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What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
#25re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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!).
#26re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 8:04pm
"Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, she was just so wierd and dramatic, terrible performance."
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#27re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/15/06 at 8:48pmMatthew 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?
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#28re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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).
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#29re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 12:52amSorry 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.
Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
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#30re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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.
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#31re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:16amHelen Hunt in AS GOOD AS IT GETS
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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#32re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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!
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#33re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:10amI just have to go along with Borstal-Patty Duke in Valley of the Dolls-oy vey.
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#34re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:22amOLMG, 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.
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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
jimnysf
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#35re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:27amLOL! "Patch Adams" is awesome. Best laugh I've had today.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#36re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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
#37re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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.)
#38re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:15am
"LOL! "Patch Adams" is awesome. Best laugh I've had today."
you are certifiably insane!!!
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#39re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:25am
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#40re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:18amRoberto Benigni in "Life is Beautiful." Topped only by Roberto Benigni in every subsequent appearance.
#41re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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.
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#42re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 6:47pmjimnysf I totally agree with you about Mr. Wilson's perfromance in Castaway.
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#43re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 7:28pmJennifer Aniston in Friends maybe, but she was pretty great in The Good Girl and Friends with Money
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#44re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/16/06 at 10:41pmanything Al Pacino has done in the past 15 years
tmm_fan
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#45re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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.
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"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
Updated On: 12/16/06 at 10:53 PM
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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
#46re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:09amThe "r" is pissing me off. As is the "u". Post like an adult please.
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#47re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:39amGod, calm down. OK; I'll quit doing that.
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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
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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
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#48re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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
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#49re: What Is The Most Overacted Performance In Film History?
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)
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