15 Awful Films The Avengers Actors Want You To Forget

6. Chatroom (2010) - Aaron Taylor-Johnson

RottenTomatoes Score: 9% The Plot: Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese version of The Ring, again examines the terror of technology with this thriller centered on the dangers of Internet chat rooms. Depressed teen William Collins (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) opens a chat room and begins talking with a number of similarly afflicted local youths, as each begins to take out their problems on the other participants, with disastrous consequences. Why It Sucks: For starters, Chatroom feels like it hit cinemas about a decade too late, as by 2010, this sort of commentary on the perils of chat rooms was largely redundant. Plus, Nakata's treatment is incredibly heavy-handed as a piece of social commentary, while the visuals (which represent the chat room as a hotel that all the main characters reside in) is laughably silly. Johnson does a decent enough job playing a sociopathic a**hole, but given that he'd already starred in Nowhere Boy and Kick-Ass before Chatroom came out, it absolutely felt like a step backward for the actor, a shlocky, glorified straight-to-video thriller flop that someone as talented as him shouldn't be starring in.