Fantastic range, but he seems to have been stuck in quirky mode since Pirates.

you mean like Depp acting as Jack Sparrow acting as Hunter Thompson?
Which has been his schtick the last 15 years?

yeah, me too!

oops, dat was a reply to fluffy

And everyone who enjoys any cult movie on any level is a moron. Gotcha.

well, we both suck

Do you know where that story about Patrice drinking breast milk is? I've been trying to find it off and on for years now.

Yep.

These two things are kinda the same. Repeatedly choosing bullshit when you have the power to make better stuff makes you a bad actor, even if it doesn't lessen your acting skills.

By that reasoning, Ben Kingsley and Sean Connery are two of the worst actors in history.

Kingsley picks some legit projects. Connery does not.

But, yeah, by my reasoning, an actor sucks if he uses his skills to make bullshit and cash the checks. Once you hit that A-list, you have to flex your muscle to make good stuff sometimes or you're just a fucking whore.

Johnny Depp doing bad movies and cashing the check makes him a crap artist. Ditto with Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington and so on.

Being a celebrity who stays on top of the A list, and being a good actor (artist) are competing concepts.

Add on to that how A-listers never play a character, just themselves, and they're just a bunch of cardboard cutouts.

This would be Johnny Depp trying to work his way back to being an artist, and to stop selling commemorative cups at McDonalds.