Pick any of the Wayon’s borthers.
81 posts and no mention of Sylvester Stallone.
Has he retired as an actor? 
Sadly, no. He’s busy putting the finishing touches on Rambo XXIII.
Nah… Damon and Keenan have been in some pretty damn good movies. The younger bunch aren’t worth much, but the older two Wayanses don’t belong near this list.
One of them was in Requiem for a Dream, but that’s the only one I can think of.
I apologize for my own contribution to turning this into a “bad actor” thread instead of a “bad movie” thread* with my comment about Bill Paxton. My inclusion of Chris Klein was in fact meant in the spirit of the thread. I actually like him, I think he’s got a certain raw talent, but good God can he not choose script to save his life.
Taking a more scientific approach, I went to the IMDB Bottom 100 List** , and clicked around to see if anyone set off any warning lights.
The current bottom movie is last year’s Crossover. Looking through the credits, I notice Wayne Brady’s name, which unexpectedly got my Crap-der sense tingling. Now I like Brady, I think he’s got a really affable stage and screen presence.
But weeding out his theatrical releases from his voluminous TV and video work, we get:
Crossover (1.5)
The List (3.7)
Roll Bounce (4.5)
and
Clifford’s Big Movie (5.2), low for a kid flick, a genre which usually more or less gets a pass.
The man apparently can not choose a script, and it’s getting worse every year. Bonus points for Drew Carey’s horribly ill-advised TV movie musical, Geppetto.
Further down (up) the list, we find The Hillz and I can barely hear myself think over the klaxon warnings that accompany the name Paris Hilton. If you remove Wonderland (a decent film where she pretty much had a walk-on) from her list, I’m not sure the rest of her actual movie-movies reach 10 out of 10 even if you add all the scores together. It’s safe to say if you’ve cast her in a major role, you probably haven’t made your bid for the quality vote in the rest of the project, either.
So so far, my list is:
Chris Klein
Wayne Brady
Paris Hilton
- Although I will defend the notion that Bill Paxton’s acting is so bad he reduces the overall quality of the pictures he’s in
**This is obviously not the thread to discuss whether the IMDB Bottom 100 list is really representative, or skews too heavily toward recent work, a favorite local topic, I know. It is enough for my present purposes that it’s a list of 100 bad films, whether or not they are properly ranked or if omissions have occurred
I don’t know if I understood your post right, but I’d say that using stock footage, if its surroundings are markedly different from the surroundings it supposedly takes place in is a pretty good “bad movie” technique.
You don’t get to say that about I’m Gonna Get You Sucka.
Exactly. Back in the day, maybe not. But now? Eeeew.
What about Jacylyn Smith? Isn’t she mostly in those bad, tv movies, based on romance novels?
Oh! I know!
-Jennifer Love Hewitt!
The one where he got sucked out of the plane early in the movie wasn’t too bad. In fact that was the highlight of the movie.
Did anybody but me read the first word in the OP? Actors. A lot ofthe above people don’t qualify for that job description.
I’ll admit, after First Blood I’m not aware of a single Stallone credit which is a good movie (I genuinely enjoyed First Blood.) However, Rocky did win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976 and in many ways the film was Stallone’s brainchild (he wrote the screenplay) and his performance in it was widely praised at the time.
It was a pretty remarkable picture considering it wasn’t hyped at all and initially wasn’t given a wide release, it had a budget of $1.2m and made over $100m.
My top two:
Jeff Fahey
Corin Nemec
Almost guaranteed that any Sunday you can find one of them in a bad SciFi channel movie.
Corin Nemec:
SS Doomtrooper? Sweet. Mansquito? Double sweet. (those two were on a double feature about a month ago). He’s not a bad actor, exactly, but he does some CRAP movies.
Jeff Fahey:
Scorpius Gigantus, Manticore AND Locusts: The 8th Plague. C list, all the way.
Others: All with exceptions, obviously.
Lance Henriksen is fine as an actor but can’t pick a good script.
Robert Davi tends to pick awful stuff to be in.
Howie Mandel.
Rutger Hauer has been in true stinkers, pretty much since LadyHawke.
Bryan Brown.
C. Thomas Howell.
Fred Ward.
Tom Sizemore.
Fairuza Balk, in anything after Gas Food Lodging. If I’m not mistaken, her whole bad-movie streak started with The Craft.
Lauren Holly (one reviewer described her as : “A big screen body with a small screen talent”)
ZsaZsa Gabor, the inspiration for Paris Hilton’s “movie career”
Did somebody mention Pia Zadora ?
Especially his last movie… (Warning: SomethingAweful link…)
Nah, I wasn’t being clear. They film Seagal in the same sets, but pretty much on his own, doing one of his two facial expressions, and maybe tensing for combat. They then splice these shots into the rest of the movie to make it look like Seagal is in it, whereas really he never even met any of the other actors involved. It’s definitely a bad movie technique, but it’s not an entertainingly bad technique. I watch a Seagal movie to see him wave his hands ridiculously and have stuntmen fall over in front of him, and possibly to see him perform a ridiculous native ritual with his guru; not to see 2 seconds of him grimacing spliced with two stuntmen fighting, followed by Ja Rule curling his lip and holding a gun sideways.
And while some may complain that this thread has devolved into “actors I hate”, I will defend the nomination of Seagal to the death. I love him, but his presence in any movie these days is an absolute cast-iron guarantee that it will be poop. Not even amusingly bad. Just poop.
What??? I haven’t read the rest of this thread (will shortly) but AKA the OP, Udo rules. He was in The Kingdom. He was in Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein. He’s totally creepy. What’s wrong with that?
I’m going with Kirk Cameron, who’s totally creepy but not in a good way.
I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Tim Allen. He was funny for about five minutes as a standup; funny for about a year as TV show star.
I watched that first Santa Clause movie on cable and maybe one other with him…though the Sweet Lord has taken pity on me and made me forget what it was.
No. Never. And NO. He is someone I will change the channel when I see him.
Hey, how did we forget Clint Howard, at least when he’s a featured performer (he shows up in all his brother’s films, some of which are decent).
I mean, a lot of his work may be in films that are so bad they’re good, if that’s your thing, but there’s no questioning that they are BAD.