OT: Movie question
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That's great for making money, but I assumed the OP was talking about making a run of good movies. Those are mostly fine for what they are and a few are good, but batman forever and me, myself, and irene were pretty awful.
You shut your ***** mouth!!!
Seriously, I thought Elf was bad the first time I watched it because I wasn't expecting a true kids movie with Will Farrell. He was apparently cast before Old School came out and the people involved were apparently worried after Old School's success whether Will Farrell being involved would scare families off.
Now that I've gone back and watched it with kids, it's actually great for a kids movie. Kids love it and there's enough humor for parents to make it reasonably enjoyable for them too.
It's awful. Never understood how people think it's funny. And I love Ferrell's comedy.
He'd be up there but I think I'd put Tom Cruise above him as far as avoiding terrible movies. He was in basically zero flops. Has a lot of movies like mission impossible that don't come with high expectations, but almost all of them are entertaining and good enough for what they are.
ETA: To clarify that I'm just talking about having a high percentage of his movies be good. Don't really like Tom Cruise (although it's impressive that he's managed to convince people he's an action star at like 5'4"), but he has been in good movies and a wide variety of movies and not many bad ones (as long as you take things like Mission Impossible for what they are and don't expect legitimately strong movies from them).
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The absolute slam dunk answer is..
Robert Downey Jr.
2008 Iron Man
2008 Tropic Thunder
2009 The Soloist
2009 Sherlock Holmes
2010 Iron Man 2
2011 Sherlock Holmes 2
2012 The Avengers
2013 Iron Man 3
2014 Chef
2014 The Judge
2015 Avengers Ultron
2016 Captain America Civil War
2017 Spiderman Homecoming
2018 Avengers IW
2019 Avengers Endgame
Robert Downey Jr.
2008 Iron Man
2008 Tropic Thunder
2009 The Soloist
2009 Sherlock Holmes
2010 Iron Man 2
2011 Sherlock Holmes 2
2012 The Avengers
2013 Iron Man 3
2014 Chef
2014 The Judge
2015 Avengers Ultron
2016 Captain America Civil War
2017 Spiderman Homecoming
2018 Avengers IW
2019 Avengers Endgame
I didn't care for it. A few of Hanks's movies, like Sully and Captain Phillips, really seem lazy and self-congratulatory to me. As if they had to rush to make a movie about a real life hero and Hanks is the guy who has to play all of them. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood could also qualify, although I think it's a much better movie than the others due to the overlying story arc of the writer.
I never thought that out of all the Will Ferrell movies, that Elf would garner this type of reaction.
Gene Hackman: extremely underrated. Here are a list of some of his pictures over about a fifteen year span:
Mississippi Burning
The Package
Postcards from the Edge
Unforgiven
The Firm
Geronimo: An American Legend
Wyatt Earp
The Quick and the Dead
Crimson Tide
Get Shorty
The Birdcage
Extreme Measures
The Chamber
Absolute Power
Twilight
Enemy of the State
Under Suspicion
The Replacements
Heartbreakers
Heist
Behind Enemy Lines
The Royal Tennenbaums
Runaway Jury
Welcome to Mooseport
I would split the difference: 1992 - 2002.
You miss Bonfire of the Vanities which was awful (if the book was published in 2017 instead of 1987, it'd be adapted to a limited series and be much better) and an okay Joe Versus the Volcano and end with Road to Perdition and Catch Me If You Can.
Edit: LawDawg97 Germansed me here.
You miss Bonfire of the Vanities which was awful (if the book was published in 2017 instead of 1987, it'd be adapted to a limited series and be much better) and an okay Joe Versus the Volcano and end with Road to Perdition and Catch Me If You Can.
Edit: LawDawg97 Germansed me here.
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Lots of good ones mentioned and everyone will have their list.
For me, Comedy movies rarely are good movies. Even the great ones that make me laugh such as dumb and dumber, have a plot that will make you puke. I will never consider them great actors but rather great comedians, which is another class of entertainer to me.
All the actors mentioned had great runs but none of them bring the presence that Bogart brought on the screen. So for me, it's Bogart ... so far.
For me, Comedy movies rarely are good movies. Even the great ones that make me laugh such as dumb and dumber, have a plot that will make you puke. I will never consider them great actors but rather great comedians, which is another class of entertainer to me.
All the actors mentioned had great runs but none of them bring the presence that Bogart brought on the screen. So for me, it's Bogart ... so far.
I noticed no one considered Marlon Brando.
I wouldn't put him in there either for a decade run but I do wonder if it's because I have not seen them all.
His best movies that I know about don't fall in the same decades but it's hard to deny the shear power of A Streetcar Named Desire and The God Father decades apart.
Then you go look at his stuff and it's no wonder some consider him the "GOAT". On the Water Front, The Wild One, Julius Ceasar, Mutiny on the Bounty, Apocalypse Now among dozens of others. Hell, The Island of Dr. Moreau was crazy. Anyway, food for thought.
I wouldn't put him in there either for a decade run but I do wonder if it's because I have not seen them all.
His best movies that I know about don't fall in the same decades but it's hard to deny the shear power of A Streetcar Named Desire and The God Father decades apart.
Then you go look at his stuff and it's no wonder some consider him the "GOAT". On the Water Front, The Wild One, Julius Ceasar, Mutiny on the Bounty, Apocalypse Now among dozens of others. Hell, The Island of Dr. Moreau was crazy. Anyway, food for thought.
Any of you see his new movie “News of the World?”
As far as Sully goes I don’t think Hanks was masterful but I thought the telling of the story was making it a great movie. I thought Aaron Eckhart was really good in it.
As far as Sully goes I don’t think Hanks was masterful but I thought the telling of the story was making it a great movie. I thought Aaron Eckhart was really good in it.
This 13 year Stallone run is dynamite:
- 1976: Rocky
- 1978: F.I.S.T.
- 1978: Paradise Alley
- 1979: Rocky II
- 1981: Nighthawks
- 1981: Escape to Victory
- 1982: Rocky III
- 1982: First Blood
- 1983: Staying Alive
- 1984: Rhinestone
- 1985: Rambo: First Blood Part II
- 1985: Rocky IV
- 1986: Cobra
- 1987: Over the Top
- 1988: Rambo III
- 1989: Lock Up
- 1989: Tango & Cash
I see three good movies on that list. Rocky, Rocky Vs Communism, and First Blood.
Agreed....but Cobra has it's own charm....
I've always wanted to be bad enough to rip someone's shirt like this...
Also, the most wtf moment of the movie comes right after this scene where Cobra eats cold pizza out of the fridge with a pair of scissors while still wearing his leather gloves, lol.
NSFW dialogue, but even in smalls roles he just kills it. He's in Hard Eight for 3 minutes and it's fantastic
This is the correct answer. You can also look up Gary Cooper and Paul Newman and find 20 year stretches of strong films that did great at the box office.
The Two Mrs. Carrolls was also produced during that stretch with Bogart in the lead and that film is BAD ***!
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Tango and Cash was good for its unintentional comedy, general hokiness, and a young Teri Hatcher.
Don't get the appeal of either. Even when they were young, they were just everyday attractive; average or below average for hollywood.
Tango and Cash is an epic 80’s action film. In the edited words of Peter Griffith “It doesn’t insist upon itself.” I belly laugh every time I hear “Is this the way you screen all of your guests?”