Worst Career Choices by Big-Time Actors
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Worst Career Choices by Big-Time Actors

Even stars like Robert De Niro and Jamie Foxx make huge mistakes in the roles/projects they choose. Which actor made the biggest misstep?

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1 Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004)

A horrible movie with a horrible costume that bombed horribly at the box office. At least Berry accepted her Razzie's while holding her Oscar.

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2 John Travolta in Battlefield Earth (2000)

He can't quite hide behind the heavy makeup he wore to play an alien in this adaptation of a book by Scientology's founder.

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3 Robert De Niro in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
Seeing the star of Raging Bull attempting to defeat an animated moose and squirrel is simply, and unfortunately, unforgettable.
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4 Christopher Walken in The Country Bears (2002)
Having a reputation to uphold didn't stop Walken from playing the villain out to scam The Country Bears.
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5 Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (1997)

A tinted blue Arnold offers up bad pun after bad pun playing on the words "cold" and "freeze." Not funny. 4 34

6 Jon Voight in SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

Voight really put a capstone on his legendary career by playing a villain whose plans for world conquest are thwarted by genius babies.

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7 Ben Kinsgley in The Love Guru (2008)

To his shame, the man who played Ghandi can be seen as a guru teaching Mike Myers how to unlock his chastity belt. 

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8 Jamie Foxx in Stealth (2005)

Foxx followed his Oscar win for Ray with a dreadful action movie in which he tries to defeat an evil fighter jet. Ugh.

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9 Will Smith in Wild, Wild West (1999)
Despite success before (Men in Black) and after (Ali), Smith's performance and theme song for Wild, Wild West remains a blight on his resume.
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10 Demi Moore in Striptease (1996)

The over-the-hill Moore, while in great shape, still embarrassed herself by doing the strip scenes herself in the dreadful Striptease.

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