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Old 10-07-10 | 10:29 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Would Megan Fox be too obvious?
Old 10-07-10 | 10:59 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

I will second Harrison Ford & John Wayne.
I will also add Orlando Bloom
Old 10-07-10 | 11:18 AM
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I didn't read through the whole thread yet, so if someone beat me to it and said Ashton Kusher, bollicks to you, sir.

But I think Ashton got extremely lucky with his career. I know he was spotted by a talent scout, and was initially "a model," but I don't find him particularily handsome (not in a Don Draper way), and I don't find him out-of-the-ordinary "cute" (when compared to the above-average nobody working 9-5). Plus, I don't find him to be an extraordinary actor - his range seems somewhat limited. I'll even go above-board and say he's an "average" actor.

Keanu Reeves has him beat in the "cute" department, by the way.
Old 10-07-10 | 11:18 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by Count Dooku
Wait one gosh darn minute!!

Is this DVD Talk!?

Almost 50 posts and no one has mentioned...
Spoiler:
We have a winner. Good god, I don't understand this woman's appeal. The only halfway decent thing I ever saw her in was Mystic Pizza.
Old 10-07-10 | 11:19 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
Would Megan Fox be too obvious?
I would say no... but really what has she accomplished?
Old 10-07-10 | 11:22 AM
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As far as successful supporting actors with bad faces, I'd say Clint Howard is a lucky sonofabitch to be in movies for as long as he's been in movies. In real life, this guy with this face would be lucky to get a mop job.

Old 10-07-10 | 11:25 AM
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We have a winner. Good god, I don't understand this woman's appeal. The only halfway decent thing I ever saw her in was Mystic Pizza.
Nah. I liked Julia Roberts. I say "liked" because after her Oscar-win for Erin Brockovich, her movie roles haven't been that interesting. Okay...they've been god-awful, but her work prior to 2000 have been pretty good. Loved her in "Steel Magnolias" (Al Bundy's favorite movie) and "Pretty Woman." And, face it, she acted her ass off in "Erin."
Old 10-07-10 | 12:23 PM
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I don't know if this person can qualify as an "actor" per se BUT:

Paris Hilton from "The Hottie and the Nottie"



Just because your parents are rich?
Old 10-07-10 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by d2cheer
I would say no... but really what has she accomplished?
The fact that we even know her name???
Old 10-07-10 | 01:38 PM
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John Wayne made a billion movies which could be forgettable but he gets a pass for how he was in Hondo and his Rooster roles, the planets aligned!
Old 10-07-10 | 03:14 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

This is like trying to find out who the most successful flat-chested porn actress is
Old 10-07-10 | 03:37 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by Navinabob
This is like trying to find out who the most successful flat-chested porn actress is
I'll start researching that this evening ... after I stop at the store for some hand lotion and a box of Kleenex.
Old 10-07-10 | 03:59 PM
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John Wayne made a billion movies which could be forgettable but he gets a pass for how he was in Hondo and his Rooster roles, the planets aligned!
I heard he was good in "The Quiet Man," but I wouldn't know because my father loved John Wayne, so I just take a pass on the whole "The Duke, The Duke!" crap. The only Duke in my life is A-number one from Escape From New York.
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John Wayne made a billion movies which could be forgettable but he gets a pass for how he was in Hondo and his Rooster roles, the planets aligned!
Watch The Searchers
Old 10-07-10 | 10:37 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Anybody that Vince McMahon puts in a WWE films is lucky. they cant act
Old 10-07-10 | 10:54 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by FRwL
John Wayne made a billion movies which could be forgettable but he gets a pass for how he was in Hondo and his Rooster roles, the planets aligned!
hrm....I dunno about that. The man played cowboy and he did it well. He had charisma and a look that made him iconic. His role as Cogburn isn't his best, nor was that Oscar more than a lifetime achievement thing, IMO.
Old 10-07-10 | 11:08 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by FRwL
John Wayne made a billion movies which could be forgettable but he gets a pass for how he was in Hondo and his Rooster roles, the planets aligned!
how about Red River?
Old 10-07-10 | 11:55 PM
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8 minutes +
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= OSCAR.
Old 10-08-10 | 01:40 AM
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hrm....I dunno about that. The man played cowboy and he did it well. He had charisma and a look that made him iconic. His role as Cogburn isn't his best, nor was that Oscar more than a lifetime achievement thing, IMO.
Hey i said COULD for others, but for me i also like his billion movies. His best is debatable but those are just my favs.
Old 10-09-10 | 09:53 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

The correct answer is:



For nearly 50 years he's played Harry Dean Stanton in every movie I've ever seen him in, from Kelly's Heroes to The Last Temptation of Christ and all the way to today.
Old 10-09-10 | 11:32 PM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by Navinabob
This is like trying to find out who the most successful flat-chested porn actress is
Sasha Grey... and that took like half a second.
Old 10-10-10 | 12:38 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by james2025a
A lot of interesting choices that agree with, but for me i have to say John Wayne. He has become a legend and i never once enjoyed a performance he gave and found his acting to be at best wooden. And the image of a tough guy just went over me.....he always seemed a pigeon chested old man.
Watch The Shootist. You'll gain a new appreciation for him as an actor. It was a simply brilliant performance. That was the movie that should have won him the Oscar.

And it's a great movie, too.
Old 10-10-10 | 12:55 AM
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Re: Which actor has accomplished the most with least?

Originally Posted by jeffkjoe
I don't know if this person can qualify as an "actor" per se BUT:

Paris Hilton from "The Hottie and the Nottie"



Just because your parents are rich?
actually shes only famous because she fucked someone, and filmed it. Same reason Kim Kardashian is a "celebrity" (although her dad was one of OJ's lawyeres
Old 10-10-10 | 03:13 AM
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Jim Belushi!
Old 10-11-10 | 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Double_Oh_7
Jim Belushi!
Yeah, he was just a bad John-clone that went awry.


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