When I first saw Scarface, I knew absolutely nothing about Al Pacino. Based on his amazing performance, since I didn’t know anything else about him, I assumed he was a Hispanic actor who naturally had that accent. Then I saw The Godfather and realized that he really is one of the greatest actors of all time.

Robert De Niro I actually first saw in his role in Meet the Parents, and I generally liked him. Then I saw some more of his movies and realized that he, too, is a great actor. His various Scorsese movies are all legendary and he has an impressive light side too, which he has shown in movies like Meet the Parents or even Shark Tale.

Still, despite all of their talents, they can’t make a bad movie good. Righteous Kill was basically advertised by saying, “This movie has both Pacino and De Niro. You should blindly follow because they are both extremely talented actors.”
And from what I hear, it was a pretty awful movie.

This has been a common trend among a bunch of actors. Some may argue that the actors are just making bad choices, expecting the movies to be good. You know this isn’t the case when the paycheck is big and when the commercials focus heavily on them, more so than the rest of the movie. Here are a few more examples…

-Samuel L. Jackson in Lakeview Terrace: If you actually look up the plot, you will see that he is actually the antagonist in the movie. Anyone have any idea who plays the main character or the main character’s wife, both of whom would be more important character? I didn’t think so.

-This is all Eddie Murphy has done in…I’d say 12 years or so. Although he is a special case because he wrote Norbit, arguably his worst movie.

-I’m not sure who still finds Adam Sandler funny, but no matter how bad the movie is, all the commercials have to say is that he’s in it and it will get a pretty good turn out
-Al Pacino AGAIN in 88 Minutes. Apparantly this movie sat on the shelves for 2 years at the studio because they couldn’t figure out how to market such a bad movie.