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    James Dean. Credited in only 3 films (appeared in a few more as an extra):

    • East of Eden
    • Rebel Without a Cause
    • Giant

    All 3 are above average on IMDb (> 7).

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    Tim Curry.

    And before you tell me he was in some notoriously shit movies, no they weren’t, Tim Curry was in those movies, so they’re great movies.

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    michelle yeoh, she was the only part of STD that was watchable. she has her niche films though.

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    I’m not a huge fan of Tom Cruise and also never watched the MI franchise, but otherwise he knows how to pick good scripts… Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky, Tropic Thunder, Minority Report, Top Gun, Rain man, Edge of Tomorrow, The Firm. There are still a bunch I never saw so there may be some rotten tomatoes in the basket

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      Agree he had a very high hit rate, and personal life aside, I enjoy most of his movies.

      But MI:2 and MI:3 are mediocre at best, and Knight and Day and Rock of Ages were massive flops (I haven’t seen either, but i they look horrible). Cocktail earned him a razzie nomination.

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        Don’t forget The Mummy remake, it was so bad they cancelled the Dark Universe because of it.

        ““Kurtzman called the experience “brutal” and described The Mummy as “probably the biggest failure” of his life.””

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        Knight and Day is 100% forgettable straight to streaming crap.

        But Rock of Ages was as good as it could’ve been

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      Nine was poorly reviewed by critics and audiences.

      But otherwise his choices have been solid.

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    Leonardo DiCaprio?

    Churning out good movies since he was a kid.

    Is there a really bad movie with him?

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      Titanic was a hit, but in retrospect, horribly overrated and IMHO absolutely cliche, disrespectful, sacrilegious garbage.

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      I’m sorry but… Most of them? Especially since it’s his performance that has become poor. He is playing himself more and more. A similar thing happened to Johnny Depp. Look at both of them in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and then at stuff like Great Gatsby, Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter’s Island, Django / Willy Wonka, Pirates of the Carribean, Shadows, Transcendence. The acting and characters are so similar and they don’t give an effort anymore (or try to, and absolutely overdo it).

      (Sorry I somehow incorporated a Johnny Depp rant in a critic of DiCaprio, their story of decline is just too similar to me. And Gilbert Grape is an amazing movie.)

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    I haven’t seen more than 3 of his movies, but Heath Ledger seems to have been consistently great.