John Cazale
Which actor did not have a single bad film?
Submitted 2 months ago by thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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harryprayiv@infosec.pub 2 months ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep, this is the one I was scrolling down to find.
Godfather. Godfather 2. The Conversation. Dog Day Afternoon. The Deer Hunter.
All five Best Picture Oscar nominees, three winners.
WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Possibly the only proper answer if we put a minimum on the number of films required to be considered.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 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).
KubrickFR@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Viggo Mortensen
Aganim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If only he skipped Daylight.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably Daniel Day Lewis. He’s extremely picky about what he’s in.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nine was poorly reviewed by critics and audiences.
But otherwise his choices have been solid.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Phantom Thread was amazing… Might need to watch that one again
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gene Wilder was the first that came to my mind.
Then Richard Pryor.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
🎶 Richard Pryor… didn’t have to catch on fire 🎵
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 2 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
pwnicholson@lemmy.world 2 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.
Smaagi@lemm.ee 2 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.””
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eyes Wide Shut. What a piece of crap.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Knight and Day is 100% forgettable straight to streaming crap.
But Rock of Ages was as good as it could’ve been
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 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.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A Few Good Men has my favourite Tom Cruise roll
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
I’d also add Eyes Wide Shut
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ehhh… Had Kubrick’s name not been attached, nobody would remember that movie at all.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hollywood lore on YouTube hasn’t done a video on him yet.
bigb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gene Hackman had a pretty good run
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
All my life, I would always watch ANY movie that Gene Hackman was in. I never saw him give a bad performance.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
The Conversation is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. The feeling you get from that movie is so strange and I love it.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 months ago
THE Harold Zoid!
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Me. I’m not in any films.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 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…
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 2 months ago
He guest starred in an episode of a children’s show “Adventures in Wonderland”. The episode never aired because of the whole murder incident. So the episode was filmed so close to the time of the murder, it didn’t make it to air. Did he know he was going to commit murder while he was acting in a children’s show?
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Were they bad, though?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve never heard of any of them besides the naked gun movies.
So probably.
snackzilla@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rick moranis?
Mesophar@pawb.social 2 months ago
I knew it, I’m surrounded by Assholes
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I haven’t seen more than 3 of his movies, but Heath Ledger seems to have been consistently great.
toofpic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Christopher Walken?
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
A View to a Kill is one of the worst bond movies
bigb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A shame too because it was such a waste to use Walken and Duran Duran in such a crappy movie.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
2 people I know watched Mouse Hunt for the first time this month and both hated it. Not really his movie though, I guess
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Biloxi Blues, baby.
“You would need two promotions to get to be an asshole.”
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bela Lugosi
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I heard from Bauhaus that he’s dead.
the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Undead! Undead! Undead!
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plan 9 from Outer Space!
Dubbed the worst film ever made. To be fair to Bela Lugosi, he had no choice in the matter as he appeared in it film posthumously.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dubbed the worst film ever made.
hey no fair. being tricked as an art student into watching that is a rite of passage
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 months ago
michelle yeoh, she was the only part of STD that was watchable.
thewanderingbackpack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol EEAAO is not for everyone
mortimer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I like pretty much anything Fred Ward was in. Remo Williams will never die
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Charles Bronson
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 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.
Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I feel like in order for an actor to have many good movies/roles they should have a couppla bad ones. Builds character.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 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.
mrks@programming.dev 2 months ago
Leonardo DiCaprio?
Churning out good movies since he was a kid.
Is there a really bad movie with him?
Gieselbrecht@feddit.org 2 months ago
Helge Schneider maybe?
wicked_angel@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Joe Cazale! Only five movies, but all five awarded nominees for Oscar Best Picture!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I was going to say Gary Oldman, but then I remembered that Tiptoes wasn’t a fever dream.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Cory Chase
lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dolly Parton
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is there a bad Tom Hanks movie? I think maybe Joe Vs The Volcano comes closest, but I still enjoyed it.
reallyzen@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Daniel Defoe
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 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.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Prime example: Oscar (1991)
It got bad reviews (I loved it) but Curry’s performance was amazing.
It’s free on YouTube.
libra00@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LOL, yup, this.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I love that man.
youtu.be/U_U59u69tys
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Muppets Treasure Island. 🎤🫳⬇️
PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This should have won him a Oscar (BAFTA?)
youtu.be/K6089Z_NgPk
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That episode of Lexx was good too