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Ethan Hawke going out like Christian Slater (decline of a former star)


Between this movie The Getaway, and the other one he did recently, The Purge (and I am sure there are other catastrophes of late I missed fortunately..) Ethan Hawke appears to be on a downward slide much like Slater went thru a few years ago. He is taking worse & worse movie roles, his acting is horrible now too, and I think he has just about ruined his career at this point. Maybe he can do a play in London with Christian next, or start narrating TV commercials? Then Walmart greeter may be next for him after this utter trash he's been doing... Sad ending to a once decent actor.

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Worse roles - hmmm, I guess you didn't watch Before Midnight

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Unlike Slater Hawke is a much more versatile performer. It's funny you mentioned plays because he has done plays and they've all had positive reviews for Hawke, I believe theatre is his passion over making movies. He's also directed movies and wrote novels so I'm pretty sure he's okay not having to be a top performer in Hollywood. Plus he still looks relatively good for his age. I can't say the same for Slater.

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