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Movie star with the fewest strikeouts

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Dec 26, 2008.

  1. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Barry Pepper. :D
     
  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    I watched Ishtar as a teen and didn't really pay much attention to it.

    Then I saw it maybe 8-10 years ago. It's pretty good.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    If I'm a movie studio and I have to pick five actors and five actresses to open a film, I would go with...

    1. Will Smith
    2. Tom Hanks
    3. Ben Stiller
    4. Adam Sandler
    5. Johnny Depp

    1. Reese Witherspoon
    2. Angelina Jolie
    3. Julia Roberts
    4. Meryl Streep
    5. Cameron Diaz
    5.
     
  4. The same is true with Morgan Freeman and even SLJ.
    Oustanding co-star, but what film has Freeman opened on his own? Clean and Sober?
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    With today's generation, DiCaprio would be my No. 1 choice for a film, followed by James McAvoy, Kevin Spacey, William Macy. A few others I can't think of right now.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Freeman gets credit for Se7en. Million Dollar Baby was really about all three actors. Shawshank he was a lead, but nobody saw that in the theater. I don't remember Bucket List doing that well at the Box Office.
     
  7. Depp?
    He takes a lot of unique roles. Pirates, which I thought sucked, was huge.
    But Willy Wonka, That movie with John Turturo(sp?) about corn, even Edward Scissorhands, the Barber of Seville movie and even What's Eating Gilbert Grape could hardly be considered big success.
    I would say Wonka and the Tuturo movie might be stirkeouts.
     
  8. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Wonka was turrible. As turrible as the Bad News Bears remake with Billy Bob Something.
     
  9. But in all three he was support. A pillar, but still supprrt.
    Se7en was Pitt, MDB was Eastwood and Swank and Shawshank was Robbins vehicle, Freeman just stole it.
    You never see him as THE star of a film, except that Kiss the Girls flick and maybe, maybe the Dreamcatchers.



    Great call on Leo... I can think of like two movies that have tanked ... Though I have no desire to see his current offering.
     
  10. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member

    The best and the worst investments

    1 Matt Damon, $1 = $29 return

    2 Brad Pitt, $24

    3= Vince Vaughn, $21

    3= Johnny Depp, $21

    5 Jennifer Aniston, $17

    6 Angelina Jolie, $15

    7 Renée Zellweger, $ 14

    8= Reese Witherspoon, $13

    8= Ben Stiller, $13

    8= Sandra Bullock, $13

    11 Tom Hanks, $12

    12= Leonardo DiCaprio, $11

    12= Tom Cruise, $11

    14= Will Smith, $10

    14= Denzel Washington, $10



    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-boxoffice-banker-how-matt-damon-became-hollywoods-leading-man-460666.html
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Superman IV, although he was very good in it.

    I haven't seen any mention yet of Jack Nicholson. What are his duds?
     
  12. BigSleeper

    BigSleeper Active Member

    If you don't count "The Pledge," which I thought was a really good movie, Jack hasn't really had a dud since "The Evening Star" (whatever that was) in 1996.
     
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