I don't think "being the best part of a bad movie" is a particularly embarrassing career path. You end up with "Of course the movie was trash but _____ was pretty great as always"

I have literally never watched a movie and thought "Man, Malcolm McDowell sucked in that"

Considering how many obviously trash performances in trash movies there are, there's a certain honor in guys like pic related who always bring it to the table no matter how low brow the material is.