Bad actors who show up in good movies with surprising frequency

Really? He was scary real in Lone Star, I thought.

I don’t understand the universal hatred for Andie MacDowell. I think she’s no worse than thousands of other actors across Hollywood that seem to perpetually headline films.

All right, folks, I don’t mind you picking on Juliette Lewis, because she looks like she was born stoned, and the only way I can even watch onscreen is by imagining that she has an IQ of 60, after which it becomes cute and maybe even a little inspiring . . .
. . . but if y’all don’t lay off the late great Brion James, you’re going to wake up one morning to find that someone’s dipped your kleenex in blotter acid.

My pick would have to be Woody Harrelson who’s appeared in a few good movies and yet happend to suck harder than the Old Sow Whirlpool. He’s like the guy version of Juliette Lewis, except that he manages to come across as slightly dumber.

Ditto squared. Although I do wonder if the casting of the sucky Ms. MacDowell was not deliberate – this way you feel far more sympathy for Fiona, since not only is the man of her dreams not interested in her, he wants the terrible American girl. You even end up feeling more sympathy for Duckface because of it. Well… I do. (Or at least feeling that Charles has deeply questionable taste in women). :slight_smile:

Well, he wasn’t in The Terminator for very long. :smiley:

That might have been one of the reasons it was a good movie!

“Oh. Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed.” GAH!!! HATE!!!

Granted, it’s a stupid line, but her delivery did NOT help. (“Four Weddings and a Funeral.”)

He was in Cocoon, which was really pretty good, except for him. Even the first Police Academy was decent, except for him.

And, worthy of a giggle to think of the Terminator I-sized Arnie fitting into Bill Paxton’s clothes.

Which, by the way, is a nice segue to my nomination: The Governator.

I also immediately thought of Bill Paxton. Only thing I thought he was good in was True Lies, where he played that sickening car salesman. He was painful in Titanic.

Man, I know what ya mean. Juliette Lewis always seems to play the slightly mentally diabled chick in every movie I see her in. I can’t help but think she really is like the character she played in ***Kalifornia. ***

Dennis Quaid has never been good in anything, yet has been getting star casting for years.

Orlando Bloom. In every movie in which I have ever seen him, he is a liability.

Dennis Quaid is good in EVERYTHING. You may be thinking of Randy. :wink:

My mental image of Randy Quaid is a poor man’s Tom Arnold. I’m not sure how applicable that is to reality, but it’s what I think whenever I think of him.

Dennis is the man. He’s got a great shit-eating grin.

Another nomination for Keanu “I know wheh the bahstahd sleeps” Reeves.

I’m in the minority but I think if it has Scarlett Johansen(sp) in it its gonna be bad.

Fool of a …

wait, have I said that already today?

Too lazy to check.

Anyway, I liked him in Dragonheart, though the movie would have been vastly improved by more redheaded-girl-whose-name-I-should-know-but-don’t nudity.

That was Bill Paxton?!

Huh. I’ve watched that scene countless times, and I never noticed.

Hey, as long as his character gets killed in the first ten minutes, I wouldn’t mind seeing Steve Guttenberg in a few more films.

I liked Miss Congeniality too. A lot.