Posted on 07/10/2025 1:31:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff
OK, and he was also in Airport ‘77. I had only remembered him doing an unseen voice in a soup commercial in the ‘70s.
He was great in the Capital One “Holiday Night Fever” commercial!
He’s good. I think its more about the projects he was or wasn’t offerred roles in. Everything hes been in, he was good or great.
Amen to that...
Retired at 55 and my wife and I have enjoyed the following 37 years immensely...
And Harry Morgan.
“Time for an TO8 self-audit before Xeno shows up”
Yep.
If not for the criminal cult of Scientology, he would have faded out a LONG time ago. That’s the only reason we know his name now.
Lotsa weird stuff in his life. Really weird stuff. I get a little impatient with those who take his acting (or whatever it is) seriously. He’s an entertainment industry pawn and shill, and a thoroughgoing crud.
(And a high-profile, ranking Scientologist! Hey, folks: Did y’all know that Scientology FORCES women to abort their infants? There is a lot of stuff out there and I encourage you to look it up. They’ve been sued over it and the plaintiffs - women who had been forced into abortion - won. Before you talk about “religious tolerance” - LOOK IT UP.)
It’s kinda weird how all these Scientologists end up playing these “throwback to some happy, carefree time” characters, i.e., “Welcome Back Kotter,” “Happy Days,” “That 70s Show,” etc.
Had a really good cast. Good movie. Wayne’s last.
Not only John Wayne but Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemon, Spener Tracy, (one can make a case for James Cagney), Humphrey Bogart, and probably many others - Robet Duval, Gene Hackman, etc.
What? Where?
His biggest bomb was “Battlefield Earth”
The book was pretty good but what a mess of a movie.
“One Olivia Newton John(RIP) stayed classy”
Damn I miss her.
Broken Arrow was good. Another of his I liked was Swordfish with Halle Barry and hugh Jackman I think.
I would pay to see him kick the crap out of Robert De Niro in a movie.
Ironically, he himself was also dying from metastatic Lung cancer I’m his one remaing lung and elsewhere. The entire cast of a film he was in that was filmed at a desert atomic bomb test site all died of cancers.
Gran Torino was very good. Great story, great acting.
> In Hollywood, all it takes is one bomb to end your career.
Battlefield Earth wasn’t just a bomb. Travolta had campaigned for years to get it made and was the *producer*.
Starring in one lousy movie is forgivable. Starring in a lousy movie *and* blowing $44 million dollars of your investors’ money to make a movie so bad it bankrupts the studio is the kiss of career death.
John Travolta pulled that one off. The movie got a bit cartoonish with the car chase scene toward the end but the Chinese restaurant scene, the apartment raid, and the dinner in the apartment with the phone call are well done.
He was convincing as a guy old enough and smart enough to know what's going on and not just be a fighting and shooting action hero.
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