel Day Lewis

lostexpectation

oh right well daniel day luas is a good example although he would probably spend two years living as edward norten and then do 'the italian job'. :rolleyes:

Laguna

lostexpectation wrote:

oh right well daniel day luas is a good example although he would probably spend two years living as edward norten and then do 'the italian job' first :rolleyes:

Daniel Day Luas ey?, so that's where the name came from for the tram in Dublin!.

garred

Gotta go with Arnie, played a commando, a robot and a pregnant man.....but he pulls it off!:)

lostexpectation

well arnie never pretended to anything other then an action star...

I still agree with you thought do they really have to do films that are that bad

0utshined

elurhs wrote:

Samuel L. Jackson: Has the man ever said no to a movie script? I swear he takes every part offered to him, regardless of the quality.

Yeah I would have agreed with you but the guy is doing "Snakes on a plane" because it's called "Snakes on a plane" and vetod a name change.

That's +5 coolness points on my scale and wipes " The Man" from my memory.

kittex

Pigman II wrote:

John Cusack. Every five years or so he'll appear in something top-notch like High Fidelity or Gross Pointe Blank but in general seems to have a thing for a appearing in crappy rom-com's and slick thrillers.

I have to disagree on this one. John Cusack started as a rom com actor and has branched out to try a wider variety of films, not the other way round.
So he tends to stick with the genre that made him famous? Great - he's not elitist! Not turning his back on his roots. So what if his roots are rom coms?
He knows what he does best and sticks to it, while supporting the indie movie scene, working with and helping to fund independent theatre in America (and not shouting about it).