Wasted Talent: The Top Five Cases of Great Actors Sabotaging Their Careers in Horrible Horrible Films
Submitted by xfanatic50 on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 07:00
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- Ben Affleck in pretty much everything after Good Will Hunting
- Cuba Gooding Jr. in pretty much everything after Jerry Maguire
- Robert De Niro in Rocky and Bullwinkle (and to a lesser extent, Meet the Parents)
- Bill Murray in Garfield and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
- Jason Lee in Underdog and Alvin and the Chipmunks
Ever see an actor in something that's absolutely a trainwreck, and couldn't have looked any better on paper and thought: Why? Why would you squander all the goodwill you've accumulated through (insert films here) by doing that? That's this list. Sometimes an actor does that so much you forget why you liked them in the first place, which is what has happened to a few people represented here. Feel free to point out any that I missed, these are just the worst cases I could think of.