In Reply to: TOMMY posted by Mart on August 14, 1999 at 12:31:37:
This brings up actors/actresses I've learned to avoid because their mear partisipation practicly guarentees an abismal failure. They each may have an exemption a piece but their entire work is mostly phoned in:
- Jean Claude Van Damm
- Merrill Streep
- Glenn Close
- Anthony Bandaras
- Brad Pitt
- Leonardo DiCaprioI would certainly remove Merrill from that list. Also, as much as I dislike Glenn, she is talented too. Has she done anything good lately, or just trash like the Airforce One?
For the last name Nigel will wash your mouth with soap and sand - get ready.
How about the Dumb and Dumber himself? I think he should head the list.
I also nominate Tom Hanks for position on that list as well - he is the Mr. Politically Correct. He shares this title with Denzel Washington.
Some might find my position hard, but really, guys, with so many great actors and so many good performances why waste time on trash? Why not set the plank pretty high and keep it there? I still have not seen every good movie ever made, and probably will not have done so for years and years, so why should I even consider the Titanic?
But there is bright spot just about everywhere. There are actors and directors every work of whom is a must see. Jack Nicholson surely belongs on my list, together with Woody Allen, Kubrick, Audrey Hepburn and many others.
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Follow Ups
- Nigel! Quick! We found another one! - Victor Khomenko 17:29:52 08/14/99 (20)
- Great! - Mart 02:23:41 08/15/99 (17)
- Fried Green Tomatoes = the "Citizen Kane" of lesbian cannibal movies! - TAFKA Steve 18:20:14 08/15/99 (16)
- You hit it on the head - Victor Khomenko 05:06:12 08/16/99 (14)
- have you tried 'Out Of Africa'? - gnat 07:49:00 08/16/99 (13)
- yawn (nt - Mart 13:07:27 08/18/99 (0)
- No big argument here - Victor Khomenko 08:08:44 08/16/99 (11)
- have yet & looking forward to see "Bird" (nt - Mart 13:09:25 08/18/99 (0)
- Roudy Yates? - petew 04:56:10 08/17/99 (9)
- now I wonder... :) - gnat 08:59:56 08/18/99 (1)
- RELAX ... - Mart 13:12:33 08/18/99 (0)
- Life/screen connection - Victor Khomenko 08:30:45 08/17/99 (6)
- I give-up ... - Mart 07:54:31 08/18/99 (4)
- Not much - Victor Khomenko 08:20:02 08/18/99 (3)
- I hope you mean "repeat" it? - Mart 09:06:53 08/18/99 (2)
- Makes sense both way, doesn't it? - Victor Khomenko 13:12:00 08/18/99 (1)
- if they haven't contributed ... - Mart 13:17:23 08/18/99 (0)
- Re: Life/screen connection - TAFKA Steve 15:17:48 08/17/99 (0)
- sorry, if my antecedent confused you - Mart 22:34:09 08/15/99 (0)
- Always exceptions to the rule... - TAFKA Steve 19:23:49 08/14/99 (1)
- Re: Always exceptions to the rule... - Victor Khomenko 20:31:48 08/14/99 (0)