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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 26, 2022 17:53:52 GMT -5
G.I. Jane killed Demi Moore as an A-list headliner after being one of the biggest actresses of the 90s. You could argue Striptease the previous year started the fall but G.I. Jane was a much bigger bomb. We'll have to see, but joking about G.I. Jane may have also been indirectly responsible for killing Will Smith's career 25 years later. I have a feeling he'll bounce back though. He has too many connections. Some big director will give him a redemption role. Will has kind of been done as a leading actor draw since After Earth failed Bad Boys 3 and his performance in King Richard (the movie didn't perform well financially but pandemic) was basically bringing him back as far as still being able to go as an actor but the slap to Chris put a major bullet point on his career
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Post by rocket on Aug 26, 2022 17:55:51 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. He got the last laugh. Bennifer got back together. Yeah, it's now easy to forget that Gigli also crippled Aflleck and J-Lo for a while.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 26, 2022 18:11:38 GMT -5
"North" was one that severely damaged Rob Reiner's directing career. Before North, he was on a hot streak with the likes of Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally and a Few Good Men. Then this happens and he never really came close to that ever again.
Also in terms of directing, "Nothing But Trouble" pretty much killed any other chance of Dan Aykroyd as a director.
And for one that almost killed his career early, Michael Chiklis in Wired, the god awful biopic about John Belushi based on a book by Bob Woodward. His career was dead in the water before the Commish made him a household name.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 26, 2022 18:50:17 GMT -5
G.I. Jane killed Demi Moore as an A-list headliner after being one of the biggest actresses of the 90s. You could argue Striptease the previous year started the fall but G.I. Jane was a much bigger bomb. We'll have to see, but joking about G.I. Jane may have also been indirectly responsible for killing Will Smith's career 25 years later. I have a feeling he'll bounce back though. He has too many connections. Some big director will give him a redemption role. Will has kind of been done as a leading actor draw since After Earth failed Bad Boys 3 and his performance in King Richard (the movie didn't perform well financially but pandemic) was basically bringing him back as far as still being able to go as an actor but the slap to Chris put a major bullet point on his career He won an Oscar the same night he slapped Chris Rock... so his career wasn't really dead.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Aug 26, 2022 19:00:23 GMT -5
Will has kind of been done as a leading actor draw since After Earth failed Bad Boys 3 and his performance in King Richard (the movie didn't perform well financially but pandemic) was basically bringing him back as far as still being able to go as an actor but the slap to Chris put a major bullet point on his career He won an Oscar the same night he slapped Chris Rock... so his career wasn't really dead. I wasn't saying it was dead I was saying the box office draw aspect on him being the leading man leading to financial success every movie has pretty much been done but as I mentioned King Richard was bringing him back to prominence
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Aug 26, 2022 19:44:04 GMT -5
I think I Know Who Killed Me would've sunk Lindsay Lohan's career even if her off-screen antics didn't.
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Post by mattperiolat on Aug 26, 2022 20:07:49 GMT -5
"North" was one that severely damaged Rob Reiner's directing career. Before North, he was on a hot streak with the likes of Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally and a Few Good Men. Then this happens and he never really came close to that ever again. We’re ignoring The American President and Ghosts of Mississippi? Now, if you argue The Story of Us, then we can talk. Although I quite like Flipped. We can argue The Hobbit trilogy has killed Peter Jackson as a director. Speed Racer probably killed the Wachowskis.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 26, 2022 21:22:45 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... I don't disagree with you but I will say The Long Kiss Goodnight (starring Davis and directed by Harlin) was released after Cutthroat Island and I love that movie. Honestly, I think Davis would have probably been alright, since at least Long Kiss Goodnight was better received, but her divorce and her taking two years off to basically reflect on everything sidelined her. She did say she'd been getting offers, but just that none of it was anything she was that interested in, and that a lot of it was also more just that she turned 40 in that same time period, which was a bigger hit to her roles she was offered than Cutthroat Island was.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 26, 2022 21:27:45 GMT -5
"North" was one that severely damaged Rob Reiner's directing career. Before North, he was on a hot streak with the likes of Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally and a Few Good Men. Then this happens and he never really came close to that ever again. Also in terms of directing, "Nothing But Trouble" pretty much killed any other chance of Dan Aykroyd as a director. And for one that almost killed his career early, Michael Chiklis in Wired, the god awful biopic about John Belushi based on a book by Bob Woodward. His career was dead in the water before the Commish made him a household name. I do wonder if Ayrkroyd's forgiven Chiklis or not. I know he loathes most everyone involved in Wired, though Jim Belushi forgave Chiklis and considers him a victim of the production, himself, deceived into starring in a piece of shit.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Aug 26, 2022 21:47:13 GMT -5
Dana Carvey with Master of Disguise. Nearly a decade before that, he tried to be a lead in Clean Slate, which I felt was underrated. The scene where he tries to give a lecture on a safari he wasn't on is hilarious. "Many people thought we wouldn't make it. Here is the one of the people who laughed at us... We buried him here."
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Post by schma on Aug 26, 2022 22:38:09 GMT -5
"North" was one that severely damaged Rob Reiner's directing career. Before North, he was on a hot streak with the likes of Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally and a Few Good Men. Then this happens and he never really came close to that ever again. We’re ignoring The American President and Ghosts of Mississippi? Now, if you argue The Story of Us, then we can talk. Although I quite like Flipped. We can argue The Hobbit trilogy has killed Peter Jackson as a director. Speed Racer probably killed the Wachowskis. It's a shame, Speed Racer is actually fantastic. The race scenes are phenomenal and the movie manages to be entertaining and moving while still having random shit for the kids.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 26, 2022 23:51:38 GMT -5
I think people pretty much had it with the Donnie Darko dude after 'Southland Tales'. Was the Button after that? Cause it as pretty good. EDIT-Wait was it called the Box? the movie based on the old short story. Was made into an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone revival.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 27, 2022 0:41:24 GMT -5
I think people pretty much had it with the Donnie Darko dude after 'Southland Tales'. Was the Button after that? Cause it as pretty good. EDIT-Wait was it called the Box? the movie based on the old short story. Was made into an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone revival. Yep, it’s called The Box and starred Cameron Diaz. I still haven’t seen that adaptation despite loving the short story and 1980’s Twilight Zone episode. It seemed perfect as a short story or 30 minute or less episode. Expanding it to feature length seems like it would require heavy padding.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Aug 27, 2022 2:51:21 GMT -5
I think people pretty much had it with the Donnie Darko dude after 'Southland Tales'. Was the Button after that? Cause it as pretty good. EDIT-Wait was it called the Box? the movie based on the old short story. Was made into an episode of the 80s Twilight Zone revival. I love Richard Matheson, the dude that wrote that short story. He is legend.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 27, 2022 5:15:04 GMT -5
"North" was one that severely damaged Rob Reiner's directing career. Before North, he was on a hot streak with the likes of Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally and a Few Good Men. Then this happens and he never really came close to that ever again. We’re ignoring The American President and Ghosts of Mississippi? Now, if you argue The Story of Us, then we can talk. Although I quite like Flipped. We can argue The Hobbit trilogy has killed Peter Jackson as a director. Speed Racer probably killed the Wachowskis. The former is debatable as the three films were all commercial successes and were not critical failures in the way certain DC releases or even something like Rise of Skywalker were. Jackson himself has moved on to documentaries likely by choice, and gotten critical praise both for They Shall Not Grow Old and Get Back. The second especially was a major hit on Disney Plus and he's basically got carte blanche to whatever passion product he wants to do now.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 27, 2022 5:37:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I found the Hobbit trilogy bloated and often tedious, but if Peter Jackson wanted to make some mainstream films, he likely could pretty easily. He comes off more as just someone who had his fill.
Wachowski sisters are hard to really judge. Yeah, Speed Racer lost money, but they also kept getting big budgets thrown at them for things like Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending, and the new Matrix film, all of which also lost money, I believe, though the last one's difficult to gauge because of the pandemic and how I am not sure how they really take streaming into account. Maybe that met expectations.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 27, 2022 9:59:06 GMT -5
director/writer Willard Huyck didn't really do much after the failure of Howard The Duck, he didn't direct again and only really ended up writing a couple of TV movies and Radioland Murders, still I forgive him for this just for Lea Thompson in that movie
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Aug 27, 2022 11:23:48 GMT -5
We’re ignoring The American President and Ghosts of Mississippi? Now, if you argue The Story of Us, then we can talk. Although I quite like Flipped. We can argue The Hobbit trilogy has killed Peter Jackson as a director. Speed Racer probably killed the Wachowskis. The former is debatable as the three films were all commercial successes and were not critical failures in the way certain DC releases or even something like Rise of Skywalker were. Jackson himself has moved on to documentaries likely by choice, and gotten critical praise both for They Shall Not Grow Old and Get Back. The second especially was a major hit on Disney Plus and he's basically got carte blanche to whatever passion product he wants to do now. Speaking of "They Shall Not Grow Old" was fantastic.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 27, 2022 11:34:43 GMT -5
Halle Berry still hasn't recovered from Cat Woman. Despite only being in the movie for like 20 minutes, I'd say her appearance in Movie 43 was probably the most embarrassing/damaging thing she's been involved in I swear they must have kidnapped the family members of the cast and held them hostage in order to get so many A list actors to appear in THAT shit.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Aug 27, 2022 11:38:02 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. I enjoyed the hell out of it, LAH was too smart for its own good. The satire/meta commentary on the action movie genre wasn't appreciated by early 90s audiences. For a guy who is stereotyped as just a Dumb action movie star, Arnold has been in a lot of movies with ambitious/creative plots.
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