I liked him in Meet the Parents but Meet the Fockers was terrible. I was going to say both DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman from that movie.
Not sure if "Jackie Brown" was labeled a comedy but there was some good subtle humor from De Niro.
Really enjoyed Grier and Jackson in that one.
March 10th, 2023 at 12:09 AM ^
Jackie Brown is one of the most underrated, or at least overlooked, movies ever!
"What happened to you man? Your ass used to be beautiful!"
Just about every movie Eddie Murphy made after Nutty Professor 2.
Dreamgirls was good. Dolomite was awesome. And he was the best part of that recent Jonah Hill movie whose name escapes me.
I'll give you Dolomite, Vlad. Still not in a class with Coming to America or Life IMO. Haven't seen You People yet, which is the Jonah Hill flick. I will check it out.
Dumb and Dumber 2
Step Brothers
Sandra Bullock-Speed 2 and Miss Congeniality 2
Yes, Speed 2 is a twofer. I generally like both Patric and Dafoe.
The Counselor - Such a great cast wasted: Javier Bardem, Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt.
You don’t mess with Zohan. So stupid I didn’t finish it. Adam Sandler is great. I love his whole crew. But that movie is so bad.
I'm puzzled how Legends of the Fall hasn't been mentioned yet.
For me, it's every Nicolas Cage movie ever made.
Every Nicholas Cage movie except Raising Arizona.
Bad movie, good actor: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery
League really is a dreadful film, but I so enjoy Connery and have such an unrequited crush on Nikita...I mean Peta Wilson ... that I always give it a pass.
When Cage is on, he's ON.
Raising Arizona
Leaving Las Vegas
The Family Man
How can you omit Fast Times?.. but, seriously, the pinnacle of his acting career is Moonstruck. Nothing else comes close.
Thoughts on The Rock?
FaceOff?
National treasure?
WindTalkers?
Gone in 60 seconds?
ConAir?
Guarding Tess?
March 10th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
We watch The Family Man every Christmas, such an underrated classic.
I’ve got two that immediately come to mind:
The Tree of Life. Brad Pitt’s been in a bunch of really good to great films, but that might have been the worst movie watching experience of my life. I had to fast forward through parts to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was. Many critics loved it, I hated it.
The Village with Joaquin Phoenix. I wanted to throw something through the screen. Keep in mind that this was prior to M. Night gaining a bad reputation. This was immediately following The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs which were all good at the time. So I went in with high expectations and absolutely hated it. It didn’t help that I can’t stand Bryce Dallas Howard (her dad’s cool though.)
Wild Wild West with Will Smith
The Rock with Sean Connery.
March 10th, 2023 at 11:35 PM ^
“Your best?”
Castaway/Tom Hanks
Jack Nicholson. Hoffa
"The Lovely Bones" with Mark Wahlberg.
Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt. Cathy Bates in a hot tub. Need I say more?
I was scanning to see if someone mentioned this. It was the first one I thought of too
Roughly 10 different actors in The Patriot. An embarrassing movie in numerous otherwise stellar careers.
Hail Caesar. Plenty of great actors, absolutely despised the movie. Which is weird since I like most of what else I've seen from the Coen Brothers. But if I never saw Hail Caesar again, I'd be happy.
And then Adrian Brody anytime he tries to play a tough guy. Predator and Peaky Blinders in particular. Again, great actor, but I don't buy him as a tough guy. He just does not look the part and you can't convince me otherwise.
I was really looking forward to seeing Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly together again and then I went to Holmes & Watson. So disappointing.
Titanic DiCaprio
Maybe listed already... Johnny Depp and "The Rum Diary."
Zach Galifianakis in G-Force.
Robert DeNiro in Ronin.
That movie has a 7.2 on IMDB so I'm guessing some folks disagree. But, I just remember Irish accents talking about retrieving a case for like 90 min. And falling asleep.
Good call, but Dirty Grandpa is worse. Watched In Cold Blood last night and today Robert Blake a.k.a. Baretta passed away.
Michael Keaton in Jack Frost
Russell Crowe in The Mummy
Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy
Now that college basketball is over for this weekend, time for the Oscars' pool.
So far every lower seed team has won in the big10 tourney up to PSU over Illinois.
Daniel Craige in Glass Onion
Really disliked that movie.
Magnolia with Tom Cruise. Walked out of the theater into Deuce Bigalo with Rob Schneider and redeemed the night. Cruise owes him some money for the 4 tickets.
Godfather III (ugh, awful, why make/release it) and Al Pacino (a fave).
Hud (poorly executed) and Paul Newman (one of my heros)
Color Me Kubrick (nope) and John Malkovch (my doppleganger and owner of one of the best lines *ever* uttered in a movie, "Old man, my ass" in RED)
Reminds me of the best punchline to a joke. Voodoo Stick…
Two horrible, awful movies from around 1980:
The Villain-Kirk Douglas
Neighbors-John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd.
I had to look up the Villain: Douglas, Ahnahld, Ann-Margaret and Paul Lynde in a Western comedy directed by Hal Needham? It may not be good, but I've gotta see it now.
March 10th, 2023 at 11:42 PM ^
Oh it’s painfully bad. Just trying to picture the meeting where someone said, “I know, let’s put the Wile E Coyote stuff in a live action movie!”
Death Becomes Her - Bruce Willis
“Terminal Rush” starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.
It’s not one of those charming, fun schlock action movies. It’s just bad.
It's no Hell Comes to Frogtown
Jeffery Donovan, RIPD 2 - really liked him in Burn Notice, but this movie is baaaaad, and not in a good way. (trying to watch it now, and I really don't want to watch it anymore)