Celebrating Mediocrity: The 10 Living Oscar Winners Who’ve Since Made At Least 5 Straight Rotten Films
07.25.11 at 3:26 pm
La Schmoove
I would’ve bet the farm that Halle Berry & Adrian Brody made the list.
And Cuba Gooding….Jesus H. How do you go from Oscar winner to accepting scripts Brendan Fraser doesn’t want?
07.25.11 at 3:45 pm
Maske
Cuba Gooding’s agent makes Gerard Butler’s agent look like a GD genius.
07.25.11 at 3:59 pm
Melodie
Dude, F. Murray Abraham. F. Murray Abraham forever. The guy is an unstoppable crap rocket.
07.25.11 at 4:05 pm
Dustin Rowles
La Schmoove: I would’ve thought those two, as well, but neither extended past 3 consecutive bad films (since their respective Oscars). On the other hand, Melodie: You’re absolutely right. I completely forgot about that guy, but he does have 8 consecutive crap rockets (and if you count straight to DVD, it’s something like eleventy billion)
07.25.11 at 4:20 pm
Randomhookup
Affleck’s Oscar isn’t for acting — it’s for screenwriting.
07.25.11 at 4:35 pm
pjlawrence
I don’t think Julia Roberts applies, because she made those movies before she won her Oscar, and, honestly, “The Pelican Brief” was a decent film.
07.25.11 at 4:36 pm
The Cajun Boy
@Random…We have a standing “never pass up a chance to crack on ben affleck” policy around here.
07.25.11 at 4:48 pm
Burnsy
@WhitneyKristinaBeckerRosalind34345488
Nice try, but Toshiba hasn’t won any Oscars.
07.25.11 at 6:23 pm
Patty Boots
I’m pretty sure that Cuba Gooding, Jr. didn’t even have an agent for a while.
And damn, Kevin Spacey, get it together. What was the last good thing he was in? Moon? And that was just voicing a robot.
07.25.11 at 9:06 pm
Simplebay
Men of Honor wasn’t a garbage movie
07.26.11 at 12:16 am
Slothrop
Golden Compass, while not 35% off the awesomeness of the novel, is still pretty good.
Kidman was just wrong for the role. It requires the capacity for showing emotion.
07.26.11 at 12:58 am
Joey
I love me some Rotten Tomatoes, but I’m not sure it was the best source for these movies. Although none are classics, I wouldn’t call Golden Compass, Pelican Brief, Something to Talk About, Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Night at the Museum, or Men of Honor “rotten.” They’re all pretty solid and some are even pretty good. Also, how many times was Robin Williams in The Big White?
07.26.11 at 6:16 am
Julie Gough
JULIA ROBERTS – come on! – Pelican Brief was GREAT also Sleeping with the Enemy was terrifically scary too.
07.26.11 at 8:09 am
FlyBry
“The Big White” was counted twice on the Robin Williams part, so that would be 12.
Also, on the Pesci page, I find it hard to believe that “The Good Shephard” is considered rotten. It’s a solid film, directed nicely by De Niro.
07.26.11 at 10:05 am
Erswi
Robin Williams is a genius. How the hell did he manage to get the same movie on the list twice?
07.26.11 at 10:16 am
Taco_Jones
This whole list is B.S. because of one egregious inclusion. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag is a modern day classic.
07.26.11 at 10:23 am
jcoa
What a slapdash, error-filled article. The Big Kahuna is actually a great movie and got a fresh rating on RT. Pay It Forward wasn’t half-bad either until it went off the rails at the end.
07.26.11 at 10:31 am
Finnegan T. Dressup
Ummm… Nic Cage?
07.26.11 at 12:19 pm
thedropoff
Margot at the Wedding should probably not be on this list. It’s one of my favorite performances from Nicole Kidman.
Cuba Gooding Jr. needs to get it together. It is never EVER acceptable to take over Eddie Murphy’s role from a movie so bad that even he wouldn’t reprise it.
07.26.11 at 1:16 pm
Robert
Hey Dustin,
Marissa’s Academy Award-nominated performance for the wonderful film In The Bedroom came out after Someone like You.
07.26.11 at 1:45 pm
Noah Baumbach
Margot at the Wedding should not be on this list
07.26.11 at 2:03 pm
MrSparkle07
Hook is a rotten film? Fuck off
07.26.11 at 4:51 pm
Okuma
This list just solidly confirms why I hate Rotten Tomatoes and everyone on that site. How the FUCK does “Let the Right One In” have a 98% fresh? That movie was utter garbage, terrible pacing, schizophrenic cuts, random inclusion of characters that were there just to hammer home the “HEY DID YOU FIGURE OUT SHE’S A VAMPIRE YET!?” angle. Stupid, terrible movie. RT is a shit site. Men of Honor was a great movie.
07.26.11 at 5:56 pm
Arrogant Bastard
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought Boat Trip was hilarious and Roselyn Sanchez was out-of-this-world hot in it.
Seems like all comedies are allegedly bad movies to RT.
07.26.11 at 7:11 pm
Ghoastly Behaviour
HALLE BERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
07.26.11 at 7:14 pm
Joe
You guys gotta update this. “Home on the Range” for Cuba was a little-known, little-seen Disney animated film.
07.26.11 at 8:01 pm
Liz
Point of information: Gary Oldman’s never even been nominated for an Oscar.
“You guys gotta update this. “Home on the Range” for Cuba was a little-known, little-seen Disney animated film.”
@Joe AND it was pretty clearly stated that he wasn’t counting animated films.
07.26.11 at 9:29 pm
Mainer
Pay it forward was a pretty damned good movie. I saw a few faggots crying during it.
07.26.11 at 11:19 pm
WTF
HOOK? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? DON’T SHIT ON MY CHILDHOOD. I still watch that movie and bask in its glory. This list is dildos and you should be ashamed. Also, RT is shit.
Suck a bag of dicks, good sir.
07.27.11 at 12:35 am
chylve
You doubled up on Night Listener for Robin Williams…
07.27.11 at 2:24 am
Sean
Gary Oldman hasn’t won an Oscar. He hasn’t even been nominated.
07.28.11 at 3:49 pm
OMG
wait, what?
According to Rotten Tomatoes – The Shipping News, K-Pax, Hook, Analyze That, Man of the Year… suck?
Well, I could say majority of Rotten Tomatoes’ users suck too.
Everyone has right to have his one artistic tastes, no matter how distorted. However it’s not the reason to brag about them.
07.29.11 at 2:32 am
Mara
Okay, so after the ten minutes it took me of staring at Nicole Kidman’s picture…
Is it fair to count Kevin Spacey for Goldmember when he was in it for all of fifteen seconds? That movie sucked with or without him.
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I would’ve bet the farm that Halle Berry & Adrian Brody made the list.
And Cuba Gooding….Jesus H. How do you go from Oscar winner to accepting scripts Brendan Fraser doesn’t want?
Cuba Gooding’s agent makes Gerard Butler’s agent look like a GD genius.
Dude, F. Murray Abraham. F. Murray Abraham forever. The guy is an unstoppable crap rocket.
La Schmoove: I would’ve thought those two, as well, but neither extended past 3 consecutive bad films (since their respective Oscars). On the other hand, Melodie: You’re absolutely right. I completely forgot about that guy, but he does have 8 consecutive crap rockets (and if you count straight to DVD, it’s something like eleventy billion)
Affleck’s Oscar isn’t for acting — it’s for screenwriting.
I don’t think Julia Roberts applies, because she made those movies before she won her Oscar, and, honestly, “The Pelican Brief” was a decent film.
@Random…We have a standing “never pass up a chance to crack on ben affleck” policy around here.
@WhitneyKristinaBeckerRosalind34345488
Nice try, but Toshiba hasn’t won any Oscars.
I’m pretty sure that Cuba Gooding, Jr. didn’t even have an agent for a while.
And damn, Kevin Spacey, get it together. What was the last good thing he was in? Moon? And that was just voicing a robot.
Men of Honor wasn’t a garbage movie
Golden Compass, while not 35% off the awesomeness of the novel, is still pretty good.
Kidman was just wrong for the role. It requires the capacity for showing emotion.
I love me some Rotten Tomatoes, but I’m not sure it was the best source for these movies. Although none are classics, I wouldn’t call Golden Compass, Pelican Brief, Something to Talk About, Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Night at the Museum, or Men of Honor “rotten.” They’re all pretty solid and some are even pretty good. Also, how many times was Robin Williams in The Big White?
JULIA ROBERTS – come on! – Pelican Brief was GREAT also Sleeping with the Enemy was terrifically scary too.
“The Big White” was counted twice on the Robin Williams part, so that would be 12.
Also, on the Pesci page, I find it hard to believe that “The Good Shephard” is considered rotten. It’s a solid film, directed nicely by De Niro.
Robin Williams is a genius. How the hell did he manage to get the same movie on the list twice?
This whole list is B.S. because of one egregious inclusion. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag is a modern day classic.
What a slapdash, error-filled article. The Big Kahuna is actually a great movie and got a fresh rating on RT. Pay It Forward wasn’t half-bad either until it went off the rails at the end.
Ummm… Nic Cage?
Margot at the Wedding should probably not be on this list. It’s one of my favorite performances from Nicole Kidman.
Cuba Gooding Jr. needs to get it together. It is never EVER acceptable to take over Eddie Murphy’s role from a movie so bad that even he wouldn’t reprise it.
Hey Dustin,
Marissa’s Academy Award-nominated performance for the wonderful film In The Bedroom came out after Someone like You.
Margot at the Wedding should not be on this list
Hook is a rotten film? Fuck off
This list just solidly confirms why I hate Rotten Tomatoes and everyone on that site. How the FUCK does “Let the Right One In” have a 98% fresh? That movie was utter garbage, terrible pacing, schizophrenic cuts, random inclusion of characters that were there just to hammer home the “HEY DID YOU FIGURE OUT SHE’S A VAMPIRE YET!?” angle. Stupid, terrible movie. RT is a shit site. Men of Honor was a great movie.
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought Boat Trip was hilarious and Roselyn Sanchez was out-of-this-world hot in it.
Seems like all comedies are allegedly bad movies to RT.
HALLE BERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys gotta update this. “Home on the Range” for Cuba was a little-known, little-seen Disney animated film.
Point of information: Gary Oldman’s never even been nominated for an Oscar.
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“You guys gotta update this. “Home on the Range” for Cuba was a little-known, little-seen Disney animated film.”
@Joe AND it was pretty clearly stated that he wasn’t counting animated films.
Pay it forward was a pretty damned good movie. I saw a few faggots crying during it.
HOOK? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? DON’T SHIT ON MY CHILDHOOD. I still watch that movie and bask in its glory. This list is dildos and you should be ashamed. Also, RT is shit.
Suck a bag of dicks, good sir.
You doubled up on Night Listener for Robin Williams…
Gary Oldman hasn’t won an Oscar. He hasn’t even been nominated.
wait, what?
According to Rotten Tomatoes – The Shipping News, K-Pax, Hook, Analyze That, Man of the Year… suck?
Well, I could say majority of Rotten Tomatoes’ users suck too.
Everyone has right to have his one artistic tastes, no matter how distorted. However it’s not the reason to brag about them.
Okay, so after the ten minutes it took me of staring at Nicole Kidman’s picture…
Is it fair to count Kevin Spacey for Goldmember when he was in it for all of fifteen seconds? That movie sucked with or without him.
/nitpicking