Every Actor Makes At Least One Bad Movie

Anakin.S

I was reading through some old threads and got to thinking about great actors (Male & Female) and some of the terrible movies they have made.

Robert De Niro - The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

Can anyone think of a great actor who has not made a bad movie?

Maybe Jodie Foster but I'm not really a fan of Summersby

podgemonster

I may be wrong but usually if a film stars Clint Eastwood, then it's worth watching!

I was also gona to say Denzel Washinton but iv heard the Book of Eli is supposed to be absolute dribble!

As for Jodie Foster, i thought contact was a poor movie.

ziedth

I think christian bale has never done an awful movie to the level of De Niro or Say Sam Jackson. I know reign of fire and terminator weren't great or even good but they weren't really bad either imo

jaykhunter

I know he's not a great actor but I remember when John Travolta had a great run of movies with Pulp Fiction and Face Off etc...then he made The Punisher. He was just awful in that movie...and so was the movie. But his acting was just pants.

AndyKiely

Gene Hackman in welcome to Mooseport, I understand that it might be a retirement movie for him, but Jesus couldn't he have chosen a good movie. Pure tripe!

AudreyLOL

Benicio del Toro in The Wolfman

Kess73

jaykhunter wrote: »

I know he's not a great actor but I remember when John Travolta had a great run of movies with Pulp Fiction and Face Off etc...then he made The Punisher. He was just awful in that movie...and so was the movie. But his acting was just pants.

Did you not see Battlefield Earth?:eek:


Travolta giving an awful performance in an awful film, which was an adaptation of an awful novel. A novel that spawned an awful soundtrack.

IsThisIt???

Can't think of any bad Steven Segal movies

grames_bond

Kess73 wrote: »

Did you not see Battlefield Earth?:eek:


Travolta giving an awful performance in an awful film, which was an adaptation of an awful novel. A novel that spawned an awful soundtrack.

.....and was responsible for an awful cult religion!

Has Brice Willis done a bad movie? i mean a really sh!te one alá battlefield earth?

Uma thurman has been in some absolute sh!te.....my super ex girlfriend anyone?

humanji

IsThisIt??? wrote: »

Can't think of any bad Steven Segal movies

Well he set the bar low from the off, so it's tough for him to go lower.

edit: Bruce Willis had a small part in Chalies Angels 2, but I don't think he's been the lead in any really bad movies.

bonerm

John Cazale.

Frighteningly good filmography tbh.

# The Deer Hunter (1978)
# Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
# The Godfather: Part II (1974)
# The Conversation (1974)
# The Godfather (1972)

Only made 5 feature films in his career. All 5 nominated for the best picture oscar. All 5 in imdb top 250.

/thread

NothingMan

Philip Seymour Hoffman. I haven't seen every film but if he has a big part in a movie it's, as fas as I can see, generally a really good movie.

Saying that, he has had small cameo parts in a couple of bad movies, but that's not really the same.

tman

Can't believe you've all forgotten Die Hard 4.0 already!:p

jaykhunter

Kess73 wrote: »

Did you not see Battlefield Earth?:eek:


Travolta giving an awful performance in an awful film, which was an adaptation of an awful novel. A novel that spawned an awful soundtrack.

LOL! Completely forgot about it...maybe i just struck if from my memory....Never saw it, but i watched Nostalgia Critic give out about it...much better! :pac::pac::pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZ2lLi3CMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rYbJsWGDHE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIhoNgc4aVw

humanji

tman wrote: »

Can't believe you've all forgotten Die Hard 4.0 already!:p

Hell, I thought that was a grand movie. Not great, but a bit of fun.

Raekwon

jaykhunter wrote: »

I know he's not a great actor but I remember when John Travolta had a great run of movies with Pulp Fiction and Face Off etc...then he made The Punisher. He was just awful in that movie...and so was the movie. But his acting was just pants.

I think The Punisher will look good like a master piece compared to his latest movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sLG0owba0E

Sleazus

NothingMan wrote: »

Philip Seymour Hoffman. I haven't seen every film but if he has a big part in a movie it's, as fas as I can see, generally a really good movie.

Saying that, he has had small cameo parts in a couple of bad movies, but that's not really the same.

The Boat That Rocked.

Otis Driftwood

What makes a movie bad?

By what yardstick is this measured?

Its purely subjective.

Just because you or I think a movie isnt anygood doesnt necessarily make it so,its just one persons opinion.

A case in point would be [Rec].Its by and large loved by critics and the movie going public and has loads of fans.I however thought it was pretty crappy.Does that make it a bad movie?No,its just my opinion.

Threads like this are pretty pointless as invariably they turn into a pissing contest when someone slates a much loved movie,gets rounded upon by the movies fans,a slanging match ensues and the thread ends up getting locked.

Sleazus

nedtheshed wrote: »

What makes a movie bad?

By what yardstick is this measured?

Its purely subjective.

Just because you or I think a movie isnt anygood doesnt necessarily make it so,its just one persons opinion.

A case in point would be [Rec].Its by and large loved by critics and the movie going public and has loads of fans.I however thought it was pretty crappy.Does that make it a bad movie?No,its just my opinion.

Threads like this are pretty pointless as invariably they turn into a pissing contest when someone slates a much loved movie,gets rounded upon by the movies fans,a slanging match ensues and the thread ends up getting locked.

I think that's an unspoken assumption - but that's the joy of having a discussion. There's no point in discussing only verifiable facts. Who is going to reply to a thread entitled "[REC] is a horror film" without a hint of commentary? The only exception would be posting an update on REC, but that itself would spark further discussion.

People are contrary types - and the minority likes to be very vocal. That's why you can't have a post praising the movies that this very forum identified as the best of a given year (in the awards forum) without people flooding it with criticism.

But that's the fun.

LowOdour

humanji wrote: »

Well he set the bar low from the off, so it's tough for him to go lower.

edit: Bruce Willis had a small part in Chalies Angels 2, but I don't think he's been the lead in any really bad movies.

I give you Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities

Sleazus

LowOdour wrote: »

I give you Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities

And Breakfast of Champions.

LowOdour

Sleazus wrote: »

And Breakfast of Champions.

Thats the other one i was trying to think of!

Raekwon

Sleazus wrote: »

And Breakfast of Champions.

And Color of Night

NothingMan

Sleazus wrote: »

The Boat That Rocked.

I liked it.

faceman

LowOdour wrote: »

I give you Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities

Hudson Hawk wasnt great but I disagreed with the flamed panning it got at the time. It was no worse than Arnie's Last Action Hero.

NothingMan wrote: »

Philip Seymour Hoffman. I haven't seen every film but if he has a big part in a movie it's, as fas as I can see, generally a really good movie.

*cough* Mission Impossible 3 *cough*

NothingMan

faceman wrote: »

*cough* Mission Impossible 3 *cough*

MI3 was really good. Maybe the fact that it's the first one in the franchise where you're watching Tom Cruise knowing how much of a fruit loop he really is, but as an action film it was above par. Especially Hoffman as the villain.

faceman

NothingMan wrote: »

MI3 was really good. Maybe the fact that it's the first one in the franchise where you're watching Tom Cruise knowing how much of a fruit loop he really is, but as an action film it was above par. Especially Hoffman as the villain.

MI3 was so OTT with ridiculous action, it felt like a Sci Fi film! :eek:

youcancallmeal

I reckon Arnold Schwarzenegger has never made a film I didnt like. Thats only if he is playing a major role in a film though, he's done a few bad ones where he's only a secondary character(Batman & Robin) or just a cameo(Terminator Salvation)

Raekwon

youcancallme>al wrote: »

I reckon Arnold Schwarzenegger has never made a film I didnt like. Thats only if he is playing a major role in a film though, he's done a few bad ones where he's only a secondary character(Batman & Robin) or just a cameo(Terminator Salvation)

Kindergarten Cop & Jingle All The Way?

Plus he didn't have a cameo in Terminator Salvation, that was a CGI recreation of a younger version of him.

humanji

LowOdour wrote: »

I give you Hudson Hawk and Bonfire of the Vanities

I didn't think these were as bad as they were made out to be. Again, not great, but not terrible.

Sleazus wrote: »

And Breakfast of Champions.

And I never heard of this. But looking it up, I can't see how it could possibly be good.

youcancallmeal

Raekwon wrote: »

Kindergarten Cop & Jingle All The Way?

Plus he didn't have a cameo in Terminator Salvation, that was a CGI recreation of a younger version of him.

Kindgarten Cop is a bit of a cult classic, so many memorable quotes i.e. "Who is your Daddy and what does he do?". I will give you Jingle All The Way but who in fairness has ever done a good christmas movie?

humanji

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Kindgarten Cop is a bit of a cult classic, so many memorable quotes i.e. "Who is your Daddy and what does he do?". I will give you Jingle All The Way but who in fairness has ever done a good christmas movie?

That goes back to Bruce Willis and Die Hard 1 and 2. :P

Anakin.S

youcancallme>al wrote: »

who in fairness has ever done a good christmas movie?

Billy Bob Thorton in Bad Santa?

Dont be at yourself

Leonardo DiCaprio?

Apolloyon

Edward Norton in The Italian Job. Great actor - rubbish movie!

Auvers

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Leonardo DiCaprio?

The Beach

Titanic

The Departed

Anakin.S

I enjoyed the beach

smilerf

Trying to think of a bad Brad Pitt movie
I know The Mexican wasnt great but it wasnt rubbish

The vastly overrated Julia Roberts is terrible imo. Pretty Woman and Sleeping with the Enemy were her only good ones

qwertplaywert

Apolloyon wrote: »

Edward Norton in The Italian Job. Great actor - rubbish movie!

Norton has been in his far share of bad films.

Dont be at yourself

Peglegged wrote: »

The Beach

Titanic

The Departed

I wouldn't say any of those are particularly bad.

Auvers

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

I wouldn't say any of those are particularly bad.

indeed but it just a personal opinion and imo

from Leonardo's character that I couldnt give two flying sh1ts about the implausible plot elements in The Beach and a story that meanders aimlessly

And on to Titanic, apart from a decent half hour when the ship was sinking its just a very mediocre to bad romance snoose fest

And the travisty that was The Departed it was just a bad remake of the vastly superior Infernal Affairs, didnt think Scorsese could get it so wrong with a mafia movie

ziedth

Peglegged wrote: »

indeed but it just a personal opinion and imo

from Leonardo's character that I couldnt give two flying sh1ts about the implausible plot elements in The Beach and a story that meanders aimlessly

And on to Titanic, apart from a decent half hour when the ship was sinking its just a very mediocre to bad romance snoose fest

And the travisty that was The Departed it was just a bad remake of the vastly superior Infernal Affairs, didnt think Scorsese could get it so wrong with a mafia movie

But all 3 movies were fairly well recieved IIRC. I enjoyed the beach, liked the departed and felt titanic was vastly overrated. But none imo were truly terrible films, i'll have to imdb leo and see his films but i cant think of any that are jingle all the way bad.

Also i just thought of daniel day lewis? Although nine looked ****e

youcancallmeal

Ziedth. wrote: »

Also i just thought of daniel day lewis? Although nine looked ****e

Nine was sh**e! Not because Daniel Day-Lewis' performance was poor but because the film just wasnt very good at all. He's done a good few films aside from the the major blockbusters, I havent seen a lot them like The Age of Innocence, The Ballad of Jack and Rose etc so I would imagine there has to be at least one stinker in there as well.

Retr0gamer

podgemonster wrote: »

I may be wrong but usually if a film stars Clint Eastwood, then it's worth watching!

Paint your Wagon anyone?

humanji

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Paint your Wagon anyone?

That's a great film. It's hilarious (intentionally so).

FearDark

Leonardo Di Caprio

Cant think of one bad movie, some people will rush in and say "Titanic", but you would be wrong.

paddy kerins

grames_bond wrote: »

Has Brice Willis done a bad movie? i mean a really sh!te one alá battlefield earth?

cant think of any really sh!te ones but surrogates pretty bad

paddy kerins

faceman wrote: »

Hudson Hawk wasnt great but I disagreed with the flamed panning it got at the time. It was no worse than Arnie's Last Action Hero.

last action hero is a great film. doesnt take itself seriously at all. the only bad thing about it was that f***ing kid

irishh_bob

youcancallme>al wrote: »

I reckon Arnold Schwarzenegger has never made a film I didnt like. Thats only if he is playing a major role in a film though, he's done a few bad ones where he's only a secondary character(Batman & Robin) or just a cameo(Terminator Salvation)

arnie hasnt made a good movie since true lies , still love em though

paddy kerins

havent seen a bad film with patrick wilson in it

irishh_bob

Anakin.S wrote: »

I enjoyed the beach

i like the beach for the soundtrack , the thai scenery and the french chick , the movie itself sucks , especially after they arrive at the afforementioned beach