What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:05pm
Title asks all.
I think Tommy Lee Jones in BATMAN FOREVER is definitely up there.
#1re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:12pmJohnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in both movies.
Cruel_Sandwich
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#2re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:17pmTHANK YOU!
#3re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:29pm
Max Shreck in Nosferatu.
Only kidding! I can't think of one right now.
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#4re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:36pmat least you don't have such a short-sited view of film history, jane. that's to be commended!
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kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#5re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 10:45pmJoan Crawford in Johnny Guitar? Just a guess.
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#6re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:30pm
Contenders:
Sally Elise in DEMENTED
Jodi Thelen in FOUR FRIENDS
Elizabeth Berkley in SHOWGIRLS
Oh, who am I kidding? It's Faye Dunaway in MOMMIE DEAREST, of course! I can't believe I was the first on this thread to bring that up!
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#7re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:31pmcturtle, I guess it's one of the perks of being old. oy.
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kjklo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#8re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:32pmBut Faye was playing JOAN CRAWFORD. That wasn't overacting.
#9re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/14/06 at 11:43pm
Jean Marais - La Belle et la Bete
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#10re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:49am
I get the feeling Jennifer Hudson can be added to the list.
How about Diana Ross in MAHOGANY?
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#11re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 9:23am
Matthew Broderick - The Producers (Even though I loved his performance)
many others..
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#12re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 9:41am
Diane Verona in THE INSIDER
Damon (I think) Wayans in BAMBOOZLED
Pacino in SCENT OF A WOMAN or DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
#13re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 10:01am
Bette Davis - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
I mean, there's psycho and scary or there's just plain silly. Bette (whom I adore) was just too ridiculous, which I why I never liked that film. Even as camp, it is just tiring.
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touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#14re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 2:06pm
What does it mean to "overact"? I think what you mean by it probably makes it a misnomer.
Do you mean too big? As if life doesn't have characters FAR bigger than we see on screen...I mean, have you ridden a subway lately?
Do you mean poorly acted? If so, then it is a misnomer.
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#15re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 2:11pm
Steve Martin - The Jerk and Pink Panther (even though I think he was great in both)
David Hyde Pierce - Isn't She Great
"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
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#16re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 2:21pmI'm sure there are worse, but Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice is baaaaaaad.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#17re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:11pm
You gotta see Rod Steiger in the original AMITYVILLE HORROR...where was the director?
And, of course, Patty Duke in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
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roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#18re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:16pmHow about every single Jim Carrey performance?
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."
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#19re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 5:29pm
Some others:
Angela Bassett in WAITING TO EXHALE...she acts like she's playing Electra or something.
Robert DeNiro in WE'RE NO ANGELS...his personal worst, trying so hard to be funny he's practically retarded.
The entire cast of the movie of THE CRUCIBLE
Kim Stanley in THE GODDESS
Richard Burton and Liz Taylor in BOOM!
Michael Douglas in A CHORUS LINE (he plays it like he's doing a Scorcese movie)
Ms. Ross in THE WIZ (sniff, sniffle..)
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~ Muhammad Ali
#20re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:02pm
Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, she was just so wierd and dramatic, terrible performance.
(wink wink)
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#21re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:16pm
Richard Burton in The Exorcist 2
He had to have done it for the money
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#22re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:23pm
Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.
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#23re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:24pmJohnny Depp in anything.
#24re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:38pm
MYB, that comment is just ignorant.
My vote goes for Betty Hutton in the awful Annie Get Your Gun film.
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