idk if you’re aware but Samuel L Jackson is one of Tarantino’s go-to actors. This one’s actually pretty relevant.

It’d probably be about equivalent to going through all of Star Trek or Stargate. It’d be an undertaking, but at least a few people would do it for sure.

On the other hand, the MCU is the closest we’ve gotten to reviving the studio age, with actors signed to 7-picture contracts, with mandatory promotion cycles, and a PR department invested in maintaining the actors’ public reputations as Marvel characters even in the downtime between releases.

I wonder if Anya Taylor Joy will be the exception to the rule of no young movie stars. Even then I'd prefer it if there's more character actors around then just like Pauly Shore or whoever Quentin wants.

What movies from 1970-1975 can you name without looking?

Consuming any food leads to death within a few decades.

Ouch, and there you’ve set the bar at Smokin’ Aces, which itself is a half-assed rip-off of Snatch that’s trying to coast 0n a blizzard of “hey, I know that actor” cameos. And Bullet Train fell short of that?

He was definitely a star before playing Black Panther. ‘42', ‘Get on Up’, and even ‘Gods of Egypt’ showed that. Granted, Gods of Egypt was an awful film.

The Godfather Movies, I believe the first two Dirty Harry movies, A couple of Bond movies, The Aristocats, Jaws, The Shootist, I could go on....

Yeah, the term fundamentally means something different to different people, and it certainly means something different in each era of Hollywood. Tom Holland is no Brad Pitt, but Uncharted made considerably more than Bullet Train did. Will Smith is unquestionably a huge movie star even now, but Gemini Man made less…

I appreciate Jackson’s take on this because he is someone I consider both a “movie star” and a good actor, which honestly are not always the same thing. Like, there’s definitely the image of Samuel L. Jackson, and that’s a thing that can sell tickets, but the dude also has genuine talent, even if he has become more…

There is a 63% chance that every random stranger you meet is in fact Karl Urban.

And John Cazale was only in 5 movies, which is even less than Chadwick.

Chadwick was a HUGE movie star from “42" on out. Absolutely iconic. That’s why his death hid so very, very hard (god, what a gut punch that news was), and one of the reasons re-casting was not an option. 

Only one matters for this conversation (though it’s admittedly a couple of years younger than your criteria): Christopher Reeve as Superman.

1975 - Rollerball

1975 - Rollerball

IMO that is true to a degree. You don’t go see 20+ movies of a franchise unless the biggest actors are doing a good job with the role and consistently brought back. I don’t think IW or EG works that well if they recast Iron Man, Cap, and Thor. And there are characters that are not as well known, like Ant-Man, where…

Oh God, I sure hope so.

I mean, the Bond movies were to the 60s and 70s what Marvel movies are to the 2000s and 2010s. Huge cultural touchstones that were popular but not considered “high art.” People still talk about them, and they’ve left a lasting legacy on pop culture. People still talk about their favorite Bonds, much in the same way…