There
are quite a few actors that have seemingly disappeared from the
limelight. After setting the bar high earlier on in their careers, it
must've been hard for these actors to live up to the expectations. It's
funny to think just how many former Hollywood A-listers have made their
way to the acting B-list. And although it's unfortunate, the shift in
their acceptance can usually be pinned down to one movie mistake they've
made in their career. So without further ado, here are 10 actors whose
careers took a turn for the worse.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
uba
Gooding Jr. has some great movies under his belt, including his iconic
role in Jerry Maguire and Men of Honor. But his days as a leading man
are over, although he has popped up in a good amount of movies over the
past few years, including the well-received Selma. Still, we can't
picture him in a leading role any longer, and we haven't looked at him
the same since Rat Race.
Adam Sandler
Adam
Sandler started off with a few funny movies, and we were all laughing.
Movies like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and just about everything up
to Anger Management were good for more than a few laughs. He was great
in a couple serious flicks like Reign Over Me and Punch Drunk Love, but
once he released You Don't Mess With The Zohan his career tanked. He
began releasing bad movie after bad movie with not-so-gems like Jack and
Jill, That's My Boy, and The Cobbler. He's attempting to revive his
career with the Pixels movie, but we don't see it happening.
Eddie Murphy
Early
on in his career, Eddie Murphy was one of the funniest actors on
screen. His standup was hilarious, and his movies were generally
well-received. His last movie worth the watch was Shrek, and before
that, his last good movie was 1999's Life opposite Martin Lawrence. His
most recent movie release holds a Metascore of 26/100, and it's not even
worth naming because you won't have heard of it anyway. Oh, how the
mighty have fallen.
Jim Carrey
Jim
Carrey is a far throw away from the actor that he used to be. His
latest box office fare was Dumb and Dumber To, which wasn't even close
to how great the original movie was. His role as Colonel Stars and
Stripes in Kick-Ass 2 was good enough, but before that his last good
movie was 2003's Bruce Almighty. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone wasn't
even remotely funny, Mr. Popper's Penguins was a major flop, and Yes Man
was also not as funny as it should've been. It's clear that the older
Jim Carrey gets, the less hilarious he is.
Mel Gibson
We
can pretty much attribute the fall of Mel Gibson to his epic meltdown
in 2010, but that doesn't excuse him from this list. His latest movies
include Blood Father, The Expendables 3, Machete Kills, Get the Gringo,
The Beaver, and Edge of Darkness. All of those movies should be skipped
over. His last good starring role was in 2002's Signs, but all movies
that followed aren't even worthy of an evening on Netflix.
Tim Robbins
Tim
Robbins was once a household name, from 1988's Bull Durham all the way
up through 2003's Mystic River. He had some great movies in between,
including The Shawshank Redemption, Nothing to Lose, and Jacob's Ladder.
But he's pretty much irrelevant nowadays, starring in Welcome to Me and
Life of Crime.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine
Zeta-Jones was also once a household name back in the late 1990s/early
2000s after starring in such great movies as Entrapment, Chicago,
Ocean's Twelve, and High Fidelity. Her success continued on with The
Legend of Zorro and then No Reservations in 2007, but the movies that
followed are widely considered to be travesties. She hasn't been in a
lot of movies since 2007, and hasn't had a new film since RED 2 in 2013.
But, the films that were released with her in a starring role over the
past 5 years have been quite awful.
Hilary Swank
Oh,
Hilary Swank...what happened!? Hilary's breakout performance in Million
Dollar Baby showed that she could hold her own in a leading role, and
she followed it up with a stellar performance in Freedom Writers, the
story about a young teacher who inspires her class of at-risk students.
Since her success with 2007's P.S. I Love You, she hasn't starred in
anything notable. Her most recent movie was last year's highly-rated but
hardly-seen-by-anyone You're Not You (don't worry, no one else has
heard of it, either). And, before that, it was The Homesman opposite
Tommy Lee Jones (and no one saw that one either, as the film grossed
just $2.4M in its entire run).
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay
Culkin is a prime example of a successful child star who couldn't make
it as an adult. He was in a plethora of great movies as a kid, including
Uncle Buck (with John Candy) and Home Alone. In 1991, he starred in My
Girl, but things started going downhill for Macaulay in 1994 when he was
a part of the poorly received animated movie The Pagemaster with
Christopher Lloyd. The Pagemaster grossed just $12M on its $27M budget.
Following the animated bomb, Culkin starred in Richie Rich, which also
bombed miserably. And that was pretty much the last big movie release
we'd see from the kid, although he's appeared in numerous episodes of
Robot Chicken. Also, just do yourself a favor right now and Google
recent images of Macaulay Culkin. Yikes.
Nicolas Cage
Say
what you want about Nicolas Cage now, but he had a ton of great movies
earlier on in his career. Okay, maybe not EARLY early in his career, but
skip ahead to It Could Happen to You, and that's when you'll find the
good Nicolas Cage. But the actor was at his best between 1996's The Rock
and 2005's Lord of War, with a string of great movies in between. Con
Air was an impressive performance, Face/Off opposite John Travolta was
an impressive performance, and City of Angels and Gone in Sixty Seconds
were both great. Snake Eyes and 8MM were also pretty awesome. But things
started to go downhill for Cage with 2006's The Wicker Man, which was
followed up by Ghost Rider to pretty much seal the deal for Cage. His
most recent film, Dying of the Light, holds a whopping 4.3 out of 10 on
IMDB.
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