*beautifully
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:50 (five months ago) link
over enunciate tho
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:52 (five months ago) link
"I was there the day the strength of men failed"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 15:54 (five months ago) link
Could be from The Matrix or LOTR.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 28 December 2023 16:07 (five months ago) link
Weaving often doesn’t tone down his stage style for the screen but is great or fine in Proof, Priscilla, Bodyline, Bangkok Hilton, The Interview, Mystery Road, The Dressmaker, Royal Hotel et al Now you might observe that most of these are clustered before he started doing things for money on American schedules, but I couldn’t possibly comment
― bae (sic), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:12 (five months ago) link
Yes, The Interview is good as well!
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:16 (five months ago) link
i am pleased to be able to play the other role itt for a change ty guys
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:59 (five months ago) link
Come on, he made The Matrix.― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)
once i got past the dramatic urge to yell at you for your (correct) use of pronouns my mind immediately jumped to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holmes_%28scriptwriter%29#/media/File:Robert_Holmes_scriptwriter.jpg
also one hell of a chin. definite "writer's hair" though.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link
let's try those tags again
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 December 2023 19:56 (five months ago) link
I'm sure he's been mentioned already and I don't think anyone likes him but I just watched Bradley Cooper in Maestro and he's so terrible in it
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:07 (five months ago) link
I’ve always hated Hugo Weaving. Guy Pearce too.
Bryce Dallas Howard is bad, but I feel sorry for her bc she always seems like she’s who people call when “we can’t afford Jessica Chastain”
Can’t stand Evan Rachel Wood, but I haven’t seen Kajillionaire yet, and she was good as Madonna
Is Domnhall Gleeson an option? I don’t like him at all
― time of no reply guys (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:18 (five months ago) link
Terrible takes, please leave the thread
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:33 (five months ago) link
Righto!
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 20:52 (five months ago) link
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:02 (five months ago) link
sorry fgti they are terrible takes i must agree
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:05 (five months ago) link
your (correct) use of pronouns
Not quite sure what you mean.
I was probably pretty vague; I meant that Weaving was the best part of the film, imho.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:17 (five months ago) link
you were totally clear tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:19 (five months ago) link
Gal Gadot surely warrants mention.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:25 (five months ago) link
Maybe you should add “Irish actors” to the perpetually-safe bin along with “stunt-cast musician cameos”
Tell me a good G Byrne/Gleeson Jr. performance and I’ll watch it, and eat my words if you are correct
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:26 (five months ago) link
Miller's Crossing leaps to mind
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link
Excellent movie, no comment on man’s performance
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:33 (five months ago) link
Guy Pearce also great in Priscilla, remember him as good in LA Confidential but it’s been a while.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:44 (five months ago) link
Also Gabriel Byrne is not good apart from Millers Crossing
I mean, he is the lead. It's been 30 years, but I remember his performance as being creditable.
I seem to remember him not being terrible in The Usual Suspects.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:46 (five months ago) link
Guy Pearce is not just good but very underrated (by the industry, which does not give him the size or quality of roles he deserves).
Hugo Weaving is a pretty bad actor. He would do better to embrace Willem Dafoe-ness than to keep on with the stiff-jaw bulging-eyes thing.
(His daughter Samara Weaving is much better than he is, but she's stuck in a "when you can't afford Margot Robbie" niche.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:54 (five months ago) link
Thanks for posting this.. I love his face and his voice and by all rights he should be incredible but he just drears up everything I see him in, most recently Hereditary, where he was outclassed by everyone even the children
I should rewatch Miller’s Crossing, I adore that film— Turturro just dominates in everything he appears and I may’ve just missed an excellent performance from Byrne
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:35 (five months ago) link
he just drears up everything
I feel the same about Liam Neeson. I've never understood his appeal.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:37 (five months ago) link
]His daughter Samara Weaving
niece
― bae (sic), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:38 (five months ago) link
Ernest BorgnineAngela Lansbury
― Marcel, Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:44 (five months ago) link
He kinda drears up Millers Crossing too, but it's a feature-not-a-bug there.
By coincidence my wife and I rewatched L.A. Confidential last night and I thought Pearce was pretty good in it, the best of a hammy and clumsy bunch. (The ADR glaringly bad.)
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:44 (five months ago) link
hes incredible in millers crossing
i may agree about the rest of his career
gleeson jr in his sketch comedy alone doesnt qualify for the depths on what we need in the thread
guy pearce was brilliant only this year in that damien lewis/cambridge spy thing for tv
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:45 (five months ago) link
Ernest Borgnine
LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:45 (five months ago) link
im not here to scoff at suggestions guys, as i made clear from the start we are aiming very very very low here thats the point of the thread and i dont apologise
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
The best bad actor of all time was probably Charlton Heston.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:46 (five months ago) link
true but great presence
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:56 (five months ago) link
Tapping the sign till my nails split down the middle:The bar is Bloom
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 28 December 2023 22:59 (five months ago) link
some of y’all have never seen elizabethtown and it shows
― ivy., Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:08 (five months ago) link
*puts on my “I Have Never Seen Elizabethtown” Xmas sweater*
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 December 2023 23:14 (five months ago) link
also
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 00:43 (five months ago) link
Yeah he was shit in that too
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:10 (five months ago) link
his total inability to transmit a recognizable human emotion through the screen while being the romantic lead of a movie, in fact he's pretty much in every scene is really incredible, to say nothing of his... attempts(?) to play off kirsten dunst's lethal overdoses of quirk
i fucking love elizabethtown for the record, nothing like it!!!!
― ivy., Friday, 29 December 2023 01:25 (five months ago) link
My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:31 (five months ago) link
My pet least-fave is [redacted] but she hasn’t been in enough for me to mention her name
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:51 (five months ago) link
i demand name
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2023 02:10 (five months ago) link
Byrne is good in dead man but he’s only in it for like a second and gets killed immediately. He dies good, tho
― brimstead, Friday, 29 December 2023 02:20 (five months ago) link
No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is all
Who was established as #2? Keira in the end?
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 29 December 2023 03:08 (five months ago) link
Bloom's number 2! One was Daniel Radcliffe
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 December 2023 03:31 (five months ago) link
My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.The bar is Bloom. Watch The Year My Voice Broke, The Big Steal, or Idiot Box.
― bae (sic), Friday, 29 December 2023 05:13 (five months ago) link
No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is allWho was established as #2? Keira in the end?
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 06:01 (five months ago) link
I mean as your unnamed stinky actor who hasn’t been in a lot of things; has good politics; Canadian.
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 06:02 (five months ago) link