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Actors who are rubbish no matter how good the film is
Posted by PaddyH on 31 July 2010 - 7:12pm.
The overrated, the over exposed who manage to get great parts in potentially great movies even though they are patently rubbish, one dimensional or on an eternal slide.
L&G/B&G:
Hugh Grant... just atrocious
Jennifer Aniston - you can see her thinking, and not in a good way
Harrison 'it's ironic I used to be a carpenter' Ford
Shia LeBoeuf
Jim Carrey (his name means 'like nails on a blackboard' in Navaho)
Elijah Wood
Last but not least, a man, rather like an overproductive but once successful pig farmer, who is burying a great career under the huge weight of unwanted ham - Al 'Hoo Hah' Pacino
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Shooting Fish in a Barrell
Nicholas Cage
Steven Seagal
Ray Liotta
Sean Connerry
Robin Williams
Anne Hathaway
Sarah Jessica Parker and the other ones from SATC
Madonna
I'd agree with most of those...
but I thought Ray Liotta was fantastic in Goodfellas and Connery is great at what he does. I've never a film starring Ann Hathaway or Sarah Jessica Parker so I can't comment on them.
I'd have to disagree on a couple of these
Ray Liotta is an actor that the industry seems to have forgotten about - must be a difficult cove to work with as he a blinding actor. Brilliant in Goodfellas and even better in the superb Narc - just looked it up on IMDB - it can't be eight years old, can it?
Anne Hathaway was brilliant in The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada.
Although much of her output does suck, she has a certain charm which would have gotten her loads of roles in classic era romantic comedies and which find very engaging - even in dross.
Anne Hathaway - Brokeback Mountain
She was fantastic.
Lousy rotten actors
Definitely:
Nic Cage
Ralph and Joseph Fiennes (if you scrutinise RF's facial expression in his movies, he invariably looks like someone who's messed his pants whilst too far from home to go change)
Seth Rogen
Michael Caine (post-1960s work)
Sean Connery (ditto)
Mark Wahlberg
Kate Winslet (her perf in The Reader was worthy not of an Oscar but of gales of incontinent laughter)
Hugh Grant (one-note actor who shamelessly milks the "bluff Englishman in the USA" teat)
Vinnie Jones
Not having that!
Kate Winslet is a proper actor, and a proper movie star, and general all-round goddess, a fearless performer with little vanity. I've not seen the Reader, so I'm prepared to accept that it may have been overpraised. However, from her breakthrough in Heavenly Creatures, she's done excellent work in, among others, Sense & Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Holy Smoke, Hideous Kinky, Jude, Quills, etc etc.
And I'm not having...
...Ralph Fiennes. He's a fabulous actor. I don't think I've ever seen a film in which he's been anything less than brilliant, apart from Harry Potter, but that's not his fault.
He's also excellent in...
... In Bruges.
What they said...
Ralph Fiennes is a tremendous actor. Bona fide film star
"Yew...
...take back the bit about my cunt fuckin' kids!"
"Alright, Harry. I take it back about your cunt fucking kids."
In Bruges is wonderful.
Wet as a cod's wet bits
I beg to differ-he's wet, uncharismatic and always plays the same conflicted, mealy-mouthed, humourless Englishman in every darn film. For pete's sake he starred in that cinematic non-event: The English Patient which alongside American Beauty stands as one of the most overrated and unaccomplished movies of the past 20 years. That alone is prima facie evidence against the twit surely mes amis? As for Kate Winslet, my biggest beef concerning her is that I'm pretty sure she used a "bum double" in The Reader, which, if true, would go down as one of the crassest, most vain acts imaginable given the deeply serious context of the film. And she was in Titanic which stands as one... etc.
Oh come on!
So, she might have used a bum double in The Reader. But then again, she might not have. Given how many times she has bared her Rubensesque curves in films, I'd question your intel on this point, not to mention your conclusion that it would have been "one of the crassest, most vain acts imaginable..." Sense of proportion? Setting that aside, are you saying she's been consistently rubbish in otherwise good films?
Katie's bot
I'm not an expert on her Rubensesque curves although latterly I've heard she's become boringly slim like every other major actress. However, that bot-bot shot (taken from behind, natch) implied she still has the body of a 21 year-old, which even a consummate actress like her would find hard to convince me of! Perhaps I overdid my disgruntlement but I did feel a film on the sensitive subject of mass murder shouldn't pander to the vanity of an actor about the condition of their arse. It just hit a bum note with me, arf. So can you tell me any really GOOD film Dame Katie has ever made? Personally I think she's been consistently crap in consistently crap films, so perhaps I'm a little off-topic in that case!
Good KW films
Please see my comment a little further up. Quills is a marmite film, I'll grant you - everyone I've talked to about it either loves it or hates it. I love it, and I think she's good in it. She is sensational in Heavenly Creatures; and terrific in Eternal Sunshine..., a really touching performance.
Agreed on "Heavenly Creatures".
I also love "Quills", and her performance. I like "Eternal Sunshine", and her performance was excellent. She was a cracking Ophelia in "Hamlet". She's fabulous in "Jude". She's lovely in "Finding Neverland", mesmerising in "Revolutionary Road".
I call that a pretty bloody good strike rate.
I haven't seen "The Reader" yet. Bet she's good in it, though.
I concur
particularly regarding Revolutionary Road - a fantastic film on every level.
Katie in The Reader
She really really isn't, I promise you. Her performance barely registers, it's so minimalist. The end scenes where they've aged her are ludicrously poor-talcum powder in the hair and a hunch are the extent of the director's rendering of old age. She just doesn't look or sound like a German woman and certainly not one with blood on her hands. Her performance is just.. vacuous. But see what you think. If you like her generally, you might like that too.
Say what you like about Ms Winslet's acting..
You still would.
Lots.
*
*
are you actually talking about Ralph Fiennes?!
"he's wet, uncharismatic and always plays the same conflicted, mealy-mouthed, humourless Englishman in every darn film"
ummm...except maybe that famous WW2 movie where he brilliantly played that psychotic GERMAN officer who was neither conflicted or mealy mouthed about the evil stuff he did?
Quills you say?
That was one of the few movies I've ever walked out of and me Dad came with me like a shot. It was utterly utterly wretched. Michael Caine as a Frenchman..that thought still makes me shudder.
Roger Moore...
all the personality of a dishcloth.
Roger Moore
Is my favourite James Bond.
Moore please!
I hope you're not joking, because i think so too and Connery's good as Bond but rubbish in just about everything else!
Sean Connery in The Hill
A fantastic 1966 WW2 movie set in a British military prison and directed by Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet. Connery himself deserved an Oscar nomination at least for his brilliant starring role as a distinctly un-Bond-like hero
( and all performed without a dodgy hairpiece too! )
The Hill..
Indeed a truly great film. A great performance by Harry Andrews as well as the RSM.
Met Harry Andrews many years ago and he was a true gent. Never gave a bad performance.
Roger moore
I wasnt joking , he is my favourite bond. Admittedly, he was the first bond I saw at the cinema.
Obviously
Mark "Fucking" Wahlberg
Seth Rogen
Rob Schneider
Renee Zellweger
Nicole Kidman (Now-not 10 years ago)
Julia Roberts
All of the cast of Grey's Anatomy in anything they ever do ever ever EVER again...
I like...
...Seth Rogen. You can keep Jonah Hill, though. Except in Superbad. He's great in Superbad.
Was about to post:
"Rob Schneider? Haven´t you seen Jaws!"
Realised my mistake before it was too late. Live in peace, Grant.
A few words in defence of Hugh Grant
It's been a while since I could be arsed to watch a Hugh Grant film. At his best, though, he is a high class act, with comic timing many so-called comedy actors would kill for. He is brilliant in Four Weddings & A Funeral and nearly as good in Notting Hill; good in Bridget Jones and Small Time Crooks; and also turned in good performances in more serious parts in Extreme Measures, An Awfully Big Adventure and The Remains Of The Day. Hugh's alright, leave him alone!
Agreed.
He's a bit of a one-tricker, but it's a good trick and nobody - but NOBODY - can do it like he can.
Annoying..
He just plays up to Hollywood's belief of what a certain type of Englishman is. No different in his way than Vinnie Jones is.
I liked him in 'About A Boy'
- good film, solid cast.
Great music.
Yeah he's great in some of his stuff i think.
I think it's just that he's good looking and posh that people have a go at him for in the main.
The answer, as usual, is...
...Danny fucking Dyer.
Too Fucking True
Fucking Idiot. I forgot to list that fucker.
To borrow a line from Joe R...
... 'e's a pwopa nawty geeza. Which, presumably, is cockney for "cunt".
Agreed
The obvious answer is usually correct.
Although, I will admit to watching (and re-watching) some Dyer films (The Business, Football Factory & Mean Machine to name three)
Dyer by name, dire acting
Incidentally, my dog does have a toy called Danny Dyer Duck (don't know why I called it that though - alliteration I guess)
though....
He is bloody funny in "Human Traffic" - which was the first time we all saw his cockney geezer schtick. He has become a complete parody of himself now though.
The scene in the taxi in Human Traffic is brilliant
i thought he was amazing in that film and that he'd go a long way doing all sorts of diverse stuff. Couldn't have been more wrong.
Micheal Caine, Pete Postlethwaite and Bob Hoskins
so overrated and one dimensional.
rarely any good.
In defence of Michael Caine
I wouldn't say he's a great actor, but I thought he was convincing in such diverse films as Zulu, Alfie and Hannah and her Sisters. It's a broader range than, say, Sean Connery - hard to imagine Sir Sean as an anti-hero or in a Woody Allen film. He's basically a film star, but he's also quite a good actor. I get the impression that out every three films he makes, two are done to pay the bills, and he does the other one is because it's an interesting part.
Also In Defense Of Michael Caine
Get Carter is obvious but Little Voice? Educating Rita? Children Of Men? Mona Lisa? He's also in a rather wonderful little seen gem with Robert Duvall called Secondhand Lions which I really like.
What I like about Michael Caine is in most of these films he sits back and allows other actors to shine. He's pretty generous in his performances sometimes and that's no bad thing.
In defence of Bob Hoskins
Check out the final two minutes of The Long Good Friday, and place what happens into context.
Feared gangland boss Harold Shand has just accidentally got into a car being driven by the IRA - yes, that's a young Pierce Brosnan aiming a gun at him.
Check out the way Hoskins' expression subtly (and sometimes none-too-subtly) shifts during that final ride. Every emotion registers on his face, ranging, in order, from suprise, then shock, then outrage, hatred, and then to a kind of grudging admiration for his certain excutioners, and the way they've played him throughout. And thence to a sort of morbid amusement, and resignation. And finally, acceptance. He is going to die, possibly very shortly. All this is less than two minutes.
Hoskins may have made some shite in his time, but this is a masterclass of acting. Watch it here:
The 'Caine and Hoskins defence'
Caine - 45 years as an actor. 40 of them being mediocre.
Hoskins - fantastic for 2 minutes then nothing for 30 years.
Three words
Pennies From Heaven.
Two more: Mona Lisa.
Well said, Mr Piglu, sir. And here's two more words
Felicia's Journey
He is also...
sublime in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Fails to convince me in anything
Im afraid.
But so does DDL.
:(
.
And not to mention
24/7
Brad Pitt
fuck him
And...
the Angelina he rode in on.
Don't mind
if I do, squire...
I'm surprised it took 2 and a half hours for his name to appear!
Brad Pitt seems like a decent-enough guy and is a brilliant movie star, but my god he is a terrible actor! We'd never have heard of him if he wasn't drop-dead gorgeous and I won't watch a film that he is in if I can at all avoid it.
Sean Pertwee
Can't think of anything I've seen Son Of Worzel in where he's been anything less than mediocre - Blue Juice, I.D. and Love Honour And Obey are particuarly bad
(though apparently Dog Soldiers is alright)
Two words
Jeff Goldblum
Oh Sheev
I trusted you. Jeff has done some less than great roles, but surely he´s better than appearing here.
sorry Ola
but he seems to think that being quirky equates to being good. So that saying lotsofwordsreallyquicklytogether and
then...............pausing. AND stressing words AND senTENCES really ODdlY is realcool. Too.
*Jeff adds smirk, knowing eye-brow raise*
It isn't
But, but, but
He talks like that in interviews too. So... maybe he´s just being himself in all those movies. Which doesn´t make him an actor at all.
Damn it!
*gets coat, mumbling something about "that Sheev bastard"*
Sorry Sheev
But the answer, as always, is David Bowie. of course there is ample evidence that he is not an actor, but when he tries, god he is hopeless.
Spot on Twangers!
When it comes to acting - DB be deeply awful.
Except in Man Who Fell To Earth where he is basically himself as he was at the time. Spaced out and ill. And, as such, he was brill.
So - for good or ill - David Bowie is the answer. As usual.
I thought
he was pretty good in The Prestige.
And Stella Street.
A Wooden Baked Bean
Phil Collins in 'Buster'
Clive Owen
How this fucking plank ever carved himself some critical acclaim is one of the enduring mysteries of the ages. That said, he's quite okay in Close My Eyes, but then he doesn't have to do owt aside from shag his sister up against a wall.
He's good in Sin City too, but given how far out that entire
movie is, perhaps difficult to judge
Forgive me for saying this, but..
Bob De Niro.
Yes, he has been splendid. But far too often he is Bob playing Bob. Goodfellas and Casino; great films. But it's just Bob going through the motions. You can also flag up Joe Pesci here, playing the same character twice.
Welcome Back Bob - Everybody's Fine
Yes Bob's been going through the motions for a while. But have a look at EVERYBODY'S FINE. He is right back on form - subtle, detailed, and animated. A real rounded character.
"I'm rubbish?"
"Rubbish how?"
Bruce Willis (& Costner)
Because he brings that one persona (smug, streetwise, self-consciously heroic) to every film and if like me you don't buy that then the rest of the film is a write off. Similarly Kevin Costner cultivates this aura of Jimmy Stewart style of American nobility in ever more outlandish contexts, and it doesn't work on me. Even Alan Rickman (who is good in anything) can't save these two.
Wobbly-Head George Clooney,
Wobbly-Head George Clooney, apologising for his gorgeousness all the time.
Should not be confused with Static-Head George Clooney (see Michael Clayton, Solaris, and, if my memory serves me correctly, Out Of Sight) in which he's indifferent to his gorgeousness and very good indeed.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if...
there is a dartboard with George Clooney's face on it in the office of the top dog at Just For Men hair products. He must bloody *loathe* him, what with encouraging blokes to go grey naturally...
not forgetting
Fat n beardy George Clooney in Syriana, in which he's very good.
Maybe because he looks almost human
when a bit overweight. Man crush!
Jude Law
He only has about three lines in 'Cold Mountain.' They're still cringe inducing.
Did anyone mention
Gerrard Butler? Can't act, can't do an American accent, could barely talk in 300, has made some truly shite romcoms - and was only tolerable in Rocknrolla, because he had Idris Ella and the brilliant Tom Hardy around him.
Totally fucking useless. How that man became a Hollywood star, I'll never know
correction
I hate auto correct on my phone - that should of course say "Idris Elba"
Sean Bean
He went to the Arnold Laver School of Acting.*
He's as wooden as a plank and exciting as a floorboard.
He makes me cringe even when he does voiceovers for Morrisons.
His role in Golden Eye as Alec Trevelyan (006) when he tried to effect a public school accent was risible. Even worse was his role in Ronin as the chicken shit ex army guy. Or how about his portrayal of Boromir in Lord of the Rings?
Like Sean Connery or Michael Caine, he just can't do accents. What ever he does, his Sheffield accent shines through, whether it's appropriate or not.
* For those of you not from Yorkshire, Arnold Lavers are timber merchants.
Agreed
But I thought he was one of the best things about the Red Riding Trilogy. Or it could have just been his roll neck sweaters.
I´ve been looking for a sweater like that since I saw RRT
My sadly late grandfather wore them and looked cooler than ice cold.
Have to agree...
and he is my cousin.
I saw Sean Bean in Virgin's First Class lounge...
... at Heathrow a few Christmases ago. He sat opposite me as I was enjoying some free grub and a free drink or three. I looked up, recognized him, did that knowing nod thing which says "yeah mate, you know I know who you are but I'm much too cool to gush." Then I said "Hello, Mr. Bean." I immediately realized what I'd just said and laughed out loud. I looked at him and said again, with what I thought was a friendly chortle, "Ha! Mister Bean!"
He gave me a foul look, got up and walked away.
Miserable git.
Anyone else feel a tinge of sympathy for Seen Been here?
I'm sure you weren't being an arse, Billybob - but think about it. Do you not think he might have heard comments/jokes/attempted wisecracks about his surname before? Perhaps he's heard "Haha, Mr Bean!" just that once too often, and just wasn't going to see the funny side. He may be miserable git, I haven't a clue; on this occasion, I can't say I blame him for taking umbrage.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned
Keanu Reeves yet.
Or does it just go without saying?
The thread title...
...contained the word "actors", so it probably didn't occur to anyone to mention him.
Good point.
He is living proof of my theory that there is an obvious 'acting skill : intelligence' ratio. The higher the right hand number, the higher the left hand number. He just such a dumb-ass, I'm surprised he can can walk and breathe at the same time, let alone deliver a line convincingly (which, of course, he can't).
(Now waits for someone to point out that Keanu is a Harvard graduate, or that he has an extensive library of antique books that he has read from cover to cover, or that actually he's a really nice bloke who gives all his money to orphans...)
Keanu
He's actually a famously nice bloke.
See http://kottke.org/10/06/keanu-reeves-is-a-really-nice-guy
Damn.
Now I feel like a proper heel.
Doesn't stop him being rubbish though.
That...
....genuinely cheered me up. It seems Mr. Reeves is a genuine corker of a chap. On the strength of only a couple of those twenty-odd anecdotes, I'd be willing to suspend all bad words about him for the term of my natural life. Reading them all was honestly an uplifting experience. Keanu has just rocketed to the top of my Lovely Celebrity list.
Is he actually rubbish in The Matrix though?
After all he plays a bloke with no idea what's going on. I was convinced.
3 of the worst actors in a great movie
Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey in Point Break. That and a six pack and you`ve got yourself a great night in
Begging to differ
I've watched this all the way through, and I deserve some sort of medal. It was bloody awful!
You have to watch it
..with a six-pack
Ricky Gervais
... is very very funny and clearly a great writer, comedian etc etc, but am I alone in thinking that he can't actually ACT.
i see where you're coming from Ainsley
But I must admit that the tirade in the celeb big brother house scene in the extras Christmas special moved me to tears, it really did. It could be argued that it was just a brilliant piece of writing - and it is - but my humble opinion is that he did it no small measure of justice.
Ewan McGregor
Everything I've seen McGregor in, I'm always concious I'm watching film star Ewan McGregor rather than suspending my disbelief and being engaged by the character he's playing. Take a genuinely talented actor like Robert Carlysle - utterly terrifying and believable as psychopath Begsbie in Trainspotting. McGregor is always McGregor though.
(His Alec Guinness impression is also one of the worst things in the Phantom Menace - which is really saying something)
Bugger.
You lovely people have already named many of my favourite filmic hate figures,so I'll throw Mr.Tom Cruise,Toby Maguire,Gwyneth Paltrow and Lindsay Lohan into the ring.
Sam Neill. Sorry Sam, how can I put this...
... you're not the world's greatest actor. Stick to the vineyard business, sir.
Sam is a legend!
I love Sam Neill. Apart from Jurassic Park I've always enjoyed watching him: Death In Brunswick, The Dish, The Piano, Little Fish, Dead Calm, Sirens. The man doesn't do much, but he's definitely Got It.
And Dean Spanley
Sam is utterly spot on as a barking (literally) vicar. A small masterpiece - do not miss.
Aah.. The Dish..
Lovely film. Understated but just so right. Sam Neill was perhaps trying to be just a touch too wry in it, but I'll forgive him.
Helena and Tom
It took Helena Bonham Carter around twenty years before she learned how to act. I can't be objective about her, I'm afraid. She has always given me the creeps. She's gloriously creepy as the Red Queen in her husband's awful version of Alice in Wonderland. But is that acting?
Tom Cruise has never learned how to act. He's very good at doing Movie Star Stuff, though it's beginning to fray at the edges. He nearly did some acting in Magnolia but blew it by trying too hard in the Big Deathbed Scene. Like this entry, most of his Acting is in CAPS.
Andie McDowell.
That is all.
I'm very forgiving
when it comes to bad acting, simply because I think a lot of people in real life are "bad actors" as themselves... But Andie McDowell steps over my very generously drawn line in the sand.
And while I'm at it; can I just say that I absolutely hate "Sex Lies And Videotape". It would be awful without her, with her it's unbearable.
I also nominate Matthew Broderick. Thank god he mostly does theatre these days.
"Is it
raining? I hadn't noticed"
Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
I thought she was OK until the last line in Four Weddings...
...must be the worst line at the end of an otherwise good film EVER!!!!
Connery and Caine
A few words in the defence of these two:
Connery and Caine both come from the older school of actors who are a very recognisable product in all their films. They are "stars" who the public would rather did not do the method thing and disappear into their roles.
Both have done a great many clunkers but there are some exemplary roles.
Caine - Sleuth, Get Carter, Ipcress File (and Funeral in Berlin), California Suite, Deathtrap (even if it is Sleuth lite), Educating Rita, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Blood and Wine, Last Orders, Quiet American.
Connery - Bond (lest we forget he is brilliant in them), The Hill (already mentioned), The Offence, Wind and the Lion, Robin and Marian, Outland, Name of the Rose, Untouchables (forget the accent..he eats the screen up), The Russia House.
And of course both were superb in The Man Who Would Be King.
Val Kilmer..
hasn't been mentioned yet, surely some mistake. A master of the art of the single facial expression: in his case, like when a dog hangs his head to the side, a sort of stupid puzzlement.
Ditto Tom Cruise, except his single expression is a sort of perpetual smirk. Needs a good kicking IMHO.
Minnie Driver...
Stupid name, terrible actress.
Her sister Taxi however...
is supposed to be rather good.
You.....
talkin' to me?
I don't see anyone else here.
Julie Christie
Yes, I know she's supposed to have been great in Doctor Zhivago but her Madame Rosmerta in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban was just clunkingly awful!
Seriously?
"Actors who are rubbish no matter how good the film is" - are you saying Julie Christie falls into that category? You mention one film she's supposed to have been good in, though it's not clear whether or not you've seen it; and one in which she's been bad. Have you seen Away From Her, The Go-Between, Don't Look Now, or Hamlet, to name but four?
I hope this doesn't come across as snippy; I just can't get my head around JC's name being invoked in this thread.
You're joking
I will not have this wonderful actress's name used in vain on this thread. One scene with her and Kiefer's old man in Don't Look Now still brings out teenage lust in me. She was beautifully classy, still is, and always will be. Enough!!
Away from her
Surely she was the only point in watching that film, and it was still v. dicey.
Madness
To add three more, Darling, McCabe and Mrs Miller and Far From the Madding Crowd
Adam Sandler
Not funny. Not an actor.
Am surprised that Al Pacino
appears in the list. I thought he was great in Scent of a Woman and Cruising. He is one of the better actors around IMHO. He is often typecast but then so many actors are - am not sure that equates with being not very good - more likely has been exceptional in that role so producers/directors look to them when they need that type of character. See also Jack Nicholson, Nicholas Cage etc etc.
Michael Caine - dont like that many of his films but I loved his role in Little Voice which he played to perfection.
If I had to put one on the list that isnt there it would be Richard Gere. Overrated and under talented.
I did preface it with
'... or those on a downward slide.'
Pacino plays everything the same way now - from about Scent of a Woman onwards. e.g. bug eyed (beardy) madman 'Talking quietly until building to a SHOUT AT THE END OF A SENTENCE.'
Do TV stars count?
That fecker who plays Lewis - Kevin Whately. He *acts* all the time, dreadful. I saw him once in a play - 12 Good Men - he played an American and his Geordie-Yank was genuinely laughable.
John Malkovich springs to mind...
... his presence always seems to indicate that they couldn't get, or couldn't afford, anyone better. I'd question the inclusion of Steven Seagal further up the thread, as to the best of my knowledge he's never been even close to appearing in a 'good' film. ; )
Talking of bad actors...
...do you remember John McCardle who played Billy Corkhill in Brookside? Saw him in a production of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' at The Crucible in Sheffield in the early 1990s. God, he was wooden!
Gotta say...
...that he was magnificent in Brookie. That period with him and Sheila and Bobby and Jimmy was the high water mark of the only soap I have ever loved.
He was good at playing a man at the end of his tether...
...but it was like he only had that one thing in his repertoire.
The guy who played Barry Grant was good, though.
Bobby, Sheila, Damon, Barry and Karen
The best soap family created!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
Uma Thurman
Ta very much,
can you deliver?
Steven Berkoff
More ham than you'd find in Denmark.
Call off the dogs
Tom Hanks
DiCaprio
Imagine how much better The Gangs of New York, The Departed and Shutter Island would have been with a "real" actor cast in Leo's roles.
Not sure I fathom Scorsese's obsession with him. He looks eternally young, seems to have a range of expressions that Derek Zoolander could top and his delivery isn't up to much either.....
Leo wasn't too bad in ...
"What's Eating Gilbert Grape", though, surely?
I rather liked him in...
Romeo and Juliet as well.
Let's just cut to the chase
and say every single actor ever, and just be done with it.
Too right!
Bunch of bastards.
While we're at it, can we declare every business in the world with more than 15 employees to be cultural-imperialist swine who make shit stuff anyway, and have done with that too?
;-)
Jason Statham
Actually some of other people's nominations are actually pretty GOOD actors compared to …
Jason Statham
And I'll say it again
Jason Statham.
He's the forgettable guy who was lucky enough to be cast in the Guy Ritchie movie- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998. And has since, for some reason, been lucky enough to carve a very prolific hollywood career in more than 26 mostly very bad films in less than 12 years. Unfortunately no-one seems to have noticed that… this guy can't act. At all.
Jason Statham
I think you win the prize, Marky.
I suspect that Mr Statham's name has yet to have been raised because most WORD bloggers are somewhat unfamiliar with his œvre.
To his credit, though, I think Jason'd probably stick his name up in this list For Our Consideration. He's found his niche, it earns him a living, he's not trying to make great works of art. Let him go with it.
$600,000 per picture
hmm here's my problem with that: - all the thousands of out of work Actors that must be out there, looking at his masterful technique and thinking … jeeeezus
herumph - I've not seen many of them either. Honest
If this thread is supposed to be about bad actor's in GOOD films. Maybe the fact that Mr Steatham has been in almost no good films may suggest a causal link. Rotten Tomatoes will confirm this theory I'm sure. I mean 0 out of 26… its not a great ratio is it.
I'm amazed
I got all the way down here, and no mention yet of Richard Gere.
Raiff Heinz
OK OK, so he gave good Nazi in Schindler but he's rubbish at playing Brits!
Depends what you think a movie actor is there for
If Hugh Grant is a bad actor then so was Cary Grant.
I just relised that we have forgotten
the truly awful Jack Black!
Bad actor and unfunny "comedian" extraordinaire...
At his absolute worst in the completely useless movie "The Holiday", where you can also "enjoy" the acting of Jude Law, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet ( actually I don't mind Kate at all, but why is she in this piece of shite ? )
There are some scenes in this - hrrmf - "romantic comedy" that are impossible to watch without what we in Sweden call an "embarrassment-cushion" firmly pressed against your face.
Every movie appearance by any of the alumni of Friends
Especially, but definitely not limited to, Jennifer Anniston.