2019 was the year of some of the biggest and best movies, from The Irishman, to Avengers:
Endgame, to Once Upon A time in Hollywood, to Booksmart, to Marriage Story, the list
is quite literally endless.
However, not every movie is a hit, with there being an even longer list of movies that flopped
this year.
So today on Top 10 Beyond The Screen, I’m going to be counting down our list of the
Top 10 Biggest Acting Fails Of 2019 You Won't Believe.
Before we begin though, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be
responding to some of your comments, and with that, let’s jump in.
10 Sylvester Stallone - Rambo: Last Blood I mean, Rambo is always a fun time, no matter
how old Sylvester Stallone gets, however, I think we have finally reached the final
stretch with Rambo: Last Blood, which shows off how ungracefully he has aged.
It’s hard to keep a franchise going when the first movie was about the onetime symbol
of post-Vietnam resentment.
This is now non-existent.
The movie is tedious and oddly sadistic, and of course with any Stallone movie, for the
most part it’s mumbled dialogue.
This movie is truly bloodthirsty, with one scene showing our hero torturing, impaling,
decapitating a whole load of dudes.
The film was unnecessary carnage, and it’s getting about time for Stallone to hang up
his knives and hat.
9 Stanley Tucci - The Silence The Silence is not just one of the worst movies
of the year, but one of the worst movies of the decade, and that’s saying a lot.
The film centers on the world under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human
prey by sound.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, dollar store Quiet Place.
Come for me, I dare you!
Now, it’s surprising this movie failed considering it had stars such as Stanley Tucci, Kiernan
Shipka and Miranda Otto.
However, none of them could save it, if anything, each and every one of them is terrible.
Sorry not sorry.
Not to mention the movie lacks any real suspense and is not scary in the slightest.
It also lacks character development, ambiance, and originality, considering it stole it’s
story from John Krazinski.
8 Matthew McConaughey - Serenity You’ve probably heard of Serenity, but probably
have no idea when it was released, who it stars, and what it’s about.
Well, the movie was of course released in 2019 and starred Matthew McConaughey, Anne
Hathaway, and Diane Lane.
Stellar cast, right?
Well, sadly, as you would expect, the movie was hot trash, not even hot trash, cold, stale
trash you left out overnight.
It centers on a fishing boat captain who juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself
ensnared in a reality when nothing is what it seems.
Even the plot makes absolutely no sense.
The only reason to watch the movie is for the huge twist at the end, which is also as
cold as the left out trash.
It is a film about murder, seduction, more murder, and then sprinkle in some sci-fi surprise.
Yeah, the movie is all over the place, and was a waste of mine and Matthew McConaughey’s
time.
It was bad, he was bad.
We’re all bad.
7 Bryan Cranston - The Upside We have mentioned The Upside a couple of times
on our channel, simply because it is truly a terrible movie.
It is a remake of the 2011 French smash-hit, The Intouchables, which everyone loved, and
of course, Hollywood loves to capitalize on other people’s success, so they introduced
us to an english language version, and it was utter trash.
The movie itself is about a wealthy quadriplegic played by Bryan Cranston, who requires a caretaker
to help him with his day-to-day routine.
So, he hires Dell, playing by Kevin Hart.
Unlike the French version, this remake is completely shallow, manipulative, and for
2hrs is demanding all of your feelings by force.
Bryan Cranston couldn’t even save this movie, and I’m thinking he has major regrets around
about now.
6 Hilary Duff - The Haunting of Sharon Tate Oh Hilary Duff, our favorite Disney Channel
star, Lizzie MaGuire if you will.
She returned out of the ashes to star in what I guess was supposed to be a great horror
movie about Sharon Tate and the Manson Family, of course capitalizing off of Once Upon A
Time In Hollywood, however, it didn’t work out too well for the former Disney star.
It of course centers on the murder of Sharon Tate, however, it descends into something
more along the lines of a Supernatural horror movie, with Charles Manson clad in denim and
looking more like the Babadook than a man.
However, like Tarantino’s film, The Haunting of Sharon Tate is an alternate-history version
of the murders, and lingers in the supernatural, with the victims being tortured and murdered
multiple times throughout the movie, in turn presenting us with something truly disrespectful.
These were real people, real victims, and we’re shown something truly sadistic, gratuitous
and completely tasteless.
5 Melissa McCarthy - The Kitchen When I saw this pop up when doing research
for this list, I thought it was a joke.
Genuinely.
A movie called The Kitchen, starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss,
about the wives of New York Gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen in the 70s.
You have to be kidding me.
Now, it could have potentially been a fresh take on the mob drama, however, it came out
undercooked.
The writing is poor and cringey, and the actors clearly have no chemistry.
A misfire happened at some point, and I don’t think it was the source material, I think
it was casting Melissa McCarthy as the lead in an action, mob drama.
I just can’t.
4 Sophie Turner - X-Men: Dark Phoenix For most of us, we were excited for Dark Phoenix.
At least I was.
I love X-Men, all of them, even the bad ones, except...for this one.
It was set up to be great, Sophie Turner and Jessica Chastain, what more could you want?
Well, literally anything, and you realize that pretty early on.
Not only were there multiple release delays, trailers were remade, test audiences walked
out, then they gave away the death of Raven in the trailer in an effort to entice people,
but not even that worked.
There were just two many red flags confirming that the film was going to be a flop, and
a flop it was.
All in all, it was boring and anticlimactic and you should definitely give it a miss.
3 Nicole Kidman - The Goldfinch This was a movie I was truly excited for,
simply because I love Nicole Kidman.
It’s a forever kind of love, ever since BMX Bandits and Practical Magic.
Iconic.
Anyway, she appeared in a movie this year that was far from her usual S Tier work, The
Goldfinch, a movie which follows Theodore Decker, who is taken in by a wealth Upper
East Side family after his mother is tragically killed in a bombing at the MOMA.
The movie is of course based Donna Tartt’s hefty 2013 bestselling novel, however, the
pages of plot are nowhere to be found in his shapeless movie, which is 2 and a half hours
of snooze-fest.
It’s hard to say much more about a movie that was so boring I barely remember it.
All I know is, Nicole Kidman should have known better, and I’m sad, very sad that she starred
in this trainwreck.
2 Will Smith - Gemini Man Oh Gemini Man, what a joke, truly.
Starring two Will Smith’s this film follows an over-the-hill histman who faces off against
a younger clone version of himself.
Directed by Ang Lee, Gemini Man has been one of Hollywood’s longest running in-development
movies for two decades.
Which is absolutely crazy, especially when you consider the fact that it’s sh***.
The movie of course makes the most of our new de-aging technology, however, not even
the effects can save this movie, let alone Will Smith who could put his name on a tub
of peanut butter and make it a hit, but not today.
To quote Asher Luberto from LA Weekly: “Gemini Man aspire to be deeper than your average
action flick with an obvious Freudian message about how our worst enemy is ourselves...what
it all amounts to, however, is a throwaway genre exercise disguised as a technological
experiment.”
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
1 John Travolta - The Fanatic It’s hard for me to articulate how truly
terrible this movie was, and how abhorrent John Travolta’s performance was...also,
mildly offensive?
Scratch that, majorly offensive.
We stepped out of 2018 thinking to ourselves that nothing could possibly be as bad as John
Travolta’s movie, Gotti, but boy were we wrong.
One year later, we’re in Los Angeles with an inept stalker called Moose, played by Travolta.
Moose is a stunted walk-of-fame performer who is obsessed with a B-list actor and begins
skulking around his Beverly Hills home.
Moose, has an unspecified disability that exists somewhere between offensive and embarrassing,
but mostly painful to watch.
The film is utter trash, and is, I think, supposed to be some kind of deep movie about
the pitfalls of celebrity, but alas, that is not what we got.
Instead, we’re cringing, not laughing, never laughing, because you can’t laugh while
you’re in physical pain, feeling like you’re watching something that was never supposed
to be seen...by anyone.
Well there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any acting fails that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 10 Worst Movies of 2019 - Part 2.
Chad Christman said: “I think I found my New Year’s Resolution.
Just love her accent.”
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Juanita Velez said: “Can we get a Top 10 Best/Worst Christmas Movies or Top 10 Best/Worst
Christmas Horror Movies?”
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David K said: “Lmao Lucy, love when you burst out in laughter talking/making fun of
the movie you’re talking about, watching you host just makes my day.”
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Steven George said: “So many beautiful hosts between Top 10 BTS and Most Amazing Top 10.
Ayman, Lucy, Jocelyn, Abbey.
I’m so freaking jealous of the guys who work with them.”
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