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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week 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.

Prime example: Oscar (1991)

It got bad reviews (I loved it) but Curry’s performance was amazing.

It’s free on YouTube.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

LOL, yup, this.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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).

[–] harryprayiv@infosec.pub 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Possibly the only proper answer if we put a minimum on the number of films required to be considered.

[–] KubrickFR@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Nine was poorly reviewed by critics and audiences.

But otherwise his choices have been solid.

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[–] bigb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gene Hackman had a pretty good run

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gene Wilder was the first that came to my mind.

Then Richard Pryor.

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[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

THE Harold Zoid!

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

Me. I'm not in any films.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I was going to say "OJ Simpson", knowing he was in The Naked Gun. I figured he got the part because of his notority as a football player, and figured it was his only film.

Turns out he's been acting since at least the mid 70s. He's been in lile 15 movies. Which is kind of weird, knowing what he did later.

So, I guess I can't say O.J Simpson.....

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] Smaagi@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week 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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[–] snackzilla@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I heard from Bauhaus that he's dead.

Undead! Undead! Undead!

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A View to a Kill is one of the worst bond movies

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

A shame too because it was such a waste to use Walken and Duran Duran in such a crappy movie.

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[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Tom Hanks.

I've never seen a bad Tom Hanks movie.

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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Jeff Stryker.

[–] Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago

I feel like in order for an actor to have many good movies/roles they should have a couppla bad ones. Builds character.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 week 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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Charles Bronson

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

The Robinson Crusoe author?

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Is there a bad Tom Hanks movie? I think maybe Joe Vs The Volcano comes closest, but I still enjoyed it.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The Man With One Red Shoe is much worse than Joe Versus the Volcano. And if made for TV movies count, you have to throw in Mazes and Monsters. Oh and Bonfire of the Vanities was a famous flop. And Volunteers was pretty bad. People forget how bad some of his early stuff was.

Hell, both Forrest Gump and Castaway were tremendously overrated. Also the unwatchable Cloud Atlas and the stupid Dan Brown movies.

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