We look back at these special people who ruined movies just by showing up.
7. <strong>SOFIA COPPOLA, <em>THE GODFATHER PART III</em></strong>- Apparently, she knew the director. Mary Corleone is supposed to be so irresistibly hot her own cousin is obsessed with popping her gnocchi. Now take a good long look at Sofia. She's a handsome…woman?
6. <strong>DENISE RICHARDS, <em>THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH</em></strong>- When you think "world's top nuclear physicist," you naturally think of belly shirts, pouty lips, and a rack you couldn't take your eyes off of if your shirt caught fire. Even in the world of James Bond, this is beyond a stretch.
5. <strong>MICHAEL J. FOX, <em>CASUALTIES OF WAR</em></strong>- If you slathered Michael J. Fox in honey and dragged him through loose gravel there still wouldn't be an ounce of grittiness to him. So pitting him as a psychologically tortured Vietnam vet is like having Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now played by John Candy.
1. <strong>VINCE VAUGHN, <em>PSYCHO</em></strong>- Tall, handsome, quick with a one-liner, and smooth with the ladies… Sounds a lot like Norman Bates, huh? The paranoid, mother-obsessed motel owner should at least look like the kinda creep who talks to dead things and masturbates through holes in the wall. Vaughn just ended up looking like Trent from Swingers with a hangover.
8. <strong>LEONARDO DICAPRIO/CAMERON DIAZ, <em>GANGS OF NEW YORK</em></strong>- Two for one! Yes, sometimes even a great director like Martin Scorsese can screw the casting pooch. Leo's done some fine work for the furry little director, but Gangs was not it. If it were real life, Bill the Butcher would have been wearing his pelt as suspenders within five minutes of meeting him. And Cameron? If we knew poor street urchin pickpockets were 5-foot-8½-inch ex-models we would've stayed awake during history.
11. <strong>KEVIN COSTNER, <em>ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES</em></strong>- Charisma and an English accent is all Robin Hood has going for him. So when you strip those away, you get nothing but a shitty Renaissance Fair in movie form. Alan Rickman had to overact enough for six movies just to make this releasable in theaters.
10. <strong>ADAM SANDLER, <em>THE LONGEST YARD</em></strong>- There is no way in hell that a guy who looks like Adam Sandler ever played professional football, and we're including NFL Europe, the Canadian Football League, and Tecmo Super Bowl for Nintendo.
4. <strong>PARIS HILTON, <em>ONE NIGHT IN PARIS</em></strong>- "OK, in this scene, you're a dumb, vain hotel heiress slurping the nob of a wannabe Hollywood douche bag. Got it? Aaaaand…action!" "CUT! Paris… Can you try not to look so bored? And don't answer your phone… And, you know you're allowed to move during sex, right? Aw, to hell with it…"
3. <strong>JUDD NELSON, <em>NEW JACK CITY</em></strong>- Every time you see Judd's "loose cannon" vice cop, he's halfway hidden behind the Asian guy or Ice-T's bumba clot Rasta cap, delivering one of his three lines. He's a big 0–3 when it comes to this role's minimum requirement: Judd doesn't look tough, streetwise, or Italian. Not. Even. Close!
2. <strong>JACK BLACK, <em>KING KONG</em></strong>- In order for the events of King Kong to even get off the ground, you've got to believe that the crew of the Venture would follow the hopelessly obsessed but still charismatic film director Carl Denham into the darkest reaches of the uncharted world. Unless Kong is being played by Kyle Gass in a hair suit, there's no chance we're buying this.
9. <strong>ELISABETH SHUE, <em>LEAVING LAS VEGAS</em></strong>- A woman who earns her living the hard way on the Strip looks more like Nick Nolte in a weave than Ms. Clean. Even by the standards of the "movie prostitute" (you know: hot, disease-free, only turned two or three tricks before meeting the hero), Elisabeth fails to convince on any level. It's a shame, 'cause we totally buy Nic Cage as a drunken loser.
