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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 25, 2022 8:58:13 GMT -5
Just a general thread about things that killed a person’s career.
What made me think of this was the first movie released about Jeffrey Dahmer. A guy named Carl Crew wrote and starred in it. He previously starred in the cult horror film Blood Diner then made his own comedy movie. But when he wrote his second movie about Jeffrey Dahmer shortly after Dahmer was arrested his career, any upward momentum Crew had stopped flat.
Any press Crew’s movie got was VERY negative. It was seen as at best exploitation and at worst glorifying Dahmer’s crime. It’s notable because around the same time Lifetime and some other platforms would have ripped from the headlines stories and faced little if any backlash.
Crew is a bid of an odd duck and pretty much everything he’s made before and after has been pretty off the beaten path. So I’m not sure if the movie really killed his career. However, I do know that after it was made Crew didn’t appear in another movie for 5 years and even then it was a micro indie film.
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Post by tirtefaa on Aug 25, 2022 9:25:10 GMT -5
Halle Berry still hasn't recovered from Cat Woman.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 25, 2022 9:57:26 GMT -5
Mike Myers and The Love Guru.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Aug 25, 2022 10:06:04 GMT -5
Halle Berry still hasn't recovered from Cat Woman. She rebounded a bit IMO in John Wick 3. Great choreography may have helped her but it was the best she ever looked in an action setting. Far as her being a bankable solo star, yeah she’s still scarred from that.
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Post by Spider2024 on Aug 25, 2022 10:14:53 GMT -5
Brandon Flowers.
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Post by chrom on Aug 25, 2022 10:17:47 GMT -5
Whoopi Goldberg in Theodore Rex
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 25, 2022 10:19:23 GMT -5
Not sure if he planned it beforehand or it was the movie's fault, but Sean Connery's career was done after "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 25, 2022 10:29:16 GMT -5
While it didn't kill his career per se, I will say Last Action Hero definitely felt like the turning point in Schwarzenegger's career with his quality of work wavering afterwards.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 25, 2022 10:38:23 GMT -5
While it didn't kill his career per se, I will say Last Action Hero definitely felt like the turning point in Schwarzenegger's career with his quality of work wavering afterwards. We had True Lies after that, which was good.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Aug 25, 2022 12:01:44 GMT -5
While it didn't kill his career per se, I will say Last Action Hero definitely felt like the turning point in Schwarzenegger's career with his quality of work wavering afterwards. We had True Lies after that, which was good. Is Last Action Hero considered bad? I love that movie.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Aug 25, 2022 12:07:04 GMT -5
We had True Lies after that, which was good. Is Last Action Hero considered bad? I love that movie. It’s picked up a following, no shock because it holds up way better today as a loving spoof of 80s era action. Plus the soundtrack goes hard.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 25, 2022 12:11:08 GMT -5
We had True Lies after that, which was good. Is Last Action Hero considered bad? I love that movie. I enjoy it, but I was only saying that True Lies came after Last Action Hero, which didn't do as well. True Lies made a good amount back then.
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Post by salz4life on Aug 25, 2022 12:17:05 GMT -5
Mike Myers and The Love Guru. Still haven't watched that. LOL
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Post by pinja on Aug 25, 2022 12:18:20 GMT -5
Peeping Tom allegedly killed the careers of Michael Powell as a director and Karlheinz Böhm as an actor. While that seems to be kind of true for Powell, it's definitely not true for Böhm. It didn't do his international career any good, but in general, he still had steady work after it.
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 25, 2022 12:20:45 GMT -5
Oh, and of course...Heaven's Gate not only killed Michael Cimino's career in a way, but also killed film westerns for years and severely damaged director-led productions in Hollywood.
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Post by burdette25159 on Aug 25, 2022 12:24:26 GMT -5
Sgt. pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the movie was the beginning of the end for the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton's careers, and Robert Stigwood, it was a bad movie.
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Post by Burst on Aug 25, 2022 12:32:13 GMT -5
I want to say Cutthroat Island is another semi-forgotten movie with substantial ripple effects... Killed pirate movies for almost a decade until Pirates of the Caribbean came along, killed off Geena Davis's career as a leading lady and Renny Harlin's as a name director, killed their marriage, killed their studio...
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Aug 25, 2022 12:37:20 GMT -5
After his debut role as Swan in the 1989 movie "The Warriors", Michael Beck was expected to be a big name in Hollywood going forward.
His second movie was "Xanadu" with Olivia Newton-John, which was so critically panned that it ruined his career. The only other major project he worked on was reprising his role as Swan in the 2005 Warriors video game.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 25, 2022 12:38:24 GMT -5
We had True Lies after that, which was good. Is Last Action Hero considered bad? I love that movie. It's often looked as one of Arnold's notable blunders, though it's got a following. And yes, True Lies was the bounce back, but LAH really felt like the first notable dip in his career that definitely had ups and downs after that. Speaking of, Joel Schumacher with Batman and Robin, which is such a shame because he was trying to make the best of what he could do given all the mandates from Warner.
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Post by karl100589 on Aug 25, 2022 12:50:38 GMT -5
Oh, and of course...Heaven's Gate not only killed Michael Cimino's career in a way, but also killed film westerns for years and severely damaged director-led productions in Hollywood. I wrote my dissertation on New Hollywood and used Heaven’s Gate as the key factor in the movement ending. speaking of New Hollywood, I’d argue Francis Ford Coppola never hit his stride again after One From The Heart.
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