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Movies and roles that killed a career (1 Viewer)

Daywalker said:
With Norton I get the feeling that he's not really interested then the other way around. 
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I think I've read he's a big ####### and people don't love working with him. He is also very busy with non profit activism, grew up wealthy, went to Yale, etc. So I think you are right that he's particular about what he does now.

 
Never saw this movie, but it just looked horrendous from the trailers and I see it was up for a Razzie, but has Jack Black done a whole lot sense Gulliver's Travels?

 
Jobber said:
Exactly. Just because someone isn't "A" list doesnt mean their career is dead.
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Very few actors can maintain being high profile leads for a long period of time. Jack Black was never destined to be a guy that was the lead in many movies. 

 
A friend of mine was "acquainted" with Julian Sands years ago and claimed he felt Boxing Helena ruined his career. This is the movie where he plays a surgeon who amputates Sherilyn Fenn's arms and legs due to his obsession with the Venus de Milo statue.  I think he did full frontal. Total disaster of a movie by all accounts. It also essentially ruined Kim Bassigner's career, as she backed out of the role Fenn took (good move, I guess), was sued, lost and ended up filing bankruptcy.

 
2017 has done some serious damage to a couple big stars.

ScarJo's turn in Ghost in the Shell was a financial disaster. $40m return on a film that likely cost $200m to make and market.

How much did Matt Damon lose this year with the double shot of The Great Wall and Downsizing? Yikes!

 
badmojo1006 said:
Klinton Spilsbury. Starred in only one movie "The legend of the lone ranger" in 1981, and nothing since
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Get's worse than that for this fella. That movie was filmed about 10 miles SE of Santa Fe on a western set near the state prison where many flicks (inc Blazing Saddles) had been shot. I lived there at the time & our hangout, the Turf Club (where Eastwood shot the barfight scene from "Every Which Way but Loose" and left a 5-figure bartab for the locals whose alcoholism he had disrupted) was the nearest saloon to the set. One day, a fella named Manning, who ran river-rafting tours out of SF's most-prominent hotel (La Fonda) strutted into the Turf Club and yelled "drinks are on me boys - i just ####ed the Lone Ranger's wife!" So, i guess that werent a great experience for  ol' Spilly in any fashion...

 
Copeman said:
Whatever happened to Gene Hackman?  That guy was awesome.
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He lives in Santa Fe too. The way i hear it, he quit when he started to look old and doesnt like being seen now in his 80s because he feels it diminishes the power of his movie image, so disguises himself when he goes out. He doesnt pretend its not him if you notice, just doesnt want public images of his enfeeblement

 
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CletiusMaximus said:
A friend of mine was "acquainted" with Julian Sands years ago and claimed he felt Boxing Helena ruined his career. This is the movie where he plays a surgeon who amputates Sherilyn Fenn's arms and legs due to his obsession with the Venus de Milo statue.  I think he did full frontal. Total disaster of a movie by all accounts. It also essentially ruined Kim Bassigner's career, as she backed out of the role Fenn took (good move, I guess), was sued, lost and ended up filing bankruptcy.
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Good one.

But I still make a point of watching it every Boxing Day.

 
While most of the focus has been on actors/actresses, Martin Brest deserves a mention for "Gigli."  He directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black (last one not as well received, but it made a decent amount of money).  Then he made Gigli and hasn't directed anything since.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
He lives in Santa Fe too. The way i hear it, he quit when he started to look old and doesnt like being seen now in his 80s because he feels it diminishes the power of his movie image, so disguises himself when he goes out. He doesnt pretend its not him if you notice, just doesnt want public images of his enfeeblement
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Last time I saw him, he was on an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

Probably 6-7 years, seemed OK

 
Hilts said:
With Star Wars recently hitting the theaters, I was thinking about the previous string from Lucas and wondered what happened to Hayden Christensen.
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When I first read Star Wars, I was actually thinking of Mark Hamill. He was typecast as Luke from the get-go and never really did much else. 

Encyclopedia Brown said:
Edward Norton was getting comparisons to Pacino/De Niro until he single handedly killed The Incredible Hulk. 
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Funny - I thought immediately of Edward Furlong, Norton's brother in American History X, in this thread. After Furlong's great performance there, he went on to star in that crapfest Detroit Rock City, and between that and a lot of coke, his career fizzled.

 
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Martin Brest directed Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black...a pretty great run overall.

Then he wrote and directed Gigli and never worked on a film again.

 
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