If actors could scrub just one movie off their resume, which one would they pick?

Sarah Jessica Parker was on a talk show the other night and she tried to act like she didn't remember her character on Hocus Pocus

Dustin Hoffman - Ishtar.

Twilight Zone: The Movie

For Patrick Stewart it would be "Wild Geese 2". A few months back I watched a youtube clip of PS speaking at a Trek convention saying this was the worst movie he did, but he signed on because he was offered almost exactly the same amount he needed to do a home repair.

Love Affair

The Iron Petticoat--K. Hepburn

The corny Diane Arbus movie with Nicole Kidman.

Mommie Dearest

I bet Chloe Sevigny wishes nobody remembered The Brown Bunny.

"Plan 9 From Outer Space."

I have to think that Marisa Tomei would like to scrub the latest Purge film from her resume because she totally sucked in it, the suckage of which was an enormous disappointment to me since I have been her steadfast champion since My Cousin Vinny (YES, she did deserve the Oscar for that indelible, hilarious performance). She's one of my favorite actresses and delivers over and over (hence, additional Oscar noms after Vinny), so I was truly shocked and appalled by her terrible performance in the Purge flick. Not that the film was a masterpiece (far from it), but her performance was perfunctory and awkward. Her character was a social scientist, the film's "resident intellectual," and she could not pull it off convincingly. Granted, she had crap dialogue to deliver, but part of being an incredible actor is the ability to turn shit in to gold when necessary, to rise above the circumstances--neither of which she did. Late in the film she literally has to utter to herself the cliche reckoning "What I have done?" in a moment of epiphanous guilt for her role in the deaths of scores of people and the likely future brutalization of millions, and she did it with the depth of a frying pan. Wooden, wan and fake. Yes, we've seen that scene and heard that line in countless movies before, so it's completely trite, but that's all the more reason why an actor must totally sell it. Otherwise they tarnish their reputation, which was certainly the case here.

I'd love to hear her explain why she couldn't deliver in this "paycheck" movie. Her failure in it almost makes me forget the dreadful thriller (The Watcher, 2000) she made with Keanu Reeves which was dull, far from suspenseful, and did nothing to elicit strong performances from anyone in its cast. That's the only prior performance of hers that I did not find strong, but the Purge performance clearly trumps that now. If you do happen to watch the latest Purge and need to cleanse your memory of Marisa's performance in it, check out Happy Accidents, an indie from 2000; it features one of her most engaging performances and remains one of the best films of her career. A terrific, well-written, thought-provoking film.

LOL, I ALMOST liked her in Shallow Hal...

Pick just one, Glennie.

I'd be tempted to say "Thank God It's Friday," because even though my lone directorial effort remains a misunderstood disco masterpiece that deserves to be enjoyed by DataLoungers in perpetuity, I think it cost me--the only long-term gig I secured after that, a decade later, was a forgotten show on Fox ("True Colors") when it was a fledgling network. I tend to think that the show was canceled after the second season because I died in the middle of Season 2, and clearly the show could not go on without its matriarchal glue. They were able to pull that off with my friend Val and her show, but obviously that wouldn't be the case with my absence. After all, some things ARE irreplaceable (despite what the Beyonce girl says).

Shallow Hal is one of Goop's best performances as an actress. She should wear that as a feather in her cap.

R14 Nancy girl, the dementia must of set in because you directed Can’t Stop the Music, the Village People vehicle, not Thank God It’s Friday, the Donna Summer vehicle. Get your disco movies straight - or in the case of Bruce Jenner trans!

I loved Shallow Hal.

Shallow Hal is actually one of her better performances. It made her likable.

Dear R16, bless you--I wondered if anyone would notice my little trick! I learned that from my father--at his store he had one of those light up sign boxes to which you affix letters to spell out words, and he would always put one letter upside down. When a customer would bring it to his attention it served as confirmation that people were actually paying attention to the sign. Listen, Toots, when you eventually reach my neck of the woods, I'm taking you out for a nice big dinner. You can order whatever you want (I'll put it on Allan Carr's tab, like in the old days!).

R16, loved you on McMillan and Wife, any good stories about Rock and hot boys hanging around the set?

Dame Hellen Mirren contributed to the CALIGULA 20th Anniversary re-issue and DVD commentary track and explained that she's proud of her work and some content in CALIGULA, thank you very much.

Goop not liking Shallow Hal, one of the few roles people actually loved her in, is yet another reason why I can’t stand Goop herself. Stupid bitch. Shallow Hal is one of the few things she ever did right in her life.

Debra Winger picks Terms of Endearment

Off topic, but Gweneth's character in that still looked so much like Rebel Wilson.

The Burning - Holly Hunter (in a unspeaking role) and Jason Alexander (with hair!). Though I loved it!

Hardware - Dylan McDermott ( I heard he hates it ) But I love it.

What was the reason goop have for hating Shallow Hal? Only movie she's in that i would watch a second time.

I probably never would've ended up in rehsb if I'd never been in Gigli.

She got that stupid name, Apple, from one of the Farelly brothers. Stole it from one of their daughters.

If I did I wouldn't have a career now would I?

Meryl hated on Still Of The Night when she was on that awful Andy Cohen show but I actually thi k it's a decent thriller and she looked hot in it. She and Glenn should both scrub House of the Spirits. Boring, racist, miscast, overlong and a box office bomb.

Joan should scrub Trog.

Mirren scrubs The Tempest. Or Arthur. Or Love Ranch.

Aniston would be spoiled for choice.

R1, she's such a clueless cunt! She was nominated for Razzies for Did You Hear About the Morgans?, I Don't Know How She Does It and New Year's Eve, and she WON one for Sex & The City 2, yet she's embarrassed of a movie that is now a Halloween classic?

Just one dude?

I love Shallow Hal.

What's wrong with "Shallow Hal? I don't like Gwyneth Paltrow OR Jack Black, but I liked that movie.

Goop would probably scrub “A View from the Top,” which she called “A View from My Ass.” If she dislikes both equally, at least she made decent money on “Shallow Hal.”

A View from the Top could have been a decent movie, but after the training school, it didn't go anywhere. Plus, her character was as boring as her humble surroundings. That doesn't make for an interesting experience for the viewer. With a couple of tweaks, they could have made it into a watchable feel-good woman-empowerment movie. One opportunity lost was a flight attendant's hilarious commentary on passengers, like in a montage sequence.

As you can tell, I really tried to like it but it really is a view from her ass.

Michelle Pfeiffer - Grease 2

Meryl scrubs She-Devil.

Lange scrubs The Postman Always Rings Twice so she could forego the ignominy of having Jack Nicholson stick his stubby little fingers up her box. Or brag about banging her.

He really is vile.

R16, Rock was actually very discreet with such things in relation our set, but that Susan Saint James...! She knew how to stir up some interest with the NBC grips, if you catch my drift... Personally, I didn't think the permed shag was helping Rock out in terms of making any love connections, but, you know, what could I say? Bobby Reed and his boys over at The Brady Bunch did the same damn thing.

"Petticoat Junction"

[quote]Dame Hellen Mirren contributed to the CALIGULA 20th Anniversary re-issue and DVD commentary track and explained that she's proud of her work and some content in CALIGULA, thank you very much.

And my friend has the 3 disc Special Edition "Caligula" DVD signed by Malcolm McDowell. He did the commentary too. They have no problem with it and laugh of the hardcore as just silly.

R39, No. I scrub "Hush," and Gwynnie should do the same.

For about 18 years Heather Graham often left that Two Coreys argosy LICENSE TO DRIVE off her resume. It was her first appearance in a major film, and she starred aged just 15.

Maxie

r44 lmao I love that shitty movie. Remember when all teens smoked in '80s films? And drove expensive cars?

James Avery had a deservedly cult-classic scene at the DMV - "buckle up, Son, it's the REAL WORLD out here". The lady at the DMV desk was iconic, as well; "you musn't FUCK with the Department of Motor Vehicles; we can make your life a living HELL.". The scene at the end where the Merc gets crushed by a steel beam dropped from a crane is a Destructo-movie denounement bar-none. Oh, and the Commy sister is fun.

Haim gave a charming performance in LTD as did Graham, and she later went on to do other popcorn-fare so idk why she hated it so much. LTD was the last movie Feldman was entertaining, watchable and cute in (*James Avery voice* I said GOD-DAMN). Per DL-archive lore; wasn't this one the 'Two Coreys' movie where according to the director the boys kept disappearing between takes to shoot up and fool around (with each other?) "It's like you hang out in your trailers and come right to the set". Uhhhhh, ok, sounds pro Feldog.

Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson hate Natural Born Killers...

Woody Harrelson also hates Money Train with a passion and hated Wesley Snipes just as much.

J Lo has mentioned she hated U-Turn ... which is one of the few good movies she did

I liked Shallow Hal but I really liked a few of Gwen's movies.

Cate Blanchett INDIANA JONES 4

Stockard Channing was asked if she did any movies just for the money. She said yes, but wouldn't name any of them. You know they would have to include that one a family of insects (aliens?) masquerading as humans

[quote] Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson hate Natural Born Killers...

That's interesting, I loved the movie when I first saw it, it was truly original. Then saw it a decade later and realized how completely terrible it is. At least it turned the general public onto Nine Inch Nails' music

R51 yeah they saw how horrible it is after making it lol.

Mike Myers should be mortified by The Cat in the Hat.

Mike Myers should kick himself for The Love Guru, that’s what terminated his career.

McDowell and Mirren doing a commentary for Caligula was one of the most surprising special features on any DVD/Blu-Ray release of all time. It honestly made me love them for being such good sports.

Another one that surprised me was Melissa Leo. In the mid 80's, she did a pretty lousy (though not unwatchable) horror flick called Deadtime Stories and it just came out on Blu-Ray a year or two ago. She actually gives a fairly lengthy interview about it on the disc. I was shocked. She seemed to have a great sense of humor about it, too. Really made me like her. Also, the movie has a nice shot of Scott Valentine's naked ass (which is one of the reasons I'd rent it all the time as a kid).

I wish some actors knew how much more likable they become when they can come in and discuss the flops. I was so happy when Elizabeth Berkley finally talked about Showgirls with good humor. When The Lonely Lady came to Blu-Ray, Pia Zadora gave a long interview about it. I loved that.

I wish Faye Dunaway would get a sense of humor about Mommie Dearest, because, like it or not, when she dies, that'll be one of the first things they'll print - "Star of Bonnie and Clyde and Mommie Dearest Dead"

The Iron Petticoat. Da.

Beyond the Forest

The Swarm

Planet of the Apes 2001 for Helena Bonham Carter, I’m guessing here.

But r60, I told everyone I looked so hot, like Janet Jackson!

Liam Neeson - Krull

And I think Susan Sarandon used to omit Rocky Horror from her resume. Don't know if she still does.

I would take Grease of my resume

[quote]For Patrick Stewart it would be "Wild Geese 2".

I didn’t even know there was a “Wild Geese 2.” The first is one of my guilty-pleasure films.

"Parnell"

Ice Follies of 1939

Her Cardboard Lover

The First Traveling Saleslady

The Silver Chalice

Swing Your Partner

I really like Goop as an actress, but Shallow Hall was a stupid movie. I even thought that movie where she is a stewardess and befriends Ruffalo was funnier.

I didn't get that Ripley movie, like at all. Also Tennenbaums didn't do anything to me.

Desire Me

R60, Bonham-Carter met Tim Burton on Apes, father to her two children, so it'd be surprising. But who knows...

"Brainstorm"

'King Kong' - Jessica Lange

R30, I also liked "Still of the Night," but then I like everything that Roy Scheider has been in. Why didn't Streep like that movie?

I liked it too. And, for once, her.

Forever Female

The Conqueror

The Little Drummer Girl

Julia Roberts can't be proud of MARY REILLY.

Eddie Murphy, every movie after Trading Places.

John Travolta, Battlefield Earth

Jennifer Aniston, Leprechaun (she has her original schnozz in it)

R1/R31 I don't think SJP is embarrassed of HOCUS POCUS. This past October, she participated in the TV special commemorating its 25th anniversary.

Last month, she discussed it with GQ when they had her talk about her most iconic movie roles.

I think she also feels closer to the film since doing that "Who Do You Think You Are?" show a few years back and discovering that she is a descendant of one of the accused Salem witches.

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Daphne Zuniga took The Dorm That Dripped Blood off her resume. In The Initiation, she's billed as "introducing Daphne Zuniga." Not sure why she did that. They're both little known slasher flicks and it's not like she's awful in either of them. She didn't have anything to be ashamed of. I'm sure she takes The Initiation off of her resume these days, too, even though it's actually rather good. It was Vera Miles, Clu Gulagher, and Hunter Tylo as well. Really fun 80's slasher flick.

R85 does she ever talk about Spaceballs?

I want to say she did interviews for one of the DVD releases.

Christopher Walken-Heaven's Gate

The Tall Story

The past 20 years?

"All Night Long"