Actors That Have Played in Terrible Movies

As I am watching Detective Knight: Rogue, another bad cheezy Bruce Willis "action" movie, it reminds me that Liam Neeson has also been been in a string of mindless "action" movies. Who do you feel is the worst? For me, it's pretty well an even split. Please feel free to disagree if one does so

 

This is a good one. Contentious though. What's a terrible movie? What if I like it? Am I weird if I think it's terrible but still like it?

 

Of course not. It's a matter of taste & opinions. I'm sure there are many cheezy things I enjoy. It just seems with those two actors for the past several years it has been one mindless movie after another. IMO anyways. I know Bruce is suffering from some kind of chronic condition.

 

I find Liam Neeson and the acting path he's chosen to go on interesting. This was an actor who used to be in movies like Schindler's List. Now, it's one action, or as you put, mindless movie after another.

 

Maybe he's strapped for cash...

For me the worst "action" movies have to be Seagal's...

 

Nicholas Cage and John Travolta have followed in similar footsteps: a lot of low budget or direct-to-streaming movies. A lot of them have been panned, but I like most of them, TBH. Cage has chosen better projects than Travolta, IMO. He’s still very topical and popular. Travolta is, too, but not as much as Cage. People look forward to Cage’s movies. He has Renfield coming up, where he’ll play Dracula, and there was a lot of buzz about The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. He’s had movies that were critically praised recently, like Mandy, Pig, and Color Out of Space. He’s often the subject of humor, in a good way, for the zany characters he’s brought to the screen over the years, almost like a pop culture icon. He’s also talked about in superhero circles a lot, jokingly, for his infamous Superman Lives movie that never saw the light of day, but people liked his Ghost Rider.

Travolta hasn’t aged as well, with massive bombs like The Fanatic, The Poison Rose, and Gotti. Some of his campier flicks, like Speed Kills, were admittedly bad, but in a good way. I Am Wrath was filmed in my hometown, Columbus, Ohio, and was, again, kind of cheesy, but in a good way. lol A lot of people want Cage and Travolta to reunite for Face/Off 2, but I think it’s a bad idea. That was a concept, back then, that required such a suspension of disbelief that it’s surprising it became a movie that’s remembered fondly; best to just leave it alone, IMO. Cage was talking about his idea for a sequel recently and it sounded even crazier, where it’s about the sons or daughters of the original characters, and how they also engage in the “face/off” game like their parents did. It’s assumed that the original characters will also return somehow — Cage and Travolta.

 

Yeah he was one of those anti-gun folks. Yet there he is in his mindless acting holding guns. Effing eejit.

 

Good one bro.

 

Their salaries make them all winners!

 

Sides you can never have... too much cheeze...

 

Cage already looked old a long time ago, and chose really good roles like the one in Leaving Las Vegas. Even movies that today would go straight to TV, like Family Man, were ok, entertaining, and just checked the box office data and that movie did well..

Travolta was a really slim "dancer" and now he's fat... so obviously he cannot choose the same roles. I liked him very much in "A Civil Action", my favourite movie about lawyers. Actually I think that one is his best movie (after he got fat, I mean...)

 

Nick Cage, Steven Seagal, and Bruce Willis are good choices. Gerard Butler and Jean-Claude Van Damme also come to mind as well.

I’m not sure I can agree with Liam Neeson being mentioned here. Dude became a bankable action movie star in his late 50s after Taken (2008). Not many people can achieve this and Taken is a legit good movie despite it being somewhat brainless. The Grey (2011) and Non-Stop (2014) were great too. Not sure what’s he been up to lately though.

 

Lol, love it @ZFire.

I do think Taken was a good movie but I was more distracted about the films he's decided to make. I suppose because of what he's done previously as well as his age, who knew he would become an action star.

Gerard Butler is a good one. Thanks for the reminder.

 

Nearly all of Sylvester Stallone's movies are awful with the exception of perhaps 2 arguable movies "Night Hawks" and "Rocky". First Blood is so wrong but a good insight into Hollywood and American brainwashing.

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan, I genuinely love him. Mel did make a film called "Love At first Bight", a Dracula spoof, that was absolutely awful.

 

Liam said in an interview that his career took off when these types of 'action" movies were a hit for him. He also admitted that the 50 million he gets for each film is somewhat embarrassing, but hey, a man's gotta eat, right?

 

I'm watching King of Tulsa. He is old. I think he got divorced again.

 

At least they are known. I remember Bill Maher said a while back "DVDs are for losers." Referring to the male stereotype who collected mindless action movies on DVD when it was a thing. Now just save the files...

 

Liam Neeson is being eyed to lead the next Naked Gun movie. He’d either be playing the same role that Leslie Nielsen used to play or his son. It’s not confirmed yet, but this would kinda be a new thing for him — comedy. He’s played in dark comedies before.

 

I can't stand him for some reason. I never understood how Hugo Boss chose that guy for its ads.

Another actor I don't get is Colin Farrell. It's like he does not transmit anything.

 

What about Colin Farrell’s Penguin in the new Batman? Did you see that? I haven’t yet, but word is that he’s brilliant in the role.

 

I have to say (admit?), if I was offered millions of dollars each for doing one mindless movie after another, I might just "stoop" a little and do it too! I once saw him in an interview where he actually asked the guy interviewing him, "Can you believe they pay a 60+ year old man "x amount" for doing these (action) movies? He could hardly believe it.

 

I watched The Batman (2022). He was great as Penguin and one of the best parts of the film. Smoking that cigar like a badass mobster in the Iceberg Lounge. His accent was great.

You know a performance is good when the actors playing the role are unrecognizable. This was the case with Farrell’s Penguin.

 

I haven't seen it. Danny De Vito was amazing at the Penguin role... hard to beat.

 

Ya, Danny D. was awesome, too. Colin’s take is more mobster-like rather than monster-like, as was Danny’s. I’m gonna watch it soon.

 

Colin Farrell was hilarious in In Bruges.

 

Three quarters of the world are bad actors, the whole world is a stage of fools.

 

All William Shatners.

 

Turns out Bruce has dementia

 

Sylvester Stallone. Any movie, just pick one, it doesn't matter. They're all pretty awful.

William Shatner actually played in a few really good movies. One doesn't get to be a Starship commander w/o at least SOME acting chops.

His 1972 film "The Intruder" about a racist who shows up in a small town and tries to take it over is brilliant, as is the only movie ever made in Esperanto, the 1966 film "Incubus". The demon/devil in the last shots will scare you out of your socks.

 

I watched Bruce Willis in another recent movie abut being some assassin's mentor. You can see his speech decline. He's going to milk it until his last brain cell is fried...