Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#1Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 1:27am
Are there great performances you treasure in otherwise lackluster movies--to the point where the actor almost redeems the badness?
My examples:
Diana Rigg and Lesley-Anne Down in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Marisa Tomei in MY COUSIN VINNY
Diane Wiest in PARENTHOOD
Bryce Dallas Howard in THE VILLAGE
Minnie Driver in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Hmm, all women. That must mean something...
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#2re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 1:41am
Anette Bening in Running With Scissors.
I didn't find it as bad as all that, but apparently many folk adamantly hate it
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#2re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 1:56am
*threadjack alert*
I hated the RUNNING WITH SCISSORS and THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA posters. The scissors-clutching-fist with legs and the red pump with the pitchfork heel are stupid. Couldn't they be more creative?
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#4re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:00amBen Stiller was in HEAVYWEIGHTS? Whom did he play? I haven't seen that movie in soooooo long.
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#5re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:03am
He was the evil new camp leader, SM2! The one they tied and locked up.
He was so funny.
I can think of a couple Johnny Depp movies.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#6re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:07am
Oh, okay. You forgot to mention they punch him in the balls after they tie him to a tree.
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Updated On: 12/23/06 at 03:07 AM
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#7re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:10amNoo, wasn't that one of the new counselors he brought with him? The guy with the accent or something?
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#8re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:12amI vaguely remember him. Like I said, it's been a long time. Ten years, I think.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#10re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 4:28am
Nathan Lane - At First Site and Trixie.
Estelle Getty - Stop! Or my Mom Will Shoot
Johnny Depp - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Robin Williams, Kristin Chenoweth, and Jeff Daniels - RV
many others.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#11re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 7:12amNever diss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or The Phantom of the Opera in my presence.
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#12re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 9:11amI love Heavyweights! Tony Perkis Jr!
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
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tmm_fan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/11/04
#13re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 1:50pm
Robin Williams in House of D
Will Farell, Nicole Kidman and Michael Cain in Bewitched
Freddy Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore in Captain Corageous
Reese Witheraspoon in Legally Blonde 2
Diane Lane, Christopher Plummer and John Cusack in Must Love Dogs (God, that's a terrible movie; dreadful sense of timing between dialogue)
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"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
tmm_fan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/11/04
#15re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:12pmWhoa... did somebody dare to diss Alec Baldwin?????
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"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
http://www.facebook.com/fireballchase
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
#16re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:14pmNo, I said he gave a great performance in a bad movie.
tmm_fan
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/11/04
#17re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:16pmlol OK I got mixed up with the other thread about bad performances in good films; my apologies
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"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
http://www.facebook.com/fireballchase
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" -- The Beatles
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Celebrate Earth Day, every day" -- John Denver
"Don't let them mold your mind, they want to control mankind, seems like their only intention is to exploit the earth; and you trust in their deceit, your mind causes your defeat, and so you become an invention to distort this earth; propoganda and lies, is a plague in our lives, how much more victimized, before we realize (hey) ... they'll make it attractive, to get man destracted, corrupting your (soul), polluting your (soul), destroying (your soul, mind control) ... ooh grand master, let the people go, you put them in total confusion, to downs-troy their soul; for they practise what you preach, so they're always in your reach, hi-tech slavery in these days, its mind control" -- Stephen Marley
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#18re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 10:29amJason Isaacs in Peter Pan.
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--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
Funny Face
Broadway Star Joined: 7/6/06
#19re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/24/06 at 12:58pmI always find 101 Dalmatians rather boring when Glenn Close isn't onscreen.
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#20re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 12:23amJennifer Coolidge in AMERICAN PIE, LEGALLY BLONDE 2, and FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#21re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 12:45amRoger Bart's the only redeeming quality to The Stepford Wives.
#22re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 7:29amMost critics considered Johnny Depp's performance the weak link in an overall excellent film in reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#23re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 2:31pm
99% of what Cate Blanchett does. There are only a handful of films she's been in that haven't sucked as good narratives:
Aviator
Elizabeth
Talented Mr. Ripley
Charlotte Grey
Veronica Guerin
Everything else she's done has been cliche-driven bad story-telling.
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#24re: Great Performance in a Bad Movie?
Posted: 12/26/06 at 6:43pmDavid Rappaport and Clancy Brown in The Bride.
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