Fortunately, The Last King of Scotland may finally net him the Oscar he deserves. 
Clive Owen and Ioan Gruffudd had absolutely no business whatsoever being in King Arthur. Even Keira Knightley didn’t deserve that.
It seems Ray Milland (Oscar Winner for “the Lost Weekend”) seemed to do sleazier movies the longer he stayed in the business.
He did “X- The Man With the X-Ray Eyes” in the 1960’s. It was a pretty good movie considering its strange premise.
In the early 1970’s he appeared in “Frogs” - pretty bad.
Also in the early 1970’s he did “The Amazing 2-Headed Transplant” - indescribably bad. (Makes “Plan 9” look like “Citizen Kane”).
I am sorry for the previous posting. :smack:
Ray Milland was not in “The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant”.
(Yeah I also got the title wrong in my previous posting).
Ray Milland was in “The Thing With Two Heads”
If you click on either of those links you will see that the IMDB has a DVD Box with both of those movies in the same box!!! 
No doubt that was done to prevent angry customers from saying - “NO- I wanted the *other * early 1970’s 2-headed transplant movie !!!”
Heck, even I made that mistake.
Jeff Bridges in Stick It. I mean, I guess it’s not a terrible movie if you’re a 14 year old girl. But I’m neither.
Could it have been worse than his starring role as Fearless Frank?
Aaron Echhart is a fine actor. I feel sorry he wound up in The Black Dahlia.
Man, that film sucked.
I’m sure after The Core, it looked like a Shakespeare film to him.
Me too. And I’m always thinking “Dude, get a better agent! I know you’ve got kids to feed and all, but you’re scorching hot and you can actually act, you deserve better than this crap. Why on earth didn’t you call CAA *immediately * upon release of LOTR, fer chrissakes?”
Oh well. If you’re ever in Boston, look me up and we’ll have a Sean Bean movie night. With booze, since that’s the only way to endure most of them.
Sean Connery (1 oscar win), Ralph Fiennes (2 nominations) and Uma Thurman (1 nomination) couldn’t save The Avengers from being a giant steaming pile.
You mean, because Jodi Foster is a lesbian? She’s an actress. In this particular case, the movie was bad but I’m still not sure if it was because the actual movie was bad or because the two lead actors lacked chemistry (for whatever reason).
Pundit Lisa
I’d have to disagree. I think an actor’s personal life has everything to do with their onscreen portrayals. That’s why John Wayne is so convincing in “the Sands of Iwo Jima” and in the myriad of war films in which he appeared.
I remember people talking about Anne Heche’s unconvincing performance with Harrison Ford in “Six Days and Seven Nights” due to Anne’s sexual orientation. Harrison Ford (as we all know) besides being a heterosexual does have a PhD in archeology and is an accomplished space ship pilot.
And of course Don Ameche invented the telephone.
(The above posting was 100% facetious and basically I totally agree with your posting Pundit Lisa)
Peter O’Toole, John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, and Malcolm MacDowell all were in Caligula.
Although none of them are in Deniro’s or Olivier’s class, it was still a pretty talented ensemble appearing in the inexcreable North. A partial list includes:
Alan Arkin (2 Oscar and 4 Emmy nominations)
Kathy Bates (3 Oscar nominations with 1 win, 6 Emmy nominations, and 6 Golden Globe nominations with 2 wins)
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (3 Oscar nominations with 1 win, 8 Emmy nominations with 2 wins, and 3 Golden Globe nominations with 1 win)
Dan Aykroyd (1 Oscar nomination, 3 Emmy nominations with 1 win)
Graham Greene (1 Oscar nomination)
Bruce WIllis (3 Emmy nominations with 2 wins)
I doubt that they all needed the bucks. No, I think they appeared in it because they had (way too much) faith in the Director, Rob Reiner. So there’s yet another reason why "good actors (appear in) bad movies.
Bad movies? Heck, every actor has made bad flicks. Good actors show up in MST3K offerings.
You want bad movies with lots of good actors? Try The Swarm The Swarm (1978) - IMDb There’s Michael Caine again, and Olivia de Havilland and Henry Fonda and — it’s too painful to recite.
Or The Story of MankindRonald Colman, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Agnes Moorehead, Dennis Hopper (!), and all three Marx Brothers!
Or one I just watched – Starcrash, with Christopher Plummer (and with John Barry doing the music!). You expect Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, and David Hasselhoff in something like this, but Christopher Plummer? This is what he gets for calling The Sound of Music “The Sound of Mucous”
Actors have to eat too, and not every project is going to be a winner. Show business stardom is a fickle business. If a you’re “name” actor you’d better make hay while the sun shines.
Good point. I think the same can be said for M Night Shyamalan’s movies. After The Sixth Sense became such a huge hit, I’m sure many actors were dying to work with him, and he’s been living off that credit ever since. For example, The Village had William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson, Joaquin Phoenix, and Adrian Brody. That’s a pretty good cast for a pretty bad movie.
She won an Oscar?? You’ve got to be kidding me. The only movie I can even think of she was in was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. What’d she win for?
Oops. That’s what I get for using a “template” (of the previous actor’s awards). You are absolutely correct, of course.
To be clear, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss has
- 8 Emmy nominations with 2 wins
- 3 Golden Globe nominations with 1 win
- nothing to do with Oscars
Part of me just died.
I remember when** Clash of the Titans** came out and hearing my mom refer to Lawrence “Anything For A Buck” Olivier.
Saw Steve McQueen in his starring debut in *The Blob * last night.