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Post by crowey on Feb 13, 2016 22:55:57 GMT
..... Thought this thread was about Shaq's death roll & crafty look towards the ref yesterday. However, Kevin Costner wins by a country mile. He also wins the double as worst director. Dances with Wolves and that other bloody awful movie where they were on some sort of construction in the middle of the ocean
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Post by britsabroad on Feb 16, 2016 4:56:00 GMT
Marlon Brando??? Bloody hell...
Nicholas Cage and Sandra Bullock for me. Both always them first their character second.
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Post by kingdong on Feb 16, 2016 10:38:43 GMT
I'll definitely give you Shatner in everything else but Star Trek wouldn't have been the same without him. A case of "So bad it's good" for me.
Agreed. He was also fucking brilliant when he hosted Have I Got News For You a few years ago...
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Post by marwood on Feb 17, 2016 4:24:57 GMT
The pilot with the other chap instead of Shatner was on the other day. Terrible. It would have died a very quick death. I've forgotten his name just now. Jeffrey Hunter ( Captain Christopher Pike ) It was a posthumous appearance as he had died before the episode was screened. Star Trek Pilot (The Cage) was 1965, Hunter died in 1969. The Cage was rejected by the TV studio in 1965 so they made another (better) version with Shatner which was picked up and shown on TV and the rest is history. Hunter was a respected TV actor and wanted to move more into films - they did ask him to do the second pilot but he declined and acted for another 4 years. True, he died before the pilot was finally screened in 1988, but they reused all of the footage from the Cage in 1966 in a 2 part episode called The Menagerie, which cleverly told the story of Pike as captain of the enterprise before Kirk. This was shown on TV during his lifetime. Yes, Shatner was much better lead due to personality and the character of Kirk -but Pike was a different captain. For bad Kirks, you only have to look at some of the star trek continues or star trek phase 2 productions, which on the whole are good (and have featured Chekov, Sulu and a few others reprising their roles) to see that "the Shat" is irreplacable
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 10:59:41 GMT
Jeffrey Hunter ( Captain Christopher Pike ) It was a posthumous appearance as he had died before the episode was screened. Star Trek Pilot (The Cage) was 1965, Hunter died in 1969. The Cage was rejected by the TV studio in 1965 so they made another (better) version with Shatner which was picked up and shown on TV and the rest is history. Hunter was a respected TV actor and wanted to move more into films - they did ask him to do the second pilot but he declined and acted for another 4 years. True, he died before the pilot was finally screened in 1988, but they reused all of the footage from the Cage in 1966 in a 2 part episode called The Menagerie, which cleverly told the story of Pike as captain of the enterprise before Kirk. This was shown on TV during his lifetime. Yes, Shatner was much better lead due to personality and the character of Kirk -but Pike was a different captain. For bad Kirks, you only have to look at some of the star trek continues or star trek phase 2 productions, which on the whole are good (and have featured Chekov, Sulu and a few others reprising their roles) to see that "the Shat" is irreplacable Jeffrey Hunter was probably on a downward spiral as far as movies were concerned by the time of his death , he never really made the big time after co-starring opposite John Wayne in " The Searchers " had he known how successful Star Trek would turn out to be he may have thought differently about the role he turned down .
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Post by Skankmonkey on Feb 19, 2016 12:03:47 GMT
And not just a top actor either...
Just say no kids...
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