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Chairman Capone posted:The Love Guru is really funny for the fact that that of all things was his big passion project and it basically ended his career. Other than cameos the only things he's done since were Shrek 4 immediately after, and then The Pentaverate last year which I don't think anyone I know is even aware of. You forgot he was in Inglorious Basterds after the Love Guru.
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I watched about 15 minutes of the pentaverate and it was excruciating
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The only thing I've seen of the Pentaverate is the bit where someone in a shrek costume saves him and then music plays and everyone starts dancing. I cannot imagine any show made in the light of god leading up to that scene.
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Beachcomber posted:Are there any examples of actor/directors big passion projects not immediately being complete failures? Schindler's List Deadpool
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Inception was a big passion project for Nolan that he was only able to get made after Dark Knight was a hit.
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Codependent Poster posted:You forgot he was in Inglorious Basterds after the Love Guru. That was like a 5 minute bit part though
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At one point Dreamworks thought they’d be up to Shrek 8 by about 10 years ago. Then people got sick of it and they finally went and did something else. I guess they’re working on a 5th one though. From what I’ve heard people were actually really positive on their last Puss in Boots movie.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty sure Titanic was also his passion project. James Cameron only has one passion project; drowning actors & actresses
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Casimir Radon posted:At one point Dreamworks thought they’d be up to Shrek 8 by about 10 years ago. Then people got sick of it and they finally went and did something else. I guess they’re working on a 5th one though. From what I’ve heard people were actually really positive on their last Puss in Boots movie. That's what I had thought too, but the last Shrek movie did over $750M box office? Lot of restraint cor a company to say 'Lets not roll the dice again' after that.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:That's what I had thought too, but the last Shrek movie did over $750M box office? Lot of restraint cor a company to say 'Lets not roll the dice again' after that.
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Casimir Radon posted:At one point Dreamworks thought they’d be up to Shrek 8 by about 10 years ago. Then people got sick of it and they finally went and did something else. I guess they’re working on a 5th one though. From what I’ve heard people were actually really positive on their last Puss in Boots movie. The new Puss In Boots is okay but very derivative. You can tell that they saw Spiderverse during pre-production and decided to just do all the action sequences like that for some reason.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The new Puss In Boots is okay but very derivative. You can tell that they saw Spiderverse during pre-production and decided to just do all the action sequences like that for some reason. Because it looks loving awesome, that's why.
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I feel like a post-Epstein X-Files can work but would be way darker. Also would be very similar to True Detective season 1.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I saw those as well and I was amazed that anyone was still giving Myers money to make his projects I too saw those clips and I'm not sure anyone actually spent money on that project.
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Grendels Dad posted:I too saw those clips and I'm not sure anyone actually spent money on that project. I assume the Shrek bit had to cost SOMETHING.
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Mike Myers seems to just drastically overestimate the appeal and novelty of putting on a stupid accent and appearing to be vaguely foreign. It's not the early 90s anymore, and he's not Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Beachcomber posted:Are there any examples of actor/directors big passion projects not immediately being complete failures? Blue Velvet. Lord of the Rings. The Last Temptation of Christ. Apocalypse Now. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Rocky. The Matrix.
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Thing is with passion projects is that if they're actually A: good ideas in the first place and 2: allowed to be made well with adequate resources and creative freedom, they can be, y'know, some of the best and/or most profitable movies in the world, because the people in charge are bringing their A-game and allowed to show it off.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Thing is with passion projects is that if they're actually A: good ideas in the first place and 2: allowed to be made well with adequate resources and creative freedom, they can be, y'know, some of the best and/or most profitable movies in the world, because the people in charge are bringing their A-game and allowed to show it off. And one the flipside you got Robert Downey Jr. shoving a leek up a dragon's rear end.
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Indeed. I think one of the key factors here is that 'high-profile actor starring in adaptation of mediocre children's book only boomers remember, or something that might as well be' is one of the 'not a good idea' categories. Hell, the Simpsons made fun of it with Troy McClure. Doesn't help it has heavy overlap with actors suddenly doing a bunch of mediocre to garbage kids movies because they want to make appropriate fare for their own kids, or just pass themselves off as family-friendly in attempts to break out of their niche.
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Mike Myers is so insecure that he attempted to have Garth’s screen time reduced in the first Wayne’s World because he knew how much funnier Dana Carvey is than him. He also insisted that Guru Pitka was his greatest creation and that he had been workshopping and fine-tuning it in comedy clubs around the world for years before making the movie.
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There was also some drama between the two because Dr Evil was just Myers doing Carveys impression of Lorne. Down to the behaviors and personality
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He also insists on doing that Scottish accent in every loving thing he’s ever been in. Shrek, Fat Bastard, the dad in So I Married an Axe Murderer, SNL, Cat in the Hat, etc.
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My avatar was vandalized, I’m still very cross.
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Codependent Poster posted:You forgot he was in Inglorious Basterds after the Love Guru. It's kinda wild how Tarantino can make someone cool again and then they waste that opportunity. Samuel L. Jackson grabbed onto that opportunity with both hands while Travolta and Myers choose...differently.
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Alhazred posted:It's kinda wild how Tarantino can make someone cool again and then they waste that opportunity. Samuel L. Jackson grabbed onto that opportunity with both hands while Travolta and Myers choose...differently. I'd have to look up if the timeline's right, but I think we got Face/off out of Travolta's PF revival.
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Alhazred posted:It's kinda wild how Tarantino can make someone cool again and then they waste that opportunity. Samuel L. Jackson grabbed onto that opportunity with both hands while Travolta and Myers choose...differently. Let's be fair about this, Travolta rode that cool train for a good 15-20 years from a central role in one of Tarantino's films, Myers had essentially a cameo in Basterds as a Michael Fassbinder's prissy superior. It's not like he was out there clubbing Nazis.
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:*ahem* Steven Tyler is such a bad actor in that one. That's a joke because he is playing himself, but it's not a joke because he's actually bad at acting.
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It’s funny how everyone says “turtle turtle” to make fun of master of disguise but nobody can be bothered to even remember what was bad about love guru not even “the guru pitka” followed by him cringe mugging at the camera
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Alan Smithee posted:It’s funny how everyone says “turtle turtle” to make fun of master of disguise but nobody can be bothered to even remember what was bad about love guru not even “the guru pitka” followed by him cringe mugging at the camera P sure casting all my brain's recollections of Love Guru into oblivion was a defense mechanism to prevent serious trauma
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Before the D&D movie they played one of those "Thanks for coming to the theater" videos with the cast and it was very funny how much Hugh Grant looked he didn't want to be there at all.
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Alan Smithee posted:It’s funny how everyone says “turtle turtle” to make fun of master of disguise but nobody can be bothered to even remember what was bad about love guru not even “the guru pitka” followed by him cringe mugging at the camera Ben Kinsley as Guru Tugginmypuddha.
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Alan Smithee posted:It’s funny how everyone says “turtle turtle” to make fun of master of disguise but nobody can be bothered to even remember what was bad about love guru not even “the guru pitka” followed by him cringe mugging at the camera See you say that but I definitely cannot forget that he tries to make Mariska Hargitay's name into a catchphrase all throughout that movie. Like, the actress, not a character she plays.
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There was one good joke, it was the voice-over machine one, and it was in the trailer so I never saw the movie. It looks garbage.
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muscles like this! posted:Before the D&D movie they played one of those "Thanks for coming to the theater" videos with the cast and it was very funny how much Hugh Grant looked he didn't want to be there at all. When that started playing, I also regretted being there.
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Young Freud posted:Let's be fair about this, Travolta rode that cool train for a good 15-20 years from a central role in one of Tarantino's films, I think suggesting that Travolta's ride on the cool train for a decade is more than fair considering that during that time period he made Michael, Phenomenon and Battlefield Earth. More realistically it ended three years with Face/Off as the last stop.
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Alan Smithee posted:It’s funny how everyone says “turtle turtle” to make fun of master of disguise but nobody can be bothered to even remember what was bad about love guru not even “the guru pitka” followed by him cringe mugging at the camera The true crime was The Cat in the Hat, which has been forgotten even more thoroughly.
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Asterite34 posted:Ben Kinsley as Guru Tugginmypuddha. John Oliver as Dick Pants Verne Troyer as Coach Punch Cherkov
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