The Movie Sucked, But Not Because Of....

[slashgirl]

AKA, the "Good Actors in Bad Movies" thread. Here's the thread to talk about your favorite actors who've made/tried to make lemonade out of the lemons, aka shitty movies, they were stuck with. For example: Hugh Jackman. It's criminal how someone as gorgeous and multi-talented as him could be trapped in suckfests like Swordfish, Someone Like You, Kate and Leopold and Van Helsing. I don't blame him, I blame the writers & directors who apparently didn't know what to do with him-and his agent, who obviously needs to be fired.

What say y'all?

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I think Diego Luna is really talented, so I'm dismayed that he chose to do the cliched crap-fest Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights. He actually makes the movie entertaining, even though it is pretty terrible. Like Hugh Jackman, he deserves so much better.

[whistletops]

AW, I don't think Van Helsing or Kate & Leopold were that bad. I think Hugh Jackman just hasn't been placed with the right female lead to match his awesomeness. I really liked him with Famke Jansen (sorry if I'm not spelling it right!) in X-Men. That chemistry was hot! But Meg Ryan? Puh-leeze!


Other movies that sucked, but not because of...? include:

Star Wars Episode 1: but not because of Liam Neeson. Or the guy who played Watto.

There should be the antithesis to this thread: Movies that Rocked, But Not Because Of...

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I have tried very hard to like Down with Love, but it just isn't happening. So to you, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, and Sarah Paulson, I must say that it's not your fault.

As much as I enjoy it ironically, Some Kind of Wonderful just isn't a good movie. I blame it on the magnetic watchability of Mary Stuart Masterson.

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Sarah Paulson was great in Down with Love, she really fit into her part.
I think part of the reason the movie sucked was because of Renee. She can act well but was not a good casting choice for this movie.

[Camille]

Everyone who's seen that affront to God and Man, House of 1000 Corpses, know that the only redeemable part was badass clown-hillbilly Captain Spaulding played by Sid Haig.

[slashgirl]

While I thought that Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life was a huge pile of suck, I didn't blame Gerard Butler for it. He was the best thing about it, IMO. He's not only funny and smart, he's done more for prematurely gray hair than anyone since George Clooney. Of course, the fact that GB's hot doesn't hurt. Damn Lara for killing him!

However, with Phantom of the Opera, Dear Frankie & The Game of Their Lives, looks like GB's cinematic luck might be changing for the better.

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I'll nominate the ever-brilliant Mark Ruffalo for making the horror that was In the Cut watchable.

[ldhenson]

Magwitch said:

I'll nominate the ever-brilliant Mark Ruffalo for making the horror that was In the Cut watchable.

I'll see your In the Cut and raise you a Collateral. Hated, hated that movie for the massive plotholes that occurred roughly every 1.5 minutes, but at least Ruffalo (who I didn't remember seeing before) was around to ease the pain.

Ditto the above posts re: Hugh Jackman and Van Helsing. Absolute waste of a good actor...waste of a whole good cast, for that matter.

1998's The Man in the Iron Mask used to be one of my guilty pleasures when it first came out, but when it came on TV the other day, I--not having seen it for a couple of years--found myself too embarrassed by the script and directing to sit through more than a couple of minutes. But that's not the fault of either Jeremy's Iron or Gabriel Byrne.

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This is going back a bit, but the 1990 re-make of Desperate Hours? I thought it was pretty bad. The Kelly Lynch character was a disaster and Micky Rourke was just over-the-top. I actually was hoping the kidnappers would shoot the daughter, she was so unlikable. I usually like Anthony Hopkins but his dialogue was so pitiful. (He's separated from his wife because he cheated on her, although his affair is over. He intones, "I left her because she wasn't you" as though he's performing Shakespeare.)

Anyhow, the one character I got into was the female FBI agent with the sarcastic and plucky manner. Looking at Imdb I think the actress must have been Lindsay Crouse. (I can't remember the character's name, so I'm just guessing she must have been the "Brenda Chandler" character.)