12 Awful Movie Make-Up Fails That Were Horribly Distracting

2. Guy Pierce - Peter Weyland (Prometheus)

The Desired Effect: An old, old man. The Actual Effect: A jaundiced testicle with a face drawn on. There are two schools of thought for ageing makeup. The first is the McFly approach - adding some prosthetic padding to the cheeks, with that waxy, oddly deathly glaze, which is at one end of the wrong spectrum - and then there's the other extreme, whereby actors are made to look like their heads have been boil washed for about a month. The result, of course, is the prune-headed abomination above, or Guy Pearce as he is otherwise known when he's not playing ancient billionaires in definitely-not-prequel-prequels. This sort of approach seems to take a lead from ancient Egyptian mummies, ignoring the fact that no actual living humans actually look that old, even when beyond the 100 year mark. Scrotums on the other hand, definitely do look like that.