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Which actor did not have a single bad film?

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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  • wicked_angel@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Joe Cazale! Only five movies, but all five awarded nominees for Oscar Best Picture!

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me. I’m not in any films.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was going to say Gary Oldman, but then I remembered that Tiptoes wasn’t a fever dream.

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  • snackzilla@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rick moranis?

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    • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I knew it, I’m surrounded by Assholes

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cory Chase

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  • thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jessica Chastain

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  • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Charles Bronson

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look, I love me some Jason Statham being overly British and kicking ass for upward two hours while barely making a face, so I’m going to say Jason Statham.

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    • TheKracken@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you seen the beekeeper? Terrible film.

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      • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No that movie was great.

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      • asqapro@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m constantly astounded that people seem to unironically enjoy that movie. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade so I stay away from discussions about it, but I saw it in theaters (because I also love Jason Statham) and immediately regretted it. It felt like it was written as a joke, but then tried to take itself seriously, and failed at both. I feel like I’m getting pranked by people saying they like that movie.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean… It depends what you consider a bad film.

    IMO, Raul Julia hasn’t been in a single bad movie. And, yes, I have seen Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

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    • lorthirk@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Street Fighter?

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Presumably, that movie was made on a Tuesday.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That movie is good because of Raul Julia.

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  • mrks@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leonardo DiCaprio?

    Churning out good movies since he was a kid.

    Is there a really bad movie with him?

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Romeo and juliet” adaptation was garbage imo

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yo get the fuck out of here that movie is awesome lol… It’s so late 90s it’s almost painful

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    • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Beach is notoriously bad

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      • tmyakal@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Beach was just too weird for the Titanic fans. It was right in the wheelhouse for Danny Boyle fans at the time.

        Of course the book was better, but I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.

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    • pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Titanic was a hit, but in retrospect, horribly overrated and IMHO absolutely cliche, disrespectful, sacrilegious garbage.

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    • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sorry but… Most of them? Especially since it’s his performance that has become poor. He is playing himself more and more. A similar thing happened to Johnny Depp. Look at both of them in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and then at stuff like Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter’s Island, Django / Willy Wonka, Pirates of the Carribean, Shadows, Transcendence. The acting and characters are so similar and they don’t give an effort anymore (or try to, and absolutely overdo it).

      (Sorry I somehow incorporated a Johnny Depp rant in a critic of DiCaprio, their story of decline is just too similar to me. And Gilbert Grape is an amazing movie.)

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    James Dean. Credited in only 3 films (appeared in a few more as an extra):

    • East of Eden
    • Rebel Without a cause
    • Giant

    All 3 are above average on IMDb (> 7).

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  • mortimer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tom Hanks is close, but Cloud Atlas exists.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should make sure to say T. Hanks.

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    • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He is in this abomination of a book adaptation for Incredibly loud and extremely close.

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      • thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I actually kinda liked it and btw it was nominated for best picture

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    • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Elvis. Sully. There’s two right off the top of my head.

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  • Gieselbrecht@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Helge Schneider maybe?

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He doesn’t even like most of his own movies. Dude has no taste it seems.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    michelle yeoh, she was the only part of STD that was watchable.

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    • thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lol EEAAO is not for everyone

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  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not a fan of Tom Cruise and alo never watched the MI franchise, but otherwise he knows how to pick good scripts… Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky, Tropic Thunder, Minority Report, Top Gun, Rain man, Edge of Tomorrow, The Firm. There are still a bunch I never saw so there may be some rotten tomatoes in the basket

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    • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A Few Good Men has my favourite Tom Cruise roll

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    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      His Scientology bullshit creeps me out to the max, but i have to admit that i will watch any movie he makes, because they are always good, and sometimes great.

      Do yourself a favor, and watch the MI series. They are nonsensical but really fun, with some of the best action sequences ever filmed, and he does the stunts himself. They also get better as the series comtinues.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d also add Eyes Wide Shut

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ehhh… Had Kubrick’s name not been attached, nobody would remember that movie at all.

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    • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He DOES have some bad movies, but not many. I really don’t like the guy either, but I like a lot of his movies. You forgot Oblivion and Jerry Maguire for instance.

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    • pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agree he had a very high hit rate, and personal life aside, I enjoy most of his movies.

      But MI:2 and MI:3 are mediocre at best, and Knight and Day and Rock of Ages were massive flops (I haven’t seen either, but i they look horrible). Cocktail earned him a razzie nomination.

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      • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Eyes Wide Shut. What a piece of crap.

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      • Smaagi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t forget The Mummy remake, it was so bad they cancelled the Dark Universe because of it.

        ““Kurtzman called the experience “brutal” and described The Mummy as “probably the biggest failure” of his life.””

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      • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Knight and Day is 100% forgettable straight to streaming crap.

        But Rock of Ages was as good as it could’ve been

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hollywood lore on YouTube hasn’t done a video on him yet.

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  • lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dolly Parton

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  • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like pretty much anything Fred Ward was in. Remo Williams will never die

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    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remo Williams is an under-rated masterpiece. It should have been an extended franchise, but they weren’t really much into that back then.

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      • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        dobermans chasing you up ladders is nightmare fuel.

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    • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Miami Blues was such a treat.

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there a bad Tom Hanks movie? I think maybe Joe Vs The Volcano comes closest, but I still enjoyed it.

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    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Joe vs the Volcano is brilliant!

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    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i am honestly struggling to think of a good movie that man is in, mediocre and pandering are the two words i would use to describe.

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      • 1hitsong@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The burbs. Great movie!

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      • pwnicholson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Saving Private Ryan is at least “very good” if not one of the greatest war movies of all time.

        And The Burbs is classic 80s screwball comedy simmered to perfection (even if it isn’t a 'high art ’ genre)

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    • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Man With One Red Shoe is much worse than Joe Versus the Volcano. And if made for TV movies count, you have to throw in Mazes and Monsters. Oh and Bonfire of the Vanities was a famous flop. And Volunteers was pretty bad. People forget how bad some of his early stuff was.

      Hell, both Forrest Gump and Castaway were tremendously overrated. Also the unwatchable Cloud Atlas and the stupid Dan Brown movies.

      <suddenly dawns on me that Tom Hanks makes a lot of bad movies>

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Forrest Gump…tremendously overrated

        Thank you. I fucking hated Forrest Gump (inspiration porn is not my genre, fictional inspiration porn much less so) so I’m feeling really validated right now.

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      • thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I will not stand for the Cloud Atlas slander.

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      • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tbh I struggle to come up with an actual good and not just mediocre movie that Tom Hanks was in.

        Adding to the trash list: Incredibly loud and extremely close. They massacred the book.

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen more than 3 of his movies, but Heath Ledger seems to have been consistently great.

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    THE Harold Zoid!

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tim Curry.

    And before you tell me he was in some notoriously shit movies, no they weren’t, Tim Curry was in those movies, so they’re great movies.

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    • PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This should have won him a Oscar (BAFTA?)

      youtu.be/K6089Z_NgPk

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That episode of Lexx was good too

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    • loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Muppets Treasure Island. 🎤🫳⬇️

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    • w3dd1e@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love that man.

      youtu.be/U_U59u69tys

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    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Prime example: Oscar (1991)

      It got bad reviews (I loved it) but Curry’s performance was amazing.

      It’s free on YouTube.

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    • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LOL, yup, this.

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably Daniel Day Lewis. He’s extremely picky about what he’s in.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Phantom Thread was amazing… Might need to watch that one again

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      • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My wife and son love that movie, and want to watch it about once a year. I despise it. Boring, and really, really stupid.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gene Wilder was the first that came to my mind.

    Then Richard Pryor.

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  • bigb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gene Hackman had a pretty good run

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was going to say “OJ Simpson”, knowing he was in The Naked Gun. I figured he got the part because of his notority as a football player, and figured it was his only film.

    Turns out he’s been acting since at least the mid 70s. He’s been in lile 15 movies. Which is kind of weird, knowing what he did later.

    So, I guess I can’t say O.J Simpson…

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  • reallyzen@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Daniel Defoe

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bela Lugosi

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Christopher Walken?

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  • KubrickFR@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Viggo Mortensen

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