Hey, xxxxxxxxxx is in it - so it must be OK!

Quite right. Nor** Jurassic Park II ** or any numbered Omens.

Rocky and Bullwinkle?

Uh, Hepburn was still a star even when she died. No, she hadn’t been in any major movies, but she was more than that-she was a legend. Just because her last movie wasn’t the next Breakfast at Tiffanys ddidn’t make her a has-been.

Tilda Swinton. For example, I cannot in good conscience recommend Teknolust, but hey, Tilda Swinton’s in it. Also don’t you wish there was more of her in Constantine?

Rocky and Bullwinkle had an intelligent, ironic charm that I didn’t expect it to pull off.

It was better than Backdraft. (How’s that for “damning with faint praise”?)

I agree. However she was in Blade Trinity but I don’t really mind. I actually was fairly amused by it. Another character called her a “cock juggling thundercunt” and that has stuck with me ever since. I forgive her bad movies because she is definately hot to trot.

How about George Clooney? Intolerable Cruelty wasn’t the greatest, but it’s not a real turd either. He doesn’t have the really long film career of most of these people, though, so that works to his advantage.

Just don’t even TRY to try this with Donald. For an actor, the guy works like a musician. “Yeah, I’m free. What’s it pay?..Yeah, I’ll take it.”

I bought and enjoyed the DVD just yesterday, and I’m reminded of another actor who I can trust - Catherine Keener.

The crappiness, mostly.

As an acquaintance of mine said, “Wait until this movie comes out on video… then go rent something else.”

I always like seeing Michael Caine. The movie can be utter crap but he’s always good. I once saw him in an interview where the question was “how do you choose your roles?” and he said “oh, I just do anything I’m offered. I’ve done some movies that I knew perfectly well were going to be extremely bad, others which I though would be bad but in the end they weren’t. I’ve learned something from each of my jobs.”

Denzel Washington, Tommy Lee Jones, John Cusack, Joan Cusack. John Cusack has no problems naming the movies he did for food - but I always like his work.

Given that there is NO movie, no matter how lauded by critics and the general population, that won’t be considered a “stinker” by at least some people, I nominate:

David Straithairn
Chris Cooper
Ian Holm
Cate Blanchett
Katherine Hepburn (you didn’t say it had to be living actors . . . )

William Hurt…

Each to their own I guess. I enjoyed the reverse B movie feel to it (ie. you could tell they spent a pile of money making it look like crap).

To answer the OP, I’m sure there are bad movies in there, but it seems that Sean Penn has ran up quit a filmography in the last decade or two. I’m not much of a fan though for some reason.

My post about Audrey Hepburn and Dustin Hoffman seems to have started a few ripples. I think the film on the marquee was Robin and Marian, which I would recommend to anyone, and which was very late in Audrey’s career. Now, was the story from Hoffman, or was it from Dreyfuss? I wouldn’t bet my dog on it either way. If I’m wrong, I apologize.

If I had known, long ago, that I’d have to document the things I said, I would have saved all the magazines I ever read, and videotaped everything I ever saw. If I had done that, my wife of 27 years would surely have left me long ago, and I would be known as the city’s crazy man (more than I am now.) :wink:

Tom Hanks
Liam Neeson

AskNott writes:

> I wouldn’t bet my dog on it either way.

I would. It was Dreyfuss. I don’t have to save magazines. (I’ve already got an apartment stuffed with books, so there’s room for saving magazines.) I remember the question, the interview, the magazine, and some of the other articles in the magazine quite clearly.

Of course, I don’t own a dog, so I don’t care if I lose my nonexistent dog in a bet.

Although Mission to Mars was a hiccup in his career, Gary Sinise was a force that beckoned me to the theater. Then he was in The Forgotten.

Speaking of which, Julianne Moore is on Hiccup Status for The Forgotten. Likewise, both Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard are on Hiccup Status for Flightplan. I’ll go see pretty much any movie with Moore, Foster and Sarsgaard, but they’re walking on thin ice.

This makes me think of back in the 80s when Dan Aykroyd was making films like “My Stepmother is an Alien”. Spy Magazine included him in a “Separated at Birth?” book, and listed his occupation as “Indiscriminate Script Approver”.

He was also in the classic '80s crapfest, Red Dawn, giving perhaps the worst performance of his career, screaming through a chain-link fence, “Avenge me!”