Actors you can watch in anything

[emma]

Jason Statham - though I will admit I have never got up the courage to watch Death Race. Too edgy for me.

[Joe Rogaine]

Emile Hirsch
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck

If I were to create a list of people that ruin good things that I want to watch simply by their involvement; these 4 are in the top 10.

You didn't like Diego Luna or Emile Hirsch in Milk? I've heard Casey Affleck is the only reason to watch The Killer Inside me and he was pretty good in  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

[Joe Rogaine]

Robert Duvall
Elliot Gould
John Cazale
Peter Boyle
Paul Reubens
Michael K. Williams
Dolly Parton
Emily Watson
Cissy Spacek
Michael V. Gazzo
Bibi Andersson
Frank Vincent
Tony Sirico
Michael Pitt
Patrick Fugit
Ryan Gosling
Paul Schneider
Emily Mortimer
Anna Karina
Marty Feldman
David Gulpilil
John Goodman
Emile Hirsch
Jane Adams
Will Oldham
John Lurie
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck
Ron Livingston
Michael Murphy
Tony Roberts


How awesome would a John Lurie and Vincent Gallo buddy movie be?

Has anyone read this article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/16/100816fa_fact_friend

Only the abstract is online:

ABSTRACT: DOWNTOWN CHRONICLES about John Lurie. From 1984 to 1989, everyone in downtown New York wanted to be John Lurie. Or sleep with him. Or punch him in the face. Lurie, the star of the Jim Jarmusch films “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down by Law” and the saxophone-playing leader of the jazz-punk group the Lounge Lizards, was intensely charismatic. He wore a Borsalino fedora and old suits and painted expressionist album covers and picked up girls at the Mudd Club and snorted coke at the Palladium. In the nineties, he let his acting career go, but “Fishing with John,” his tongue-in-cheek cable show showcased his ingenuity and candor. A year and a half ago, however, at the age of fifty-six, Lurie disappeared. What happened first was that Lurie was stricken with a mysterious disease that confined him to his SoHo apartment for six years. Then, in 2008, he and his closest friend, a younger artist named John Perry, had an explosive rupture, and Lurie went into hiding in the belief that Perry intended to kill him. This was a reasonable point of view, as Perry was stalking him. In October, Lurie began living incognito in a rented house in Palm Springs, California. Perry and Lurie got to know each other in the early nineties, at the SoHo restaurant Lucky Strike. In the fall of 2008, Perry asked Lurie to pose for him for an instructional TV pilot called “The Drawing Show.” A few hours in, Lurie was clearly ill, wincing and slumping in his chair. Sometime after 10:30 P.M., Lurie left and then he collapsed in the hallway. In the days that followed, Perry called Time Warner Cable and discovered that Lurie had ordered a pay-per-view boxing match shortly after he left the shoot. Lurie e-mailed Perry to say, “I suffered agony for you—it was met with disappointment and derision.” Perry, stung, began speed-dialing Lurie’s apartment, and then he appeared downstairs at his apartment building. That night, Lurie moved out to the Bowery Hotel and in the morning he sent Perry an e-mail saying that his threats amounted to extortion. Perry promptly filed a police complaint against Lurie, making up a claim that Lurie had threatened to hit him with a baseball bat. That afternoon, Lurie filed a police complaint against Perry for harassment. Both men were avowedly heterosexual, but Lurie felt that Perry’s behavior suggested a rebuffed lover. In February of 2009, Lurie moved to Flea’s house in Big Sur to paint. Mentions Lurie’s assistant, Nesrin Wolf, and “Good Morning America”’s Bill Stanton. A number of Lurie’s friends now felt that Perry was his default topic, and paranoia his default mode. Neither man wants to apologize unilaterally—or, really, at all. However, Perry did tell the writer, “I regret the whole thing, it was silly and cruel.” The protracted duet has become a kind of living performance piece, but neither man is able to see it as art: Perry because he views himself solely as a painter, and Lurie because he never before associated art with a fear of death.

I didn't know about Luries disease. Who is John Perry just some psychotic stalker?

[Joe Rogaine]

Thanks, Jouster.  I was thinking a few people would give me grief over Jesse Eisenberg or Audrey Tautou, but I find them both very watchable.

Im with you on Eisenberg i even watched that Fred Durst movie he was in and im probably going to see that Facebook movie even though a movie about Facebook sounds idiotic.

The screenplay is actually pretty good.  It was written by Aaron Sorkin.

I don't get whats so great about Aaron Sorkin and ive only really liked one Fincher film that i can think of.

[Joe Rogaine]

I agree with the above mentions  i forgot all about Seymour Cassel and Kris Kristofferson.

I would also add Clair Daines, Michelle Williams, James Franco, and Philip Baker Hall.

I would throw Tom Noonan in there too he's  pretty great on the latest episode of Louie.

[Wes]

Jason Statham - though I will admit I have never got up the courage to watch Death Race. Too edgy for me.

I've also been putting off Death Race, since I know it can't measure up to the original, even though I'm sure Statham himself would have been game to try based on his career thus far. He does excellent work in The Expendables where he shows he's the only one of the cast who knows how to make action actor faces, and is rewarded with all the best Kill Poses. (To be fair, neither Stallone nor Rourke are capable of moving their faces anymore.)

What I admire most about Statham's career thus far is that he's slowly but surely assembling a list of amazing character names that could someday match the roster of character names put together by all-time co-champions "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

[jbissell]

Emile Hirsch
Diego Luna
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Casey Affleck

If I were to create a list of people that ruin good things that I want to watch simply by their involvement; these 4 are in the top 10.

You didn't like Diego Luna or Emile Hirsch in Milk? I've heard Casey Affleck is the only reason to watch The Killer Inside me and he was pretty good in  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Luna was really annoying in Milk, although that seemed to be mostly intentional. I think JGL is one of the more interesting and excellent younger actors working today. He's fantastic in Mysterious Skin. Casey Affleck is also really good, especially in Jesse James.

[Joe Rogaine]

Steve Buscemi can even make Miami Vice enjoyable especially when he gets beat up by Willie Nelson.


Steve Buscemi on Miami Vice