No one today is qualified to even shine his shoes.
Posted on 05/28/2015 8:51:21 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Face it, George Clooney sucks
By Kyle Smith
It’s time for Hollywood to face facts: George Clooney is not a star. If you matched them up head-to-head, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson would crush him — and I don’t just mean literally. Clooney’s latest is the gargantuan flop “Tomorrowland” — a $190 million bomb (not including $100 million or so in worldwide marketing costs) that looks like it’s going to gross a little more than half of that at the North American box office. It’s delicately being referred to as an underperformer because no one in Hollywood wants to hurt the fragile petals of Clooney’s feelings.
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The story says "not literally", so you'd basically be paying to see pro-wrestling.
Literal crushing of the Clooneys will come when their Muslim overlords win.
This is a revelation to some people? I always thought he sucked in every role he’s performed other than “The Perfect Storm.”
Fabulous in ‘O Brother’ but that was the role closest to his real personality.
But he had good things to say about obamatard in recent interviews.
Something is wrong with this picture. 10 years ago, Hollywood had a realization with the box office disaster “Sahara”, that at its budget of $130m, there was almost no way for it to break even, much less make a serious profit.
The idea is that there is a limit to how expensive a production budget can be before a movie is a guaranteed money loser.
Did Disney get the Memo?
Mars Needs Moms (2011): budget $150, b.o. $39m
The Lone Ranger (2013): budget $225, b.o. $260m
John Carter (2012): budget $263, b.o. $284
The Alamo (2004): budget $107, b.o. $25.8
Clooney has alienated 50% of the U.S. with his active and aggressive
support of liberalism.
Any movie where he is the lead character tanks.
Oceans series movies has many famous actors.
Clooney is not the lead, just one of several famous actors.
I’ve seen “The Gameplan” a dozen times courtesy of my daughter.
Perhaps these movies didn’t make big bucks, but Clooney was very good in ‘O Brother’, ‘Burn Before Reading’, ‘Leatherheads’ and one of the most underrated movies of the last 15 years IMO ‘Intolerable Cruelties’. True all of those save one were directed by the Coen Brothers, but still he was very good in all of them.
On a side note, IMO the Coens and Wes Anderson IMO are the best directors out there. No Country for Old Men is a modern classic that ranks up there with any of the old time classics. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a Coen or Wes Anderson directed movie and thought that’s lousy.
If you are a happily married empty Nester you would understand
He’s dumb. But good looking.
Thought Clooney is good looking I think Dwane is better looking with a much better personality.
His old lady looks like she should come equipped with a web.
Agree Bogart was a great actor. My favorite actor though of the Era is the hugely talented and underrated actor William Powell who could do anything.
Soooooo true! Some of the best movies I ever seen had no special effects and were acted almost entirely by unknowns. People forget, classic movies in the 1970s for example, were acted almost by all unknowns or B movie actors. Nobody knew who the hell Sylvester Stallone was when Rocky came out, The Godfather, the only star was Brando. Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall weren't well known. These were all guys who did bit parts, TV work. Robert DeNiro, nobody knew who he was...Matter of fact there's a story that when De Niro was preparing for the movie "Taxi driver" he actually drove a real taxi in New York city to see what it was like, and the people he picked up didn't recognize him. The 70s to me was the best decade for movies, so many classics from that single decade it's mind blowing. Star Wars, how many 'stars' acted in that? Probably just Alec Guiness. The rest were unknown. The French connection, Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider were B movie actors before, doing cheap forgettable movies and TV, nobody knew who the hell they were. Everything is freakin "stars" today like you said, it's like the music industry, they are led by the nose on name recognition alone while the music takes a back seat, everything is about the "star" even though the star puts out utter crap, it's ridiculous.
I agree with you on the directors. When I watch a Coen brothers movie, I get the sense that there is nothing else these people would rather do than make really strong detail-oriented movies.
My ultimate dream is to have the Coen brothers direct a Godzilla movie.
Nice!
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