I never saw her as the problem. I don’t know how people expected an upper class 20ish young person to act/behave, because in my experiences, she nailed it.
I thought Broderick was pretty good in Election, and decent in Biloxi Blues. But you make a good point - he’s been a weak spot in a lot of movies (e.g., Glory, Ladyhawke).
Not a great movie, but I was watching “Vampire’s Kiss” the other night, and Nicholas Cage’s acting reminded me of madsircool’s description of Crispin Glover’s bad performance, and especially weird accent, in “River’s Edge”.
I had never seen “Vampire’s Kiss”, but I had heard it was the movie in which Nick Cage began his transformation from Promising Young Actor into Scenery-Chewing Maniac. And hoo boy, does he ever go off the rails in this movie. He plays an 80’s style yuppie, and he adopts this accent that I think is meant to be some sort of high class “American posh” showing that he comes from money. But it’s just a weird, high-pitched lispy voice and is very distracting.
Then, when he is “kissed” by the vampire and starts to transform (or does he? Won’t spoil too much) it is off to the races to crazy over-the-top acting land. I mean, if you like a good Crazy Cage performance and haven’t seen this movie yet, highly recommended. I think I found it on Amazon Prime.
I couldnt agree more. Cage also ruined the remake of The Wicker Man. How he keeps getting jobs is beyond me.
Have not seen the Wicker Man remake but I’ve heard so much about Cage’s legendarily over-the-top nutso performance in it that I really want to. I see online that the DVD is available to rent for free at our local library but of course that’s shut down for the foreseeable future 
I liked him in both.
Film critic Vincent Canby’s review in The New York Times stated, "[Broderick] gives his most mature and controlled performance to date.
However:
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was not impressed at all with the overall acting, calling Broderick “catastrophically miscast as Shaw”.
Jason Priestley in Tombstone was cringeworthy. All the more so because his character was completely unnecessary.
Are we allowing tv shows? Because Timothy Olyphant totally ruined the last half of the last season of “Deadwood.” His “open eyes wide without blinking, and stare off at absolutely nothing” way of expressing anger was so bad that he actually did a worse job than Anna Gunn, and that’s saying something.
Funnily enough I popped in to mention Reeves, this time for The Devil’s Advocate which I found a deeply clever and well-acted film except for Reeve’s stilted performance. But for that, it would be an absolute classic - Pacino’s devil in particular is intensely compelling.
That said, I too have heard the stories of what he’s like IRL so I feel bad ragging on someone who is apparently extremely nice to everyone and self-effacing. Plus I loved him in Point Break.
Whereas I though McKinnon was by far the best thing in that film and most in spirit [sic] of the thing. In contrast Wiig and McCarthy were quite muted and dull (and Jones was fine but not remarkable). And I don’t think “grounded in reality” was what any of the Ghostbusters films were going for.
I overlooked this post before. I just noticed it and literally LOL’ed.
I was really disappointed that they didn’t make him up to look like Herman Munster. The Whole point of the joke was that Einstein was drunk when he did the plastic surgery.
Andie MacDowell is the giant sequoia of this category.
Ah say, son, you are IN the PRESENCE of a DEE-rect descendent of Colonel. Robert. SHAW.
And I can guar-an-TEE on a stack of Union Scrip that our deeeear departed colonel was indeed an A-DULT, and did NOT look like a pre-pubescent Abe Froman look-alike.
That will be all.
This probably isn’t one that a lot of people will agree with, but Tom Hardy in the Dark Knight Rises. We just watched it again last night and still love it, but Bane’s friendly old man voice makes it sound he’s about to offer you some Werther’s Originals. And he over-enunciated everything - here is a SENTENCE with a NOUN and a VERB!
I don’t think much of Tom Hardy as an actor, anyway, but that accent and voice totally sucked me out of the movie (which I thought, with Anne Hathaway and Marion Cotillard on-screen, would have been impossible)
I liked Marillon Cotillard. Hathaway didn’t work - far too fragile looking, and it felt like she was reading lines rather than acting.
TBF, even though I like Christian Bale as an actor, he’s much, much better at the dark parts of the characters he plays than as a person anyone could fall in love with, so when part of the role of characters like Catwoman and Talia al Ghul is to be attracted to him and possibly a bit in love with him, he doesn’t give them a lot to work with.
Not possible. Universal held trademark on the Karloff monster’s image and didn’t allow other studios to use it (before you ask, they produced The Munsters. * Arsenic* was a Warner Bros film.
That isn’t just some floozy! That’s Princess Kashmir!
Anyway – Hugh Marlowe (as Lloyd Richards, the playwright) really stank up All About Eve.
I love this movie too, but the problem with it is that all the classically-trained British actors sound like they’re talking in the most marvelous way, and all the American actors sound like they’re quoting Shakespeare. Even Denzel speaks as though he’s imagining that’s how you read at the Globe.
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Brian Blessed, Richard Briers…all amazing.
A Bridge Too Far - Gene Hackman embarrasses everyone on set with his version of English in a native Polish speakers accent. The man has 20 lines in the entire film, everyone of them delivered in a different accent.