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  • and I'm trying to figure out what the right thing is that doing.

  • I don't know what that is.

  • I don't have any freaking idea how to get there.

  • Welcome, toe watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 formerly bad actors who redeemed themselves.

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  • So this don't cry from we're sorry we call the cops.

  • Okay?

  • Are you talking to me?

  • I made a crazy risk gamble, and it's about to pay off for this list.

  • We'll be looking at stars who's acting prowess improved as their careers progressed.

  • The greater the improvement, the higher the ranking.

  • Who do you think really turned it around?

  • Make sure to let us know in the comments down below Number 10 Ben Affleck.

  • You wouldn't expect someone who won an Oscar at the tender age of 25 to end up on this list, even if the Oscar was for writing rather than acting, You don't know what to yourself.

  • You owe it to me.

  • Tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50.

  • I'll still be doing this shit.

  • However, Ben Affleck's career post good Will hunting didn't exactly inspire confidence, even as he made the leap from Indy features two big time blockbusters.

  • One only need watched Geely for proof.

  • In every relationship there's a bull and a cow.

  • It just so happens that in this relationship right here with me and you, I'm the ball.

  • You're the cow.

  • Alright, Bull cow got that.

  • However, the actors creative juices seemed to shift sometime around 2007 when he began directing.

  • In addition to acting, the town and Argo were equally thrilling and taught, and his lead performances greatly grounded the proceedings.

  • This is what I dio.

  • I get people out and I've never left anyone behind.

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  • C you movies were relatively lackluster, but his involvement gave us some of the best on screen Batman we've ever seen were criminals, Alfred.

  • We've always been criminals.

  • Nothing's changed.

  • Number nine, Ray Romano.

  • Everyone loves Raymond, right?

  • Well, maybe not always, though.

  • It's true that Ray Romano enjoyed nine seasons of the hugely successful Everybody Loves Raymond.

  • Sitcoms as a medium are rarely the pinnacle of thespian mastery.

  • Hey, how do you know what I've been going through over here?

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  • I actually have to live with her, right?

  • So don't don't start with because you know what the hell you're talking about.

  • And aside from that, for a long time, his only other major live action role was in.

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  • Four Ice Age Sequels later, however, and Romano began showing a versatile new side, managing to be both grounded and endearing alongside onscreen wife Holly Hunter in The Big, Sick Love isn't easy.

  • That's why they call it Love.

  • I don't really get that here, you know.

  • I thought I could just start saying something and something small would come out.

  • He continued that success in 2019, appearing in critically acclaimed streaming giant movies, Bad Education and The Irishman for HBO and Netflix, respectively.

  • Come to think of it, we might love Raymond, even Mawr.

  • Now you know I don't Okay, Well, you did it or not.

  • That makes no difference to me.

  • I'm here to defend you, right?

  • Right.

  • Number eight, Jennifer Lopez.

  • You didn't think we leave out the other half of the romantic leads from Jilly, did you?

  • It's turkey time.

  • Uh huh.

  • Couple come though thoroughly popular.

  • Virtually the entirety of her work from the two thousands was littered with hackneyed Rahm calms, such as the aforementioned film Monster in Law and Everything in Between.

  • God, this is crazy.

  • Why don't you just face it?

  • I am marrying Kevin today, and there's nothing you can do about it.

  • Though she started the 20 tens with more of the same with the backup plan, she also expanded her genre boundaries to more of the thriller variety, with Parker and the Boy next Door.

  • Still, we wouldn't even be talking about her right now, were it not for her absolutely powerhouse performance in 2019 hustlers.

  • Her turn was emotionally nuanced, and even at the age of 50 though it's neither here nor there, she still got it, so to speak.

  • Why should we split anything when we can have it all?

  • Number seven.

  • Dakota Johnson, As is the situation with other actors on this list, it could be difficult to strut your stuff when the material is seriously lacking.

  • There's really not much to know about me.

  • Even so, Dakota Johnson didn't make herself look good in any of the 3 50 shades movies.

  • Yet elsewhere we saw glimpses of her potential in films like a Bigger Splash and Black Mass.

  • He's never gonna be a little boy again, ever.

  • No, he's brain dead.

  • He's on life support.

  • He can't move and I don't want him like that.

  • Indeed, once 50 Shades had run its course in 2018, she surprised us with how psychologically deep she could get in thrillers like Bad Times at the L Royal and Suspiria holding her own with an acting legend like Tilda Swinton in the latter.

  • Is it the head?

  • Thats fine sex.

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  • And if you are one of the many who haven't seen the peanut butter falcon, do yourself a favor.

  • Watch it now.

  • He needs to be properly taken care of.

  • And that's my job.

  • I'm sorry to break up your little primitive gang or whatever is going on, but this is not Lord of the Flies.

  • Number six.

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  • Speaking of the peanut butter falcon Johnson's coast, Arshile Above has also received his fair share of criticism.

  • If not more.

  • Has to do is listen here in your heart, you got a good guy heart.

  • You can't just shoot about.

  • That's just who you are.

  • You're a hero being brought up on the Disney Channel with the sitcom Even Stevens Leboeuf turned into a bonafide movie star in 2000 and seven, with the advent of the live action Transformers movies naturally being Michael Bay Ventures, the Sequels severely dipped in quality.

  • And one can't think of Shyla, Booth and Sequels without thinking of his much maligned performance in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

  • What happened?

  • There's not a damn thing wrong with the kid.

  • Don't let anybody else tell you any different.

  • You remember saying that.

  • Throw in some personal troubles and it seemed like you could just write off Leboeuf for good.

  • However, 2019 saw him wow audiences playing a fictionalized version of his father in Honey Boy, which he also wrote.

  • How do you think Confuse for me to have my son talked to be the way that you talked to me?

  • Number five.

  • Zac Efron, another Disney Channel alum.

  • For a while, Zac Ephron couldn't escape his high school musical image.

  • It didn't help that he followed the Siri's up with teen movies 17 again and Charlie ST Cloud, the latter of which being particularly derided as a lifeless melodrama.

  • Two more I'm in your world unless I could be in this.

  • However, since then, he's managed to shed his pretty boy image with raunchy comedies like The Neighbors Movies.

  • We're sorry we call the cops.

  • Okay?

  • Are you talking to me?

  • And sure, this phase in his career gave us duds like Dirty Grandpa and Baywatch.

  • But he remains a watch, a plea, energetic presence.

  • Regardless, I'm a Tiger pro.

  • It wasn't dangerous, man.

  • Nobody was home.

  • If you wanted proof that he's grown as a dramatic actor, look no further than extremely wicked, shocking the evil and vile in which he played serial killer Ted Bundy unnervingly and convincingly 12.

  • And I let you be alone with Molly Things.

  • Now what's that about his Netflix?

  • Siri's number four.

  • Kristen Stewart.

  • Much like 50 shades of gray tarnished Dakota Johnson's reputation.

  • The twilight saga did that and then some to Kristen Stewart.

  • It was Nessie who wanted me there.

  • Nessie, you Nick named my daughter after the loch is monster.

  • Granted, the role was poorly written, but her lack of verve and outward interest didn't make her look too great, either.

  • Couple that with a pretty underwhelming snow white and the Huntsman and Stuart didn't need much more incentive to step away from Hollywood's I'm valuable.

  • That's why you're here, isn't it?

  • Proving she's a better fit for the indie scene.

  • She gave a trio of nuanced performances in 2014 with Camp X ray clouds of Sils, Maria and still Alice.

  • In this world, there's a kind of painful progress, longing for what we've left behind and dreaming ahead, not stopping there.

  • She also made a methodically reserved psychological thriller like Personal Shopper feel wholly personable.

  • In short, Case Do is back if you know where to find her.

  • So we made this oath.

  • Whoever died first was on the other sign, Number three.

  • Adam Sandler.

  • Even during his heyday in the mid to late nineties, Adam Sandler couldn't be counted on for much more than his usual brand of wacky and unrestrained performances.

  • Okay, mercy, you went, I give game over Then an interesting thing happened in 2002, when he shocked audiences with just how grounded he could be as a dramatic actor in Paul Thomas Anderson's punch Drunk Love.

  • Who knows how long did it last?

  • Then it was back to the usual stick for a decade and a half, giving us aggravating the unfunny caricatures in Jack and Jill.

  • And that's my boy Boy Boy heads your walk.

  • But he came back hotter than ever in 2019 with uncut gems giving an Oscar worthy performance as a gambling addict in over his head.

  • Giving what I'm supposed todo Everything I do is not going right.

  • Everything I do is not going right.

  • We don't expect experimental Sandler to stay for long, but we eagerly await his return.

  • Number two.

  • Channing Tatum.

  • Now here's an actor who really learn to be good by doing with little acting experience outside commercials.

  • Tatum was thrown into the romantic dance drama Step Up in 2006, which was hugely successful yet critically derided.

  • I know what I'm sorry.

  • I just wanted you to be able to do this.

  • Well, you imagined it from there.

  • He continued to struggle, not being convincing enough in such serious works as Fighting and Dear John.

  • I'm trying to figure out what the right thing is to do, and I don't know what that is.

  • I don't have any freaking idea how to get there.

  • Then his career took a much needed detour in 2012, surprising everyone with his comedic sensibilities in 21 Jump Street, one particle of plutonium has a nuclear reaction with a flux capacitor carry the two changing its atomic Isotoner into a radioactive spider.

  • Pair that with his semi autobiographical Magic Mike and Suddenly Tatum flexed some serious range.

  • Among other things.

  • Perhaps his best performance came in 2014 Foxcatcher, wherein he played a wrestler grappling with the pressure to succeed.

  • Good on you, Channing.

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  • Number one Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson found himself squarely in Hollywood actor jail as a result of the twilight curse.

  • E can't ever lose control with you.

  • Even a somewhat well reviewed movie like Water for Elephants made many of his detractors grown much like his twilight co star Kristen Stewart.

  • Pattinson stepped away from the blockbuster scene and eventually earned high marks as early as 2014 for movies like the rover because I believe in God.

  • And I know Henry believes in God doesn't no harm, Henry.

  • Want to see me come Thio now believe in that.

  • And just like Sandler with uncut gems, patents in teamed with the saftey Brothers on good time and essentially washed away the bad taste of twilight leeching off mommy or leeching off welfare or living off the government in jail, that's you need mawr confirmation that he's grown.

  • He got picks to play the title character in Matt Reeves.

  • The Batman.

  • A role that doesn't go to just anyone.

  • Hell are you supposed to be?

  • I'm vengeance.

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