You’ve obviously not seen Frailty.
Edit: Freudian Slit got there first.
Oh, I like *Witness * very much, but he also had a great director. In fact, I enjoy most movies Ford has done and I think he’s a great and charismatic movie star.
But would you pay to see him Off Broadway in an arthouse production of Waiting For Godot? Or, now that he’s about the right age, against Kathleen Turner on stage in* Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe*?
Ben Affleck proved that he can act in Hollywoodland, but since few people saw it, I guess it doesn’t count. In any case, I’m glad that he and Sofia Coppola proved beyond a doubt that they’re both highly talented directors.
Maybe they have crappy taste in movies or just weren’t in the mood for a serious, internal, subtle drama? Sorry, “my fiancee/friend/brother/mother/hairdresser/whatever thought _____ was a piece of shit” holds no weight at all and it constantly amuses me that people use that all the time. Why? Who gives a fuck?
Hmm. You make a good point.
Amen, brother. In my book anybody that can deliver the line “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass… And I’m all out of bubble gum” with a straight face deserves some kind of award.
Tell me this scene didn’t at least deserve a Golden Globe
Equipoise - not to be belligerent here, but - this is a thread for opinions. I give as much creedence to your opinion of Sofia Coppola’s directing as I do to some stranger’s view of “Breach”. Because “Lost in Translation” was liked by some critics does not prove beyond a doubt that she’s a highly talented director. She hasn’t proven it to me, or to many others.
Epic.
I’ll probably be stoned to death for this blasphemy, but here goes:
Gina Torres
Gina Torres is stilted, wooden, clumsy and awkward. She ruins scene after scene in Firefly and I can’t believe people don’t notice. There is one scene where she and the Captain are reminiscing about some moustache shaving incident and she is so BAD it is painful to watch. In one of her fight scenes, she carefully somersaults, awkwardly stands, c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y draws her guns, then slowly aims and fires them. It seriously takes so long and she looks like if you pushed her with one finger she’d fall over. This woman is suppopsed to be a bad-ass fighter? Methinks not.
Ahh. That feels better.
But, But… She was in Cleopatra 2525. That’s gotta count for something.
Blasphemy, indeed. The woman tucked a severed ear into her bra, for god’s sake. She rules all.
I’m adding on the TV side…
Ming Na
Wretched, horrid and wooden. The worst actress ever (with a nod to Sophia Coppola). Why, oh why, would ER, then at the top of their game, hire her? I can only imagine that they had to find a way to get an oriental doctor on the show for “realism” in much the way they added Parminder Nagra (whom I like very much).
Sheri Moon Zombie.
Good god. It’s hard to flub a role that more or less just requires you to shake your ass, but somehow, she does it.
Rob, please stop putting your wife in your movies.
Hey - His performance in The Big Chill was dead on! 
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker, starring in Married Without Talent.
I didn’t really find her to be a bad actress (at least for TV standards). She just doesn’t appear to be graceful or athletic. Unfortunately, those things were needed for her action scenes. What probably makes it worse is that there is another woman in some of the same scenes that is both (Summer Glau).
Actually, they saw it as part of a special VIP-only series for die hard art house film goers. Typically they see non-Hollywood fare, foreign films, and rare documentaries that are limited release only or festival films that are not yet available for general release. Each screening is usually followed by lecture or an opportunity to meet some of the filmmakers.
Sorry, but that particular audience was quite specifically geared for “serious, internal, subtle drama” and it failed on all counts. Each film has a feedback form and based on all the negative feedback, organization that runs the series apologized the following and reassured that is was screened in lieu of the scheduled film for which the print was unavailable at the last minute. (The movie titles are not announced prior to the screening).
Okay, “must fiancee asked for her money back” holds no weight with you. I saw it too, for free when I was donating platelets and also thought it sucked. You don’t have to give a fuck about my opinion either, as I don’t about yours.
nice response, SwallowedMYCellphone - better than mine upthread at #86
If I can just judge him off of one performance (I’ve never seen him in anything else) it would be John Paxton (father of Bill Paxton) for his performance as Bernard, the butler of Harry Osbourne, in Spiderman 3.
The scene of him explaining to Harry about how his father was to blame for his own death was just so awful I was wondering who the guy was and who Sam Rami owed a favor to. It’s amateur acting at it’s worst. Even in the outtakes from the DVD it shows him barely being able to get through the scene since he can’t remember the lines.
Just painfully awful.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has to be up there on the list. He’s pretty enough, in a pouty cologne advert sort of way, but the guy has all the emotional range and depth of a gas stove: his sole “acting” expression is a look of vapid petulance.
Woody Allen pulls off the neurotic Jew role with great talent. He is way out of type with it too.
Arnold plays a robot well.