Actors and directors need to evaluate all their options before taking on something new. Worst case scenario, they know that if a movie is bad enough, their career will suffer. And unfortunately, this worst-case scenario has happened to many people.
Most of the time, it’s not their fault the movie was so bad. The creative team didn’t come together, or the studio stepped in and made bad decisions. However, the actor or director whose name appeared on the film poster had to assume the consequences.
10 Alicia Silverstone was the leading lady in Batman and Robin
Alicia Silverstone has been in great shape since Distraught When Batman and Robin has arrived. At first glance, it seemed like a great career choice. Superhero movies were already big business back then and none other than George Clooney was going to play Batman. But everything went terribly wrong.
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The film was a disaster, hated by fans and critics alike. Clooney was able to survive there thanks to his solid work, but Silverstone had no chance. She was the one who received a Razzie Award for her performance, and even more cruelly, she was humiliated by those who hated the film. Although, of course, his weight had nothing to do with anything.
9 Jaden Smith was roasted for After Earth
After a successful delivery The day the Earth stood still and the Karate Child remake, Jaden Smith was ready to take on a new challenge. He decided to star with his incredibly famous father, Will Smith, in a sci-fi film called after Earth. It was about a father and son who land on an abandoned Earth full of dangers.
To say that the film was not a success would be an understatement. The film was absolutely hated by critics and it was strongly suggested that Jaden’s career was the result of nepotism. He never starred in a major blockbuster film again, and these days he’s more of a musician than an actor.
8 Elizabeth Berkley never recovered from Showgirls
Elizabeth Berkley was best known for playing Jessie in Saved by the bell when she decided to do Showgirls. Showgirls was an NC-17 rated film that controversy couldn’t save, with Berkley bearing the brunt of the bad reviews. After that, Berkley left his talent agency and his film career pretty much ended in a dead end.
Berkley said. People in 2020, “Of course it was disappointing that it didn’t work out well, but there was so much cruelty around. I was bullied. And I didn’t understand why I was blamed. The actor’s job is to fulfill the director’s vision. And I did everything I was supposed to do. She added: “No one associated with the film spoke up on my behalf to protect me. . I was left behind and an outcast in the industry I had worked so hard to build.”
7 Shannen Doherty became the scapegoat for the Mallrats
When Kevin Smith did Mallrats in 1995 it was poorly reviewed and a box office failure. But it wasn’t Smith who took the fall – it was the most recognizable person among the cast, Shannen Doherty. She was already famous for Beverly Hills, 90210but had not yet managed to break into films.
The failure of Mallrats made sure she had never gotten this far. “People literally thought I was carrying the film, so… it was a box office failure, it was all my fault. So there was no film career after that, which was a little brutal,” she told Smith. Let’s Be Clear Podcast. Smith apologized to him for this.
6 Brandon Routh lost after Superman Returns failed
In 2006, Brandon Routh got what had to be the biggest role in Hollywood: playing Superman. Unfortunately, the Superman movie he was attached to was The Return of Superman. Although Routh gave a perfectly solid performance as the Man of Steel, the film failed, and with it Routh’s career.
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Since then, Routh has not starred in a major blockbuster. However, he returned to the world of superheroes with a role in the CW film. Arrowverseand finally, he was able to resume his role as The Return of Superman Superman in the Arrowverse crossing Crisis on Infinite Earths. The Return of Superman had more appreciation at that point, and those fans loved it.
5 Matthew Modine had a bomb with Cutthroat Island
The 1995 pirate film Cutthroat Island cost $115 million to make and only grossed $10 million at the box office. Hollywood looked for someone to blame and pointed the finger at star Matthew Modine. His career took a huge hit, as did pirate films. It was only in the years 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean that the genre has made a comeback.
Customs of Modine Weekly Entertainment in 2016 that he never hated the film itself. “There are things that don’t work in the film that I’m critical of – and don’t need to go into now – but overall it’s a fantastic film. And I think it’s as good as Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean movie. And you just wonder why one worked and the other didn’t. Was it just bad timing? Were we just too early? he thought.
4 Faye Dunaway behaved badly on the set of Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway played Joan Crawford in Dearest Mom. The movie was terrible, and apparently Dunaway’s behavior on set wasn’t up to par either. She was allegedly rude to the cast and crew and constantly delayed production. His career never recovered from this upheaval.
“I think it took my career in a direction where people would have an irremediably bad impression of me – and that’s an extremely difficult thing to beat,” she said. People in 2016. “I should have known, but sometimes you’re vulnerable and you don’t realize what you’re getting yourself into. It’s a shame that they felt like they had to make this kind of film. But You can’t be ashamed of the work you’ve done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.”
Stephen Norrington had already directed Blade and seemed poised for major success, but then The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has arrived. What followed was a legendary fight between Norrington and movie star Sean Connery, which killed any chance of the movie being good.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was indeed successful at the box office, but not enough to warrant a sequel, and Connery didn’t want to make one anyway. He had such a bad time that he retired from acting.and the finished film was absolutely savagely criticized. Norrington never worked on a blockbuster again, with all of his future projects ending up in development hell.
2 Lea Thompson suffered because of Howard the Duck
When Howard the Duck came out, no one knew what to think about it. It was a box office disaster, received extremely negative reviews from critics, and was nominated for several Razzie Awards. However, it has become a cult classic over the years… but this reassessment came too late for star Lea Thompson.
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“There’s no way to be an artist and put your heart into something without being hurt when people say terrible things,” Thompson said. The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. I got a boost from being in the most loved movie of the year and then the most hated movie of the year. It gave me a unique perspective on Hollyweird. »
1 Tom Hooper hasn’t directed another film since Cats
Tom Hooper has directed two successful films, The king’s speech And Les MiserablesBefore Cats landed on his knees. On paper, Cats It might have seemed like an easy success, as it was based on a very popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical… but Hooper and the producers made every bad decision possible.
The cats were a combination of CGI and human actors, and they were pure nightmare fuel. The actors were all first rate (Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba) and they all knew how to sing, but they couldn’t save the film. Cats scored a spectacularly bad 19% on RottenTomatoes and currently holds a 2.8 on IMDb. Hooper hasn’t worked on a film since, his only post-Cats credits being two episodes of the BBC/HBO show. Its dark materials.