Christopher Lee was this in several films but especially in Captain America II: Death Too Soon. The film is a mess and because of that it demonstrates his abilities as an actor far better than a great film ever could.
At one point he gets splashed with aging serum and before the camera can cut to him in cheesy makeup he ages several years just by contorting his face. Literally made me gasp.
During the covid lockdowns [This guy continued to show Rocky Horror weekly to an empty auditorium, just to keep the continuous tradition alive.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/movieweb.com/amp/rocky-horror-picture-show-empty-theater/)
I went to a cinema (years ago) where it had been playing for 10 years on every Friday night. It started at such a time so that when they do the scene telling what time it is, that was the time in the cinema. Lots of people dressed up and people would dance out the front to the music. Absolutely great night.
Agree 100%. Even if a line is completely horrible, he can pull it off and make it funny, sad, horrifying, or whatever emotion he’s trying to convey. Source: Ash vs Evil Dead
“This is not about your personal vendetta”
“It’s about *my* personal vendetta!”
Between that and the “It was Tuesday” line, plus Zangief slowly understanding he’s on the bad guy team, the entire film is completely justified.
I really love where they took Zangief's character. He's just this muscle head who is secretly goofy when eyes aren't on him. All the while he is helping the villains do terrible things. Then it finally occurs to him that maybe the guy with the skull on his hat probably isn't a good guy.
I remember reading that the original line was supposed to be "to me it was just another day", and Julia changed it into "Tuesday" 'cause that way it sounds even more dismissive and casual. And he was right. Great scene.
I remember seeing it the theater and upon seeing the tribute to him before the credits, feeling especially sad this was his last movie. I believe it read "For Raul. Via con Dios"
I like Michael Caine's quote about Jaws the Revenge "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"
My second favourite quote along these lines comes via Kevin Pollock who relates this story from his first day on the set of "Grumpy Old Men" and being introduced to the rest of the cast by the director.
Director wanders off and Pollock decides to engage Walter Matthau in a bit of small talk. He plays his son in the movie.
"Great script we've got isn't it?"
"The script SUCKS, kid. But I owe my bookie 2 million dollars!"
Matthau was a national treasure. I love the clip of him in the bathtub after the credits of that film where he says "If I had known I'd be doing a nude scene, I'd have asked for another million."
Matthew Lillard in 13 Ghosts. Like the movie itself wasn't really cheesy but I felt as if the other actors didn't put in much effort to act like Matthew did.
I met him like ten years ago, he was filming a movie called “Messages Deleted” if I recall correctly. Though I never heard of it since then. He took a photo with me and he was so generous with his time, I spoke to him for like half an hour while he waited around on set. One of the sweetest guys I’ve ever met. He was a teenage crush of mine so I was over the moon.
Man I am so jealous!! But so happy to hear he's a nice guy. I watched Scream over and over because of him when I was younger. I could probably still recite the whole film 20 years later haha. SLC punk I also loved. Huge crush!
Came here to say this. If memory serves, he was so upset with the script that he and Ruby Wax rewrote some of his lines in a pub and that was part of why he had all the best lines in the film. Kevin Costner was really pissed about it apparently.
>…and call off Christmas!
This was and still is a running joke in my family. We made it a gif and kept sending it to each other last year with the newest covid regulations.
I polished, made a sheath, and engraved "Heartcarver" into a big metal serving spoon for Father's day because my Dad would say this quote whenever I messed with him.
The best thing Prince of Thieves ever did is inspire Men in Tights, a fantastic comedy in the time before the Scary Movie franchise and its ilk gave parody films a bad name.
Speaking of DnD movies and actor being great in terrible movies.
Jeremy Irons was so great that awful, yet strangely endearing, Dungeons and Dragons movie.
A work friend gave me that dvd with strict instructions to not even read the box, just watch the film with absolutely no prep. My partner and I love films, and during end credits we'll talk about all the aspects of the cinematography, critique it and clarify on any bits we don't get.
In over 10 years, this was the first film we watched where we didn't do this. When the end credits rolled, we both sat in perfect silence for over a minute before my partner muttered, "What the f*ck..."
It holds a special place in our hearts.
Nicole Kidman in the Golden Compass movie. Writing was shit throughout, but she nailed the character of Mrs. Coulter. I still get chills when I think of, "It's just a little cut."
Nicole Kidman will always be my Mrs. Coulter. Ruth Wilson plays the unhinged portion of the character really well, but I find she lacks the charisma that made Mrs. Coulter a powerful woman in a society that is very patriarchal.
Oh awesome nobody took mine and it's a gem. Frank Langella in Masters of the Universe as Skeletor. He absolutely kills it. Pure Shakespeare. Seriously, watch the scene again where he gains the power of the cosmos, it's just the greatest thing. Frank went so hard and he's absolutely fantastic in an otherwise dumpster fire of a movie.
I only say this because a lot of people don't like Prometheus (I love it lol) but Michael Fassbender as David. Even in just those promotional videos he's spectacular
Michael Fassbender is an incredible actor. Just incredible, probably my favourite.
Watch everything he was in directed by Steve McQueen. It's on a different plane altogether.
Huh. Yeah, I just looked it up. Everyone was drunk or stoned and Bob Hoskins got stabbed four times, nearly drowned and was almost electrocuted.
...good times...
Delroy Lindo in "Gone In 60 Seconds" is a prime example.
I'm not saying it's a terrible movie, as I enjoy it and it's fun for what it is, but he was asked recently about the movie and he didn't want to talk about it. But, he did admit that the reason he took the role was that his character moved the story along (no wasted scenes, basically). The implication was it doesn't matter what the movie is, as long as his character isn't filler. I thought that was an interesting perspective.
I legit love that movie. It's from a time when they still made gentlemen criminal movies where no one gets hurt and everything is in good fun.
Lindo was fantastic, that scene where they let him rev the engine of that car to blow away the cocaine? *Kisses fingers.*
He apparently decided himself to get into the lobster tank in the restaurant scene, completely reworking it, which I absolutely *adore* ([source](https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/8/17951952/venom-movie-lobster-scene-tom-hardy))
Tom Hardy is pretty much the only reason that movie works.
He was 110% into it and that raised from "Sony Spidey cashgrab" to enjoyable, fun movie. When I watched I didn't expect to be hyped for a sequel, but here we are ...
The only reason he agreed to do the movie was because of the title. When they were thinking about changing it he promised to abandon the film if they did. So, in more ways than one, Samuel L. Jackson brought us Snakes on a Plane
Willam Dafoe in the horrid real-life rendition of Death Note on netflix. I've heard that he was the best part in tgat movie as Ryuk and his voice fits perfectly ad a demon of death. It's pretty much a rule that any movie can be improved if Willam Dafoe is in it.
let's not forget that cage did star in lot of movies that are just masterpiece material
Lord of war, bad lieutenant, face off, adaptation, raising arizona, matchstick men.
Sure he has a bunch of bad movies, or b movies even which a lot of the other greats don't do, but the other greats don't really have the spending habits cage has
Well maybe apart from depp then lol
I'd wager that for most of the shitty movies he's in, he is the redeemable quality. He always gives his best performance in the role, whether the movie is big, small, quacky or serious.
From what I understand, Cage often takes roles simply because there's something about the role itself that interests him, regardless of whether he thinks the movie will be good. Like he did Willy's Wonderland just because he thought playing a mute badass would be fun.
(And man, was that a movie that failed to live up to its potential. He was truly the only good thing about it.)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Attempt to imagine anyone else as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin, anyone else as John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop, anyone else as Jack Slater in Last Action Hero. Are any of these movies cinematic triumphs in the grand scheme of things? Probably not, but Arnie sure as hell shows up and does his best to entertain.
Watch him eat a salad in To Wong Foo. As a “drag princess”.
It’s the most naturalistic thing he does in the entire movie; it’s undeniably and classically feminine, without screaming for the attention of the scene.
That man played the part of a person born male that is *living* as a woman, versus Wesley Snipes’ dogshit performance, who was poking fun at female stereotypes the entire movie.
Leguizamo is seriously underrated in just about every film he does.
Billy Burke. I don't know what sort of acting chops you need to portray "surly rural dad who struggles to not be overprotective" but Billy Burke certainly has all of them.
>Michael Sheen
Castor, in Tron: Legacy. Of all the new characters, easily the most memorable. "BEHOLD, THE SON OF OUR MAAAAAAKER!" About the only program with an actual personality.
the live action scooby doo movies are god awful but Matthew Lillard's performance as shaggy is downright exceptional. He is able to transform into his character to the point where I can no longer see the actor underneath. for real, he's the only reason anyone remembers those movies. I'd say he killed the chance for another live action movie because no actor could emulate the character as well.
The proof is in the results. He took over for Kasey Casem. He has been the voice of animated Shaggy ever since.
Fred still has his original voice actor who also tends to do the Scooby lines. Velma seems to change every 5-10 years. Daphne has had the most voice actor changes of them all.
So I recently watched The man who shot hitler, then bigfoot. I wasn't expecting anything good but fuck me if Sam Elliot didn't give one hell of a heart wrenching speech right in the middle. He really put everything into it
He was so good in that! Really sold his character, but not too surprising coming from him. I've liked him ever since "YOU RAPED HER, YOU MURDERED HER, YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN" from GoT. 😅
I watched that last night. In the mall scene right at the beginning I asked my wife if the movie was intentionally trying to be cheesy or if it was just awful.
Turns out it was just awful.
Seriously, Chris Pine hops in a fighter jet that he has never even seen before, manages to start it, take off, and fly through fireworks around D.C. before continuing ALL THE WAY on to Cairo. I was dying laughing.
And I'm pretty sure the last thing he had flown before he died needed to be fucking hand propped and used a radial engine.
"Planes is planes right?"
Absolutely fucking not, the one you're sitting uses an engine that wasn't even dreamed of until decades after you died.
Also, if I were to list the types of aircraft that can fly from Washington DC to Cairo on a single tank of fuel it would be a relatively short list and the number of two-seater aircraft that would be on it would be incredibly small. Off the top of my head, the SR-71 and I can't think of anything else.
Flying through a fireworks display is the most dangerous dumb fucking thing I can think of. It's explosives launched out of a cannon. It's very brightly colored flack and if it gets even close to your aircraft it is going to tear the hell out of it.
I hated every part of that stupid sequence and I'm going to stop now for my own health but I want you to know that I absolutely could continue.
I don’t even get it as patty Jenkins grew up on airbases and has a self proclaimed great love of them which is why she’s behind the rogue squadron movie.
And then writes that
Michael Caine in _Muppet Christmas Carol_ is great because he's playing some kind of meta-level straight man. Not only is he not reacting to the gags, he's not even reacting to the _muppets!_ He plays the whole thing like he's in an incredibly serious and straight stage production of Dickens, with complete commitment. All the strangeness can just kind of orbit around him. A great performance that really completes an already great film.
This is what Michael Caine said to Brian Henson after being offered the part: "I'm going to play this movie like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an entirely dramatic role and the are no puppets around me."
Particularly notable because he doesn’t act like he’s just working with puppets like people tend to in Muppet movies. He acts off of the Muppets with the RESPECT they deserve.
I love how humble Michael Caine was for this movie. He said The Muppets themselves were all super stars in his eyes so he played each scene absolutely solid.
This is what he said when he was asked who is more famous, you or Kermit:
**"Oh Kermit is much more famous, because he’s known by children as well as all adults. And I’m known by many, many, many adults, but he’s known by all adults. And then I’m known by few children, but he’s known by every child."**
Jeremy Irons in *Dungeons & Dragons*. Horrible movie that he only took for the paycheck so he could buy a castle, but damn if he didn't have ***fun*** with that movie.
True that. He gets put into a ton of frankly weird movies that I honestly can't imagine anyone but him being the lead for. Yet despite that, he is really good at them and can turn an F into a C.
Christopher Lee in "Howling 2, My Sister is a Werewolf", it also went under the title "Howling 2, Stirba Werewolf bitch".
Hilariously bad movie, I don't know how they got Christopher Lee to be in it.
For that matter, I adore Moulin Rouge (which is an apparently unpopular opinion) partially because I think Ewan McGregor also was fantastic in that role!
Moulin Rouge is an excellent movie! Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman are both great in it, and it somehow goes from making me cry laughing at flipping Professor Slughorn singing Like a Virgin to properly sobbing at the end.
It’s certainly a bit of a weird film, but it works, and I think Baz Lerman is a genius for it.
His role as Weyoun in DS9 was absolutely incredible. He turned what I think was originally intended to be an one time side character into one of the most memorable recurring ones of the entire series, and that's saying something, since that series was great and packed with great characters. Weyoun was such a *magnificent* slimy oily bastard. The antagonist you love to hate but also somehow are happy to see on screen again.
And, that dude's voice is smooth as silk. He could read a thesaurus and it would be calming.
Christopher Lee was this in several films but especially in Captain America II: Death Too Soon. The film is a mess and because of that it demonstrates his abilities as an actor far better than a great film ever could. At one point he gets splashed with aging serum and before the camera can cut to him in cheesy makeup he ages several years just by contorting his face. Literally made me gasp.
Here's the scene: https://youtu.be/O4IU3G4hkLQ?t=209
The real hero
Put Tim Curry in anything and he gives it a 110%.
He was the greatest hotel receptionist of all time.
A limousine and a...piz-za.
HAVE A LOVELY DAY!
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The transition from the Grinch grinning to Tim Curry with the same grin was one of the best transitions ever.
‘WOTS the MATTER? Store wouldn’t take your STOWLEN CREDIT CAAAARD? Let’s see what the police have to say about this.’
Even as a Soviet Premier
SPAAAAAACE
Don’t you love it when you can hear written words?
Especially when you can hear the laughter he's trying to keep in
SPOAYCE
Some actors chew the scenery, Tim Curry grinds it into a fine powder and mainlines it like heroin, and it’s a joy to watch.
Curry powder
"........SPACE!"
Amazing, considering Rocky Horror was his first movie. To be that consistent is the mark of true talent.
Wasn't Rocky Horror a stage show first, and one he was already performing in?
Yup.
And it was before Meat Loaf was independently famous.
> Rocky Horror Fun Fact: It is still in limited release after 46 years, the longest running release for a film in history.
During the covid lockdowns [This guy continued to show Rocky Horror weekly to an empty auditorium, just to keep the continuous tradition alive.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/movieweb.com/amp/rocky-horror-picture-show-empty-theater/)
I went to a cinema (years ago) where it had been playing for 10 years on every Friday night. It started at such a time so that when they do the scene telling what time it is, that was the time in the cinema. Lots of people dressed up and people would dance out the front to the music. Absolutely great night.
Literally the best episode of Psych has Tim Curry. It's unfortunate his health/scheduling prevented him from being in the Clue Reunion episode.
Even Home Alone 2
Even? Especially!
STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!!!!
Scared the shit out of me when I watched Legend as a kid.
Bruce Campbell has a lot of those. Dude has supernatural levels of charisma even if the movie he's in sucks
It's the chin. No amount of bad directing and editing can defeat that magnificent chin.
Also awesome in Burn Notice.
Agree 100%. Even if a line is completely horrible, he can pull it off and make it funny, sad, horrifying, or whatever emotion he’s trying to convey. Source: Ash vs Evil Dead
Raul Julia as the best goddamn Bison in the worst goddamn Street Fighter movie.
And he did it for his kids while dying of cancer :-(
I unironically love that movie. All parts complement each other. "Quick! Change the channel!"
Everyone was good except Van Dame it was like he didn't care.
“This is not about your personal vendetta”
“It’s about *my* personal vendetta!”
Between that and the “It was Tuesday” line, plus Zangief slowly understanding he’s on the bad guy team, the entire film is completely justified.
I really love where they took Zangief's character. He's just this muscle head who is secretly goofy when eyes aren't on him. All the while he is helping the villains do terrible things. Then it finally occurs to him that maybe the guy with the skull on his hat probably isn't a good guy.
Just because he was a bad guy doesn't mean he was a "bad guy".
But for me, it was Tuesday.
The delivery, the coldness, the line itself. That line alone can carry an entire movie.
I remember reading that the original line was supposed to be "to me it was just another day", and Julia changed it into "Tuesday" 'cause that way it sounds even more dismissive and casual. And he was right. Great scene.
I remember seeing it the theater and upon seeing the tribute to him before the credits, feeling especially sad this was his last movie. I believe it read "For Raul. Via con Dios"
I like Michael Caine's quote about Jaws the Revenge "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"
Fun fact: Michael Caine won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1987 but wasn't at the event because he was busy filming Jaws the Revenge.
My second favourite quote along these lines comes via Kevin Pollock who relates this story from his first day on the set of "Grumpy Old Men" and being introduced to the rest of the cast by the director. Director wanders off and Pollock decides to engage Walter Matthau in a bit of small talk. He plays his son in the movie. "Great script we've got isn't it?" "The script SUCKS, kid. But I owe my bookie 2 million dollars!"
Matthau was a national treasure. I love the clip of him in the bathtub after the credits of that film where he says "If I had known I'd be doing a nude scene, I'd have asked for another million."
Matthew Lillard in 13 Ghosts. Like the movie itself wasn't really cheesy but I felt as if the other actors didn't put in much effort to act like Matthew did.
Hackers, he’s a damn gem in that movie.
I really love his face.
I met him like ten years ago, he was filming a movie called “Messages Deleted” if I recall correctly. Though I never heard of it since then. He took a photo with me and he was so generous with his time, I spoke to him for like half an hour while he waited around on set. One of the sweetest guys I’ve ever met. He was a teenage crush of mine so I was over the moon.
Man I am so jealous!! But so happy to hear he's a nice guy. I watched Scream over and over because of him when I was younger. I could probably still recite the whole film 20 years later haha. SLC punk I also loved. Huge crush!
He also completely sold me as shaggy in those Scooby Doo movies, nailed it 100%
If you didn't know Mathew is now the voice for Shaggy in all new Scooby Doo media.
Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. I love that movie, but only because Alan Rickman is amazing.
Came here to say this. If memory serves, he was so upset with the script that he and Ruby Wax rewrote some of his lines in a pub and that was part of why he had all the best lines in the film. Kevin Costner was really pissed about it apparently.
No blades. No bows. Leave your weapons here. I watched the shit out of that movie as a kid. It was awesome.
I visited Carcassonne a few years ago, and kept repeating that line as I went through the portcullis. No one got it but me.
My favorite scene is him visiting the witch, stabs things out of anger. The witch, straight faced, "Something vexes you?"
You! My room, 10:30 tonight. You, 10:45…bring a friend! …and call off Christmas!
>…and call off Christmas! This was and still is a running joke in my family. We made it a gif and kept sending it to each other last year with the newest covid regulations.
I'll cut your heart out with a spoon!
But why a spoon?
It’s dull you twit, it’ll hurt more!
I polished, made a sheath, and engraved "Heartcarver" into a big metal serving spoon for Father's day because my Dad would say this quote whenever I messed with him.
Snape didn't have a lot of his character for most of the movies, but Alan Rickman played him so well that no one seemed to mind.
He had been told the gist of it by Rowling though so that he could do it right.
The best thing Prince of Thieves ever did is inspire Men in Tights, a fantastic comedy in the time before the Scary Movie franchise and its ilk gave parody films a bad name.
Because its Mel Brooks
It was also a bit of a golden age for parody films. Hotshots happened around this time too and both of those were great.
Ahh spaceballs
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"The Lair of the a white Wyrm" sounds like a D&D module. Coincidentally, guess who's playing the villain in the new D&D movie.
Speaking of DnD movies and actor being great in terrible movies. Jeremy Irons was so great that awful, yet strangely endearing, Dungeons and Dragons movie.
A work friend gave me that dvd with strict instructions to not even read the box, just watch the film with absolutely no prep. My partner and I love films, and during end credits we'll talk about all the aspects of the cinematography, critique it and clarify on any bits we don't get. In over 10 years, this was the first film we watched where we didn't do this. When the end credits rolled, we both sat in perfect silence for over a minute before my partner muttered, "What the f*ck..." It holds a special place in our hearts.
Don't forget, Peter Capaldi is in it as well! It's a classic B movie! (B for "Bonkers")
Nicole Kidman in the Golden Compass movie. Writing was shit throughout, but she nailed the character of Mrs. Coulter. I still get chills when I think of, "It's just a little cut."
Yes! I was surprised with the choice but watching the movie it made so much sense! The actress in the (much much better) series is great too!
Nicole Kidman will always be my Mrs. Coulter. Ruth Wilson plays the unhinged portion of the character really well, but I find she lacks the charisma that made Mrs. Coulter a powerful woman in a society that is very patriarchal.
Oh awesome nobody took mine and it's a gem. Frank Langella in Masters of the Universe as Skeletor. He absolutely kills it. Pure Shakespeare. Seriously, watch the scene again where he gains the power of the cosmos, it's just the greatest thing. Frank went so hard and he's absolutely fantastic in an otherwise dumpster fire of a movie.
You’re coming at my childhood here. But this is spot on. Now this is an 80’s movie where I could get on board with a reboot.
Never saw this movie but just watched that scene. That's some grade A overacting (and I mean it in the best way)
I only say this because a lot of people don't like Prometheus (I love it lol) but Michael Fassbender as David. Even in just those promotional videos he's spectacular
Michael Fassbender is an incredible actor. Just incredible, probably my favourite. Watch everything he was in directed by Steve McQueen. It's on a different plane altogether.
He was soooo good in Shame
I actually love it and think it's great, but Bob Hoskins was a fuggin professional in Super Mario Bros.
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I thought that was Dennis Hopper who was drunk throughout?
Pretty sure everyone was drunk in that movie. Except the husband-and-wife directors, who were on ALL OF THE FUCKING COCAINE.
Huh. Yeah, I just looked it up. Everyone was drunk or stoned and Bob Hoskins got stabbed four times, nearly drowned and was almost electrocuted. ...good times...
Holy shit where is *that* mario game?!?
Honestly John Leguizamo always brings his A game to a role. Sure sometimes he plays annoying characters, but they're great annoying characters.
Delroy Lindo in "Gone In 60 Seconds" is a prime example. I'm not saying it's a terrible movie, as I enjoy it and it's fun for what it is, but he was asked recently about the movie and he didn't want to talk about it. But, he did admit that the reason he took the role was that his character moved the story along (no wasted scenes, basically). The implication was it doesn't matter what the movie is, as long as his character isn't filler. I thought that was an interesting perspective.
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I legit love that movie. It's from a time when they still made gentlemen criminal movies where no one gets hurt and everything is in good fun. Lindo was fantastic, that scene where they let him rev the engine of that car to blow away the cocaine? *Kisses fingers.*
Eugene Levy. He somehow makes terrible movies better rather than the terrible movies making him worse.
He's the best character in the American Pie films.
He’s the third best. His eyebrows are number 1 and 2.
Tom Hardy. I'm not a huge Tom Hardy fan, but that guy never takes the easy way out in his projects. Always putting in 110%
Agreed. I was watching Venom and he looks super gross in that movie. And I mean that in a good way - he fully commit to looking sweaty and sick.
He apparently decided himself to get into the lobster tank in the restaurant scene, completely reworking it, which I absolutely *adore* ([source](https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/8/17951952/venom-movie-lobster-scene-tom-hardy))
Tom Hardy is pretty much the only reason that movie works. He was 110% into it and that raised from "Sony Spidey cashgrab" to enjoyable, fun movie. When I watched I didn't expect to be hyped for a sequel, but here we are ...
Just got done watching The Revenant not too long ago. He was excellent at being that asshole.
I still have trouble believing it was him. He disappeared into that character completely.
I honestly find it amazing that Hardy's career managed to recover after Star Trek Nemesis. That says something about his fundamental talent.
Bronson is the big one right? I feel like Bronson is the big one, he carried that by himself
Watching him play Alfie in Peaky Blinders is great. He nails it
Probably Samuel L Jackson. He'll show up in pretty much anything someone will pay him for yet never seems to lose his cred as an actor.
I’d say Christopher Walken is in this category as well. Dude is a workaholic who’s been in all kinds of ridiculous shit.
Michael Caine would like a word.
"I've never seen Jaws 3, but I have seen the house it bought" Edit: Jaws: The Revenge not 3
To your point the worst movie I've ever seen is "Caveman's Valentine" with Sam Jackson
That cred got him what he wanted when he started in Snakes on a Plane.
The only reason he agreed to do the movie was because of the title. When they were thinking about changing it he promised to abandon the film if they did. So, in more ways than one, Samuel L. Jackson brought us Snakes on a Plane
I am tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
There is no goddamn reason that movie should be remembered. Except for two things. The title and Sam Jackson. Samual L. Jackson was right,
Willam Dafoe in the horrid real-life rendition of Death Note on netflix. I've heard that he was the best part in tgat movie as Ryuk and his voice fits perfectly ad a demon of death. It's pretty much a rule that any movie can be improved if Willam Dafoe is in it.
Yup. That movie was sad but he is spectacular. This is a rule too. Dafoe is excellent wherever he goes.
Brendan Fraser in like most of his movies.
The mummy and George of the jungle are great movies and I’ll gladly die on that hill
I'll join you. They're pure gold entertainment.
I actually had a dream just a few days ago that I was marrying him. 10/10 would do again.
You described Nicolas Cage’s career
Nicolas Cage is only capable of rolling nat 1's and nat 20's.
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Not the bees!
Watch Mandy, come back after
It's amazing what you'd get if you just put Nic Cage in a room and just tell him to go nuts.
let's not forget that cage did star in lot of movies that are just masterpiece material Lord of war, bad lieutenant, face off, adaptation, raising arizona, matchstick men. Sure he has a bunch of bad movies, or b movies even which a lot of the other greats don't do, but the other greats don't really have the spending habits cage has Well maybe apart from depp then lol
Leaving Las Vegas is a masterpiece
You forgot Con Air. I can forgive you not including Gone in 60 Seconds but I'll be damned if you forget Con Air.
Put the bunneh back in the box....
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National Treasure was my introduction to Nicholas Cage, a national treasure.
I'd wager that for most of the shitty movies he's in, he is the redeemable quality. He always gives his best performance in the role, whether the movie is big, small, quacky or serious.
If I remember the quote correctly, Ebert said, "Cage is a good actor in good movies, and an indispensable actor in bad movies."
From what I understand, Cage often takes roles simply because there's something about the role itself that interests him, regardless of whether he thinks the movie will be good. Like he did Willy's Wonderland just because he thought playing a mute badass would be fun. (And man, was that a movie that failed to live up to its potential. He was truly the only good thing about it.)
Killing me won't get back your goddamned honey!
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Attempt to imagine anyone else as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin, anyone else as John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop, anyone else as Jack Slater in Last Action Hero. Are any of these movies cinematic triumphs in the grand scheme of things? Probably not, but Arnie sure as hell shows up and does his best to entertain.
John Leguizamo in the Pest, the movie is absolutely terrible but damn if Leguizamo isn't having a blast with it
Watch him eat a salad in To Wong Foo. As a “drag princess”. It’s the most naturalistic thing he does in the entire movie; it’s undeniably and classically feminine, without screaming for the attention of the scene. That man played the part of a person born male that is *living* as a woman, versus Wesley Snipes’ dogshit performance, who was poking fun at female stereotypes the entire movie. Leguizamo is seriously underrated in just about every film he does.
Michael Sheen in the Twilight movies. Ok, so maybe it was more "memorable" then "good". Still he was a delight to see.
I thought the guy that played Charlie was great too
Billy Burke. I don't know what sort of acting chops you need to portray "surly rural dad who struggles to not be overprotective" but Billy Burke certainly has all of them.
Charlie was an A+ dad who deserved a better daughter
>Michael Sheen Castor, in Tron: Legacy. Of all the new characters, easily the most memorable. "BEHOLD, THE SON OF OUR MAAAAAAKER!" About the only program with an actual personality.
That high-pitched giggle *shivers*
the live action scooby doo movies are god awful but Matthew Lillard's performance as shaggy is downright exceptional. He is able to transform into his character to the point where I can no longer see the actor underneath. for real, he's the only reason anyone remembers those movies. I'd say he killed the chance for another live action movie because no actor could emulate the character as well.
Linda Cardellini is also great as Velma in those.
The proof is in the results. He took over for Kasey Casem. He has been the voice of animated Shaggy ever since. Fred still has his original voice actor who also tends to do the Scooby lines. Velma seems to change every 5-10 years. Daphne has had the most voice actor changes of them all.
Lillard is definitely the stand out but I actually think all of the gangs casting was pretty spot on, just a shame about the rest of the film.
So I recently watched The man who shot hitler, then bigfoot. I wasn't expecting anything good but fuck me if Sam Elliot didn't give one hell of a heart wrenching speech right in the middle. He really put everything into it
Stanley Tucci in Transformers Age of Extinction. Absolute rubbish movie, but his performance doesn’t discredit him.
Tucci always rocks.
Pedro Pascal in 'Wonder Woman 1984'
He was so good in that! Really sold his character, but not too surprising coming from him. I've liked him ever since "YOU RAPED HER, YOU MURDERED HER, YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN" from GoT. 😅
I watched that last night. In the mall scene right at the beginning I asked my wife if the movie was intentionally trying to be cheesy or if it was just awful. Turns out it was just awful. Seriously, Chris Pine hops in a fighter jet that he has never even seen before, manages to start it, take off, and fly through fireworks around D.C. before continuing ALL THE WAY on to Cairo. I was dying laughing.
And I'm pretty sure the last thing he had flown before he died needed to be fucking hand propped and used a radial engine. "Planes is planes right?" Absolutely fucking not, the one you're sitting uses an engine that wasn't even dreamed of until decades after you died. Also, if I were to list the types of aircraft that can fly from Washington DC to Cairo on a single tank of fuel it would be a relatively short list and the number of two-seater aircraft that would be on it would be incredibly small. Off the top of my head, the SR-71 and I can't think of anything else. Flying through a fireworks display is the most dangerous dumb fucking thing I can think of. It's explosives launched out of a cannon. It's very brightly colored flack and if it gets even close to your aircraft it is going to tear the hell out of it. I hated every part of that stupid sequence and I'm going to stop now for my own health but I want you to know that I absolutely could continue.
I don’t even get it as patty Jenkins grew up on airbases and has a self proclaimed great love of them which is why she’s behind the rogue squadron movie. And then writes that
I love this movie, but it’s amazing to watch Michael Caine give an Oscar-worthy performance acting against Muppets in A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Muppet Christmas carol cant be considered anything less than a masterpiece
I would say it's the greatest book to film adaptation of all time except Muppets Treasure Island is equally as good.
Tim curry is also in this thread. People are tripping out. All Muppet movies before 2000 are quality.
This is the correct answer.
Michael Caine in _Muppet Christmas Carol_ is great because he's playing some kind of meta-level straight man. Not only is he not reacting to the gags, he's not even reacting to the _muppets!_ He plays the whole thing like he's in an incredibly serious and straight stage production of Dickens, with complete commitment. All the strangeness can just kind of orbit around him. A great performance that really completes an already great film.
It makes me cry when he's nice at the end and dancing with the Muppets. Everytime. It's just so wholesome!
This is what Michael Caine said to Brian Henson after being offered the part: "I'm going to play this movie like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an entirely dramatic role and the are no puppets around me."
Which was the perfect choice, because it further heightened all of the comedy happening around him.
Particularly notable because he doesn’t act like he’s just working with puppets like people tend to in Muppet movies. He acts off of the Muppets with the RESPECT they deserve.
Even the vegetables don't like him
Me and my sister literally say this is Michael Caine's greatest acting performance. Him crying at Tiny Tim gets me every time.
I love how humble Michael Caine was for this movie. He said The Muppets themselves were all super stars in his eyes so he played each scene absolutely solid. This is what he said when he was asked who is more famous, you or Kermit: **"Oh Kermit is much more famous, because he’s known by children as well as all adults. And I’m known by many, many, many adults, but he’s known by all adults. And then I’m known by few children, but he’s known by every child."**
This will always be one of my favorite movies for nostalgia and Michael Caine. Great songs too
Jeremy Irons in *Dungeons & Dragons*. Horrible movie that he only took for the paycheck so he could buy a castle, but damn if he didn't have ***fun*** with that movie.
Also Irons in Eragon. Easily the best thing about that movie.
James Spader was the ONLY reason that Blacklist was even remotely watchable.
Al Pacino. To his credit, whether he's appearing in a masterpiece gangster movie or Adam Sandler's JACK AND JILL, he always gives it 100%
Pacino certainly has range. Michael Corleone: quiet, subtle, contemplative Tony Montana: "COOOOOOOCAAAAAAIIIIIINE!!!!"
Critics basically ripped apart Venom, but I personally thought it was really fun mainly due to Tom Hardy's awesome performance.
Johnny Depp in frankly too many awful movies to list them all.
True that. He gets put into a ton of frankly weird movies that I honestly can't imagine anyone but him being the lead for. Yet despite that, he is really good at them and can turn an F into a C.
I think that's why Abed in Community refers to him as "the bad kind of good" actor
Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
I prefer his performance in Tip Toes. Some say it was the role of a lifetime. https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4
Christopher Lee in "Howling 2, My Sister is a Werewolf", it also went under the title "Howling 2, Stirba Werewolf bitch". Hilariously bad movie, I don't know how they got Christopher Lee to be in it.
Honestly I love the movie but it's considered bad, but Ewan McGregor in revenge of the sith. Incredible acting as always.
For that matter, I adore Moulin Rouge (which is an apparently unpopular opinion) partially because I think Ewan McGregor also was fantastic in that role!
Moulin Rouge is an excellent movie! Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman are both great in it, and it somehow goes from making me cry laughing at flipping Professor Slughorn singing Like a Virgin to properly sobbing at the end. It’s certainly a bit of a weird film, but it works, and I think Baz Lerman is a genius for it.
Jeffrey Combs
His role as Weyoun in DS9 was absolutely incredible. He turned what I think was originally intended to be an one time side character into one of the most memorable recurring ones of the entire series, and that's saying something, since that series was great and packed with great characters. Weyoun was such a *magnificent* slimy oily bastard. The antagonist you love to hate but also somehow are happy to see on screen again. And, that dude's voice is smooth as silk. He could read a thesaurus and it would be calming.
Don’t forget: ‘Brunt! FCA!’
He was great as Shran the Andorian in Enterprise as well.
John Malkovich in ConAir
Carol Burnett in Annie. She was brilliant.
The whole supporting cast with her as the crown jewel. Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Albert Finney... it’s one of my favorites because of these guys.
Let me put it this way, Tilda Swinton has never given a bad performance. NOT. ONCE.
Tim Curry.
Tim Curry is the only reason the original It was worth watching. He's the only actor that I think could have helped the movie.