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Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: Kenneth Branagh in "Wild, Wild West"
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soitscometothis
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6/24/07 8:52am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 8. Judi Dench in "The Chronicles of Riddick"(
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The Chronicles of Riddick was one of those movies where you wonder what the makers were thinking of. It didn't even seem to be set in the same universe as Pitch Black. I felt embarrassed for Dench, the script was really quite poor. It made the Brosnan Bond's look like Citizen Kane.
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Penguinator-176
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6/24/07 6:55pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 8. Judi Dench in "The Chronicles of Riddick"(
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Pitch Black = Good
Chronicles of Riddick = Bad
Yeah, the action was kinda cool, and at least they had a good budget to make it look nice, but really, acting and story and some of the art direction sucked. Judi Dench was bad in it, but I was even more disappointed that Colm Feore was in it. He's a good actor, why's he doing this drivel?
On the plus side about Feore, though, is that he did a good job in a bad movie whereas Dench just did poorly in a bad movie.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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6/24/07 7:10pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 8. Judi Dench in "The Chronicles of Riddick"(
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Vin Diesel personally requested Judi Dench. She's his favorite actress apparently. She also wasn't interested in the movie, until he ambushed her in her dressing room while she was doing a play and her told that the part had been written spefically for her and that they couldn't begin casting the other roles until she was signed. I saw Chronicles of Riddick on TV one day. I liked it. I thought the Neo-Baroque set design was cool. I also liked the look of some of the planets. Overall the movie gave off the same sort of vibe as Frank Herbert's Dune novels, that is to say an interesting universe with a very inventive look.
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Zaz
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 8. Judi Dench in "The Chronicles of Riddick"(
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7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(1986)
"Dig this voice cast: Judd Nelson, Casey Kasem, Eric Idle, Leonard Nimoy, and Scatman Crothers. Crazy, right? But perhaps no one was as out of place here as the director of Citizen Kane, well into his Paul Masson-shilling decline. Welles wields his gargantuan baritone as the voice of Unicron, a ravenous robot-planet that devours everything in its path. Yes, his last role was a fat joke."
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Wilderness_Comedian
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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On the new Transformers 20th Anniversary DVD, it's said that Orson Welles really enjoyed doing the film. He was fascinated by the robots. BTW, he was very ill, and a lot his voice was put through a synthsiser because he was hard to understand.
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6/24/07 10:08pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(1986)
"Dig this voice cast: Judd Nelson, Casey Kasem, Eric Idle, Leonard Nimoy, and Scatman Crothers. Crazy, right? But perhaps no one was as out of place here as the director of Citizen Kane, well into his Paul Masson-shilling decline. Welles wields his gargantuan baritone as the voice of Unicron, a ravenous robot-planet that devours everything in its path. Yes, his last role was a fat joke."
Okay, so his appearing in The Muppet Movie was just as bad, right?
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C'mon now... some of those choices are just STUPID bad. The William Hurt in Lost in Space was as well. Gah... that wasn't shameless. Michael Caine in Jaws IV -- THAT WAS SHAMELESS.
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Boomer_Athena
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6/25/07 12:12am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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I would hesitate strongly to even consider Orson Welles, having done the Transformers for a paycheck.
First of all, I doubt it would have been a very big one. Secondly, it's not like at that point in his life, he needed the money. Third, he was in extremely poor health during the making of the Transormers(he passed away almost a year before the Movie was even released).
Personally, I just think he was intrigued with the concept of the Transformers more than anything else, and probably just did it for fun. If anything, it probably introduced a new generation to the voice that was made so famous(or infamous, depending on how you look at it) for scaring the **** out of people with his radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds".
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6/25/07 12:31am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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It was just a couple days of voice work, and as W_C said, they put his voice through a synthesizer.
Hardly shameless.
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Wilderness_Comedian
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6/25/07 12:40am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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A few weeks before he did a Moonlighting episode where he was on the screen for about
five minutes. I'd say that was more shameful.
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Penguinator-176
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6/25/07 9:10am
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 7. Orson Welles in "Transformers: The Movie"(
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Wilderness_Comedian posted:
On the new Transformers 20th Anniversary DVD, it's said that Orson Welles really enjoyed doing the film. He was fascinated by the robots. BTW, he was very ill, and a lot his voice was put through a synthsiser because he was hard to understand.
I heard otherwise - that he despised the fact that he had to do the film. But that's understandable, he did Citizen Kane, he was a great actor, so why did he have to do this? Because no one would give him a job.
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Zaz
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6/25/07 7:37pm
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Next: 6. Peter O'Toole in "Club Paradise" (1986)
"Some actors see movie shoots as little more than paid vacations (how else to explain Ocean's Twelve?). But even by those lax standards, O'Toole's appearance in this Robin Williams reggae romp is particularly painful to watch. Lawrence of bloody Arabia himself lumbers through the flick like a sunburned ghoul. The tagline to this stink bomb says it all: ''The vacation you'll never forget — no matter how hard you try.''"
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Zaz
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6/26/07 7:59pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 6. Peter O'Toole in "Club Paradise" (1986)
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5. Dennis Hopper in "Super Mario Bros."(1993)
"When you appear in more than 30 movies in the '90s alone, quality control is gonna get lost in the shuffle. As a half-lizard villain named King Koopa, Hopper gets tarted up in snakeskin suits and has his hair pulled back into blond Flavor Flav cornrows. In the single worst videogame-turned-movie ever made (which is really saying something), Hopper does his worst overacting to date (again, saying something)."
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6/26/07 8:46pm
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RE: Most Shameless Paycheck-Grabbing Roles in History: 5. Dennis Hopper in "Super Mario Bros."(199
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In the single worst videogame-turned-movie ever made (which is really saying something)
Yeah, at least Bloodrayne had nudity.
I lovethis movie for the pure cheese factor of it. As for Hopper's acting, after seeing Waterworld, I'd say it was par for the course.
The only question for me is this: did his acting shape the movie, or did the movie shape his acting?
Tbat, I think, would determine whether or not this was shameless paycheck grabbing.
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I'm ashamed to admitt that I loved this movie when it came out. I was eleven at the time and it took me a few years to realize I had made a terrible, terrible mistake. I still however like the Mario and Luigi costumes.
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hansen
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6/27/07 4:29am
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I was eight when the movie came out and I liked it A LOT back then. And actually it's still a guilty pleasure of mine, I just admire how it's not at all the kind of movie you'd expect a Mario movie to be. It's definently not as bad as people make it out to be.
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