Movies Ruined By A Single Person

Tom Cruise, Interview With the Vampire

Waiting for the inevitable unfunny and tired M and G jokes...

What R1??

Chappie was ruined by Die Antwoord playing themselves in it. They could've played minor characters but they were so flat as the main characters. That new Netflix film, Night Teeth, was fucking destroyed by Debbie Ryan and whoever the blonde actress was who the other lead. Don Jon is a good film but Joseph Gordon Levitt wasn't right for the part, he reads as way too earnest to play that character. Til Death starring Megan Fox on Netflix was also brought down enormously by casting her as the main character. Someone else like Jane Levy would've made that movie great.

I thought Knives Out was going to be a fun all-star murder mystery and was very disappointed to find that it’s practically an Ana de Armas one-woman show.

[quote]Waiting for the inevitable unfunny and tired M and G jokes...

Okay, I’ll bite!

Glenn Close, Sunset Boulevard

Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Winona Ryder is not good either, but Keanu just... ugh. Turd in the punchbowl.

R7, SO TRUE. They're both total shit in that movie. I dislike Winona more than Keanu in that movie. At least Keanu's character can be somewhat complimented by his clueless demeanor. You could practically see Winona making her "acting" choices in her head before she did them.

The sudden appearance of Stephen Fry in Gosford Park, turning it into an episode of Jeeves & Wooster.

[quote]Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Winona Ryder is not good either, but Keanu just... ugh. Turd in the punchbowl.

Bad performances aside, the entire fucking movie was a turd in the colossal punch bowl of moviedom. One single actor did not ruin that movie. It was a total disaster.

Russell Crowe in Les Miserables.

Winona is always the weakest link in a movie where she's playing the lead. Best thing she ever did was the bit part as Spock's mom in Star Trek. I think she had three words in the whole movie.

I’ll try and think of one!

Alec Baldwin in Rust

The obvious choice is Dear Evan Hansen.

knives out was a predictable whodunnnit, disappointing so. Jamie Lee Curtis was my favorite part of it, a rich bitch with multiple an acid tongue.

Beanie Feldstein, Funny Girl revival

Don't say me!

TV edition: Hugh Laurie in House. But it was partly the writing.

Michelle Williams in Venom

Lin Manuel Miranda mangling a cockney accent in Mary Poppins Returns. "Ank yooo guv-NAH!!"

R19, agree. Even he has stated that he hated hearing himself as he didn't think his American accent was believable.

The black hole that was John Travolta’s performance in Hairspray

Catinca Untaru in Tarsem Singh's "The Fall"

Is my performance wooden? I hadn’t noticed

Being the Ricardos - Nicole Kidman

[quote]Is my performance wooden? I hadn’t noticed

And your voice is grating.

R26 = Debra Messing

R20, that entire movie never stood a chance though. Everyone in both of the films is miscast and misdirected, IMO. But yeah, Michelle is the worst part of them. Those movies stink.

Anne Hathaway in the Dark Knight Rises. Who thought she'd make a good Catwoman? They could have cut all of her scenes and made a shorter and better film.

Lucille Ball - “Mame”

I can’t think of any.

Would say John Travolta’s brief appearance ruined Malick’s THE THIN RED LINE, but it is too sublime a picture for him to manage to destroy. And, as his character only appears in two very short scenes, he thankfully didn’t really get a chance to leave more than a tiny stain.

Travolta does take one entirely out of the frame during his couple of moments, though, and isn’t in the least believable as a hardened U.S. veteran (that high soft voice?). I cringe whenever I watch TTRL over and I know his scene is coming up.

Crying shame moreso that his pointless non-performance meant that several scenes by genuinely great actors who shot for the movie were cut altogether for time. Travolta’s character, Brigadier General Quintard, doesn’t even have an impactful or important role in the original book let alone the film, so could more easily have been cut than most others.

The same albeit to a lesser extent goes for George Clooney’s minuscule and forgettable role as Captain Bosche. THE THIN RED LINE had such an embarrassment of riches when it came to acting, that it beggars belief how these two performances ended up in the final cut.

On a more positive note, wonderful memorable performances in this film came from Nick Stahl, Dash Mihok, Elias Koteas, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Don Harvey, Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke (who is not in the final cut, unjustly, but gives a tour de force in the deleted scenes). Even if you hate movies that are slow-moving and meditative, it’s worth sitting through three hours of gratuitous voiceovers and long still shots just to see these men working at their subtlest and finest.

^^^good docu about the actors’ torturous but ultimately rewarding experience of shooting for THE THIN RED LINE:

An old one, but Annette Bening in "The Grifters." Her voice is awful, IMO.

R35 She ruined another obscure one- "In Dreams." With a less hammy and grating actress it could have been a good drama. She camped it up.

Betty Hutton in every movie she made. That includes The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.

Katharine Hepburn in half the movies she made. However, even though she was miscast, her Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer was perfect screen acting. The artful way she manipulated her silk stole in her first scene was masterful. For that, I can forgive her a lot.

^ I think you're confusing movies that were ruined by a person with actresses you don't like.

Winona Ryder as a cigarette-smoking, gum-chewing, backward-baseball cap / aviator glasses wearing -- cab driver in Jim Jarmush's "Night on Earth." Gena Rowlands in the scene.

The nerd directors cannot resist Winona Ryder, Natalie Portman, and now Kristen Stewart. Those are the nerd dream girls. All can't act.

R29 I love Venom, but Eddie's annoying ex-girlfriend really doesn't need to be a recurring character at all. It was poignant in the first film for a couple of scenes, and Eddie is supposed to be a loser, but there are other ways to show that too.

Here she is, almost literally chewing up the scenery, blowing bubbles with her gum.

Help I fallen and I can’t get up.

Well what the fuck do you want me to do about it?!

R5 I HATED Knives Out. Rian Johnson needs to stay away from making female lead films, I find them to be so sexist. The woman has to be an absolute Angel everyone loves and wants to rescue. Both the Last Jedi and Knives Out suffered from this and both those leads ruined those movies.

I wanted to watch "Charlie Wilson's War" but I had to turn it off because Tom Hanks' accent was so terrible. I really hate bloated pig Leonardo DiCaprio, and he ruins every move he's in for me.

Agree that Knives Out was extremely disappointing. Such a great cast wasted

Knives Out would have been better if Daniel Craig hadn't done an accent. I didn't get the point.

Carey Mulligan was kind of a weak spot in "Drive" (Ryan Gosling). She was supposed to be a single mom, IIRC, father of her child was a gangster in prison.

[quote] Catinca Untaru in Tarsem Singh's "The Fall"

Oh god I couldn’t agree more!

TV movie but, Molly Ringwald in The Stand miniseries

The movie wasn’t ruined, but I remember Ashley Judd taking an on-screen dump every time she appeared in Frida.

Ashley Judd was also horrible in the Double Jeopardy movie.

Tom Cruise... in most of his films. He has that eager beaver, "theater kid" type energy I find insufferable. Turn around bright eyes, walk away... off the set and into your spaceship. Xenu will be with you shortly.

[quote] Xenu will be with you, shorty.

FIFY

Kate Hudson in anything she’s in

It’s not “Fify” silly r53, it’s “Fifi.”

Rami Malek ruined Bohemian Rhapsody.

Olivia de Havilland in GWTW. Her choice to do Melanie as a whispery, wide-eyed retard grates on me every time.

Can they CGI her out and replace her with Margaret Sullivan or Frances Farmer?

The queen of this thread should be Sofia Coppola single handedly destroying Godfather III.

Her acting was so wooden, every time she appeared on screen, it would take you out of the movie.

Any movie that casts Madonna.

Jane Fonda wasn't right for "The China Syndrome". Even the name 'Kimberly Wells' sounds like a spunky, yappy Holly Hunter-type. And that red hair...

I second that John Travolta in Hairspray was just weird. He made the character have no point in that movie

Anne Hathaway ruined The Princess Diaries, and Love & Other Drugs was ruined by Anne Hathaway. She ruins everything. See also: The Witches, Ocean's 8, Les Misérables etc.

I forgot to mention that Anne Hathaway also ruined The Hustle and One Day.

I don't consider The Devil Wears Prada to be ruined by Anne Hathaway, because it's got Emily Blunt in it, and she and Stanley Tucci save the day.

[quote] The queen of this thread should be Sofia Coppola single handedly destroying Godfather III.

How dare you?

She didn’t ruin it but Jennifer Jason Leigh’s scenes in Dolores Claiborne are terrible. It’s like she’s in a different movie than the other actors. I usually like her; not sure what she was going for with that performance.

When Lawrence Fishburne shows up halfway through PREDATORS. My friend who saw the film with was like "WTF Morpheus"

I enjoyed Adrien Brody's skinny mud covered body anyway.

Patrick from the non-musical version of Mame.

Agree that JJL was the weak spot in D. Claiborne. We had a DL thread discussing that movie. In retrospect, David Strathairn (murdered husband of Dolores) was kind of weak and one-note as well.

Jared Leto in everything. Self conscious, self absorbed, exhausting. Every time I see him I want to smash his stupid face.

Tommy Wiseau, The Room

Denise Richards, The World Is Not Enough

Kevin Costner, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Jar Jar Binks, The Phantom Menace

Mark Wahlberg, The Happening

I had to Google him, but Stephen Lack in Cronenberg's Scanners is one of the legendary dog shit performances:

I wouldn't say he ruined the movie but Lennie James completely fucked up the pacing of Blade Runner 2049 with his hammy and throughly uninteresting "king of the junkyard" scene. He's a third-rate TV actor and he had no business starring in a science fiction epic. The movie would have been so much tighter and better if he was cut from it.

Jack Nicholson in "The Departed." Not "ruined," but he was so obviously "acting." Ugh!

Anything with Olivia Colman and her dog face.

Joan Crawford in “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.” I hated her performance.

"Jar Jar Binks, The Phantom Menace"

We'd have a winner... if Jar-Jar were a person and not a compendium of pixels and several actors.

Actually, Joan Crawford was not necessary in "Baby Jane." Olivia de Havilland could have done that role. The necessary elements were Bette Davis and Victor Buono (hired piano player).

Chloë Sevigny in Love & Friendship (2016). Totally miscast in a Jane Austen film; she could barely recite her dialog in a monotone voice. Like she’d had a shot of Novocain and had trouble enunciating. Kate Beckinsale was adequate. The director was incompetent. The only bright spot was an actor I’d never heard of before, Tom Bennett who played a fool and he was absolutely amazing.

Bruce Willis in any movie he’s made.

Minnie Driver in An Ideal Husband. She was jarringly modern and out of sync with the rest of the cast.

Carey Mulligan, Shame. Her rendition of "New York, New York" is supposed to be a pivotal, heartbreaking scene but it's just awkward because her rendition is so bad.

Jared Leto in everything he does.

R82. Sevigny was also pretty bad in The Brown Bunny. Worst blow job ever captured on film.

Bruce Willis in Bonfire of the Vanities.

Wow, never realized Bruce Willis messed up so many movies.

What annoying frau posted that bullshit about Knives Out being “sexist.” Holy fuck, lmao.

Carey Mulligan ruins every movie. She’s so fucking plain and annoying and has zero presence. Everyone praised that retarded Pretty Young Woman movie or whatever it was called because they think they’re supposed to or else they’re gonna look like they support raping women.

Yes, Bruce Willis is generally awful. Yet he was very effective in Death Becomes Her.

[quote] Tom Cruise... in most of his films. He has that eager beaver, "theater kid" type energy I find insufferable.

I don't know WHAT you're talking about!

Despite his handsomeness, Billy Ray Cyrus's lack of energy ruins the scene he's in in "Mulholland Drive" and nearly throws the entire movie out of whack.

Do you really need a list?

R94, totally disagree. He is perfect in that tiny role. It made me laugh.

I have seen numerous movies ruined by a single person. . . the director.

The single worst performance committed to film was Lyle Lovett in Short Cuts

Madonna in Evita. Come to think of it, Madonna in every movie she’s ever made.

"Minnie Driver in An Ideal Husband. "

To be fair, she was given the impossible task of making a gay smartass falling in love with a woman seem convincing.

Yes, R99, Madonna in "Evita" is a textbook example of a movie ruined by a single person!

The movie has amazing music and actually looks great, the "chamber" stage production is opened up and the audience is given a sweeping look through mid-century Argentina. But Madonna sabotages everything, her lack of charisma and feeling drains the life out of the whole movie. I'll never forgive her for ruining what might have been a classic dramatic movie musical.

R100. That’s a very good point.

Jonathan Nolan ruins movies with his terrible writing. His brother helps him with terrible editing and terrible sound mixing.

R82, I almost agree with you - despite the fact that I like Chloë - save for one scene near the end where she flashes Bennett's character a warning look that he totally misses. It's actually the best part of the film in some way.

The actress who plays Mozart's wife in Amadeus.

Every movie Madonna was in, except Desperately Seeking Susan.

I love "Another Country" with Rupert Everett, but the American lady in the beginning says one word, "precisely", in the most nasal American accent I've ever heard and makes me cringe every time I watch it. Yes, she practically ruins the whole movie with one word.

Elvis in just about all of his movies.

Jack Lemmon in Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet.

Emma Watson in two movies that should've been easy for an actress. Sucked as a live action Belle (Zzzzz), sucked in Little Women. She's pretty much the prettier, English version of Kristen Stewart. Somehow lands movie leads even though she brings nothing to them.

R80 sorry, no, must disagree with you there.

STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE, and indeed all three of the SW prequels, have manifold flaws and inconsistencies, as well as dreadful storytelling and ugly characteristic. Cutting Jar-Jar from the film would not address the biggest fundamental issues; only the most glaring and annoying one. Even without Gungans, simply a poor film (though, admittedly not without a handful of surprising little charms).

FWIW (and YMMV), I think the third prequel REVENGE OF THE SITH is even worse, for the way its endless length and hyper pace and needlessly-convoluted twists combine with far too much eye-torturing CGI, making it physically unwatchable. At least TPM has a gentler pace with fewer fights (with the one major fight, Duel of the Fates, being actually very consequential and excellently-done), long shots of stunning new worlds, adorable twinky Ewan Macgregor, and Amidala’s draggy Naboo regalia to enjoy.

Brandon deWilde in "Shane"

Anne Baxter almost ruins "All About Eve" with her lousy performance.

Why didn't Mankiewicz get Gene Tierney, Susan Hayward, or his former girlfriend Judy Garland all of whom would have been excellent!

Why not Claudette Colbert?

She didn't ruin the movie,but Gwen Deacon as Mrs. Lefferts in [italic]L.A. Confidential[/italic]. Amateur-hour hack. I've watched this a few times and cringe whenever I see her.

Rosanne Barr in She Devil.

r115 Im curious what your background is, professionally speaking.

Lawyer, retired, r117

Peter Sellers in Lolita. The movie is not great to begin with (bad script adapted from a very literary and uncinematic novel, weird location shooting in England) but Sellers makes it totally unwatchable. I don’t understand Kubrick’s infatuation with him.

R119 Many directors seem to develop inexplicable infatuations. See Scorsese and DiCaprio or Burton and Depp.

Oskar Werner in "Fahrenheit 451." He's cute, but his Austrian accent is almost impenetrable.

Ms. Coppola in “The Godfather III.”

Lucille Ball and "Mame."

Halle Berry in "X-Men." The awfulness of her delivery for her joke line "Do you know what happens to toads that get struck by llghtning?,,, Same as anything else!" is legendary.

Lolita is, to me, nearly the perfect movie, ruined by Sellers' unnecessary turn as the fake psychologist. Kubrick made a huge mistake with that.

Sofia Coppola is an interesting case because I think she's a very good director but damn that performance in Godfather 3 is tragic

Most of these are just bad performances. For a movie to be "ruined" everything else has to be great which isn't the case in most of these examples.

Marthe Keller in Fedora, which could have been a good movie with the right leads.

Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married.

Forgive me if it's already been mentioned, but does anybody remember Brad Pitt in 12 Years a Slave? He was the only nice white guy who practically steps out of nowhere to save Chiwetel Ejiofor. He looked nothing like the real-life character he was cast to play. He looked exactly like --- BRAD PITT!

It totally took you out of the movie!

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog

PC Principal on South Park

Fortunately the role was too small to allow her to destroy the movie, but Diane Keaton certainly sucked in Godfather II. It was outstanding because the others were all so good.

Sofia is no more tragic than the scene gulping Talia Shire.

Chloe Sevigny ruins most of all she does unless the director knows how to use her and zeroes in on her ethereal strangeness.

Bonfire of the Vanities.

Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis trying like their lives depended on it to wreck a film already so wrecked that their efforts went all but unnoticed.

Queen of the Desert - the second James Franco steps on screen it goes from mediocre to embarrassing. He's playing an Edwardian era English gent and he is just as miscast as you think he would be based on that description

[quote] Anne Baxter almost ruins "All About Eve" with her lousy performance.

THANK YOU. I actually think the movie woudl have been much more believable if Marilyn Monroe played Eve. You can imagine why people would fall for her and her looks over Bette Davis. But Anne Baxter?! No.

I think both Ryder and Pfieffer were badly miscast in The Age of Innocence. I"ve never read the book but I felt they were both mediocre.

Terri Hatcher in the Bond movie she was in

I cannot stand Carey Mulligan, she's never been above average in every film she's been in. What was up with all the praise (on this site too, I assume by fraus who invaded the Oscar threads) for her in the piece of shit film that was Promising Young Woman?

I truly do wonder who her family paid or whose cock she sucked to get cast in all these prestige films. She's wan in every single role, and yes, not charismatic or sexy enough to make up for the snoozefest acting. And I'm somebody who loves naturalistic actresses - Ellen Burstyn is a naturalistic actress. Carey Mulligan is wet paint drying on a wall.

She's tolerable in An Education and Inside Llewyn Davis, I guess. But she was woefully miscast and below average in Shame, Drive, The Great Gatsby....I really want to know who else was up for Daisy. Even if Mia Farrow was horrible in the 1974 movie, I think she fit the character far more than Carey fucking Mulligan.

R117 Roseanne was great in she devil, it was a campy film ALL the actors gave campy proformances.

DENISE RICHARDS as a nuclear scientist in The World is Not Enough. Talk about Unbelievable.

R74 - I thought Mark Walberg's performance was Shakespearian compared to the spectacularly awful performance by his co-star Zooey Deschanel.

Bonnie Franklin as Lady Macbeth took me right out of the story. So miscast!

So true r144. Deschanel is a horrible actress. I'm sick of her bug-eyed ingenue look. Almost as bad as Meg Ryan's smirk.

R141 Shut UP. She’s good. PYW she’s superb.

Leo diCaprio in... Name any film that doesn't have Gilbert Grape in the title.

Here, for example, for four times Scorsese shows just how much he doesn't give a damn any more:

The Wolf of Wall Street

Gangs of New York

The Aviator

Shutter Island

Kudos to Andy Garcia for giving such a good performance in "Godfather III" when he's acting opposite Sofia Coppola, who is giving him either nothing or bad line readings.

But yes, she did turn out to be a talented director.

Elle Fanning as a super-duper model in The Neon Demon.

Scorcese must have a crush on Leo.

Speaking of Gangs of NY. Cameron Diaz, the only female character, horrible.

Agree about Cam Diaz in Gangs of New York. Period drama isn't her wheelhouse

Re Anne Baxter in All About Eve. Joe Mankiewicz really liked her and wanted her to play the fourth wife when it was A Letter to Four Wives, before Zanuck said to lose one wife. Mankiewicz said he felt Baxter deserved her Oscar nomination because she had a much harder part to play than Bette Davis.

People get mad when I say this, but I also thought Celeste Holm was awful in All About Eve. So bland. Agree that Anne Baxter was also bland.

Eve is a difficult role, but I think one problem is that Thelma RItter is so believable in everything she does and says, that when she makes a quip about Eve's story having "everything but a pack of bloodhounds snapping at her rear end", I tend to believe her.

Agree about that Elle Fanning casting. A model? Strange to even think.. She’s white bread homely.

Anne Baxter's role in "All About Eve" should have been played by someone like Judy Canova or Marjorie Main or even Joan Crawford. Those would be my picks.

I always found Anne Baxter underwhelming for such an acclaimed actress.

Armie Hammer in Call Me By Your Name

The hideous Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Shit. OMG. After the great, earthy, pitch perfect Karen Allen in Raiders, a real character with great range, to the shrill, absurd trainwreck of Capshaw, who screeched every line and mugged furiously in every scene. Do they still do public executions?

R161, I'm assuming you know, but just in case, Kate Capshaw is married to Steven Spielberg.

Yes, I know.

Olivia Colman ruins everything she’s in. I’d like to kick her hideous face off the moon.

Anne Rice just died, who was she again? Didn't she write Interview w the Vampire?

The person who most ruined Bonfire of the Vanities was Brian de Palma.

^ I didn't know this was "Threads Ruined by a Single Poster Posting About Something Totally Unrelated to This Thread" thread.

R167 Take a break form your cunting, bitch. We should all stab you 6 trillion times.

^ meant for the Anne Rice comment.

Daryl Hannah in "Steel Magnolias," obviously.

Kim Stanley in Frances. Yes, she was nominated but she was totally wrong to play the mother of Frances Farmer. They should have gone with Celeste Holm who auditioned and would have been perfect.

R170 she made up for in SPEEDWAY JUNKY, imo

She's actually good in most of it, but the way George Cukor allowed Norma Shearer to call out and run arms stretched to her husband in the last scene just kind of betrays a lot of what has gone on throughout the film in almost a comic manner in "The Women".

Katie Holmes in that Batman movie

R174 Her vibes were so bizarre and discordant. Just a completely incongruous performance, particularly with that weird baby voice of hers.

Another vote for Annette Bening in "In Dreams". It was on the free channel the other day. Could have been a fun thriller with RDJ, but no. She screeched and carried on the whole time like a modern day Karen. My friends were laughing at how bad she was. Ruined the movie.

Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing

Meg Ryan in In The Cut.

Ann Baxter was awful in The Razor's Edge with Tyrone Power, Clifton Webb, and Herbert Marshall. Way, way out of her depth.

Bess Armstrong in anything starting Bess Armstrong

Cameron Diaz catches a lot of shit for Gangs of New York but I believe Leo was every bit as shitty, maybe worse since more of the story is riding on him. People always gang up on the woman.

Leo wasn't fantastic but he was better than Diaz

R174 Katie is pretty and a good actor. She was a million times better in the role than super fug Maggot Gyllenhaal.

in the cut, complete and total shit

Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings & A Funeral. The movie is fluff but her acting is iron wool.

The Fox News Musical. Mandy Patinkin IS Lou Dobbs

R164 Is G.

Dawson's fifty load weekend.

But I'm not saying by who. HE KNOWS!

R175 Had Katie just started communicating with Xenu around this time?! The bitch never had anything but fresh face wholesome and then she didn’t have that…

R183 The fuck you say?

R179, And the winner was . . .

Home Alone 2 and that cameo by Donald J Cunt…I mean, Trump.

John Wayne in "The Conqueror"

R192 In all the ensuing years of mass psychosis since his election, that's the first clever nickname for him I've heard. Take a W.

The Conqueror would have sucked no matter what

Madonna as Eva Peron. Everyone else is fine in the movie but her.

R189 FWIW a younger Katie was excellent (or at least, well-cast) in GO!, and also in DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR.

Not that she’s a high-calibre actress, but given a very tight and punchy script she can somewhat rise to the material. I also think that she is limited in her type—not adept with difficult dramatic parts, but she plays everyday, mischievous, slacker type women well.

Cody Horn really stunk up Magic Mike.

I agree that Ryder and Pfeiffer were terribly miscast in Age of Innocence. May was supposed to resemble a classically beautiful statue. Ellen was supposed to be a dark, mysterious beauty. The parts should have been played by Uma Thurman and Juliette Binoche (or her doppelganger Julia Ormond).

Uma "Man Hands" Thurman would not have been considered attractive in the 19th century

Sure she would have. That's why she was cast as Venus in Baron Munchausen: She looked like a Botticelli goddess as a young woman.

Also, May is supposed to be tall and athletic. Newland marries her not just because she's attractive but because she's a nice girl from a good family. She's not supposed to be the sexy one: Ellen is.

She's 6 feet tall, she would have been considered a freak. And she's not a better actor than Ryder

Jack Nicholson in Batman (1989). He is so utterly ridiculous and not scary as this villain. Danny DeVito was a much scarier villain as the Penguin in Batman Returns (1992). 4 out of 5 of the principals (Clooney, O'Donnell, Schwarzenegger, and Silverstone) ruined Batman and Robin (1997). Horrible, horrible film. Terrible directing from Schumacher. Only Uma is delicious as Poison Ivy. The rest of them sucked.

James Holmes totally ruined The Dark Knight Rises.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula

sorry if already posted.

Him in almost everything

Reeves also nearly ruined As You Like It. He reminded me of that line from Bullets Over Broadway: He was so bad he threw off scenes he wasn't even in.

Sorry--I meant Much Ado About Nothing.

"Sophie's Choice" was ruined by Kevin Kline, who ruins everything he's in.

Look, you're welcome to dislike Thurman, R201: I agree she's no great thespian. But to argue she wouldn't work as an old-fashioned beauty when a significant portion of her career has been spent in period pieces is absurd: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Robin Hood, Dangerous Liaisons, The Golden Bowl, Les Miserables, etc.

Kline's a walking, talking clownsuit, r207. What was he even doing in Sophie's Choice?

Daniel Day Lewis was also miscast in the Age of Innocence. Newland Archer is supposed to be young, callow, and very American. He think he's sophisticated because he had a brief affair with a married woman, but he's not. Lewis reads as older, sophisticated, and European. They needed a Matt Damon type.

R18 You're wining about Rooney but you've forgotten about this

R208, she was miscast in all of those, too

[quote] "Kim Stanley in Frances. Yes, she was nominated but she was totally wrong to play the mother of Frances Farmer."

This reminds me of Kate Nelligan in "The Prince Of Tides". The entire movie is one large bowel movement, but she's the worst. She's worse than Nolte & Streisand. AND she was nominated. Thankfully, she didn't win.

And I don't know, R209. I'd tell you to ask Pakula, but he's dead.

R203 I rather liked him on the Brit tv series "Miranda"!

Yes, I know..

He doesn't quite ruin it, but John Malkovich's accent and contemporary mannerisms do stick out in "Dangerous Liaisons".

Chris Hemsworth, In the Heart of the Sea

Oddly, Reeves doesn't ruin Dangerous Liaisons, perhaps because he has so few lines.

The film doesn't need to be remade, but Benedict Cumberbatch would make a very good Valmont.

There's already another version of it called "Valmont" starring Colin Firth that was greatly overshadowed at the time. I think it was directed by Milos Forman, too. I've never seen it -- it is any good?

Kristen Stewart in / as "Snow White." Charlize Theron played the Wicked Witch and was supposed to be jealous of KS.

Christina Ricci in "Monster." I get that she was supposed to be a beta female to Aileen Wuornos' (Charlize Theron) character, but Ricci was a wet blanket.

R215 - yes Malkovich for another reason. He's not believable as a great womaniser. After making The Sheltering Sky where they had a sex scene, Debra Winger described him as nothing more than a catwalk model.

Debra Winger = Bitch.

More than Judy Davis.

[quote] " I get that she was supposed to be a beta female to Aileen Wuornos' (Charlize Theron) character, but Ricci was a wet blanket.

R219 ‘wet blanket’ is a very good description of the character as-written, though. She was meant to be a shifty, vacillating, passive-aggressive and whiny little drip of an accomplice. Christina did well.

Also, anyone seems wet standing next to a stone-butch Glamazon like Charlize. Most white South African woman are so tough they can punch out rhinos.

Ages ago, I remember seeing this interview with Charlize and hardened drug addict Nick Stahl, and thinking that Charlize looked like she could and would crush poor Nick like a beercan if he put a toe wrong or said anything she didn’t like.

Please don’t ask me to answer this question.

Michelle Ryan, in CASHBACK.

Hard to shit up an already shitacular film, especially when you have only several minutes of screentime total in which so to do. Yet, manage it she does.

Well, Charlize's mother did kill her (Charlize's) father. Mrs. Patsy Ramsey of Boulder, CO, could have learned a thing or two from the Theron family.

Point is: Charlize's mother had some balls that she probably passed on to Charlize.

[quote]He looked nothing like the real-life character he was cast to play.

What did Samuel Bass look like in real life, R130. Also, what was Lincoln like in high school.

My contribution is Robert Redford in Out Of Africa. Horribly miscast in a movie that could have been a classic.

Madonna in everything. She's a movie killer.

R222 True. Explains why her mama killed her papa in cold blood.

R227, I thought that Redford was good for that role (Out of Africa), i.e., someone distant and unobtainable for the Meryl character. Redford always seems too cool for school, so, IMO, that role was perfect for him. In general, I think he's wooden, though.

Redford was amusing in Legal Eagles; he played well enough off Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

That's about all I have.

[quote] He doesn't quite ruin it, but John Malkovich's accent and contemporary mannerisms do stick out in "Dangerous Liaisons".

Pauline Kael mentioned in her review that she found Malkovich's mannerisms very effeminate (read: gay) playing Valmont. Thankfully Close was so masterful in the film it's easy to ignore the miscasting of Malkovich.

Ricci has never recovered after giving that performance in Monster.

[QUOTE] Anne Hathaway in the Dark Knight Rises.

It’s AnnE, people

Say that the Christina Ricci character in Monster had been a wet blanket in real life. IMO, the movie makers should have taken some artistic license with the character. You can't even figure out why the Wuornos character would like her.

I read the book by Sister Prejean (Dead Man Walking). The Sean Penn character is actually a composite character and the movie works and conveys the same message.

I wonder why Ricci didn't do well, afterwards? Branded a lesbian? Bad acting?

Ricci is a tiny lil dwarf. She's a good actor but so was Ellen Page (also a tiny dwarf) and her career never went anywhere.

A lot of female actresses are petite, that's hardly a career killer

Ricci and Ellen would have been perfect for the Hobbit movies. Other than that, no one wants to see a dwarf as the lead. Look at Madonna, also a dwarf.

Bette Davis was 5'2", Judy Garland was 4'11", Liz Taylor was maybe 5'2", Lana Turner wasn't any taller than 5'3", Natalie Wood was 5'2", Salma Hayek is 5'2", Natalie Portman is 5'3"

Another vote for Cumberbatch in Power of the Dog. I just watched it this weekend and he kept taking me out of the movie. Not remotely convincing in the role at all.

I love Rachel McAdams but I hope she never attempts a German accent again. I barely got through A Most Wanted Man because of her.

Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie in the remake. Who thought that was a good idea?

Demi Moore in everything.

Faye Dunaway in Mommie D

R239 That's your proof, cuntbrain. Maybe those girls were actually attractive. Ricci has a freaky looking weird shaped head and Ellen could never be a leading "woman" with her boyish demeanor. In Juno the romantic relationship with the boy was never believable.

R242, go fuck yourself, cuntbrain. You didn't say anything about attractiveness, you just bitched about their height. They're also women and not "girls"

R243 Well cuntbrain, clearly there are other factors at play than just height when it comes to actors being failures. Your tiny putrid brain is too stupid to figure that out.

I love when these catfights break out on DL.

R245 Shut up, cuntbrain.

It makes it extra nice and cosy.

Ryan O'Neal in Barry Lyndon. His now- you- hear- it- now -you -don't Irish brogue was painful. And he looked entirely too modern in a cast that was otherwise impeccable. I cannot imagine what Kubrick was thinking.

Well this really fun thread seems to be going off the rails.

The last really awful performance that ruined a movie for me was R. Crowe in Les Mis.

Sooooo awful. AnnE was actually quite good. I Dreamed a Dream is a hard song to sing and frankly she nailed it.

Hugh Jackman's singing was pretty bad too -- he really is straining.

Anne Hathaway in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

Ugh.

The only time I ever like her was in Rachel Getting Married.

Anne was hardly the main attraction for BM. Who cares, she was a glorified extra.

I disagree that Keanu ruined " Much Ado About Nothing"! That was one of those films that felt like a party where the actors were all just having a good time together, so good a time that they let their untalented friend come along. His presence in the movie seemed almost sweet! And the party feeling didn't make the movie annoying, the way some of the Rat Pack or Clooney "Ocean" movies do, "MAAN" felt like the audience was invited to the party as well.

I also think he squeaked by in "Dangerous Liaisions", because he was a very believable object of desire that didn't talk much. He's no actor, but he's a likable and photogenic screen presence, he works in some roles without having to act.

Keanu doesn't bother me in Dangerous Liaisons because he was the right age and look for his character Danceny, unlike the leads who were both too old. In the novel Valmont and the Marquise are still relatively young, which makes their moral corruption even more scandalous.

[Quote] Roseanne was great in she devil,

I don't think the word great means what you think it does.

John Malkovich and Kevin Kline are both insufferable hams who give big Broadway stage performances because people always eat that shit up. They swoon as if it's "real talent" when their style is just a couple notches above "Clown at Children's Party", imo.

The Big Chill was a schlockfest, in retrospect. I've never thought of Kevin Kline as a particularly bad actor, but I guess he was probably one of the worst things about The Big Chill.

R256 Agreed. I have always loathed Kevin Kline. He has absolutely no acting ability.

R112, it was munchkin Alan Ladd who ruined 'Shane'.

The casting of two fading A-list dragon ladies of Hollywood, Davis and Crawford, is what makes Baby Jane so good.

Davis wasn’t fading, her career persisted until the 90s. It was poor Joan, arguably one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood ever created, that was suffering for work and roles. She publicly claimed that her career with Pepsi brought her a lot of satisfaction, and it certainly kept her busy, but she craved her lost stardom. Pepsi was tired of her and she was a great expense, flying First Class everywhere doing Pepsi promotions when in fact she was old with clown-like makeup and probably not a great face for their product.

Millie Perkins in the titular role in [italic]The Diary of Anne Frank[/italic]! She was so wooden and mousy. But mostly wooden. What were George Stevens and the movie studio thinking?

R261 Davis died in 1989.

Tom Hanks in Castaway.

Davis was coming off the worst decade of her life, and her career was definitely in decline.

Bette Davis should have just stopped but I think she needed money.

The Whales of August was just plain depressing.

Wicked Step Mother, where Davis pulled out, turned into a cat and then became Barbara Carrera is a train derailment and a really sad way to finish her career.

A lot of big stars had horrible final decades R266:

Dana Andrews & Jeanne Crain in 'Hot Rods to Hell', etc. Gene Kelly in 'Viva Kneivel' and 'Xanadu' Rita Hayworth from 1959 onward Jennifer Jones in 'Angel, Angel Down We Go' Ray Milland...The Man with X-Ray Eyes, and 'The Thing with Two Heads'

etc., etc..

But perhaps that's for a separate thread.

Davis needed to be seen as the strong, pioneering woman that she never REALLY was. Well, maybe not 'never', but her so-called strength was fueled by nicotine 24/7. Even after her cancer and strokes she STILL REFUSED TO QUIT. That's not a strong woman, that's an addict.

R267 Yes, and that was entirely her business and no concern of yours.

What a ridiculous reply R268. Especially on the DL...

R269 All you cunts who think you have the right to tell others how to live their lives, dead celebrities especially, are the most delusional cunts around. No one gives a fuck what you cunts think.

Character actor and raging queen Max Showalter ruined EVERY movie he was in with his irritating CACKLE. He didn't laugh, he didn't chuckle. He CACKLED.

Showalter certainly would've completely ruined 'Leave it to Beaver'. He was cast in the pilot, but no doubt everyone became violently ill when it was viewed by the higher-ups, and he was replaced with the reliable Hugh Beaumont.

Chazile Theron in Monster

R135 Sevigny was good in 'Boys Don't Cry', though.

[quote]It was poor Joan, arguably one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood ever created, that was suffering for work and roles.

It must be Opposites Day where you live.

Joan worked steadily throughout the 50s, always as the big star while after 1952's "The Star" poor Bette was the one who went begging, she hardly did another film that decade.

R275, good point. But by the early sixties, they were both high and dry. Joan higher than Davis, thanks to those refreshing Pepsi's.

R9 agree complete about Stephen Fry in Gosford Park. I recently watched it again, and the film is otherwise sublime. When his character is introduced, it’s so incongruously jarring. His acting is a pastiche for a completely different genre of production. Wasn’t he being directed? It bothers me whenever I think about the film, but he sort of has ‘national treasure’ status here in the UK and was left off lightly by the critics. Turd in a punch bowl.

[quote]"Sophie's Choice" was ruined by Kevin Kline, who ruins everything he's in.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this but I saw A Fish Called Wanda before Sophie's Choice, and I was shocked to find out Kline's performance was exactly the same in both.

Sophie's Choice was surprisingly flippant, both Kline and MacNicol seemed to think it was a dramady.

Absolutely agree about Fry in Gosford Park, he comes waltzing in like it's a new series of Blackadder set in a manor house and it's completely bonkers. I thought maybe he would go on like that for a bit and then it would turn into a Mousetrap sort of thing, or we'd see him realizing he was completely out of his depth and putting on the jolly dim detective act to cover up his incompetence, but no.

R264 You gotta be kidding! Tom Hanks was the only actor I can imagine in this role.

George Clooney!

Ghostbusters / Leslie Jones

Madonna in Shadows And Fog.

Jennifer Jones did get a memorable ending in "Towering Inferno"; you felt so bad for Fred Astaire. But then again, if you ever catch her in "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit", she's pretty intolerable as Gregory Peck's wife, pretty much demanding he can a better paying and more stressful job so she can move into an even better house, when she already has a beautiful place. Maybe it's also the way the character is written, especially with a melodramatic drunken car ride when she finds out about a past woman in Peck's life. Jones was very good in some things, like "Song of Bernadette", "Cluny Brown" and "Portrait of Jennie", so I think she was much better playing nice girls, rather than bitches.

[quote]R193: John Wayne in "The Conqueror"

[quote]R195: The Conqueror would have sucked no matter what

They paid for it. Damn near everyone who went on-location for 'The Conqueror' developed cancer, including John Wayne, who succumbed to his.

[quote] "Every movie Madonna was in, except Desperately Seeking Susan.

Agreed, R106. Of course, she was just playing a version of herself. Rosanna Arquette is my favorite in the film.

[quote] "Bad performances aside, the entire fucking movie was a turd in the colossal punch bowl of moviedom. One single actor did not ruin that movie. It was a total disaster."

The production, costume, and hair/makeup design were wonderful, and deserving of the accolades they earned. They are the highlights of the film.

R284, I've always considered Jennifer Jones to be one of the more inexplicable stars of the Studio Era, she was a nothing as an actress and not very photogenic, but since her real genius was in marrying well then I guess that explains everything.

She left us "Duel in the Sun" and the Norton Simon museum, so I can't hate her or anything. I just wonder how she ever managed to break into acting and meet Selznick.

[quote] Natalie Wood was 5'2"

Really? She looks so tall in West Side Story, and certainly doesn’t look tiny in her other films.

I thought that Jennifer Jones was distinctive looking, but yeah, she did have some bad angles. Her face was too wide and too short and her chin was slightly weak. But she was good as Madame Bovary. I thought so, anyway.

Good casting. Madame Bovary was an absolute fool.

When did Natalie Wood ever look tall?

It's the cinematographer who made her look tall.

In real life, she looked like a prawn or a shrimp.

Speaking of Jennifer Jones, R287 & R289, one of my favorite drinking games is to take a shot everytime Jones (as Dr. Han Suyin) references her ethnicity. Take two shots when she uses the term "Eurasian".

That applies to "Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing", of course. I forgot to mention the film's title!

Dr. Han Suyin mentions her ethnicity eight times in 140 minutes.

Ali MacGraw as Natalie Jastrow in The mini series Winds of War - ugh - she was dreadful!! She was a good 15 to 20 years too old for the part and had zero chemistry with Jan Michael Vincent. She looked too contemporary in her 1930s/40s garb. She tried to give clever comical line readings and totally clunked out. It was a spectacular mini series but she was just totally miscast. Jane Seymour took over the role of Natalie in the sequel War and Remembrance.

I would argue, R253, that Much Ado About Nothing was ruined by Brian Blessed, with his non-stop fake operatic laughing fits.

Brian Blessed is foul-mouthed, loud drunkard. I refuse to believe Vanessa Redgrave fornicated with him.

r296, I thought Jan Michael Vincent was even worse as Briny. Hart Bochner was a working actor in 1983. I wish they'd hired him for both mini-series.

[quote]Really? She looks so tall in West Side Story, and certainly doesn’t look tiny in her other films.

"I'm delicate boned...like my mother"

The Winds Of War - Jan Michael Vincent and Ali McGraw were both miscast, but Ali McGraw wins as being the worst.

Actually, Robert Mitchum was miscast. Too old and overweight, but he manages to pull it off because he had the acting chops. Polly Bergen was perfectly cast.

Any film with Jesse Eisenberg

Any film with Michael Cera

Polly Bergen and Jane Seymour were the best things about that miniseries.

Sometimes it takes two.

Steve Martin's ex-wife was one of the best things about that mini-series. Polly Bergen was a scold, if I recall, though that may have indeed been the character, who was annoying.

Gerard Butker in The Phantom of the Opera

Gerard Butler in The Phantom of the Opera

Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera

Gerald Buttlicker in Phantom of the Opera

True, R285, but nearly all of them also chain-smoked and/or drank -- or both, like John "Marion Morrison" Wayne.

[quote] "Dr. Han Suyin mentions her ethnicity eight times in 140 minutes."

Then do four shots each time. To be fair R295, I never counted, but it always seemed excessive, for whatever reason.

I remember reading an article that even when you factor in the hard-living of Hollywood people, the cancer rates for The Conqueror.

Interestingly, Michael J. Fox did a Canadian sitcom in the late 70s, and he and several other people from that production developed early-onset Parkinson's. This is also statistically unlikely. It could be a coincidence, but it's also theorized that it could be a toxin or virus which caused the cluster.

Robin Williams: any movie

Adam Sandler: any movie

Superman Returns (2006) - Kate Bosworth

She's a decent enough actress, but I just didn't think she was right as Lois Lane.

I thought Brandon Routh was great, though. Wish he could have been in more Superman movies.

R313: "I remember reading an article that even when you factor in the hard-living of Hollywood people, the cancer rates for The Conqueror. "

Did you doze off there?

Yep. I meant to say, "the cancer rates for The Conquerer are off the charts." Something sure happened to those poor people.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Jason Reitman.

One of the very few sequels to be stuck all over with potential and he blew every last detail.

"Yep. I meant to say, "the cancer rates for The Conquerer are off the charts." Something sure happened to those poor people."

Yes, there were nuclear bomb tests in the Nevada desert where the movie was shot, and the whole cast and crew was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Here's John Wayne and a couple of his kids fooling around with a Geiger counter, and thinking it was cool to be near that much radiation, because in 1956 I don't think the link between "low" levels of radiation and cancer risks was widely known.

There was no curse on "The Conqueror", it was either negligence or sheer bad luck, depending on who knew what about being too close to nuclear test sites in 1956.

[quote]Polly Bergen was a scold, if I recall, though that may have indeed been the character, who was annoying.

I think Bergen truly reflected the character in the book.

I read Winds of War again not that long ago and I think that a young Kyle Chandler would be an ideal Briny. Don’t laugh - Pug Henry was in his 40s to early 50s and their was a lot on his hard scrabble background - I pictured Bruce Willis - in his GOOD years as an age appropriate Pug.

Ali McGraw has been terrible in every film she's made. She only had a career because she married Robert Evans. Once that went south and she ran off with McQueen, she was basically over.

R322, that and the fact that she was incredibly beautiful. Credit where it's due.

I've never found her particularly beautiful, but I agree she had the quintessential late 60s/early 70s face. She had just the right look at just the right time.

She's aged well. Ryan O'Neal looks like a burn victim.

Ali's actually rather good in "Goodbye, Columbus".

Gene Hackman would have made a great Pug. He was born in 1930 as was Polly Bergen. Pug was 47 in 1939. Hackman would have been the right age. I like Scot Glen as a possibility but he was a little young.

Another vote for Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married. He sucked the oxygen out of the room in every scene he was in.

Ansel Egort in West Side Story

Quentin Tanrantinos scene in a Pulp Fiction where he plays the racist dude come pretty close, I usually fast forward, and not because of the n-word, but because his performance is hands down the worst I have ever seen in any film ever, GOD AWFUL. Love the rest of the film , though.

Every film role Julia Roberts was ever used for, aside Flatliners.

Dolores Claiborne: Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Kathy Bates, Judy Parffit David Straithem, and Christopher Plummer were perfection and their acting is timeless. The movie could have been a classic.

But, JJL clenched jaw, “look at me acting” sucked. She plays the character all wrong and ruins the movie. Plus I hate all the over top 90s stuff that character brings to the movie. All the other actors bring a sorta of ageless feeling to the movie.

The director really missed the mark. I still like the movie though

Justin Timberlake in Bad Teacher.

- All About Eve (Anne Baxter)

- Walk on the Wild Side (Anne Baxter)

- The Blue Gardenia (Anne Baxter)

- The Razor's Edge (Anne Baxter)

Deplorable James Woods in Immediate Family (OMG, with G!!!!) 🤣🤣🤣

I thought Tarantino was funny in his Pulp Fiction scene. The people who bring the movie to a screeching halt are Bruce Willis and his baby-voiced girlfriend. People love the pawn shop scene but I think these two characters hurt the movie.

Richard E. Grant in Hudson Hawk.

Keanu Reeves in Dracula.

Donald Trump in Home Alone 2.

Cody Horn in Magic Mike. It was a standard girlfriend role where all she had to be was fetching, and she still mucked it up.

I'm going to disagree with the people saying Madonna ruined every movie she was in except for Desperately Seeking Susan. She was also great in Truth or Dare (obviously), A League of their Own, Dangerous Game and good in Evita.

James Corden. He ruins everything he is in and actually ruins humanity's existence.

Kim Greist was terrible in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Skeet Ulrich in Scream (2022)

Was he meant to be his teenage self in those visions his daughter kept having? It looked silly to have a '90s teenage boy haircut on a 52-year-old man and he looked and sounded every bit his age. I thought it came across as distracting and took me out of the movie every time he came onscreen.

Who did Cody Horn blow to get that part? It was a major featured role, and she came out of nowhere and couldn't act for shit. At least she disappeared back into obscurity.

DL icon St Viola and her snot crying in every fucking movie.

Sheri Moon Zombie in Halloween II

If Rob wanted her in the sequel, he shouldn't have killed her character off in the first one. The only reason Michael Myers saw visions of his dead mother's ghost is because Rob Zombie refuses to make a movie without his wife. But in this particular case, she didn't belong in it.

Dana Delany in Tombstone.

Yikes! I actually liked "Knives Out". Or should I say "Mary!"

Jenna Ortega in Scream (2022)-She sucks as an actress. I wonder how many men she has been fucking to get roles in various movies.

Tom Cruise in Magnolia

Anything with the Ritz Brothers.

I love the Ritz Brothers - we had a thread on them not long ago.

Speaking of "Knives Out", what the FUCKING FUCK was Daniel Craig up to? He was awful! Dreadful fake Southern accent which he couldn't carry off, and femme mannerisms! I kept waiting for him to reveal the reason for such an awful pretense at being something he's not.

I wouldn't say it ruined the movie, the whole thing kind of collapsed under the weight of its own attempts at cleverness, but Craig did his best to kill it dead.

OP the Wiz was a garbage dump of a movie with stunt casting all around.

It would not, nor could it ever, be a classic.

Jeremy Renner in The Town. What a douche.

Tom Cruise in The Mummy

When I heard they were redoing The Mummy again I was excited. I figured they'd go back to the horror roots of the 1932 film. But when I heard Tom Cruise was cast in the leading role, all that hope went out the window. I thought "Oh, it's going to be THAT kind of movie again."

[quote]Polly Bergen was a scold, if I recall, though that may have indeed been the character, who was annoying.

[quote]I think Bergen truly reflected the character in the book.

I haven't seen the series you are talking about, but I worked with Polly Bergen on a couple of Broadway shows, r320. and r306. She was a funny, bawdy broad. Hard to imagine she could be a scold. Very sweet, too. A joy to work with.

Topic? Sorry, got nothing.

R332, I think JJL's acting works for her character in Dolores Claiborne. She's miserable because of unresolved trauma and probably works hard to hide her working-class small-town Maine roots, it is exhausting showing the world a false face all the time. Add to that her pill/alcohol addiction and it makes sense Selena would be twitchy and bitchy.

Gary Merrill has some really awful scenes in All About Eve, particularly the one where he discusses the theater and Hollywood with Eve in Margo Channing’s dressing room. That scene is all full of cheesy nonsense.

Merrill and Davis were pretty awful to the others during the making of that film, according to Holm.

That one chick who played Slave Girl #8 in Gone With the Wind.

Olivia Overrated Colman.

Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great was an appallingly bad choice. They cast a short, dark cute little Irishman as an imposing blond Macedondian godlike figure. He was totally unable to carry it off.

Meryl Streep is terrible in DON’T LOOK UP. She’s always been inconsistent with comedic roles anyway. And she overdid it again in this one.

Yeah, don't understand why Brad Pitt didn't get that role.

Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls.

Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places. Like someone said, "Look we need a female in this movie."

R120 The Scorsese/DiCaprio and Tim Burton/Johnny Depp films are not the result of a director infatuated by an actor. It's about an actor getting them the insane money they need for their salaries and for a budget. Scorsese could make Killers of the Flower Moon with Ryan Gosling and get $40 mil to film, he could do it with Ryan Reynolds and get $70 mil to film, he can cast The Rock and get $100 mil to film or he can make it with DiCaprio and get $175 mil on the budget, 8-10 of which goes directly into his own pocket.

But ultimately, its more about the actor approving the director than vice versa. Hollywood is filled with movies where a director spends years on a project, convinces an actor to do it, the actor then decides they hate the director and have him or her replaced.

I really enjoyed Okja when I watched it a year ago, but Jake Gyllenhaal's performance was just bizarre. He really dinged down what otherwise was a good film.

[quote]Yikes! I actually liked "Knives Out".

So did I. And the final image was so completely satisfying.

Will Smith ruined King Richard when he slapped Chris Rock

Will Smith in King Richard.

Matthew McConnehey( I spelled it wrong) mugging for the camera in Amistad ( 1997)

Will Smith in ALI. It was an impersonation, not a performance. I’m pissed at him today, so here we are…

Will Smith in anything.

Call Me By Your Name and Hammerbal Lecter.

In retrospect, any movie with Jon Voigt.

[quote]Dolores Claiborne: Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Yeah, she's bizarrely bad in it. Every scene, every line delivered weirdly as of she's in another universe. She really ruined what could have been a much better movie.

I thought The Hours was sort of dragged down by Meryl Streep.

R379 = G

To be fair, shouldn’t you start a thread about movies ruined by a married person?

The Next Best Thing

Madonna

R358- I'm VERY slow. I kept thinking to myself I never knew Candice Bergen was so BAWDY

Even though this reference is going back to 1965, this thread may belong to John Wayne in The Greatest Story Ever Told, where he was so jarringly out of place as a centurion that it warped the rest of the movie.

Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.

The woman kicking the back of my seat throughout the entire movie. Well she did ruin it for me.

Jonah Hill in Don't Look Up. I'll never watch it again because of him.

R126 stop saying Sofia Coppola is a good director. Lousy actress and nepotism baby with tone-deaf artistic choices. That Marie Antoinette film is a childish, ignorant amateurish cringe-fest.

In fact all the Coppolas ruin their films. Nicolas Cage is DIRE. And Talia Shire: also dire. And thanks to her we’ve now got the Schwartmans.

Sofia Coppola and Maggie Gyllenhaal are to film directing what all those girls with the acoustic guitars are to music.

Tyler Hoechlin In The Road to Perdition. The movie is brilliant, but the kid sleepwalks through its most important character. It’s the viewpoint from the son that’s used to humanize the story, but Hoechlin is such a zero that he sinks the whole thing. With a good performance it would have been one of the great movies. Imagine what Christian Bale could have done with that role when he was the right age!

But, he’s really pretty, and actually has a successful career in shitty TV shows and B movies.

G in Dangerous Liaisons. 🤮

Andrew Garfield in 'tick, tick..BOOM!' is so unappealing.

Wes FUCKING Anderson

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Any Will Smith film from here on

Dick Van Dyke in MARY POPPINS. His Cockney accent was like a cancerous tumor on an otherwise good film.

Liv Tyler in The Lord of the Rings trilogy shattered the illusion of Middle Earth every single time I saw her lips, fairly bursting with filler. I wondered whether the Elvish plastic surgeons buy Juvederm by the barrel.

Laverne Cox in Inventing Anna.

The person who wrecked Bonfire of the Vanities wasn't an actor or the director. It was the screenwriter.

Tavi Gevinson in Frédéric Tcheng's otherwise excellent 2019 Halston documentary. She was jarring and annoying, a completely unnecessary and bizarrely fictionalized "character" who was completely at odds with the documentary format.

Keanu in Coppola's Dracula.

Johnny Roselli,

The Zapruder Film

Lorenzo Lamas in Body Rock (1984). Yet another mid-1980s breakdancing movie! 🕺

Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde in "Wilde." That performance completely destroyed the legacy of Oscar Wilde for me. Fry played Wilde like the kind of bore who'd corner you at a party and toss "witty" platitudes at you, resulting in your abandoning him, in a panic of apologetic excuses, because you need to get to the bar.

The guy who played Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love.

Joanna Lumley in Wolf of Wall St.