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Where did it all go wrong (or very right) for ....

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  • #152
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,901 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Dog of Tears wrote: »
    Tim Robbins.

    He was everywhere in the 90's, starting that decade with Jacob's Ladder and following it up with a string of critical successes such as The Player, Short Cuts, Shawshank Redemption, Arlington Road. he also directs Dead Man Walking in '95.

    Last big movie I recall seeing him was a small part in War of the Worlds.

    What happened?



    Yes he has been very quite in front of the camera after he did win an Oscar for Mystic River


    I think HBO's Cinema Verite was his last known role


    Maybe his break up with Susan Sarandon had made him reclusive


    He is great actor comfortable in both drama and comedy
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  • #153
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    Dog of Tears wrote: »
    Tim Robbins.
    I watched him in 2013's Life of Crime, with Jennifer Aniston, which wasn't very good. It can be considered a prequel of sorts to Jackie Brown, as Mos Def plays a younger version of Ordell Robbie (played by Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown) and John Hawkes plays a younger version of Louis Gara, (played by Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown).

    Robbins was also in 2011's Green Lantern.


  • #154
    TheDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 23,128 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Adamantium wrote: »
    James Cameron was going to cast Michael Biehn as the villan in Avatar, but didn't want people thinking it was going to be an Aliens retread as they already had Sigourney Weaver involved.

    Rumours are will be cast in some capacity in Avatar 2 now that Avatar is an established franchise/name,

    Michael Biehn is Steve McQueen levels of effortless cool and presence. For as much as people talk about Arnold in T1, Biehn blew me away, the aura and intensity around him when he talked about Judgement Day and the purgatory of the future. The entire franchise was built on the foundation his performance laid. (and his other roles too, a very convincing performer who always made made it real)

    In most of the films he was in, directors and crew frequently praise his ability as just effortless, and how he rarely needs something explained twice.

    Worth remembering he came into Aliens after shooting had already started, and did most of the film on the fly, reading the script shortly before shooting the scene.


  • #155
    MfMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Jack Black seems to be gone on the blink. (Not that I'm worried or anything....)


  • #156
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Ok, new rule. For every "all go wrong" story" we need a "all go right one after it :p

    Otherwise you'll have this guy to answer to

    simmons


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  • #157
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Adamantium wrote: »
    James Cameron was going to cast Michael Biehn as the villan in Avatar, but didn't want people thinking it was going to be an Aliens retread as they already had Sigourney Weaver involved.

    Rumours are will be cast in some capacity in Avatar 2 now that Avatar is an established franchise/name,

    Michael Biehn is Steve McQueen levels of effortless cool and presence. For as much as people talk about Arnold in T1, Biehn blew me away, the aura and intensity around him when he talked about Judgement Day and the purgatory of the future. The entire franchise was built on the foundation his performance laid. (and his other roles too, a very convincing performer who always made made it real)

    I'm a big fan of Biehn (I think his portrayal of Johnny Ringo in Tombstone might be his finest hour)... but to say his performance was the foundation the Terminator franchise was built on is just, well, silly...


  • #158
    Looper007
    Registered Users Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    Ageyev wrote: »
    Colin Farrell. Great debut performance in a lead role with Tigerland. Appears in a great Spielberg film. Puts Bruce Willis to shame in Hart's War and holds in own opposite Pacino in The Recruit. Lots of hype, next big thing etc. etc.

    Then does Alexander and that didn't go so well. The New World was very good but came after Alexander. Miami Vice left a sour taste. Then goes off to rehab and comes back with In Bruges which was amazing and looked like a great comeback but since he has taken a lot of generic action roles. He seems to shine better in "quirky" (for want of a better term) supporting roles now.

    I wonder how well he will do in True Detective. I've a few friends who balked at the idea of him acting in series two based on the bland performances in his latter stage blockbusters eg. Total Recall

    Farrell is at his best when he's not in A-list big blockbuster movies rather small scale films. He's actually a good actor, not Michael Fassbender great, but when he has a great script behind him and he looks interested, he's a top actor. I thought he was very good in Saving Mr Banks. So him been in True detective doesn't shock me. I think he should be looking at how Guy Pearce does it, Clearly isn't comfortable in the A-list blockbuster leading man role, plays secondary roles, Tv Roles and leads indie films and for that is one of the best around.


  • #159
    GreNoLi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭GreNoLi


    Adamantium wrote: »
    James Cameron was going to cast Michael Biehn as the villan in Avatar, but didn't want people thinking it was going to be an Aliens retread as they already had Sigourney Weaver involved.

    Rumours are will be cast in some capacity in Avatar 2 now that Avatar is an established franchise/name,

    Michael Biehn is Steve McQueen levels of effortless cool and presence. For as much as people talk about Arnold in T1, Biehn blew me away, the aura and intensity around him when he talked about Judgement Day and the purgatory of the future. The entire franchise was built on the foundation his performance laid. (and his other roles too, a very convincing performer who always made made it real)

    Him and Kyle Chandler are my man crushes, lol.

    MichealBeihnTerminator028.jpg

    Makes me love Solid Snake even more:

    kylereeseissolidsnake.jpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIn-fCh6pU


  • #160
    Looper007
    Registered Users Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    Manchegan wrote: »
    A good recent interview appeared in The Guardian

    I think the first thing she should have done was to get rid of her useless deadbeat manager, which also happens to be her Dad who caused more trouble then anything and is one of the reasons her career didn't reach the heights it should have. Her own attitude certainly didn't help her. She was amazing in Ghost World, even watching it now she makes you forget Scarlett Johansson is in it. But unlike Johansson she didn't play the game and those who surrounded her were her own worst enemies.


  • #161
    OldeCinemaSoz
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    Cronenberg went BELLY UP with M BUTTERFLY.

    Seems the EXTRAS on THE FLY featured some butterfly baby thing
    flying away at THE END.

    Obviously anything after went a BIT QUARE.


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  • #162
    amacca
    Registered Users Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭amacca


    Already mentioned…but where did Michelle Pfeiffer disappear to?


  • #163
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,901 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Michael Fassbender showed his all in Shame and his career has been very much on the rise, teaming with McQueen too is a smart move by him, is he the "new Daniel Day Lewis"
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  • #164
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Michael Fassbender showed his all
    Deliberate?

    I'll agree he's a superstar now, but it's very hard to pinpoint where it all went "right". I remember seeing the monologue in Hunger, or the more "uncomfortable" scenes in Fishtank and it was clear this was an actor made for the big time. Shame was probabaly the first critically acclaimed role, but it came after Inglorious which I'd say was his "right" moment.


  • #165
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I'll agree he's a superstar now, but it's very hard to pinpoint where it all went "right".

    his Guinness ad.


  • #166
    Chip Whitley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    You could argue that it's all gone wrong for M. Night Shyamalan.

    The Sixth Sense (1999)
    Unbreakable (2000)
    Signs (2002)
    The Village (2004)

    The above is a great run of films. It was followed by:

    Lady in the Water (2006)
    The Happening (2008)
    The Last Airbender (2010)
    After Earth (2013)

    I enjoyed parts of The Happening and on paper After Earth is a film I should love but I fell asleep half-way through and never rewatched.


  • #167
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    folan wrote: »
    his Guinness ad.

    Nonsense, he was well into the Heyday by then.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRSslBi2CY


  • #168
    happysunnydays
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭happysunnydays


    OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »
    Cronenberg went BELLY UP with M BUTTERFLY.
    .

    No it DIDN'T. 'History of Violence' and 'Eastern Promises' are both SOLID.


  • #169
    Wedwood
    Registered Users Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Wedwood


    Sharon Stone, could do no wrong with Total Recall, Basic Instinct, The Quick and the Dead. Then Assassins with Stallone and it was all over.

    Julia Roberts, even bigger star still only in her mid 40's but looks like star has dipped.


  • #170
    happysunnydays
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭happysunnydays


    Brendão wrote: »
    You could argue that it's all gone wrong for M. Night Shyamalan.
    .

    Stating the obvious, I don't think there is an argument there at all.
    Lady in the Water was his vanity project that went tits up and lost a packet, studios lost trust in him and he seemed to lose his confidence which comes across in his later stuff. He must be desparate for a hit at this stage, all a bit sad really.


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