Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 9:53pmI haven't seen it, but I've heard that Katie Holmes in "Batman Begins" fits into this category.
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Steph_DeVo
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/06
#2re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 10:27pmTotally agree with that - she stuck out like a sore thumb.
#3re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 12:40amRonee Blakely in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street.'
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#4re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 12:53amFred MacMurray in The Apartment. He had about 1.5 line deliveries, at best.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#5re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 1:32am
George Clooney in The Good German.
The man doesn't understand the style of the film well enough to act in it. AKA, he was lazy and didn't do his work. I like him as a person (of course, who doesn't?)...but, he is a lazy actor.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 10:01am
Just a couple, off the top of my head:
William Hurt in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Embarassing. He tries, to be fair, but this kind of over-acting just isn't something he can do.
Lee Strasberg in GODFATHER II. Some of the weirdest bad acting I've ever seen.
Keanu Reeves in A SCANNER DARKLY. An interesting, twisted movie, hampered with Reeves. Watch him try to keep up with Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr. It's like watching Laurel and Hardy and George W. Bush: one of these things is not like the others...
John Wayne in THE QUIET MAN: how could John Ford get such good work out of so many actors, and then let Wayne turn in such a lame performance?
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roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#7re: Bad Performance In a Good Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 12:21am
Alec Guinness in A PASSAGE TO INDIA--in a movie full of genuine Indian actors and atmosphere, he turns in a shockingly bad Peter Sellers/Al Jolson-style impersonation.
Elijah Wood in all of the LORD OF THE RINGS movies--I'm sorry, but how many times can you stare glassy-eyed into the camera?
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