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Post by karl100589 on Aug 25, 2022 12:52:20 GMT -5
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. Phonebooth had a pretty good cult following
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Post by burdette25159 on Aug 25, 2022 13:54:52 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. Warriors was a 1979 movie
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Aug 25, 2022 14:20:52 GMT -5
Norm McDonald's career never really took off after SNL did it.
It's not like he went away, he just never had that big mainstream hit.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 25, 2022 14:46:12 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. I'll buy that theory, offering Godfather 3 and JACK as exhibits A and B.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Aug 25, 2022 14:57:32 GMT -5
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. I'll buy that theory, offering Godfather 3 and JACK as exhibits A and B. He did do Bram Stoker's Dracula between those 2, which was a great movie, being both a commercial & critical success(sans Keanu's performance).
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 25, 2022 17:17:43 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... In its defense, the pirate movie genre was dead long before Cutthroat Island came along. Look at its predecessors - Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986), Yellowbeard (1983), Nate and Hayes (1983), Australia's The Pirate Movie (1982), The Island (1980), Swashbuckler (1976). Heck, if you want to stretch out the definition of a pirate movie you could throw Hook on that list as well. All critical and commercial failures, most with very troubled production histories. You'd honestly have to go back to the days of Errol Flynn to find a truly successful pirates movie pre-Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 25, 2022 17:38:34 GMT -5
Martin Breast - writer/director of Beverly Hill Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black…. And then in 2003 he directed the Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez vehicle “Gigli”.. he has done nothing since.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 25, 2022 17:41:59 GMT -5
Martin Breast - writer/director of Beverly Hill Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black…. And then in 2003 he directed the Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez vehicle “Gigli”.. he has done nothing since. Made a right tit of himself with that one he did
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 25, 2022 18:10:33 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". It was a combination of things. He turned down roles in The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter because he didn't understand the roles. He didn't understand LoEG either but accepted the role because he reasoned if he didn't understand it then it must be good. The production was plagued with problems and he fought with the director, Stephen Norrington (who directed Blade), so much that he later said Norrington should be "locked up for insanity." Between the feeling that what appealed to audiences had passed him by and the stress of dealing with "the idiots now making films" he decided that playing golf and sunning himself in the Caribbean was a better way to spend the rest of his days. Coincidentally, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a multiple career-killer. Norrington never directed again, and only has a handful of credits as a VFX artist since. Stuart Townsend hasn't had a major movie role since, while Peta Wilson was coming off La Femme Nikita when she made the movie and was tipped for bigger things, but has barely worked outside of Australia since.
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Post by Hurbster on Aug 25, 2022 18:17:48 GMT -5
I quite liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Nothing compared to the comics though.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Aug 25, 2022 18:27:22 GMT -5
Norm McDonald's career never really took off after SNL did it. It's not like he went away, he just never had that big mainstream hit. Norm is a weird bird, but he's the type of guy that would just do whatever he felt like doing; kinda like Chris Elliott. What they do resonates with their fans. It didn't matter if anybody else 'gets it'.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 25, 2022 18:44:38 GMT -5
Pluto Nash for Eddie Murphy
Dreamgirls was on its way to put him back on the map and he prob would won a Oscar if not for Norbit. Dolemite was fun but Coming 2 America was ass
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 25, 2022 19:15:54 GMT -5
Terminator Salvation ended McG's career as a blockbuster director just as it was getting started.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 25, 2022 19:33:48 GMT -5
Terminator Salvation ended McG's career as a blockbuster director just as it was getting started. Yeah, I think that leaked video of Christian Bale losing his shit may one of the reasons, Bales fury was not aimed directly at him.., but did show those in charge he was may not be able to handle future big projects
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 25, 2022 19:36:48 GMT -5
Norm McDonald's career never really took off after SNL did it. It's not like he went away, he just never had that big mainstream hit. Norm is a weird bird, but he's the type of guy that would just do whatever he felt like doing; kinda like Chris Elliott. What they do resonates with their fans. It didn't matter if anybody else 'gets it'. This is really giving Chris Elliott too much credit. While Elliott has gotten a lot of supporting role work since (because he's personally very well liked by a lot of people in the industry), nobody in Hollywood has really trusted him to be in charge of anything since Cabin Boy.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 25, 2022 19:39:23 GMT -5
Blues Brothers 2000 essentially signaled the end of John Landis' major career.
The fact that did and the Twilight Zone movie didn't is pretty telling of Hollywood. Getting tried for involuntary manslaughter is one thing, but a commercial bomb is something else entirely.
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Post by XIII on Aug 25, 2022 19:40:33 GMT -5
Showgirls probably killed a bunch of careers. lol
It was supposed to be a big breakout for Elizabeth Berkeley and it tanked all the way. That movie was so bad that the promise of naked women couldn’t get anyone to watch it.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 25, 2022 20:02:05 GMT -5
Showgirls probably killed a bunch of careers. lol It was supposed to be a big breakout for Elizabeth Berkeley and it tanked all the way. That movie was so bad that the promise of naked women couldn’t get anyone to watch it. The promise of a naked Jessie Spano got me watching it
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 25, 2022 20:18:08 GMT -5
Showgirls probably killed a bunch of careers. lol It was supposed to be a big breakout for Elizabeth Berkeley and it tanked all the way. That movie was so bad that the promise of naked women couldn’t get anyone to watch it. NC-17 ratings are a financial kiss of death by default. Being a crappy movie on top of it further doomed it.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 25, 2022 20:19:36 GMT -5
Norm McDonald's career never really took off after SNL did it. It's not like he went away, he just never had that big mainstream hit. With Norm it was a case of him being a guy that much preferred to do do his own thing (in addition to more often preferring standup) and the "Norm" sitcom being as much as he was willing to really compromise as far as mainstream TV. I think even if he hadn't been sick his chat show on Netflix would have still ended because he wasn't often the ideal fit for mainline channels. "In entertainment news, Netflix has canceled Norm MacDonald Has a Show. They key moment they said was when they realized that he was Norm MacDonald and he had a show."
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