Premium Rush, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred being released in these dog days of August, might not actually be that kind of flop-- the critics seem to like it, at least. But he's a prime example of a guy who's on a huge hot streak, then suddenly appears with a movie that nobody's going to love the way they did The Dark Knight Rises, or probably his upcoming Looper. So in honor of this cruel trick of the release schedule, we looked back at some other recent actors who were on an unbeatable hot streak-- until a certain movie came along to wreck it. And because we like these actors so much and are a forgiving populace, we'd forgotten all about these disasters? until now.
Join us as we exhume the corpses of some old flops-- and some truly awful poster art-- and let us know the others we might have forgotten in the comments.
After Hunger announced the arrival of a bonafide star in Michael Fassbender, it took a minute to realize he was the same man who stole the show in Zack Snyder?s 300. Fish Tank proved he was the real deal, and Quentin Tarantino?s Inglourious Basterds stormed cinemas not long after. And then it was released. The good news is?Hex was so bad, with an ensemble so large, that everybody just moved on, especially once Josh Brolin himself admitted the film was a huge waste of time and talent. Fassbender didn?t lose a single step and, to be honest, was even enjoyable in the terrible comic book adaptation.
Bullock holds a very special record thanks to this complete nightmare of a movie-- she's the only actress to win an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year, and to actually show up to accept both honors. All About Steve is almost indescribably bad, a would-be comic romp that has Bullock playing a complete crazy person and Bradley Cooper looking overwhelmed as the object of her "affection." It could have been bad enough to ruin Bullock's career, but she had the good sense to pair it with The Blind Side later that year and the rom-com hit The Proposal earlier that summer, allowing most of us to forget it ever happened.
Let?s be honest, Terminator: Salvation is a film we?d all just as soon forget. It says a lot when people would rather see the fourth installment stricken from the record instead of the former black sheep, Rise of the Machines. When Bale stepped into the role of John Connor he had just come off three greats with Christopher Nolan (two Batmans and his best, The Prestige) as well as interesting side projects like a Terrence Malick, a Werner Herzog and a Todd Haynes. Luckily everyone was eager to forget McG?s Terminator and The Fighter more than cemented the misstep in the past.
Being devastatingly handsome, Ryan Gosling often takes on very risky roles to ensure filmmakers see him as more than just a pretty face. Some have paid off big, winning him critical praise (Drive), and Oscar acclaim (Half Nelson). But playing a thinly veiled version of accused wife-murderer Robert Durst in the flaccid crime-drama All Good Things was a wrong-headed wager. The tale of love gone sour and a dashing beau turned cruel killer played out less like gripping drama and more like a typical Lifetime Channel cautionary tale. But the only lesson to be learned here is: even Gosling makes mistakes.
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After breaking through with her sassy supporting role in Superbad, Emma Stone soon made the leap to leading lady in Zombieland then headliner with Easy A. Along the way to fronting the Oscar-winning drama and massive summer blockbuster that soon followed, there were a few bumps, but none so flat and flawed as the painfully unfunny Rainn Wilson vehicle The Rocker. Playing like School of Rock for the teen set, it was just plain creepy as Wilson's failed rock god Fish flounders at a second chance at fame by joining his nephew's high school band. Not even Stone can save this dud.
No actor is immune to the occasional stinker. But Tom Hanks was on such an incredible roll between 1992?s A League of Their Own and 2004?s The Ladykillers (a rare misfire for The Coen Brothers) that only one film -- You?ve Got Mail -- stands out like the proverbial turd in the punch bowl. In hindsight, we can understand why Hanks thought Mail might work. The project existed as a semi-sequel to Sleepless in Seattle, pairing Hanks with Meg Ryan under the guidance of Nora Ephron-- and to everyone's credit, it made a lot of cash. But coming out the same year as Saving Private Ryan only ensured that we wanted to return Mail to sender.
Full disclosure: we haven't actually seen this very, very underseen flop, but we did read The AV Club's marvelous "I Watched This On Purpose" piece about it, and we're confident they might be the only people who have seen it. And the clips they include seem reason enough to kindly forget this one on behalf of Hathaway, who starred in Rachel Getting Married just before Passengers got a very, very limited release, and was just about to get an Oscar nomination for it. Counting her for this supernatural thriller with a ludicrous twist ending in the midst of all that just seems cruel.
It's hard for any young actress to avoid the rom-com trap, but Amy Adams managed to hit that pothole at a particularly bad time, a few months after the release of the surprise hit Julie & Julia, and a little less than a year before The Fighter, which earned her a third Oscar nomination. Leap Year isn't an abominably bad rom-com, just a totally forgettable one that has Adams playing the kind of flighty, bossy heroine who makes people hate the entire genre. She's moved on to better things, which makes it all that much easier to forget this ever happened.
The terrific Tumblr This Had Oscar Buzz specializes in movies like this one, which seemed to have everything going for it on paper until, well, we actually saw the movie. The fact that Daniel Day-Lewis was actually in Nine while it was happening means he probably should have warned us it was never going to happen, but who can blame him for being optimistic-- coming off a win for There Will Be Blood, and a reputation for choosing his projects extremely carefully, he probably also thought it would be a slam dunk. It's not Day-Lewis's fault Nine is a mess, but it sure is embarrassing for all of us to remember he was in the center of it.
Yes, Tatum has a ton of embarrassing films on his resume, and may wind up with more to come. But The Son Of No One stings in particular because it came right after The Dilemma, a movie that was truly awful except for Tatum's bright-eyed, comic performance. We had just started to see Tatum's potential beyond "lovable meathead," and then this movie came around to put him right back in that box. Luckily so few people saw it that his meteoric rise, just a few months later, had no problem taking off.
2012 will probably be remembered as the year that Tom Hardy truly arrived, playing the terrifying Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and the roughhousing Forrest in Lawless, all after popping up in the dynamite ensemble of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Luckily all that quality means we can totally forget This Means War, Hardy's other 2012 movie that pitted him against Chris Pine as rival spies after the same girl, in a McG movie that both audiences and critics hated alike. Tom Hardy may yet have an action comedy that works for him-- he got all the good lines in Inception, after all-- and when that comes, we can properly pretend This Means War never happened.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1925792/news/1925792/
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