Great Actors & Actresses and the bad movie choices they have made

[LynneSin]

Pick a favorite Actor or Actress of yours. Then pick the one movie that you wonder what the hell they were thinking when they agreed to make this movie.

I love Ewan MacGregor but one wonders what the hell he was thinking when he made the movie "Down with Love"

Have fun with the list!!!

[vi5]

1. Too many to even list....

Anthony Hopkins (that movie where he plays some sort of anthropologist with long hair...or that movie he did with Chris Rock)

Robert Deniro and Renee Russo in Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Any number of Jack Nicholson movies.

[terrya]

2. Laurance Olivier in Harold Robbins' "The Betsy"

I cringed watching this great actor in this horrible, tawdry movie.

[chelsea0011]

3. Olivia Newton John in Xanadu

What was she thinking?

[Quahog]

4. Madeleine Stowe in "Bad Girls"

How the woman who starred in films like "Closetland" and "Twelve Monkeys" ever agreed to this turkey is beyond me.

I still love her, though.

[Loonman]

5. Mike Myers in "54"

What utter dreck.

I felt dumber after watching that steaming pile of crap.

[GOPisEvil]

6. Ahhh...the "Pat Morita theory"

A friend of mine and I have this theory about Pat Morita: When he is working on a "serious" project he is billed as "Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita". When he takes a role because he's building a new swimming pool or has a boat payment due, he's just billed as "Pat Morita".

G' 'head - see if we aren't right. :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. for example, see King Cobra....

where he plays a herpetologist. The movie was so awful I am surprised he didn't insist on being billed as "a guy who looks like Pat Morita... but it's not him, honest."

[Bertha Venation]

21. He should've got the Oscar for "Karate Kid"

The sequels were so bad I hate even to refer to them, but the first one was a good movie, and he was great.

I used to LOVE him in "Happy Days" -- the "Leave It To Beaver" of my generation.

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. the second Karate Kid was a very good film too

with a more immersive story than the first, I thought. I also loved how the Daniel San story was buried beneath the ongoing rivalry between Miyagi and Sato.

[Bertha Venation]

24. BTW, BigMc...

congratulations on your news :bounce:

[BigMcLargehuge]

36. Thanks Bertha!

We are all atwitter here at McLargehuge Acres.

:hi:

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. Henry Fonda in uh.... The Swarm

what the hell was that?

Also:

Michael Caine in Jaws: The Revenge (and Austin Powers 3... sheesh... what a waste)
Ida Lupino in Bert I Gordon's giant rat extravaganza, Food of the Gods

[TNDemo]

9. Dustin Hoffman in

Ishtar.

[LynneSin]

11. Warren Beatty too

gee they both sucked in that sucky movie!!!

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. Samuel L. Jackson in the Star Wars prequels

Sam Jackson is my favorite actor, and I'm a huge fan of Star Wars (prequels not as much). But I think he is grossly miscast, and is forced to underact with the script given to him.

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. add Deep Blue Sea to that list too

aside from the indignity of BEING in Deep Blue Sea, he's Eaten after only about 30 minutes leaving the audience saddled with a cast of truly AWFUL actors to finish out the movie.

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. For some sick reason, my wife loves that movie-

and that scene in particular- she loves how he's going off on one of his soliliquies when all off the sudden a shark comes out and eats him.

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. my wife has the same reaction to that scene

assuming yours just breaks down into hysterical laughter too. Still, the movie is just so bad on so many levels.

[chelsea0011]

13. Jon Voight in "Runaway Train"

It is one of those odd train wreck (no pun intended) movies that I tune into whenever it is on. Voight's acting is horrid and over-the-top but is complete fun to watch. Also, starring Eric Roberts who can act circles around his much richer sister. A pointless movie which thinks it has something profound to say.

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. I love Runaway Train

it's like existentialism.... no real point to the story, sort of an allegory for life. I like to double feature it with Emperor of the North, another train story with Lee Marvin and Keith Carradine.

[lpbk2713]

17. Paul Newman --- Slapshot

Must have needed the money at the time.

[LTR]

27. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

"Slapshot" was one of the best sports movies ever made.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. Add Eye of the Beholder to the list for Ew baby, too.

Blegh. What a stupid film.

[Bertha Venation]

19. both Denzel Washington and John Lithgow: "Ricochet"

What a lousy piece of shit that was.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Speaking of Denzel

He and Russell Crowe in Virtuosity.

Actually a nice popcorn movie, but... Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe?

[Bertha Venation]

23. saw "Virtuosity" before Crowe was big

Yeah. Not the best film.

Did you ever see "The Sum Of Us?" I haven't seen "Gladiator" or "A Beautiful Mind," but I'm willing to bet Crowe's performance in "The Sum Of Us" was just as good, if not better. EXCELLENT film. He was also great in "L.A. Confidential."

[pagerbear]

25. Katharine Hepburn in an awful TV movie

co-starring that guy from that awful TV series Silver Spoons--Joel Somebody? She plays a successful romance novelist who goes to live with a "typical" suburban family as a stunt to prove she's not out of touch with real life. Or something like that.

[Kid_A]

26. Samuel L. Jackson in XXX

Sam Jackson is the biggest badass on the face of the earth, and XXX is just horrible. Awful awful awful.

[NashVegas]

28. Oh, But But But

I loved him in Down With Love (didn't we have this discussion a few days ago?).

Star Wars, otoh ...

[NashVegas]

29. Julian Sands - Warlock

ugh

[LynneSin]

32. Julian Sands - Boxing Helena

:puke:

[NashVegas]

35. heeee

either would do.

[MissMillie]

30. Susan Sarandon

in the Banger Sisters

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. John Gielgud and Malcolm McDowell in

Caligula.

[SiouxJ]

33. Gina Davis in that pirate movie

can't remember the name of the flick but it was horrible. She had just come off of the success of Thelma and Louise (and I believe an Oscar nomination) and then that. It sort of killed her career. I haven't liked her since.

Agreed on Ewan MacGregor. I kept thinking while watching it - this might have worked had it come out BEFORE 3 Austin Powers movies - lol. They were way late on the retro bandwagon with that one.

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. Cuthroat Island

directed by her husband Renny Harlin... crap all the way around.