Was that MAD Magazine?? I remember reading the Downey prison cartoon in that.

Stoker was awesome. So fucked up for a mainstream Hollywood movie!! I say less popcorn blockbusters and more Psychosexual weird shit like that. Did you see 'Enemy'? It's awesome.

The constant 'money shots' at Ejiofor's face didn't make you feel this way even a little bit?? I don't know how they didn't spawn 'gimme oscar please' memes. But i'm just being a dick here, the performance were actually phenomenal. Especially Fassbender .

I wish I was kidding. 12 years didn't hit me as hard as I wanted to and felt like calculated oscar bait to me. White Chicks, I was expecting to hate but found it hilarious.

Maybe. The general public and international audiences weren't really aware of Downey until Iron Man. Depp made movies that people grew up with ,so maybe him sucking is harder to take.

By 'generation', I mean Leading men. All of those you mentioned are character actors. Hell, the GREATEST actor of his generation Gary Oldman is a character actor too.

Yeah. Well said. So glad there are other people in this boat. The abuse I took for defending 'Lone Ranger' was almost as bad as the one I took for 'Prometheus', both in my circle and on the internet.

To me, it seemed like Cage was this close to punching Samberg in the face during that bit.

So has everybody else. Co-starring 'hottest comedian of the second half of 2009' Zach Galifinakis.

Well, the first two season were excellent at least…..

You must hate '12 years a slave' then. A film most people tricked themselves into thinking was great.

It's a flawed film for sure but one very much worth revisiting. Amazing sets, outstanding action scenes, marvelous cinematography and TONS of refrences and visual callbacks to many,many,many classic westerns I absolutely adore. Cult status for sure.

And neither is 'The Lone Ranger'. A film that is uneven and patchy but quite enjoyable and filled with great sets and stunts, GORGEOUSLY shot and with dozens of refrences to classic westerns. I genuinely feel more compelled to furiously defend it each time I hear someone trashing it.

He also wore a bear suit and punched women on-screen in movies. That guy simple defies expectations and explanations.

Let's not forget that everyone's darling Sandra Bullock has been mostly terrible for most of her career. Yet, she gets the pass because of 'speed' and 'gravity' or whatever.

Downey's 'Holmes' made money but barely made an impact in popular culture. I don't see anybody claimoring for a third movie. Cumberbatch's version is the one people cherish. (As it should be).

Not to mention, 'Zodiac'. He was sooo good as Paul Avery. Nowadays, he's become a schtick-recycling hack.

Nowadays, Caine is a cinema icon, thanks to his role as Alfred and a shining example of how hard an actor is still willing to work at an advanced age.

He's lost his coolness but even THEN ,he's still one of Hollywood's coolest. Some of his lifestyle choices are questionable but I can't believe how ungrateful people are towards him. The man's a true cinema icon and one of the two or three most talented actors of his generation. I mean, has everybody forgotten the…

So has De Niro. In fact, he squandered an even bigger cinematic legacy than Depp. Everybody seems to give him the pass though.