What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?- Page 2

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 7:46pm

As ridiculous as it is for someone to accuse another of being IGNORANT for disagreeing with an opinion...

...I have to admit that I mis-read the title of this thread. I thought it said "overrated," not "overacted." While I do think Johnny Depp is overRATED, I don't think he's a bad actor, and wouldn't accuse him of overACTING (something even worse than being overrated!).

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 8:04pm

"Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, she was just so wierd and dramatic, terrible performance."

Oh My God, I think I just had a heart attack!

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 8:48pm

Matthew Broderick didn't overact in the film of The Producers - he just plain sucked (and not in a good way). But then - recently, when doesn't he?

[roquat]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:45am

Rosalind Russell in the dreadful film of GYPSY--there is not one moment where she suggests an actual human being.

Carol Channing's camera-shattering work in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE--she had many gifts, but she was WAY too big for film. ("She projects too much even for this elephantine movie"--Pauline Kael.)

Shelley Winters in--oh, let's just say everything. (Particularly A PATCH OF BLUE and POSEIDON ADVENTURE).

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:52am

Sorry to mention an unartistic teen film but I think almost every single girl in Bring it On over-act and just make the whole "high school world" seem like some strange place where people talk like their reading out of some kind of dictionary and know every rhyme and metaphor for insults.

[vbplayer]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:05am

Andrea Leeds in "Stage Door". GREAT ensemble acting, but she totally went over the top during the "going mad" scene.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:16am

Helen Hunt in AS GOOD AS IT GETS

[jimnysf]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:45am

Helen Hunt in anything.

Tom Hanks in anything where he talks weird or with an accent or acts with Helen Hunt and a soccer ball.

Robin Williams in anything after "Mrs Doubtfire". Especially the dreadful "Patch Adams".

Rex Harrison in "Doctor Dolittle". Oy!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:10am

I just have to go along with Borstal-Patty Duke in Valley of the Dolls-oy vey.

[tmm_fan]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:22am

OLMG, Patch Adams is an awesome film! Rolbin Williams is a very good, and very underrestimated, dramatic actor. Like Jim Carrey. He was totally robbed by the Academy for Truman Show. That is one of the best dramatic performances in film history, period.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:27am

LOL! "Patch Adams" is awesome. Best laugh I've had today.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:09am

"Bring it On"


great movie ever. I can't let you destroy it's good name LaVie.

Clare Kramer+Eliza Dushku+Jesse Bradford=100mins of Euphoria

[InTheAudience]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:15am

Thank you Spiderj for defending Gloria Swanson :)

Perhaps we should realize that there is good overacted ..thus all the oscar nominated performances listed in the thread..and then there's the bad overacted ..such as Elizabeth Berkely (remeber the episode of Saved by the bell where she was overusing energy pills? not a movie,but priceless example of BAD overacting.)

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:15am

"LOL! "Patch Adams" is awesome. Best laugh I've had today."

you are certifiably insane!!!

[jimnysf]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:25am

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:18am

Roberto Benigni in "Life is Beautiful." Topped only by Roberto Benigni in every subsequent appearance.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:40pm

Helen Hunt- in anything, as someone stated. I don't like her and her acting annoys me.

I liked her performance but: Jennifer Lopez in ENOUGH, it was over the top and overacted, yet really good.

Jennifer Aniston in ANYTHING.

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 6:47pm

jimnysf I totally agree with you about Mr. Wilson's perfromance in Castaway.

[TheBoyfromChi]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 7:28pm

Jennifer Aniston in Friends maybe, but she was pretty great in The Good Girl and Friends with Money

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:41pm

anything Al Pacino has done in the past 15 years

[tmm_fan]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:53pm

OK, Al Pacino ... that's just wrong.

Remember, movies r not supposed to mirror life lol They r an escape into another world, and Pacino is a master at dissapearing into whatever character he's portraying. So, maybe it's the characters u don't like :).

Pacino himself once said that true acting is not really acting at all.

It'd be like saying that Robert DeNiro and Tom Cruise r terrible actors. I love love love films from the '60's and before, but when comparing the majority of that acting to the acting of today, todays acting is better; more believable. Not saying that older actors were all bad; Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn and Judy Garland ("gigantic" fan of her!) r some of my all-time faves.

Updated On: 12/16/06 at 10:53 PM

[vbplayer]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:09am

The "r" is pissing me off. As is the "u". Post like an adult please.

[tmm_fan]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:39am

God, calm down. OK; I'll quit doing that.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:58am

Jane Fonda and J Lo - Monster in law

Bob Saget - Father and Scout

Tracy Ullman (even though I loved her performance) and Zooey Deschanel - Once Upon A Mattress

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:15pm

(here comes the thunder and upset princesses..but I don't care..I'm going to say it)...


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IDINA MENZEL in RENT (the film)