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Few can question how good and how right he was for Mean Machine (orig Longest yard) and for one of his best - Sharky's Machine.
He was more than capable in Shamus, Hustle, Deliverance, Cat Dancing, White Lightning, Gator, Malone, Stick, 100 Rifles, Navajo Joe, Hunters are for Killing - and a few others. Its the work he's taken in the last 20 years which has been the problem.
Sometimes actors take work which makes them become parodies of themselves - Striptease didn't help, Im sure - and I think that happened to Burt. Once the general public opinion is one of 'cringlebleness' then its long way - or a major meaty role - to rescue that perception. And the poster who mentioned about the bad plastic surgery (cinemascope) - that I think plays a large part in that where many just cant take them seriously anymore.
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WELL, one reason was his personality.
He did many interviews where he came off as a real jerk- insulting interviewers etc.
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Loni Anderson came to know the score.
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Put everything together that's already been posted and you have most of the picture -- poor choices in his film vehicles, personal difficulties including drug use, business problems that drained his fortune, the unpopular Loni Anderson divorce in which he was the villain, and personality problems with friends and co-workers (much of it exacerbated by the drug use), and new guys on the block. America's devil-may-care hero, the guy who had everything going for him, turned out to be more human than the public wanted.
One last factor: The public is quick to write off celebs when they sense that their time is over. They feed off of the media when it states that someone is now a has-been or past their prime. The public quickly moves away from what they perceive as failure. This not only happened to Reynolds but Sylvester Stallone. Stallone, so far, has better managed his comeback of the last several years, capitalizing on two of his franchise characters and booting up a new third venture with "The Expendables."
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Aug 12, 2012 - 2:07 PM
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One last factor: The public is quick to write off celebs when they sense that their time is over. They feed off of the media when it states that someone is now a has-been or past their prime. The public quickly moves away from what they perceive as failure. This not only happened to Reynolds but Sylvester Stallone. Stallone, so far, has better managed his comeback of the last several years, capitalizing on two of his franchise characters and booting up a new third venture with "The Expendables."
If Stallone didn't have Rocky or Rambo to fall back on, I doubt he'd have resurrected his career the way he did and make the transition to independent directing. At the end of the 90's and pre-Rocky Balboa, Stallone became a has-been due to his desire to break free from action hero roles. Comedies that weren't funny, drame that didn't work. After Cop Land, the movie script that was a sure win win for all involved, turned out to be forgettable really, he got lost starring in straight to video movies alongside then 'has beens':
Mickey Rourke in "Get Carter"
Burt Reynolds in "Driven"
Movies like D-Tox, Avenging Angelo, Shade... were downright terrible. I remember renting these back in the day and hoping to see him make a comeback, but it was one failure after another. With "Rocky Balboa" and "Rambo" he redeemed himself, and the expendables, well at least it's in the genre he is best at. I think the sequel will easily outdo the first one.
Do you remember there was a time when Stallone wanted to do the Notorious B.I.G. movie? Or the Edgar Allen Poe movie? In a sense it was good no one wanted to finance his movies anymore, so that he could return to the genre that made him successful.
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who knew a Burt Reynolds thread could be so enthralling???
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I'm in the pro-Burt camp. He was never a great actor, but he had a very
likable on-screen persona, personal problems aside. I agree that the string
of stinkers he starred in throughout the 80's and 90's sealed his fate.
But he made enough great B movies in the 60's and 70's. My fave's:
NAVAJO JOE
SAM WHISKEY
100 RIFLES
SHARK!
IMPASSE
SKULLDUGGERY
HUNTERS ARE FOR KILLING (TV MOVIE)
RUN, SIMON, RUN (TV MOVIE)
FUZZ
SHAMUS ...........my personal favorite
THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING
WHITE LIGHTENING
THE LONGEST YARD
AT LONG LAST LOVE .......YES, I actually like this 
LUCKY LADY
HUSTLE
GATOR
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
ROUGH CUT
SHARKEY'S MACHINE
CITY HEAT
MALONE
Plus, he starred in one of Quinn Martin's more unusual crime shows -
DAN AUGUST (which seriously needs a dvd release). Even though it
ran for only one season, it was ahead of it's time. I can't believe some of the
stuff they got away with on this show. Most of the episodes are dark
in tone, dealing with very serious subject matter - racism, drug abuse,
rape, etc. But the thing that sets it apart from other cop shows (especially
for 1970) is that they were very graphic - one episode dealing with a
Black Panthers-type group has frequent use of the N word. Another
episode about heroin use among high school teenagers graphically shows
one kid "shooting up" and dying from an overdose. DAN AUGUST was
a strange show to say the least.
Den
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I found the thread title amusing many ladies did get turned on when Burt had his photo in a certain magazine in the early 70's[man time flies] The incident sought of started the male centerfold craze for woman
Yeah. And where is that magazine now? De-funked.
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I liked those made for TV B.L. Stryker films he did in the late 80's/early 90's...
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