I’m just reading that page and it’s kind of horrifying: a whole page of nominations and awards for being a terrible, terrible film…and an award for “Top Box Office Films”. What is wrong with people?
I don’t understand that page. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER came out that year, and made a bigger profit thanks to a bigger box-office gross; FAST FIVE, likewise; and BRIDESMAIDS, too; plus HORRIBLE BOSSES; why pass over those for this?
(Heck, TRANSFORMERS: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON cracked the billion-dollar mark that year, and looks to be a less bad movie than JACK AND JILL, so – huh?)
Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 from outer space. He was only in a few scenes since he died while it was being made.
He went full retard in** I Am Sam**?
Lead role in what may have been a comic book franchise movie? It’s not hard to figure out why she took it. Turned out to be a dog, but she may not have known that DC does not grok female superheroes at all. Or maybe she thought their cluelessness wouldn’t translate into the movie. But it’s hard to see it as a total misjudgement, unlike most of the films being nominated here.
Beat me to it. His “by God, I am going to give them a PERFORMANCE” performance is one of the wonderful things about that film.
Am I right in remembering that he never actually appears in a scene with anyone else - he’s always on the “holographic link” or some such? Obviously shot on a black set for later compositing?
Monster’s Ball, of course. You’re completely right. 
Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield in the eponymous live/animated film. Gah.
Murray has spoken at length about how much he hated that film, and consider: he ended up rewriting the script because the original one was so much worse. The mind boggles. (Also, wasn’t there a joke in Zombieland about him regretting Garfield?)
I don’t think this qualifies given he was nominated for a damn Oscar for it.
I came to say Raul Julia in Street Fighter, but since that was taken, how about Raul Julia in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank?
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I’d think the best answers would be like Welles in “Transformers”, Raul Julia in “Overdrawn at the Memory bank” (though admittedly that was one of the films where I wanted the Bots to shut up so I could hear)
Denzel Washington in “Carbon Copy”, stuff like that…
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Sir Laurence Olivier took a series of “make the check out to CASH” roles in the 1970s and 80s.
Clash of the Titans
Inchon
The Jazz Singer
The Boys from Brazil
That last one is especially notable because it starred Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele which IMHO, beats** Boyo Jim’s** nomination of Paint Your Wagon for double-plus ungoodness.
An actor doing a job for the check, based on a “comic” strip developed from scratch to be a paycheck, by an “artist” so cynical he studied marketing more than art in launching the strip… and promptly hired a boiler room of drones to churn the stuff out… following rigid “amusing but not too funny” guidelines.
Sounds about right.
Must be a generational thing. And Paint Your Wagon gets more points because there was a whole scene on the Simpsons with Bart and Homer being horrified by it.
At the time Olivier was honest about taking all kinds of roles so he could leave a large estate to his family after he died
“Virtuosity” was not the best movie but how did either Washington or Crowe ill-choose their roles? Denzel Washington played a cop chasing a bad guy, hardly a risky role or something he can’t do. Crowe played the villain, which seems well within his scope of capabilities. Both men did very well with what they were given.
From ASCAP - Who licences music for use in Film and TV. I bet Jack and Jill was the top gross for films using all ASCAP artists.
Isn’t that an early role and counted out by the OP?
Yes, there is.
They all nod, knowing that movie sucked. He even did a second one. Hey, he needs money, too.
A page and a half and no one has mentioned Bruce Willis and Hudson Hawk? Of course, that was Willis’ own project, so I don’t know if it counts.
I see why that movie failed, but not because it was all that bad. Just strange.