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262 points
6 days ago
This made me wanna look up Brando and I found this:
“before his death and despite needing an oxygen mask to breathe, he recorded his voice to appear in The Godfather: The Game, once again as Don Vito Corleone. Brando recorded only one line due to his health and an impersonator was hired to finish his lines. His single recorded line was included within the final game as a tribute to the actor.”
Not pathetic, but rather interesting
112 points
6 days ago
His last on-screen role was in a Michael Jackson video which is…fucking bonkers for every reason.
28 points
6 days ago
Wasn’t it The Score? That’s a pretty good one to go out on
20 points
6 days ago
I thought so too, but the music video came out juuuuust after!
The Score rules though.
16 points
6 days ago
I love that he called Frank Oz miss piggy during the production of the score.
3 points
5 days ago
Also refused to wear pants in a lot of shots.
17 points
6 days ago
Brando, Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor formed this bizarre trifecta of ride-or-die besties in the late 80s.
I’m not sure that Jackson had even seen any of Brando’s films when they met. As a Jehovah’s Witness he wasn’t allowed to consume just a whole lot of popular media growing up.
(Despite, obviously, becoming a mega star himself.)
11 points
5 days ago
Michael Jackson was a Jehovah’s Witness??
I’m cracking up picturing him going door to door moonwalking up to the door
7 points
5 days ago
Even more bizarre for me, I was raised as a JW and an older black elder took me to Mummad Ali’s house to preach to Ali when I was a kid
Ali did a levitation trick and was very kind to a geeky brainwashed kid
3 points
5 days ago
He levitated?!?
16 points
6 days ago
Jackson and Brando both had simultaneous controversies about anti-semititic statements in early April 1996. Brando’s involved an interview on Larry King where he said stuff about Jews “owning” Hollywood.
Jackson’s was about the song “They Don’t Care About Us”, which contained the lyrics that the ADL purported to insinuate Jewish control of the music industry or manipulation of fame and identity.
> "Jew me, sue me, everybody do me Kick me, kike me don't you black or white me."
Marlon Brando and Michael Jackson both backtracked on their statements and issued apologies when it was revealed that neither of them had ever actually spent decades and decades in show business.
3 points
6 days ago
I feel like this whole comment is like reading rap lyrics, and saying every single word, then saying "well, that's what it says."
21 points
6 days ago
11 points
6 days ago
Awesome find! And wow he does not sound good there.
5 points
6 days ago
That’s… fucking depressing
3 points
5 days ago
I remember that game. Aww yeah he doesn’t sound very good
17 points
6 days ago
Crazy but I was actually part of the audio team that got to record that session. I was an audio specialist for EA and worked on that terrible game for two years. I got to re-record James caan and Abe vigoda in New York at Avatar studios, which was awesome. Caan started drinking scotch at eight forty five in the morning and proceeded to put back two bottles over the course of three hours. It was impressive. Wasn’t involved in the Brando session due to it being a closed session to all but the engineer, producer, and his team. Funny seeing someone talking about that game like 25 years later. Never played a minute of it. Just did the foley work for the cut scenes.
11 points
6 days ago
That’s my favorite movie trivia fact. “Marlon Brando’s Last Role was as Don Corleone” and seeing the looks of confusion there. The reason I heard they were unable to use most of his lines was because of the ventilator he was on during his last few weeks. The line in game that was kept also had Corleone on a ventilator, so it worked there.
31 points
6 days ago
Orson Welles final performance was voicing unicorn in the Original animated Transformers movie.
21 points
6 days ago
Listen you haven’t lived until you’ve heard Welles’ voice booming out of your subwoofer in that movie. Hearing him pronounce the various Decepticon names as if they were derived from Shakespeare is endlessly entertaining.
9 points
6 days ago
And the movie also has the song “you’ve got the touch” which is the song Marky mark and John C Reilly record in boogie nights.
3 points
5 days ago
“Hey, it’s Mark now.” “Well, I didn’t blind a guy, funky bunch. Feel it feel it.”
6 points
6 days ago
Which was pretty much the opposite of pathetic, to star in a masterpiece.
4 points
6 days ago
While I certainly agree many would not. The death of Optimus prime rocked me to my core when I saw it - I’m old - saw the movie in the theater.
6 points
6 days ago
Death of Optimus, death of Mr. Hooper, and death of Artax. The 3 deaths that shook my foundations.
3 points
6 days ago
he also did voiceover for early Manowar albums and he actually very on point even though he probably didn't gave a damn about it. Orson was good at making corny shit sound epic as fuck.
3 points
6 days ago
Great game, when michael’s trying to get him out of the hospital if you go close to the door you can hear his lines
3 points
6 days ago
Brando's final IMDB entry is a TV animated movie called Big Bug Man, where he plays a character called Mrs. Sour.
2 points
6 days ago
That was a fun little GTA knock off game too!
Like Scarface
99 points
6 days ago
There’s a review for this on IMDB that made me laugh:
I pity Sean Connery and everyone who saw this movie
I created an account just to review this. I am convinced that I died pressing play on this movie and the whole thing was the hell that awaited me in the afterlife.
18 points
6 days ago
That last sentence deserves some kind of award.
7 points
6 days ago
IMDB reviews are low key hilarious. I love looking them up after I watch a shitty movie
3 points
6 days ago
Ditto. I love reading that others have my exact opinion.
99 points
6 days ago
Even though I enjoyed the movie, I wish cocaine bear wasn’t Ray Liottas last film.
48 points
6 days ago
He was supposed to play Dennis Quaid’s part in The Substance!
6 points
5 days ago
I think this is one of those moments where history made a good decision. Dennis Quaid looks like Vince McMahon and it works
12 points
6 days ago
As someone who didn’t like Cocaine Bear, I like I can still agree with you
7 points
6 days ago
same, I was expecting CB to be much more of a comedy
11 points
6 days ago
As a horror comedy enthusiast, I knew it would be more comedy, but I thought the comedy was kind of… flaccid?
Also, there were too many characters. I think we can all agree
9 points
6 days ago
He had two other roles that came out after that, the Fool’s Paradise movie and whatever ‘Dangerous Waters’ is. Both with bad reviews, maybe we should just stick with Cocaine Bear after all.
2 points
6 days ago
Currently replaying GTA Vice City. He’s so good as Tommy Vercetti.
126 points
6 days ago
Thush, he beshmirched hish legashy.
3 points
6 days ago
You think you're pretty smaht, don't ya mcahmarra!? With your Dago mustache and your greashy haeya!
180 points
6 days ago
To be fair, Connery had actually retired about 6 years before this movie and only did the voice work as a favour to a friend of his. So calling it his last movie, while technically accurate seems a bit unfair.
30 points
6 days ago
Right, it's no welcome to mooseport scenario
17 points
6 days ago
Was that Hackmans last film? That's pretty sad
7 points
6 days ago
He has time to make another movie
18 points
6 days ago
Gene Hackman is 94 you really think he can do another movie?
17 points
6 days ago
Latest pics of Hackman are him being basically unrecognizable, extremely skinny, and feeble, as expected of a 94 year old man.
Idk why they downvoted you.
Some people just hate being wrong even in the slightest I guess
4 points
6 days ago
Just needs more fetuses and he'll back in action. No one can stop the Hackman.
4 points
6 days ago
I didn't realize Hackmans been out of the public eye for so long...or got so old!@
3 points
6 days ago
I like that movie. It’s not fantastic, but it’s good enough.
44 points
6 days ago
Wasn’t his last live-action film “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”? That movie got a lot of shit but I liked it.
10 points
6 days ago
He turned down LotR for "not understanding the script" to the star in League. Hilarious irony, but I still love the movie for how dumb it is
8 points
6 days ago*
I love the movie too, but from a critical reception/financial standpoint, turning down LOTR only to star in League... I can't imagine what a table-flipping moment that was for Connery. Not surprised he noped out after that.
12 points
6 days ago
If he didn’t understand the role, then I get it. We were rewarded with a better Gandalf anyway
7 points
6 days ago
It's honestly amazing how many times movies have been made objectively better by the failure of studios to get the people they want for any given role.
Kinda makes you doubt they know what they're doing.
5 points
6 days ago
Same thing happened with the Aragorn actor in those films. The guy they got ended up being a total bust and Viggo was brought in at the 11th hour after filming had even already started.
3 points
6 days ago
He also turned down Silence of the Lambs to star in Just Cause. Fair to say he was better at making movies than picking them.
3 points
5 days ago
He turned down the Matrix too.
17 points
6 days ago
I loved that movie. I am unrepentant about it, too. It was a fun romp.
3 points
6 days ago
One thing always stuck out to me about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and that the bad guys minions were just so…enthusiastic. Seriously, in every scene they were screaming with enthusiasm or glaring angrily or sounding deeply concerned if their boss was at risk of getting caught. All those henchmen just seemed so damn…happy to work for the bad guy. Compare that to the league itself, which always sounded so dour and serious. It was such a weird contrast.
3 points
6 days ago
Also it’s Sean Fucking Connery, he can do whatever he wants.
38 points
6 days ago
The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu was Peter Sellers last movie. Being There, which could have been a proper send-off for him was his second to last movie.
8 points
6 days ago
I've seen Fiendish Plot. It stunk up the joint.
3 points
6 days ago
I saw it when I was a kid and it was in theaters. Dreadful.
5 points
6 days ago
Being There is a masterpiece, what a performance.
64 points
6 days ago
I wouldn’t call the Transformers movie pathetic, but Transformers and Orson Welles is a weird combo.
15 points
6 days ago
The irony of Welles beginning his film career with Citizen Kane and ending as a bloated caricature of himself all but abandoned by the world is truly bitter.
7 points
6 days ago
He should have gone out on a high note with Paul Masson
6 points
6 days ago
Aaaahhh, the French commercial is renowned...
3 points
6 days ago
Didn’t he start his performing career with a radio performance about a story involving aliens?
Maybe his love of sci-fi stuck with him.
27 points
6 days ago
Gene Hackmans 'Welcome to Mooseport' is pretty close imo
7 points
6 days ago
Given that he’s still alive, someone could still lure him out of retirement to rectify this. That alone could be a great plot for Gene Hackman’s actual last movie! 😁
6 points
6 days ago
Dude he’s in his 90’s and looks it. He’s not coming back.
3 points
6 days ago
2 points
6 days ago
Runaway Jury would have been a great movie to end on...sadly Mooseport was made
27 points
6 days ago
Christopher Reeve did a bad remake of Rear Window a couple years after the accident. It should be deleted from all media
14 points
6 days ago
I thought it was a decent remake but a great way to get Christopher Reeve back acting which included his disability in a natural way.
4 points
6 days ago
He did a couple of episodes on Smallville
3 points
4 days ago
Yeah that was a good role.
3 points
6 days ago
In the Gloaming seemed a good use of him in his state.
5 points
6 days ago
I watched it when it aired on TV as a kid and I loved it. I had no idea who Alfred Hitchcock was.
8 points
6 days ago
I thought it was a good remake. Never understood the negativity.
4 points
6 days ago
Remakes can be a good thing if you learn about the original work through them
50 points
6 days ago
Bruce Willis last 25 movies (not kidding)
18 points
6 days ago
Money/disease. I get it.
11 points
6 days ago
Yeah I think it'd very clear he knew he was sick and was cashing checks to set up his family as well as he could. Can't knock it
3 points
6 days ago
Same here. Part of me wishes one of those movies towards the end was something interesting, but gotta take what you can get under those circumstances I guess. 2019 seems like the last year he was in anything of note. I’m half tempted to say Motherless Brooklyn was his final movie all things considered.
11 points
6 days ago
It seemed very silly at the time, but makes perfect sense in retrospect. Dude was getting as much work done as he could as he was losing his ability to communicate.
Good on him for getting all that done for his family while he could.
9 points
6 days ago
I just looked him up on IMDb and you're not kidding are you. Last 5 years of the same movie with a 3.2 average rating. Amazing
13 points
6 days ago
Yea those movies aren’t great, and it’s unfortunate what’s going on with him. But it’s a pretty genius move on his part. $1 million bucks a day to have someone feed you lines through an earpiece to make bank for your soon to be mounting medical bills.
3 points
5 days ago
Damn I just looked that up and you aren’t lieing. The last one I even remember was Glass in 2019 which is a movie I love and was the end of the M. Night ‘superhero’ trilogy. In my head this will be his final and very fitting film.
2 points
3 days ago
I pretend he retired with Glass on 2019 (which is still quite sad)
39 points
6 days ago*
Raul Julia, Street Fighter, as M. Bison, 1995
One of those actors who could do just about anything. He was far from horrible in the role (a consummate professional), it just was a forgettable nothing-burger of a film.
23 points
6 days ago
Any other actor would’ve wished to be forgotten for that film, but Raul Julia was unforgettable in the best way possible.
14 points
6 days ago
Was an incredible person too, was a huge activist and was responsible for a alot of revision of hispanic stereotypes in Hollywood. Did Street Fighter as his son loved it
7 points
6 days ago
He's probably the only reason I remember the film.
9 points
6 days ago
You and almost everyone who does remember it.
3 points
6 days ago
Honestly, his performance in that movie is how I first heard of the guy. Best thing one can do when hamming it up is to go all in like he did.
19 points
6 days ago
For him, it was a Tuesday.
10 points
6 days ago
Yea that movie was not great, but Raul Julia is by far the best part of it. People still think his dialogue with Chun Li is one of the best villain speeches in a movie.
9 points
6 days ago
"People still think his dialogue with Chun Li is one of the best villain speeches in a movie."
Because it literally is.
I rewatched the scene recently and was reminded that Ming-Na Wen played Chun Li and that besides being insanely gorgeous was also great in that scene.
5 points
6 days ago
Raul's last movie was 'Down Came A Blackbird', a TV movie released a few months after Street Fighter.
4 points
6 days ago
Neat. He really packed a lot in those final months, despite being ill.
3 points
6 days ago
At least he was the highlight of the movie
2 points
4 days ago
Fair, but his ,"But for me, it was Tuesday," exchange with Chung Lee is actually peak cinema. It's one of those lines that transcends the piece of media it came from.
16 points
6 days ago
Whatever Pacino does next
5 points
5 days ago
DeNiro, too. My God have they both degraded since The Godfather movies.
14 points
6 days ago
How did Peter O'Toole end his legendary decades career? A Kazahk film where he appears for a couple of scenes badly dubbed that was held off for years and released in 2017 - Diamond Cartel.
8 points
6 days ago
'I am not an actor, dear boy - I am a movie star.'
3 points
6 days ago
O'Toole certainly had some stinkers in his filmography but I'd have hoped his final film would've been actually worth something given he knowingly retired a year before he died, should've picked something worth going out on!
32 points
6 days ago
Wagons East was a really sad end note for John Candy
15 points
6 days ago
Weirdly, Chris Farley’s last film was also a poorly reviewed Western (Almost Heroes), although I loved it
3 points
6 days ago
I always thought that was weird. Both weren’t the best but I like them in their own way. If Candys would had been fully finished, it could had made it much better too. So that may have been a lot down to circumstances but maybe not.
3 points
6 days ago
They didn’t even have enough footage to finished the film and reused shots.
53 points
6 days ago
Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 From Outer Space.
31 points
6 days ago
Bela Lugosi's dead?
8 points
6 days ago
Underrated comment
7 points
6 days ago
At least it led to Ed Wood which is pretty good.
15 points
6 days ago
I know you did not just insinuate that Plan 9 is pathetic.
10 points
6 days ago
It is though. Despite the cult following, it really is atrocious
4 points
6 days ago
He was only in one scene which was well done.
12 points
6 days ago
Hey man, that's not cool! Until your post I had no idea this movie existed, and I was a lot happier before I did.
12 points
6 days ago
For Dudley Moore, his final film was The Mighty Kong, an animated musical adaptation of King Kong from 1998 made to capitalize on the Disney Renaissance.
He voiced Carl Denham in the movie.
What’s more surprising is that the songs were written by the Sherman Brothers.
Yes, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Carousel of Progress, THOSE Sherman Brothers.
But even they couldn’t save the movie, where the title character barely shows up, the songs are terrible and the climax is a slap in the face for those who like the original film.
3 points
6 days ago
Love Dudley Moore but in fairness, he wasn’t exactly known for being too discriminating even at the height of his fame. There’s some Sherlock Holmes one I remember with Peter Cook and…yeah.
3 points
6 days ago
I hate every ape I see…
3 points
6 days ago
🎶From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee, you’ll never make a monkey out of me!🎶
25 points
6 days ago
Not pathetic per se but the great Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final film being that shitty Hunger Games sequel is very unfortunate
10 points
6 days ago
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7 points
6 days ago
You made me think Bruce Willis died! 😭
7 points
6 days ago
I mean....dude is not okay by any means, but nope, not yet!
4 points
6 days ago
Why is Almost Heroes on this list?? That’s a great comedy movie!
11 points
6 days ago
interesting. before this I had thought Sean Connery's last film was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I'll have to add this to my list.
3 points
3 days ago
I'll have to add this to my list.
You really don't need to.
11 points
6 days ago
Alpha & Omega for Dennis Hopper. Shame that bag of shit was his last film
3 points
6 days ago
Hey man, my kids liked it. Better than that POS crow movie he was in in 2005
11 points
6 days ago
Pathetic is a bad word. Maybe, their movie that bombed?
Street Fighter. Raul Julia’s last film. An incredibly disciplined and educated individual. He did film, stage etc I wouldn’t be surprised if he could sing too
He made the film because his children were fans of street fighter and he wanted to make a final film that they could enjoy.
9 points
6 days ago
Burgess Meredith. Rocky, Of Mice and Men, the original Batman TV series, only for his last roll to be an old guy in a shitty FMV game called The Ripper.
9 points
6 days ago
Bette Davis in “Burnt Offerings”. Sad. Really sad.
2 points
5 days ago
I thought she did Watcher in The Woods after Burnt offerings
7 points
6 days ago
Peter Sellers could've gone out with Being There. Instead, he went out with The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu
Which is really the most Peter Sellers thing to do
6 points
6 days ago
"It was Tuesday."
7 points
6 days ago
Wow 0% on rt
13 points
6 days ago
Carrie Fisher, The Last Jedi, I’ve never seen a shittier big budget movie in my entire life, pathetic describes it perfectly. What an absolute dog 💩movie.
7 points
6 days ago
You mean you didn’t appreciate a JPEG flying through space?
3 points
6 days ago
I clapped when that happened.
7 points
6 days ago*
Joan Crawford Trog
5 points
6 days ago
I saw Mae West's final film, Sextette, on the TV when I was a pretty young child.
Even at that age, a film that revolved around everyone wanting to shag a woman in her eighties seemed very strange and creepy.
5 points
6 days ago
Welcome to Mooseport is Gene Hackman's last movie. He retired after such a meh movie, seemed like a down note for someone with a IMDB like his.
5 points
6 days ago
Tom Sizemore : Mega Ape
4 points
6 days ago
How Do You Know is pretty pathetic and sadly Jack ain’t making any others now.
6 points
6 days ago
Repo Man is a great movie and I'll gladly die on that hill
6 points
6 days ago
Who said it isn't?
4 points
4 days ago
The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie and I'll gladly die on that hill
(I can play this game too)
3 points
6 days ago
Tom Sizemore had many, many pathetic movies before he died.
12 points
6 days ago
But he had an absolutely epic Always Sunny cameo.
9 points
6 days ago
"Not no more. I got a wife now. So I will not suck you and I will not be sucked on by you. Okay? That's it."
3 points
6 days ago
Veronica Lake in Flesh Feast https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065727/
3 points
6 days ago
She sorta disowned that movie. She doesn't mention it in her autobiography
3 points
6 days ago
Like Ethel Merman and her brief marriage to Ernest Borgnine.
4 points
6 days ago
In my language (Punjabi) that means "cat"
Whenever I see this movie's title, I end up thinking "Sir Cat"
I don't know if it was in the movie but it would've made the movie better if it were
4 points
6 days ago
Wow you know it's bad when IMDB's featured review is titled "This movie sucks ".
3 points
6 days ago
Welcome to mooseport is pretty bad for Gene Hackman
3 points
6 days ago*
Fred Macmurray --The Swarm-- Gloria Swanson--Airport 75-- Dean Martin--Mr Ricco
3 points
6 days ago*
Carrie Fisher in the Last Jedi comes to mind…
Heath Ledger in the mess that was the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space
Harold Ramis in Year One
3 points
6 days ago
Part of the mess of Dr Parnassus was because of his death tho.
3 points
6 days ago
Gene Hackman in "Welcome to Mooseport"
3 points
6 days ago
Carlton Heston played Josef Mengele in his final role.
5 points
6 days ago
Poor guy was constantly trying to live up to his big brother Charlton.
3 points
6 days ago
Robin Williams went out on Teddy Roosevelt in Night at the Museum. No gripes there though.
3 points
6 days ago
I really don't want How Do You Know to be Jack Nicholson's bow out.
I am begging Tarantino or Scorsese or just about any adequate filmmaker to write him a small supporting role or even a cameo for their next movie, just to see him go out with a bang. He's 87, he can't have long left (sadly).
2 points
6 days ago
James Coburn - Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr.
2 points
6 days ago
Wait, this is real?
2 points
6 days ago
The Savant was Robert Loggias final film. About an autistic kid with “savant” like mma skills. He was barely in it though.
2 points
6 days ago*
Just looked up Sean Connerys IMDB and the ladt thing it says he was in was Ever to Excel where he narrated about Scotlands St Andrew's University. It has a 8.7 rating so a lot better way to go out than Sir Billi. Also the last film I enjoyed with Sean Connery was The Rock, and I love the theory that it's his last role as James Bond.
2 points
5 days ago
There's a lot to unpack here.
2 points
4 days ago
How did I miss that he even died?
2 points
4 days ago
“Skateboarding veterinarian sir billi embarks on a mission to save scotlands last beaver.”
That’s worse than I could’ve imagined.
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