MICKEY ROONEY as Mr. Yunioshi in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) is embarrassing. It's a stereotypical racist impersonation. I think he might be getting a little koo-koo in his old age, but I still love him, though I suspect he might deny any racism. It is what it is... I could not find a clip of him from the film on YouTube, but you get a quick peek at him in this trailer at 2:17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8
What famous actors had at least one really bad, embarrassing role, either their performance or the part itself?
The entire cast of Monty Python seemed strangely unenthusiastic throughout The Meaning Of Life.
In The Return of Captain Invincible, I kept getting this weird vibe that the director must've really hated Christopher Lee.
Quote from: LilCerberus on August 02, 2012, 07:37:06 PM
The entire cast of Monty Python seemed strangely unenthusiastic throughout The Meaning Of Life...
Thanks for responding! Yet, you, my friend, don't know what you're talking about! :smile:
Don Johnson in the role of Miles Deep washed up porn director in Bucky Larson.
no no, you have to see Don Johnson dubbed in milanese in the italian comedy "Torno a vivere da solo".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0vkZOz51jI
Dennis Hopper in Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
say what you like but IMO this film is a horrible mess and Hopper's "serious actor" integrity is compromised here!
Ron Jeremy's cameo in DETENTION was pretty degrading, even for a hairy, obese former porn star!
Nicholas Cage in "Valley Girl"....wow! From this to "Ghostrider". :teddyr:
(http://images.hollywood.com/cms/300x375/5304067.jpg)
Everyone who was in LASERBLAST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRaXI8O1IKM
Christopher Lee has done some embarrassing films, but none as shameful as hosting this tv show; I've seen it, and it defies description.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNk8xd408Lg
Quote from: tracy on August 03, 2012, 12:40:20 PM
Nicholas Cage in "Valley Girl"....wow! From this to "Ghostrider". :teddyr:
(http://images.hollywood.com/cms/300x375/5304067.jpg)
You could fill an entire thread with mortifying Nic Cage roles. The man is beyond shame. :teddyr:
Everyone in the cast of NORTH - which included Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Dan Ackroyd, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, just to name a few.
George Clooney and Laura Dern were in the epic fail GRIZZLY 2 (so was Charlie Sheen, but f*ck him)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAfhowvgIG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtNepRsK3vA
Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Shannnon and my beloved Fassy all embarrassed themselves pretty good in JONAH HEX.
Lou Gossett in ENEMY MINE
(http://www.scaredstiffreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/enemy-mine-header.jpg)
Playing a pregnant male alien.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 02, 2012, 07:24:34 PM
MICKEY ROONEY as Mr. Yunioshi in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) is embarrassing.
I think Mickey would probably be more embarrassed by his turn as "Joe Petto," the toymaker in "Silent Night Deadly Night Part 5"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLLVtYn6k0
...particularly since, as legend has it, Mickey was one of the celebrities who protested against the
first "SNDN" film and had it driven out of theatres.
Quote from: zombie #1 on August 03, 2012, 08:50:13 AM
Dennis Hopper in Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
How'bout Hopper's "King Koopa" role in "Super Mario Brothers?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtMZKYnLg5c
Note: this film would also qualify as a "Most Embarrassing Role" for Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo (which is
really sayin' something, considering that he also made "The Pest"...!), Samantha Mathis, and pretty much everyone else who had the misfortune to be cast in this turkey.
Al Pacino in REVOLUTION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJpN9GnGw4
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 03, 2012, 02:55:08 PM
Quote from: zombie #1 on August 03, 2012, 08:50:13 AM
Dennis Hopper in Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
How'bout Hopper's "King Koopa" role in "Super Mario Brothers?"
aha I've not had the 'pleasure' of seeing that one, I don't doubt it's equally if not more embarrassing than his turn in TCM" though, fair enuff!
I was gonna say Cameron Mitchell in DIXE RAY HOLLYWOOD STAR(1983) -a porno-but then I thought-waitaminute-this is Cameron Mitchell-the man who knows no shame.
Veronica Lake couldn't have been very proud of FLESH FEAST,I reckon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFzPMJuqJ8&feature=related
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2012, 04:40:39 PM
...Veronica Lake couldn't have been very proud of FLESH FEAST,I reckon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFzPMJuqJ8&feature=related
Yes, but WE are!!!
Now that he's an Academy Award winning, well respected actor/writer/director, I often wonder how Tom Hanks looks back on his days on "Bosom Buddies."
(http://lindachorney.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/tom-hanks-bosom-buddies.jpg)
Joseph Cotten, an actor I like very much, went from working with Hitchcock and Orson Welles to making Italian schlock flicks in the 70s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATQAXjTHQ4
You can feel the self-loathing right through the screen.
Quote from: ChaosTheory on August 05, 2012, 01:52:10 PM
Joseph Cotten, an actor I like very much, went from working with Hitchcock and Orson Welles to making Italian schlock flicks in the 70s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATQAXjTHQ4
You can feel the self-loathing right through the screen.
I can beat that....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMDfCwnRGw
NICK ADAMS has a pretty crappy role (wearing lifts!!!) in DIE, MONSTER, DIE!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Die%2C_Monster%2C_Die%21.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOfe41Gq-I
Adams was also in Monster Zero...but then why should anyone be embarrassed about that?!
Quote from: The Burgomaster on August 03, 2012, 03:23:56 PM
Al Pacino in REVOLUTION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJpN9GnGw4
I see you Revolution and raise you Jack and Jill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S6eUFbOfIU
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 03, 2012, 07:38:56 PM
Now that he's an Academy Award winning, well respected actor/writer/director, I often wonder how Tom Hanks looks back on his days on "Bosom Buddies."
(http://lindachorney.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/tom-hanks-bosom-buddies.jpg)
I've heard him talk about it a bit. He has a pretty healthy attitude about it and seems like a cool guy, actually. He basically says he thought that'd be his meal ticket for a decade, and had no idea if he even had a future in acting after it. He's grateful it took him to where it did, and has no regrets there.
Patricia Richardson (the mom in Home Improvement) has a role in Christmas Evil. It's not really embarrassing, just the movie is.
Also, George Kennedy in like every film he's been in in 35 years. He's an Oscar winner, and is in an evil puppet cat movie.
Both Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper appear in the abysmal "Waterworld". However I think Hopper has appeared in enough crap both theatrical and straight to video that it is likely not his worst role.
John Leguaziamo who has the ability to put in solid performances (see Carlito's way, Causalities of War, Spun etc...) but leads in "The Pest" which may be the worst comedy I have ever seen.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Mila Kunis make early appearances in Critters 3.
Everyone who appeared in Mission to Mars.
Brian Donlevy in The Fat Spy and Gammera the Invincible comes to mind.
Which do you think Jennifer Lopez is more embarrassed about when she looks back -- "Gigli" or "Anaconda?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNGQEbqhGU
(I do have to say, I give this film credit for the scene where the snake eats Jon Voight and then vomits him up whole later on -- which is something I'd never seen in a film before!)
Nobody should feel ashamed for Anaconda! It's the best creature feature of the nineties!
Lest ye not know, if I recall correctly Emma Thompson bares her breasts in "The Tall Guy." A low moment for such a talented actress.
How have the mighty fallen....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF9bqPjdw30
Quote from: Zapranoth on August 08, 2012, 02:08:14 PM
Lest ye not know, if I recall correctly Emma Thompson bares her breasts in "The Tall Guy." A low moment for such a talented actress.
I think I can top this. Helen Mirren bared not only her breasts, but her entire body for her role of Gosh Boyle in Ken Russell's "Savage Messiah."
She has said that she hoped she'd get lucky and break her leg coming out of her trailer, so she wouldn't have to do her nude scene in the film. No such luck. She had to do it.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 07, 2012, 09:27:36 PM
Which do you think Jennifer Lopez is more embarrassed about when she looks back -- "Gigli" or "Anaconda?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTNGQEbqhGU
(I do have to say, I give this film credit for the scene where the snake eats Jon Voight and then vomits him up whole later on -- which is something I'd never seen in a film before!)
Don't forget,
JON VOIGHT then
winks!!! :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY2SeyY5K2k
Saw Rounders on tv the other night and remembered just how bad John Malkovich is as the russian villain. Horrible cheesy accent and an overblown preformance that really devalues the scenes with him in it. Strange because he is usually terrific in films I see him in. Still a great film worth watching.
Frankly, I think some of SPENCER TRACY's "actorly" performances are pure HAM, sliced THICK. I do think he got very good, later, with KATE HEPBURN as a foil, and particularly when he gets older. But, SPENCER TRACY' as a Portugese fisherman with that corny accent...??? :question: :tongueout: :lookingup: They gave him the academy award for it. Maybe they were impressed by his sheer nerve. I think it's terrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrlfKzc8t4
where did all actors start out? I mean before any TV or/and movie role... Commercials. I have seen a lot off them that are so awkard you just would never live them down. And in the mean time before your famous everyone who knows you, will tease you for being in an acne cream commerical, or a really horrible imformercial.
I know this is not exsactily what this thread is about, but I feel this area off topic also is worth bringing up xD I posted Commericals I have seen in Australian TV, (There are plently from around the world all over youtube however.) I could not find one add that put me off orange juice when I was a kid, "just squeeze just squeeze please please please!" Was how the add went... It also was exstreamily sexist.
This add was more confussing than anything ... Very awkard for the girls in this add. I mean imagine explaing to your friends and peers what the hell you are doing in this commerical, where you run screaming to new tampons in your supermarket. Tampon adds are very hard to be not awkard. But this one just made me cringe watching it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOzHkTENsk
magazine adds for this product had to same idea, but a caption off one enthusiastic girl screaming in excitment for tampons... She looked like she was on drugs. I Felt too bad for her to make jokes about that add. >_<
But wait theres more! This one is worst ... So awkard, And trust me it's about another awkard to disscuss product... This time to do with men.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJLMwiYAg0
You don't believe me, that these commericals can possibly put a damper on your social life and image? The lady in the next Commerical was kicked out off her church when seen in this add for AMI... Which is also a sour note for the church for not being really that christian at all. But still being in awkard commercials, does give you awkard situations! There are more Adds by AMI, that IDK I will want to show everyone on here... They only get shown late at night here in Australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNmXILlBCs
Seriously choose what add you choose to be in. Some just are not worth it.
Some would say that Schwarzenegger's role of Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin, but I say his role in Junior was worse. Why, because Schwarzenegger is an action star, not a pregnant man with no action. so to put it, Mr. Freeze > Dr. Alex Hesse
Quote from: BoyScoutKevin on August 09, 2012, 05:31:22 PM
Quote from: Zapranoth on August 08, 2012, 02:08:14 PM
Lest ye not know, if I recall correctly Emma Thompson bares her breasts in "The Tall Guy." A low moment for such a talented actress.
I think I can top this. Helen Mirren bared not only her breasts, but her entire body for her role of Gosh Boyle in Ken Russell's "Savage Messiah."
She has said that she hoped she'd get lucky and break her leg coming out of her trailer, so she wouldn't have to do her nude scene in the film. No such luck. She had to do it.
Speaking of the lovely Helen (and a few more who should've known better):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW3E8vs-MUI
Michael Caine once said of co-starring in JAWS IV: THE REVENGE - "I never saw the movie, but I saw the summer house it paid for and it's very nice." :teddyr:
Quote from: Living_Dead_Girl on August 12, 2012, 08:19:09 AM
where did all actors start out? I mean before any TV or/and movie role... Commercials. I have seen a lot off them that are so awkard you just would never live them down. And in the mean time before your famous everyone who knows you, will tease you for being in an acne cream commerical, or a really horrible imformercial.
I know this is not exsactily what this thread is about, but I feel this area off topic also is worth bringing up xD I posted Commericals I have seen in Australian TV, (There are plently from around the world all over youtube however.) I could not find one add that put me off orange juice when I was a kid, "just squeeze just squeeze please please please!" Was how the add went... It also was exstreamily sexist.
This add was more confussing than anything ... Very awkard for the girls in this add. I mean imagine explaing to your friends and peers what the hell you are doing in this commerical, where you run screaming to new tampons in your supermarket. Tampon adds are very hard to be not awkard. But this one just made me cringe watching it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOzHkTENsk
magazine adds for this product had to same idea, but a caption off one enthusiastic girl screaming in excitment for tampons... She looked like she was on drugs. I Felt too bad for her to make jokes about that add. >_<
But wait theres more! This one is worst ... So awkard, And trust me it's about another awkard to disscuss product... This time to do with men.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJLMwiYAg0
You don't believe me, that these commericals can possibly put a damper on your social life and image? The lady in the next Commerical was kicked out off her church when seen in this add for AMI... Which is also a sour note for the church for not being really that christian at all. But still being in awkard commercials, does give you awkard situations! There are more Adds by AMI, that IDK I will want to show everyone on here... They only get shown late at night here in Australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNmXILlBCs
Seriously choose what add you choose to be in. Some just are not worth it.
There is a thread in the Television subforum for commercials you hate. This thread is for actors in embarrassing roles.
Ozzymandias speaks: I wonder if Rue McClanahan ever talked about either Five Minutes to Love/Rotten Apple or Hollywood After Dark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhyNSvnyWbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ih8ZwHoBA0&feature=related
I thought you would enjoy the Film Crew's take on the Hollywood After Dark striping scene.
Ozzymandias has spoken!!!
I don't know if he is embarrassed about it, but I always feel a little uncomfortable for Tom Cruise as Jack, the agile woodland boy, in Legend. I LOVE that movie though, and since I don't really care for Tom Cruise, I quickly get over it! Darkness is probably one of Tim Curry's more un-embarrassing roles.
Christopher Walken in Wayne's World 2 (1993). I like those Wayne's World movies, and I really like Walken but I thought his part was a bit embarrassing (loved him in that "cow bells" scetch though. Go figure).
I'm sure Raul Julia probably thought this was his most embarrassing role at the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhOUyy4wbs
Quote from: The Fake Macoy on August 18, 2012, 01:50:32 PM
I'm sure Raul Julia probably thought this was his most embarrassing role at the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhOUyy4wbs
That's only because he assumed nobody had seen this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZOog3kv1us
I wonder if Gibbs admits to this assignment....SUMMER SCHOOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvhchY0UmY
Quote from: alandhopewell on August 28, 2012, 01:27:56 PM
I wonder if Gibbs admits to this assignment....SUMMER SCHOOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvhchY0UmY
I actaully like this movie....