Bad Performance In a Good Movie?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:04pm

Spill.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 9:53pm

I haven't seen it, but I've heard that Katie Holmes in "Batman Begins" fits into this category.

[Steph_DeVo]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 10:27pm

Totally agree with that - she stuck out like a sore thumb.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/24/06 at 12:40am

Ronee Blakely in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street.'

[Plum]

Posted: 12/24/06 at 12:53am

Fred MacMurray in The Apartment. He had about 1.5 line deliveries, at best.

[touchmeinthemorning]

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.

[Roscoe]

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?

[roquat]

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?