Movie Marathon (Part 3)

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LOL, I was just about to follow Audrey Hepburn with Audrey Tatou in Amelie

Following up on the “upstaged” category

Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves

I just watched a clip of the film, and he’s comically wooden, especially compared to Alan Rickman’s energetic performance.

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash

Miles Teller is OK in his role as the young drummer who wants to learn under Simmons and even looks good in scenes drumming but he’s no match for Simmons.

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)

Even though he was the center of the movie, the rest of the cast outshined his performance.

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride

(I would have suggested Hamill in Star Wars, but @knoodler beat me to it. :slight_smile: )

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element

He was good! But Chris Tucker, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich stole the show.

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  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
    Sam Neill actually has top billing, but they are 2 & 3, and Neill isn’t any better, while Trevor Morgan, a rare watchable child actor, carries a lot of the movie, and the other secondary characters are much more vibrant and developed than the top three.
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  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. JK Simmons, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
  7. Lucille Ball, Mame
    She can’t sing, and her acting is all wrong for the tenor of the story. The child playing young Patrick outshines her by miles, and Bea Arthur reprises her stage role beautifully. What is worse is that the Broadway actress who is dumped for the movie and replaced by the more bankable Ball was Angela Lansbury.
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  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. Miles Teller, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
  7. Lucille Ball, Mame
    She can’t sing, and her acting is all wrong for the tenor of the story. The child playing young Patrick outshines her by miles, and Bea Arthur reprises her stage role beautifully. What is worse is that the Broadway actress who is dumped for the movie and replaced by the more bankable Ball was Angela Lansbury.

Corrected my entry at #2.

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. Miles Teller, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
  7. Lucille Ball, Mame
  8. Mark Wahlberg, Planet of the Apes (2001)

Upstaged by other actors with heavy prosthetics like Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Paul Giamatti and Michael Clarke Duncan

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. Miles Teller, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
  7. Lucille Ball, Mame
  8. Mark Wahlberg, Planet of the Apes (2001)
  9. Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

He was good, but all these years later, Wes Studi as the villainous Magua is who I remember distinctly. Brrr.

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Leads who (in your opinion) aren’t as good as supporting cast members (actor repeats allowed)

  1. Kevin Costner, Prince of Thieves
  2. Miles Teller, Whiplash
  3. Mark Hamill, Star Wars (“A New Hope”)
  4. Robin Wright, The Princess Bride
  5. Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element
  6. William H. Macy & Tea Leoni, Jurassic Park III
  7. Lucille Ball, Mame
  8. Mark Wahlberg, Planet of the Apes (2001)
  9. Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
  10. Robert DeNiro, Casino

Joe Pesci’s character was so over the top violent that I feel he outshone DeNiro, just like in Goodfellas.

pass

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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine

@knoodler Are “of” and “a/an” counted?

And great list of responses to the Leads who were out-acted category above; I didn’t expect actors like Robert De Niro or Daniel Day-Lewis there, but I can see why.

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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut

Not gonna say it’s my favorite of Kubrick’s, or his most artistically successful, but arguably his most interesting film.

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Not counted; conjunctive words are allowed.

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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street
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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street
  5. Yours, Mine, and Ours
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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street
  5. Yours, Mine, and Ours
  6. Fried Green Tomatoes
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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street
  5. Yours, Mine, and Ours
  6. Fried Green Tomatoes
  7. Addams Family Values
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3-word movie titles (“the”, “and”, not counted)

  1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  2. Little Miss Sunshine
  3. Eyes Wide Shut
  4. The Wolf of Wall Street
  5. Yours, Mine, and Ours
  6. Fried Green Tomatoes
  7. Addams Family Values
  8. James and the Giant Peach