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feedmyleg posted:What (working) actor has the best hit ratio over the course of a lifetime? Or alternatively, what actor spent the highest percent of their career doing great, interesting, and memorable things? John C Reilly
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May 23, 2020 20:58
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I actually meant "working" as in had a long career filled with active work rather than "working" today. But some really interesting answers so far. I just often go to an actor's IMDB who I love and am constantly surprised at how much trash that I've never heard of is in there. And I mean, everyone's gotta pay the rent, but just curious at who has has nailed it for the vast majority of a career. Someone who played a great character for a long time while doing other rad projects feels the most likely to me, like a Peter Cushing, whose shittiest stuff is still usually really fun.
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May 23, 2020 21:05
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Gary Oldman.
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May 23, 2020 22:03
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Are the metrics are thrown off when an actor is in something universally considered trash? Like Pacino in Jack & Jill, or Gripweed posted:John C Reilly CPL593H posted:Gary Oldman. Like career anchors 
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May 23, 2020 22:16
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fenix down posted:Are the metrics are thrown off when an actor is in something universally considered trash? Like Pacino in Jack & Jill, or Everyone has gently caress ups. The ratios of good to bad, and great to everything else, would matter most to me.
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May 23, 2020 22:32
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The Aughts and 10's felt like some agent might have died and left iconic actors like Pacino, De Niro or Nicholson with absolutel poo poo they somehow didn't have the sense to say no to. I'm reasonably sure there are at least five comedies with a combination of Nicholson, De Niro and Freeman where the joke is that they are officially Old, and I know that De Niro and Pacino have been in a bunch of thrillers that I don't remember the names of. Like, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino made movies neither I nor you remember the names of. Fairly recently. That's kinda insane. They are not lows as such, or they would be remembered. They just pad out résumés that absolutely don't need any padding, they don't even seem like pay-job movies since they flew so under the radar.
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May 23, 2020 23:28
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I always figured a lot of them were the cinematic equivalent of doing crossword puzzles to keep your mind active
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May 24, 2020 00:09
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Or it's like a job/career; whether or not someone else enjoys watching it later, it was a decent gig and they got paid Edit: especially for artists who have already been a part of seminal, ground breaking or even just plain but well received projects Blood Boils fucked around with this message at 00:59 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 00:55
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sir michael cain, jaws 4, terrific house
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May 24, 2020 01:01
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fenix down posted:Are the metrics are thrown off when an actor is in something universally considered trash? Like Pacino in Jack & Jill, or I forgot Tiptoes even existed. Jesus Christ, what were they thinking?
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May 24, 2020 01:36
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I much prefer the opposite, when actors known mostly for mediocre movies get a chance in a great movie and knock it out of the park, like Sandler in Uncut Gems , or to a lesser extent, Tyler Perry in Gone Girl
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May 24, 2020 01:37
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Pretty male centered choices. What about Meryl Streep. I think Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet have been pretty consistent strong. Audrey Hepburn might not have ever been in bad movie. Tom Cruise has a few stinkers but overall he's been in an amazing amount of critical and/or financial hits.
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May 24, 2020 01:44
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Yeah most of Tom Cruise's movies aren't exactly high art but you gotta think he's getting exactly what he wants out of them. He doesn't have many that are forgettable or outright disasters (except The Mummy).
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May 24, 2020 01:51
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Cocktails is the only outright stinker i can think of Tom Cruise being in, maybe M:I 2. Edit:oh yeah forgot about The Mummy.
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May 24, 2020 02:01
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regulargonzalez posted:Pretty male centered choices. What about Meryl Streep. I think Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet have been pretty consistent strong. Internationally Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve have had very good careers. Hepburn I'd disagree only because while she's been in a lot of good movies, I can't think of any really great movies in her oeuvre. Meryl Streep has quite a few mediocrities, like Mamma Mia, Julie and Julia, and The Iron Lady, although her work is good in all of those.
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May 24, 2020 02:04
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What's the worst movie you think would be fun to work on? Bonus points if it's not fun bad like Shark Attack 3 or something.
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May 24, 2020 02:04
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pospysyl posted:. Hepburn I'd disagree only because while she's been in a lot of good movies, I can't think of any really great movies in her oeuvre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
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May 24, 2020 02:06
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I did not forget about Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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May 24, 2020 02:08
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Audrey Hepburn was in a ton of great movies. Roman Holiday, Charade, Sabrina, Funny Face, They All Laughed, and Robin and Marian are all fantastic. I'd say her worst movie was Spielberg's Always, but I've heard some spirited defenses of that over the years.
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May 24, 2020 02:18
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Almost Blue posted:Audrey Hepburn was in a ton of great movies. Roman Holiday, Charade, Sabrina, Funny Face, They All Laughed, and Robin and Marian are all fantastic. Roman Holiday is definitely a great movie, most of the others are at the very least very good. Plus, My Fair Lady is near-great and How to Steal a Million is a super fun romp. The Nun's Story was widely acclaimed at the time but it's been decades since I've seen it and I have no idea how well it holds up. Wait Until Dark is a solid thriller of the time. Honestly, there's really not a bad movie in the bunch. All of those are solid B's or better. Always is essentially a cameo appearance and is almost tangential to the discussion imo. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 02:27 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 02:24
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Good point keep talkin posted:What's the worst movie you think would be fun to work on? Bonus points if it's not fun bad like Shark Attack 3 or something. I think that would mostly come down to the catering.
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May 24, 2020 03:40
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Marvel movies and Adam Sandler movies are probably fun to work on, though Sandler movies probably have better crafty since he isn’t a bodybuilder
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May 24, 2020 03:48
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Huh. You figure Sandler would have done a superhero comedy by now. But he hasn't. Huh.
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May 24, 2020 03:51
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Coffee And Pie posted:Marvel movies and Adam Sandler movies are probably fun to work on, though Sandler movies probably have better crafty since he isn’t a bodybuilder I would assume they don't cater for the entire cast and crew based on, like, the male stars' shirtless scene day prep diet diets or whatever. For one thing, it would be incredibly expensive
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May 24, 2020 03:57
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With the Marvel movies you’d potentially have to keep yourself in really good shape and that takes a lot of effort. The Happy Madison movies probably don’t require that.
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May 24, 2020 03:59
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CopywrightMMXI posted:With the Marvel movies you’d potentially have to keep yourself in really good shape and that takes a lot of effort. The Happy Madison movies probably don’t require that. That's only true for the headlining stars. The lighting people don't have to be ripped. Even most of the actors don't have to be ripped. I don't think Stellan Skarsgard went on a super restrictive diet for Thor 2
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May 24, 2020 04:07
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Detective No. 27 posted:Huh. You figure Sandler would have done a superhero comedy by now. But he hasn't. Huh. He will when they invent a superhero who wears Huge Basketball Shorts
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May 24, 2020 04:07
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That's basically exactly what I had pictured in my head.
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May 24, 2020 04:13
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Detective No. 27 posted:Huh. You figure Sandler would have done a superhero comedy by now. But he hasn't. Huh. It was called Don't Mess With the Zohan
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May 24, 2020 04:29
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regulargonzalez posted:Pretty male centered choices. What about Meryl Streep. I think Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet have been pretty consistent strong. I'm genuinely disappointed in myself for not thinking of Meryl Streep. I'll also add Sigorney Weaver to that.
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May 24, 2020 04:31
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Detective No. 27 posted:Huh. You figure Sandler would have done a superhero comedy by now. But he hasn't. Huh. Waterboy was basically a Superman origin story.
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May 24, 2020 04:34
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Never mind who has the best signal to noise ratio in their acting careers, who has the highest percentage of on screen deaths among their films. I'm going to say Sean Bean.
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May 24, 2020 04:39
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Detective No. 27 posted:Huh. You figure Sandler would have done a superhero comedy by now. But he hasn't. Huh. The Operaman movie shooting was delayed to 2021.
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May 24, 2020 04:40
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Danny Trejo has plenty of deaths but he's just in so many movies that he probably doesn't actually rank that high. Seriously, try and come up with a good, solid educated guess about how many movies he's been in and then check IMDB. Hint: his first appearance was 1983, so 37 years of acting. How many movies per year could one man possibly do consistently, times 37 years.
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May 24, 2020 04:44
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Also tv parts.
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May 24, 2020 04:46
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The dude likes to take parts in student films which, besides being really cool, helps to pad out the resume
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May 24, 2020 05:17
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Oscar Isaac has had an incredible solid career.
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May 24, 2020 05:19
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Kinda an esoteric question, but does disinterest factor into how you approach a movie when thinking about it, or do you point to the disinterest as a discussion point? I just watched a movie on Netflix (Tau, featuring Maika Monroe, whom I hope to see in something where she's just not so understandably sad the entire time), and I'm in a chicken-and-the-egg situation where I got bored enough to do something else while it was on... but at the same time, the whole doing-something-else part of it makes it feel unfair to complain about the things I'd complain about, because, you know, the doing-something-else thing.
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Eh, I think "it didn't grab my attention".is valid criticism.
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