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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8956005" data-attributes="member: 18">This is not very accurate. By the standards of his day, before the &quot;incident&quot; with the cocaine and the gun, RDJ was regarded as a &quot;bankable&quot; star, or at least a star well on the way to being one - i.e. rising star. It's just historical revisionism to claim otherwise and to try and start doing tea-leaf-reading with box office numbers (which were much lower all round in the '80s and '90s).And Marvel didn't single-handedly rehabilitate him, initially. It was a one-two punch of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, and he was absolutely great and perfectly cast in both, which catapulted him back into the Hollywood mainstream. He hasn't done much else but Marvel since then because Marvel kept him incredibly busy. Doolittle was dreadful but who hasn't made a dreadful kid's flick or romcom once in a while. Even people like Harrison Ford have skeletons like Six days, Seven Nights in their closet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8956005, member: 18"] This is not very accurate. [I]By the standards of his day[/I], before the "incident" with the cocaine and the gun, RDJ was regarded as a "bankable" star, or at least a star well on the way to being one - i.e. rising star. It's just historical revisionism to claim otherwise and to try and start doing tea-leaf-reading with box office numbers (which were much lower all round in the '80s and '90s). And Marvel didn't single-handedly rehabilitate him, initially. It was a one-two punch of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, and he was absolutely great and perfectly cast in both, which catapulted him back into the Hollywood mainstream. He hasn't done much else but Marvel since then because Marvel kept him incredibly busy. Doolittle was dreadful but who hasn't made a dreadful kid's flick or romcom once in a while. Even people like Harrison Ford have skeletons like Six days, Seven Nights in their closet. [/QUOTE]

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