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3. Steven Seagal

Throw any Steven Seagal action movie on for someone who wasn’t around in the early 90s and they won’t believe that the guy was really a star. They’ll stare at the screen in slack-jawed disbelief and assume that it’s either a prank or a parody. But oh no…Steven Segaal was all to real. He was a pony-tailed walking ego who somehow convinced enough producers in Hollywood that he knew karate to have a movie career. For a decade, any action script that wasn’t good enough for Arnie, Stallone, Willis, Van Damme, Lundgren, or Norris found it’s way to Seagal’s hands and somehow quite a few of them were hits. The guy couldn’t act, he could barely fight, and eventually his gut got big enough to remove kicking from his repertoire. As a walking joke, Steven Seagal is a huge success. As an action star, he’s a mistake that all the 90s ticket buyers made and deeply regret. Literally any Steven Seagal movie would serve as a perfect example for why he shouldn’t have a career. However, if you only want to poison your eyes with one Seagal failure (very understandable by the way), then get your hands on a copy of Out For Justice. Why? Well, aside from accidentally being one of the funniest movies ever made, it’s the one where Seagal decided to adopt a Neeeeew Yawk accent…and everyone needs to see that before they die. 

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