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 John Travolta in Battlefield Earth (2000)
<p>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. </p> 103 139
2 Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004)
<p>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.</p> 101 155
3 Jon Voight in SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
<p>Voight really put a capstone on his legendary career by playing a villain whose plans for world conquest are thwarted by genius babies.</p> 56 122
4 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. 36 130
5 Ben Kinsgley in The Love Guru (2008)
<p>To his shame, the man who played Ghandi can be seen as a guru teaching Mike Myers how to unlock his chastity belt.&nbsp;</p> 32 110
6 Arnold Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin (1997)
<p>A tinted blue Arnold offers up bad pun after bad pun playing on the words "cold" and "freeze." Not funny. 25 141
7 Demi Moore in Striptease (1996)
<p>The over-the-hill Moore, while in great shape, still embarrassed herself by doing the strip scenes herself in the dreadful Striptease.</p> 25 129
8 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. 23 103
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. 20 144
10 Jamie Foxx in Stealth (2005)
<p>Foxx followed his Oscar win for Ray with a dreadful action movie in which he tries to defeat an evil fighter jet. Ugh.</p> 18 104