#3 worst actor nomination thread

Calz i have faith you could go in hard on someone weve neglected to mention, anyone spring to mind

nominating on my partner's behalf: Adrien Brody

which I think inspires me to establish a personal criterion for this thread: if the actor displays fewer signs of life than a featured zombie in a George Romero movie, then they definitely qualify.

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for example

I've seen Raft a few times and don't remember much about him, so you're probably right OL, but classic hollywood v. contemporary acting feels too apples to oranges for me to really rail on anyone from the '40s

Adrien has a really characterful face and tbh i think hes getting away with it

if we went back only the few years, johnny depp would be in real trouble imo

I need to go do washing up/recycling but I leave you with my final For Your Considerations

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Kier is a tour de force as flailing melt dying a painful political death, but not sure the lad has much more range!

Chevy Chase comes to mind.

Holy shit

Radcliffe is acting the *shit* out of bloom there

Im rattled, i never thought id see the day

But radcliffe is off top spot

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I know I'm letting the thread down but none of the Radcliffe gifs have hit like the other two, I'm so sorry

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Did Knightley actually unhinge her jaw in that last gif? Because I'm not sure I've ever seen a non-snake vertebrate do that with their face before.

Chase and many SNL beloveds are terrible at everything they got success in but think you do have to draw line under comedians who are acting unless they really try to cross the line

seriously though -- talking about country and culture and class and race -- the guy who plays this zombie in Land of the Dead is really really good.

a dangerous method indeed!

xp to self: which also featured solid actor John Leguizamo who was also very good in this

love leguizamo.

and in answer to the opposite: actors who are good in whatever -- I nominate Bruce Dern

David Duchovny deserves some kind of honorable mention for subtle mediocrity.

Many xps because this thread is moving too fast to keep up with, but imo Duchovny is a decent actor who knows his limits and made Mulder a much more compelling character than he had any reason to be just by playing him like a lizard sunning itself on a rock. Also was one of the few good things about Twin Peaks season 2. Gillian Anderson, on the other hand - she was good as Scully, but lately she annoys me with her "look I'm acting" mannerisms and her whispery voice.

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Duchovny was solid in that show Aquarius about the Manson stuff

Chevy Chase is a drummer iirc

I have Guns Akimbo in my queue already so I was happy to not be appalled by that Radgiffe

I haven't seen any Harry Potters so I am guessing that's why I don't find that guy as loathsome as y'all?

Yes

has anyone seen swiss army man, the film where daniel radcliffe plays a talking, farting corpse?

because i think we need a report about that.

I believe it may have been mentioned

i have seen all of the hp films for my sins and there are plenty of worse actors than DR - whoever plays the weasley twins might be the worst of all

I assume Emma Watson was asked and answered

Her gig as hermione pits her beyond thread tbh

Theodore "Ted" Logan isn't John "Neo" Anderson isn't John Wick isn't Don Juan isn't Jonathan Harker isn't John Constantine.

I meant, some of these are clear systemic failures that demand inquiries, but he has a range of levers and buttons to work with.

Rupert Grint is terrible too, I assumed he was just eclipsed by yerman?

we can absolutely close the case on Keanu, yes

Tbh i might quibble about all of that bar Constantine!

Rupert Grint as Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys in the CBGB movie was a real standout in a field of terrible performances

I have Guns Akimbo in my queue already so I was happy to not be appalled by that Radgiffe

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feel like the star of that movie is Samara Weaving, only I didn't know it was her because of how different she looks in it

Similar to watson tho, hes imo decent enough as grint to move beyond the pull of the thread

Also no career since tbf

Lowkey agree with yerwan from starlight

Wait, twilight

I'm pretty sure Knightly said Cronenberg carefully described all that jaw action to her. Maybe that's why he cast her.

Now I want to see a film with her biting people really fucking hard.

I hear she's in the upcoming JAWS remake

didn't I just post upthread about her future as a zombie co-starring with Bruce Campbell

A Rabid remake where she bites instead of armpit stabs would be great

Shes been biting bonham carter since day one

Kirk Cameron

speaking of jaws, I thought this might be too challopsy, but Richard Dreyfus

obvs he's no Bloomps but I could happily recast every role he's done

Mr Holland's Opus, starring Billy Connolly as Mr Holland

Ah no hes absolutely joyous in jaws, his angry disbelief at the mayor is genuinely one of the best moments of acting in a hollywood blockbuster i can think of

i liked his unhinged quality in Close Encounters as well