Why did his acting career go south after the 1980s? - /tv/ (#212753830) [Archived: 429 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:20:10 AM No.212753830
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Poor guy had to act in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie and do a bunch of cartoon voice acting work.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:28:54 AM No.212754129
>>212753830 (OP)
>Jean-Claude Van Damme movie
Sudden Death was kino though, in large part due to Powers Boothe.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 1:34:05 AM No.212754325
>>212754129

It was one of JCVD's better ones, yes. Mickey Rourke had to act in that total piece of shit Van Damme movie with Dennis Rodman in the Colosseum with the fucking tiger.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:05:04 AM No.212755491
He was in sin city.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:07:32 AM No.212755569
>>212753830 (OP)
he was great in deadwood, goddamn he was ruthless and intimidating. taunting a half-dead teenage kristen bell before putting a round through her forehead was a nice touch
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:10:14 AM No.212755643
>>212755491

Really more of a come-back role. But nobody has been able to answer my original question.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:11:36 AM No.212755693
Love him in Extreme Prejudice
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 2:44:20 AM No.212756684
>>212755491
He's really projecting total asshole in sin city
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:37:14 AM No.212758161
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is pretty good
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:39:10 AM No.212758221
>>212753830 (OP)
I canโ€™t imagine him as anything other than a middle aged man
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:40:42 AM No.212758260
>>212753830 (OP)
He'll always be lieutenant colonel andrew tanner to me
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:42:40 AM No.212758302
Watch Frailty
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 3:54:41 AM No.212758604
>>212753830 (OP)
Never seen Tombstone or Deadwood?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:04:53 AM No.212758903
>>212758604

Tombstone was in the early 90s. Deadwood was a minor role in a 2000s tv show. Booths was setting up to be a star in the 1980s and then his career nose dived.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:05:50 AM No.212758928
>>212753830 (OP)
Cause he's based like John Milius.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:22:33 AM No.212759398
>>212753830 (OP)
Is that tim from rlm
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:23:30 AM No.212759425
>>212753830 (OP)
Jean-Claude Van Damme is based and you're gay
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:24:36 AM No.212759460
Tombstone came out in 93, fag.
Actors from Texas are simply a different breed, and you're clearly a caveman by comparison.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:29:44 AM No.212759604
He really liked schlocky roles
might not have been confident about typical prestige parts
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:30:31 AM No.212759620
>>212754129
Because after that roles for real men dried up. None at all left today.
/thread
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:32:08 AM No.212759673
What was that gladiator movie he was in and a chariot rides by him and stops and he says, Then...So long?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:34:21 AM No.212759738
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>>212759673

That was Tombstone and it was a Western and he didn't say that.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:34:26 AM No.212759741
>>212755569
I didn't understand what his character was supposed to be. like he's scheming and bitter and ambitious but what was the point

he sort of just becomes a real person instead of a character with a dramatic arc. sucks he died before they made the movie but he was a lifelong cigarette and cigar enjoyer and very much looked and sounded it
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:38:41 AM No.212759863
>>212753830 (OP)
The real answer is that he famously showed up to the Emmy's during the Screen Actor's Guild strike of 1980, and it pissed all of his peers off. So they pulled a lot of shit behind the scenes that kept him from ever getting the great roles he probably deserved.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:38:58 AM No.212759872
>>212755643
He was arrested for drug possession
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:44:09 AM No.212760031
>>212759741
>much cigarettes
He was already fucking 68 years old and died from pancreatic cancer, retard
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:46:33 AM No.212760120
>>212759741
He's a lesser character and they never quite figured out a good story for him
Still kino though

I just rewatched Deadwood though, and, reading between the lines, and incorporating some things Milch said outside the show, it seems like for some reason child abuse is a theme - basically every character was obviously molested when they were kids, including Tolliver
Point being that the reason Tolliver clocks what Wolcott's capable of, and manipulates him so easily, is that he's the exact same person for the exact same reasons - which is why Tolliver is always right on the edge of killing someone for no reason at all
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:49:13 AM No.212760195
>>212755643
Wiki says he was a member of Friends of Abe, i.e., he wasn't a communist
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:53:17 AM No.212760317
>>212760195

No, he was just a big admirer of the accomplishments of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. It was all a big misunderstanding, see?
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:01:21 AM No.212760524
>>212759738
whoosh
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:11:01 AM No.212760821
>>212758903
>Booths was setting up to be a star in the 1980s and then his career nose dived.
he was? i just looked at him IMDB page and his resume from the 80s doesnt support that claim. most of the stuff ive never heard of and it was mostly made for tv movies or tv shows.
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 5:48:49 AM No.212761866
>>212760821

Red Dawn, Emerald Forest, Southern Comfort
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:41:42 AM No.212763331
>>212758260
this, and he was in Southern Comfort before that too
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 6:59:27 AM No.212763840
>>212758903
He wouldnโ€™t fuck Weinstein
>>212760031
>smoking is completely safe for those in their sixties and actually decreases the odds of pancreatic cancer
Lmao at this retard

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/pancreatic-cancer/causes-risks-prevention/risk-factors.html
> The risk of getting pancreatic cancer is about twice as high among people who smoke compared to those who have never smoked. About 25% of pancreatic cancers are thought to be caused by cigarette smoking. Cigar smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco products also increase the risk.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 7:03:09 AM No.212763959
Well....Bye
Well....Bye
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