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The reason his film career didnt last longer

posted 10 years ago by spacemanspiff00
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Stallone: Renny Harlin, Richard Donner, Rob Cohen, James Mangold, Ted Kotcheff, John Landis, Robert Rodriguez, George P. Cosmatos, John Huston, Norman Jewison

Schwarzenegger: John Milius, James Cameron (3 times), John McTiernan, Walter Hill, Ivan Reitman (3 times), Paul Verhoeven, Chuck Russell, Peter Hyams, Andrew Davis.

Van Damme: John Woo, Roland Emmerich, Peter Hyams & John G. Avildsen (DTV movie).

Schwarzenegger was able to work with better directors which lead to better movies. While Stallone directed a lot of his hit movies he also worked with quality directors. Van Damme got stuck working with these Chinese and Hong Kong directors and his movies suffered. Now he might be still doing DTV movies now because even Stallone and Schwarzenegger cant open a movie anymore not called The Expendables. I don't know if it was the drug issue that stopped better people from working with him. But even Seagal was able to get Exit Wounds after his career had tanked.

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[–] spacemanspiff00 10 years ago

Just saw it... He said he was wasted and They offered him 12 million per movie and he told them he wanted a Jim Carrey deal 20 million per movie.

[–] spacemanspiff00 10 years ago

Still got the cameo on the Friends episode after the Superbowl in 1996, which was a pretty big deal and The Quest and Maximum Risk both made over 50 million world wide. I think it came down to the people he was working with, though that could be because of being blacklisted.

[–] TheModernSameri 10 years ago

The market for the big guys started drying up. If Jcvd had a proper franshise that would have helped his declining grosses.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 3 years ago

Too bad Universal Soldier gone straight-to-video for the sequels. He tried to make a "real" sequel but it was too late. What a shame, should have been a franchise not unlike Terminator.

[–] xlangamesfl 10 years ago

I'm a big fan but I think his own demons were more to blame than the people he worked with.