1. Al Pacino
Well we did De Niro, might as well do Pacino right? There was always a parallel between the two screen titans. These massive, imposing, Italian-American personalities, both at home in the same kind of roles and seemingly orbiting one another all the time, never properly clashing on screen (barring the legendary moment in "Heat") for fear that the effect may be similar to crossing the beams in Ghostbusters. The two have been linked inexorably for whatever reasons since their acting inceptions, and as Di Nero travelled further down the path of acting oblivion, so to did Pacino walk parallel to him. Or was it Pacino that went first and Di Nero that felt compelled to follow? That is the great, utterly pointless philosophical question of our times isn't it? I'm going to call the moment that Pacino fell off the deep end as his appearance opposite the world's most handsome piece of furniture in "The Devil's Advocate". A performance of such scene chewing, shouty, shouty, always shouty insanity that the only words to adequately explain it away would be "all of the cocaine". He has a 30 minute speech for Christ's sake?! In fact, he shouted so damn much during that movie that he apparently broke the volume knob off his vocal chords, cursed forever to act at 11, regardless of the role. Since then he's produced the odd gem (he's fantastically knackered in "Insomnia") but primarily focussed his attention on looking more and more like a half-melted wax work dummy and deafening cast, crew and audience with some seriously over egged turns. And then he starred in those terrible Sky adverts too boot. Mark it folks, he's not coming back
Nostalgia rating HOO-HAWWWW
Honourable mention Kevin Bacon
Have you seen The Following? Or those British 3G adverts? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH BACON!