What are some career saving movies?
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Little Children brought Jackie Earle Haley back from former child actor obscurity, and Watchmen was a shot in the arm as well. I think since then he's settled more into character parts but has had a healthy resurgence of movie and tv roles.
Matthew McConaughey went from indie film stand out to romcom schlock to Oscar winner in the course of 20 years, so Dallas Buyers Club?
You're probably right for features, but he's gotten a lot of work. Dude has done a lot of voice acting.
John Travolta with Pulp Fiction
Career was all-but-over, but this film completely turned around his career and public persona.
Career was all-but-over, but this film completely turned around his career and public persona.
I was going to say Keanu with John Wick. His career wasn't dead prior, but it was another shot in the arm.
Yeah a shot in the arm is a good way to put it. I'd add Taken for Liam Neeson to that list of "not saved but certainly boosted." He was still in some big stuff up till then but that movie basically gave his career an entire second act as an action hero.
Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean
Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool
Christoph Waltz and Inglorious Basterds
Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool
Christoph Waltz and Inglorious Basterds
Travolta with pulp fiction is like yhe dictionary example here. Such a complete 180 on his trajectory and image
Hasn't Yuen flat out said he doesn't do a lot of Hollywood roles because he just doesn't want to?
i'd say that cemented him at the top A list, rather than something his career "needed"
Brought Mickey Rourke back into the limelight, and then he promptly threw it all away again right after :p
I will stan for this movie any day of the week. And yeah---Keaton is amazing.
This is a good one I wouldn't have thought of.
MANDY with Nicolas Cage, not that he stopped work or anything but I feel people have started to take him seriously again
Does it have to be a movie they were in to count?
If not: Ke Huy Quan was inspired by Crazy Rich Asians to start acting again after an almost 20-year gap
If not: Ke Huy Quan was inspired by Crazy Rich Asians to start acting again after an almost 20-year gap
Daniel Cregg and the Bond movies. He wasn't unknown by any means but this boosted him to world wide fame.
when i heard he was joining a ben stiller comedy for a bit of PR rehab i thought oh no... dude's career is so fucked.
obviously what i had in mind was completely different from what kind of role it actually was
Uhh, Depp was absolutely massive in the 90's. His career didn't need any reviving.
The Godfather for Marlon Brando. Then later that year, Last Tango In Paris had its premiere. Two wildly different masterpieces in the same year, what a comeback.
My memory is bad. There's a big blank in my mind between Sleepy Hollow and Pirates
Depp is an interesting case. He was considered box office poison during the 90s despite making a number of very good films. That along with his off-screen reputation and general… Deppness made him a controversial choice for Pirates even with Disney.
Saving isn't the right word because he famously didn't care and was still plenty popular in the 90s doing his own thing, but Pirates absolutely catapulted him to A-list status, made him world-famous and transformed his career - arguably making it a lot less interesting.
I think that's another one for the "shot in the arm" list, though it could be viewed negatively as far as the overall quality of his post-Pirates movies.
Saving isn't the right word because he famously didn't care and was still plenty popular in the 90s doing his own thing, but Pirates absolutely catapulted him to A-list status, made him world-famous and transformed his career - arguably making it a lot less interesting.
I think that's another one for the "shot in the arm" list, though it could be viewed negatively as far as the overall quality of his post-Pirates movies.
Tom Hanks was so miserable after Bonfire of the Vanities he legit thought his career would never recover, but Penny Marshall convinced him to play Dugan in A League of Their Own and he got his mojo back.
Agreed. Really Edward ScissorHands took him from a pinup TV star to a movie actor, beyond his good looks.