# Worst acting you've seen lately **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652 "2016-04-19T15:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/61 "2016-04-23T01:52:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Sampiro > > Mitch and Cam are the worst written couple. I honestly can’t understand why either is attracted to the other one. Cam’s a needy drama queen prone to histrionics and Mitch is a bitter snarking he-bitch who makes constant cutting comments and there’s rarely any evidence of warmth between them. Yeah. They never show any affection. They show more affection to the other characters than to each other. I think the writers just don’t know how to write a gay couple. You can’t just announce that two men are gay, and therefore they can be a couple. It’s like any two heterosexual characters. Some would never work as a couple. Not because they actively dislike each other, but just because they don’t work as a couple. They can be friends, but not a couple. Cam and Mitch work as friends, but they don’t work as a couple. Which isn’t to say the actors don’t have chemistry. That’s not what I mean. I mean the two characters are written more like roommates than lovers. RE: Buzz Aldrin (the quote function isn’t working right). Yes, that was one of the worst guest appearances ever. The only thing I can think of that was worse was when Hansen played themselves on SNL, and weren’t loud enough to be understandable. Helen Hunt was on with them, and kept hissing at them under her breath to talk louder. Any time someone criticizes a performer with a dismissive “she’s just playing herself” (eg, Madonna in _A League of Their Own_), I like these examples of people who couldn’t play themselves to show that even that isn’t as easy as it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/62 "2016-04-23T23:40:49Z")
This is probably because I’m not a movie hipster, but I thought Christoph Waltz in **Big Eyes** was just awful. It seemed like a real good example of overacting. Maybe Tim Burton told him to act that way or the Walter Keane character was really like that. And when he cross-examined himself in the court room, it was like Woody Allen but not as funny. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/63 "2016-12-02T20:19:42Z")
I know this thread is a few months old but I just wanted to add darn near everybody in the old “Tales from the Darkside” TV series. I’m watching them all just for the hell of it and the acting is _atrocious._ Honestly, it’s like watching skits around the campfire at Girl Guide Camp. Hilariously bad acting. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/64 "2016-12-02T20:45:29Z")
The woman who plays Tara on The Walking Dead. A whole episode just for her? Really? She really can’t act for shit. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/65 "2016-12-02T20:50:33Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I don’t know what happened with Modern Family in the last couple of seasons but it seems like for all the adult roles they’ve gone with the strategy of “overact as much as you can, and if you yell all of your lines it will be so much funnier.” … I totally agree, and the director/producer should probably be the target of blame. The show has transitioned to all of the actors following the “shouting”=“funny” formula to the detriment of all of their acting. It is impossible to act with any nuance or subtlety under that direction. It makes even less sense to do so when the show format has no fixed live studio or laugh track format. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/66 "2016-12-03T00:15:20Z")
_Everyone_ in the Goldbergs. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/67 "2016-12-03T00:42:25Z")
Because the acting in _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ is top-notch, Bernie Casey’s performance as Sisko’s longtime friend Cal Hudson in “The Maquis, Parts I and II” stood out as truly horrible. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/68 "2016-12-03T02:48:40Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I know this thread is a few months old but I just wanted to add darn near everybody in the old “Tales from the Darkside” TV series. I’m watching them all just for the hell of it and the acting is _atrocious._ Honestly, it’s like watching skits around the campfire at Girl Guide Camp. Hilariously bad acting. You could also mention the “SyFy” channel movies such as “Dinocroc” or “Ice Spiders”, which usually had 1 or 2 moderately competent “B”-level actors and a whole bunch of friends of the producers. For movies, I am surprised no one mentioned **“Batman and Robin”** , which is probably the worst acting performance in their careers by virtually everyone in the cast (I will give some relief that it was mostly on the Director and Scriptwriters, but still…) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652/69 "2016-12-03T03:19:13Z")
I watched a few episodes of Dr. Ken on an airplane earlier this week, and my **lord** is it bad. I really like Ken Jeong in other stuff, so I’m not sure who he lost a bet to here. Especially atrocious is the son, who is awful even by child actor standards (and who has been awful in every single thing I’ve ever seen him in). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-acting-youve-seen-lately/752652.md?page=3)