In October 1980, my freshman year, I was the Baron in the college production. We all loved the play & thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Spring 1981, the movie was all TV so we all had a party to watch it… and were appalled how bad it was.
Sinise, Robbins, Cheadle in what is close to the worst movie ever made.
Braaaaiinns!!!
A very young george Clooney in “Return of the Killer Tomatoes.”
Let’s not forget that Peter O’Toole played King Priam in that same mess. (At least Young Orlando got to put Brad Pitt out of his misery.) O’Toole also has a role in the as yet unreleased Thomas Kinkade’s Home For Christmas.
My Favorite Year was on TCM last weekend. “'With Swann, you forgive a lot, you know?”
Donald Sutherland, like Donald Pleasance, Laurence Olivier (at the end of his life), John Carradine, Michael Caine, and others, apparently never saw a film script he didn’t mind appearing in. So he’s been in a lot of excellent films, and a lot of mediocre films, and some appallingly bad ones. There’s no other way to explain Gas or The Trouble with Spies (both of which I got talked into seeing because they had Donald Sutherland in them)
I recall reading an interview where he said he’d done Eragon and* D&D* because his son was a fan and thought it would be cool.
Well, what about someone who’s near total body of works was in the cheese section of the movies? But who was still a good technical actor, and in the words of one reviewer, “Was often the best of many a bad movie.”
I’m talking John Candy. He made some movies that I think one could call good, but most of the films he was in were doog. Still fun to watch, but guilty pleasures all along.
Charles Bronson in the “Death Wish” series. I know, Bronson wasn’t anybody’s idea of a great actor. But “Mr. Majestic,” “St. Ives” and “Once Upon A Time In The West” were good movies worthy of his tough guy posturing.
Every single person associated with the film 1941.
What were they thinking?
Wait, she acted in something other than Road to Avonlea? 
Robert De Niro in Rocky & Bullwinkle
Oh. My. Og.
Oh, it goes WAYYYY beyond “Good Actor in Bad Movie”.
De Niro was the Producer of that film. In other words, he’s responsible for the thing even existing:
While I think that de Niro had excellent taste in reviving a classic show (and while I would’ve cast him as Fearless Leader – heck, he looks more like the Pottsylvanian leader than any other actor I could name), it wasn’t well done, overall. If they’d lived up to the show, I would’ve applauded it.
Jack Black, Nicole Kidman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in the unwatchable Margot at the Wedding. Great cast–completely wasted. I should have known better, since I hated the director’s earlier work, The Squid and the Whale ,too.
Yes, I have.
What was his excuse for The Time Machine?
How about **Sir Anthony Hopkins ** in Freejack?
Every single thing Dustin Hoffman has done in the last twenty years, and a lot of the things before that too. Take away the high points and his career is a series of suck.
I despair when I see an actor of Vincent D’Onofrio’s calibre squandering his talents doing a third-rate Columbo impersonation on Criminal Intent
Jeffrey Combs. Ok, he’s not a marquee name, but he’s just too talented to be stuck in horror movies!
Especially when he can be an intergalactic cockroach.
Kelli Maroney was very good in Night Of The Comet. I thought she was going to do well. She spent her entire career being the b movie scream queen.