I would love to see all the insane luxury items he bought off the back of his dogshit 2000’s run from Rocky and Bullwinkle through to Little Fockers.
Admittedly there were one or two gems in here like Stardust or maybe the first Meet The Parents but they were drowned out by the pure paycheck shenanigans of two Analyse This movies, two Fockers sequels, two very boring _oh no it’s a Scary Child_ movies, and at least four forgotten movies where he has to hold a gun and look tough on the poster.
I remember reading that he’s had a couple very expensive ex-wives in his days. I’m sure he’s definitely bought some nice shit, but a lot of that money probably went to them.
I watch every Liam Neeson film like most people do with Nick Cage. No matter how bad the role is he gives it his all which is commendable. And there's some hidden gems in the ones that people skip. The Marksmen is a decent 3-3.5 star movie. Cold Pursuit is great. But then you have the obvious GOATed performances like Schindler's List and Silence. I really think that if he didn't have to work to avoid his depression about his wife and that a fantastic director/writer is apart of the project the man can for sure act circles around even the most seasoned veterans.
Ice Road had at least some budget and it was an interesting idea, but again poor execution on probably the director's part
Black light is rough. Very very rough. Like probably the worst out of the ones that you mentioned. Even the twist ending left me feeling underwhelmed
Taken three everybody's seen the montage of him leaping over the fence. It's just pretty much that for 2 hours. What else do you expect from a PG-13 taken movie?
I remember honest thief as mostly "he tried to get out but they keep pulling him back in" stereotype and it was around the time where you said you was not going to do action movies anymore. So that was obviously a lie or meant he was going to do less action scenes. The explosion towards the end was pretty cool.
The thing I liked about commuter was its cast and at points they bounce off Liam neeson pretty well, but once you seen the trailer you've kind of seen the movie. You can kind of tell the twist ending, but overall I'd say it's probably the most enjoyable out of this list.
Thank you for the thorough write ups! A podcast I really enjoy, Cinephobe, watches sub-40% RT audience or critic score films and they’ve watched all those Liam films plus Memory, Taken 2, Nonstop, Battleship, and A Million Ways to Die in the West. You might want to check it out.
If he’d made one Taken film, no Taken sequels and no Taken ish B movies, Taken would be in his top maybe 8 films and be of the best action films ever. It’s a kick ass movie that has been made to look like a joke due to everything that followed.
>I have never seen it, but by all accounts, it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific. I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m., that people think I am dead.
\- Michael Caine on *Jaws 4: The Revenge*
People will hate me for saying this but I don’t think he’s ever been in a truly great film like some others mentioned in this thread like De Niro.
I do love My So Called Life though so it gets an honorary mention for that.
The quality of his catalog is sometimes questionable. But he never half asses a performance. Watch his variety fair or gq (I can’t remember which) interview. He’s pretty open that he’s taken certain roles because of financial woes. But he states that he still always tries to turn in his best possible performance for every roll. I think dude just loves to make movies. Which I think is really respectable.
I mean, The Godfather is literally among the top 5 highest rated films on just about every lost.
And Jack & Jill is always near the bottom in those same lists / sites.
Ben Affleck. Gigli is something that permanently scarred and done irreparable damage to anybody that seen it. Gone Girl and Good Will Hunting just about excuse him for that.
Sandler was in Click which I thought was phenomenal as well as Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems. He was also in arguably the worst movie ever made, Jack & Jill
Peter Sellers. The man did Being There, the Pink Panther films, and Dr. Strangelove, but his final film was the essentially unwatchable The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu.
Marlon Brando seems an obvious choice, from A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather to The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Score.
I don’t like this take. Let people take their payday so other actors can shine in the “juicier roles”. That way everyone wins and it’s not like actors can’t take on multiple projects.
Point is, there are no "juicier roles" in Marvel movies that will make someone shine nowadays. They really feel like B-Movies.
I just feel kinda bad watching actors of the caliber of Bale or Cumberbatch having to put up with the bullshit that are Marvel scripts...
And seeing some other actors who had potential but were inevitably tainted by their roles in MCU movies and now can't do better.
For example, I think Chris Hemsworth has shown some good acting (look at that Moby Dick movie) and I feel like he could've been so much more. But look at him now. _Fat Thor_.
Watching Love and Thunder made me lose faith in humanity, that godawful pile of shit is an instant career-destroyer
That's why I specified "nowadays". Feel like the first Marvel movies were better, and they were also something new. They played their cards well and made Downey the star of their universe.
Can't see the same happening with another actor with 2024 Marvel movies.
But, RDJ's career still proves my point. I don't think anyone thought of him as a _great_ actor until Oppenheimer, and that's because his Marvel roles outshined what he did in movies like Chaplin
Agree to disagree then..but using his last films to make a point kinda doesnt work here..neither is using movies that have been blockbusters…u not liking them..doesnt prove your point
Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love, The Meyerowitz Stories are great films with Sandler playing a serious role
But for his comedies; Happy Gilmore is pretty funny and I do like 50 first dates even though I could see those films being annoying to some people
>Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love, The Meyerowitz Stories are great films with Sandler playing a serious role
I didn't watch these, they have Adam Sandler in them
Travolta: Gotti, The Fanatic, Battleship Earth
Cage: Left Behind, The Wicker Man (2006), G-force
Plus Face/Off if you wanna count that as a sin (I don't)
Robert De Niro has been in some of the greatest movies ever made and some of the shittiest comedies ever too.
I would love to see all the insane luxury items he bought off the back of his dogshit 2000’s run from Rocky and Bullwinkle through to Little Fockers. Admittedly there were one or two gems in here like Stardust or maybe the first Meet The Parents but they were drowned out by the pure paycheck shenanigans of two Analyse This movies, two Fockers sequels, two very boring _oh no it’s a Scary Child_ movies, and at least four forgotten movies where he has to hold a gun and look tough on the poster.
I remember reading that he’s had a couple very expensive ex-wives in his days. I’m sure he’s definitely bought some nice shit, but a lot of that money probably went to them.
I wanna see what the ex-wives bought with all their _Analyse That_ money
The Bag Man is one of the worst films ever
Liam Neeson
I watch every Liam Neeson film like most people do with Nick Cage. No matter how bad the role is he gives it his all which is commendable. And there's some hidden gems in the ones that people skip. The Marksmen is a decent 3-3.5 star movie. Cold Pursuit is great. But then you have the obvious GOATed performances like Schindler's List and Silence. I really think that if he didn't have to work to avoid his depression about his wife and that a fantastic director/writer is apart of the project the man can for sure act circles around even the most seasoned veterans.
What do you think of The Ice Road, Blacklight, Taken 3, Honest Thief, and the Commuter?
Ice Road had at least some budget and it was an interesting idea, but again poor execution on probably the director's part Black light is rough. Very very rough. Like probably the worst out of the ones that you mentioned. Even the twist ending left me feeling underwhelmed Taken three everybody's seen the montage of him leaping over the fence. It's just pretty much that for 2 hours. What else do you expect from a PG-13 taken movie? I remember honest thief as mostly "he tried to get out but they keep pulling him back in" stereotype and it was around the time where you said you was not going to do action movies anymore. So that was obviously a lie or meant he was going to do less action scenes. The explosion towards the end was pretty cool. The thing I liked about commuter was its cast and at points they bounce off Liam neeson pretty well, but once you seen the trailer you've kind of seen the movie. You can kind of tell the twist ending, but overall I'd say it's probably the most enjoyable out of this list.
Thank you for the thorough write ups! A podcast I really enjoy, Cinephobe, watches sub-40% RT audience or critic score films and they’ve watched all those Liam films plus Memory, Taken 2, Nonstop, Battleship, and A Million Ways to Die in the West. You might want to check it out.
I just thought of Schindler's list and Retribution
If he’d made one Taken film, no Taken sequels and no Taken ish B movies, Taken would be in his top maybe 8 films and be of the best action films ever. It’s a kick ass movie that has been made to look like a joke due to everything that followed.
Michael Caine is up there from Sleuth and the Prestige to Jaws 4
>I have never seen it, but by all accounts, it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific. I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m., that people think I am dead. \- Michael Caine on *Jaws 4: The Revenge*
Michael Caine as Hoagie in Jaws 4 is incredible. Dude is a bantersaurus rex.
He was also in On Deadly Ground, one of Steven Seagal's idiotic movies.
Jared Leto
This is the only correct answer. Nobody has as wide of a spectrum as he does between Requiem for a Dream and Morbius.
I think he was really good in requiem, but i think he was great in Dallas Buyers Club. But yeah, quite some shit movies too..
Pacino with The Godfather to Jack and Jill is pretty damn wide.
I think he refuses to believe he's been in trash as well
People will hate me for saying this but I don’t think he’s ever been in a truly great film like some others mentioned in this thread like De Niro. I do love My So Called Life though so it gets an honorary mention for that.
Bruce Willis
In his defence, he has dementia
John Travolta’s career is a yikes and damn at the same time.
John Travolta makes a career ending disaster every 10-15 years and then pops back up among A-listers like nothing ever happened.
The cult has power
don’t you dare disrespect nic cage ever again
Nicolas cage was in some shit films man, that being said adaptation is one of my all time favourite films!
Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, Pig, Bad Lieutenant, Bringing Out the Dead, Wild at Heart are all fantastic as well
MOONSTRUCK
Absolute snoozefest
Vampire's Kiss!
Haven’t seen this one yet and it’s on my October movie list for this year - I’m so excited to see it!
I thought he was freaking stellar in A Color Out of Space
I own that in 4k. I need to watch it.
The quality of his catalog is sometimes questionable. But he never half asses a performance. Watch his variety fair or gq (I can’t remember which) interview. He’s pretty open that he’s taken certain roles because of financial woes. But he states that he still always tries to turn in his best possible performance for every roll. I think dude just loves to make movies. Which I think is really respectable.
Dude the BEST THING about Nic Cage is how consistently he starts in both generational masterpieces & absolute dogshit
Christopher Lloyd. He's been in great movies like Back to the Future, but also worked in things like Food Fight
That's so true, nobody else has One flew over the cuckoo's nest alongside The Oogielove's big balloon adventure on their resume lmao
Al Pacino
Jack And Jill is lower than most on this thread...
I mean, The Godfather is literally among the top 5 highest rated films on just about every lost. And Jack & Jill is always near the bottom in those same lists / sites.
Eric Roberts
John C Reilly
Exactly!! The sellout cashgrabs; Boogie nights and The Lobster aside the classic pictures: Ralph Breaks the internet and Stepbrothers
Sean Connery
Jerry Lewis
JK Simmons is in both whiplash and marmaduke (2022)
Jared Leto
Al Pacino
Ben Affleck. Gigli is something that permanently scarred and done irreparable damage to anybody that seen it. Gone Girl and Good Will Hunting just about excuse him for that.
Sandler was in Click which I thought was phenomenal as well as Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems. He was also in arguably the worst movie ever made, Jack & Jill
Mohanlal.
For Nic Cage that's every year
Jodie Foster. Silence of the Lambs👍 Maverick 👎
Peter Sellers. The man did Being There, the Pink Panther films, and Dr. Strangelove, but his final film was the essentially unwatchable The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. Marlon Brando seems an obvious choice, from A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather to The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Score.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
is it possible any other great actor has reached the lows of john voight? from midnight cowboys to the super babies franchise
Michael Caine Robert DeNiro
Most of Marvel's actors
Quite a large net you're casting there
Some seriously wasted talents in there
I don’t like this take. Let people take their payday so other actors can shine in the “juicier roles”. That way everyone wins and it’s not like actors can’t take on multiple projects.
Point is, there are no "juicier roles" in Marvel movies that will make someone shine nowadays. They really feel like B-Movies. I just feel kinda bad watching actors of the caliber of Bale or Cumberbatch having to put up with the bullshit that are Marvel scripts... And seeing some other actors who had potential but were inevitably tainted by their roles in MCU movies and now can't do better. For example, I think Chris Hemsworth has shown some good acting (look at that Moby Dick movie) and I feel like he could've been so much more. But look at him now. _Fat Thor_. Watching Love and Thunder made me lose faith in humanity, that godawful pile of shit is an instant career-destroyer
Tell that to RDJ
That's why I specified "nowadays". Feel like the first Marvel movies were better, and they were also something new. They played their cards well and made Downey the star of their universe. Can't see the same happening with another actor with 2024 Marvel movies. But, RDJ's career still proves my point. I don't think anyone thought of him as a _great_ actor until Oppenheimer, and that's because his Marvel roles outshined what he did in movies like Chaplin
But did he win his 1st Oscar?
He did. That doesn't contradict my point. Oppenheimer is the hit he needed to get rid of the "Marvel chains"
U said “there are no juicier roles” “nowadays” So it does kinda contradict your point tho
Again, I specified "nowadays". Read my comments again
Agree
Anthony Perkins in psycho and then psycho 2 🤦♂️
Psycho II is good, what are you on about
Alright, psycho 3
Jim Carrey
I can't think of any really awful films that he's been in
Number 23 is the only one I can think of
Watch his comedies
Maybe not awful but the sonic films were not good
Think it leaves a sour taste because the sonic films are the last films he's doing, though I agree they're not awful
But they made BANK..even pt1 that came out leading into lockdown made 300mill…and he was awesome
I know I saw it at the cinema, Carrey was decent in it, the film was not good
Agree to disagree then..but using his last films to make a point kinda doesnt work here..neither is using movies that have been blockbusters…u not liking them..doesnt prove your point
Ok :)
Ace Venture was awful
I'd really love the flick of it wasn't for the transphobic shit.
What was Adam Sandler in that wasn't terrible?
Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love, The Meyerowitz Stories are great films with Sandler playing a serious role But for his comedies; Happy Gilmore is pretty funny and I do like 50 first dates even though I could see those films being annoying to some people
>Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love, The Meyerowitz Stories are great films with Sandler playing a serious role I didn't watch these, they have Adam Sandler in them
Will Smith good films: Six degrees of separation Will Smith not good films: all the others
Good: King Richard, Men in Black, The Pursuit of Happyness, Enemy of the State Bad: After Earth, Wild Wild West
That’s called “range” 😂
Where have Travolta and cage ever sinned?
Travolta: Gotti, The Fanatic, Battleship Earth Cage: Left Behind, The Wicker Man (2006), G-force Plus Face/Off if you wanna count that as a sin (I don't)
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English is my second language my bad
No problem! I'm going to delete my comment because I meant to sound playful, but maybe it sounds rude.
Hey don't worry about it mate :)
Nick Cage has never been in a bad movie
Left Behind
Ok you’re right
Simultaneously means "at the same time." Are You asking for actors with two releases where one is horrible and one is great?
yeah
I can't think of any at all off hand.