Loved him in Silent Running. But he seems like one of those actors who plays Bruce Dern rather than cloaks himself in each character.
I just tried watching this a couple of weeks ago. I stopped about 45 minutes in. So, Leo never got better? I barely saw enough of Diaz at that point to be able to rate her.
LOL.
It’s hard to compete with the bad singing actors and actresses you’ve all come up with. Mine is nowhere near that bad, but I thought Malin Akerman damned near ruined Watchmen, single-handedly. Porn actresses thought she was wooden. And yet she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Easy room I guess, or the character was written that way and she played it true to heart.
Though few lines have been as ridiculously campy and unintentionally hilarious as Laura Mennell’s, “Jon!!!” I don’t think Zack Snyder intended the return of Jon Osterman as Doctor Manhattan to be treated with peals of laughter from the audience.
Despite being directed by the great Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is not a great film. Nevertheless, it has its charms. Unfortunately, these don’t include several brief performances by people you never heard of.
Apparently, they decided to pay back the enormous Fan support for the Star Trek franchise by giving fans parts in the film. That big announcement Kirk makes to the crew about going out to meet the Cloud was filmed to give a crowd of them (mostly obscured under makeup and heavy character costumes, and with no speaking lines) an opportunity to be “on camera”*. Some, however, were actually given lines. Some of them were not bad, but others were awful. (I’m looking at you, Ensign Perez.)
As a rule of thumb, if the acting seems to be awful, the person is probably a fan. Or Persis Khambatta.
*SF author and frequent Star Trek scripter David Gerrold is one of the throng.
Likewise Robert Duvall’s performance as Dr. Watson* in “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution”, an otherwise enjoyable movie.
Based on a couple of comments here, I think we could have an enjoyable thread on the subject of actors in talkies who would have been more convincing in the silent movie era.
*my nominee for worst cinematic Watson of all time, which is pretty pathetic when you think of how badly Nigel Bruce hammed up the role.
Not a great movie, perhaps, but I’ve always thought that Gwyneth Paltrow really misplayed her role in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It was set in the 1930s, and really needed a fast-talking, decisive female lead. Instead, we got a character that was just too pensive and hesitant. I’ve never known whether the fault was Paltrow’s, or whether the director told her to play it that way. Blythe Danner, in her prime, would have been perfect.
The movie was all about the effects, though, and I admit it did look fantastic.
Oh YES, I agree with all this. Ok, it’s a right-ole piece of schmaltz as a film, but Law, Diaz and Winslet are stellar actors, and super sexy to boot. Tell me, how did Jack Black get that part? Did he fund the film or something?
And on the subject of romcoms (at this point I need to point out that I’m not a romcom officianado, despite all evidence), but I can’t believe no one has mentioned Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Great script, great cast with superb comic timing, and a cardboard cut-out with a fixed grin. She was awful.
Amen. And I’ve never seen her with any broader range. She (and Minnie Driver) are like fingernails on a blackboard for me…
The bad part of that is that it means I’ve never seen Groundhog Day. (Can I ignore her, and enjoy the premise and Bill Murray?)
I heard that story before about Pia Zadora.
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Couldnt talk about Crispen Glover without linking to his infamous Letterman appearances. I think hes trolling but who knows?
His 1st appearance
His 2nd appearance [/QUOTE]Wow. I had never seen those. Looks like he didn’t have to do much acting for the role of George McFly if that’s his real personality :eek:.
I agree about Four Weddings, I feel it could have been even better with a different love interest.
But you really should watch Groundhog Day. Indeed the focus is mostly on Bill Murray. Andy MacDowell’s character is only developed superficially, and her portrayal matches the role.
Yes! I really enjoyed Yesterday but McKinnon seemed to think she was in a different, worse move. I generally like her too but her performance did not fit at all.
Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
Could have been a great movie except for him.
This wins the all time overacting award.
There’s a courtroom scene where he is both the lawyer *and *the person he is questioning.
It’s like a terrible Woody Allen scene.
Here’s a reviewer’s opinion:
“Waltz gives one of the most astonishingly wrong performances of the year: He mistakes frantic behavior for intensity, a deranged smirk for charisma and eye-rolling wickedness for a sense of menace. His Walter remains as charming as a pneumatic drill and only slighter quieter.”
Not so sure about “great” but I always thought A View To A Kill got a bad rap - it had a great cast of villains, (Grace Jones, Christopher Walken<!>), Patrick Macnee in a great supporting role, a kooky-but-totally fine Bond plot…and then Geologist Tanya Roberts showed up, demolishing every scene she was in with her shockingly terrible acting. She made Denise Richards look like Meryl Streep.
I really wanted to find a clip of Roberts saying “pumping seawater into his well? That’s incredibly dangerous!” - a line my wife and I use occasionally when we make fun of bad acting. The last time we did that was when we were watching Magic Mike - the girl love interest in that was reeeeeally bad - it’s hard to stand out as the worst actor in a movie full of male strippers.
Ken Jeung in the Hangover movies.
Matthew Broderick in pretty much everything after Ferris Bueler. The man couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag, and absolutely ruined … well, OK, there were other bad decisions, but he certainly didn’t improve The Producers.
Oh, another one I though of. Maybe not a great movie, but a fun movie - The Mask of Zoro, with Antonio Banderas. Matt Lescher as Captain Love was horribly wooden. You could remove pretty much all of his scenes, and the movie would have been better.
I watched Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom exactly once, over a decade ago, and to this day I maintain that Kate Capshaw’s utterly nerve-fraying rendition of Willie Scott is the one reason I refuse to ever see it again. It was so horrible that I’m honestly baffled by all the bellyaching about Short Round and the heart-extraction scene. Do these people not have ears?
Now that I think about it, Matthew Broderick is the weak link in the fantastic *You Can Count On Me *, but it’s easy to be outperformed by Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo
Yep. She’s in a totally different movie. Everyone else is pretty vanilla but for some reason she’s a Cold-Stone Creamery cake batter with every mix-in available.
I thought she was the worst thing in the Ghostbusters remake. Wacky for no reason and not grounded in reality at all.