Mention of John Wayne on the classic thread brought to mind this question. The man who starred in Red River and The Searchers also promoted The Green Berets and various phoned in westerns. Can anyone compete with that?
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Originally posted by G-Man View PostSurely there is no descent as steep as that of Robert de Niro, from the Olymp of any of his masterpieces you'd care to name to the depth of the devil's anus that was the "Meet The Fockers" series.
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I have to side with GMan here. Meet the parents and its sequel (s?) are awful. However I'm not sure how terrible De Niro is in it as he's basically playing a cartoonish version of himself in other films - it's difficult to tell if it his performance that is awful or simply the entire project. Se also Analyse This and its successors
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1. Nic Cage - Wild At Heart --> Vampire's Kiss
2. Nic Cage - Leaving Las Vegas --> The Wicker Man
3. Nic Cage - Raising Arizona --> Drive Angry
I mean, I could go on. Face/Off alone is a best-to-worst contender within a single movie.Last edited by Ginger Yellow; 15-03-2018, 08:53.
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Eddie Murphy's selling point never was his thespian ability. In that great trilogy of debut films -- 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverley Hills Cop -- he was funny and personable, but he never was likely to turn into Denzel Washington. There wasn't much of a height to fall from.
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Defend Meet The Parents all you like, I still say that De Niro has Rocky and Bullwinkle on his CV.
Edward Norton was shit in The Italian Jobbut that is because it was a contractual obligation and he hated doing it. It's actually a decent movie, if it wasn't called The Italian Job more people would like it.
If we go to directors, Coppola went from The Godfather to Jack.
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Originally posted by G-Man View PostSurely there is no descent as steep as that of Robert de Niro, from the Olymp of any of his masterpieces you'd care to name to the depth of the devil's anus that was the "Meet The Fockers" series.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostMichael Caine has some classics on the CV, and also Jaws 4.
Eddie Murphy has many bad movies in his past. Including some that he wrote.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostThe hugely entertaining SMERSHPod podcast on Jaws 4 contains the famous Caine quote "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
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Jeff Bridges has been in some woeful shit since he won his Oscar, which in theory should give an actor more control over the quality of their projects, and his performances in R.I.P.D. and Seventh Son are extremely grating.
Russell Crowe reliably turns in duff performances, either ridiculously intense or so blokey as to constitute cinematic manspreading.
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