{"id":11442,"date":"2019-03-06T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2019-03-06T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:37:11","slug":"greatest-one-hit-wonders-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/greatest-one-hit-wonders-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema’s Greatest One-Hit Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow \u2013 this opportunity comes once in a lifetime.\u201d \u2014 <\/i><\/span>Eminem<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout film history, musicians and athletes have put their celebrity to use as actors to varying degrees of success. Some of these stars (Queen Latifah, Justin Timberlake, Arnold Schwarzenegger) have gone on to tremendous careers onscreen, while others (O.J. Simpson, Mike Ditka, Christina Aguilera) flailed before getting out of the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

Then there are the one-and-done cases: the celebrities who starred in one \u2013 and only one \u2013 major feature film in their careers. This raises the question of how these single star performances stack up against one another, no? Well, question asked, question answered.<\/span><\/p>\n

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9. The Spice Girls \u2013 Spice World <\/i>(1997)<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"For children of the ’90s, Spice World <\/i>was a beloved glam indulgence, the highest (and loudest) expression of pop fanaticism imaginable. But looking at the film now, what once felt like a self-addressed valentine to the best-selling female group in history (from an idea by and starring the quintet) now looks like something of a fun-house mirror: shiny, warped, and even grotesque in its distortions of real personalities. It comes as no surprise that the group never made another movie together \u2013 for all their collective might as musical icons, the Spice Girls were mere wannabes as actors.<\/span><\/p>\n