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
Clem u gotta
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
If cooper then bale
I think they're both fine tbh
bradley cooper is fine imo
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
denise richards gets a pass under my newly created "the cast of starship troopers gets a pass" rule
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
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
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
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
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
rule #5 cast of starship troopers, showgirls and anything david lynch get career passes
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
Im now not sure that bale is, in fact, fine
Tho he charmed me in the ford vs ferrari one so
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
I don't know that I've ever seen Ed Harris in anything and thought 'hey, that was a good acting performance by Ed Harris'.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
he was good in the right stuff. so was dennis quaid tho. idk maybe the right stuff was just movie magic.
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Was he not just ed harris in the right stuff
Feel like if im putting spacey, malkovich v def in contention then hopkins/harris are at least on verge
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
its not "have i never enjoyed x" either, spacey works in glengarry, harris is perfect and lemmon is tolerable, and all three are not good actors like
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
Ed Harris is a good candidate when he's in full-throttle George Kennedy mode (Apollo 13). He's very understated as Howard Hunt in Nixon, though.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
mark hamill, and i dont wanna hear about his "yr uncle could do this" voice role as the joker, is rly the prototype here isnt he
shockingly bad, tripping over lines bad
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
That he looks cool wrinkly and bearded is Not A Defence
Ed Harris was good in The Truman Show cmon
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
If you already think Mark Hamill is bad, I would direct you to watch him reprising his role from the '90s Flash television series in the current Flash television series. It was a performance that, if he was not a name actor, would likely have gotten him fired and replaced on the spot.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
The Truman Show is good and I remember Ed Harris being in The Truman Show but I don't remember Ed Harris being good in The Truman Show.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
Agreed re ed harris, who did not strike me as outstanding as "ed harris in a beret" in the truman show
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
No one's mentioned Scarlett Johansson yet? I guess she's not actively bad, just incredibly bland an non-memorable in pretty much everything she's done.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snF-FqfJna4
The problem with Hamill is that I don't remember anyone in the history of good actor discussions asserting that Hamill is a good actor.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
May bear study that ed harris simply struggle to escape the sheer gravity of his edharrisness
Scarlett is light and funny in several roles
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Can I at least call Kevin Costner one of the most limited actors? His aw-shucks style works in some roles, but as such things go, Jimmy Stewart he's not.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Laurence Olivier. Neil Diamond was miles better than him in "The Jazz Singer".― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.)
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.)
Something was going on with Olivier in the late '70s. It wasn't just The Jazz Singer ("I hef no son!") but also The Boys From Brazil, The Betsy, A Little Romance... he was just really leaning into accents to a distracting effect
― Josefa, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
The first terrible performance of Harris' career was in The Hours, a film filled to bursting with awful.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch),
In *no way* is this the bar
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Costner is under the ford exception imo, certainly not a good actor at all tho
Where the fuck is mark s and his gabriel byrne nom
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
Jared Leto is the #1 and #2 worst actor.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
Nah Scarlett was great in Lost in Translation, a film I am very undecided about actually liking even though I love both the leads in it. I love the way she says “Evelyn Waugh was a man,”. I liked her in The Prestige as well.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link