Hey! John Lithgow was nomiated for an Oscar for his portrayal of the transsexual Robert Muldoon in The World According to Garp. Fatal Attraction hasd vecome a classic, and the title entered our lexicon.
A mostly forgettable 2006 film called The Last Kiss includes riveting performances by Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner as a couple facing their crumbling marriage in quiet desperation. Unfortunately, they do so in the shadow of a cliched and predictable A-plot about Zach Braff in a love triangle. Blech.
Ghost had a fairly interesting screenplay, but was almost ruined by the abysmal leads. Whoopi Goldberg’s performance made the whole thing bearable.
Grumpy Old Men was an okay movie, but Burgess Meredith was hilarious!
I love the exchange between air-sickness sufferer Goldblum and his hasn’t-spoken-to-G-d-since-your-mother-died father Hirsch as the former is getting ready to go into space to save the world:
Hirsch [handing Goldblum two air-sick bags]: Just in case.
Goldblum [handing Hirsch a Torah and a yarmulke]: Just in case.
She was definitely the best thing in that movie.
Especially when she’s chanelling Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore leans in for a kiss - I leaned over to my friend and said "Look, Demi’s going to make Whoopi.
Still my worst pun by several orders of magnitude.
Christopher Walken in Balls of Fury. The movie as a whole was pretty terrible, but Walken was hilarious in it, and pretty much singlehandedly makes it worth watching.
We just saw it, and it was pretty awful, but Walken is his usual can’t-look-away oddball self in it. Certainly a highlight.
If I can have two, I thought John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi were both rather good admit the woeful pile of monkey feces that was Con Air. Malcovich because he seemed to me to be laughing at the whole movie.
The Boondock Saints is a terrible movie, but Willem Dafoe as the cross-dressing FBI agent is pretty entertaining.
I’m not sure what I think of the Harold & Kumar movies, but Neil Patrick Harris (as himself) sure steals the show.
Nick Cage deserves some credit for “Put the bunny back!”
Bill Murray in Meatballs.
Malkovich was probably also laughing at the fact he was getting a dump truck load of money to be in that piece of crap.
Agreed. When the internet rumor mongers started pushing him as the Penguin, that was the performance I flashed back to. I think he would’ve made a fine Nolanesque Penguin.
For a great example see the remake of the Stepford Wives. Close is the only good thing in the movie.
Chloe Moretz in Kick-Ass. Christopher Mintz-Plasse was pretty good too, but she carried that mediocre movie.
Levon Helm in Shooter. Only one short scene but it positively crackles.
Mark Wahlberg was okay but pretty much everyone else sucked. Danny Glover phoned in his entire villain performance and Michael Peña as a mumbling shuffling idiot is the least convincing FBI agent this side of Mary Gross and Rebecca De Mornay.
When I read the title this was the first movie that came to mind.
Nope, it was entirely forgettable even with him, because I can’t remember who the bad guy was.
Are you high?