Movies so bad they ended the careers of their stars(s)

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1. Alicia Silverstone; Batman and Robin (1997)

2. Jake Lord; Star Wars: Episode I. (1997)

3. Lindsay Lohan; The Canyons (2013)

? Others

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Sean Connery

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3. Rotten Tomatoes 17%

A sad way to finish an illustrious career.

[Grokenstein]

6. The ending was sadder than you might think.

[Kaleva]

23. Despite that, he was offered the role of Gandalf for a percentage of the profits.

He turned it down.

[Miguelito Loveless]

26. He turned down Gandalf in 1999 or 2000

and accepted LoEG in 2002.

Fellowship of the Ring came out in 2001, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003.

[Sibelius Fan]

4. And yet Jesse Eisenberg is still getting work...

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5. So is Natalie Portman

Hayden Christensen, not so much (The curse of Vader)

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9. To be fair

Natalie Portman is a great actress. Hayden was given a huge role and the bad script made Anakin look like a whiny bitch rather than a ruthless sith. It didn't ruin Ewan McGregor's career his career is doing pretty good. Same with Samuel L Jackson

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10. Given fan expectations,

playing Anakin was a near impossible task. The script did the rest.

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7. Brendan Fraiser

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I honestly adore this man. But he got ruined due to one thing he did at an awards show. He laughed and made a gun finger sorta. Also his ex completely drained him since she was a gold digging harpy. He is getting roles again thankfully now.

But poor Jake Lloyd. A lot of man childs attacked him for his role despite the script was awful. He was bullied in school and it just turn him into a mentally unstable person. Also the actor who did jar jar nearly committed suicide over the hate. These are the same man children that simp over Gina what's her face.

Alicia Silverstone still gets work. If that movie didn't ruin Clooney's or Schwarzenegger's careers, it didn't ruin hers.

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11. Brendan was wounded but carried on.

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16. Hamstrung more like it

But Doom Patrol brought him back

[Grokenstein]

8. I'm more into "You came out of retirement to make THAT?"

Disaster movies are full of examples.

Martha Raye:

Fred MacMurray:

Another category: "Be careful, the next film you make might be your last!"

Peter Sellers:

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12. +!

[MFM008]

13. Michael Caine.

Has been in almost every movie that's come out in the past few years so being in one or two bad ones hasn't hurt his career at all

[LeftInTX]

15. He's been cranking out movies ever since I can remember

I personally don't like him......

[Lithos]

14. Mike Meyers - The Love Guru

You should also include movies so good or somehow opinionated that it killed the career from the backlash.

Ex: Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator

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17. Ohhh it wasn't just that movie

Cat in the Hat. It was so bad that the spouse of dr. Seuss prevented any other studio from making anymore adaptions of his books

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22. and Dana Carvey

Master of Disguise - 1% on the Tomatometer

[Angleae]

18. Catwoman - Halle Berry

[Jeebo]

19. Joan Crawford, "Trog" (1970)

It was her last movie.

-- Ron

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20. IMDB 3.9

A stinker?

[Skittles]

21. C. Thomas Howell, Soul Man

I did see him on Bosch recently.

Lindsay Lohan - meh, her career was ruined by her addictions, not by any one movie.

[PJMcK]

24. Does this count?

Elizabeth Berkley in SHOW GIRLS.

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25. Show Girls is in a category all of it's own.

It was the last NC-17 movie that made any money, and the last major release when NC-17 meant 17 or over.

Since NC-17 was raised to 18+, no release has made more than $5 million.