Since he’s one of the most nominated actors of his generation it may just be you have an unpopular opinion?
How about Taylor Kitsch? His filmography doesn’t seem to have any movies that stand out as good.
Yeah, he hasn’t made the best choices, has he? He was very good on television with Friday Night Lights, but his big movie break, John Carter, flopped big time.
Though I think Savages is an underrated film and he was good in that.
Come on! You didn’t find Soul Taker to be an absolute masterpiece?
Philistine.
Are you completely discounting the guy who starred in Glenn or Glenda??
I enjoyed Guns Akimbo.
I managed to see all three of the movies Kitsch made in 2012; Battleship, John Carter, and Savages.
I’ll agree Savages was the best of the three.
Looking up his filmography just now, I discovered for the first time that there was a Playmobil movie four years ago.
Well at least he makes interesting choices, and I appreciate that. Horns and Swiss Army Man may not have been rousing successes, but they had their charms.
Hey! Bela Lugosi made some great films!
Both Swiss Army Man and Kill Your Darlings are above 70% at Rotten Tomatoes. He seems to have taken his Harry Potter money and used it to be able to take some roles that had risk to them. I say good for him.
And by the way, while the Harry Potter movies aren’t great classics, I thought some were very good (like Prisoner of Azkaban)
It wouldn’t have if the Powers that Be at Disney hadn’t screwed it over big time. No tie-in toys or books, anemic promotion. The new guys had their big money-making franchise (Marvel) and didn’t want to support a project from the Old REgime.
Say what you will, John Carter was a helluva good movie. Kitsch did a great job, as did just about everyone in it. That it flopped was an intentional failure of Disnmey marketing.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is by far one of the best and funniest things to happen in movies in years. He’s great in it! The whole thing is great! Go watch it! Watch it now!
Yeah. Definitely a movie that could not get made today. The basketball scene was hilarious. And Rae Fong Wong was his love interest and I aleays had a crush on her.
I believe you mean Rae Dawn Chong.
If you’re including people who aren’t famous, when I was in college, I worked at a restaurant with a brother, and later his much-younger sister. I found out that the brother died a few years ago (from a rare autoimmune disease) and even though I DID NOT like his sister (and believe me, the feeling was mutual) out of curiosity, I Googled her to see whatever became of her.
At the time anyway, she lived in a large city that could be described as an entertainment hub, and her day job was doing some kind of work with children, teaching them stage and dramatic skills. (She wasn’t a schoolteacher, I do remember that.) On the side, she had an IMDB page where she had appeared in several lesbian-oriented romcoms, none of which I’d ever heard of and none of which had a rating over 4 or 5.
He had a small role as a tobacco industry lawyer in The Insider, of all things. He gives a great performance in that. So weird that Michael Mann picked him for that role. Mann also used martial artist Jerry Trimble in Heat. The only thing I knew Trimble from before that was The Master (aka Wong Fei Hung '92), a very early Jet Li movie shot in L.A. years before he became a star. Then Trimble amassed a ton of straight-to-video credits, as well as such middling fare as Mission: Impossible 3 and War of the Worlds.
Don Wilson had a small role in Say Anything (he’s the kickboxer who breaks Cusack’s nose when sparring) and is also namechecked early on in the film. That’s a classic. Rothrock’s case is harder to argue, even with a lot of her early Hong Kong flicks (particularly Prince of the Sun, a Golden Child knockoff in which she plays a Tibetan monk). But her debut film Yes, Madam, in which she stars alongside Michelle Yeoh in her debut feature, totally kicks ass. Millionaires’ Express is also terrific, and I quite like Righting Wrongs as well.
Back to the Beach is a great movie.
“Hey. Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey… HEY!”
Actually, Keach was very good in American History X as a white supremacist.