Movie stars you trust to make good movies

[Asher]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
definitely Christopher Walken.

Best actor, ever.

Man of the millenniums (this and last), as well.

[Az]

Almost all of those mentioned already. My humble addition is Bruce Willis: He's not a solid seal, but he's a very good sign for a movie.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by alva
Adagio: you have absoluteley crap taste when it comes to movies (and actors)

I just don't see anything special in most actors...

Ok, the few movies I've seen with Jack Nicholson are great, but I've only seen two of them... Most actors mentioned here are just average... they've been in some good movies, but they've just not impressed me enough to be on my "have to check out this actors next movie" list...

And from other actors posted here are some that has done many good movies, but I didn't want to mention them since they were already talked about in this thread



And what's crap about Leslie Nielsens movies? If you don't like that kind of humor, that's fine, but a lot of people do... I only know very few people IRL who doesn't like that kind of humor...
And what about Jackie Chan? The most well-liked martial arts ekspert since Bruce Lee... I have yet to find a person who likes martial arts movies, but hate Jackie Chan...
And I can't see anything about bad about Christopher Lloyd either... ok, he haven't had that many different types of roles, he mostly just plays the guy where you can't tell if he's a genious or insane, but you don't put him into a leading role either... but that doesn't change the fact that most of "his" movies are funny (if you like that insane kinda humor)

The only one there's left is Van Damme, and I know he's not a neutral guy... either you hate him or you like him... He might not be the best actor around, but for martial arts scenes I've only seen few actors who could do better ( = more interesting) martial arts scenes than what he could do (too bad there's not much of this in his recent movies)



Yes, I love crazy comedy and I love martial arts... but what's wrong with that? This doesn't mean that I don't watch other kinds of movies? I've seen a lot of horror movies I like, I've seen a lot of different types of comedies I like, I've seen a lot of dramas I like, etc etc etc...




As you can hear I'm very tired of hearing that others don't like what I like, but I can't change what I like and what I don't...

[Q Classic]

Damn Van Damme, I haven't seen a good movie with him in it.

[Adagio]

Do you like martial arts then?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Adagio:

CL News reports that Christopher Lloyd is set to star in an Australian film called "Wallflowering". He will be the male lead opposite Christine Lahti. The two will play a married couple (Cliff and Peg) living in the 70's, who find themselves out of touch with the society of the time. The two are pressured by friends and workmates to try different things, only to discover that they enjoy being an ordinary couple after all. The two are amatuer ballroom dancers, and music and dancing will be heavily featured throughout the film. They will be joined by notable Australian talent such as Wendy Hughes and Sigrid Thornton. The film to be directed by Sarah Knight and produced by Todd Nelson is based on a popular play written by award winning Australian playwright Peta Murray. Shooting dates to be announced shortly.

Also, I should add Paul Giamatti to my list. He is a very underappreciated actor who has made pretty much nothing but good movies since "Man on the Moon" in '99

[Dis]

none of them.

The closest would be Al Pacino and Robert De Niro

[JohnT]

Am I the first to mention

Robert Duvall?

on all of us.

I also agree with Gene Hackman.

[Winston]

Good point JohnT.

I also think a guy like Sam Neill is worthy of mention.

Edit: And Sean Connery! omgfomfggofm

[Tingkai]

Bill Murray

[Ben Kenobi]

Sean Connery!

By far.

The only dud I can remember is the LoEG.

Also, what about, the start of Mr. Holland's Opus?

Richard Dreyfuss is a great actor.

As for Christopher Walken:

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Adagio
Yep, but he was very annoying (read: not funny) in The 5th Element... though I did like that movie anyway...

He was hilarious in the 5th Element, though if you aren't old enough to have lived through the "Prince" era it might lose something in the translation.

[Sikander]

Tom Cruise?

[Q Classic]

Do you like martial arts then?

Yes. Just not Van Damme.

and BK, the scenes in which Walken is in Rundown are fantastic. especially his deleted death scene, where he says "Pig." instead, after seeing a pig.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Movie stars you trust to make good movies

Originally posted by Pax
Matt Damon

Cider House Rules is totally bad.