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"One-Hit Wonder" Actors/Actors who never made it


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3 hours ago, Reed said:

Eminem was a perfectly competent actor in 8 mile. He was truly quite good in that film.

But then, as Samuel L Jackson critiqued him at the time: "But he was playing himself. That's not acting. Now I want to see him play a doctor or a lawyer."

Or a corporate investigator sent to check up on the progress of super-smart sharks whose brains have been enhanced to fight Alzheimer's.

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I would like to go back to Curt saying he didn't remember Karen Allen

Did you not watch Lost Ark or Crystal Skull? I mean it is kinda hard to ignore her character

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16 hours ago, piranesi said:

Or a corporate investigator sent to check up on the progress of super-smart sharks whose brains have been enhanced to fight Alzheimer's.

Now I have this weird desire to see Eminem eaten by super-smart sharks whose brains have been enhanced to fight Alzheimer's.

The "playing yourself" point is weird. Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt is one of my favorite on-screen performances by an actress, but I can admit: Yes, there were elements of the real Love in that character. Which is what made it so great.

But, ultimately, she was still acting. And she did other films and TV roles after that. She was fine in them.  

Eminem, meanwhile, 100% played himself. And has done nothing since. 

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15 hours ago, J.H. said:

Outside of Animal House (where she playe the underage girl that Pinto loses it to) and Caddyshack (where she played Maggie) what ever happened to Sarah Holcomb?

James

From various accounts, Holcomb struggled for years with drugs, alcohol, mental illness and other issues. She reportedly lives under another name and does not want to be found.

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On 8/14/2016 at 8:37 AM, Reed said:

Now I have this weird desire to see Eminem eaten by super-smart sharks whose brains have been enhanced to fight Alzheimer's.

The "playing yourself" point is weird. Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt is one of my favorite on-screen performances by an actress, but I can admit: Yes, there were elements of the real Love in that character. Which is what made it so great.

But, ultimately, she was still acting. And she did other films and TV roles after that. She was fine in them.  

Eminem, meanwhile, 100% played himself. And has done nothing since. 

It was completely different from Eminem in real life. That isn't fair.

His daughter was his sister in the movie. 

ACTING

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I believe Southpaw was written for Eminem. Gyllenhaal ended up replacing him. We would have had the acting trio of Eminem, 50 Cent, and Rita Ora (one of the Weinstein bros. got amped for Ora's 5 minute cameo FWIW). That's like a 2006 low budget, direct-to-video film that I would have totally rented for $3 a decade ago. 

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EDIT: Re: Scrooged

Noted prior so I didn't think I needed to bring it up.

Re: RIPPA

I was bitching about others not remembering her, even though I personally hadn't seen the Jones films in forever, and never watched Crystal Skull. Reading my comment again I can see how it would be misinterpreted; what I meant is how could you NOT remember her from Animal House.

Karen, my love, my apologies (now I want to post a bunch of photos but I don't want to be banned immediately)

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Watching Shaun of the Dead last night, and it's odd how almost everyone in it has gone on to be more successful (nb: I'm sure a few of them are unknown to Americans since, but trust me) except the female Lead, Kate Ashfield. Who's done a bunch of TV shows I didn't watch, and not much else.

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This might re-define what we would consider "a one hit wonder" since she has been regularly in work and was A-list for a while there in the '90s.

But, if we're talking simply about acting performances, how about Sharon Stone in Casino?

Like, she actually acts DeNiro and Pesci off-screen. It's an astounding film to watch partly for that reason. And this from a woman who has never, in general, been that good an actor and bordered on embarrassing sometimes. But she sort of showed them both up.

She's never been that good again and probably never will be.   

 

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or Gino Toscano's wife in Above The Law?

or as Lori Quaid in Total Recall?

I mean sure her acting in that was Showtime After Dark level bad but it was High End Showtime After Dark level bad!

James

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Stone's problem isn't being a bad actress--she's decent enough and quite good with the right material.  Her problem is she apparently ticked off and/or weirded out people.  She won the Golden Goble for Casino, and got almost zero applause for it.  And it wasn't out of shock over the win.  It was clearly a case of "Ugh, not this heifer, we hate her" on display.  Yet another example of a Hollywood star crashing and burning behind the scenes rather than lack of talent.

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David Richmond-Peck.

Most of you on this board apparently know him as "Olivier Duval" on Orphan Black.

But to me and everybody who has never seen Orphan Black, he's best known as the polygraph operator with glasses who interrogates Keanu Reeves in the trailer for the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still and has a psychic seizure.

 

IMDB says he's had dozens of roles since 2008, but apparently most of them were walk-on roles or bit parts.

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All I can think of since seeing the Electric Boogaloo Cannon Films documentary, is Golan and Globus asking for the casting department to get that Stone woman to do their Alan Quartermain movies and then after seeing Sharon Stone on the set asking "who is this bitch?"  Apparently Stone woman meant they wanted Kathleen Turner from Romancing The Stone.

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On 8/21/2016 at 6:39 AM, Burgundy LaRue said:

Stone's problem isn't being a bad actress--she's decent enough and quite good with the right material.  Her problem is she apparently ticked off and/or weirded out people.  She won the Golden Goble for Casino, and got almost zero applause for it.  And it wasn't out of shock over the win.  It was clearly a case of "Ugh, not this heifer, we hate her" on display.  Yet another example of a Hollywood star crashing and burning behind the scenes rather than lack of talent.

Hollywood also happily applauds guys like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen.

Granted, Stone might be a diva and difficult on set.

But no way does asking for Evian water at the right temperature, or whatever, compare to what those guys (confessedly and allegedly) did.

Basically: We probably shouldn't trust Hollywood to decide on someone's morality.   

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On 8/21/2016 at 6:17 AM, J.T. said:

You guys talk about Sharon Stone being one and done in Casino like Basic Instinct never happened.

She was good in Basic Instinct. But she was playing a film noir femme fatale parody.  

No one who could exist in the real world. Too icy. Too cold. 

Ginger worked so well as a character because she was, simply, a frigging mess. 

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On 8/21/2016 at 0:39 AM, Burgundy LaRue said:

Stone's problem isn't being a bad actress--she's decent enough and quite good with the right material.  Her problem is she apparently ticked off and/or weirded out people.  She won the Golden Goble for Casino, and got almost zero applause for it.  And it wasn't out of shock over the win.  It was clearly a case of "Ugh, not this heifer, we hate her" on display.  Yet another example of a Hollywood star crashing and burning behind the scenes rather than lack of talent.

This should be officially known as Sean Young Syndrome. 

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