#3 worst actor nomination thread

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

olivier in r3 is about as good as the material deserves

imo the “tru acting” / “playing urself” dichotomy is being taken too seriously itt. people who can’t act can’t play themselves

Yep imo

Bloom/ratface tho?

Could never

i support the nomination of kit harrington. he's absolutely terrible in silent hill 3d: revelation, a movie i like bc it is kind of terrible but he's very bad in it still

ryan o neill, gene kelly, jude law, benedict cumberbatch

I've been neck-deep in Depression-era film over the past half a year or so and am struggling to think of anyone from that era who has been unjustly feted, as I've been pleasantly surprised that the big names have really lived up to their rep. W.C. Fields is maybe kinda terrible? I don't know if he really qualifies though because he's just a walking vaudeville act.

Oh, Lon Chaney Jr. was the worst. Nepotism run rampant, that.

Sorry to stir up so much controversy but it must be done.

Ryan o neill yes

The rest, not close tbh

Kelly an awful actor but imo clearly called out at the onset the "special function" case

Yeah I'm not wild about Astaire's acting but that's not necessarily what he was there to do.

xp im sorry i thought this was a thread

gene kelly

remind me post-COVID never to meet up with any of you to watch movies

You say that like that’s a bad thing

Jude Law is good in tons of things

i saw him i tate modern once and that was the only time he was convincing

He was fun in the late '90s when he played bitches.

jude law was born to play the role of lenny belardo aka the young pope.

Lol I saw him in the Whitney once

I've been neck-deep in Depression-era film over the past half a year or so and am struggling to think of anyone from that era who has been unjustly feted, as I've been pleasantly surprised that the big names have really lived up to their rep. W.C. Fields is maybe kinda terrible? I don't know if he really qualifies though because he's just a walking vaudeville act.

Not Depression-era, but I saw "Double Indemnity" recently and there's some terrible acting in that - not by the three leads I hasten to add.

is there a "what makes acting good or bad iyo?" thread? I often find these discussions a little bewildering in terms of shared assumptions / frames of analysis

Can we nominate for particular subcategories of acting? There were a few scenes in that recent Kidman/Grant HBO thing (which was terrible) wherein Hugh Grant (who I'd say generally is okay and not terrible) was crying and it was maybe the worst and most embarrassing cry acting I've ever seen, really a spectacle. It was worse cry acting than I could have done. So I nominate him for worst cry actor on that basis.

Natalie Portman. Like how is it possible to be the worst actor next to a newbie Chris Hemsworth in an MCU movie? And in everything else?

worst cry acting is Claire Danes, no contest

xp
^that level of specificity makes more sense to me, since the exact failure to convince can be pinpointed

anyway sorry to be chin-stroking on the worst actor thread

there are no bad actors, there's just poor casting, bad writing and bad direction

Yes please break things down for those of us who are merely spectating the thread, permanently unable to develop insights into visual media in any way

Also gyac that username is incredible

worst cry acting is Claire Danes, no contest

― Roz, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 17:10 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a really odd thing 2 say