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Exactly! People just didn't "get" it, at all, as that line was the perfect throwback to the Adam West/Burt Ward era of Batman - it was so deliciously campy, yet self-aware, and even Batman's "huh? Oh.. yeah.." when Robin says "The metal.. it's all rusted.. and full of holes" was so full of self-irony it was great! People slate "Batman Forever" far too much IMO. It was an EXCELLENT Batman film --- unlike the lukewarm bucket of piss that came next :/
I thought the same thing, but Al Snow (yes, Wrestling Al Snow) said it best when he was talking to a wrestling training camp. When you're flipping through channels, you only need something to stop you. Be it something familiar, someone familiar, bright lights or whatever. You don't even have to bet that committed. You just need to feel "this'll do" and you'll put down the remote. In terms of that, that's simple compared to going to the movie theaters. Which has you getting ready, going across town, buying a ticket, getting overpriced food instead of the food you already have at home, going to that theater, sitting next to someone you don't know, and enjoying the experience with a whole bunch of strangers who might not shut up... But you don't care because you just HAVE to be apart of the experience as soon as possible. That takes gravitas. That takes leading Man/Woman talent. I'm sure Chris is making money on NCIS. And he's probably killing it. But the point is, his career used to have the same ability to get people into theaters and part with their comfort and money just to see him. Can we honestly say he can do the same now?
@@TheCraigy111 It's obviously doing something right cuz they will be 11 seasons in at this point, where the OG NCIS will be going into its 17th season. NCIS is one of the biggest shows on CBS. It's got it's drama but it also has characters you get to know more about as episodes and seasons go on. You get to things that happened in their past cuz a case involves them in some way. The same for NCIS: LA i guess. I haven't seen it but my dad loves both. I love the OG. And NCIS: NO sucks imo lol
If it weren't for the over the top cgi and horrific dialogue, it might have stood a chance. You have to imagine the actors were constantly thinking "wtf am I saying right now...."
many of these roles didnt hurt the actors careers much. Topher Grace's career wasn't hurt at all by Spiderman and Hallie Berry's career was already going downhill before Catwoman. Ahmed Best didn't really have a career before Star Wars, and 99% of his parts were AFTER Star Wars the Phantom Menace. His only parts before then was as an extra in Lean on Me and 2 theater roles. After Star Wars 1 he's had _60 roles!_ So if anything Star Wars lead from him being "no name actor #211,478" to being someone you'd actually know about and while most theater actors struggle to make ends meet he's currently worth an estimated $3mil which isn't bad for a guy who's previous film experience was as an extra.
Arthas Menethil Topher Grace really didn’t have much going on besides That Seventies Show. I am happy seeing him in anything as he’s great at playing snarky. As for Halle Berry I both agree and disagree. She could have managed a few good years of prestige drama after the Oscar but she blew it. Sooner or later she was going to age out of a lot of good roles but she accelerated it with Catwoman. I never knew that about Ahmad Best.
You want the most famous "exact moment" that someone's career ended? Ned Beatty. I don't even have to explain that. Just mention his name and people instantly know why his career ended.
The joke is based on the word "holey" meaning "having holes" being confused with "holy" meaning "exalted". Therefore, I think when written, the word would be "holey".
@@jayyyzeee6409 On that note, you are correct. It should be "Holey." However, I will keep my text as-is because so many folks have already seen it and made comments. Good catch though.
@@paradoxacres1063 According to IMDB Lori Petty did not take a break from acting she just appeared in a lot of TV shows, not films, and she didn't have a history of leading roles before Tank Girl. So how did this kill a career she didn't have? She was doing supporting roles mostly for television before Tank Girl and was doing supporting roles mostly for television after. Liked Lori in Brimstone where she had a fairly recurring role (7 out of the 13 episodes). That was just 3 or 4 years after Tank Girl. She was working.
@@iansneddon2956 That's cool...but I was just saying GRA had a good point comparing Lori Petty's Tank Girl to Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn *(shrug)*
Jake Lloyd's career didn't end because of bad dialogue, it ended because he couldn't (By his own admission) handle the limelight that came with the role.
I wouldn't really call it 'limelight'... he was roasted mercilessly worldwide and bullied constantly at school. He was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Credit to Halle Berry: she is one of the rare people that actually accepted her Razzie-award, and gave a hilarious speech. I'm not counting in Tom Green, simply because I think that the whole point of his career was winning as many razzies as possible.
Um... Lori Petty had 19 film roles and 67 television appearances ~since~ "Tank Girl". If that is a "dead career" where can I pick me up one? Btw; even with the massive studio interference and the movie not living up to its FULL potential, Tank Girl was a GREAT movie. Tank Girl *is the reason* I am a Lori Petty fan.
I wonder who at the studio is the main culprit for watering down, or changing the original idea of Tank Girl. I want a name, so I can silently berate them in my head.
I rather liked JJB in "Phantom Menace." Continuing his role as an ambassador or whatever role he played was the killer, but then everything about 8 and 9 was a killer to me.
Not that small a minority. Just google "Tank Girl Cosplay" and filter it to pictures from the past month. A lot of fans out there. Granted it is an easy costume to put together... we are talking about a movie from more than 20 years ago - before some of these cos-players were born. Cult Classic credentials fairly earned.
@@SandyRegion i didn't say anything was wrong with it. I mean Ice T plays a dog human hybrid. Can a movie get any better than that? That's a rhetorical question ofcourse it can't
We got used to the faces he pulled. They covered the ordinary scripts at first, but then his schtick got old and we realized the dialogue and stories were laboured.
TBF Batman and Robin was absolute garbage. It tried to be serious and instead audiences were confused and thought that it was supposed to campy although it wasn't trying to be.
The films on the list are widely accepted to be bad, whether or not we enjoyed them (I remember liking Tank Girl at the time). The criteria seems to be that they were critically panned and that the lead actor was not cast in any financially successful film for a while afterwards. Halle Berry specifically referred to Catwoman as 'the career killer'.
Right haha, tv shows can get up to a million per episode, for 24 episodes a year, along with sponsoring and promotion more lucrative than movies for most people actually
I honestly liked Topher Grace as Venom too. The script for Spiderman 3 was pretty trash but Topher sold Eddie Brock pretty well. Granted, it was a bit of a new take on the character but he acted it decently.
Which is only slightly less worse, than the terrible Hawaii version. Only thing that keeps it from disappearing is LL Cool J.. even though Lipssync is wack
I remember seeing him in a film where he inherits(?) or wins millions of dollars and he gets chased by loads of women. I could Google it, but CBA, clearly just like whoever wrote this list.
He has a lot movies in 2000s and a get a big tv series role in ncis la for 10 years(maybe more will come). Maybe his Hollywood stopped(because he has a lot work with his show) but he made enough money with ncis la maybe he dont need more and wants free time...
Tank girl is an epic awesome film!!! And "Holy rusted metal batman!" was a brilliant, tongue in cheek line referencing the TV series. I creased up when i heard it.
i looove Tank Girl! we watched it all the time when i was in high school, and i still have the dvd! i didn't know it was based on a comic book back then and i was a 16 year old girl, i loved the humor, the esthetics and the outfits! gha there was nothing else like it! it may not be a "good" movie, but i feel like its self aware enough, and it still holds up for me..as far as comic book adaptations go, it could be so much worse
Lory Petty? She had a career before Tank Girl? That is literally the only movie people remember her for. PS: You're absolutely right, Rachel Talalay (the director) has the missing bits of the movie up on her website, and it makes the movie MUCH better if you imagine it with all the missing parts.
Tom Green is an underrated genius who accomplished *exactly* what he set out to do. Without him there would be no Jackass, no Eric Andre etc. - Dude doesn't get the respect he deserves. His MTV stuff after crossing over into 'Murica wasn't as good (the channel had him focus on the more gross out, shock stuff) - but his old school show on the canadian public access channel Rogers, it was often subversive brilliance.
Still love that movie and the Tom Green show was something magic at the time. Again, 90's awesomeness. Youtoob the bum-bum song for a quick lol today 😂
Okay, Jules. My mum might be a slag but, be fair to her, *your* mum was one hell of a teacher! And yes, you'll be getting one back per list from now on...
you really going to chalk that up to have a movie career. This is the same women who won a fucking Oscar Halle Berry name was huge once upon a time and now to get anyone even remotely interested in her she has to pin herself to someone else's success. Honestly bringing up John Wick just makes her fall from grace even sadder.
She was in a few post-Catwoman X-Men movies. (Ok, bad example.) She was also in Cloud Atlas which, like it or hate it, is certainly a very interesting movie.
@@jimmy_the_squid9456 Kingsman 2. Also the lead in Kidnap. How 'bout The Call? Also the Extant TV series. Also she continued to play Storm. And Perfect Stranger. Sorry, but her career after Catwoman contains the same mix of big and small films, big and small roles, that her career did before it. There is NO evidence to support the notion that it killed her career
The Chris O'Donnell entry has two errors, one it states that Batman & Robin was the movie that killed careers, then when you select a line as the one that most stands out, you select one from Batman Forever. The other error is selecting that line as that was a great "wink wink nudge nudge" line. Especially when you consider crap like Bat credit cards and all that bollocks in Batman and Robin. And the bit about him not appearing in anything again until A little help in 2010. So what were The Bachelor (1999) Kinsey (2004) The Sisters (2005) Max Payne (2008)? Because they all look like movies he appeared in. And there are a couple of others.
I respect Halle Berry for being one of the first people to win an Academy Award for Monsters Ball and a Razzie for Catwoman the same award season. I believe she even showed up to receive both.
What? That line for Anakin about Padme/Amidala being an angel makes perfect sense. She is polished and very beautiful something that would not be frequently seen on a desert planet. There is a video somewhere with Ahmed Best doing Jar Jar as Liam Neeson's character in Taken. Utterly hilarious.
The holey rusted metal, Batman! was actually a good line. I didn't get it as a kid and my uncle explained to me that the TV show used to do that all the time. It connects the past to the present.
Don't you shovel shit on Tank Girl! That movie is just a whole lot of fun. I laugh every time I watch that. Still, I miss Petty. She's got a real presence.
The Venom part is because the director did not like Venom, he thought he was a boring, overrated and bad villain because he was just a copy of Spiderman but evil or anti-hero. But the fans wanted Venom because he is one of the most popular if not nr1 villain for spiderman. So he had to put him in the movie and he picked the weakest/worst actor he could cast for Eddie Brock: Topher Grace. The director's favorite villain was Sandman btw. I still remember this from 2008 because I was so excited about this and got so disappointed and angry.
Freddy Got Fingered is art in its finest form. It's such a shame that many people don't understand it. One of the most amazing movies I have ever seen...
21pilots tillidie right? He literally makes millions every 4 months. Yeah terrible. I find it odd when people who don’t really know the business comment on the business
But it took quite a long time to get that role ... They are saying his career took a downward trajectory after that Batman movie. Plus they are also talking about movie careers not tv careers.
@LTNetjak yes with the constant big paychecks and steady work. What a hellhole am i right? You're talking like someone who is twenty years late to the party. The views once held on tv vs film have complete changed. It is pretty commonly viewed that looking down on tv is silly. Not to mention tons of big name actors have moved to the small screen. Seeing the advantage of having more than 90 minutes to tell a story. It was cool of you to come in a play the role of the snob though
