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All working actors in Hollywood have a shared dream: win an Academy Award.
But having an Oscar doesn’t make anyone immune from weird jobs.
It’s not true of course, but leave it to actors to be dramatic about these things.
But the Oscars are just one night in a whole calendar year.
Tom Hanks, in Mazes and Monsters
Year:1982Director:Steven H. Stern
Tom Hanks, roll for initiative!
But in between those projects, Hepburn starred in what she eventually declared the worst movie of her career.
It’s also a far cry from her Oscar-winning role in Michael Clayton.
Kingsley was already great as Trevor before.
But in Shang-Chi, a centered and sober Trevor is somehow even weirder.
Witherspoon stars in Overnight Delivery as a stripper who offers to help Rudd’s character.
Hoffman’s Bernie Focker is a former lawyer turned Capoeira-kicking senior who clashes with De Niro throughout the movie.
Meet the Fockers is a delirious sequel with outsized actors doing their hardest to be at their most weird.
At a glance, it’s a Depression-era period movie about golf that takes inspiration from Hindu mythology.
Sandra Bullock, in Love Potion No.
But the effort feels hilariously forced in Love Potion No.
Jack Nicholson, in Mars Attacks!
But that just makes his role in Tim Burton’s darkly funny Mars Attacks!
(aka, one of thebest alien moviesever made) timeless.
Al Pacino, in Jack and Jill
Year:2011Director:Dennis Dugan
Say hello to his… chocolate blend?
Washington is a trained Shakespearean performer, which implies that none of his choices in playing Macrinus are careless.
And not even McConaughey is powerful enough to make it all right, all right, all right.
Though the overzealous overdramatics are obviously intentional choices, it doesn’t stop them from feeling overdone.
He just doesn’t know how to be himself.
Michael Caine plays the first of two “Dolans” priests tasked with aiding Kaulder.
Star Wars it is not, but a whole different Force flows in Barbarella.
Quan’s role in Breathing Fire isn’t bizarre because he plays an off-kilter weirdo.
To watch Breathing Fire is to wonder: What could have been?
But while the movie itself has a dubious reputation, little is said about Costner’s character.
Charlize Theron, in That Thing You Do!
Long before that, though, he caused a few ripples in the understated comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto.
Murphy stars as a transgender woman in 1970s Ireland who searches for her lost mother.
It’s not easy to tell when the movie is telling jokes and when it’s being real.
You almost have to be smart enough to split the atom to know the difference.
But the seemingly harmless rom-com Aloha is a movie she’d probably want us all to forget.
