What was the film that killed an actor's popularity?

[Captain Kirk]

I had no idea John Cusack went on a downward spiral. 1408 and Hot Tub Time Machine did fairly well and The Raven really wasn't that bad.

[RyanPom]

Will Smith - After Earth
Drive - Ryan Gosling
Batman and Robin - Chris o Donnell
Total Recall - Collin Ferrel
Bling Ring - Emma Watson

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by RyanPom

Will Smith - After Earth
Drive - Ryan Gosling
Batman and Robin - Chris o Donnell
Total Recall - Collin Ferrel
Bling Ring - Emma Watson

All of these films came out way too recently for them to have any sort of tangible effect on those actors' careers.

Except Batman & Robin/Chris O'Donnell. You're 100% right about that one.

[RyanPom]

Originally Posted by Gate

All of these films came out way too recently for them to have any sort of tangible effect on those actors' careers.

Except Batman & Robin/Chris O'Donnell. You're 100% right about that one.

Ryan Goslings career hasn't taken off yet. He also did that terrible Gangster movie.

[King Troll]

Originally Posted by RyanPom

Will Smith - After Earth
Drive - Ryan Gosling
Batman and Robin - Chris o Donnell
Total Recall - Collin Ferrel
Bling Ring - Emma Watson

Bling ring came out 2 weeks ago how did it kill a career

[remake]

Hairspray put the nail in the coffin of John Travolta's career.

[NYGiants Fan]

Originally Posted by RyanPom

Will Smith - After Earth
Drive - Ryan Gosling
Batman and Robin - Chris o Donnell
Total Recall - Collin Ferrel
Bling Ring - Emma Watson

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If you want to say Ryan Gosling hasn't done anything good SINCE "Drive", that's one thing. But to say that "Drive" was the reason for his loss of popularity (?) is just preposterous. It may not have been a financial success, but it was VERY highly received and reviewed by critics and the public alike.

[jamesdevil]

Drive came out less than 2 years ago and since then he has two movies releasing in 2013, working with Terrence Malick and then is writing and directing his own film. Clearly his career has gone off the rails.

[King Troll]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

Drive came out less than 2 years ago and since then he has two movies releasing in 2013, working with Terrence Malick and then is writing and directing his own film. Clearly his career has gone off the rails.

No he was in gangster squad so his career MUST be over

lol

[RyanPom]

Originally Posted by jamesdevil

Drive came out less than 2 years ago and since then he has two movies releasing in 2013, working with Terrence Malick and then is writing and directing his own film. Clearly his career has gone off the rails.

I thought he said he was taking a break from acting??

[BluPat]

An actress that kinda went off the radar after a certain movie was Faye Dunaway after starring in 'Mommie Dearest'.

[RyanPom]

Originally Posted by BluPat

An actress that kinda went off the radar after a certain movie was Faye Dunaway after starring in 'Mommie Dearest'.

Actually, I think Supergirl pretty much sealed her career.

[jamesdevil]

Originally Posted by BluPat

An actress that kinda went off the radar after a certain movie was Faye Dunaway after starring in 'Mommie Dearest'.

Barfly

[EricJ]

Remember when Whoopi Goldberg used to headline movies before "The Associate"?
It was her own vanity Wish-Fulfillment movie, and a little too much information: Before, she was the default hip-wisecracking jive everywoman...After, she was the deranged, antagonistic, off-the-rails, racially-paranoid lesbian avenger.

Originally Posted by MEB

Johnny Depp: Around 2013 and the The Lone Ranger

Wait-wait-whooooah, hold on, hold on here, you're saying "Dark Shadows" DIDN'T happen?
The camel's-straw movie that finally stopped Depp and Tim Burton's "unstoppable" careers in their tracks? Think that wasn't exactly 2013...

(But when is some movie going to kill off Will Smith's career?
Thought it was going to happen after Hancock, and then Seven Pounds...Watch, even After Earth's probably not even going to do it!)

[RyanPom]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Remember when Whoopi Goldberg used to headline movies before "The Associate"?

Or how about Harrison Ford? I'd say after Sabrina went off the rails he took a break.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by RyanPom

Or how about Harrison Ford? I'd say after Sabrina went off the rails he took a break.

No, I wasn't talking box-office "off-the-rails"; he played a normal character in Sabrina...If Ford turned into a raving lunatic off the set around that time, or used the movie to stump some crackpot tinfoil social/political cause of his own, I must've missed it.

(Sigourney Weaver's career did eventually bounce back after "Gorillas in the Mist", though, if you call Avatar 100% "back". Although that was more James Cameron's fault, and Gorillas was her own.)

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Remember when Whoopi Goldberg used to headline movies before "The Associate"?
It was her own vanity Wish-Fulfillment movie, and a little too much information: Before, she was the default hip-wisecracking jive everywoman...After, she was the deranged, antagonistic, off-the-rails, racially-paranoid lesbian avenger.

I can't quite put my finger on it but there's something vaguely racist/sexist/homophobic about this post. Quite a trifecta!

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Gate

I can't quite put my finger on it but there's something vaguely racist/sexist/homophobic about this post. Quite a trifecta!

Judge not before ye see the trailer:

[Show spoiler]

The Associate - YouTube

(Of course, for marketing purposes, the trailer doesn't actually show Whoopi in androphobic reverse-racist pounds of old-white-man latex makeup, a la Eddie Murphy in Coming to America, but you get the general drift--You want "racist" and "sexist"?...You GOT 'em, sister!)

Originally Posted by Gate

"Remember when I was Batman?"

(Eek...I remember when he was Nick Rivers, not John Goodman.)

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Remember when Whoopi Goldberg used to headline movies before "The Associate"?
It was her own vanity Wish-Fulfillment movie, and a little too much information: Before, she was the default hip-wisecracking jive everywoman...After, she was the deranged, antagonistic, off-the-rails, racially-paranoid lesbian avenger.



Wait-wait-whooooah, hold on, hold on here, you're saying "Dark Shadows" DIDN'T happen?
The camel's-straw movie that finally stopped Depp and Tim Burton's "unstoppable" careers in their tracks? Think that wasn't exactly 2013...

(But when is some movie going to kill off Will Smith's career?
Thought it was going to happen after Hancock, and then Seven Pounds...Watch, even After Earth's probably not even going to do it!)

so your saying that it wasnt Theodore Rex that killed whoopis career?? lol

[JavaJulien]

Originally Posted by EricJ

(But when is some movie going to kill off Will Smith's career?
Thought it was going to happen after Hancock, and then Seven Pounds...Watch, even After Earth's probably not even going to do it!)

The thing is, how often is Will actually blamed for being the bad part of the film. Hancock was actually praised as being pretty good up until the stupid plot twist from the third act and Seven Pounds was just treated like the failed Oscar Bait it was. For both Wild Wild West and After Earth, it's his co-star (Kevin Kline and Jaden Smith respective) that got the blunt of bad press.

That's my long way of saying until Will Smith does an outright reviled solo-movie (or let his association with Scientology warp his persona like it did to Tom Cruise) he's pretty safe.

Originally Posted by ForEver Blu

Charlie Sheen seems to be an exception.

For all the ****ery he has done throughout his career, people still love him.

:shrugs shoulders:

And that really rubs me the wrong way. Any other celebrity, you're Lindsay Lohan's, Amanda Bynes', Chris Brown's, they're all treated to ridicule for their action but Charlie Sheen gets propped up because "lol tiger blood."