His career is dead!!

I don’t think that it’s that hard to feel that FPJ became “box office poison” after a while. What I mean is that if he’s starring in a movie, then the chances are that it’s going to suck (at least w/ professional critics). Even he’s more noteworthy or popular films in I Know What You Did Last Summer and She’s All That have been ripe for parody (i.e. the first Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie).

FPJ seems to be one of those actors who was kind of at the right place at the right time. He was also more or less, really a star by association. He’s father was a hot young stand-up comedian turned sitcom star, who died tragically. His future wife is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I Know What You Did Last Summer benefited from being apart of the late ’90s post-modern slasher movie boom that Scream started. She’s All That benefited from being apart of the late ’90s teen movie renaissance (teen movies that also functioned as romantic comedies usually) that Clueless started. And Scooby Doo was of course based on a classic Hanna-Barbara cartoon.

I guess people like FPJ were part of the “Kevin Williamson/WB Network Pack” (if you want to make a Brat Pack analogy).

I think part of FPJ’s problem besides his debatable acting range is that he didn’t have a lot of male fans (if that makes sense). What I mean is that FPJ has kind of a doe-eyed look about him. Thus, it (while it may make him look like a sensitive or sincere romantic type) would be kind of hard to take him seriously as a macho, tough guy. I guess he kind of attempted that w/ Wing Commander, but even that didn’t connect w/ the critics and/or audiences. So at the end of the day, once he had gotten too old to really make movies for a teen/young adult (female) demographic, FPJ didn’t have a whole lot else to fall back on.

What career did he ever have?

And his father was a drug abuser and not funny.

Hell of a connection.

I never got this dude's appeal and it annoyed me that he rode his dead father's coattails even though he never really grew up with him it was like he was milking the namesake just to get by. Marrying Sarah Michelle BurgerKing didn't elevate him all that much either

he was famous because he was good looks. then looks fade, and the retard girls that went in drove to watch his shit film get older, then career over.

this happen to all actor who like him who rely on look over talents.

i just watch him in film and he relys one thing - being girly man good looks.

This guy goes to traffic school every day.