Worst gig an actor took
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Leguizamo owes me a personal apology for "The Pest."
Leguizamo's segment during the Tony Awards was cringe-inducing. I don't understand how he gets work.
Pack it up, boys and girls... Gaith wins the thread. (Well, apart from Greg Cox's Wayne ref. Okay, I win the silver. Anyhow...)
Blame it on Rio is a guilty pleasure.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Even the silly movies I enjoy have legitimately redeeming values - for two-thirds of its runtime, for example, LXG is a witty and exciting adventure flick - and therefore, I don't feel guilty about enjoying them. Ergo, they're not guilty pleasures.Go to Michael Caine's IMDB page and pick a movie at random.
Blame it on Rio.
Even Michelle Johnson's boobs couldn't save it.
Blame it on Rio is a guilty pleasure.
I LIKE blame it on Rio....sure its semi-racist, sure its nothing but a sex romp. But it does very good for what it does, and it cast turned out alright 
and I happen to like Demi more before her plastic additions
and I happen to like Demi more before her plastic additions
...which is might be professionally embarrasing but its better than being actually decapitated by a helicopter (Vic Morrow), exposed to radioactive fallout (John Wayne), or for that matter, shot and killed by a malfunctioning prop (Brandon Lee). So you're still wrong.
The thread ain't "most damaging gig", it's "worst gig". And Thompson did a flirty scene with a four-foot duck.
... Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Then again, Thompson's legs were arguably the movie's only redeeming feature.
And that's coming from someone who actually subscribed to the comic book and proudly wore a "Howard the Duck for President" campaign button!
I dunno, looking at that pic I can think of a few more. Too bad there's a Duck in the way.The thread ain't "most damaging gig", it's "worst gig". And Thompson did a flirty scene with a four-foot duck.
... Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Then again, Thompson's legs were arguably the movie's only redeeming feature.
And that's coming from someone who actually subscribed to the comic book and proudly wore a "Howard the Duck for President" campaign button!
Howard the Duck is one of the few comic book adaptations I've never seen. And I was big fan of the Howard comic. After the first reviews, not even Ms Thompson could tempt me to theatre.
Oh Lea! I love ya like no other, but what the hell were you thinking?!
Yeah that was just weird, but considering other elments of that film it made as much sense as various other bits!
I think Myers is another example of people who are good when they're reigned in/constrained by budgetry issues etc. It's no surprise that the best Austin Powers film is the first one given its the one he had the least control over.
That's Rob Schneider for me.
Myers: I liked "Wayne's World" back in the day, but would probably cringe now. AP2 was a gross-out fest that didn't make me laugh once, although at the time I thought the first one was funny. Saw it again recently on cable for a few minutes and didn't laugh once. I guess I'm totally over him, LOL!
Mariah Carey: can't get past the fact that the entire universe doesn't revolve around her and her self-love. Didn't she have a semi-nervous breakdown when the "Glitter" album and movie bombed? I was hoping at that point she and her screaming narcissim were over, but no, more lives than a cat.
Affleck: definitely rode his buddy Matt Damon's coattails and mugged insufferably through most roles for years. Strangely enough, in the past 5 years or so, he seems to have learned to rein it in and actually act, at least IMHO.
