When good actors go bad...

Be careful - you did the same thing regarding Cuba Gooding! ;) :D

But Cuba has had some good roles, it's just that they're few and far between and for every good role he has, he does a dozen others like Snow Dogs that if they aren't direct to video then they should be.
 
I've not seen a whole lot of movies with Al Pacino, but I would have to think his all time low has got to be Jack and Jill. That movie was just SO bad.
 
I Love Star Wars....and Lukes charator....but really Mark Hamill in " Corvette Summer".....
 
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"I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

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I gotta go with Mel Gibson on this one.

Reasoning being that he's gone SO bad, that it has made his previous roles hard to watch.

And it's not even an acting level, although there are a few that made me shake my head, but how he's handled his career makes it very difficult to see anything but crazy Mel behind those roles.

and I WANT TO LOVE this guy... he was friggin William Wallace. Martin Riggs. Mad Max.
 
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I gotta go with Mel Gibson on this one.

Reasoning being that he's gone SO bad, that it has made his previous roles hard to watch.

And it's not even an acting level, although there are a few that made me shake my head, but how he's handled his career makes it very difficult to see anything but crazy Mel behind those roles.

and I WANT TO LOVE this guy... he was friggin William Wallace. Martin Riggs. Mad Max.

Wait a minute... Are we talking about TOM CRUISE here...?
 
To be fair, Caligula is two movies. They were making a great epic, it's just that after they were done it got handed to someone else who decided that it needed to be a great porno. You can still almost see the scraps of decent movie hidden underneath.

Also, with Michael Cain, that's not his only stinker. He's actually known for saying yes to almost any script. It's worked out for him... No one remembers the stinkers after enough time passes, only the hits remain.
 
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Yea, Caligula is unique situation. The movie was made, and the reedit end after the fact.

Lou Gossett Jr wins the Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman and then immediately does Jaws 3D.
 
To be fair, Caligula is two movies. They were making a great epic, it's just that after they were done it got handed to someone else who decided that it needed to be a great porno. You can still almost see the scraps of decent movie hidden underneath.
From my understanding the production essentially scammed the great actors into that production. Bob Guccione hired Gore Vidal to write the screenplay but fully intended to alter it into a big budget porno. I say the actors were "scammed" because Guccione is no fool. He wouldn't expect actors, like Sir John Gielgud, to take the part if they knew the sexual content in advance. I had no doubt he deceived even the screenwriters to get their commitment while conceiving of ways to insert (no pun intended) the sexual content covertly in post.
 
To be fair, Caligula is two movies. They were making a great epic, it's just that after they were done it got handed to someone else who decided that it needed to be a great porno. You can still almost see the scraps of decent movie hidden underneath.

Also, with Michael Cain, that's not his only stinker. He's actually known for saying yes to almost any script. It's worked out for him... No one remembers that stinkers after enough time passes, only the hits remain.

There's a joke that Cain reads a script and if he's in the first and the last scene he'll take the job.
 
Marlon Brando in everything after superman,

Gotta disagree with ya big time, Wes. Brando was great in Apocalypse Now, an excellent film, which came out a year after Superman. And a bit more recently, he was terrific in both Don Juan DeMarco and The Freshman...also two excellent films--especially the latter.

That's not to say he didn't have his fair share of duds in his career--he did. In particular, the decade between Mutiny on the Bounty and The Godfather. Having said that, Brando possessed such a magnetic and primal presence, I found him compelling to watch, even in the bad movies I've seen him in.

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