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[pants]

Where did this Nic Cage as a good actor meme start? Someone was stoned off their nut that day.

 

[LakeEarth]

Like Hayden Christensen was undeniably one of the reasons the Star Wars prequels sucked, and he is not a great actor.

Come on, no one could put out a good performance with the script they were given. Natalie Portman, Samuel L Jackson. Ewan McGregor is the only one who somehow got through it half decently.

 

[UglyPony]

John Travolta in this piece of shit:

 

[Yrael]

Anthony Hopkins in Thor 2.

Anthony Hopkins is a world class actor - it honestly felt like he phoned it in though as Odin. Tom Hiddleston was a much better performer than Hopkins in the Thor movies. He basically stole every scene he was in in Thor 2.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

It wasn't a shit movie by any means, but Judi Dench in Chronicles of Riddick stands out as an incredibly strange casting choice.

 

[karasu]

Bullshit, name one really shitty movie with Leonardo Dicaprio in it after becoming a star.

Ok but he takes literally no chances. He only works with the biggest most established directors and like %80 of his movies are biographies.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It wasn't a shit movie by any means, but Judi Dench in Chronicles of Riddick stands out as an incredibly strange casting choice.

Vin Diesel was a fan of Judi Dench and really wanted her in the movie.

 

[Slammin_Hammon]

Pretty much any good actor in a recent Adam Sandler movie would qualify, with Al Pacino's role in "Jack & Jill" being the most disturbing example.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Donald Pleasence, the man turned in solid performances across the board but somehow he ended up in stuff like The Pumaman. The Pumaman. The Pumaman.


The Pumaman.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

All the random well-known actors who appeared in the Uwe Boll videogame movies. I mean, he had Ben Kingsley, Jurgen Prochnow, John Rhys-Davies, Michelle Rodriguez, and Dolph Lundgren at one point or another.

 

[funkystudent]

Anthony Hopkins in Thor 2.

Wha...

I did not realise that was him. I thought it was just some random character actor.

 

[AlmostMilk]

George Clooney is a pretty good actor and most of his movies are pretty bad.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

Nic Cage is honestly a great actor but fucking terrible at choosing scripts. Anyone who thinks he sucks at acting needs to see Leaving Las Vegas, Bad Lieutenant, Adaptation, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, the list goes on and on.

 

[Uncle_Classy]

Sam Jackson in the Star Wars Prequels. Yeesh.

 

[Turin]

In retrospect I guess you could say this about a lot of McConaughey's movies.

I don't know, there's a lot. Jack Nicholson's been in some crappy comedies. Christian Bale was in Exodus. Daniel Day Lewis was in Nine.

 

[ZackieChan]

Wha...

I did not realise that was him. I thought it was just some random character actor.

Did you have patches over BOTH of your eyes when you watched it (and the first)? It's obviously him...

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Vin Diesel was a fan of Judi Dench and really wanted her in the movie.

Oh, that's pretty groovy.

Spoiler

I'm trying to bring groovy back.

 

[funkystudent]

Did you have patches over BOTH of your eyes when you watched it (and the first)? It's obviously him...

Well I guess the beard, full head of long white hair and body suit put me off.

 

[Discotheque]

Christian Bale and moreso nicolas cage have been in a bunch of garbage

 

[M.W.]

Russell Crowe in Gladiator

 

[neorej]

Dungeon Siege

I still have no idea how or why Ron Perlman, Jason Statham and Anthony Rhys Davies got in that movie.

 

[GCX]

Sam Jackson in the Star Wars Prequels. Yeesh.

Why'd you pick Samuel Jackson when there's actors like Christopher Lee in the prequels. I mean Jackson has acted in dozens on bad movies.

 

[PinkCrayon]

Vin Diesel was a fan of Judi Dench and really wanted her in the movie.

Respect.

 

[Copenap]

Wasn't there some additional trivia about Raul Julia in Street Fighter? Something like he did it for his kid?

 

[pashmilla]

Wasn't there some additional trivia about Raul Julia in Street Fighter? Something like he did it for his kid?

He was dying of stomach cancer and asked his kids to choose his last role for him.

 

[karasu]

Nic Cage is honestly a great actor but fucking terrible at choosing scripts. Anyone who thinks he sucks at acting needs to see Leaving Las Vegas, Bad Lieutenant, Adaptation, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, the list goes on and on.

All of those happened before his obsession with Elvis took over his soul.

 

[unholyrevenger72]

Link to this? I don't remember him ever being considered, and I was following these ravenously from the beginning. Are you just confusing fan casting for reality?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,444330,00.html

It's not in this link but they offered Connery a percentage of lotr's box office gross, and he said no....

 

[Dereck]

Sorry all, but I win:



Halle Berry.
Hugh Jackman.
Kate Winslet.
Emma Stone.
Richard Gere.
Naomi Watts.

All of those enviable A-listers in the same movie. Unfortunately, it turned out to be one of the worst films of all time.

I don't even know what blackmail the director hung over them for them to actually agree to appear in this vile shitfest, but it must have been juicy.

This movie suuuuucked

 

[unholyrevenger72]

This movie suuuuucked

The Movie peaked with Hugh Jackman's Scrotum Chin then it was downhill from there

 

[Zeus Molecules]

Bullshit, name one really shitty movie with Leonardo Dicaprio in it after becoming a star.

was he a star by the time the beach came out? Because that was one shitty movie.

Also Tim Roth in "Legend of 1900"

 

[nai]

Kevin Spacey in Horrible Bosses 1 & 2.

 

[Extra Sauce]

This thread should be renamed The Nicolas Cage OT.

It's easy to forget he's a great actor but please check out Joe if you need a reminder.

 

[jufonuk]

Orson Welles in The Transformers: The Movie playing the planet eater Unicron.

You saying the animated movie is shit ? What and bayformers is better?

You know in your heart if they made a live action cgi remake shot for shot of the animated film, it would be the best movie ever .. Don't argue with me or you will be as popular as wheelie ... Ok actually if they took wheelie out of the remake it would rule..

 

[Travo]

Jeremy Irons in Eragon.

 

[Jigorath]

Dev Patel was about the only decent part of The Last Airbender. I really liked him as Zuko, just too bad he didn't have a better film to accompany his performance.

 

[Malreyn]

Spoiler

Frank Langella

as Skeletor

 

[Lashley]

Bryan Cranston in Godzilla. He was the only bright spot in that garbage film.

This.

What an utterly shit movie that was, didn't understand the hype.

 

[Lashley]

Nic Cage is honestly a great actor but fucking terrible at choosing scripts. Anyone who thinks he sucks at acting needs to see Leaving Las Vegas, Bad Lieutenant, Adaptation, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, the list goes on and on.

What!?

"Shoot him again....His souls still dancing"

So bad it's good, that's what that film is.

 

[Jason Frost]

Nearly every Robert De Niro film for the past 15 years.

So depressing.

.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Vin Diesel was a fan of Judi Dench and really wanted her in the movie.

How can anyone not be a fan of Judi Dench?

 

[Death Metalist]

Benicio Del Toro in Big Top Pee-Wee (A terrible sequel to Pee Wee's Big Adventure).

 

[impact]

Ledger in The Dark Knight

The only time the movie wasn't shit was when he was on screen. What a hard carry.

 

[Hatchtag]

Kevin Spacey in Horrible Bosses 1 & 2.

How about the entire cast of Horrible Bosses 1 & 2.
Kevin Spacey, the chick from Friends and Office Space, Charlie Day, Arrested Development man, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Fox, and the other male lead are all people whose movies I tend to like, yet somehow theses movies still sucked.

 

[Yaponchik]

Any actor in any movie ever directed by Uwe Boll.

 

[pa22word]

I'd go with this piece of work

Yeeeeep.

Peter O'Toole as Tiberius makes it worth watching, though. He killed that role in every way imaginable.

 

[Ushojax]

So I was flipping through the channels and Dungeons and Dragons (2000) came on, and I noticed Jeremy Irons was in it, hamming it up. Why? I'm not exactly sure.

Money. That or contractual obligation (and therefore money).

 

[Shin Kojima]

 

[Ferrio]

Bob Hoskins in Mario Bros. He even regretted that one.

“The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.”
—Bob Hoskins

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Bob Hoskins in Mario Bros. He even regretted that one.

“The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin' nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.”
—Bob Hoskins

fuckin lol
RIP Bob.

 

[MormaPope]

Nic Cage is honestly a great actor but fucking terrible at choosing scripts. Anyone who thinks he sucks at acting needs to see Leaving Las Vegas, Bad Lieutenant, Adaptation, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, the list goes on and on.

Thank you.