Why wasn't he more of a star? Lots of people like him but he's only relegated seemingly to one franchise and cameos here and there
Why wasn't he more of a star? Lots of people like him but he's only relegated seemingly to one franchise and cameos here and there
The one where he plays elvis is pretty fricking good
Bubba Ho Tep.
No offence Jack but president Kennedy was a white man.
Loved this movie
He gave producers really sloppy blowjobs
Most people don't even know who he is except Evil Dead and Raimi Spider-Man nerds.
Wrong now. Normies know him from Burn Notice.
Not enough wienersucking. Just like Jeffrey Combs. Great actor but isn't popular
Before we had memes, he was a meme. What I mean is, he was born too soon. Ahead of his time... a cult following back when viral meant word-of-mouth.
Big with band geeks for some reason.
Literally a cultural icon who only made kinos. IDKWTFYATA
No range, looks like a cartoon character
I'm a fan of all his work but the man can only play himself
He's a working actor who never sought a career-making role. He's loved because he's charismatic and has a lot of fun roles, but he isn't good or israeli enough to get major roles on his charisma alone.
>israeli enough to get major roles on his charisma alone.
the sad truth
i loved him in burn notice
I only know him from Burn Notice. Didn’t make the spidey cameo connection until coming here
I hope by one franchise you mean Burn Notice.
He isn't gay, israeli or black
He's a B movie hero like Treat Williams or Nathan Fillion. Both should have been more famous but just never quite made that jump to the A list.
He wouldn't get on the casting couch for roles.
Briscoe County Junior was a great show, sadly Fox axed it after 1 season. I'd put him down n the Billy Zane category, everybody says they like him but nobody shows up to the things he leads.
I think the same is true for Bruce Campbell
Billy Zane has always been more of a joke than a guy with a cult following
He was great in The Mummy
great charisma but he appeared around the time were charisma or talent stopped being as importan as connections or giving blowjobs to israelites
He was surprising good as the villain in Icebreaker. (whichj nobody but me saw)
No he wasn't. That was easily the worst performance of his career. That was right up there with George Lucas telling Samuel L. Jackson "Be subdued and softspoken."
He's a B-actor by nature, he never meant to be a star
Bruce rules because he doesn't play Hollywood's games. He's an outsider and they hate that. It also means he doesn't get the roles he should.
For lead stuff he was too handsome in a 1950s way that feels cartoonish. Like Rob Riggle, or a Ren n Stimpy salesman cartoon character. H e reminds me of Mitt Romney, and how someone said that Romney looks like the type of actor who youd see playing the president in every 90s action movie.
Rob Riggle is not handsome.
Poor choice of word. I just couldnt think of how to describe that look thats sorta hyper-conventional masculine face, like to the point it starts to become kind of uncanny.
Too kino
I need to go back and watch Brisco County Jr. again.
he made the Hercules kino and played as the king of thief in Xena. wish I had known him as a kid, i loved his stuff
Well, he picked tv. Read his book, he basically picked going to chill for months and have a LOTR-esque bonding years (and probably fricking) the cast of Xena and Hercules, as they made a bunch of episodes in a row. He just kept picking television, really. It didn't help that he went through a period where he didn't want to be known as Ash or even as a horror guy. He used to fricking hate being called Ash instead of the cowboy in that show that lasted all of 1 fricking season. I love Bruce, but some of it is definitely his fault
I think he made the right call. He avoided being completely typecasted and took work that he wanted while avoiding a 9 to 5 gig after AoD came out. Not many can make a living acting, but he pulled it off and he's not even long in the nose. Long stints on Hercules/Xena and Burn Notice along with Brisco and Jack of All Trades is a solid career. I think the modern Bruce that isn't getting anywhere near what he deserves is Glenn Howerton which is fitting since Bruce played his father on that awful AP Bio show.
homie, he didn't CHOOSE television. Movie producers didn't want him. Raimi even lobbied hard for him to be Darkman and producers said "frick no, We're getting Liam Neeson. Someone who is actually going to be a star." If Campbell claims otherwise, he's full of donkeyshit.
I don't think he ever wanted the Hollywood stardom fame and all the baggage that comes with it.
I liked him in that insectoid planet of the apes knockoff.
All hail the great exterminator.
Range.
Bruce is the best at being Bruce.
And that's good.
In his book he said you really don't make that much money. Your agent takes half, then taxes, then expenses, your gone for a lot of time and then there's post production work. He said it works out to about $10 an hour, even the big roles.
Plus a dirty secret is a lot of people personally pay for stardom one way or another, constantly reinventing themselves. Bruce said he just does what he thinks would be fun.
Why did Ash vs the Evil Dead end at season 3? I liked season 1 the most, and I think the pilot directed by Sam Raimi is the best episode in the series. I generally liked season 1 overall. I don;t think Season 2 and 3 were as good, but there were plenty of episodes that I did enjoy. Overall, it was a fun series.
A: The ratings weren't that great
B: Bruce admitted that he's in physical pain from the stunt work now. He said the scene that hurt him the most wasn't even impressive to look at, it just required him to get up off a concrete floor for like 50 takes, and you don't realize how bad that is until you're 60 years old and you gotta lay down on the concrete floor, wait for the cameras to get in position and then get up again
Terrible ratings and the showrunners split up. One wanted story progress, the other (older) showrunner wanted wacky shit. So the first guy quit towards the end of season 2, the older guy rewrote the story ending for season 2 and then continued into season 3 which was a ratings bomb. Future Ash was basically a beg to do another season which would still go nowhere.
>a beg to do another season which would still go nowhere.
Literally every piece of Evil Dead media ended with a bullshit cliffhanger except for the studio-mandated ending of Army of Darkness
It becomes a trend when you've been doing it since 1978
PS. this is the second *best* piece of "studio meddling" I've ever heard of, behind Deep Blue Sea forcing them to kill the girl and spare LL Cool J
A big regret is that I chickened out of a book signing he was at for If Chins Could Kill.
I thought he went out of his way to avoid bigger roles because he knew the people that liked him were into the weird shit he did
same thing for Mark Hamil, and probably a lot of other actors, that's why I always laugh when actors get mad and never want to play their role, only to disappear and never be heard from again, just play your fricking role jabroni and cash the checks, yes Hamil was the Joker but he never made movies like Harrison Ford
Wasn't Hamil into theatre like Matthew Broderick?
They get inside their heads sometimes like anybody would - nobody wants to be a B-lister when they could be the next Tom Cruise and it takes some perspective to realize B-listers are still luckier than 99.9% of actors, or employed people in general.
Leonard Nimoy spoke very frankly about how shortly after Star Trek ended he felt it had ruined the careers of everyone involved, but as he got old he realized what a rare gift it was to still always be appreciated everywhere you go.
Hamil kind of had to reinvent himself because he went into the Star Wars trilogy as a pretty boy, and left the Star Wars trilogy as not such a pretty boy.
Read his book homosexual
He chose not to be a big action hero.
>he's only relegated seemingly to one franchise and cameos here and there
OP confirmed a moronic zoomer that hasn't seen let alone heard of most of Bruce's movies. Picrel is just his films. He has a buch of tv roles too.
His icon status literally stems from evil Dead Spider-Man and maybe burn notice. Even in the image you send a lot of those say short films or cameo. The point is he should be someone like a Tom Cruise or someone of that popularity.
Need to add Alien Apocalypse to that list