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One of the classic bad movies with great casts is The Madwoman of Chaillot. Cast included Katherine Hepburn, Danny Kaye, Paul Heinreid, Yul Brenner, Oscar Holmuka, Richard Chamberlain, Donald Pleasance, Dame Edith Evans, Guilietta Massena, Charles Boyer, and John Gavin.
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In October 1980, my freshman year, I was the Baron in the college production. We all loved the play & thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Spring 1981, the movie was all TV so we all had a party to watch it… and were appalled how bad it was.
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…Orlando Bloom in ‘Troy’. Although i’m not an Orlando fan, i can’t understand why he signed up for a part which made him look like such a pussy. “Come with me, i know a safe place.” - Yeah, of course you do, you big girl!
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Let’s not forget that Peter O’Toole played King Priam in that same mess. (At least Young Orlando got to put Brad Pitt out of his misery.) O’Toole also has a role in the as yet unreleased Thomas Kinkade’s Home For Christmas.
My Favorite Year was on TCM last weekend. “'With Swann, you forgive a lot, you know?”
Donald Sutherland, like Donald Pleasance, Laurence Olivier (at the end of his life), John Carradine, Michael Caine, and others, apparently never saw a film script he didn’t mind appearing in. So he’s been in a lot of excellent films, and a lot of mediocre films, and some appallingly bad ones. There’s no other way to explain Gas or The Trouble with Spies (both of which I got talked into seeing because they had Donald Sutherland in them)
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Jeremy Irons isn’t just in Dungeons and Dragons and Eragon, but also The Time Machine.
From watching him in Dungeons and Dragons, personally I think he accepts stupid movies every once in a while just so he can get out and really chew some scenery. In D&D he really looks like he’s having a good time, totally knowing that the movie and his part was total cheeseball. Personally, I thought watching his sheer glee rather made up for the movie–though admittedly not enough that I have any desire to watch it again, or ever watch Eragon.
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I recall reading an interview where he said he’d done Eragon and* D&D* because his son was a fan and thought it would be cool.
Well, what about someone who’s near total body of works was in the cheese section of the movies? But who was still a good technical actor, and in the words of one reviewer, “Was often the best of many a bad movie.”
I’m talking John Candy. He made some movies that I think one could call good, but most of the films he was in were doog. Still fun to watch, but guilty pleasures all along.
Charles Bronson in the “Death Wish” series. I know, Bronson wasn’t anybody’s idea of a great actor. But “Mr. Majestic,” “St. Ives” and “Once Upon A Time In The West” were good movies worthy of his tough guy posturing.
Oh, it goes WAYYYY beyond “Good Actor in Bad Movie”.
De Niro was the Producer of that film. In other words, he’s responsible for the thing even existing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131704/fullcredits#cast
While I think that de Niro had excellent taste in reviving a classic show (and while I would’ve cast him as Fearless Leader – heck, he looks more like the Pottsylvanian leader than any other actor I could name), it wasn’t well done, overall. If they’d lived up to the show, I would’ve applauded it.
Jack Black, Nicole Kidman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in the unwatchable Margot at the Wedding. Great cast–completely wasted. I should have known better, since I hated the director’s earlier work, The Squid and the Whale ,too.
Every single thing Dustin Hoffman has done in the last twenty years, and a lot of the things before that too. Take away the high points and his career is a series of suck.
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I despair when I see an actor of Vincent D’Onofrio’s calibre squandering his talents doing a third-rate Columbo impersonation on Criminal Intent
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Especially when he can be an intergalactic cockroach.
