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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Me. I'm not in any films.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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 5 points 5 days 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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (17 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise and also 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

THE Harold Zoid!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Gene Hackman had a pretty good run

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

All my life, I would always watch ANY movie that Gene Hackman was in. I never saw him give a bad performance.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

michelle yeoh, she was the only part of STD that was watchable. she has her niche films though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Charles Bronson

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Tom Hanks.

I've never seen a bad Tom Hanks movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Tom Hanks is close, but Cloud Atlas exists.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gene Wilder was the first that came to my mind.

Then Richard Pryor.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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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