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Post by moviemouth on Aug 3, 2017 2:00:17 GMT
Good pick on Pepper. Wish he got bigger parts. He did recently get a well deserved emmy for his in The Kennedys, but yes. Kind of ironic that out of all of Hanks' men in Saving Private Ryan, the biggest success is Vin Diesel.
How about Skeet Ulrich? Scream was supposed to be his breakout, but he never really did. Even Freddie Prinze Jr. enjoyed a flash in the pan. That is pretty funny. Edwards Burns and Barry Pepper are the two I would have guessed would have the best careers after Saving Private Ryan. |
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Post by brownstones on Aug 3, 2017 2:01:11 GMT
Shia Lebeouf- he had a run ..in not sure what happened. I think it was his reputation of being difficult to work with. i think he was doing well, but it's probably a combination of what he said about The Crystal Skull and then just a string of "meh" films, and just his personality becoming more and more aggressive, and then you also had the incident where he was accused of plagiarism (which i think turned out to be true) which finally caused his implosion of sorts. |
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 3:49:47 GMT
Good pick on Pepper. Wish he got bigger parts. He did recently get a well deserved emmy for his in The Kennedys, but yes. Kind of ironic that out of all of Hanks' men in Saving Private Ryan, the biggest success is Vin Diesel. How about Skeet Ulrich? Scream was supposed to be his breakout, but he never really did. Even Freddie Prinze Jr. enjoyed a flash in the pan. Good pick on Ulrich. It looked like he had a good career on his way, after Scream he was in As Good as It Gets, Richard Linklater's The Newton Boys and Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil. |
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 3:51:19 GMT
Mel Gibson actually told him that starring in The Passion of the Christ might ruin his career. He told Caviezel that? Well, he wasn't exactly wrong on his assumption. |
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 3:55:11 GMT
I haven't seen Juliette Lewis in much since the mid-90s and she was in her early 20s then with an Oscar nom and a host of well known movies. I believe she wanted to focus more on her music career which is why she didn't appear in that many films in the late 90's, most of the 00's. |
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Post by politicidal on Aug 3, 2017 4:36:15 GMT
Actress - Thora Birch (confused her with Alison Pill for a second).
Actor - Josh Duhamel (When he's not in the Transformers movies he's in some tacky rom-com).
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 3, 2017 4:53:01 GMT
Mel Gibson actually told him that starring in The Passion of the Christ might ruin his career. He told Caviezel that? Well, he wasn't exactly wrong on his assumption. Yes, he warned him before letting him accept the role. Gibson, he said, had initially offered him the role, only to call him back 20 minutes later and beg him not to take it. "He said, 'You'll never work in this town again.' |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 3, 2017 5:06:47 GMT
Emile Hirsch
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Robert Pattinson
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Post by JHA Durant on Aug 3, 2017 5:21:30 GMT
Isabel Lucas.
Mara Wilson (In the 90s, certainly. Then she quit).
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 3, 2017 5:25:03 GMT
Good one on Thora Birch (she did get a lot of press), Skeet Ulrich, Josh Hartnett.
I think the last two were decent actors with screen presence.
Hartnett probably suffered from being too traditional leading man in attitude--comes across as a nice guy yet strong.
As the 2000s played out, such a character was increasingly persona non grata.
That's why Shia Labouef came along. Much more the studio owner's type of guy.
I think Dina Meyer should have had more of a leading role career.
Lucy Lawless deserved a leading action role like Cutthroat Island. She would have been much better for it.
But you know how it is.
One minute you are on top, then the next you are forgotten like Kristy McNichol.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 3, 2017 5:28:20 GMT
Oh I got a good one (if she hasnt been mentioned).
Emily Lloyd.
I heard she got bitten by a dog and developed bad OCD.
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 5:28:48 GMT
Emile Hirsch Cuba Gooding Jr. Robert Pattinson Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career has gotten a boost lately though, thanks to American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 3, 2017 5:35:40 GMT
Speaking of Spielberg, Alison Doody didn't get a boost from her IJ movie?
Doody totally fell off the radar in Hollywood.
I saw her in a 1994 low budget Jeff Fahey movie a while ago.
Actually Fahey also seemed to end up in low budget land after Lawnmower Man and the Marshall tv show.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 3, 2017 5:44:49 GMT
Hartnett probably suffered from being too traditional leading man in attitude--comes across as a nice guy yet strong. As the 2000s played out, such a character was increasingly persona non grata. Actually, it was the opposite. He was offered lots of leading man roles, including $100 million to play Superman, but he turned them down. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 3, 2017 5:48:25 GMT
Actually, it was the opposite. He was offered lots of leading man roles, including $100 million to play Superman, but he turned them down. So we are told. Who knows if it is true. I think they make up a lot of BS about what goes on behind the scenes with movies and casting and how much freedom there is. |
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 5:49:30 GMT
Actress - Thora Birch (confused her with Alison Pill for a second). Actor - Josh Duhamel (When he's not in the Transformers movies he's in some tacky rom-com). Its pretty sad Birch's career never got any better after Ghost World, by all rights things should've kept going up but it only went down. Speaking of Duhamel two other names come to mind, his co-stars from "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" Kate Bosworth and Topher Grace. Both were pretty hot in the early to mid 00's - Bosworth was an "it" girl with an American sweetheart thing going for her and Topher Grace looked to be rivaling Ashton Kutcher as to who could become the biggest movie star to come out of "That 70's Show". Coincidentally, it took two superhero sequels to deflate the hype train, those being Superman Returns and Spider-Man 3. |
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Aug 3, 2017 6:10:58 GMT
Rebecca Romijn had a lot of hype back in the day, she was a well-known model and after her first serious acting role as Mystique in "X-Men" she became a very in-demand actress for mainstream entertainments. She never found the same success as "X-Men" brought with her other films and eventually went to TV, she's current in "The Librarians" for TNT.
Casper Van Dien was thought to be a potential leading man for many mainstream films after "Starship Troopers" but "Tarzan And The Lost City" destroyed those chances.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 3, 2017 6:17:17 GMT
I am skeptical about box office deciding these things because some folk like Adam Sandler have been propped up year after year. Adrian Brody gets to be in a Predator or King Kong movie when he is totally ill-suited for it.
Did Peter Jackson really want him for King Kong?
I highly doubt it.
That reminds me though, he was said to have wanted Alison Doody for LOTR so she did get another blockbuster chance but was expecting child.
Too bad, I think the one who replaced her was dull.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 3, 2017 8:55:04 GMT
Forgive me if I'm wrong (I'm not an expert), but wasn't 1950s-era beauty Elaine Stewart supposed to be a potential film star? But I don't think that stardom ever came, though she was a popular line-up. IMDb's biography suggests she left acting in the early 1960s to focus on being a wife and mother, though she made a semi-comeback as a regular on two 1970s game shows (both series had their tapes wiped, damn it). She did enjoy a long marriage, that's more than what many people have got to have.
Most of the people mentioned on this thread are fairly recent, but I am pretty sure there were various starlets in the 1940s/1950s who got lots of publicity but never hit the big time.
As I've mentioned before, I often archive threads on IMDB2 (using the Internet Archive's "wayback machine" function), and that includes this thread. It will be interesting to read this thread years from now.
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Post by tastytomatoes on Aug 3, 2017 10:38:08 GMT
Adrien Brody
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