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« on: June 30, 2020, 07:03:01 PM »
« edited: July 01, 2020, 06:48:32 PM by Progressive Pessimist »

Will Arnett- 'Show Dogs.'
Christian Bale- the Nolan Batman films (yeah, I said it!).
Jason Bateman- 'How Can I Tell if I'm Really in Love?' If that doesn't count then: 'Teen Wolf 2.'
Halle Berry- 'Catwoman' and 'Swordfish.'
Adrien Brody- 'InAPPropriate Comedy.'
Pierce Brosnan- 'Mamma Mia.'
Richard Burton- 'The Exorcist II: The Heretic.'
Nicolas Cage- 'The Wicker Man' (this was the real start of his more status quo embarrassing role reputation).
Sean Connery- 'Zardoz.'
Brian Cox- 'Pixels.'
Daniel Craig- 'A Kid in King Arthur's Court.'
David Cross- The 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' movies.
Peter Fonda- 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad.'
Whoopi Goldberg- 'Theodore Rex.'
Robert De Niro- 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' (though there are too many other examples, this one is the most egregious).
Benicio Del Toro- 'Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.'
Faye Dunaway- 'The Bye Bye Man.'
Joel Edgerton- 'Bright.'
Everybody involved with 'Batman and Robin.'
Everybody involved with 'Movie 43.'
Everybody involved with 'The Oogieloves.'
Everybody involved with the 'Super Mario' movie.
Michael Fassbender- 'Assassin's Creed.'
Will Forte- 'Scoob!'
Jamie Foxx- 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2.'
Jennifer Garner- 'Elektra' and 'Nine Lives.'
Tom Hardy- 'Venom.'
Anne Hathaway- 'Serenity.'
Holly Hunter- 'Batman Versus Superman: Dawn of Bulls*** Justice.'
Jeremy Irons- 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
Dakota Johnson- The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movies.
Raul Julia- 'Street Fighter' (it was also infamously his last film).
Nicole Kidman- 'Aquaman.'
Christopher Lee- 'The Howling 2.'
Ray Liotta- 'The Identical.'
Kyle MacLachlan- 'Showgirls.'
Roddy McDowell- 'Laserblast' and 'Shakma.'
Carrie-Anne Moss- 'The Bye Bye Man.'
Bill Murray- The 'Garfield' movies.
Liam Neeson- 'Taken 2,' 'Taken 3,' and most 'Taken' rip-off action movies he starred in too.
Edward Norton- 'Sausage Party.'
Gary Oldman- 'Lost in Space' and 'The Fifth Element.'
Clive Owen- 'Valerian and the City of A Thousand Sidequests Planets.'
Al Pacino- 'Jack and Jill.'
Joe Pantoliano- 'Robot in the Family.'
Aubrey Plaza- 'Dirty Grandpa' and 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.'
Natalie Portman- The 'Star Wars' prequels.
Dennis Quaid- 'The Intruder.'
Eddie Redmayne- 'Jupiter Ascending.'
Christopher Reeve- 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.'
Denise Richards- 'Tammy and the T-Rex.'
Tim Roth- 'United Passions.'
John Travolta- 'The Fanatic' (I actually think he was decent in 'Gotti').
Jon Voight- Too many too name, but 'Anaconda' and 'Karate Dog' come to mind first.
Naomi Watts- The 'Divergent' movies.
Adam West- 'Zombie Nightmare.'
Forest Whitaker- 'Battlefield Earth' and, begrudgingly, I'll add 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' also.

Needless to say, I had a lot of fun with this topic. I have seen an embarrassing amount of embarrassing movies. Hell, I'll probably end up thinking of more later.
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2020, 06:41:26 PM »

I think that belongs to the top. Poor Westley didn't take his divorce from Princess Buttercup too well. His eyes are clearly saying "please, put me out of my misery".




Bookmarking this video to rewatch when I'm high.

Oh s***! Someone beat me to bringing up one of my favorite bats*** crazy kids movies. That's a movie where everybody in it from Cary Elwes to Christopher Lloyd to Cloris Leachman to (MY FAVORITE!) Chaz Palmenteri were in a humiliating role.

Yes, I recommend for everyone to watch it. You don't even need drugs for it. It's already surreal and trippy enough.
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2020, 07:16:51 PM »

John Travolta- 'The Fanatic' (I actually think he was decent in 'Gotti').
Forest Whitaker- 'Battlefield Earth' and, begrudgingly, I'll add 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' also.

Just out of curiosity, why did John Travolta's performance in "Battlefield Earth" not rank at the bottom of his list of roles?

Because he was taking it seriously the entire time and even bankrolled the movie, which is what the topic was about...but yeah, just 'cuz he enjoyed it doesn't mean everyone else did.

That was my reasoning exactly.
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