Perhaps appearing in substandard movies like Black Moon Rising before his superstardom helped make Tommy Lee Jones the cranky and hostile person that has been reported repeatedly.
Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.

Before he became a funny B movie monkey, actor Cameron Mitchell showed in movies like Monkey On My Back that he had solid dramatic acting chops.
Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.

Oil and water don’t mix, and neither do Hanna-Barbera and American-International Pictures, with their collaboration C.H.O.M.P.S. being extremely painful proof of this.
Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.

…but for some reason I was having a hard time logging in to post them. Oh well– everything seems to be working fine now.

 

Halloween (2007), in which Rob Zombie isn’t the worst thing to happen to the franchise, but the movie would have been so much better if it were free to be something other than a Halloween remake…

The Pack (1978), in which the Jaws-knockoff formula gets an interesting twist from using a species that usually gets along very well with humans as the threat…

Total Recall (1990), which is simultaneously Paul Verhoeven’s last really good Hollywood movie, and a signpost pointing the way to Hollow Man and Showgirls…

and…

Vanessa (1977), in which it isn’t just your imagination– there really wasn’t a script, strictly speaking.

 

 

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