#3 worst actor nomination thread

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I nominate Orson Welles, whose greatest accomplishment was making himself seem competent as an actor.

lol it's true that other directors deploy him as a prop. (even reed?)

still tho no.

i like in gosford park when ryan phillipe says

would that be hot milk... or cold

Have you seen _Big Little Lies_, OL? I thought Woodley was good in that.

deems, I think you're going too hard on Radcliffe inasmuch as he is a child actor who is now an adult, so on that front he's actually doing okay for himself, he may not be any competition for the classically-trained crew but let him have his fun if it keeps him off the drugs I say

Radcliffe as black swan

Just sitting there, blinking owlpotterishly, like his mother first demanded when he was 8 and scared and cameras flashing and he just wanted to please everyone

Poor fucker, soul half-formed, praised for looking about right while the same ghoul who feasted on m culkins innocence descended upon him with a script by jk fuckin rowling, sorry kid this is your life now

I mean imagine the deserted wreck of a human thus formed in black swan

Ive no idea where bloom emerged from. The pinch of a demon through the cloth of a darker fucking universe than this, and we let it spawn with katy perry and on the cusp of this squall of horror ive smart fuckers slagging off meryl streep well tear it all down i say ill go smiling if even one of youse animals is dragged with me meryl streep honest to christ

Spacey Hopkins malkovich all not quite but def in the second circle, possibly with harris

Oof phillippe is really, really bad, good shout furst new contender since knightley imo

xpost ah, it's such a treat to have u back

there are no worst actors, it's who you like or not

Not so

I love michael palin, but hes a horrible mugger in his (even half) dramatic efforts

Michael Cera

Yes OL feel the energy

Costner gets a pass for Bull Durham

And Tin Cup tbh

I just meant that I don't think actors are to blame for what seem like bad performances, but this obviously isn't the thread to argue that.

Philippe and Bloom it's like.. they look like Nick Carters of course they're going to get cast

Please explain instead to me Jonathan Pryce

Does Richard Gere count as an actor? He seems like someone who just shows up and plays Richard Gere and then later they dub over any instances where he refers to himself on camera as Richard Gere.

I'm not sure Cameron Diaz is or ever was good.

Again, my references are rarely going to be contemporary. I'm scrolling backwards through my watched films on Letterboxd and it took me like a handful of finger flicks to get to the '90s.

xpost Tin Cup is great, his total self destruction in the tournament at the end is such a great scene, totally turns the sports movie cliche on its head

He gets by as beefcake but between you and me hes running it damned close

But the test- imagine radcliffe in his pretty woman role

Eesh

David Arquette has somehow received top billing in a few films. Meditate on that for a moment.

Keira knightley could never for a moment pull something about mary, Charlie's angels, the mask, hell even knight and day is a performance of fun and swagger

Is david arquette at the success level required

Would say nowhere near

No Gere is amazing, criminally underused leading man
Also continues to get more bangable even at 71

I felt like I'm the only person whose mom inexplicably had Tin Cup on VHS and I watched it at least four times, it's great

Rene Russo is also underused I don't know why she wasn't cast more

this obviously isn't the thread to argue that.

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Argue away!

Pryce is several cuts above malkovich or spacey fgti

jonathan pryce does well-calibrated hamming as MR. DARK and more famously i am fond of the delivery "i am not counting it."

cameron diaz is a star.

really liked Richard Gere in Altman's Dr. T & the Women

Ben Affleck. He is not good. He's been in good things but he himself is not good. At acting, I mean.

cameron diaz is the highlight of vanilla sky, for that alone etc.

Costner is any sports turn, untouchables jfk the one recently with woody open range yadda yadda yadda easy charisma is already so far ahead of remember now the kid who cannot convincingly stand still (srsy watch radcliffe sometime its horrible tbh)

Love vanilla sky no questions thks

OL and I are on a similar wavelength bc Richard Gere just popped into my head. Same for Philippe. I think when I saw this thread my brain immediately went to any actor involved in the Haggis “Crash”. Sorry, Ludacris.

I'm actually more surprised as I scroll by how many actors pass muster with me, tbrr.

casper van dien

Forgot Vanilla Sky, also she's very game in There's Something About Mary. Okay, Diaz rescinded.

Affleck can sit and eat while a better actor speaks lines of dialogue if you asked affleck be i need you to just relax a bit can we go again affleck would try to do that can you imagine how radcliffe would react if asked to relax there is no way it could work

the problem I'm having is we're kinda like, excluding people who had a movie in which they were effective once and , well even the shittiest actors can get a birdie on the fairway every once in a while

Van dien never even got to paul walker fame let alone orlando bloom fame but not an awful shout tbh

Trying to imagine Radcliffe in any Affleck role is killing me rn. O'Bannion!

the problem I'm having is we're kinda like, excluding people who had a movie in which they were effective once and , well even the shittiest actors can get a birdie on the fairway every once in a while

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Cmon man thats the whole point

Is Pryce, though? I just assumed (given his involvement in Brazil) that he must have a Monty Python pass that I didn't know about but he stage-acts through every film he's in and it's abominable to watch (except Glengarry Glen Ross, bc everybody was stage-acting; look, Spacey and Pryce are both swanning all over their film sets in equal measure.)

As for Malkovich, I don't give a fuck about him except that he was a key figure in some excellent Spalding Gray monologues and afaic, a feature in a Spalding Gray monologue is as good as a Lynch/Verhoeven gig insofar as safe words are concerned

remember now the kid who cannot convincingly stand still (srsy watch radcliffe sometime its horrible tbh)

lol ♥️♥️♥️♥️ dmac

Like i think guy pearce is terrible and getting worse every day, but see for instance the scene where he blasts up the flat in la confidential and he looks vaguely shocked afterwards

Guarantee you cannot imagine radcliffe nor bloom reaching that incredible emotional depth

And id say getting Pearce to that point was like a breech birth tbh

Okay I loved Chris Pratt on Parks and Rec but...I think he might have been terrible in everything else. Including real life, apparently.

fgti i am not here to dictate over my excellent ilx colleagues in this endeavour i am convinced of yr case and pryce is hereby declared no better than malkovich/spacey gavel next

Pratt has charm and goofiness in gotg bloom in that role would dry out the tapeheads

Erm...how do we feel about Julia Roberts?

Well, regardless of your kind admission, I've always fucking hated Guy Pearce