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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:25 PM
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Poll question: WHo plays the best hollywood loser?
Edited on Fri Aug-22-03 09:26 PM by HEyHEY
I may not have them all, I can't remember so explain if you post one. My vote is Randy Quaid, all those cousin eddie roles do it for me!
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:30 PM
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1. Gary Oldman
He was awesome in The Professional as a small-time criminal/pimp, and in Basquiat as a sorta-discovered artist.

:toast:


:hippie:
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:30 PM
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2. Ned Beatty
How many times has anyone seen him in a movie or TV show; doesn't know his name, but knows him as the guy who "squealed like a pig" in Deliverance? Talk about a bad career move.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 11:28 AM
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26. It would have been even worse if poor Ned had become typecast
"We've got this role for a pudgy middle-aged man who goes to prison" or "We're casting this movie about a Turkish vacation that goes horribly wrong"
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DoNotRefill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:31 PM
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3. Steve Buscemi....
That rat face does it for me....
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:33 PM
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5. Beat me to it
Always in a "lose/lose" situation


http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,215414,00.jpg
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:53 PM
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7. Same here
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:21 PM
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10. Yes!
In Fargo, Ghost World, Living in Oblivion--

whenever you see Steve Buscemi show up in a movie, you know that his character is not going to have a happy time of it.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:24 PM
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11. some trivia
in every Coen brothers movie with Steve, barring two, he dies, and ends up in successively smaller pieces.

the last two I remember, there is the woodchipper for Fargo.
Then ashes for the Big Lebowski

(those are the only two I can remember)
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 10:37 AM
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25. Mink in Miller's Crossing
face eaten by birds in the woods.
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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:28 PM
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13. I was shocked--shocked!--not to see him on the list
I'm not a big movie fan by any stretch, but I clicked on this thread fully expecting to throw down a vote for him.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 01:11 PM
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27. yep, the 'funny-lookin' guy
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:32 PM
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4. He hasn't done many films ...
... but I'd like to mention Timothy Bottoms. He played the broken-down Sonny Crawford in "Texasville" amazingly well -- and what with him portraying George W. Bush so much recently, I'd say that would put him in contention for the "loser" roles.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 09:51 PM
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6. William H. Macy
I mean, come on.
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no_arbusto Donating Member (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 01:57 AM
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21. Definitely
Boogie Nights and Magnolia particularly.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 10:12 AM
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23. I agree...and Harry Dean Stanton from the previous generation
Edited on Sat Aug-23-03 10:12 AM by mitchum
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:05 PM
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8. Robin Williams, Nicholas Cage
William Dafoe all have done Academy Award nomination losers.
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:06 PM
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9. Mickey Rourke
I used to have a crush on him but then I heard he had liposuction on his thighs and I lost it.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 01:41 AM
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20. he also had cheek implants and god-knows what else
used to be a great actor, now just a freak
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:25 PM
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12. Ben Stiller
very funny guy.
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:56 PM
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14. George on Seinfeld n/y
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farmbo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:59 PM
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15. Struther Martin in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance)throws Jimmy Stewart's steak on the floor... John Wayne calls him out on it...tells him to pick the steak up. Both reach for their guns.

Struther Martin, Lee Marvin's sidekick, tries to difuse the crisis by picking up the steak.

"I'll get it Liberty," he mutters, groveling for the steak.

John Wayne boot-kicks him across the room.

The epitome of a loser!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 11:02 PM
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16. Steve Martin. The ultimate self deprecating loser.
or is that looser??? ;-)
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 11:31 PM
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17. Definitely William H. Macy
I don't think I've ever seen him play somebody who was not a loser. Even if things look ok for him at the beginning of a movie, I know that's they'll be going downhill.

The pedophile he played in "Happiness" is probably the 'best' character I've seen him play.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 12:05 AM
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18. Joe Pesci
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 12:07 AM
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19. Harry Dean Stanton
Paris, Texas
Repo Man
The Green Mile
et cetera, ad infinitum

No contest.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 09:51 AM
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22. Are you sure it was William Macy
who played in Happiness? I thought it was someone else.
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 10:27 AM
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24. It was Dylan Baker in Happiness
And the Harry Dean Stanton call is spot on. His role in Alien comes to mind. :-)


Repo-Man's got all night, every night!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-23-03 03:36 PM
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28. Congrats Twillig!! 300 posts
:toast:
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