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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: cutout on March 16, 2013, 12:40:24 PM
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This guy.
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He seems like he's popped up in every comedy of the last few years. Yet I have never met anyone who likes him. Actually everyone I know has at some point said they disliked him. I was curious so I went to his IMDB forum (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241173/board/threads/) and it seems to confirm it.
I remember 7-8 years ago when David Koechner popped up in every comedy, most people I know commented how much they disliked him.
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Would Adam Sandler qualify? Almost every film he's acted in has been universally panned, yet he still continues to get work.
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Kevin Bacon and Nic Cage, both of those guys ave been stinking movies out for 20+ years now. Must have good agents?
More recently: Kevin James?
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I feel like there are a lot of people who openly like all those guys though. I haven't met anyone who would actively see a movie because Clark Duke is in it. At least Kevin Bacon seems like a cool guy. Clark Duke is just unlucky to have such a punchable face, I think.
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Would Adam Sandler qualify? Almost every film he's acted in has been universally panned, yet he still continues to get work.
They pretty universally make a significant profit, I think.
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Kevin Bacon and Nic Cage, both of those guys ave been stinking movies out for 20+ years now. Must have good agents?
I realize that this kind of stuff isn't really worth arguing about, but I always thought Kevin Bacon was reliably good, if not great, even when he's in junk. And as for Nic Cage, I was shocked recently when I chatted with a 20 year old who despised him - I still have loads of goodwill for Cage on the basis of a whole bunch of movies from the 80s and 90s. (And he's been pretty great recently-ish in both Kick-Ass and Adaptation.) Again, even when he's in horrible movies (which admittedly is usually) Cage makes them more entertaining than they would be in his absence.
Gerard Butler is a shoo-in for this category, surely. And a more controversial choice: John Cusack. He used to be one of the most likeable actors around, but these days anytime I see him I frown involuntarily.
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Would Adam Sandler qualify? Almost every film he's acted in has been universally panned, yet he still continues to get work.
They pretty universally make a significant profit, I think.
You have a point there.
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I remember 7-8 years ago when David Koechner popped up in every comedy, most people I know commented how much they disliked him.
This surprises me. Granted, it's not usually the first topic I bring up in conversation, but I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like Dave Koechner. He has a lot of goodwill from me for his roles in Anchorman and Extract.
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I remember 7-8 years ago when David Koechner popped up in every comedy, most people I know commented how much they disliked him.
This surprises me. Granted, it's not usually the first topic I bring up in conversation, but I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like Dave Koechner. He has a lot of goodwill from me for his roles in Anchorman and Extract.
Yep.
And he also made some funny guest appearances on The Office.
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who the hell is clark duke?
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At least Kevin Bacon seems like a cool guy.
I think you meant Utter Dickwad, but typo'd it and wrote cool guy?
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What's your beef with Kevin Bacon?
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What's your beef with Kevin Bacon?
The guy has turned in some real hammy performances lately. What's the last film he was in that wasn't a turkey?
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I thought Super was pretty excellent.
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If you'd watched last week's The Office, and judging by the ratings, you didn't, you would have gotten to see yr heroes Clark Duke and David "Dave" Koechner act opposite each other in the least funny episode of The Office ever.
There have been worse ones, but none that had so little humor in them. Please let this end so I can stop watching.
It's a cliche to say at this point, but Shia Labeouf.
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It's a cliche to say at this point, but Shia Labeouf.
Great pick.
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First, I genuinely can't think of movie that i have seen tht I enjoyed, that had Kevin Bacon in.
Second, he seems like kind of a dink.
Third, in most lines of work if you don't do good work, you get fewer/no opportunities to further your career. This tends not to happen in showbiz - hence this thread and hence why I assume in such cases that an agent is involved (I base this of pure assumption and having watched Entourage. I know there are people that hang out here who work in the biz so please tell me if I am wrong)
Fourth, Kevin Bacon has been doing these super annoying TV ads here in the UK recently for a Mobile Phone company and so he's a the forefront of my annoying celebrity thoughts.
Y'all are cool to like to whoever you want and I didn't mean to start some bad internet stuff the question was offered and I answered.
But yeah, Clarke Duke sucks.
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That's okay with me. I don't really have strong feelings about the guy - it had just never really occurred to me to dislike him. I fully support your right to hate things on the internet. It's a universal human right!
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I like Kevin Bacon. Some of his early starring movies (the bike messenger one) were cheesy but he seems to have settled into a decent supporting character actor (Mystic River, Apollo 13). I always liked Stir of Echoes which had the bad luck to be released just after the Sixth Sense. Had a lot of similarities but I liked Stir of Echoes a lot and much more than that other one.
I'd put Jon Favreu on this list and agree that Gerard Butler is on the top.
For the ladies, I think Anne Hathaway (just kidding) Jennifer Aniston will be a perennial on this list.
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I liked X-Men First Class...Super...Frost/Nixon...The Woodsman...Mystic River. Those were all in the last decade.
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Shia Labeouf might be the ultimate "who wants that?" actor. No one asked for him, no one sees movies because of him, and he will make more money in a year than most of us in a lifetime. :'(
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Kevin only had a bit part in it, but Animal House is a pretty good movie.
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I feel sorry for Kevin, he lost everything to Madoff. Hence all the shitty roles and ads of late.
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Posting for the first time in a year to say that the best thing Clark Duke ever did was a sorta funny web series with Michael Cera.
Clark and Michael - Episode 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mvUkFFVJQ#)
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Clark Duke, I like him fine.
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Ryan Reynolds! And maybe Tom Cruise.
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George Clooney?
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Yep, you nailed it Fredericks.
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What the hell?
George Clooney?
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Yep, you nailed it Fredericks.
NOT!!! (Speaking of which, is Mike Myers still trying to make his Keith Moon biopic. I've previously cited Myers as a dude who's burned thru his reseves of public goodwill towards him).
Gerard Butler for sure. Put his face in the dictionary next to "jerk". As Tom said about him on the show, who wants THAT?
I'm not a Kev Bacon-hater, but stuff I've heard about his new teevee show sounds pretty distasteful. Another gross show about serial killers. Side topic: Are serial killers the most over-represented population in entertainment? I feel like, proportionately speaking, there are a lot more serial killers in movies and TV than in real life. Enough with the serial killers!
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Spike needs to get in on this thread and Spikify the name of everybody mentioned.
Not an actor, but at this point Chris Brown's entire career seems to be constructed around spiting the millions who don't want him to have a career anymore. It's fucking bizarre.
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Spike needs to get in on this thread and Spikify the name of everybody mentioned.
Not an actor, but at this point Chris Brown's entire career seems to be constructed around spiting the millions who don't want him to have a career anymore. It's fucking bizarre.
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Ricky Jay. I guess he served a purpose in Mamet's "House of Games" but why do people keep putting him in their films when he absolutely cannot act? He's not good looking or charismatic. Does he amuse Hollywood producers with is little card tricks?
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His voice over was perfect in Magnolia
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His voice over was perfect in Magnolia
Must've been the reason I walked out on it. 8)
Here's another: Nathan Lane. He's got a face I instantly want to punch.
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My Ryan Reynolds theory: he was in that Sandra Bullock movie that was a hit, but Hollywood is so ageist and sexist that nobody could believe she was the reason for its success. So they attributed it to him instead, but the evidence is clearly mounting that they were wrong.
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His voice over was perfect in Magnolia
Must've been the reason I walked out on it. 8)
Here's another: Nathan Lane. He's got a face I instantly want to punch.
Homophobe.
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Don't really get the rip on Clooney. This is 97 - 2009, it's a pretty sweet 13 years
Out of Sight
Three Kings
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean's Eleven
Solaris
Ocean's Twelve
Syriana
Good Night, And Good Luck.
Michael Clayton
Up in the Air
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Fredericks is just trying to spin this topic on its head and make you think.
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I assumed he was kidding.
But how about Jennifer Aniston?
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Don't really get the rip on Clooney. This is 97 - 2009, it's a pretty sweet 13 years
Out of Sight
Three Kings
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean's Eleven
Solaris
Ocean's Twelve
Syriana
Good Night, And Good Luck.
Michael Clayton
Up in the Air
I like Clooney also.
He's a very good actor and a pretty capable director as well.
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Fredericks is just trying to spin this topic on its head and make you think.
Federicks' manager would not let him play head games with me.
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His voice over was perfect in Magnolia
Must've been the reason I walked out on it. 8)
Here's another: Nathan Lane. He's got a face I instantly want to punch.
Homophobe.
Pardon me?
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Here's another: Nathan Lane. He's got a face I instantly want to punch.
Homophobe.
Pardon me?
I assumed he was kidding.
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How did the thread get this far without a mention of Jeremy Piven?
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How did the thread get this far without a mention of Jeremy Piven?
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He has completely redeemed himself:
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Just look at this brit raving about his performance:
http://youtu.be/iUMxzpt2_ec?t=4m40s (http://youtu.be/iUMxzpt2_ec?t=4m40s)
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Also: I thought I'd bring this up, while I'm on the topic of "Selfridging" (as recently coined by Tom):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6udlTj06g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6udlTj06g#ws)
Michael Chiklis, proper east-end goon.
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Gwyneth Paltrow?
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I don't like to be criticized, but I think a daily summary of one's life from Charlie Brooker would keep us all on the straight and narrow.
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That Selfridge review was really well done. I watched 20 minutes of the show and I'm pretty sure it's the worst thing I've ever seen. Piven seemed like he was acting for toddlers. It was insane.
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I don't like to be criticized, but I think a daily summary of one's life from Charlie Brooker would keep us all on the straight and narrow.
I think that is actually a new concept for Black Mirror. Charlie Brooker has been cloned to provide universal surveillance/ on-site review of every citizen in a new Orwellian global order.
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I don't like to be criticized, but I think a daily summary of one's life from Charlie Brooker would keep us all on the straight and narrow.
I think that is actually a new concept for Black Mirror. Charlie Brooker has been cloned to provide universal surveillance/ on-site review of every citizen in a new Orwellian global order.
"Oh my God, yew ate *that* fa brekfast?" Turns to camera. "The whole *day* was like this."