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08-20-2007, 11:54 PM
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Who has the highest \"Cuba number?\"
As I sat in the movie theater the other day and saw a trailer for Daddy Day Camp I thought, "Great! Another horrible project choice by Cuba Gooding Jr." As far as I could recall, his career consisted of one great performance (in Jerry McGuire) followed by a string of idiotic paydays (e.g. Chill Factor, Snow Dogs, Rat Race).
I then wondered if, compared to Cuba Gooding Jr., there were any other actors who had a better but a lower quality of their average body of work and how I might quantify the concept. Here's my idea: Take an actor and rank each of his performances on a scale from one to ten. Take the highest score of all the performances and subtract the overall average. For example, if we rank Cuba's performances as 9, 2, 3, 2 and 2, then his score is 9 - (9 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 2)/5 = 5.4. The highest possible score would be 10, which would mean an actor had one perfect performance and an infinite number of absolutely awful performances. I call this number the Cuba number. My metric may not be perfect, but I think it captures the idea. Still, I'm welcome to suggestions for improvements. Another problem is deciding how to rank an actors performance. One crude way to do this would be to use the IMDB rating for each movie an actor is in, but a movie's quality often has little to do with a particular actor's performance. A benefit of my metric is that it can be applied not only to actors, but to music groups, TV shows, etc. So, who has a high Cuba number than Cuba? 
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08-21-2007, 12:20 AM
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Re: Who has the highest \"Cuba number?\"
Michael Vick
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08-21-2007, 12:25 AM
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Re: Who has the highest \"Cuba number?\"
Stephen Baldwin.
Usual Suspects >>>>>>>>>>>> ; everything else he's done ever by so very much. Kevin Pollack might be another candidate for exactly the same reason.
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#7
08-22-2007, 10:52 PM
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Re: Who has the highest \"Cuba number?\"
All i want to say in this thread is that I always have wished CGJr would take some good roles because he is an awesome actor but does the worst movies ever ever ever.
Ugh.
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#10
08-20-2007, 11:58 PM
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Re: Who has the highest \"Cuba number?\"
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I thought he was great in Men of Honor. [/ QUOTE ] I should point out that Cuba's actual number may not be one of the highest, especially since I haven't seen several of his movies. But instead of talking about Cuba's career, I'd rather hear suggestions of actors with higher Cuba numbers.
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