Failed Hollywood Leading Men- A Picture Thread

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.readio.com/nywindowgallery/movies/images/matthew-broderick.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://tikap.bravepages.com/actors/RalphFiennes2.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://nightmarepatrol.ath.cx/sarjenka/images/rf003.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Hulk_Hogan.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

you can see the hulksters wang.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://art.supereva.it/barbaratampieri.dadacasa/p7028.jpg

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Gilbert was huge for a while.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sherrydan.com/fanlisting/images/enter.jpg

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/000001ed.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the rocketeer himself

http://www.gdm.dk/actors/pics/BillCampbell.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.reelwest.com/magazine/archives/vol15_3/images/skeetulrich.jpg

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wchstv.com/abc/whoselineisit/waynebrady.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bfca.org/images/photos/2002backstage/big/26.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

is Wayne Brady gonna have to*shot for exceeding Chappelle's Show reference limit*

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.space-debris.com/spy_caruso_CSImiami.jpg
shockah...

― Aaron A., Monday, 10 May 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, that hurtz

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

is Caruso's "signature" a little telling?

― Aaron A., Monday, 10 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That picture makes him look like the lovechild of Alex McLeish and Tony Parsons. No wonder he failed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kualoa.com/images/movie_phantom.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sacticket.com/static/movies/news/images/0107narc1.jpg

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.benaffleckfan.com/media/downloads/wallpapers/gigli01.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost is that Jason Patric? I enjoyed him in Your Friends and Neighbors(I was the only person who enjoyed that movie at all, apparently)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.apparelnews.net/library/022102/oh2588.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah thats jason patric. i blame speed 2 for his stock plummeting.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/b/mbs195/simpsons_files/troy1.gif

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

is nobody going to protest matthew broderick being included here? he's far from what i would call a failure, that's all.

― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Because after Godzilla and Inspector Gadget the roles just keep pouring in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.yahooserious.com/graphics/bath.jpg

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://uolboy.sites.uol.com.br/pics/johnnyleemiller/jonny.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://themave.com/Cotten/mainprt2.jpg

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost)

He's a failed leading man. There hasn't been a Michael Broderick picture since Biloxi Blues, unless you want to count Inspector Gadget.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

where are all the baldwins? and guttenberg. and tom selleck.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

true true, i guess i'm looking at the succes of the producers and saying how in the hell? but we're talking films so, in his defense he made a couple of poor choices and took leading roles in really crappy movies. and while those roles may have taken some of the shine off his leading role candidacy i still would hesitate to call him a failure. let's see what develops before including him on a list with whoever it is that's sitting in that bucket with the violin.

― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Joseph Cotton, if ever there was a perfect leading man...who somehow had to end his career doing bad monster movies. Then again so did Ray Milland.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

well so much of what you said isn't accurate andrew i don't even know where to start.

― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Met, you fail to recognise Yahoo Serious! What were you doing during the 80s?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm with scott here, aren't these types we're talking about here??? the baldwins et al. forget people that are no longer landing lead roles, how about those that are hardly even on the radar any longer (save alec of late i suppose).

― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Joseph Cotton, if ever there was a perfect leading man...

Best failed leading man evah

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i was probably watching ferris bueller. and let that be the last comment i make about matthew broderick before i start to sound weird. but come on, he stars in what was my favorite comedy as a kid - ferris bueller and then stars in what is my favorite comedy as an adult - election. for crying out loud, election is such a gem.

― metfigga (metfigga), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Who'd have ever thought that a thread that starts off with a picture of Casper Van Dien could stir such passion?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/mason/mason056.jpg
only half-failed, but multiply times two for the reference ...

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it's getting a little bit thinky in here. it's a PICTURE THREAD folks!

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wakefield.org/pleasureisland/images/collins/don-ameche.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

jeez, he sees it coming

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

He was the star of Ferris Bueller, he wasn't the star of Election. There hasn't been a Matthew Broderick film (where the main draw is "it's Matthew Broderick") since Biloxi Blues, which I'm assuming only got made because he had signed the contract before he killed that girl.

Also after working his way back up like Rob Lowe, his big comeback film is one of the worst movies of the 90s. So he keeps plgging away, and Election+ You Can Count on Me raise his profile enough that he's back to costarring (The Last Shot, The Stepford Wives). But I don't honestly think there's going to be a Matthew Broderick film again.

(sorry about that, back to your regularly scheduled photos)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ensemble cast, yes. leading man, no.

http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/2003/October/3/Pics/06A%20Jack%20Black.jpg

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Controversial maybe, but he did a whole heap of nothing for 13 years...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Mar-06-Thu-2003/photos/caan.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/hunter_t3a.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack Black was never in the running though, and neither was Broderick. And I dare you to call Caan a failed leading man anywhere near a mile of his face.

I've often wondered about what happened to this guy. He's even got a leading man's name, "Kyle Reese" -

http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/terminator/reese1.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 May 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 46 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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almost a hunrded posts and nobody thught of him! he is the failedest of all.

― :|, Monday, 10 May 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.odysseytelevision.com/live/site_images/prog_guide_images/inact_james_lipton.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/personalidades/atores/billy-crudup/billy-crudup02.jpg

I'll see your Skeet Ulrichs and your Billy Zanes, and raise you Billy Crudup.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(All I'd need to win the pot would be one of Vanity Fair's "up-and-coming young men of Hollywood" issues, with that year's lineup of lus3rs on the gatefold sleeve.)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Listen to your friend Billy Zane. He's a cool dude."

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oops
"IMG SRC="http://www4.stormfront.org/whitehistory/color_files/gene_wilder.jpg">

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf???

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www4.stormfront.org/whitehistory/color_files/gene_wilder.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nice.
http://www.prisma-online.de/image/84/mm168d5c66b5902d84.jpeg

― captain gay, Monday, 10 May 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

can't believe this winner's been left out so far (unless I missed it):

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/personalidades/atores/christian-slater/christian-slater01.jpg

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

tick tick troy tick
http://bassoatesino.clarence.com/archive/images/030606troy01.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 10 May 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

inevitably:

http://www.filmmonthly.com/Profiles/Articles/AMichaelHall/amh1.jpg

sadly:

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9810/09/jon.cryer/ducky.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

take yer pick, pt. 5
http://diariodenoticias.cine.hispavista.com/imagenes/miner2.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yahoo Serious = great (in fact, I have that Young Einstein picture on a T-shirt...Nice to see him get mebtioned though...And Joseph Cotton's great, but yeah, did kind of 'fail'. Did anyone notice that Andrew MacCarthy was in Kingdom Hospital? (Only aired first episode yesterday or something)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Inevitably:

http://www.chez.com/screamer/henriksen.jpg

Sadly:

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/1494/BruceCampb_Vespa_609180_400.jpg

Now celebrate the recent elevation of Johnny Depp from this caste!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that was lovely. Again:

http://members.eisa.net.au/~johben57/lanceherrickson1.jpg

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/festivals/fall_film_festivals_2002_photos/bruce_campbell/toronto3.jpg

or http://www.dvdtalk.com/images/bcbig.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a damn odd definition of "failed" in some cases. Some of these guys have had big selling roles, how does that make them failures? Is it meant to be that theyre now washed up?

Also, George Lazenby to thread, STAT (if he's already been done I'm sorry, but pix without captions is really effin' unhelpful)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

HEY! Leave our Bruce out of this! He da man.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, George Lazenby to thread, STAT
Someone cut in front of him ...
http://www.klast.net/bond/images/td_table.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

HEY! Leave our Bruce out of this! He da man.

He's my "sadly". It's been three or four film appearances since Bubba Ho-Tep, and he was in that fucking awful "Serving Sara" with Matthew Perry (who OWNS this thread) and Elizabeth Hurley. I hope I'm wrong and he becomes a Star again, but he just looks so old in that first picture.

On the other hand, he's Bruce Campbell and the rest of us aren't.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's ten years since Brisco County Jr and I am old.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Failed Hollywood Leading Ladies--A Picture Thread

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sign4me.de/film/film2/georgelazenby.jpg
dressed to fail

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor ol' George. Being from Queanbeyan is a curse, I tell you (me and he were born in the same crappy Australian town)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

For what it's worth, like the movie, he's easily the most underrated bond ...

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://perso.club-internet.fr/beamovclassics/donna_reed/dorian_sc9.JPG
Hurd Hatfield

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://homepages.tesco.net/~intruder/people/bela.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wallace Beery. Wrestling picture. Whadda you need, a road map?"
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/encinematheque/seconds/S14/_Beery.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.missouri.edu/~cjgb6f/explscan.gif

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/8/8/27-2012.gif

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.aol.com/raventhelegend/images/keaton.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.screensaverjapan.com/person/val/val.jpg

Petulant shit.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.eurweb.com/images/09122003/r_kelly(reflective).jpg

Succulant piss.

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573623989.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

failed?!? ha!

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

If a prerequisite of failing is not succeeding in the first place, then yes.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(bonus points: i just misread the last words as "which sucks" ..)

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/jwbooth.jpg

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What's with the Will Smith inclusion up there? The dude is money, I Robot's gonna make a fortune.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kevinsorbo.net/images/bar700beveledA.jpg

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vidiot.com/st-ent/images/Enterprise_Bakula_2001-01-800.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sweb.cz/biglion/EddieMurphy/upirvbrooklinu.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

take yer pick, pt. 6
http://www.chucksconnection.com/weekend/weekend1.jpg

― captain gay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

scream, Bakula, scream

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/patterson/story/0,12830,1227013,00.html

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

FOR FUCK'S SAKE GRAUNIAD WRITERS, DO SOME WORK...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 29 May 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"His first role was in Wilde, as an unnamed 'rentboy'. Let's hope that's not his future too."

How, um, "thoughtful."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"What these actors all seemed to lack was some indefinable adhesive quality that might join them forever to an audience."

Too bad about that "indefinable" thing - otherwise he might have had an article!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought of this thread when I read that as well. I've so been ripped off.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 29 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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