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11 Actors Who Hated Their Own Films
Mental Floss ^ | Colin Patrick

Posted on 10/09/2014 2:29:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: cld51860

Oh, okay. I knew that narrator voice was familiar, but I hadn’t considered Christopher Plummer, and Max von Sydow doesn’t come to mind much.

My three oldest children (23, 20, 17) are all into Skyrim and associated games.


61 posted on 10/09/2014 4:06:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I liked “Knocked Up.” Two people had a drunk one-night stand, and when she found out she was pregnant, the two of them actually decided to become a couple, to make a go of it, for the baby’s sake. I think I read that Sarah Palin is a fan of the movie.


62 posted on 10/09/2014 4:11:58 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: EEGator
He had his testicles all over me.

Testicles?

You know like Octopus

Oh Tentacles, testicles is entirely different thing

Love his movies hate his politics.

63 posted on 10/09/2014 4:12:38 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: discostu
“10. John Cusack, Better Off Dead. John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was “the worst thing I have ever seen” and he would “never trust you as a director again.””

That movie is iconic. He must have no sense of humor. The more I learn about him the more I think Cusack seems like a real loser.

64 posted on 10/09/2014 4:14:41 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: RegulatorCountry

So it’s not just me?

I can’t do musicals...not at all. My mother just loved them; I agree that it’s probably a generational thing. But when the characters burst into song, I cringe.

But to each his own, of course.


65 posted on 10/09/2014 4:15:52 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: sharkhawk

Same here.

I liked One Crazy Summer as well.(not as much though)


66 posted on 10/09/2014 4:20:50 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

“1. Sylvester Stallone, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot”

If my ex-girlfriend and I had remained on speaking terms, I’d still be apologizing for taking her to see “Tango and Cash.”

And while we’re on the subject, did anyone regret making “Battlefield Earth”?


67 posted on 10/09/2014 4:35:21 PM PDT by PLMerite
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To: workerbee

“Were you paid?
Then shaddupaboutit.”

Extremely well put!


68 posted on 10/09/2014 4:36:57 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: EEGator

It’s amazing how many people remember those silly comedies (which are great) vs. the emotional dreck of Oscar winning movies like Kramer vs. Kramer.


69 posted on 10/09/2014 4:38:14 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

About that boy he asked not to see the movie again...he also said in an interview that he saw in the boy’s eyes “a tiny spark of madness”. He also recalled that the boy went away sad because his ‘hero’ had asked him not to like his favorite thing. The boy’s mother didn’t take kindly to Sir Alec’s suggestion.

I’ve seen fans who have that ‘spark of madness’ he spoke of, not only for ‘Star Wars’, but for other things as well. It isn’t pretty.


70 posted on 10/09/2014 4:44:16 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Jonty30
Katherine Heigl always complaining about the movies she is in, which is why she isn’t in too many these days.

Megan Fox was a hot item in the Transformers movies. Then she called the director a NAZI, and she was written out of the series. She has done some work, but nothing of the caliber of Transformers, which is really saying something.

Some people, after winning the lottery of being picked for a part in a big movie that ten thousand other waitresses in Los Angeles can do just as well, just can't keep their mouth shut and cash the checks. They want to do "ART," but dont realize 99% of acting is just showing up, saying a few lines, cashing the check, and going home. Then maybe , once or twice in a career, achieving "ART."

71 posted on 10/09/2014 4:59:26 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
She has done some work, but nothing of the caliber of Transformers, which is really saying something.

LOL!

They want to do "ART," but dont realize 99% of acting is just showing up, saying a few lines, cashing the check, and going home.

Reminds me of something in Charlton Heston's memoirs. He asked a director, "What's my motivation in this scene?" and the director answered, "To hit your mark and say your line when I say TEN, because we can only afford to shoot this scene once!"

72 posted on 10/09/2014 5:27:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Climb Every Mountain by the Head Nun was great, as well!


73 posted on 10/09/2014 6:31:34 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: chajin
Mark was the consummate stage actor, and had a powerful presence, which oddly enough didn't seem to translate to film or television; I'm not sure why, because we all could see his dramatic ability.

His voice work as The Joker for much of the animated Batman work is outstanding. The stage training carries through in that. He was also very good in The Big Red One. The scene with him finally getting over his jitters at the ovens was good.

74 posted on 10/09/2014 7:15:37 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: greene66

I don’t see why he should have hated his performance in “Arsenic and Old Lace”, its a wonderful movie.


75 posted on 10/10/2014 6:47:57 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Tax-chick

Seems that’s why Nicholas Cage is in so many movies of late: in dire need of money (huge serious debts) so he’ll make anything (including a movie based on the back cover of the novel _Left_Behind_.


76 posted on 10/10/2014 7:03:19 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: SeekAndFind; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
1. Sylvester Stallone -"I made some truly awful movies. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst.

This from a man who made a movie about professional arm wrestling.

77 posted on 10/10/2014 7:09:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: SeekAndFind; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
3. George Clooney, Batman & Robin. Star George Clooney recognized what a stinker he helped create and once plainly stated, “I think we might have killed the franchise.”

He killed the Killer Tomatoes franchise as well.


78 posted on 10/10/2014 7:12:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: ctdonath2

Yes, I saw on FR that he’s got a large tax bill.


79 posted on 10/10/2014 7:56:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Feeling fine about the end of the world!)
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To: Vision

Of course you can never really trust an artist to judge their own work. Pet Townshend hates Pinball Wizard and thinks The Ironman is the best album he ever made.


80 posted on 10/10/2014 8:01:24 AM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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