Jamie Foxx (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)

Jamie Foxx is an incredibly talented man who can genuinely call himself an actor, a singer/musician, and a comedian. He has an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray and has received all kinds of nominations for his work. He has also appeared in the likes of Collateral and Django Unchained.

With regards to comic book characters, there are all manner of them he could play – he’d make a freakin’ awesome Luke Cage, for example (though that role has been taken, of course) – but choosing him to play Max Dillon, aka Electro, in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a big mistake. He was totally wasted in the role.

So many other, more suitable actors could have done the role of the timid, geeky, and socially awkward character justice, but the incredibly cool Foxx was chosen instead. The movie wasn’t great to begin with, and wasting his talent in the role of the lead villain certainly didn’t help its cause or his own reputation as an actor.