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Doc Holliday

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42. Could it possibly be that

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 08:34 PM

Jan 2012

seeing an actor in a quality film raises our collective expectations of that actor's future work?

Case in point: Costner. Multiple Oscars for Dances With Wolves. After that...what?

Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves? (How much of a smackdown is it to be mocked onscreen by Cary Elwes in a Mel Brooks film?)

The Bodyguard? The other turkeys mentioned here? Shoot, I'd rather watch No Way Out or Revenge...or even the first film of his that I ever saw, The Gunrunner.

None of Costner's later work measured up to what made him huge. JMO, of course, and I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.

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