Posted on 07/10/2025 1:31:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Once among the biggest names in Hollywood, John Travolta is now more punchline than powerhouse, with recent flops and career missteps overshadowing a legacy that once included Oscar nods and million-dollar paydays.
Despite iconic turns in Grease, Saturday Night Fever and a major comeback with Pulp Fiction, the 70-year-old actor’s more recent efforts have failed to land.
His latest films, High Rollers and Mob Land, barely registered with audiences — the latter pulling just £138 ($A287) at the UK box office, News.com.au reported.
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Battlefield Earth wasn’t his best effort to say the least. But I had to smile every time he called Barry Pepper “rat brain.”
he’s got another big comeback in him
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“Soylent Green”
a most XLNT Performance.
His Last.
Did you read a different book than me? It was a novella's worth of poor story telling spread over a thousand page novel. Cut out 90%, improve the story some and it might have been good enough to be the feature story in a 1950s sci fi magazine.
The main difference between the book and the movie was the movie ended in about two hours
I was 16 when I read it.
And the thing about books and movies is that one person can like them, and the other will dislike them. The world is fun that way.
Yep! Still hate Crapital One, but Disco Santa was pretty cool.
Michael Madsen turned the Vincent Vega role down.
It would have been a very different movie if he hadn’t.
“Up your nose with a rubber hose. So Shakespearean.”
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Shakespeare wrote fart jokes into many of his plays. That makes them “Shakesperean” in your example.
no he is done
I always liked him, and unlike creeps like DeNiro, he doesn’t go around alienating the movie-going public.
My top 3 Travolta movies in no particular order. From Paris with Love, Face-Off and Broken Arrow.
I’ve always called him John Revolting.
Blowout made in 1981 was really good .
Blow Out .
Being a devoted Scientologist, I guess he felt compelled to produce a L. Ron Hubbard “masterpiece”. I am glad that they were finally exposed.
Thanks
[“straight to streaming”]
Yes. I’ve been thinking we need to update the “straight to video” epithet.
Originally, it was “straight to drive-in,” back in the day.
Hackman’s last film in IMDB was Welcome To Mooseport, 2004 (age 74)
There are those who remain stars but the percentage who remain stars beyond age 70 is low.
Travolta is a decently capable actor and a lot of fun to watch, when given a script that suits his talents and good direction. From Paris with Love was a fun ride, once you accept that it’s a Luc Besson script and has more in common with The Fifth Element or Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets than with The Bourne Identity or a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible film.
However, Hollywood is full of people who are really good in front of the camera but should never be allowed anywhere near the writing, producing, directing, or anything else that’s happening behind the camera, and it appears Travolta is one of them.
Thank God he’s not out there sharing his political wisdom with us, like so many other actors and actresses we could name. As long as he continues to keep his mouth shut on politics, I’m willing to wish him well and hope he has one more comeback in him.
Learning to disco dance at 120 beats a minute can only take one so far.
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