#4328847 - 01/16/17 01:24 PM
Re: The absolute worst
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Talking about good actors in bad movies... I think Ben Kingsley has some sort of uncanny instinct to pick a movie stinker to be in.
I mean, after Gandhi, I do not recall seeing him in anything I particularly liked....maybe except on House of Sand and Fog...and that will be cutting it very close... but at least that had Jennifer Connelly in it.
EDIT: I liked him on Schindler's List too.
Even talented, long established actors have bills to pay but I get what you mean. Some excellent examples of obvious paydays and nothing else, 1. Robert DeNiro - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Movie 2. Michael Caine - Jaws 4. Caine has even acknowledged this in interviews. 3. Liam Neeson - The Phantom Menace 4. Nicholas Cage - Too many to list. 5. John Voight - Baby Geniuses 2
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#4328884 - 01/16/17 05:10 PM
Re: The absolute worst
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Prometheus, and the upcoming "Prometheus 2: Alien Reboot-ation." (aka Alien: Covenant) I can't speak to the Prometheus 2 movie, but yeah, Prometheus was shockingly bad. I came away shaking my head, and wondering if Ridley Scott was ever even on the set and had just had his named added without seeing it.
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#4329078 - 01/17/17 02:49 PM
Re: The absolute worst
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I liked Ben Kingsley in Iron Man 3. I thought he played the dual aspects of his character very well.
I also liked him in another likely forgotten by now film, Sneakers. That film had an awesome cast and for a techno thriller has aged rather well, thanks to not really going into details about how the computer stuff worked. I think it was the first film I saw Donal Logue and Mary McDonnell in and the last I saw River Phoenix in.
Sneakers posed a lot of questions but didn't give all the answers and did just fine for it.
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#4329080 - 01/17/17 02:51 PM
Re: The absolute worst
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I also liked him in another likely forgotten by now film, Sneakers. That film had an awesome cast and for a techno thriller has aged rather well, thanks to not really going into details about how the computer stuff worked. I think it was the first film I saw Donal Logue and Mary McDonnell in and the last I saw River Phoenix in.
Sneakers posed a lot of questions but didn't give all the answers and did just fine for it.
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Definitely a cult classic in my book. I believe River Phoenix died a year after "Sneakers" came out. As for Mary McDonnell, the first thing I saw her in was "Dances With Wolves".
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#4329115 - 01/17/17 04:28 PM
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I've still never seen Dances with Wolves. But I saw Avatar, so I'm good.
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#4329131 - 01/17/17 05:33 PM
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Another vote for Highlander 2. 2012 doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet, but what an absolute load of ridiculous garbage that was! The stupidity just kept getting piled higher and higher.
I'm going to defend Chappie. While patchy at times it was kind of a surprising take on nature vs. nurture and robot sentience... I will concede, however, that there were some very unfortunate hairstyles going on there.
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#4329132 - 01/17/17 05:35 PM
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2012 doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet, but what an absolute load of ridiculous garbage that was! The stupidity just kept getting piled higher and higher.
That was very obviously just a paycheck gig for John Cusack.
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#4329373 - 01/18/17 02:46 PM
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I think Chappie's biggest weaknesses were the South African rappers (that girl with the awful voice!) and Sharlto Copley not being right for that role. His voice was too high and...I don't really know how to quantify it. For a comparison, look at how Alan Tudyk played both Sonny and K-2SO in I, Robot and Rogue One. I felt far more for those robots with their less emotional delivery.
The story was otherwise just fine, as was the majority of the cast.
If you're going to bring up 2012, you also have to mention 10,000 BC!
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#4329378 - 01/18/17 02:56 PM
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you also have to mention 10,000 BC!
The Jedi Master Ah yes. Who knew that women 12,000 years ago had perfect skin and hair and wore makeup?
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#4329394 - 01/18/17 03:24 PM
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Roland Emmerich did, of course.
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#4329451 - 01/18/17 06:56 PM
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you also have to mention 10,000 BC!
The Jedi Master Ah yes. Who knew that women 12,000 years ago had perfect skin and hair and wore makeup? Any relation to the Clan of the bare cave? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090848/
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#4329452 - 01/18/17 07:02 PM
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you also have to mention 10,000 BC!
The Jedi Master Ah yes. Who knew that women 12,000 years ago had perfect skin and hair and wore makeup? Any relation to the Clan of the bare cave? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090848/ I love the synopsis: A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.So it's a teen's coming-of-age drama?
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#4329453 - 01/18/17 07:03 PM
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I love the synopsis: A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.
Yeah I chuckled when I read that. Obviously the author never studied basic anthropology.
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#4329658 - 01/19/17 03:34 PM
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Clan of the Cave Bear was an adaptation of the first novel in a series.
I don't think the film was close to the book at all. Of course, when most of the characters in the book are nonverbal it's going to fail putting it on film.
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#4330084 - 01/20/17 11:09 PM
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I see Event Horizon similar to The Abyss. Near misses. They each had an interesting premise but really missed the mark pursuing a bland simplistic small aspect of what could've been an epic story. Put them in the category with Lost in Space.
Event Horizon: the ship went to hell and back, but instead of fleshing that out, lets just have Sam Neil go nuts or possessed and kill people. The Abyss: there's advanced life at the bottom of the ocean! But lets give someone the psycho-bends and go with that instead. Lost in Space: we're colonizing space, seeing new an exotic planets and life forms. Lets just go with the nutty scumbag causing trouble and use a time travel cop out to save the day.
Oh, and Sphere. Another 90's attempt at (expensive) epic scifi that went to crap storywise. I've blocked that one from memory so effectively I don't even remember anything other than hating it.
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