#3 worst actor nomination thread

No mention of Gerard Butler in the stinker list? Or does he just *make* stinkers?

I assume it's because they're all called Chris

― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 8:45 PM

I saw twitter memes, a lot of asian people tweeting "how are we supposed to tell these guys apart?"

I once saw a woman on television crying and talking about something traumatic and I was thinking "god, that's just abysmal acting", then I had the horrible realization that it wasn't a film and this was a real person talking about a real traumatic experience.

Marky Mark has been mentioned already, but he's pretty terrible a lot of the time.

like Hanks, he is redeemed by one role that brought me genuine joy. In Mark's case, it was "I'm the guy that does his job, you must be the other guy." The Departed.

Also, I give a blanket exemption for anyone in L.A. Confidential because the casting and direction was just great imo

shit, you might be right, Spacey is maybe p good in that?

"Damn, it fell out again."

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ok fine that is lol

I had to have the chat with mrs mac last night to clarify spacey in LA confidential and whether he was good in it, this thread is getting to me

In Mark's case, it was "I'm the guy that does his job, you must be the other guy." The Departed.

Also, I give a blanket exemption for anyone in L.A. Confidential because the casting and direction was just great imo

― sarahell,

Best quote, and now you're getting into the swing of things

Do you know who can get into the box with spacey and malkovich, and this is not gonna go down well?

macmurray’s smug anticharisma is being used v deliberately in both of those movies

Judi Dench

I had to have the chat with mrs mac last night to clarify spacey in LA confidential and whether he was good in it, this thread is getting to me

Yes, he's in it, and yes he's good. As is everyone from DeVito on up (in his case, literally).

Take yr word for it dlh

It gives me no pleasure to recall that Spacey's final scene with Cromwell is legit good

But wait: Kim Basinger

ha, I almost said Dench but assumed that was a challops

Wary of offering 80s bombshells etc because like what roles could they have gotten, often, kinda thing, but then i said demi moore anyway

actually I wouldn't nec go to the mat for it as a perf, but I can't hate Vicki Vale

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Butler too earthily notably real to really get in but def a hugely limited actor

Stuart townsend was almost cast as aragorn iirc, would def have been in danger of the list if that had happened, dull as ditchwater and he riding charlize theron ffs

you wanna bust that body?

MacMurray is perfect for the role in The Apartment, whether or not he did anything on purpose

I also can barely tell the Chrises apart, bar Pratt

and tbf he's doing his best to blend into the mass of 'em since Parks & Rec

Matrix/keanu is worth thinking about because swap in bloom and tbh id see no difference

Mark Wahlberg couldn't be better in Boogie Nights. (He was pretty terrible in the Gambler remake, though.)

Dench and Basinger have nothing on Anne Hathaway -- I watched Dark Waters the other night, and she played Mark Ruffalo's wife, and fortunately she wasn't given as much screentime as the wives of crusading lawyers in these types of movies are usually given. Thank you Todd Haynes, I appreciate you!

If they gave awards for playing Kevin Spacey, Kevin Spacey would certainly win year after year regardless of the movie.

I was young and dumb and thought he was amazing in The Usual Suspects, Glenngary Glenross and whatever other earlier acclaimed stuff he was in. Then I saw him in American Beauty and realized he had always played himself in every role and he did not vary what he was doing one iota.

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“That wasn’t just a fart”

trying to think of actors so bad that I considered going and reconsidered once I saw they were in it

Hathaway made me and kevin k cry in les mis so no way!

* at the end of the movie they show the actual people the movie is based on, and the wife does resemble Anne Hathaway a bit, and I can see potentially she could be annoying in the same way, so I am just going to assume Todd Haynes cast her for that purpose.

i once saw Kevin Spacey in the Broadway production of Moon for the Misbegotten, which also included Brendan Gleeson.

Spacey gave hours worth of line-readings and very broad-strokey overacting, but not much else. everybody else in the cast acted him off the stage, and the review said he has "tons of charisma and no idea what to do with it"

kicking myself as I could have seen Eric Bogosian in the revival of Talk Radio

I am imagining Bloom in The Matrix *doing an american accent* and idk deems idk

I really like the way he furrows his brow at the end like he’s literally reading the line as it comes out
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if you want to really indulge your Spacey hatred find the clip of him doing impressions for James Lipton

Are there potter gifs

I saw the woman in black he was in and i was terrified throughout he wouldnt get killed

gyac someone at the ICC just messaged me asking for your contact info?

I do kinda like Spacey's impressions cos all that requires of him is imitation

mostly tho just in the SNL sketch where he's on Dave Letterman (played by Norm MacDonald, who keeps repeating things like "Got any gum?")

Lol its so fuckin true spacey impersonations are just spacey and it drives me insane to see him on TV, not just cheapening his craft because wgaf but being clapped on by people who are delighted that he his or might be cheapening his craft for their amusement but the twist is he has no craft and his impersonations absolutely demonstrate this

If nic cage pulled similar it would be genius tho

Matrix/keanu is worth thinking about because swap in bloom and tbh id see no difference

― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 1:17 PM (four minutes ago)

I think his "Whoa!" would have sounded less authentic? ... honestly I feel like Keanu is perpetually Ted, and if the movie would work with Ted in it, then ok.

Flavours of ted

A keanu reeves retrospective

Spacey gave hours worth of line-readings

otm.

Dude!!!

gyac someone at the ICC just messaged me asking for your contact info?

Hathaway is very good in Colossal, an excellent movie; fine in Ocean's 8, a moderately competent movie; and has a lot of fun eating scenery in The Witches, an unnecessary and fairly bad movie. I also intend to watch Rachel Getting Married one day, though suspect she does too much Acting in it.

I don't remember who pointed it out but someone in the House of Cards thread pointed out there was a scene where he got angry at his wife and for about ten minutes, dropped the ridiculous southern accent he'd been using for 3 seasons for like the entirety of it. and then went back to it after that scene ended.

I watched it shortly after reading that post and it was completely accurate, one of the most bizarre things ever. I mean yeah the argument could be made that hte exaggerated accent is his politician-speak, but he never dropped those mannerisms with his wife in private, so...that doesn't make sense either.

Spacey does a good robot voice in "Moon."

idk to me, she is like Michael Cera -- I just can't ...

Matrix/keanu is worth thinking about because swap in bloom and tbh id see no difference

Keanu is very good in possibly up to a dozen excellent movies. It doesn't matter how many other movies he is terrible in.

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or Tom Cruise -- people will bring up that raining frogs best buy movie in his defense, and I just ... no. No, I can't. He even ruins The Outsiders a bit for me.

Keanu is very good in possibly up to a dozen excellent movies. It doesn't matter how many other movies he is terrible in.

They've made that many Bill & Ted movies?

Spacey does a good robot voice in "Moon."

otm tbf