10 Great Movie Duos Who Reunited And Made Garbage

2. John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson

The Good: Pulp Fiction

The Bad: Basic

John Travolta owes a lot to Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson, thanks to the director's decision to cast him alongside the firebrand co-star in Pulp Fiction - a movie that basically made Travolta a thing again. He might have made some successful movies like the Look Who's Talking flicks, but by the time 1994 had come around, his Saturday Night Fever cool had faded badly.

But then in came Tarantino and cast him as Vincent Vega, the coolest cat in all of his movies and Travolta was reborn. And it helped that he enjoyed some of Tarantino's most quotable scenes with Jackson, whose volatility matches Vega's drugged smoothness wonderfully.

Unfortunatley, the same cannot be said of their reunion for 2003's John McTiernan thriller, Basic, which disappears up its own backside with too many plot twists and believes it's way smartest than it is. The great irony is that McTiernan could have enjoyed success if he'd let his leading men be the chief focus, but he was too invested in the needlessly convoluted story and the results are awful.