Eric Roberts doesnt know how to say 'No'

kumate_champ07 · 17-04-2015 9:19am #1

I just read hes in THC III so went to check his IMDB, he must have at least 35+ different acting roles in the last year.

hes actually a good actor who has tasted mainstream success, maybe he just likes to work, maybe hes chasing a guinness world record, maybe hes got tax problems, I just cant recall seeing anyone else that prolific

endacl · 17-04-2015 9:20am

I'm self employed too. I don't turn down work. Fair play to him!

Frankie5Angels · 17-04-2015 11:00am

I googled Roberts just to see what 'THC3' was, but discovered he was Julia Roberts' brother :eek:

Learn something new every day!

shazzerman · 17-04-2015 12:29pm

He's the talented one in the family. Loved him in The Pope of Greenwich Village and Star 80. But his one scene in the TV series Oz has made the biggest impression on me: cold, dissociated sociopath - made Hannibal Lecter look like a cartoon.

franer1970 · 17-04-2015 12:41pm

Oscar nominated for Runaway Train (1985).
A film that makes Unstoppable look like, erm... a cartoon.

Brief_Lives · 17-04-2015 12:42pm

shazzerman wrote: »

He's the talented one in the family. Loved him in The Pope of Greenwich Village and Star 80. But his one scene in the TV series Oz has made the biggest impression on me: cold, dissociated sociopath - made Hannibal Lecter look like a cartoon.

I was a massive fan of Oz... I forgot completely that he was in it... here's the scene I just found on youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcfUP63aPQ

Outkast_IRE · 17-04-2015 12:45pm

Michael Madsen is almost as bad, have a look at his IMDB page for the last decade almost, crazy amount of jobs he took on.

franer1970 · 17-04-2015 12:49pm

Frankie5Angels wrote: »

I googled Roberts just to see what 'THC3' was, but discovered he was Julia Roberts' brother :eek:

Learn something new every day!

There was a time when she was invariably referred to as "Eric Roberts' little sister", would you believe.
See also: John Voight / Angelina Jolie.

MagicMarker · 17-04-2015 12:50pm

Best of the Best is an all time classic.

Don't forget he was in Batman too.

shazzerman · 17-04-2015 12:50pm

franer1970 wrote: »

Oscar nominated for Runaway Train (1985).
A film that makes Unstoppable look like, erm... a cartoon.

I haven't seen that film - it's on my list.

shazzerman · 17-04-2015 12:55pm

Brief_Lives wrote: »

I was a massive fan of Oz... I forgot completely that he was in it... here's the scene I just found on youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcfUP63aPQ

Is was fantastic, wasn't it? The one misstep it took, I think, was when it introduced this ridiculous subplot involving a drug that made the prisoners age more rapidly so that they could be released earlier...why did they go ahead with that?
Lee Tergesen, the actor who played Tobias Beecher is the closest I've seen to a Jack Lemmon clone (acting-wise) than even Bryan Cranston, and I thought he was superb throughout. He should have made a bigger splash afterwards.

Frankie5Angels · 17-04-2015 1:30pm

franer1970 wrote: »

There was a time when she was invariably referred to as "Eric Roberts' little sister", would you believe.
See also: John Voight / Angelina Jolie.

Yeah, knew about Voight and Jolie - suppose I never thought to put the two surnames together!

Always remember Eric from 'Best of the Best' years ago. Great film :pac:

kumate_champ07 · 17-04-2015 1:51pm

Brief_Lives wrote: »

I was a massive fan of Oz... I forgot completely that he was in it... here's the scene I just found on youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfcfUP63aPQ

ha I completely forgot that! I had posted in the OZ thread and was trying to remember if he was in that, shame on me for forgetting

arcticmonkeys · 17-04-2015 2:16pm

He is brilliant in Bob Fosses Star 80. That was supposed to be the movie that put him on the map, Gene Siskel said it was one of the best performances hes ever seen. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086355/?ref_=nv_sr_1

shazzerman · 17-04-2015 2:26pm

arcticmonkeys wrote: »

He is brilliant in Bob Fosses Star 80. That was supposed to be the movie that put him on the map, Gene Siskel said it was one of the best performances hes ever seen. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086355/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Yep, and I remember that same year when the late lamented Michael Dwyer claimed that Robert De Niro's King of Comedy performance was the best of the year and De Niro's best too (it was!) - and then judging Roberts' work in Star 80 to be even better! He was truly brilliant in it, no question.

poeticmakaveli · 17-04-2015 2:36pm

Best of the best is some film!:)

Agent Coulson · 17-04-2015 3:29pm

Frankie5Angels wrote: »

I googled Roberts just to see what 'THC3' was, but discovered he was Julia Roberts' brother :eek:

Learn something new every day!

He is also Emma Roberts father.