What's a Nice Actor Like You Doing in a Movie Like This?

by Whitehead, Dan

• ISBN13: 9781456312817
• ISBN10: 1456312812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-19
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

What's A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This? is an exhaustive guide to the films that the great and good of Hollywood wish you'd never seen, and hope you'll never remember. It doesn't matter if the role in question marked an inauspicious debut or an ignoble ending; no career is safe from this tongue in cheek trawl through the dustbin of movie history.From critical darlings to box office behemoths, from respected thespians to mainstream megastars, from cult obscurities to infamous blockbuster turkeys, and from the legends of the past to the bright young things of the future - this book unearths the skeletons lurking in every celluloid closet, and subjects them to the cruel unflinching spotlights of common sense and good taste.Between the pages readers will thrill to such eye-popping wonders as killer frogs, giant man-eating rabbits, moon-faced robot spies, disembodied hands, several Anti-Christs, dancing zombies, nude space vampires, barbarians in hotpants, lusty ghosts, psychotic clowns, randy computers, evil test-tube babies, crap Russian superheroes...and a confused Jack Nicholson trying to punch a falcon.Each movie is lovingly described in all its awful glory, with special attention paid to the contribution made by the slumming star in question, no matter how small. Additional information related to the film and its creators is included under a catch-all Need to Know subheading, while other notable, odd or just plain weird offerings featuring the same actor are included as Honorable Mentions.With over 190 alphabetically indexed and cross-referenced entries, What's A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This? is the most comprehensive and hilarious guide to the films Hollywood would rather forget.