What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
You might want to have your eyes checked.
11-04-08, 06:32 PM
#102
DVD Talk Legend
11-15-08, 04:25 PM
#103
DVD Talk Hero
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Bartertown due to it having a better economy than where I really live.
Posts: 29,834
Received 18 Likes
on
12 Posts
Jan Michael Vincent.
I can't find the quotes, and I'm kind of surprised they aren't on wiki, but back in the 70s, quite a few Hollywood people felt that JMV would be the greatest thing ever to come out of Hollywood, and as we all know, he has been anything but.
Then:
Most recent I could find, 1996...lots of drugs/drinking and a couple of car accidents later:
I can't find the quotes, and I'm kind of surprised they aren't on wiki, but back in the 70s, quite a few Hollywood people felt that JMV would be the greatest thing ever to come out of Hollywood, and as we all know, he has been anything but.
Then:
Most recent I could find, 1996...lots of drugs/drinking and a couple of car accidents later:
looks like he had fairly steady work though even if it wasn't great work
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001821/
11-17-08, 10:08 AM
#104
DVD Talk Legend
Rachel McAdams and Colin Farrell both were in movies on my top of 2008 but barely anyone saw them. Farrell was great in In Bruges, which is just a great movie all around. The Lucky Ones, with McAdams, is more of a trifle (I'm more than willing to concede the movie's various flaws), but McAdams is pretty brilliant in it.
11-17-08, 10:32 AM
#105
She seems like a genuinely sweet girl, but I have no doubt she'll be getting a real estate license by her 40th birthday, like 95% of other actresses.
Add Kathleen Robertson to that list. I always thought she was the hottest of the 90210 girls, but she went nowhere post-BH90210.
Last edited by Traxan; 11-17-08 at 10:35 AM.
11-18-08, 09:03 AM
#108
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: London, Super England Land
Posts: 392
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Oh she's desperate. That show pretty much saved her. Girl can't really act, the only interest in her is seeing those ta-tas. She's on a TV show where the average viewer is 63 years old, while the Maxim and Rolling Stone covers are a mere memory as Megan Fox and Katherine Heigl have blown right past her.
She seems like a genuinely sweet girl, but I have no doubt she'll be getting a real estate license by her 40th birthday, like 95% of other actresses.
Add Kathleen Robertson to that list. I always thought she was the hottest of the 90210 girls, but she went nowhere post-BH90210.
She seems like a genuinely sweet girl, but I have no doubt she'll be getting a real estate license by her 40th birthday, like 95% of other actresses.
Add Kathleen Robertson to that list. I always thought she was the hottest of the 90210 girls, but she went nowhere post-BH90210.
11-18-08, 11:59 AM
#111
Senior Member
11-18-08, 02:42 PM
#112
DVD Talk Legend
Speaking of Up and Comers, there's this article posted only yesterday about current up and comers, including names like Malin Ackerman, Kat Dennings, and such.
Maybe some future misses among that group as well.
I'll admit I am surprised Thora Birch never became more popular.
Maybe some future misses among that group as well.
I'll admit I am surprised Thora Birch never became more popular.
05-13-09, 08:28 AM
#115
DVD Talk Legend
What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
A couple...
Hugh Dancy
notable roles:
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Blood & Chocolate (2007)
King Arthur (2004)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Judy Greer
notable roles:
Arrested Development
Elizabethtown (2005)
The Village (2004)
13 Going on 30 (2004)
Hugh Dancy
notable roles:
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Blood & Chocolate (2007)
King Arthur (2004)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Judy Greer
notable roles:
Arrested Development
Elizabethtown (2005)
The Village (2004)
13 Going on 30 (2004)
05-13-09, 08:53 AM
#116
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Tennessee, USA
Posts: 3,514
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Re: What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
I'm surprised you said Judy Greer. I find her completely annoying in everything. Plus, her "look" in movies is usually very unflattering.
05-13-09, 09:21 AM
#119
Re: What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
I can't say I'm surprised, but Lance Henriksen should have been a bigger actor. Maybe not a star, since he's always been tagged as a character actor, but he should have had a higher profile, on a par with Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall or at least Samuel L. Jackson. He's 69 now, so I don't think it's gonna happen for him. But he was so great in JOHNNY HANDSOME 20 years ago that he should have had better and more interesting movies than he's had since then. (Sure, he's great in STONE COLD, but it's a silly-ass movie. And sure, he's great in APPALOOSA, but it was too small a part.)
05-13-09, 09:27 AM
#120
Moderator
Re: What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
^ and in that respect, Will Patton. He always really embellishes his roles and chews the scenery, he picks odd movies and I find some his acting decisions might be a tad quirky (Code Name: The Cleaner, for instance) but movies like 'Remember the Titans' he outacted Denzel IMO.
05-13-09, 09:33 AM
#121
DVD Talk Special Edition
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ormond Beach, Florida
Posts: 1,275
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Re: What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
Guy Pearce - Memento, Count of Monte Cristo
I know he does a lot of movies, but I just expected him to be a bigger household name
I know he does a lot of movies, but I just expected him to be a bigger household name
05-13-09, 09:38 AM
#122
Banned
Re: What actor are you surpised isn't a bigger star?
Guy Pearce, Sam Rockwell, Tom Jane, Bryce Dallas Howard, although that may change with The Terminator film coming out.
