Big Top Pee-Wee (1988) Benicio Del Toro
The Terrible Film: A sequel to Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure , which sees the manchild find a circus recently blown onto his farm, before deciding to🍌 put on his very own sh▨ow. Could happen.
The Great Actor: Oscar winning star of such heavyweight fare as Traffic, 21 Grams and Che: Parts One and Two , as well as more mainstream successes like Snatch, Sin City and The Usual Suspects .
When Bad Filmmaking Meets Brilliant Acting: Benecio Del Toro plays Duke The Dog-Faced Boy, which has to be one of the more embarrassing film debuts in the history of cinema. Still, maybe he can count it towards ‘research’ for The Wolfman ?
Hush (1998) Jessica Lange
The Terrible Film: Essentially, this is a thriller about an over-protective mother who doesn’t want her son to move away with his pregnant girlfriend (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) and so begins bullying her to the 🌌point of physical assault. All while the son ꦕremains clueless.
The Great Actor: The winner of two Oscars, five Golden Globes and two Emmys, Lange is a hugely acclaimed actress and star of such films as Tootsie, Frances, Cape Fear and Big Fish .
When Bad Filmmaking Meets Brilliant Acting: In a 🍸film riddled with stupendous script turns and cringeworthy clichés, Lange manages to at least add layers to her psychotic mother figu𝔍re, making her seem at times sympathetic, even when she’s doing the most outrageously awful things.
My Boyfriends Back (1993) Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Terrible Film: Comedy horror about a teenage boy who returns from the dead and meets the love of his life Missy McCloud for date... des🀅pit෴e being a zombie.
Basically Warm Bodies meets Weekend At Bernie’s .
The Great Actor: With an Oscar win to his name, as well as three noms and three Tony Award nominations, Hoffman is an actor that started his career playing oddball characters like in those in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Almost Famous , before moving on to acclaimed dramatic leading roles like those in Doubt, The Master and Synecdoche, New York .
When Bad Filmmaking Meets Brilliant Acting: Hoffman plays the obnoxious sidekick to a young Matthew Fox in a film th♊at is really only notable for feꦡaturing a bunch of A-listers in before-they-were-famous roles.
Private Resort (1985) Johnny Depp
The Terrible Film: A ‘comic teen sex romp’ starring Johnny Depp in his first lead role as a one of two young men on the prowl for girls at a posh Miami resort that get caught up in a jewel theft instead. 🍷Don’t worry though, there’s still g𓆉ratuitous topless shots aplenty.
The Great Actor: Three-time Oscar nominee who is more famous for eschewing typically heavyweight roles in order to play eccentric characters such as those꧂ Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, Mad Hatter and Willy Wonka.
When Bad Filmmaking Meets Brilliant Acting: It’s humourless, bawdy titillation and nothing more, but luckily Depp comes out of the 🦹film relatively unscathed, playing the slightly more cool one of the two horny teens.
