7 Horrible Film Vanity Projects
MagicHat
Published
03/17/2015
Stars get swept up in ego-driven pet projects that you must avoid at all costs.
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Battlefield Earth. Directly from L. Ron Hubbard's novel, John Travolta stars in this unmitigated vanity project pushing Scientology on the masses. Major Hollywood studios refused to have anything to do with this $80 million waste of time and effort. -
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Glitter. Not even an attempt to get at a decent plot or sweep you up with pretty much anything... except Mariah Carey. Her mug is on the screen almost the entire run time and critics place this one in the "so bad it might be good" category. But even that's only because of Carey's singing talents. -
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The Green Hornet. The saddest thing about this film is that everything about it was going beautifully until Seth Rogen came on as co-writer, executive producer, AND star. From then on it was all rewritten to spin around his face and douchey schtick, even to the level of overshadowing the very talented Christoph Waltz as the villain. -
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The Room. Tommy Wiseau was repeatedly rejected on this idea, so he ended up funding it himself from his own pocket. Pretty much a terrible melodrama about Tommy Wiseau and how he's this noble, wonderful, saint-like guy whose problems are worse than anyone else's. Another "so bad it's good" project that actually managed to accrue a cult following. -
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Swept Away. Madonna tried repeatedly to break through into film but her ego as a pop star would overshadow appropriate character acting. Then she married director Guy Ritchie and what we got was this remake of the 1974 film that completely flopped. -
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The Brown Bunny. Vincent Gallo may be able to perform ok as an actor, but when completely in charge of his own project he shows what he's really NOT capable of. The most compelling thing regarding this film was the fight he got into with Roger Ebert afterward, in which Ebert labelled the film "The worst in the history of Cannes." -
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The Postman. Critics called this one "Dances With Myself". It was considered a self-important project meant to keep Costner center-stage, after Waterworld made its money back thanks only to the theme park ride.
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