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I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Tim Allen.
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I know you probably weren’t thinking of voice jobs, but there is Toy Story.
For live action, Galaxy Quest is actually very entertaining. The rest of it, yeah, not so good.
The earlier mention of Martin Henderson brings me to another Shortland Street {a long running New Zealand hospital soap} alumnus, Temuera Morrison. The dude can actually act, as anyone who has seen Once Were Warriors can attest. But he really needs a better agent: Barb Wire, Speed 2, Six Days, Seven Nights, the Star Wars prequels… While not being a bad actor, you’re pretty much ensured that his name on the credits guarantees a piece of shit.
Well, Tim Allen was in Galaxy Quest… But perhaps it’s a singular bright spot in an otherwise dark career.
And I will admit to liking one movie with David Spade in it: The Emperor’s New Groove. At least he managed to play the main character without being the “main” character, if you get what I mean. It was the supporting cast that made that movie.
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Al Pacino
Ben Stiller
Will Farrell
Chris Elliott
The guy from SNL who starred in Tommyboy
Adam Sandler escapes list by a gnat’s eyelash
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Al Pacino? Seriously?
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I will grant you that he was unable to ruin “Heat,” “Serpico,” “Godfather” and “Dog Day Afternoon” for me, but Lord knows anyone else would have been as good or better.
But how about “And Justice for All” and “Sea of Love” which could have been good without his trademark “eating of the scenery?”
And then there is:
Gigli
Insomnia
Any Given Sunday
Scent of a Woman
Scarface
Cruising
City Hall
The Devil’s Advocate
Author! Author!
The guy is the biggest ham in all of moviedom. He sucks.
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Wow, am I the first one to step up and say Jean-Claude Van Damme? I don’t think even Seagal can touch The Muscles From Brussels’s body of work.
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Dead Badger, post 22. Or who do you think JCvD meant?
May I add Lundgren? I’ve seen Stallone (what was that movie where the whole ad campaign was based on “you’ll see Stallone’s butt!”?), but I don’t think I saw blondie.
Unisol is nice as soft porn, but really, shutting off the soundtrack and putting in some extremely loud metal raises its rating by about 4 stars.
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I’ll admit, after First Blood I’m not aware of a single Stallone credit which is a good movie (I genuinely enjoyed First Blood.) However, Rocky did win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976 and in many ways the film was Stallone’s brainchild (he wrote the screenplay) and his performance in it was widely praised at the time.
It was a pretty remarkable picture considering it wasn’t hyped at all and initially wasn’t given a wide release, it had a budget of $1.2m and made over $100m.
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If you liked “First Blood” you have got to love “Cop Land” and “Get Carter.” Did you see them? He was really acting.
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If you liked “First Blood” you have got to love “Cop Land” and “Get Carter.” Did you see them? He was really acting.
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Actually, I think that “Get Carter” sucked, but not because of Stallone. I thought that he was okay in the film, but some of the camera tricks the director employed were REALLY fucking annoying. So much so, that I couldn’t enjoy the film because of them.
My ex-husband’s first wife was once engaged to Craig Sheffer. Anything associated with my ex…even with 6 degrees of separation…has got to be absolute crap.
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I will grant you that he was unable to ruin “Heat,” “Serpico,” “Godfather” and “Dog Day Afternoon” for me, but Lord knows anyone else would have been as good or better.
But how about “And Justice for All” and “Sea of Love” which could have been good without his trademark “eating of the scenery?”
And then there is:
Gigli
Insomnia
Any Given Sunday
Scent of a Woman
Scarface
Cruising
City Hall
The Devil’s Advocate
Author! Author!
The guy is the biggest ham in all of moviedom. He sucks.
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And then there was Glen Garry Glen Ross. Plus I like Scarface, the Devils Advocate and Any Given Sunday. Obviously his presence does not guarantee suckiness. At least not compared to:
Robin Tunney (Supernova, Vertical Limit)
Chris O’Donnell (also Vertical Limit, Batman & Robin)
Kristina Loken (T-3, BloodRayne)
Ben Affleck (Gili, Forces of Nature, etc)