Dennis Quaid always good?

Kipperhell · 19-10-2009 4:00pm #1

I recently was talking to a friend about movies and we couldn't think of anything he was in that was bad. Looking up the net it looks like it is really only Jaws 3-d that was bad. Is he being under-rated?

mike65 · 19-10-2009 4:01pm

Dennis Quaid for when Jeff Bridges is busy

Basq · 19-10-2009 4:03pm

The Day After Tomorrow was muck.. as was Vantage Point... as was American Dreamz... as was Flight of the Phoenix... as was Cold Creek Manor... as was The Parent Trap... as was Dragonheart.

Want me to go on?

humanji · 19-10-2009 4:05pm

I've seen a few dodgy films he's in. Day After Tomorrow, for example, is a travesty of a film. But he's not a bad actor. He's not great, just kind of average. I can't think of anything where he gave a really standout performance or a particularly horrific performance. It's almost like he's happy with being middle of-the-road.

edit: I liked Dragonheart.

Seillejet · 19-10-2009 4:16pm

I watched Any Given Sunday yesterday and I thought Quaid was one of the weaker performances. Just an actor I have never taken too.

Lamper.sffc · 19-10-2009 4:30pm

GI JOE:eek: Say no more

Kipperhell · 19-10-2009 4:32pm

Ok I stand corrected. I still think he has been excellent in many films but he has been in a few big blockbusters that have been poor.

santana75 · 19-10-2009 5:16pm

He has made a few dodgy films alright. But in fairness to him he's made a few really good ones aswell:

The big easy, Breaking away, Frequency, Any given sunday, Savior, The right stuff, Traffic, and of course his finest hour(from an acting perspective anyway) Wyatt Earp. He was off the scale in that movie.

Richard Dower · 19-10-2009 6:31pm

He was excellent in Enemy Mine. He's made alot of porkers though.....he was good in White Noise.

Rhyme · 19-10-2009 6:41pm

Why is nobody talking about Inner Space?

Basq · 19-10-2009 6:44pm

Richard Dower wrote: »

He was excellent in Enemy Mine. He's made alot of porkers though.....he was good in White Noise.

White Noise? I think you're thinking of Michael Keaton.

Rhyme wrote: »

Why is nobody talking about Inner Space?

Inner Space is superb..

johnny_ultimate · 19-10-2009 6:50pm

Looking at his filmography, I'd say far from always! Latest I've seen of his was the stupidly smug Smart People, the worst kind of ahem... 'indie' film. On his imdb profile, the only thing from the last three or four years that sounds interesting is a role in Spongebob!

sky88 · 19-10-2009 8:31pm

Rhyme wrote: »

Why is nobody talking about Inner Space?

that was a great film

humanji · 20-10-2009 8:27am

Richard Dower wrote: »

He was excellent in Enemy Mine. He's made alot of porkers though.....he was good in White Noise.

Are you thinking about Frequency?

kowloon · 20-10-2009 8:52am

I thought the fellow who played Batman, the Tim Burton one, was the lead in White Noise.

Basq · 20-10-2009 9:21am

kowloon wrote: »

I thought the fellow who played Batman, the Tim Burton one, was the lead in White Noise.

Michael Keaton.. yeah, mentioned that above!

Richard must be confused.

uncleoswald · 20-10-2009 12:27pm

He was very good in Far From Heaven so he really can act, just chooses not to. Can't say I'd get very excited when I see his name on a cast list. I can only ever picture him with an intensely concerned expression on his face, like a bargain basement Harrison Ford.

Inner Space is class though.

Se7en · 20-10-2009 12:58pm

Ahem. Pandorum?

JP Liz · 20-10-2009 3:24pm

Innerspace is a classic - superb film

He really shone as an actor in Far From Heaven and Great Balls of Fire and i enjoyed his performance in The Big Easy

oxygen_old · 20-10-2009 3:42pm

Yea, he is class in all films he is in. He is just in a lot of muck films. I remember watching frequency, and when

the timeline is altered at the very end, and he steps out of the shadows with a shotgun to save his son

was a typically savage scene Dennis Quad delivers impeccably.

Kernel · 20-10-2009 3:47pm

santana75 wrote: »

and of course his finest hour(from an acting perspective anyway) Wyatt Earp. He was off the scale in that movie.

Agree with this, he lost a tonne of weight and seemed to enjoy the method acting approach to the character. The Doc Holiday character and his self-destructive nature is probably appealing to actors, since even Kilmer played a good Doc in Tombstone.

Lirange · 20-10-2009 7:39pm

Randy > Denis

DinnyBatman · 21-10-2009 8:14pm

I've always classed Dennis Quaid with the likes of Kevin Bacon and John Cusack. Even when the film is rubbish, they are always watchable. Respect.:cool:

uncleoswald · 25-10-2009 11:57am

Day After Tomorrow and Gi Joe could easily be forgiven by this, possibly the most fun you'll have in the cinema next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdI_9P6zM2k

irish_bob · 25-10-2009 12:28pm

i cant think of another actor who has that absolute quientesential all american look that denis quaid has

krudler · 25-10-2009 12:36pm

I like Quaid, along ith Kurt Russell he's a dependable actor who just never really made it to the A list, plus Quaid is Tuck Pendleton, and that automatically negates any bad movie he's ever been in

irish_bob · 25-10-2009 12:46pm

krudler wrote: »

I like Quaid, along ith Kurt Russell he's a dependable actor who just never really made it to the A list, plus Quaid is Tuck Pendleton, and that automatically negates any bad movie he's ever been in

i always think kurt russell is very like john wayne in many ways , he even talks like him

Dennis Quaid always good?

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