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I reckon the actual answer to this is none. More likely that you’ve only watched the good ones.
This.
If you go back through actors' early work, they will usually have done some shit films before they became famous. The good actors still put in a good performance, but that doesn't stop the film from sucking.
Leonardo Di Caprio: Critters 3
Brad Pitt: The Dark Side of the Sun
Phillip Seymour-Hoffman: Twister
etc.
John Cusack.
And the Rock, obviously.
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Free MemberPhillip Seymour-Hoffman: Twister
Fightin' talk.
Fightin’ talk.
Ok.
Philip Seymour-Hoffman in Patch Adams
(Plus Peter Coyote, and Alan Tudyk. I left Robin Williams out of it because most of his films were lame, it's like seeing Tom Hanks on a billboard, you know the film is going to be some lame shit. At least with Nicolas Cage, there's about a 50-50 chance that it'll be either brilliant, or just atrocious.)
Ethan Hawke
Dead Poets' Society was lame, predictable shite. Great Expectations was pretentious and boring.
James Stewart
Cary Grant
Alec Guinness
Basil Rathbone
Harrison Ford
The last Indiana Jones one was terrible
Brenda Gleeson is a good shout.
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tim Roth, Paddy Considine
Will smith seems to work on consistently decent films.
Tom Hanks is another name that will be in a very watchable film.
Marlon Brando. Not done many films recently though...
George Clooney is in Gravity the stinkiest of turds. And Michael Clayton.
Alex Winter, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Have only ever been in great movies or their other movies were so unsuccessful they don't count.
Jennifer Grey?
Tom Cruise
Go on, name a bad film he's in. You can't.
Kermit the frog...
Ellen Paige
Although I'm with the above comments, you need people to have written a good movie for the actor to be able to make something of it.
Tom Cruise
Go on, name a bad film he’s in. You can’t.
Days of thunder.
Paddy Considine
Is a good shout. Unlike some actors who do the same role he really has a range, From dead man shoes (which mrs750 refuses to watch) and hot fuzz
Cocktail
Eyes Wide Shut
Mi2
The Mummy
Anything Jack Reacher
Far and Away
You know what, I think the original post might have been sarcastic 🙂
Denzil Washington.
Tom Hanks.
Absolutely nothing to do with his acting ability (or lack of) but I don't think I have ever seen Mark Whalberg (sp) in a terrible movie.
Tom Hardy maybe Dustin Hoffman chuck in some Eddie Murphy
Tom Hardy
AS much as he's my total man crush, you clearly haven't seen This Means War
Absolutely nothing to do with his acting ability (or lack of) but I don’t think I have ever seen Mark Whalberg (sp) in a terrible movie.
The Happening
One of the WORST films of all time
Turturro? Though I confess to not having seen the Transformers part of his oeuvre as probably too arty for me...
Tom Cruise is an interesting one
would never had said him but looking through his list there are no turkeys!
but I don’t think I have ever seen Mark Whalberg (sp) in a terrible movie.
Transformers. When it had gotten "worse" after the first few which in turn were some of the most terrible films ever made...
but looking through his list there are no turkeys!
Really? As well as the ones listed above, there's also Last Samurai, Knight and Day, Valkyrie... There are some stinkers.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Ron Jeremy.
Films that sucked.
Tom Cruise - Days of Thunder
Dustin Hoffman - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Mark Wahlberg - Daddy's Home 2
Eddie Murphy - The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Tom Hanks - The Terminal (although his movies are pretty much all mediocre, this was just awful)
Marlon Brando - The Brave
So, basically, any actor with a decent portfolio will have stepped in some shit along the way, it's just inevitable. However, special mention must go to Tim Roth for United Passions, which might be the worst film ever made by people who are supposed to know how to make films. It grossed less than $1000 on it's opening weekend.
Will Hay
Stephen Graham
Phenomenal at playing an absolute bastard. Equally excellent at displaying vulnerabilities and emotions, eg The Virtues.
Actually, Green Mile was even worse than The Terminal. Tom Hanks has done some real shit, with his best stuff being mediocre.
Bachelor Party sucked.
The Money Pit sucked.
Bonfire of the Vanities sucked.
Forrest Gump sucked.
Marlon Brando –
The BraveApocalypse Now
Yeah, shoot me.
Will smith seems to work on consistently decent films.
He had a good runs of things for a while, was seen as the last 'bankable' star for ages. Ironically partly because of that he didn't get any parts he wanted (more drama lead stuff) as they wanted too much money.
He didn't make a film from 2008 to 2012 and has mostly made action / action comedy crap since, Men in Black 3, After Earth, Collateral Beauty, Bright and Gemini Man and Bad Boys for Life.
Tom Cruise is an interesting one
would never had said him but looking through his list there are no turkeys!
Yeah I agree - as an actor he isn't the best but, for the most part, his films have all been decent enough and that was the question the OP posed.
Actually, Green Mile was even worse than The Terminal. Tom Hanks has done some real shit, with his best stuff being mediocre.
Bachelor Party sucked.
The Money Pit sucked.
Bonfire of the Vanities sucked.
Forrest Gump sucked.
Many people don't like his warm and fuzzy, middle of the road style, but most of the films you've listed were well liked profitable and even Oscar winning, or 30+ year old films from the start of his career.
That's not that he hasn't made bad films, Inferno, Hologram for the King, Larry Crow did poorly and are largely forgotten despite being fairly recent.
Many people don’t like his
warm and fuzzy, middle of the road styleboring mediocrity.
FTFY
Here's a contentious one:
Samuel L Jackson, WITH the following caveats.
1) He's in a supporting role, NOT the Star.
2) Unless it's a Tarantino film.
He's made more films than any other well known Actor I know, I just can't think of any really shit ones he was supporting in.
For me it's Ben Mendelsohn
Got to be Tom Cruise, for sheer volume of decent films over so many decades. Even his worst are still watchable. He comes across as very professional, seems like he always commits 100% to a part rather than sleepwalking through some just to pick up a paycheque as plenty of other big-name actors do!
Would've loved to pick Samuel L as a backup but DAMN he's been in some bad movies 😃
Stephen Graham
+1
Actually, Green Mile was even worse than The Terminal. Tom Hanks has done some real shit, with his best stuff being mediocre.
Erm, what P-Jay said.
It's easier if you look for the best actors with the least turkeys.
I would go for :-
The two Kates
Blanchett and Winslet
Brad Pitt
Sam Rockwell
Yir wee man Tom Cruise
Elisabeth Moss
and the best James Bond
Another vote for Jake Gyllenhaal. And yes, Source Code was pretty good.
Joaquin Phoenix?
Good shout on Joaquin! 🙂
Actually, Green Mile was even worse than The Terminal. Tom Hanks has done some real shit, with his best stuff being mediocre.
Bachelor Party sucked.
The Money Pit sucked.
Bonfire of the Vanities sucked.
Forrest Gump sucked.
Get in the sea - Green Mile's a good film, The Terminal's an interesting premise that's overlong and with a bad accent. The Money Pit is top-class mid-eighties slapstick and Forrest Gump would have been great if it hadn't been so quotable.
Can I tentatively add Cate Blanchett and James McAvoy with the caveat of "in films that I've seen"?