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Post by cactussam on Mar 4, 2019 11:15:17 GMT -5
Her name comes up a lot for different reasons (including this one), but...Melissa McCarthy. Sweet woman, does have talent, but ends up doing the same stuff just because Bridesmaids made money. If I can go by her interviews, she doesn't see being plus size as mattering as much as others do and thus doesn't feel the pressure to be a good role model, and in fact she just does what she does and doesn't worry what other people think. She was nominated for an Oscar this year for doing something really different. And the not worrying what others think is a quality to admire for me.
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Post by Cela on Mar 4, 2019 16:50:25 GMT -5
Would it be weird to say Daniel Day Lewis? Guy is probably the best actor in recent memory, but his eccentricities keep him only doing a few movies, which are usually amazing performances. But would love to see him in a few more.
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 4, 2019 17:02:33 GMT -5
Would it be weird to say Daniel Day Lewis? Guy is probably the best actor in recent memory, but his eccentricities keep him only doing a few movies, which are usually amazing performances. But would love to see him in a few more. Quality over quantity. Three Oscars.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 4, 2019 17:25:34 GMT -5
Would it be weird to say Daniel Day Lewis? Guy is probably the best actor in recent memory, but his eccentricities keep him only doing a few movies, which are usually amazing performances. But would love to see him in a few more. Quality over quantity. Three Oscars. Dude had an emotional psychotic breakdown onstage during a performance of Hamlet that ended his theater career. I think it's fair to say his eccentricities and the lengths he goes through to be method are excessive and have kept his career from being even more. And with someone of DDL's talent, that's a big waste of "even more."
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 4, 2019 17:28:42 GMT -5
And Jack Nicholson has three Oscars as well, and still managed to rake it the cash in between by starring in craploads of shitty films, good films and even a few more standout pieces that didn't reach the Oscars.
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Post by LexExpress on Mar 4, 2019 18:47:42 GMT -5
I'm going to say John Cusack. He was in some great/enjoyable films in the 80s and 90s, but other than the excellent Love and Mercy (2014) has mostly been seen in forgettable shite for the last ten years or so.
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Post by prettynami on Mar 4, 2019 20:30:34 GMT -5
Tom Berenger is one that comes to mind for me. Like even some of the crap movies he in he's amazing in. Now, I haven't seen everything he is in, but everything I have seen he is great in! Maybe its because his career go to a late start or something and he was already too old, but he seemed to go from Platoon and Major League to straight to video poop faster than it took me to type this paragraph...
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Post by cabbageboy on Mar 4, 2019 23:30:05 GMT -5
Yeah Berenger was awesome. The problem is that he was already about 37 by the time Platoon came out. I already mentioned William Petersen, who I think was the original pick for the Barnes role (which would have re-teamed him with Dafoe from To Live and Die in LA).
As far as Welles goes, it is well documented that Hearst tried his best to sabotage Kane. But really once it got a wide release the film just kinda fizzled in Middle America, its structure being too remote for a 1941 era audience. The problem was even worse with The Magnificent Ambersons. His initial cut was previewed around California and it just utterly bombed, which is why it was drastically re-cut while Welles was in Brazil. Robert Wise, who did the edits, noted later that "There were heartbreaking things that happened in the film, but when we took it to the previews no one CARED." RKO could have dealt with the Mercury unit losing some money with Citizen Kane if it meant multiple Oscar nominations, but not the 620,000 that Ambersons lost. But that was the George Schaefer regime at RKO in a nutshell: Prestige pictures that were the actual "A" pictures for the studio, rather than specialized art house fare (like Fox Searchlight or something). Charles Koerner took over and basically had no choice but to fire Welles and Co. since Welles was basically MIA in South America and running up expenses while producing nothing releasable. Koerner quickly turned RKO around with a slate of war time flicks, star vehicles, Val Lewton horror (which experimented in a lower budget way in a proven genre), etc.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Mar 5, 2019 0:23:00 GMT -5
Quality over quantity. Three Oscars. Dude had an emotional psychotic breakdown onstage during a performance of Hamlet that ended his theater career. I think it's fair to say his eccentricities and the lengths he goes through to be method are excessive and have kept his career from being even more. And with someone of DDL's talent, that's a big waste of "even more." Wasn't DDL one of the names floated for Bruce Wayne/Batman in '89? Jesus Christ, he's so method, he probably would have had his parents murdered in front of him to get into character.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 5, 2019 1:14:03 GMT -5
River Phoenix is another one for me, already had grest work before passing away at 23, so much more he could have done
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 5, 2019 1:18:23 GMT -5
Her name comes up a lot for different reasons (including this one), but...Melissa McCarthy. Sweet woman, does have talent, but ends up doing the same stuff just because Bridesmaids made money. If I can go by her interviews, she doesn't see being plus size as mattering as much as others do and thus doesn't feel the pressure to be a good role model, and in fact she just does what she does and doesn't worry what other people think. If nothing else, she could never be the family embarrassment, so she may as well dance to her own tune.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 5, 2019 1:20:52 GMT -5
I'm going to say John Cusack. He was in some great/enjoyable films in the 80s and 90s, but other than the excellent Love and Mercy (2014) has mostly been seen in forgettable shite for the last ten years or so. I sometimes wonder if he's f***ed himself by being a lead. Joan just looks like she gets to have a lot more fun being a prolific supporting actress, so while I am sure he gets paid more, he also is often relegated to shitty movies.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 5, 2019 2:24:39 GMT -5
I'm going to say John Cusack. He was in some great/enjoyable films in the 80s and 90s, but other than the excellent Love and Mercy (2014) has mostly been seen in forgettable shite for the last ten years or so. I sometimes wonder if he's f***ed himself by being a lead. Joan just looks like she gets to have a lot more fun being a prolific supporting actress, so while I am sure he gets paid more, he also is often relegated to shitty movies. John would still be getting high profile jobs if not for the fact that he's been a very open and aggressive critic of the rampant ageism and misogyny of the powers that be behind all of Hollywood's major studios.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Mar 5, 2019 2:57:23 GMT -5
Sharekka Epps- As a teenager was every bit the equal opposite Ryan Gosling in the film "Half Nelson". In the dozen years since she has a few supporting roles in Indy films and a Law &Order guest appearance to her name.Add to that she has nothing on her her resume since 2013. The director's of the movie Half Nelson are the one's behind the upcoming Captain Marvel,and Gosling in addition to being a giant movie star is probably a future Oscar winner. She either pissed off the wrong studio exec or lost interest in acting,either way her career trajectory is pretty shocking as I thought she would have been a mainstay of either tv or mainstream studio films.
Another name is Catalina Sandino Moreno-Was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in her film debut,looks like she could be a model.................and her career highlight since her Oscar nom is a bit part in Twilight and a supporting role on a Showtime series watched by a few thousand people. How she never got a megapush in Hollywood is beyond me
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 5, 2019 6:58:10 GMT -5
George Lazenby. It would've been really interesting to see how he'd grow into the role of James Bond had he done more than one movie.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Mar 5, 2019 9:36:48 GMT -5
Amanda Bynes.
She's shown in the past she has fantastic comedic timing and can do physical comedy to an extent as well but she had some issues that really derailed what could have been a great career as she transitioned into adulthood
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 5, 2019 9:43:24 GMT -5
Amanda Bynes. She's shown in the past she has fantastic comedic timing and can do physical comedy to an extent as well but she had some issues that really derailed what could have been a great career as she transitioned into adulthood I always found her really likable, she did some interviews in the last year and she seemed well, hopefully things work out for you
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Post by James Fabiano on Mar 5, 2019 11:22:09 GMT -5
Her name comes up a lot for different reasons (including this one), but...Melissa McCarthy. Sweet woman, does have talent, but ends up doing the same stuff just because Bridesmaids made money. If I can go by her interviews, she doesn't see being plus size as mattering as much as others do and thus doesn't feel the pressure to be a good role model, and in fact she just does what she does and doesn't worry what other people think. If nothing else, she could never be the family embarrassment, so she may as well dance to her own tune. Yeah, her cousin does just fine there.
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Post by BRV on Mar 5, 2019 13:12:00 GMT -5
I'm not confirming he's a wasted talent, but has there ever been a good explanation as to how Val Kilmer went from a superstar to an afterthought in a decade's time?
He played the villain in a big-budget blockbuster in "Top Gun," he starred in a critically-acclaimed biopic in "The Doors," he shared the screen alongside Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in "Heat," hell, he was freaking Batman. And by the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, he's starring in obscure independent flicks and direct-to-DVD fare.
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 5, 2019 13:21:02 GMT -5
And Jack Nicholson has three Oscars as well, and still managed to rake it the cash in between by starring in craploads of shitty films, good films and even a few more standout pieces that didn't reach the Oscars. Quality over quantity. Three Oscars. Dude had an emotional psychotic breakdown onstage during a performance of Hamlet that ended his theater career. I think it's fair to say his eccentricities and the lengths he goes through to be method are excessive and have kept his career from being even more. And with someone of DDL's talent, that's a big waste of "even more." He may be satisfied with his career as it has been. I'm sure Daniel Day Lewis has enough cash, in additional to his three Oscars, even without starring in craploads of shitty films.
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