#3 worst actor nomination thread

Miller's Crossing leaps to mind

Excellent movie, no comment on man’s performance

Guy Pearce also great in Priscilla, remember him as good in LA Confidential but it’s been a while.

Also Gabriel Byrne is not good apart from Millers Crossing

I mean, he is the lead. It's been 30 years, but I remember his performance as being creditable.

I seem to remember him not being terrible in The Usual Suspects.

Guy Pearce is not just good but very underrated (by the industry, which does not give him the size or quality of roles he deserves).

Hugo Weaving is a pretty bad actor. He would do better to embrace Willem Dafoe-ness than to keep on with the stiff-jaw bulging-eyes thing.

(His daughter Samara Weaving is much better than he is, but she's stuck in a "when you can't afford Margot Robbie" niche.)

Also Gabriel Byrne is not good apart from Millers Crossing

Thanks for posting this.. I love his face and his voice and by all rights he should be incredible but he just drears up everything I see him in, most recently Hereditary, where he was outclassed by everyone even the children

I should rewatch Miller’s Crossing, I adore that film— Turturro just dominates in everything he appears and I may’ve just missed an excellent performance from Byrne

he just drears up everything

I feel the same about Liam Neeson. I've never understood his appeal.

]His daughter Samara Weaving

niece

Ernest Borgnine
Angela Lansbury

He kinda drears up Millers Crossing too, but it's a feature-not-a-bug there.

By coincidence my wife and I rewatched L.A. Confidential last night and I thought Pearce was pretty good in it, the best of a hammy and clumsy bunch. (The ADR glaringly bad.)

hes incredible in millers crossing

i may agree about the rest of his career

gleeson jr in his sketch comedy alone doesnt qualify for the depths on what we need in the thread

guy pearce was brilliant only this year in that damien lewis/cambridge spy thing for tv

Ernest Borgnine

LOL

im not here to scoff at suggestions guys, as i made clear from the start we are aiming very very very low here thats the point of the thread and i dont apologise

The best bad actor of all time was probably Charlton Heston.

true but great presence

Tapping the sign till my nails split down the middle:

The bar is Bloom

some of y’all have never seen elizabethtown and it shows

*puts on my “I Have Never Seen Elizabethtown” Xmas sweater*

also

Yeah he was shit in that too

his total inability to transmit a recognizable human emotion through the screen while being the romantic lead of a movie, in fact he's pretty much in every scene is really incredible, to say nothing of his... attempts(?) to play off kirsten dunst's lethal overdoses of quirk

i fucking love elizabethtown for the record, nothing like it!!!!

My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.

My pet least-fave is [redacted] but she hasn’t been in enough for me to mention her name

i demand name

Byrne is good in dead man but he’s only in it for like a second and gets killed immediately. He dies good, tho

No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is all

Who was established as #2? Keira in the end?

Bloom's number 2! One was Daniel Radcliffe

My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.

The bar is Bloom. Watch The Year My Voice Broke, The Big Steal, or Idiot Box.

No I don’t wanna name names, she’s cool got good politics she’s just a stinky actor is all

Who was established as #2? Keira in the end?

I mean as your unnamed stinky actor who hasn’t been in a lot of things; has good politics; Canadian.

No she’s American, not the best politics, but good, Sarah Polley good in everything btw just a hard ray of light

My pick: I can't watch Ben Mendelsohn in anything. He oozes falsity.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:31 (nine hours ago)

He is good in "Babyteeth"

your (correct) use of pronouns

Not quite sure what you mean.

I was probably pretty vague; I meant that Weaving was the best part of the film, imho.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

oh, just that the matrix was directed by two women - once i realized you were talking about weaving it was pretty clear that you weren't talking about the film's directors

some of y’all have never seen elizabethtown and it shows

― ivy., Thursday, December 28, 2023 3:08 PM (yesterday)

i don't have to watch it; i've been to e-town. what a terrible, depressing place. i'm glad my friend was able to get out.

I liked Byrne in The Usual Suspects. He was good in Jindabyne too, where his drear is put to good use.

My vote, even though I quite like him on screen, is Michael Caine.

Michael Caine always plays himself pretending to be someone else.

God's holy trousers

I'm not his biggest fan either tbh.

appreciate that this is a discussion thread but someone nominating byrne literally started it and caine case already not accepted

i feel like ppl simply arent getting the bar tbh

Agree about Children of Men but it feels like an outlier and every time I watch it that section feels like a different film altogether.

Lads: my fingers are worn to bloody stubs tapping the sign

The bar is Bloom

https://media.tenor.com/lgzWOirWGqUAAAAM/will-turner.gif

The bar
https://i.gifer.com/origin/30/30334cfb490a50f45cd39da997a5d090_w200.gif

is Bloom
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Posting shit like “Liam Neeson” or “Albert Finney” or whoever? Not it. Not remotely.

Surely no-one said Albert Finney? That's insane.

Look if people aren’t ctrl+fing the thread as a minimum I’m not either

Neeson is a fitting third-worst.

Ohhhh ok. #1 is Daniel Radcliffe? With Rupert Grint sitting right there? I don’t remember much about the HP series except “the fourth movie was really good” and “Rupert Grint is a bad actor”. I liked Radcliffe as Weird Al too ah well

After seeing those gifs gyac posted I don’t think anybody can compete with Bloom, the bar is just too low

the first gif definitely looks like he's looking at a cue card

fgti i feel you have been kicking against the premise for some time now and while its glad indeed that we can settle on bloom at least

the question of the third actor is open and i think weve a few who have come close personally but i am willing to hear also a spirited defence of the original two

ive set out my cases against both throughout but i think "fails to convince as a character with an internal monolgue irl" starts to cover it

radcliffe playing radcliffe is where the cracks show there, there's been plenty of awful child actors but the misery evinced in his own skin is a sight to see and wish you hadnt

speaking of opening post

macgregor is starting to make me think again hes been a hollow accent for years, as bad as latter branagh but with each i think its simple lack of trying which is different rly

Here, for historical interest, are the nominations for worst actor/actress in Harry & Michael Medved's 1980 Golden Turkey Awards book:

John Agar
Tony Curtis
Victor Mature
Richard Burton - WINNER

Candice Bergen
Vera Hruba Ralston
Mamie Van Doren
Raquel Welch - WINNER

these are based on a given performance i presume, tho?