he's hot but like in a boy next door kinda way? i'm not into muscular guys and i still think he's cute. seems like the type who helps old ladies carry their shopping bags lol
He would unironically be the most KINO choice for an Old Max in a Mad Max film. His physique in Swinging Safari is perfect for the role. I like Hardy but it fricking sucks as Max and is easily the worst part of what is otherwise a masterpiece.
Bro his wife pushes him, also he was screwed in age of Ultron. Not even a cameo in Wandavision.
Now hes playing Kraven, damn wish I had a producer mommy to nepotism my way into films. He was even the lead in that King Kong movie with the olsen twin.
A lot of these guys seem likeable enough but they seem to have either bad luck in picking projects or lack some quality like on-screen charisma.
I think most people on Cinemaphile like Henry Caville but he's another example of this, Superman was shit and he's only done shit aside from that
I've never watched that but yeah I can imagine it.
I saw him in this absolute D-grade Bourne Identity ripoff called "The Cold Light of Day" which was terrible and The Man From UNCLE. I added the part about bad luck because he seems to gravitate towards these terrible projects, and he doesn't have the charisma to save them.
Kek, as much as I liked Fallout it comes across that they only decided during film he would be the villain, like they wrote the story around action films in the same way Naughty Dog wrote Uncharted around the setpieces/locations. I think I would have preferred Cavill's character as some wildcard anti-hero. He will be Ethan's enemy or ally depending on the situation and be unpredictable because he's peak glowBlack person. He'd definitely be more of a welcome recurring character than that guy Renner played in 4 and 5.
He's like the opposite of Ben Foster, tons of charisma but almost 0 talent. He was great as Napoleon Solo in the U.N.C.L.E. movie. Don't know why he is not James Bond right now.
He had his shot in Pandorum, after that, he did Punisher and people realized he read better as a likeable loser >films women will never get: the offshoot post
Ben Foster is a great actor. He was in the "3:10 to Yuma" remake which was excellent. He was in Alpha Dog which I actually thing was good. And he was in "Hell or High Water" which is an underrated modern Western movie.
He is kino in every film. Same with Hackman. There are just some actors that immediately elevate any movie theh are in. Foster is def one of them. The problem is he is such a good supporting actor that making him the main actor just doesn't really work because everyone else is inferior at supporting.
He's got the talent but I get the feeling he doesn't really want to be part of the bullshit holywood circle so he sticks to quality work, its like a better looking Giovanni Ribisi
In 3:10 to Yuma he literally holds his fricking own on the screen against Russell fricking Crowe and Dubsman himself Christian fricking Bale. How the frick did his career not blow up?
A lot of the time after the mainsteam box office successes fail they pursue more prestige projects. Like I know Kitsch did Waco. Haven't seen it but that's him attempting to be more serious as opposed to John Carter or X-Men
I also get the feeling that after a few mainstream movies he had enough wealth where he was set for life and wasn't too interested in big salaries. I remember some article where he said he'd bought a huge farm in Texas and was spending most of his time there.
John Carter was more fun than I thought it would be. Honest disappointed it didn't do well enough to get a sequel. I guess the world needed more star wars and capeshit.
It strikes as one of those movies that needs to lean far more into the practical effects in order to have charm, especially if it's trying to lean into the age of John Carter books and all it inspired. Like that white yeti monster thing needs to lean more into RotJ rancor than being a cgi flailing abomination. This isn't a CGI IS LE BAD thing but if that movie had to have a marketing gimmick, it would be both stressing how old the source material is and how the movie will also be an old throwback to shit from the era it came from and the classics of sci fi it inspired
The real failure of CGI is that it has been used as a replacement to practical FX instead of being used as a crutch to propel practical to new heights.
Maybe we'll see squibs in action films again.
Would a younger Tim Olyphant have been a better John Carter? I'm not familiar with the material but Kitsch doesn't have much screen presence, Olyphant is a kino chad, proven himself as being able to play a Victorian-era American in Deadwood, and I know at least that Carter is some Civil War vet
John Carter was an absolute blast and I dunno, timing, promotion, the universe,someone somewhere frick'd up
It didn't have thong-wearing alien girls, but still was a great movie
He's hamming it up and trying to desperately to appear badass, best of all is Topher Grace being some sort of lethal serial killer. That guy has the most punchable face in Hollywood second only to Matthew Broderick's.
>whatever happened to christian slater?
He had a bunch of mainstream movie theater bombs, probably starting around the time ‘Hard Rain’ was released.
He wound up in worse and worse movies, including direct to video films, which at the time weren’t considered a good sign for an actor.
He later tried switching to TV roles, but had three TV shows that failed in a row.
‘My Own Worst Enemy’
‘The Forgotten’
and ‘Breaking In’.
I honestly liked ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ and ‘Breaking In’, but I presume the shows cost too much for their ratings, so all got cancelled.
He also did a TV show called ‘Mind Games’ which I have no recollection of.
It’s possible ‘Mr Robot’ may help revamp his career, but he’s mostly been direct to video, cameos, and B-movie work, and voice work.
>whatever happened to christian slater?
Drugs and alcohol, burning bridges and being "difficult" while not being a israelite and/or sucking dick. He has a mother who is in the industry which is how he got started, but not enough to warrant a comeback or it would have happened by now. He just pissed off the wrong people while high and quasi-blacklisted himself.
>Drugs and alcohol, burning bridges and being "difficult" while not being a israelite and/or sucking dick. He has a mother who is in the industry which is how he got started, but not enough to warrant a comeback or it would have happened by now. He just pissed off the wrong people while high and quasi-blacklisted himself.
He went to the same school, where a certain “dead guy”, who used to own a private island taught.
As did his ‘Pump Up the Volume’ costar.
>Samantha Mathis serviced Jeffrey Epstein's clients/victims? Young Samantha Mathis fricked Bill Clinton?????
Not as far as I’m aware, but Epstein taught at a high end private school, and if I remember correctly, both Mathis and Slater were students at the school, I’m not sure whether at the sane time as Epstein, but it makes one wonder.
He was more of a brat pack style guy a few years too late. Had a similar career to Winona ryder actually. He is very talented but i have never thought of him as a failed action star
He's the love child of Nic Cage and Jack Nicholson but has none of the talent.
He's a terrible, horrible actor. I saw him in The West Wing a few weeks back and I couldn't stand him.
He's good when he's unabashedly doing a Nicholson impression, even some light comedy, and like Nicholson, he's pretty bad when he tries to go outside that range. The problem was that ultimately nobody wanted some goy running around doing imitation Jack Nicholson. It's ok to be 'discount', but you can't just steal a guys persona.
I wouldn't mind seeing this premise played straight for once and realistically. I guess A History of Violence sort of did but I mean with maybe some ex spec ops guy who did something very shady before going dark and getting a new identity. You'd probably need ex spec op consultants to really pull the shit off though
You'd have do a shit ton of research into real life spec ops stuff to see how those guys think, what tricks they have, etc. in order to come up with intense but grounded scenarios for the movie.
>I wouldn't mind seeing this premise played straight for once and realistically. I guess A History of Violence sort of did but I mean with maybe some ex spec ops guy who did something very shady before going dark and getting a new identity. You'd probably need ex spec op consultants to really pull the shit off though
This occasionally happens in real life.
Usually, the former spook/spec ops guy walks away, so nobody knows who was attacked.
In other instances, police or other parties bury the incident, since former spooks are usually on “protected lists” and usually won’t get prosecuted in foreign countries, just maybe deported, or they’re protected in their own countries, except in extreme cases.
I believe a couple of the incidents have been mentioned over on /k/.
One involved some German skinheads who decided to attack some old Russian/East European guy. The guy was former KGB or something, supposedly the guy was released within a day. I think the skinheads might have been killed.
I'm more aware of Wyatt Russell than Scott Eastwood. Yeah, yeah, he's half israelite and all that but I like him as an actor. He seems to be doing his own thing by portraying unhinged crazy buttholes or somebody with some type of issue/dark past rather than aping Kurt as the everyman/gigachad badass
Actually I think he's both more charismatic and a better actor than his dad, but there's no place for a Clint Eastwood type actor anymore, times changed.
I looked up pic related and couldn't believe he's 57 years old. He should have had a bigger career, he's got the look and is decent even in shitty shows or movies
dont forget raising hope. he was the best character. pretty much carried the show on his own shoulders. the episode where he raises a guide pig is one of the best TV eps ever
Clive Owen is too much of a rough wienerney type rather than a smooth, suave type that fits Bond. Although to be fair Craig also had like zero charisma as Bond but he still got 5 movies.
>X-men (2000) >Swordfish (2001) >X-men (2003) >Van Helsing (2004) >X-men (2006) >The Prestige (2007)
C'mon now, Jackman did kino after kino in the meantime, don't bullshit on the internet
He got famous because of Wolverine. When he was announced to play the character many laughed because he was just known as a tall stage actor doing musicals. He proved himself and also because famous for playing a well recognized character. One Logan came out everyone forgot about this guy outside of his meme videos with Reynolds (where all they talked about is Wolvie and DP doing a movie).
>One Logan came out everyone forgot about this guy
He's got a show on Broadway. He made his giant capeshit bucks, now is doing those musicals he loves, probably will make a big budget one like The Greatest Showman in his lifetime too. Dude's getting old too.
Nah, Jackman is kino in everything and hardly anything he does bombs. He just did a shit ton of X-Men movies but he's so good he couldn't be type casted anyway.
>who remembers this? after the rock did well in movies, they tried the same with stone cold.
I haven’t watched that yet.
The director’s previous film was a B-movie starring Andre Braugher called ‘A Better Way to Die’ that I really liked.
>I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
Billy Zane has appeared in a lot of direct to video B-movies, including ‘Only You’ which starred Downey.
Downey needed money when he made this film, from what I read at some point, and he was paid somewhat decently given where his career was at that point.
>I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
“ Robert Downey, Jr. admits that the only reason he appeared in this film was "Five hundred grand for two weeks".”
Given the plot of this, and movies like ‘Sahara’, it’s possible somebody was using this film to point out some major corporation dumping toxic waste somewhere in Africa.
One of the characters in the film is named “Dupont”, and the plot involves uranium , which the French mine in various areas of Northwest Africa.
Interesting facts about a film nobody's ever heard of. Cinemaphile can be brilliant sometimes.
>I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
“ Robert Downey, Jr. admits that the only reason he appeared in this film was "Five hundred grand for two weeks".”
Given the plot of this, and movies like ‘Sahara’, it’s possible somebody was using this film to point out some major corporation dumping toxic waste somewhere in Africa.
One of the characters in the film is named “Dupont”, and the plot involves uranium , which the French mine in various areas of Northwest Africa.
>Sahara
wasnt the point that the meme solar burning furnace wasnt quick enough to burn all the toxic waste? It worked but in order to pay for itself the corporate guy had to lay about its efficiency and take more waste than he could liquidated
I remember watching this on showtime or starz or some shit way back in the day and it was pretty boring. Action is shot like shit, not enough stone cold or vinnie jones.
This was made by WWE Films. They have a bunch of movies with different wrestlers headlining. I think it's just Vince trying to get more out of his talent pool, which isn't a bad idea on paper.
>This was made by WWE Films. They have a bunch of movies with different wrestlers headlining. I think it's just Vince trying to get more out of his talent pool, which isn't a bad idea on paper.
Professional wrestlers are used to get banged around in the ring.
If you want to shoot an action movie, a professional wrestler is likely in far better shape, and far safer to use than a regular trained actor. Even if you don’t use them for every action shot, if you need somebody to roll over a table, the wrestler is far less likely to get injured or object.
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen ‘Nemesis’, but Olivier Gruner was not only a kickboxing champion, but also a former French Navy Marine Commando, and they had him doing stunts most actors wouldn’t do, like running away from a giant concrete silo as it was demolished with explosives, and sliding down the side of some other buildings on site that were already partially destroyed.
Yeah anyone with real world fighting experience handles themselves better physically in movies and they have to make less cuts in editing. I remember the old Double Dragon movie with Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf. They use 10x as many cuts for Wolf than Dacascos.
the idea that wrasslan fighters are/were being pushed as fitting the envelope as movie stars boggles me to this day.
Especially the fact that we still haven't seen The Shockmaster make his debut in a movie.
Sam Worthington. The one thing I remember about him was that he kept dropping his American accent in Black Ops at random moments and it bugged the shit out of me.
This guy was so generic. It was that period when all the 80s guys were washed out and cruise was on a down turn of sorts and they kept throwing all these generic, emotionless action heroes at us.
He is one of the main reasons i hate Avatar and he didn't do terminator salvation any favors.
Just a fricking void.
Two classic weird choices for leading action star roles was Vincent Price starring in the Last Man on Earth which was later remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend. Yup he was the Will Smith role the guy who usually played comic villains. It was one of the first survival horror films too with zombies and vampires in apocalyptic Earth. Shame Price didn't play more heroic roles. Then you got Kevin Kline in Silverado as the best gunslinger hero in it, enough said.
Nobody's mentioned Dougray Scott who for some reason Hollywood producers wanted to make him Wolverine, James Bond and King Leonidas but Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler must've sucked better wieners and got more famous. He was like in that third Mission Impossible film vs Tom Cruise and um his career died. Jesus even Henry Cavill and John Cena have had better careers.
I thought Steve Zahn did pretty good opposite Matthew McConaughey in Sahara as his partner, too bad he didn't do more action roles. But he's like a blonde Jack Black
Jeremy Renner. They even wanted to set him up in Mission Impossible and Bourne franchises but nothing happpened.
This guy sings too
>IT'S RAININ' MEN...
kino
now i wanna buy a jeep, thanks renner
weak chin, he doesn't have a movie star profile
His chin is fine. He does look like an aging lesbian though.
He looks like Billy Joel
There are some days where I randomly think about Renner’s social media app and laugh.
Him in SWAT was unironically kino tho
What the frick happened to Stifler? He used to be everywhere and now he's nowhere.
He aged... The times moved on and he isn't rlly that good of an actor or that handsome
He's really likeable though. Kind of surprising he was never cast in a capeshit movie. He would have fit really well.
>Kind of surprising he was never cast in a capeshit movie. He would have fit really well.
Bulletproof Monk
Wasn’t he in Blade 2?
Nah, he's a total hunk
he's hot but like in a boy next door kinda way? i'm not into muscular guys and i still think he's cute. seems like the type who helps old ladies carry their shopping bags lol
He didnt want to do it anymore and got married. Probably realized how fricked up hollyweird is and got out before was too late.
He talked about how fricked up the industry is a few times. But openly shit talking Mr. Woodwiener during promotion is probably what canned him.
He didn't pursue his career, he acts now and then but apparently it's not his main source of income.
He was a one note character actor and had a more solid career than not even most character actors but most actors period. He did fine
He kept a private life in the time when Hollywood was pushing knowing 24/7 what your favorite actor was up to. He also got typecasted
Still doing better than the shermanator
He could play Cumberbatch's son in movies!
Holy frick thats sad
>Holy frick thats sad
He took a chance and failed, millions others like him in hollywood. Its actually rare to make it big.
I know, its just that im also half his age and getting paid more than him by a fair metric.
Yeah he fricked up, he put all chips on the table instead of having a back up.
was sherminator in the american pie reunion movie?
He had a tragic accident
He didnt ride the wiener carousel so he got blackballed
I love SWS I hope he comes back
I like him too. Goon was fricking fantastic
He'll always be the Stiffmeister to me. Poor guy
Film was fricking great but a failure at launching Guy Pearce as an action hero.
I was about to say guy pearce
Always thought he would have made a great Daredevil back before the Affleck version came out
Didn't he say he specifically chooses not to do long running acting work? I think he didn't want to be away from his family for too long.
A movie so blatantly copied from Escape from LA that John Carpenter legally purged it from the timeline.
Isn't the rumour that this was originally an Escape film and the script just got mothballed until the studio made it into this?
He would unironically be the most KINO choice for an Old Max in a Mad Max film. His physique in Swinging Safari is perfect for the role. I like Hardy but it fricking sucks as Max and is easily the worst part of what is otherwise a masterpiece.
He's a great actor and I think too good to be a generic action star
Not action, but jonnynoxville
Knoxville strikes me as a Sandler type of guy
He does the shit he wants and tries to help friends or literal morons in the process
I got the feeling he was pretty desperate for stardom but was a shit actor and was always "that guy from Jackass"
At one time there was talk of a Moonlighting TV show reboot with him as David Addison
I'll always love The Ringer.
This movie had no right to be as great as it was.
Man I miss Gene Hackman.
He’s not dead. He writes books now.
He was supposed to be in Die Hard instead of Carl Winslow, that would have been kino for sure.
Kino.
I've never doubted a Gene Hackman performance.
Every movie has a right to be great, stop posting reddit comments
He's a very soi phrase, isn't it? I'm not entirely sure what it means
It's usually said about genre movies that the person is ashamed to say they liked without putting that qualifier in front
(You) sound like a homosexual. Go back.
Prepare to Backdown
The Backdown
Prepare to step up to the streets:
Step up 2:
The streets
Ray Liotta in No Escape.
holy shit not escaping looks like THAT?!
Kino 90s movie
Kek is that Johnny Drama
Why doesn't he give up
Because he’s box office gold, A Quiet Place cost 17 million and it made 341 million. And the sequel made almost as much, he makes hits.
shut the FRICK up shill
so you're saying he pays his way into roles?
Him and le goofy guy from parks and rec being action stars is a psyop by the cia to normalize the next generation of low intensity forever wars
That guy always had the right bone structure for it though, he was just chubby. Krasinski doesn't have the look
Bro, Pratt was always the chad kid in his early career
this dude was the prototype of Chris Pratt and Ryan Reynolds. Later versions improved on the formula
DC should cast him as Booster Gold.
Pratt and Reynolds are hacks
>Booster Gold with Blue Beetle buddy comedy Blue & The Gold TV show never ever
It will happen someday
but will it be good?
If they disregard everything that's happened to those characters since around 1989, sure
>improved
>pratt
>reynolds
UPVOTED BLM
Ryan Reynolds was the prototype Ryan Reynolds. It took almost 20 years for him to become a big star. Deadpool was his last shot at the big time
>Kick Ass
>Avengers: Age of Ultron
>Godzilla
They were pushing this dude to the moon but just couldn't get over
He's bulked up a lot for Outlaw King and Tenet but isn't any more convincing as a tough guy. Like a kid doing an adult impression.
He has been casted as Kraven the Hunter for upcoming capeshitter DC movie... He still has hope ?
Oh yeah I forgot he's going to be in that. Maybe because his face is so generic I forgot who he actually is
His best role is playing a hick rapist in Nocturnal Animals, he nailed that somehow.
Since he's a granny fricker it falls under his capabilities and desires
he's israeli
Lol everyone in Role Models except Paul Rudd and Jane Lyncn went no where
He has a tv show out right now.
>Paul Rudd went no where
Making millions with Marvel for like 10yrs now.
reading comprehension
he was great in nocturnal animals. that whole movie was awesome but he played that part so well i didn't realise it was him til i imdb's afterwards
He was like a nicer, less douchey Miles Teller
Bro his wife pushes him, also he was screwed in age of Ultron. Not even a cameo in Wandavision.
Now hes playing Kraven, damn wish I had a producer mommy to nepotism my way into films. He was even the lead in that King Kong movie with the olsen twin.
the not cameo in Wandavision was great tho
Howie Long. Got his own movie after a side role in Broken Arrow then fricked off back to football.
Shame, with the right script, right director, right budget, we could’ve had Duke Nukem
I don't think this fits. That was during the era where they were putting athletes and rappers in everything.
He was great in Broken Arrow I would have given him a movie too
I liked that movie where he goes back to his hometown and gets into shenanigans...
Yeah. I like that one where he reconnects with an old flame too.
I like the one where he meets Mulder and gets into shenanigans with aliens
Was Stifler supposed to be a chad? He always seemed too goofy to me to be really a chad.
That's why he would make a perfect Guy Gardner
Can someone tell me why I love this green lantern suit so much.
Fits the character. You have to have high self-confidence to pull off those lapels.
Two words
israelite nose
that was his character-arc. he thought he was a chad but deep down he was just an insecure b***h with a coog for a mom
He's a Brad.
He is a guy who peaked in highschool
emille hirsch
Also Taylor Kitsch
that's what I meant though lol who the frick is emille hirsch
He's great as the Deep
He'd have been a better Deadpool in an actual proper R rated movie. R not meaning Reddit.
just a disclaimer i enjoy Foster exceedingly, don't think he's a bad actor and don't know why he didn't push through to the A-list.
A lot of these guys seem likeable enough but they seem to have either bad luck in picking projects or lack some quality like on-screen charisma.
I think most people on Cinemaphile like Henry Caville but he's another example of this, Superman was shit and he's only done shit aside from that
3:10 to Yuma and Hell or High Water are so damn watchable in my opinion. that's my definition of what a blockbuster should be like.
Cavill was good that one he was in something good (Mission Impossible).
I've never watched that but yeah I can imagine it.
I saw him in this absolute D-grade Bourne Identity ripoff called "The Cold Light of Day" which was terrible and The Man From UNCLE. I added the part about bad luck because he seems to gravitate towards these terrible projects, and he doesn't have the charisma to save them.
Kek, as much as I liked Fallout it comes across that they only decided during film he would be the villain, like they wrote the story around action films in the same way Naughty Dog wrote Uncharted around the setpieces/locations. I think I would have preferred Cavill's character as some wildcard anti-hero. He will be Ethan's enemy or ally depending on the situation and be unpredictable because he's peak glowBlack person. He'd definitely be more of a welcome recurring character than that guy Renner played in 4 and 5.
Cavill was kino in Mission Impossible
>they made him wear a mustache so the audience would take him less seriously and he wouldn't mog cruise
hilarious
For real?
''ey tone and then I said to him, right as I get out THEY PULL ME BACK IN, heheheheh''
Have you ever seen JCVD and Paulie Walnuts in the same room?
>reloads fists
>grows beard
>creates pocket
>Suddenly sweats
Wtf is happening there
toddler hands
I think it's actually his arm length anon
>pump fists
>testosterone levels momentarily spike causing beard growth
Whether or not you like the series he fricking nailed Geralt in the Witcher series. He's fantastic at that character.
Playing Supes and Geralt is pretty up there, man. Like yeah, he's not Ben Affleck or the Goose, but he's hardly "fallen off" or disappeared.
He's like the opposite of Ben Foster, tons of charisma but almost 0 talent. He was great as Napoleon Solo in the U.N.C.L.E. movie. Don't know why he is not James Bond right now.
He's israeli? I'm no Nazi but Hollywood is a israeli man's town, as Gary Oldman one said.
He had his shot in Pandorum, after that, he did Punisher and people realized he read better as a likeable loser
>films women will never get: the offshoot post
Pandorum is a hidden kino
what was wrong with his Pandorum performance? the only problem with that movie was it fell into the mid 2000's hack n slash trap.
great movie in my opinion, wish it had more depth though. wtf happened to earth lol it just go boom?
Ben Foster is a great actor. He was in the "3:10 to Yuma" remake which was excellent. He was in Alpha Dog which I actually thing was good. And he was in "Hell or High Water" which is an underrated modern Western movie.
He is kino in every film. Same with Hackman. There are just some actors that immediately elevate any movie theh are in. Foster is def one of them. The problem is he is such a good supporting actor that making him the main actor just doesn't really work because everyone else is inferior at supporting.
He's a great actor but he looks too working class to be an A-lister. Not enough sunscreen and yoga.
This guy was only intimidating when he played that junkie brother in alpha dog
Yeah it's a real shame he hasn't been picked up more.
He always plays the psychopath that's close to the edge and about to break
He's got the talent but I get the feeling he doesn't really want to be part of the bullshit holywood circle so he sticks to quality work, its like a better looking Giovanni Ribisi
this guy is an x-men. his mutation is bringing kino energy to every movie he's in
they did him dirty in Last Stand, should have been a much bigger part
In 3:10 to Yuma he literally holds his fricking own on the screen against Russell fricking Crowe and Dubsman himself Christian fricking Bale. How the frick did his career not blow up?
They were pushing this guy hard for a while and then he just disappeared off the face of the earth
A lot of the time after the mainsteam box office successes fail they pursue more prestige projects. Like I know Kitsch did Waco. Haven't seen it but that's him attempting to be more serious as opposed to John Carter or X-Men
I also get the feeling that after a few mainstream movies he had enough wealth where he was set for life and wasn't too interested in big salaries. I remember some article where he said he'd bought a huge farm in Texas and was spending most of his time there.
John Carter was more fun than I thought it would be. Honest disappointed it didn't do well enough to get a sequel. I guess the world needed more star wars and capeshit.
It strikes as one of those movies that needs to lean far more into the practical effects in order to have charm, especially if it's trying to lean into the age of John Carter books and all it inspired. Like that white yeti monster thing needs to lean more into RotJ rancor than being a cgi flailing abomination. This isn't a CGI IS LE BAD thing but if that movie had to have a marketing gimmick, it would be both stressing how old the source material is and how the movie will also be an old throwback to shit from the era it came from and the classics of sci fi it inspired
The real failure of CGI is that it has been used as a replacement to practical FX instead of being used as a crutch to propel practical to new heights.
Maybe we'll see squibs in action films again.
Would a younger Tim Olyphant have been a better John Carter? I'm not familiar with the material but Kitsch doesn't have much screen presence, Olyphant is a kino chad, proven himself as being able to play a Victorian-era American in Deadwood, and I know at least that Carter is some Civil War vet
the ironic part is that thereason whay nobody wanted to make JC movie for so long is because nebody thought you could do it with practical effect.
John Carter was an absolute blast and I dunno, timing, promotion, the universe,someone somewhere frick'd up
It didn't have thong-wearing alien girls, but still was a great movie
That movie was great and that Deja Thoris actress was 10/10 Wonder Woman material. What a fricking goddess.
IMAGINE if she also had thong-dresses innit
One can only dream
he's a real right winger conspiracy nut now-too problematic.
source?
Isn't he The Deep????
no that's Sean William Scott or "Stiffler" from American Pie series
Yeah.. The Deep
kek, he couldn't sell it at all King Kong was pretty good but he was kinda a pussy in that
Was gonna post this. Adrien Brody as an action hero is just so fricking pompous and absurd.
>tfw full inventory in new game area
Fricking Jack Black had more fight Charisma than Brody in KK
I love Adrien Brody in Predators, the guy is so out of place I find it hilarious.
He's hamming it up and trying to desperately to appear badass, best of all is Topher Grace being some sort of lethal serial killer. That guy has the most punchable face in Hollywood second only to Matthew Broderick's.
If they ever make a Jaws remake, they should cast him as Chief Brody.
Ruined predators
Imagine finding a guy with a worse nose than Lee Van Cleef and thinking you can make a leading man out of him.
>reports the predator to the ADL and IDF
Heh, that'll teach you.
whatever happened to christian slater?
True Romance is so good
It's fun enough but Slater is so obviously Tarantino's self insert.
>whatever happened to christian slater?
He had a bunch of mainstream movie theater bombs, probably starting around the time ‘Hard Rain’ was released.
He wound up in worse and worse movies, including direct to video films, which at the time weren’t considered a good sign for an actor.
He later tried switching to TV roles, but had three TV shows that failed in a row.
‘My Own Worst Enemy’
‘The Forgotten’
and ‘Breaking In’.
I honestly liked ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ and ‘Breaking In’, but I presume the shows cost too much for their ratings, so all got cancelled.
He also did a TV show called ‘Mind Games’ which I have no recollection of.
It’s possible ‘Mr Robot’ may help revamp his career, but he’s mostly been direct to video, cameos, and B-movie work, and voice work.
huh maybe he'll do capeshit in the future
He needs to do Hard Rain 2.
>whatever happened to christian slater?
Drugs and alcohol, burning bridges and being "difficult" while not being a israelite and/or sucking dick. He has a mother who is in the industry which is how he got started, but not enough to warrant a comeback or it would have happened by now. He just pissed off the wrong people while high and quasi-blacklisted himself.
>Drugs and alcohol, burning bridges and being "difficult" while not being a israelite and/or sucking dick. He has a mother who is in the industry which is how he got started, but not enough to warrant a comeback or it would have happened by now. He just pissed off the wrong people while high and quasi-blacklisted himself.
He went to the same school, where a certain “dead guy”, who used to own a private island taught.
As did his ‘Pump Up the Volume’ costar.
Samantha Mathis serviced Jeffrey Epstein's clients/victims? Young Samantha Mathis fricked Bill Clinton?????
>Samantha Mathis serviced Jeffrey Epstein's clients/victims? Young Samantha Mathis fricked Bill Clinton?????
Not as far as I’m aware, but Epstein taught at a high end private school, and if I remember correctly, both Mathis and Slater were students at the school, I’m not sure whether at the sane time as Epstein, but it makes one wonder.
Seemed bankable when he was the more youthful Christian Slater. Robin Hood Slater,True Romance Slater,Interview With a Vampire Slater.
he produces and does voice acting
He now does net safety adverts in the UK. I'm not making that up.
He was awesome in Dr. Death
He was more of a brat pack style guy a few years too late. Had a similar career to Winona ryder actually. He is very talented but i have never thought of him as a failed action star
He's the love child of Nic Cage and Jack Nicholson but has none of the talent.
He's a terrible, horrible actor. I saw him in The West Wing a few weeks back and I couldn't stand him.
He's good when he's unabashedly doing a Nicholson impression, even some light comedy, and like Nicholson, he's pretty bad when he tries to go outside that range. The problem was that ultimately nobody wanted some goy running around doing imitation Jack Nicholson. It's ok to be 'discount', but you can't just steal a guys persona.
He was perfectly decent in the Lethal Weapon show.
Yeah, he just got stuck in the middle of a behind the scenes shitshow there
Three aussies in a row, all happen 5o be in Terminators
Sam Worthington
Jason Clarke
Jai Courtney
Joel Edgerton is cut from a similar cloth as those guys, albeit he was never pushed as some new big thing so doesn't qualify as a failed push.
he writes and directs movies too tho
Idk if this counts but kinda
I wouldn't mind seeing this premise played straight for once and realistically. I guess A History of Violence sort of did but I mean with maybe some ex spec ops guy who did something very shady before going dark and getting a new identity. You'd probably need ex spec op consultants to really pull the shit off though
Taken in a way?
No, not really outside of some very broad similarities like ex spec ops main character
I'm stealing this idea and putting it in my screenplay
You'd have do a shit ton of research into real life spec ops stuff to see how those guys think, what tricks they have, etc. in order to come up with intense but grounded scenarios for the movie.
>I wouldn't mind seeing this premise played straight for once and realistically. I guess A History of Violence sort of did but I mean with maybe some ex spec ops guy who did something very shady before going dark and getting a new identity. You'd probably need ex spec op consultants to really pull the shit off though
This occasionally happens in real life.
Usually, the former spook/spec ops guy walks away, so nobody knows who was attacked.
In other instances, police or other parties bury the incident, since former spooks are usually on “protected lists” and usually won’t get prosecuted in foreign countries, just maybe deported, or they’re protected in their own countries, except in extreme cases.
I believe a couple of the incidents have been mentioned over on /k/.
One involved some German skinheads who decided to attack some old Russian/East European guy. The guy was former KGB or something, supposedly the guy was released within a day. I think the skinheads might have been killed.
To be the idiot who starts shit in that situation must be a bit of a mindfrick. The sheer power-balance reversal would be terrifying.
Not really the same but yeah this one was weird, I don't know why Bob Odenkirk would do an action movie
Not sure but it was a really good film, not sure Id buy him as an action star tho.
He's probably fricking bored. He's been the same character for 15 years
Supposedly, Bob Odenkirk is huge in china or some shit and this movie was essentially for the overseas market. And it worked.
>Clint torpedoes his career by casting him as a beta wigger with yellow fever about to be beaten and cucked by a gang of nogs
Scott never had a chance
He can't act and doesn't have his dad's easygoing charisma to fall back on
nor his height kek
I'm more aware of Wyatt Russell than Scott Eastwood. Yeah, yeah, he's half israelite and all that but I like him as an actor. He seems to be doing his own thing by portraying unhinged crazy buttholes or somebody with some type of issue/dark past rather than aping Kurt as the everyman/gigachad badass
Actually I think he's both more charismatic and a better actor than his dad, but there's no place for a Clint Eastwood type actor anymore, times changed.
How embarrassing to have to play dress up as Daddy for a career
I looked up pic related and couldn't believe he's 57 years old. He should have had a bigger career, he's got the look and is decent even in shitty shows or movies
Past hope. Past kindness or consideration. Past justice. Past satisfaction.
I'm glad they got to give it an endcap movie but I wish Powers Boothe had been alive
Milch was robbed of having people talking about his show still with the same frequency as they do The Wire or The Sopranos.
He was great in the Sarah Conner Chronicles
He's also hilarious in Raising Hope
only deadwood recognised his brilliance and cast him as 3 different characters
dont forget raising hope. he was the best character. pretty much carried the show on his own shoulders. the episode where he raises a guide pig is one of the best TV eps ever
Wait, three?! I know two.
I met him at an airport. He was a total wiener.
i dont remember them trying to make him an action star
Bullet Proof Monk
Daááaaaaammm anons are hypsters as hell
The fat frick Chris Pratt
mad at Christian Pratt?
No, he is just a terrible actor and stop LAPRing as a SF operator
I really feel like Clive Owen got a raw deal. He should have been Bond but the timing was never right
That Italian b***h heading Bong basically wanted to frick Craig, which is why that ugly blonde Russian looking homosexual got the role
Craig was such a horrible Bond, just like Bale was a shit Batman, dark & gritty was shitty.
Him and Eric Bana both existing at the same time ensured neither could reach their full potential
He had Children of Men though which was one hell of a film to star in.
Clive Owen is too much of a rough wienerney type rather than a smooth, suave type that fits Bond. Although to be fair Craig also had like zero charisma as Bond but he still got 5 movies.
Almost all Australians.
Jackman only has a career thanks to Wolverine, all those guys got fricked hard to live in the age of capeshit
>X-men (2000)
>Swordfish (2001)
>X-men (2003)
>Van Helsing (2004)
>X-men (2006)
>The Prestige (2007)
C'mon now, Jackman did kino after kino in the meantime, don't bullshit on the internet
Yeah he had his time, like everyone else on this thread. But after theses movies it's all X-Men.
He got famous because of Wolverine. When he was announced to play the character many laughed because he was just known as a tall stage actor doing musicals. He proved himself and also because famous for playing a well recognized character. One Logan came out everyone forgot about this guy outside of his meme videos with Reynolds (where all they talked about is Wolvie and DP doing a movie).
>One Logan came out everyone forgot about this guy
He's got a show on Broadway. He made his giant capeshit bucks, now is doing those musicals he loves, probably will make a big budget one like The Greatest Showman in his lifetime too. Dude's getting old too.
Nah, Jackman is kino in everything and hardly anything he does bombs. He just did a shit ton of X-Men movies but he's so good he couldn't be type casted anyway.
Is Karl Urban not Australian? Or is he Kiwi? Put Sam Neil and Hugo Weaving in that same category.
Krasinski
Couldn't act for shit on Lethal Weapon, fans were pissed. Pretty much killed his career
who remembers this? after the rock did well in movies, they tried the same with stone cold.
>who remembers this? after the rock did well in movies, they tried the same with stone cold.
I haven’t watched that yet.
The director’s previous film was a B-movie starring Andre Braugher called ‘A Better Way to Die’ that I really liked.
I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
>I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
Billy Zane has appeared in a lot of direct to video B-movies, including ‘Only You’ which starred Downey.
Downey needed money when he made this film, from what I read at some point, and he was paid somewhat decently given where his career was at that point.
Interesting facts about a film nobody's ever heard of. Cinemaphile can be brilliant sometimes.
>I don't know why this reminds me of that time post-prison and pre-Iron Man when Downey Jr. did a B action movie with Billy Zane and Shang Tsung.
“ Robert Downey, Jr. admits that the only reason he appeared in this film was "Five hundred grand for two weeks".”
Given the plot of this, and movies like ‘Sahara’, it’s possible somebody was using this film to point out some major corporation dumping toxic waste somewhere in Africa.
One of the characters in the film is named “Dupont”, and the plot involves uranium , which the French mine in various areas of Northwest Africa.
>Sahara
wasnt the point that the meme solar burning furnace wasnt quick enough to burn all the toxic waste? It worked but in order to pay for itself the corporate guy had to lay about its efficiency and take more waste than he could liquidated
Billy Zane had a bad case of gayface. He could be a third Property Brother. Although, shaving the head helps
Zane has been bald since the early 90s, he doesn't give a frick and justs
lets them slap wigs on him for roles.
he's a cool dude
PUT A CORK IN IT ZANE
He was pretty good as The Phantom but he's better in villain roles like The Mummy
I remember watching this on showtime or starz or some shit way back in the day and it was pretty boring. Action is shot like shit, not enough stone cold or vinnie jones.
This was made by WWE Films. They have a bunch of movies with different wrestlers headlining. I think it's just Vince trying to get more out of his talent pool, which isn't a bad idea on paper.
>This was made by WWE Films. They have a bunch of movies with different wrestlers headlining. I think it's just Vince trying to get more out of his talent pool, which isn't a bad idea on paper.
Professional wrestlers are used to get banged around in the ring.
If you want to shoot an action movie, a professional wrestler is likely in far better shape, and far safer to use than a regular trained actor. Even if you don’t use them for every action shot, if you need somebody to roll over a table, the wrestler is far less likely to get injured or object.
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen ‘Nemesis’, but Olivier Gruner was not only a kickboxing champion, but also a former French Navy Marine Commando, and they had him doing stunts most actors wouldn’t do, like running away from a giant concrete silo as it was demolished with explosives, and sliding down the side of some other buildings on site that were already partially destroyed.
Yeah anyone with real world fighting experience handles themselves better physically in movies and they have to make less cuts in editing. I remember the old Double Dragon movie with Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf. They use 10x as many cuts for Wolf than Dacascos.
Stone Cold event admits he wasn't cut out for action movies or acting in general. It didn't help he was in generic, cheap shit like this.
the idea that wrasslan fighters are/were being pushed as fitting the envelope as movie stars boggles me to this day.
Especially the fact that we still haven't seen The Shockmaster make his debut in a movie.
Steve Austin THE Vinnie Jones
Stone Cold is a larping b***h and he doesn't have enough charisma without a good villain to work with.
He isn’t failed yet but Jim from the Office as an action star is obnoxious. In fact all of these modern action movies jacking off the cia suck dick
he's actually a lot better at comedy
JUST
he's kind of meh in everything, I liked his Kirk impression
This guys accent is a fricking shitshow.
stop posting this annoying brit gayboy
In Britain a gayboy is just someone who smokes to be honest. Stop speaking like those weirdo american clowns.
Who was the guy from CoD Black Ops and Terminator Salvation? He seemed like he just disappeared after that.
Sam Worthington. The one thing I remember about him was that he kept dropping his American accent in Black Ops at random moments and it bugged the shit out of me.
Sam Worthington,gave his best performance in Under the Banner of Heaven
This guy was so generic. It was that period when all the 80s guys were washed out and cruise was on a down turn of sorts and they kept throwing all these generic, emotionless action heroes at us.
He is one of the main reasons i hate Avatar and he didn't do terminator salvation any favors.
Just a fricking void.
I was glad when Cameron took him back to Pandora for all eternity to do the sequels.
Not a bad actor but outside of Mad Max he hasn't done particularly well in action roles.
I like the guy but he fits more in mid-budget comedy's
What other action figure films has he been in other than capeshit?
He was great in goon
He just got handed some really shitty roles, its not his fault.
Why did Goon end his career? I liked that movie. It made me feel stuff.
He was in goon though which was one of the best movies
I would love to see this guy as The Deep in The Boys kek
this guy looks like ADHD personified, every single class had a kid like him
He Kissed a man
Is there even 1 young promising action star ? cruise starts to look like grandpa cant think of anyone who can replace him.
rememer me, guys?
Frick he was pretty good in that Showtime series Penny Dreadful which was just another League of Extraordinary Gentlemen knockoff.
Iirc he went into voluntary exile
>Turns down batman
>Turns down Superman
He said no to Nolan and 100 million for superman.
What a chad.
why does every movie this guy’s in turn out to be the absolute worst piece of grabage you’ve ever seen
Sean Connery's boy
The Asian guy from American Pie who says milf
Two classic weird choices for leading action star roles was Vincent Price starring in the Last Man on Earth which was later remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend. Yup he was the Will Smith role the guy who usually played comic villains. It was one of the first survival horror films too with zombies and vampires in apocalyptic Earth. Shame Price didn't play more heroic roles. Then you got Kevin Kline in Silverado as the best gunslinger hero in it, enough said.
Nobody's mentioned Dougray Scott who for some reason Hollywood producers wanted to make him Wolverine, James Bond and King Leonidas but Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler must've sucked better wieners and got more famous. He was like in that third Mission Impossible film vs Tom Cruise and um his career died. Jesus even Henry Cavill and John Cena have had better careers.
What happened bros?
I thought Steve Zahn did pretty good opposite Matthew McConaughey in Sahara as his partner, too bad he didn't do more action roles. But he's like a blonde Jack Black
Steve Zahn is my favorite actor