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Has never starred in a good movie in her entire career


She's been acting since the 1990s and has 20+ movies under her belt. Only 1 has been good, however, and she wasn't even the star in it.

Let's go through them in ascending order:

Camp Nowhere: Bad movie (5.5), and she had a negligible role.
Never Been Kissed: Bad movie (6.0), and she had a supporting role.
Idle Hands: Bad movie (6.2), and she had a supporting role.
Paranoid: Horrible movie (3.9)
The Sleeping Dictionary: Bad movie. It has a passable score on here (6.6), but the critics (See Rotten Tomatoes) burned it.
Honey: Bad movie (5.2)
Sin City: Good movie, but her role was somewhat supportive. The movie, by design, didn't have any "star."
Fantastic Four: Bad movie (5.7)
Into the Blue: Bad movie (5.8) that failed embarrassingly at the box office
The Ten: Bad movie (5.2)
Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer: Bad movie (5.6)
Good Luck Chuck: Bad movie (5.6)
Meet Bill: Bad movie (6.4)
Awake : Bad movie. It has a passable score here (6.6), but 22% Rotten Tomatoes. Alba was also a supporting cast member, as Hayden Christenson dominated screen-time.
The Eye: Bad movie (5.4)
The Love Guru: Horrible movie (3.8)
The Killer Inside Me: Poor movie, 6.2 and 55% Rotten Tomatoes.
Spy Kids 4D: Horrible movie (3.6)
Sin City, A Dame to Kill For: Bad movie (6.6 + 43% Rotten Tomatoes)
Stretch: Bad movie (6.6), and Alba had a minor role.
Valentine's Day: Bad movie (5.8)
Machete: Passable movie (6.7 and 72% Rotten Tomatoes), but Alba had a minor role.
An Invisible Sign: Bad movie (5.4).
Little Fockers: Bad movie (5.4)
A.C.O.D.: Bad movie (5.7)

Altogether, she has made just one good movie (Sin City) and one passable movie (Machete). Her roles in these movies were also minor. All of the movies in which she was the star have failed. Eleven of her movies have attracted attention at the Razzies.

Furthermore, her star power (i.e. - looks) doesn't result in box-office success. Her most successful movies at the box-office were the two Fantastic Four flicks + Little Fockers, and both were successful largely because they are established franchises. Valentine's Day in 2010 drew 110 million, but this movie had an ensemble cast. Only one other movie in her career drew over 38 million, and once again, it was a movie in which Alba was not the primary star (Sin City ).

I think Alba demonstrates society's shameful fascination with beauty, for someone lacking as much talent as Alba should not have an acting career.

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Why are you speaking to the thread starter if your post is in response to my post?? 

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So a few years later, she has participated in some decent movies

Stretch (2014) — but Alba had a supporting role.
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) — but Alba had a supporting role

Since ACOD, Alba has not received top billing in any flick except “The Veil,” which wasn’t good.

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I'm just glad we have Sin City. Its one of the top movies of the 00's...

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But is Sin City really one of “Alba’s movies”? She had a supporting role that many others could have filled.

Alba never starred in a good movie, right?

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There was lots and lots of talent in Sin City. One can't say it was anyone's movie alone. Alba had an important, altough smallish role, but one that people remember... Her character was also one of the movie poster figures when they marketed the movie.

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IDLE HANDS,A.C.O.D.,MACHETE AND THE KILLER INSIDE ME ARE GOOD MOVIES.

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She wasn’t the star of Machete and Killer Inside Me.

Idle Hands and ACOD are not widely regarded as good movies.

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I REGARD THEM AS GOOD...AND SHE WASNT A CAMEO IN THE FIRST TWO...

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You’re wrong, Idle Hands is awesome.

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The two Fantastic Four films were pretty good.

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Original FF had 27% Rotten Tomato and 5.7 IMDB rating


Silver Surfer had 37% RT and 5.6 IMDB.

If you feel those movies were good, then you’re the minority. Point remains that Alba hasn’t starred in a good movie, or a movie that most people regard as good

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I’m okay with that. She still makes me all tingly in my nether regions.

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