Great Actors in Dodgy films

ziedth

Inspired by the other thread,

Just the opposite of the other question really.

To Make it clearer for discussion the films suggested should really have been panned on a larger scale and not just a film you didn't like.

My first three:

1. Ocean's 12: Pick any of the main cast that i really like and put them in this ****e which just seemed to be their own masterbation material.

2. The mutant chronicles: John Malcovich who I love I'll never know why he was in this, seemingly he shot his scenes in two days. I'm not surprised

3. Tough but I'll go for Bad Company: Possibly my Fav Actor of any generation Anthony Hopkins I'm sure needed a new pool or something cause he has no business in a Cat film with a Hack like Chris Rock

Suggestions?

Greenmachine

ziedth wrote: »

Inspired by the other thread,

Just the opposite of the other question really.

To Make it clearer for discussion the films suggested should really have been panned on a larger scale and not just a film you didn't like.

My first three:

1. Ocean's 12: Pick any of the main cast that i really like and put them in this ****e which just seemed to be their own masterbation material.

2. The mutant chronicles: John Malcovich who I love I'll never know why he was in this, seemingly he shot his scenes in two days. I'm not surprised

3. Tough but I'll go for Bad Company: Possibly my Fav Actor of any generation Anthony Hopkins I'm sure needed a new pool or something cause he has no business in a Cat film with a Hack like Chris Rock

Suggestions?

Any of the Oceans really. How about flatliner with Kevin Bacon and a Certain Julia Roberts.

0ubliette

Greenmachine wrote: »

Any of the Oceans really. How about flatliner with Kevin Bacon and a Certain Julia Roberts.

Only youd be completely wrong as its a fantastic film

evad_lhorg

Eh Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in Public enemies. awful film.

I guess that I'm the only one who likes Mutant Chronicles, even went so far as to buy the Blu Ray last week. I've been told that my love of Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman and anything Sci FI is the reason I enjoy it so much. I always counter that arguement with a no, it's just a good film.

Vic Vinegar

Deleted User wrote: »

I guess that I'm the only one who likes Mutant Chronicles

I quite liked it myself actually!

sioda

Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty. What more need i say.

Dman001

I really like Morgan Freeman but he is in alot dodgy films.

Edit: Ha I see Sioda just bet me to it.

MikeC101

Depending on your definition of a "great actor", Samuel L Jackson (who can certainly be at least good) will apparently appear in anything if the money is right.

See the utterly dire "Shaft", which for bonus points also featured Christian Bale.
"It is my duty, to please that booty"

Then there's the ones who suffer the post Oscar downfall - Halle Berry in Catwoman, Cuba Gooding Jnr in anything he's been in recently.

Robert De Niro in "Showtime"

Anthony Hopkins in "Bad Company" - edit: Ooops, already noted in the first post (short attention span at work here)

Dman001

MikeC101 wrote: »

Depending on your definition of a "great actor", Samuel L Jackson (who can certainly be at least good) will apparently appear in anything if the money is right.

See the utterly dire "Shaft", which for bonus points also featured Christian Bale.
"It is my duty, to please that booty"

Then there's the ones who suffer the post Oscar downfall - Halle Berry in Catwoman, Cuba Gooding Jnr in anything he's been in recently.

Robert De Niro in "Showtime"

Anthony Hopkins in "Bad Company" - edit: Ooops, already noted in the first post (short attention span at work here)

Yeah I could never understand this. Samual L. Jackson is a decent actor but then you see him in films like Snakes on a Plane, Lakeview Terrace and a few others.

Robert de Niro in Meet the Parents/Fockers is another one.

Eddie Murphy in Daddy Day Care.

byte

Eddie Murphy has been in so many crap movies this past decade, I'd struggle to consider him a great actor anymore (is it just me or has he a constant thing for costuming up as a fattie or something in many of his more recent movies?).

TheManWho

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in gigl..... oh great actors..... nevermind.

rednik

De Niro and Pacino in Righteous Kill absolutely dreadful movie.

uncleoswald

rednik wrote: »

De Niro and Pacino in Righteous Kill absolutely dreadful movie.

First I thought of too. Sure they have both done an awful amount of crap recently but the fact that their both in it makes it special, as does the fact that it was fairly low budget so they can't even use the Michael Caine easy paycheck excuse of Jaws IV. What were they thinking?

Other easy but embarrassing paychecks:
Raul Jual in Street Fighter
Bob Hoskins in Super Mario Brothers
Marlon Brando in the Island of Dr. Moreau
Ben Kingsly and Jeromy Irons in some Uwe Bowl video game adaptations.

mike65

An all star great actors in shiote film "spectacular"

Irwin Awful presents When Ideas Ran Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEvD9fMX3

foxyboxer

Peter O'Toole in Troy
Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black
Michael Caine in Jaws: The Revenge

Dman001

Nicolas Cage in 90% of his films.

razorblunt

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal.

bnt

There's a whole subcategory in there: British thesps, slumming it. Examples:
- Sir Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II, The Betsy, The Jazz Singer (as Neil Diamond's dad)
- Sir Michael Caine in The Swarm, Jaws: The Revenge, the remake of Get Carter!
- Dame Judi Dench in Chronicles of Riddick
- Sir Sean Connery in Outland, Meteor, Highlander
- Dame Julie Andrews in 10, S.O.B., and the Princess Diaries films.
- Sir Alec Guinness in Raise The Titanic ... Star Wars?

And then there's Caligula (1979), the Roman epic that morphed in to a porn film after the publisher of Penthouse magazine took over production. The non-porn features such names as Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, and Peter O'Toole. :rolleyes:

bnt

bnt wrote: »

- Sir Michael Caine in The Swarm, Jaws: The Revenge, the remake of Get Carter!

Lets not insult the Get Carter remake, on it's own merits it's a thoroughly entertaining film. Were it called anything else it would have recieved a far more positive response.

Dman001

Robin Williams in RV and License to Wed.

Driver 8

Robert De Niro in most of his films since Heat

ziedth

bnt wrote: »

- Dame Judi Dench in Chronicles of Riddick

Oh I like this one, Well done Sir.

Photi

How about an actor who has never starred in a dud?

John Cazale

The Godfather
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
The Deer Hunter



No Baby Geniuses here..

Podge2k7

+1 on Righteous Kill, I don't know why Pacino and De Niro agreed to this terrible excuse of a film. Also the less said about 50 cent in this the better.

kenon

foxyboxer wrote: »

Anthony Hopkins in Meet Joe Black

His performance in it is fantastic though.