john travolta's hair - wtf?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3j0XjTjs8

ya know i've been working on my hair a long time... and he hits it. he hits my hair.

god that video is sickening. esp the spoken word bit towards the end.

wtfffff

Um -- I mean, um. Yeah.

i can't watch that.

well i probably could but i can't make myself. After about 30 seconds I can't bear it any longer.

At least they just sort of have a chat during the "break it down" section. I might have dropped dead if Travolta starting rapping.

okay no

what child would enjoy this

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/the-omen-damien-crosses.jpg

o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HhTJgenG5Y

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-02/52035829.jpg

'I wish Travolta didn't have to pull a 'Royale with cheese' gag in honor of 'Pulp Fiction.' A little early for that stuff, isn't it?'

http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/storylink/2010-02/52043652-04165211.jpg

Maybe he'll finally give in and stop trying to make it look like he has hair. He looks reasonable with a shaved head, imo

well he looks pretty terrifying with the weave so, yes, this is an improvement.

http://i47.tinypic.com/11uewy9.jpg

Wait, THAT'S JOHN TRAVOLTA? He looks about 8945843% better imo, and totally unrecognizable.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/3/24/128824282543852270.jpg

this movie looks embarrassing.

it's gonna ruin all the credibility he built up with Wild Hogs

this guy just gets cooler and cooler

supposedly being groomed for the lead in the Barry Bonds story...?

http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/05/travolta-bonds-biopic-blackface/

forget that, what about this~

Crashed Bentley Found Near Charlie Sheen Car

Posted Feb 5th 2010 4:55PM by TMZ Staff

A Bentley has just been found close to the place where Charlie Sheen's car went over a cliff.

REALLY unfortunate Carrot Top clip at the bottom there

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/ironicnotfunny/tralolta.jpg

the goatee looks much more realistic in stills than in the trailer for that movie. it looks like CGI in the trailer.

That goatee cost Industrial Light & Magic $300 million and ten years of R&D.

http://l1.yimg.com/dh/ap/default/120625/travolta_uni.jpg

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WhVKAZrVtgNJ4k8IeYpNWA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/289/2012/06/26/300-Travolta-Preston-062612-jpg_202145.jpg

really surprised we haven't solved the baldness problem yet. that's the best money can buy at this point?

This thread needs more Pelham 1-2-3.

http://goinglikesixty.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/travolta_taking-of-pelham-123.jpg

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/otrc/2010/photos/AP120625148511.jpg

whoa

Not even vaguely real-looking. Why on earth does he bother, particularly when he doesn't look so bad shaven-headed?

http://www.ultimatekeychains.com/ProductImages/basicfun/371.gif

It looks like he stuck felt to the top of his head. Just be bald, guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moment_by_Moment.jpg

errr

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Moment_by_Moment.jpg

http://media.avclub.com/images/419/419115/16x9/627.jpg?0008

conjoined twins

I'm very bummed about ONJ's "work".

ONJ looks untouched compared to her 24-year-old daughter

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvta0fn2ZX1r4etbjo2_500.gif

Hair by Jack Kirby.

omg I'd never seen her daughter before.

Jesus. Wildenstein-in-training.

http://i.imgur.com/jPGSy9O.png

aw.

What aquarium did these two flop out of?

http://2-ps.googleusercontent.com/x/www.broadwayworld.com/images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic6/23ECC2267-CC09-D1B7-C32CC3575DC19B7A.jpg.pagespeed.ce.YZ19z4IIVd.jpg

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090521230627/marvelmovies/images/7/7b/CyclopsX3.jpg

"I've been beating myself up all day. Then I thought…what would Idina Menzel say, She'd say, 'Let it go, let it go!' Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy Frozen took home two Oscars Sunday night!"

John Travolta's facial hair - wtf?

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/eeKVj5MNgmcx9pIdrKcQiA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD05MDA7cT03OTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/lifestyles/2014-05-22/eb938cf0-e191-11e3-817e-efe9ef25d893_John-Travolta-soul-patch-at-Cannes.jpg

I worked recently with a makeup lady who had worked with Kevin Spacey and was explaining how if you work with guys like him or Travolta or Nic Cage, you're often expected to have some kind of weird adhesive product that they use to stick some of their hair further forward on their heads than it's actually growing from -- kind of a perma-combover, I guess. Really cleared up a lot for me about the way those guys look.

i would like to read some secrets about hollywood's fake hair, male and female
seems like the only thing worse than being old is being bald

(Piven)

I worked recently with a makeup lady who had worked with Kevin Spacey and was explaining how if you work with guys like him or Travolta or Nic Cage, you're often expected to have some kind of weird adhesive product that they use to stick some of their hair further forward on their heads than it's actually growing from -- kind of a perma-combover, I guess. Really cleared up a lot for me about the way those guys look.

I don't get how this works...? By stretching the scalp forward? Or gluing some extra hair in front of their natural hairline?

Travolta currently has a few upcoming films to promote, including the drama The Forger and the crime drama Criminal Activities, in which he raps!

Misread that as "...in which he naps!"

Is there an "e" missing in that sentence?

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screen%20Shot%202015-04-28%20at%2010.47.57%20PM_zpskzrvzodv.png

Looks like Farage's pixel hitler mustache

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-15%20at%206.50.54%20PM_zpswucf575t.png

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-15%20at%206.51.07%20PM_zpsv5llopqz.png

IDGI, is he suffering from both alopecia and third-degree burns?

Oh no, Stockard Channing is fucking around with her face now.

http://images.bwwstatic.com/upload10/812994/tn-500_itsonlypressconfwm01182513.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lKYsecLVtSI/maxresdefault.jpg

http://dl9fvu4r30qs1.cloudfront.net/f5/bf/41d3fc2a4a8c8552297f6a7170e1/american-crime-story-the-people-vs-oj-simpson-john-travolta.jpg

Gotti is sublime

http://i.imgur.com/jPGSy9O.png
he is clearly a reptilian

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/dsdei86aydahum85qv45.jpg

strong aging corky vibes

It's time for him to just own what's happening to his scalp and adopt Joey Lawrence's totally, 100% real + natural stubble look

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/dd/52/e0dd529e460ac6406702611f1e5e1b11.jpg

It's a good look, so symmetrical and definitively-bordered.

i don’t wanna embarrass you but that is clearly a picture of a not-terribly-lifelike joey lawrence waxwork

is that still from the fred durst movie with devon sawa

I'm so sorry, guys, I accidentally posted a NSFW image of shaved testicles, how embarrassing

Travolta has actually been making the rounds with a shaved head these days.

Yeah hes accepted the baldness now. Looks pretty good tbh. If only he could accept his sexuality (allegedly)

Listen to Xenu, Say No to Penu(s)!

I applaud these famous gentlemen when they finally relent and make the most of their male pattern baldness. I empathize and it's a circumstance which allows very little room for grace or dignity but there are much better options than, say, donning a crown of what appears to be incinerated pubes.

yeah Travolta actually looks alright with a shaved head. Better now than he did with the latter-era Howie Mandel thing he was trying to do in From Paris With Love

https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/travolta03.jpg?w=620

https://i2-prod.coventrytelegraph.net/incoming/article2979789.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/john-travolta-341801301.jpg

Travolta embraced his baldness on the counsel of Pitbull, which might not be your immediate thought for life advice, but certainly beats Xenu

this instagram by Travolta last year was how I learned he'd come out as chromedomed

https://66.media.tumblr.com/7fec419ff41d7e5cabd1f8b5214628cf/tumblr_pm0iplx4Mv1t3ihuno1_400.png

mr worldwide!

Vaguely related:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/8/29/20837576/vod-with-cheese-what-the-hell-happened-to-john-travoltas-career

I mean tbf it didn't seem like he was that great at keeping the ball in the air prior to his Tarantino bump. Likely that he would've faded into relative obscurity (ie making winky cameos as himself on sitcoms and what have you) by now had that never happened.

i urge everyone to watch the opening shot of "Gotti"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovLQRB7Bl-U

marvel at the dumb fucking dialogue and travolta's delivery

only watch with the entire feature if you are a glutton for shitty movies

Yeah, I was going to posit that perhaps the death of his son set his take-anything career in motion, but his career had been pretty erratic beforehand. Is he really that different from fellow longtime scalp-denier Nicholas Cage?

Forget what you know and tell me what the likely next steps should have been on this journey:

1975-1979 Welcome Back, Kotter
1976 Carrie
1977 Saturday Night Fever
1978 Grease
1978 Moment by Moment
1980 Urban Cowboy
1981 Blow Out
1983 Staying Alive
1983 Two of a Kind
1985 Perfect
1989 The Experts
1989 Look Who's Talking
1990 Look Who's Talking Too
1991 Shout
1991 Eyes of an Angel
1993 Look Who's Talking Now
199_ ???

funny to remember that look who's talking was fucking huge

quick google says - almost $300million (in 1989!) and 4th highest grossing movie of 1989 (worldwide) behind Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman and Back to the Future Part II

My guess would be a live-action Disney franchise, maybe something along the lines of The Santa Clause or The Mighty Ducks. In another world, we might've had an entire trilogy featuring Travolta as Mr. Magoo!

yeah the idea that Tarantino revived his career is sort of oversold, Look Who's Talking was huge. Pulp Fiction got him action move roles, which he hadn't done up to that point, and a little extra juice, but he was not exactly an unknown at the time.

I mean...it sure looks for about half a decade there like he was relying a little too much on the continued success of his talking baby franchise.

He wasn’t unknown but he was a joke, no one took him seriously whatsoever. PF legitimized him, critically speaking. And it made him very bankable and cool for awhile, Look Who’s Talking could have had anyone in those roles. JT was just happy to be there at that point.

yeah i mean pulp fiction and then get shorty off the back of it were definitely "travolta is back", he was a "legitimate" and even sort of cool movie actor again

yeah that's true but critics that took him seriously were mostly idiots imo, he's not doing anything particularly spectacular or interesting in PF imo

donning a crown of what appears to be incinerated pubes
irl lol

also he has total trump hands in that pic where he is wearing shorts

idk Travolta always did have his movie star charisma which when applied to the right roles worked vv well and to single it out, in Pulp Fiction he uses it so well, he muted his swagger and played up his slight dopiness, which is why I think he was so good in it, the character is a dipshit who constantly fucks up and is lucky to escape these insane situations he finds himself in (til he finally doesn’t.) I think the critics were correct in assessing that performance positively.

but there are plenty of roles where the character and the film are nothing so he just falls back on his swagger.

From Paris With Love is such an insane action flick, I love it

It's easy to make fun of the talking baby movies, but people tend to forget, the talking baby movies *were* his comeback. They followed Perfect and Staying Alive, which were notorious high profile flops.

the third talking baby movie was also a flop.

his career was definitely in a nose dive when he booked pulp fiction.

https://www.quora.com/The-last-5-movies-John-Travolta-starred-in-have-0-on-Rotten-Tomatoes-What-happened-Has-Hollywood-blacklisted-him

Staying Alive wasn't a flop -- it did well -- but it was a joke.

Def. not a movie to be proud of.

xpost Third baby movie was a flop, but he only went three or four years after that before getting Pulp. Yet he had gone eight long years between Blow Out and Look Who's Talking. Just saying, he'd been to the bottom before. Pulp did undoubtedly juice his career; the four years between Pulp and, say, 1998 (when he did Primary Colors and A Civil Action, plus his small role in Thin Red Line) might be his popular/critical/whatever peak. The bigger mystery I guess is why with a few exceptions everything since Battlefield Earth in 2000 has been garbage.

plus Get Shorty, Phenomenon, Michael, Face/Off the General's Daughter, etc -- all huge box office. Even middling things like Primary Colors or Mad City weren't counted against him.

his first run was huge/iconic, the fall to disaster was striking, the look-whos-talking success is not a dignified one, PF is absolutely the kickstart to a decent run where his early-career cachet and post PF cool see him as A-list undeservedly through mixed roles/performances in mixed movies

swordfish was badass tho

The bigger mystery I guess is why with a few exceptions everything since Battlefield Earth in 2000 has been garbage.

presumably during the long, meant-sincerely-by-him production he stopped taking advice from Tarantino and Spielberg about what scripts to take, and started taking more from his clam handlers. more gigs = more tithes.

Tom Cruise is an interesting parallel (for lots of reasons). HIs credits are a total jumble of hits and misses and totally forgotten misfires, but he's never had a real prolonged losing streak.

hits and hits and hits and hits and hits and hits and hits and misses and totally forgotten misfires (Knight and Day / Lions for Lambs / ???)

Oh yeah The Last Samurai.

the last samurai:

Budget $140 million
Box office $456.8 million

Valkerie, Rock of Ages ...

Oblivion, The Mummy, American Made ...

the only good Tom Cruise movie is the one where he gets murdered repeatedly

american made and rock of ages are the only ones of those films that did not gross > $100 million than their budgets

vs travolta making straight to streaming things no-one saw

i think Cruise's misfires are fairly mild, a lot of those flicks recouped their costs and then some. Oblivion did decently, American Made did ok. I think The Mummy was the closest to a disaster but it was more a disappointment than anything. And his successes have been well-received by critics, too. His career isn't adrift without a compass, like Travolta's.

why are people listing good tom cruise movies itt

How is it that Cruise and Travolta were never in a film together?

Would the ambient thetans of such a cumulatively-high OT cause the film to melt or something?

cruise underplays both main roles in face/off

its meta, but its isnt trolling

why are people listing good tom cruise movies itt

Josh managed to turn a thread about rave music’s impact on society in 1988 into multiple ppl telling him whether or not The Grateful Dead toured the UK in the ‘70s

I'll give you American Made (and Rock of Ages isn't a Tom Cruise Film), the rest are maybe misses but definitely not "Oh was he in that?". The Mummy was enormous (as well as an enormous flop)

every major star has some disappointments, but i think as far as it can be measured Tom Cruise is very good at remaining successful and takes decent risks within his own limited territory. I mean he always plays a variation on his persona, occasionally tweaking his image a bit, but always remaining comfortable and in his wheelhouse. That's when Travolta was successful, too.

I mean he always plays a variation on his persona

a heterosexual variation

His Divine impersonation being a notable instance of mask slippage.

Tom Cruise was definitely the best thing about the Hairspray musical.

The funny thing is, if someone told me Cruise starred in Rock of Ages I'd say sure.

uh, he did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UblIxWhMUH0

Oh. someone said it wasn't a Tom cruise film.

yeah idk what that was about. I guess cuz he wasn't top billed.

he said it wasn't "a Tom Cruise Film," not that Tom Cruise did not appear in it

Tropic Thunder is not a Tom Cruise Film, but it contains one of his three best performances

sic otm

That, Risky Business and Edge of Tomorrow?

his tropic thunder cameo is the second least watchable thing he's done after the couchflip

the tropic thunder cameo is fine.

obv cocktail is his finest hour.

cruise poll now

look, cruise talking now

I'm happy to start it

Do it!

I'm voting Hairspray, I didn't even know that was Cruise!

That, Risky Business and Edge of Tomorrow?

Magnolia. Thunder and Magnolia are the only two where he takes his genuine charisma and gift for intensity and uses them to create interesting char repellent assholes.

He's a very efficient movie star lead in all the McQuarries, and Live Die Repeat is the best story of any of them, but I don't see that he's bringing anything especially individual to it. (vs the Missions Impossible, where his stunt work makes those scenes far more compelling.)

he might be a compelling asshole in Collateral too, idk

THOMAS CRUISE MAPOTHER IV: HIS ŒUVRE

FTR Cruise was only in the original Hairspray, with Travolta playing the same role in the remake.

watching "The People vs. OJ Simpson" and I can't stop laughing at his stupid fucking face every time he's on screen

I love that you can't tell if he's effectively playing a detached, too-rich-to-comprehend-humans asshole, or just can't act at all anymore