Andie MacDowell even stunk up St. Elmo’s Fire. How she got work after this is a mystery to me.
Treasure Island (1934) – As young Jim Hawkins, Jackie Cooper is miscast, stilted and awful in this otherwise entertaining adaptation.
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) – Perhaps playing Anguirus and King Shîsâ (also known as King Caesar or King Seesaw in various U.S. dubs) in the same movie was too much of a challenge for any suit-actor, but Kinichi Kusumi’s performance as the latter completely fails to transcend the horridness of his costume.
A complete embarrassment, the character taints each and every one of his scenes, downgrading an otherwise fine kaiju entry whose immediate sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla, would gain immeasurably from the absence of Mr. Kusumi (except in archive footage).
Ugh. The Missus loves woody Allen in everything she’s seen him in, but she couldn’t get through Sleeper. Sleeper is the only performance of his I actually liked.
A round or two in the Orgasmatron will make her see the light.
OK, sorry for the hijack but one of the kids got her a Hypersphere vibrating massage ball for her birthday. It got switched on and passed around the room and I was laughing uncontrollably because I was the only one who realized we were reenacting the drug ball scene. Someone gets the ball, mashes it into their low back or shoulder for a few seconds, and then moans pleasantly–pass to the next person. It was terrible because I couldn’t invite her into the Orgasmatron without sounding like I had completely lost my mind.
I don’t know why Maggie Gyyllenhaall doesn’t get more criticism for her “performance” in Dark Knight.
I just watched this recently, and it occurred to me that a good acting performance can often overcome a poorly-written character, and a bad performance doesn’t always ruin a well-written one.
But Willie Scott was both badly written and excruciatingly terribly acted. There’s no coming back from that combination.
I used to think this was just a blatant case of nepotism, but I’ve since learned that Capshaw met future hubby Steven Spielberg after having been cast in this role. She somehow won the part on her own merits! Somebody should have been fired over that.
Me neither. She was miscast and didn’t seem at all comfortable in the role. She didn’t ruin the movie but that’s because it was so good in almost every other respect.
I feel like you could take almost any still closeup of her or even any clip in isolation and you’d have honestly no sense if she’s looking & talking to someone she is supposed to like, love, hate, be scared of, intrigued by, admire, mourn…
It’s also weird because people often before and since lament Katie Holmes in Batman Begins in the same role. Admittedly I’m biased because I always thought her cute, but I don’t think with her performance in BB you could say “Well I just don’t get what she’s supposed to be playing here. She looks like she’s at the table read.”
It seems as if, with TOD, the concept was to take the love interest as a complete pendulum swing from Karen Allen & Marion… but what that wrought as a character definitely could be nails on a chalkboard for some.
When the character you’re trying to be different from is brunette, self-confident and self-reliant, rugged, world-weary… good in a fight…
the flip side of that coin could always potentially be shrill.
Is the fault more the character of Willie Scott or how Kate Capshaw played it? Ehhh… I call on another George Lucas sequel for context. I don’t think Hayden Christensen did a particularly bad job WITH what he was handed for Anakin in Attack of the Clones. I don’t know anyone can make “I don’t like sand. I’m so in love with you.” work.
That’s a good way of assessing her acting. She’s good in other roles, too, just not this one.
Katie Holmes was pretty good really. I assume the hate was just because she was dating Tom Cruise or something like that, because she didn’t do anything wrong. And she is cute, but for that role, she was supposed to be.
I once heard Senator Tom Cruz’s simultaneous frown-smile (https://3fojcc1leuzj9dmih15q1u11-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cruz.jpg) described as an expression that says “Oh. I like lasagna… but I didn’t order lasagna.”
I feel like watching Dark Knight again and seeing if that’s what Maggie Gylleeennhaaall (side note I refuse to learn where the double letters are) is thinking.
Capshaw’s entire script: “Look, Kate, just scream whenever we point at you.”
She’s not a great actress but it’s still a badly-written role in a badly-written film.
Last name starts with two G’s. The first one is silent.
It’s the reverse of why Broderick was badly miscast as Leo Bloom in the remake of “The Producers”. He came across as a lovable rogue instead of a painfully introverted guy seduced by the opportunity to take part in a big-time scam.
Of course, most of the actors in that remake detracted from the movie, with the possible exception of Uma Thurman.
Nathan Lane was good- but no Zero Mostel. (Nathan is FABU in City of Angels). I love Broderick - but not here. Will Ferrell was horrible.
Gawd yes, Uma was fantastic!
Am I the only one who finds Bruce Willis’s French (?) girlfriend in Pulp Fiction insufferable?
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Just watched “Signs” again last night and whoever the actor was who played the Army recruiter - hoo boy - what the hell was he going for with that performance?
He thought he was in a David Lynch movie.
(FTR, I didn’t have a problem with his performance. I did have some problems with the movie but they had more to do with direction.)