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Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:44 pm to The Midnight Rider
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I too listen to the Bill Simmons Podcast.
honestly never heard it but with the Ozarks hype and the string of movies recently I can see how i'm not the only one discussing the idea.
I'd also agree from the marvel angle RDJ $ wise has Bateman licked. I still think Bateman is a more versatile actor.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:46 pm to ItNeverRains
You can’t being him up and not mention that his comeback was due to a single line in Dodge Ball.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:49 pm to ItNeverRains
Michael Keaton is up there. Muddled around the early to late 2000s in movies with very little critical success with a couple of voice jobs for Pixar thrown in and then comes Birdman in 2014 and he's had a resurgence ever since.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:55 pm to Zap Rowsdower
RDJ hit the casting lottery jackpot with Iron Man but proved he still has chops in Sherlock and The Judge.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:55 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Travolta's career went back to shite quickly after Pulp Fiction though. Dude has been irrelevant for a long time.
Power of Xenu to strike him down. Dude is warped out of his head now.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:12 pm to ItNeverRains
RDJ went from young and promising
to down and out/written off
to arguably the most bankable star in the industry and THE leading actor among a plethora of them in the biggest film franchise in the world.
It’s gotta be him
to down and out/written off
to arguably the most bankable star in the industry and THE leading actor among a plethora of them in the biggest film franchise in the world.
It’s gotta be him
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:32 pm to Starchild
RDJ is the biggest comeback, no doubt.
One that may not get mentioned is Cher. After the Sonny and Cher show she was largely considered a joke. Turns in a solid performance in Silkwood, which springboards her to Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck and the resurgence of her musical career.
One that may not get mentioned is Cher. After the Sonny and Cher show she was largely considered a joke. Turns in a solid performance in Silkwood, which springboards her to Witches of Eastwick, Moonstruck and the resurgence of her musical career.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:44 pm to brian_wilson
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I think John Travolta was the most surprising. He was pretty much completely forgotten and then BOOM big star
Yeah, but if Travolta never gets launched again by Pulp Fiction, he’s still an eternal star. He was by no means completely forgotten by moviegoers because his roles in Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, and Grease were all iconic roles. He’d have been remembered forever for those roles.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:31 pm to ItNeverRains
quote:How could you leave out "It's Your Move"?
Goes from Little House on the Prarie, Silver Spoons, Hogan Family in the 80's (Hey Dave) bombs Teen Wolf 2, vanishes for 15 years, lands role on cult classic Arrested Development which is dropped before commercial success ensues, then proceeds to just blow up and is everywhere.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:31 pm to jlovel7
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John Travolta
John Travolta was dead.
QT resusurrected his career as some sort of ironic casting for nostalgia ala later Keith Carridine and suddenly Travolta is not just a star again, he becomes a Tom Cruise star.
He does Urban Cowboy and Saturday Night Fever and then after shitty movies - and then he's relegated to shitty movies - and finally he get those baby-talking movies that gives him a lifeline...but that was it, he was known as baby-talking movie guy.
He had Welcome Back Kotter, Grease, Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy.
Not a hugely impressive resume before disappearing.
Travolta after Pulp Fiction 15 years later from those movies?
Get Shorty
Broken Arrow
Phenomenon
Face-Off
Primary Colors
A Civil Action
The General's Daughter
Swordfish
The Punisher
Be Cool
Ladder 49
The Taking of Pelham 123
American Crime Story - OJ
Travolta's "comeback" is his real movie-career.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:06 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Bateman dreams of a career like Travolta's.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:12 pm to BayouCatFan
RDJ
Bateman
But I’ll throw in another name:
Michael Keaton. After Batman Returns, he goes as low as doing Herbie fully Loaded then burst back on the scene as the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3. Oscar winner soon after.
Bateman
But I’ll throw in another name:
Michael Keaton. After Batman Returns, he goes as low as doing Herbie fully Loaded then burst back on the scene as the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3. Oscar winner soon after.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:20 pm to ell_13
I'd give a nod to Neil Patrick Harris, he seemed to disappear for about a decade between the end of Doogie Howser and the Harold and Kumar movies/HIMYM series.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 8:57 pm to jlovel7
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Robert Downey Jr
Hard to think of someone to top him.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 10:29 pm to ItNeverRains
Robert Downey Jr. is my pick.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:11 am to ItNeverRains
Stalone should get honorable mention. Hollywood dropped him. He started funding his own movies and rebooted himself with Rambo 4 and the Expendables franchise. Throw in the roles that resulted in Bullet to the Head, Escape, Reach Me, Grudge Match. He is back for sure.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 12:11 am to ItNeverRains
A solid #2 behind Iron Man.
Which isn't bad.
Which isn't bad.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 11:11 am to jlovel7
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Robert Downey Jr
This. He hit a stride in the mid-late 80's with movies like Weird Science, Back to School, the Pick-Up Artist and Less Than Zero, until 1996 when he got nailed for drugs (coke and heroin). Although he still worked, most of what he did was easily unmemorable (aside from his stint on Ally McBeal which reminded people he was still alive, at least).
2003 was the big turning point for Downey. He gave in to his wife's ultimatum of getting clean and staying that way. That led to some unexpected help...
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His career didn’t pick up again until Mel Gibson personally underwrote Downey’s liability insurance so that the actor could star in 2003’s The Singing Detective.
From there his star began rising again until he did both Iron Man and Tropic Thunder in 2008. From there it didn't just rise, it sky-rocketed to where he's now one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.
Posted on 8/31/18 at 11:53 am to Bard
Bateman is a nice story because so many child stars don't just fail to become adult stars - they end up deranged or even dead.
Travolta does have the bigger volume of his success after cratering out but he was never again the #1 star in the world after returning to cool with Pulp Fiction (Look Whose Talking was actually the start of the comeback - he was viewed as box office poison for a while in the 80s)
RDJ was thought of as a very promising actor but he was never a bankable star as I remember it before cratering out. Supporting roles in Back to School and Less Than Zero are more fun to look back on than the stuff of movie star legend. Chaplin was kind of a big thing and I think people still look back with affection to his mimicry of Charlie Chaplin - but he was probably just the most talented talented member of the 80s brat pack before growing up after his law run ins. He is now an international star.
A couple of other names I would mention for later career success would be Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman. Both were featured and well thought of in their younger days but never hit their stride until later in life.
Travolta does have the bigger volume of his success after cratering out but he was never again the #1 star in the world after returning to cool with Pulp Fiction (Look Whose Talking was actually the start of the comeback - he was viewed as box office poison for a while in the 80s)
RDJ was thought of as a very promising actor but he was never a bankable star as I remember it before cratering out. Supporting roles in Back to School and Less Than Zero are more fun to look back on than the stuff of movie star legend. Chaplin was kind of a big thing and I think people still look back with affection to his mimicry of Charlie Chaplin - but he was probably just the most talented talented member of the 80s brat pack before growing up after his law run ins. He is now an international star.
A couple of other names I would mention for later career success would be Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman. Both were featured and well thought of in their younger days but never hit their stride until later in life.
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