xp gyac getting the spirit of things here imo
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
Actual lordling kit harington which surely wins him no fuckin points neither
Basically we're looking for people who are to acting what bryan ferry is to singing
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah, what of it?
Kit however is married to actual aristocrat Rose Leslie who can act, so idk what his excuse is. Going to say Martin Freeman, have never enjoyed him in anything. Not one single thing.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Freeman has no range but can do one thing quite-to-very well?
As i say the line is a blurry one but if youre to get him in a one liner wont do it i need you to pour your heart into it
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
If that thing is being a peevish middle-aged man, sure
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
Jesus tho im haunted by hopkins now, shook
I mean i like him in loads of stuff but now im looking and thinking and tone youre stealing a living arent you you rascal
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
xp exhibit one, peevish middle aged hobbit
Was Warren Beatty bad? I like a number of movies he's in but almost in spite of his presence. He just kinda always seems like someone who was on set while the movie was being filmed and who was swapped in after the lead fell suddenly ill.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
Like a grip who looks vaguely movie star-ish and is good at remembering lines.
my mind keeps returning to nicole kidman
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
Beatty i considered but i mean presence/looks
Because, if him then redford imo and were getting silly now kinda
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
Not to defend kidman as brilliant but i mean id list four or five at-least-goods and the bar is orlando bloom
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
yeah she's not as bad as orlando bloom, but i do think she's gotten a bit worse over time. she's incredibly wooden in both of the prestige hbo series she's done.
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
The bar
*Taps table*
Ok everybody can i pleae just, everyone?
Thanks
The bar is orlando bloom
Thanks everyone, appreciate your time
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
Xp is top of the lake 2 one of those? Thought she was lovely and arch in that, and i mean as a show it was horribly bad
If there isn't one already, I feel inclined to start a companion thread for actors who are unquestionably Not Good but who are really compelling to watch. Like I've just recently realized how much I like watching Stallone do his thing. He coasts entirely on charisma while demonstrating zero thespiary skills.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
But Bryan Ferry does a spectacular imitation of a man who wants to sing!
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
Stallone is often super
It can stay in here though really its a coffee break room of a thread
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
xp no i'm thinking of big little lies and the undoing (which was so so bad)
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Kidman's fine, you louts.
The obv answer is Michael Fassbender.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Soto we have been waiting for you and other notables
Defend malkovich and hopkins
Hell defend bloom if you like
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Nah fassbender is good
Maybe you'd need to be paddy to read him, too subtle
I mean someone said gabriel byrne ffs
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I like liev Schreiber has he ever done any acting
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
He looks like hed be ok at it
hayden christensen, now there's an orlando bloom for you
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
Yes!
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
Did he ever really climb to even radcliffe/bloom level tho
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
Been thinking also that actors that are not very good but do one thing really well cannot be really considered
That saves deniro
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
I watched the early Katherine Hepburn film Morning Glory a few days ago which I felt was a really instructive depiction of what I consider bad acting inasmuch as she was truly fantastic in the role but she was portraying a would-be actress who everyone thought was a loopy fruitcake until she actually acted and blew everyone away with her performance but I was all like, wait, her in-character is acting of the Jon Lovitz 'ACTING!' variety and actually Not Good. Is that what people actually like? Very self-consciously actorly acting? Academy Award Nominee for Best Actor acting? Sheesh.
I'm going to comb through the list of Academy Award Nominees for Best Actor real quick and find some worthy entries for this thread.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
The only non-GoT thing I've seen Sophie Turner in is the X-Men movies and I find it really hard to blame her for those, esp the more recent one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
Hayden Christensen is terrible at acting but I couldn't possibly ding anyone who played the central role in the best movie of all time, Shattered Glass.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
Hayden Christensen was decent in Shattered Glass, has Orlando Bloom ever been decent in anything?
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
I think that's fair comment j/v/c
Youve to literally be awful to have bad movies count against you
Radcliffe, bloom stand out as incredible poor in movie franchises almost defined by a lack of acting prowess on display, iirc turner is one of many merely forgettable given the kind of shite you have to say in superhero movies
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
OL- changing fashions over time gotta be taken into account tbf
But I mean katherine hepburn in bringing up baby says gtfo
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
Hopkins is a fun overactor when he gets to fuss and fidget (Howards End).
I thought Hepburn was terrible as a bad actress, actually. She didn't deserve the four Oscars she won -- she deserved them for four other films.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
I’m going to controversially suggest that Best Actress especially for a while in the noughties is a more ready source of material, especially the period where it was just big A list actors winning for doing something a bit out of range. Like there’s no way Sandra Bullock should have ever been nominated for an Oscar, let alone winning one, yet here we are.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Denise richards is an honorary model-turned-actress as per above, bullock is good comedically etc at least
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
Paltrow
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Jeremy Renner is pretty bad but I wouldn’t say he’s Orlando Bloom bad.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Gwyneth Paltrow was very good in Sliding Doors, far better than Sandra Bullock in anything I’ve ever seen. No way she deserved an Oscar though.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
andie macdowell finally found her level when she demonstrated reasonable competence at swinging her hair and say "i'm worth it"
― ledge, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Underserved oscar nods is a fair jump from orlando "hello i am orlando bloom" /CUT ok orlando one more go bloom
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:47 (three years ago) link
I mean andie is actually model-actress and imo pretty good in four weddings and groundhog day
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
Er, Bradley Cooper? Kinda feel like that one doesn't even need to be said aloud.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
"is she still acting? i hadn't noticed" < niche gag, xp
― ledge, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
I can think of one actor I find especially wooden, but he's so revered, I won't name him, and won't confirm or deny. It's hard for me to think of someone where I don't like at least something they've done (I even like the wooden actor in one or two things). For a while I might have said Joan Allen, but that's in part a function of her characters, and she's pretty good in The Contender. Obviously, some of the worst acting ever is from great actors when they pass into self-parody--Pacino, De Niro, etc.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
again amazed that the first dude deems pointed out as a bad actor was kyle secor
i mean he was no andre braugher but jeez
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 01:38 (two weeks ago) link
he had caught my eye at the time, truly a quarterback at the ballet that lad
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 11 March 2024 02:06 (two weeks ago) link
Saw Fellowship of the Ring last month on da big screen, Orlando Bloom did everything he was called on to do, which was mostly stand there and look pretty, which is all most film actors do, like this is a movie where Liv Tyler’s performance is a parody of itself and of all future Lord of the Rings themed weddings, and it’s good, most performances in the movie have the wide-eyed blankness of Bresson models and nobody really knows the English language, most of the whole seventeen hour runtime is Elijah Wood’s humongous dewy eyes
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 11 March 2024 04:41 (two weeks ago) link
Like in context, of what relevance is it what Orlando Bloom can do with his face
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 11 March 2024 04:46 (two weeks ago) link
Have some respect guys, her name is Andie MacDowell and yes she is one of the all time worst actresses
― Josefa, Monday, 11 March 2024 04:47 (two weeks ago) link
Driver is terrific in Grosse Point Blank
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 March 2024 05:37 (two weeks ago) link
why are we discussing minnie driver (whom i quite like) while gal gadot is out here getting blown away by 'lily' in advertisements for at&t phones
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 05:49 (two weeks ago) link
MacDowell is great in MMXXL, maybe she'd always be great if she didn't have to do accents
wld 100% give Minnie Driver an airplane ride
― bae (sic), Monday, 11 March 2024 06:12 (two weeks ago) link
Is she still acting? I hadn't noticed.
I laughed, Ledge.
― trishyb, Monday, 11 March 2024 10:22 (two weeks ago) link
\o/
considering excelsioring myself tbh
― gene besserit (ledge), Monday, 11 March 2024 10:30 (two weeks ago) link
I thought about this thread recently as I was watching one of MacDowell’s daughters getting a ball repeatedly bounced off her head in Poor Thingsimo Margaret Qualley can act a bit better but she definitely has some of her mom’s energy
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 13:07 (two weeks ago) link
Im leery of getting into criticising models-turned-actors (even if they were never actually models, iygwim) but demi moore is particularly bad, right?
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:12 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
is she this i think maybe but then she is primarily known for acting right
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 11 March 2024 13:26 (two weeks ago) link
I think even the 10 seconds that Margaret Qualley's in the trailer for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood takes her out of contention for this thread.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 March 2024 14:44 (two weeks ago) link
I wasn't nominating her for the thread, just saying that I'm occasionally reminded of who her mother is
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 14:45 (two weeks ago) link
Wtf
I watched Maid and never knew they were mother daughter at all, that is wild
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 11 March 2024 14:49 (two weeks ago) link
wait, do they play mother and daughter in that? it’d be funny if they just kind of passably pulled that off
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link
Yes they do. I had no idea they were actually mother-daughter, but any time MacDowell was on screen I was too mesmerised by her "cartoon bipolar" performance in general to really think about her chemistry with Qualley. I think they're both great in that series fwiw.
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:19 (two weeks ago) link
I literally called downstairs, my bf pays more attention to this stuff. "Did you know that Margaret Qualley is Andie MacDowell's daughter?" "No I didn't!" "So you didn't realise it was real-life mother-daughter casting in Maid?" "What??!?! It was??" I felt like I was crazy for not noticing this!
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:21 (two weeks ago) link
that's the power of acting. convincing you that an actual mother and daughter are two unrelated actors playing mother and daughter
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 17:27 (two weeks ago) link
lmaooo
― braaam.flac (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 11 March 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link