# REALLY Bad movies with big stars in them **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127 "2002-11-27T16:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/41 "2002-11-28T05:41:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*I love that movie (_Toys_). ::looks down sadly:: ☹ ☹ ☹ \*\* Don’t feel sad, **Flowerchild** … I love it too. So do many of my friends. You’re not alone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/42 "2002-11-28T05:46:10Z")
::Face Lights up:: 😃 🆒 🙂 😉 😛 😃 🆒 😉 :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/43 "2002-11-28T08:21:55Z")
Here are the rest: Matthew Broderick: _Inspector Gadget_ (4.14) Pierce Brosnan: _Entangled_ (4.73) Nicolas Cage: _Deadfall_ (3.43) Michael Caine: _Jaws: The Revenge_ (2.66) John Carradine: _Night Train to Mundo Fine_ (1.79) Jim Carrey (_Ace Ventura: Pet Detective_): _Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls_ (4.71) George Clooney: _Batman and Robin_ (3.61) Joan Collins: _The Bitch_ (3.13) Ronald Colman: _The Story of Mankind_ (5.42) Danny Devito: _Look Who’s Talking Now_ (3.66) Peter Finch: _Lost Horizon_ (4.48) Richard Gere: _Autumn in New York_ (4.73) John Gielgud: _Arthur 2: On the Rocks_ (3.64) Whoopi Goldberg: _Theodore Rex_ (2.71) Jeremy Irons: _Dungeons and Dragons_ (4.13) Samuel L. Jackson: _Hail Caesar_ (4.22) George Kennedy: _Bolero_ (2.76) Christopher Lambert: _Druides_ (2.88) Peter Lorre: _The Eternal Jew_ (4.36) Rob Lowe: _Crazy Six_ (2.68) Shirley MacLaine: _Cannonball Run II_ (3.78) Fred MacMurray: _The Swarm_ (3.85) Matthew McConaughey (_A Time to Kill_): _Welcome to Hollywood_ (5.07) Helen Mirren: _Caligula_ (4.45) Leslie Nielson: _2001: A Space Travesty_ (2.69) Edward Norton: _Death to Smoochy_ (6.61) Laurence Olivier: _Inchon_ (4.19) Brad Pitt: _Cool World_ (4.14) Vincent Price: _Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs_ (4.38) Keanu Reeves: _Even Cowgirls Get the Blues_ (4.09) Steven Seagal: _Ticker_ (3.27) Wil Smith: _Wild Wild West_ (4.01) Sharon Stone (_Total Recall_): _Where Sleeping Dogs Lie_ (4.25) Richard Widmark: _The Swarm_ (3.85) Robin Williams: _Club Paradise_ (4.33) Michael York: _The Omega Code_ (3.49) Renee Zellweger (_Jerry McGuire_): _The Bachelor_ (5.11) ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/44 "2002-11-28T16:51:34Z")
QUOTE]Matthew Broderick: Inspector Gadget [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > Renee Zellweger (Jerry McGuire): The Bachelor (5.11)[ > [@](#): > > Michael Caine: Jaws: The Revenge (2.66) > Brad Pitt: Cool World (4.14) I loved all of those movies.☹ ☹ ::tears swelling:: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/45 "2002-11-28T17:21:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MyFootsZZZ \* > \*\*The cast of “Mars Attacks!” \*\* Whaaaaaaaaaaa? That is one of my favorite movies!! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/46 "2002-11-28T17:22:54Z")
Is there any other major actor working today whose career is as inconsistent as John Travolta’s? Take a look at his IMDb entry. He’s appeared in several top films, and he’s done some first-rate acting in them. But he’s terrible at choosing roles, and most of the work he’s done has been in mediocre to awful films. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/47 "2002-11-28T17:27:29Z")
[Hercules in New York](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0065832) was hardly a stellar beginning to Arnie’s career ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/48 "2002-11-29T23:47:48Z")
I can’t believe that Sean Connery’s worst (Highlander II) and Richard Gere’s worst (Autumn in New York) isn’t, for both simultaneously, _First Knight_. The thought of that movie makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/49 "2002-11-29T23:54:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*Matthew Broderick: Inspector Gadget I loved all of those movies.☹ ☹ ::tears swelling:: \*\* [/QUOTE] There, there. I liked Inspector Gadget too. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/50 "2002-11-30T01:34:46Z")
**Brando** in: \*The Brave, Don Juan De marco, The Freshman \* **Fred Astair** The Dobermans Olivier was in Desperately Seeking Susan, but that is more nutty than deserving re the OP. DSS being a 1-2 star movie rather than half stars like the above ---
**Author:** ![EMT\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@EMT\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMT_Mike)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/51 "2002-11-30T07:46:46Z")
I second Mars Attacks! That was a terrible movie!! ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/52 "2002-11-30T13:04:10Z")
Wasn’t the _point_ of **Mars Attacks** to be a terrible movie? Or did it just seem that way to me because it couldn’t possibly have been meant seriously? ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/53 "2002-11-30T18:18:17Z")
I **love** Mars Attacks! Never before have so many people been whooshed by that movie! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/54 "2002-11-30T19:41:37Z")
Has anyone mentioned the Money Pit with Tom Hanks? ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/55 "2002-11-30T20:44:28Z")
I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Nothing but Trouble, but it may be that I blipped over it, it’s so bad. so wrong, & I laughed all the way through Mars Attacks. It’s best as a double bill after viewing Independence Day with Will Smith ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/56 "2002-11-30T22:14:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > **Jean-Claude Van Damme … _Street Fighter_ (3.13)** Ugh, wasn’t this Raul Julia’s last flick, too? That is sad. Especially since the trailer featured Raul shouting “Game over!” Indeed. Still, _Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_ is worse. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obfusciatrist \* > **John Carradine: Night Train to Mundo Fine (1.79)** aka _Red Zone Cuba_, aka _Guinistasia’s Favorite Movie of all Time_. Johnny even sang the theme song. Did a hell of a job too. _snort_ ---
**Author:** ![lazymexicanamerican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@lazymexicanamerican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazymexicanamerican)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/57 "2002-11-30T22:36:22Z")
people that have the star role in movies and their costars are making the big bucks Robert Caradine - Revenge of the Nerds He is now the father on a disney channel original series Lizzie McGuire. Where as Anthony Edwards is on ER. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127/58 "2002-12-01T05:21:55Z")
There was an MST3k film with James Earl Jones in it. I think it was called “City Limits”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movies-with-big-stars-in-them/139127.md?page=2)