"Take me seriously, dammit!" roles that failed

Meghan Markle - Duchess of Sussex

Mariah Carey - Glitter

Elephant - Meghan Markle

Madonna's directorial effort in W.E

Sharon Stone's stab at prison realness.

Zac Efron owns this thread...

Jen Aniston in Cake owns this thread.

R1 wins.

Angelina Jolie directs...

Agree ^ R7.

R1 has the best response: Megs as Duch of Sussex

You know who.

[quote]Angelina Jolie directs...

That's a good one. She kept trying to. By the Sea was her most embarrassing blunder, especially in retrospect knowing what happened to their relationship.

Natalie Portman directed a film in Hebrew as well, and acted in it. I assume that was some type of prestige play, but I know she's very connected with her roots.

Our beloved Cam in Gangs perchance?

And Leo for that matter. Both were out of their element. Day-Lewis was wiping floors.

Don't forget my role in "Evita"!!!!

Lindsay Lohan's last stab at grown-up stardom. She giggles and grins and thinks she's in "Parent Trap 2".

Chris Hemsworth - In the Heart of the Sea

Wasn't In the Heart of the Sea just some generic Ron Howard action/drama? Felt more like an ensemble piece anyway.

What's that film that Chris Evans did with his then girlfriend Jenny Slate where he has a genius daughter? Gifted? That felt like some tepid, mid-00s indie Oscar bait on Evans' part.

Hugh Jackman - Prisoners

"Wasn't In the Heart of the Sea just some generic Ron Howard action/drama? Felt more like an ensemble piece anyway."

It was based on an acclaimed book, so it was being touted as potential Oscar bait.....until it bombed and received terrible reviews

Yeah, but you could tell it wasn't gonna be good from the trailer. Ron Howard hasn't made an essential film in ages.

R15 Highly unpopular opinion but I thought the film was actually gripping and a believable depiction of a very sick individual . Lohan was OK in it. However, it was incredibly depressing and critics and audiences seems to hate it .

How about Lohan, and the entire cast of Bobby?

She looked cute in it tho!

Jerry Lewis, "The Day the Clown Cried"

Vanna White in all her movies.

Madonna in "Evita"

Umm...

R25 see R14

Liz and Dick was supposed to prove that Lohan can act after all......nope!

Anyone see Jack the Bear?. I didn't even know this film existed til a couple months ago when I saw the trailer. It definitely looked like a Robin Williams-style Oscar play by DeVito, which is admirable! I'm glad he shot his shot! Film seems to have fallen into obscurity, but I think it should be revived! Look at the fucking poster!

Like fucking Lorenzo's Oil, hahaha.

Jill Whelan in "Sweet Bird of Youth"

Blake Lively in All I See is You

Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted.

Angelina Jolie stole the movie and Nonnie's Oscar and launched her career.

Blake Lively in The Town, though she was properly trashy in that and I bought it.

R33 I can't imagine how upset Nona must've been that season! That was supposed to be her vehicle. I remember Whoopi's aorta line from the trailer. Remember Whoopi's aorta line from the trailer? That was good... I bet that scene from the trailer pre-won Angie that Oscar. Hell, I remember Britney Murphy getting more buzz from that film than Wino.

LET'S LOOK BACK AT WINO'S CAREER REALLY QUICKLY!

Tons of early praise, no? LAVISHED! Working with the best directors, and two Oscar noms back to back! Then nothing. They said no thanks. Never again. Did they regret it? Did they think they were seduced, and then tricked? Sometimes the Academy can get stingy like that, and withholding. I bet they turned on her. Oh she stole stuff right? Hard to come back from that, but she did and is on a hit show! GO NONA!

James Franco in Queen of the Desert

[quote]How about Lohan, and the entire cast of Bobby?

Your post reminds me of how opinions can be radically different over something. I loved "Bobby" and think Sharon Stone gave an Oscar worthy performance.

Madonna in "Swept Away".

Basically, Madonna in anything other than "Who's That Girl".

[quote]Your post reminds me of how opinions can be radically different over something. I loved "Bobby" and think Sharon Stone gave an Oscar worthy performance.

I haven't even seen Bobby, but I didn't need to to know that was gonna be an Oscar bait flop for all involved.

R38 As well as Madonna in Who’s That Girl

Ben Affleck as George Reeves

[quote]Ben Affleck as George Reeves

That's one of the few roles of his I genuinely love, haha.

Hillary Duff as Sharon Tate

[quote]Hillary Duff as Sharon Tate

Oooohrrrrrrr, nooooooiiiiii!

Justin Timberlake - The Social Network

No he was good!

Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler, from birth pretty much.

I don't know what you're talking about.

[quote]Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler, from birth pretty much.

You gotta get specific, because they've been dramatically successful before. Carrey you gotta go with like... what... Number 23? Remember that bullshit? Sandler had Reign on Me, the 9/11 weepy, which didn't really go anywhere for him.

Justin Timberlake in the flop In Time

Steve Carell: Foxcatcher, Welcome to Marwen

Welcome to Marwen is a great example. That bombed so hard.

Foxcather's a bad example as he's genius in it.

[quote]Justin Timberlake in the flop In Time

And Runner Runner with Affleck. Anyone remember 2013's Runner Runner? Look at these two LOSERS!

R51 Foxcatcher was a technically good and well acted film. But it's one of those movies that once I had seen once, I had no desire to ever watch again. Carrell was very good in Foxcatcher but I think he is a stronger comedic actor than dramatic one for the most part.

I really liked Steve Carell in Foxcatcher. One person's opinion... But I always thought Demi Moore in G.I. Jane was a joke. That movie was stupid as hell but that head-shaving scene was ridiculous.

Alicia Vikander in The Light Between the Oceans

R55 Demi Moore in anything is a joke.

Robert Pattinson - "Water for Elephants"

Zac Efron - "The Paperboy"

I'm tempted to say Pattinson in Lighthouse, as I thought that accent, character, and dialogue were a bit above him, but his physical enthusiasm, willingness to show off that hot bod, and the furious masturbation make it his best performance of all time, so I'm torn. I'll include it though.

Melissa McCarthy in that movie where she played the forger. There was a scene where she comes home to find a dead pet and it unintentionally played like a gross out comedy as she hugged it and cried.

Bill Murray / The Razor's Edge

R60 That failed role got me Oscar nomination numero dos, grazie mille!

Streisand in "Nuts"

Oprah in "Beloved"

Teri Garr in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Susan Hayward in I want to Live - it's a failed performance and of course earned an Academy Award!

Anne Baxter is quite ridiculous as Nefertari in Ten Commandments. But one does enjoy it for the camp.

Jane March's performance in The Color Of Night! She really did think she was in Oscar territory but I have to say, it's one of the funniest films ever!

Farah Fawcett in every damn role after Angels.

Diana Ross was good enough in Lady Sings the Blues. She remained likable, yet campily so, in Mahogany, but it was failed, and never improved.

Rita Hayworth in The Story on Page One. Totally miscast as a slovenly housewife.

R30 You know Rosie thought that would be her personal Forrest Gump and she would win an Oscar. But she ignored this sage advice from RDJ.

r68, that whole movie was hilarious. I'm surprised it doesn't have more of a gay camp following.

R68 I totally agree. I remember watching it on TV about 20 years ago and not knowing anything about it. I thought it was the most hilarious things I had seen. I assumed it was like some kind of Naked Gun or Hot Shots style spoof of Sex Thrillers like Basic Instinct. It was only when I told my friend about this brilliant comedy I had watched he said "That's not a comedy its a drama".

I just remember really laughing when she was sat dressed as a boy at the self help group, as it was so random she had now chosen to start wearing men's clothes. I also remember thinking Lesley Ann Warren was doing a particularly campy piece, similar to the part she later played in Will and Grace.

Dick Van Dyke in The Runner Stumbles playing a small-town priest on trial for killing a nun he had secretly loved.

Blake Lively is actually a good actress.

Goldie Hawn in Deceived.

[Quote] Blake Lively is actually a good actress.

Melanie Griffith as an American spy in the WW2 comedy-drama, "Shining Through"

Melanie Griffith going undercover as a Hasidic Jew in the comedy-drama, "A Stranger Among Us"