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Who Makes Steve Guttenburg a Star? Seriously?

posted 10 years ago by hendrixy6
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Against my best interests I watched "Police Academy Two: Their First Assignment". I have seen it many times as a child. I knew it would be terrible. I actually sought it out. It's not as if it was on television. But, I digress. Let me focus on Steve Guttenberg. He is honestly an awful actor. At the end of this movie he goes undercover as a gang member and it's truly one of the worst performances I've seen in mainstream cinema. I'd say something like "Why didn't anyone notice?" then someone would say everyone was high in the eighties. That's just a cheap and tired punchline. I really want to know why Steve Guttenberg was allowed to get such choice roles? Save " The Stonecutter" references too. I want an honest answer. I need closure.

[–] cameron-whyte 9 years ago

"We do! We do!"

Sorry. I don't mind him.

[–] flutterby228364 9 years ago

I enjoyed him in Don't Tell Her It's Me which was changed to The Boyfriend School (I think ) with Shelley Long. He was pretty decent in that. A lot of supposed "stars" of the 80's didn't make it to the 90's. It was just the Era I suppose. A lot of garbage was made in the 80's but there are a few gems that never get old. The Police Academy films sort of kept multiplying like tribbles. Can't imagine why. After the third they just got more stupid. Not that they were all that intellectually stimulating to begin with. Just fun to watch if you are looking for mindless fun.

[–] davcalla777 8 years ago

He was ok I guess, but, yes,I surely do see what you mean. Aside from police academy and 3 men and a baby, he just kinda fell off the face of the earth, you notice???

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

GuttenBERG. Not GuttenBURG, geez. Can't anyone type anymore?

I don't think he was that bad an actor, but it's hard to take him seriously (probably why he was made to be the 'clown character' so much).

He has a quality that I might call 'annoying smugness' about him that gets on my nerves a bit. He never seems genuinely scared or genuinely compassionate or genuinely anything, except a smug clown.

But there are more annoying and smug actors and characters that I hate way more, so I don't mind him as much.

Billy Crystal is a similar actor and character, but he irritates me about eighty-four times more than Guttenberg, especially as the smug gay character in Soap, that always gets the last word (it should be equal, but there you go, SJWs were never satisfied with equality for everyone - even such a long time ago! - they always had to elevate the 'oppressed minorities' to the superior status - remember how many times you see a woman, for example, being punched to the face by a man's fist? Not many. But heterosexual men get punched like that more than anyone can count, and it's considered normal).

[–] yatzo376 (7476) 5 years ago

Guttenberg was an anomaly for sure.
I rewatched The Boys from Brazil (1978) last night and there was a young Guttenberg floundering around trying to act scared.