#3 worst actor nomination thread

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

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.

Like a grip who looks vaguely movie star-ish and is good at remembering lines.

my mind keeps returning to nicole kidman

Beatty i considered but i mean presence/looks

Because, if him then redford imo and were getting silly now kinda

Not to defend kidman as brilliant but i mean id list four or five at-least-goods and the bar is orlando bloom

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.

The bar

*Taps table*

Ok everybody can i pleae just, everyone?

Thanks

The bar is orlando bloom

Thanks everyone, appreciate your time

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.

Basically we're looking for people who are to acting what bryan ferry is to singing

But Bryan Ferry does a spectacular imitation of a man who wants to sing!

Stallone is often super

It can stay in here though really its a coffee break room of a thread

xp no i'm thinking of big little lies and the undoing (which was so so bad)

Kidman's fine, you louts.

The obv answer is Michael Fassbender.

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Defend malkovich and hopkins

Hell defend bloom if you like

Nah fassbender is good

Maybe you'd need to be paddy to read him, too subtle

I mean someone said gabriel byrne ffs

I like liev Schreiber has he ever done any acting

He looks like hed be ok at it

hayden christensen, now there's an orlando bloom for you

Yes!

Did he ever really climb to even radcliffe/bloom level tho

Been thinking also that actors that are not very good but do one thing really well cannot be really considered

That saves deniro

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.

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.

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.

Hayden Christensen was decent in Shattered Glass, has Orlando Bloom ever been decent in anything?

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

OL- changing fashions over time gotta be taken into account tbf

But I mean katherine hepburn in bringing up baby says gtfo

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.

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.

Denise richards is an honorary model-turned-actress as per above, bullock is good comedically etc at least

Paltrow

Jeremy Renner is pretty bad but I wouldn’t say he’s Orlando Bloom bad.

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.

andie macdowell finally found her level when she demonstrated reasonable competence at swinging her hair and say "i'm worth it"

Underserved oscar nods is a fair jump from orlando "hello i am orlando bloom" /CUT ok orlando one more go bloom

I mean andie is actually model-actress and imo pretty good in four weddings and groundhog day

Er, Bradley Cooper? Kinda feel like that one doesn't even need to be said aloud.

"is she still acting? i hadn't noticed" < niche gag, xp

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.

Clem u gotta

If cooper then bale

I think they're both fine tbh

bradley cooper is fine imo

denise richards gets a pass under my newly created "the cast of starship troopers gets a pass" rule

He convinces me that he is an attractive untrustworthy american male in anything ive seen him in

Now, im not even actually sure if bloom is australian or british? but in no way has he ever convinced me of anything when performing it

I couldn’t pick Bradley Cooper out of a police lineup tbh, he’s just one of those actors who could be eight other people

rule #5 cast of starship troopers, showgirls and anything david lynch get career passes

Im now not sure that bale is, in fact, fine

Tho he charmed me in the ford vs ferrari one so

Is she still acting? I hadn't noticed.

I laughed, Ledge.

\o/

considering excelsioring myself tbh

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 Things

imo Margaret Qualley can act a bit better but she definitely has some of her mom’s energy

Im leery of getting into criticising models-turned-actors (even if they were never actually models, iygwim) but demi moore is particularly bad, right?

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is she this i think maybe but then she is primarily known for acting right

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.

I wasn't nominating her for the thread, just saying that I'm occasionally reminded of who her mother is

Wtf

I watched Maid and never knew they were mother daughter at all, that is wild

wait, do they play mother and daughter in that? it’d be funny if they just kind of passably pulled that off

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.

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!

that's the power of acting. convincing you that an actual mother and daughter are two unrelated actors playing mother and daughter

lmaooo