It’s been ages since I’ve seen the movie, but I only remember Batgirl fighting Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman). Ivy probably has a longer reach, but was pretty scrawny, so I don’t think BG is hopelessly outclassed.
Yeah, Alicia Silverstone’s menacing physique is not going to strike fear into the hearts of Gotham City’s underworld. But superhero movies tend to unravel if you ask too many of those sorts of questions, and this one in particular had much bigger problems.
Lili Taylor is not the star type at all. She’s had a successful career as a character actor and that’s pretty much what her potential always was.
I love Sci-Fi movies but I can’t bring myself to watch Fifth Element because I just can’t stand listening to his shrill and weird performance.
That is such a shame because I think it’s a superb movie except for when he is on the screen.
Most of my friends strongly disagree and they really like him.
So, it’s just my opinion, but I would consider it to be cruel and unusual punishment to be forced to watch that film while he is onscreen.
I think Alicia Silverstone looks a lot like Elizabeth Montgomery. Silverstone had a recurring part in Suburgatory on TV. I give it a 50/50 chance of being renewed.
Zellweger wasn’t in Dazed and Confused. The London twins, Joey Lauren Adams and some of the others you mentioned do seem to have disappeared shortly after that movie. And a lot of the rest of the cast did completely disappear. And they were main characters in the movie, like Mitch and Jodi Kramer. I guess it just had such a big cast there were bound to be great successes and epic failures in terms of their ongoing careers.
Hey! How can you forget the movie she was borderline naked in! Can’t remember the name but it was about bad guys that invented a gun that put people in a trance for several minutes.
Yes, she was.
Looker. Horny-inducing for teens like me (at the time).
It’s also entirely possible, and in some cases likely, that these people didn’t disappear. Many actors aren’t really interested in Hollywood stardom, and are perfectly happy to accept small roles in lesser-known vehicles, making a living rather than making millions. They’re working actors.
There are always a few people who are interested only in doing the work that interests them, whether it’s low-profile productions or live theater or whatever, but to get anywhere as an actor you generally have to be extremely driven just to preserve any kind of sanity. The entertainment industry is a moment-by-moment series of rejections and to tolerate that you have to have an extraordinary drive and sense of purpose. The idea that the majority of these people are simply choosing not to become millions when they could have doesn’t seem quite plausible to me.
I haven’t seen Joe Pesci in quite a while…
Ok, upon further review, Zellweger had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Dazed and Confused that I either forgot or never noticed. That said, if she had dropped off the planet after that movie she probably wouldn’t appear in this threat as, “hey, whatever happened to that smushy-faced blonde that had no lines from Dazed and Confused?”
Oh, I agree. Just nitpicking.
Leather or not, she can take on my henchman. (Sorry, such a guy thing to say.)
But even as a character actress, she really dropped off the radar (especially when you consider that in the late 90s, expectations were still quite high for her).
Still, you are right about Taylor not having the right “look” to be a starring actress like her former Mystic Pizza co-star Julia Roberts. She might’ve had a chance if she had come along during the 60s and 70s when “off-beat” looking actors and actresses could become stars.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying she’s ugly and I’ve got no room to call her a fatty. It’s just that the photo you linked to isn’t all that flattering. It makes her look rather dumpy. Like an overstuffed sausage.
That is a much more flattering photo than the one linked to by Evil Captor.
What picture are you guys talking about?
My candidate was going to be Michael Parks, a gorgeous hunk’a man who starred in a short-lived series in the 60’s called Then Came Bronson. He hasn’t starred in anything since but he’s worked steadily.
But I had him confused with Christopher Jones, a James Dean look-alike who starred in Wild in the Streets but not much else. His Wiki entry details a very troubled man whose biography would probably be a good read, if Jones has enough brain cells left to write it.
But here’s something I found while looking for info on Parks and Jones – Jim Jarmusch is doing a vampire film called Only Lovers Left Alive. I found that because I was looking for the novel of the same name, which I thought Wild in the Streets was based on. It was a hell of a book, and is out of print and pricey.
So there ya go. A Jarmusch vampire film is coming. And if you see a copy of Lovers for cheap in a secondhand bookstore, buy it. Dealers are asking $50 and up for the damn thing. And it’s a good read.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness.
Does anyone remember the young Michael Parks? Christopher Jones? You’d have to be kinda old.
Quentin Tarantino remembers Michael Parks. Judging from his presence in QT’s last few movies, he’s become one of his stock players.
Jones I only know from articles I’ve read about how badly he screwed up what looked to be a promising career. In particular, his miscasting in Ryan’s Daughter and the fights he had with its director David Lean during its production pretty much made him persona non grata in Hollywood.
Incidentally, Tarantino also remembered Christopher Jones and supposedly (I think) offered him the role of Zed in Pulp Fiction.
Oh, I love her. She also had a supporting role on that (now cancelled) sci-fi time travelly show on ABC, FlashForward.
