#3 worst actor nomination thread

he was good in the right stuff. so was dennis quaid tho. idk maybe the right stuff was just movie magic.

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

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

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.

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

That he looks cool wrinkly and bearded is Not A Defence

Ed Harris was good in The Truman Show cmon

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.

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.

Agreed re ed harris, who did not strike me as outstanding as "ed harris in a beret" in the truman show

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.

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.

May bear study that ed harris simply struggle to escape the sheer gravity of his edharrisness

Scarlett is light and funny in several roles

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.

Laurence Olivier. Neil Diamond was miles better than him in "The Jazz Singer".

― 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

The first terrible performance of Harris' career was in The Hours, a film filled to bursting with awful.

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),

In *no way* is this the bar

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

Jared Leto is the #1 and #2 worst actor.

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.

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.

mark hamill was good in that one episode of what we do in the shadows

Jared Leto is the #1 and #2 worst actor.

― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.),

A certain kind of bad, shoots for cage but far too bland, yeah but idk dont feel hes actually notably bad besides tbh

Which opinion would hopefully annoy him

Now

I love michael keaton

And think hes great in a few roles

But hes pretty bad

Gabriel Byrne is a blue-eyed nothing, mark s otm

You know what might make Mark Hamill less bad? If his every acting role didn't at some point involve an on-screen allusion to Star Wars (and yes, I know that it's probably as much the writers' fault, but he does presumably have a foot he can put down).

Even his WWDITS role (which wasn't bad, inasmuch as I didn't even realize at first that it was him) did this!

Now

I love michael keaton

And think hes great in a few roles

But hes pretty bad

― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 2, 2021 10:23 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is absolute nonsense. Please leave.

Mark Hamill is frequently enjoyable in roles where attempting good acting would be shockingly gauche - Hopkins as Lector / Van Helsing would be a good comparison.

Byrne in millers crossing is as good as any lead male movie performance since

This is absolute nonsense. Please leave.

― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 16:26 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sir i salute yr keeping me honest itt

I don't know that I have strong thoughts about Byrne in general (partly because...I can't remember a single one of his other movies atm) but he is quite good in Miller's Crossing.

Like I don't know that I would stump hard for Keaton as an actor qua actor, I don't know how much range he has really, but he is almost always a delight to watch and not infrequently the best element of movies he's in.

And i love him

But when

Wait a sec

Mainly its actually when hes michael keaton, i realise

Interviews and such

Makes my skin crawl, profoundly uncomfortable to watch

I don't know that unconsciously quirky weirdoes can really qualify for 'worst actor' as their unconscious weirdo quirks will always carry them over the hurdle.

Yes i think what we are distinctly seeking here are lack-of-character actors

Is Crispin Glover a good actor? Probably not. But he can never be a bad actor.

I think costner is very valid offering but he's such languid beefcake srs courtroom detective perfection that it alone carries him

He can look away, amused, in a scene where someone says a line of dialogue to make him do so

Bloom? Never.

I will rep for Hammill as a voice actor. That's where he has found his niche for a long time now and probably would have stayed there if not for JJ Abrams.

He's corny as hell in The Flash, but so is everyone on it. I mean, this is a show where my superhero loving 9 year-old even gave up on it after three and a half seasons because it was "too cheesy and dumb".

You're right, I should never have Exhibit A-ed any CW DC show as they're all terrible and dumb even though I keep watching them for god knows what reason.

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

I think he was a prize ham anyway, I dislike English stage acting. Richard III, there's a weird distracting accent for you.

Olivier's fine in Carrie (not a ham) and The Entertainer (a ham on wry).

Bootlegs exist, thats what richard iii sounded like

He can look away, amused, in a scene where someone says a line of dialogue to make him do so

Bloom? Never.

― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, February 2, 2021 4:34 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i love this as the qualifying bar

You're right, I should never have Exhibit A-ed any CW DC show as they're all terrible and dumb even though I keep watching them for god knows what reason.

Ha, we had never watched any of them but thought they might make for a decent show to binge with our son. The first few seasons of The Flash were fine, but then it got dumb and Arrow was a little too dark for him.

xp As an example with costner in mind!

Its an art, this, not a séance

Agree re glover, who is a fine, fine presence and possibly even actor on the cage scale

We are, as stated, looking for the bryan ferry of actors, not the dylan/van morrison of actors