Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 3:18pm
This one's easy. I love "Mulholland Drive." Love it, love it, love it. But I want to bash David Lynch with a tire iron for ever putting Billy Ray Cyrus in that movie. Thank God his scene is short.
Runner up? Ted Danson's short appearance in "Saving Private Ryan." Not that he did a bad job. It was just a very distracting scene.
#2re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 3:37pm
The first thing that popped into my head was Ron Eldard in House of Sand and Fog -he was TERRIBLE, but I really liked the movie.
And I probably would've liked Cinderella Man better if it weren't for the oh-so-sniffy and whiny Renee...
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#3re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 3:40pm
No one ruins a movie quite like Andie McDowell.
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#4re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:19pmAhh but not even she could ruin Groundhog Day. That movie was as solid as a rock.
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#5re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 6:43pmThe girl who played Bryan Brown's assistant in FX.
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#6re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 7:57pm
-Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction (thank goodness that he plays at his strenghts for a living)
-Marilyn Monroe in All About Eve (I love her, but...)
-Patrick Magee in A Clockwork Orange
-Janis Wilson in Now, Voyager
Updated On: 8/10/05 at 07:57 PM
#7re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 8:13pmBen Affleck in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#8re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 8:17pmThat's funny, I was going to put Affleck on there too.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#9re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 8:35pmPatrick Magee? He was fine as Mr. Alexander.
#10re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:12pmHe was fine in the first half of the film, but his work in the later scenes was so... I don't know. But, I just can't watch it.
#11re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:17pm
Recently, Katie Holmes just RUINED Batman Begins for me.
Edited for a stupid stupid mistake.
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Updated On: 8/10/05 at 10:17 PM
#12re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:20pm
It's Batman Begins. I think "Batman Beyond" was s spin-off cartoon on the WB.
I didn't think she was nearly as bad as people said. In fact, I think the critics were just picking on her because she was an easy target (they did the same thing with a certain hotel heiress earlier this year). My only problem with her was that she was five years too young for the part.
Updated On: 8/9/05 at 10:20 PM
#13re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:26pm
It wasn't annoyed too much by Katie Holmes until she had to do that monologue at the end talking to Christian Bale about how he wears a mask and all that; then I wanted to punch her in the face. She talks SO weirdly and totally out of the side of her mouth and it's DARN DISTRACTING.
HAHA, but yeah, I'll second that Ben Affleck in Shakespeare in Love comment...what a bizarre choice.
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#14re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:31pmBut, she didn't write the monologue and I thought that was her best scene (take that for what it's worth).
#15re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:33pmHA, I guess I just thought she was so wrong for the part and the monologue was just one LONG reminder of it :0)
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Cruel_Sandwich
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#16re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:40pmHolms' performance wasn't nearly as bad as her rendition of "On My Own" from Les Mis.
#17re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/9/05 at 10:58pmMy submission for worst performance goes to Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's. That has to be one of the most unwatchable performances ever. Thank God for the mute and fast forward buttons.
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#18re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 12:08amRichard Beymer in WSS.
#19re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 1:53amPatrick Fugit in 'Almost Famous'. I adore that film... but he just is not believable very often in the movie.
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#20re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 2:02am
Oh, god. Stupid stupid mistake. I'm so sorry. Batman Beyond...what was I thinking?
C_S- I still have a hard time believing that's a human voice. It sounds like she's on a lot...lots of helium.
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#21re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 3:50amPinguin, TOTALLY agree with you about Renee in Cinderella Man. My boyfriend and I agreed that she was just doing Roxie Hart with a different hair color and a slightly stronger accent.
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#22re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 5:11amI saw The Notebook again a few days ago and the movie is so great until you meet their children. They're so bad it hurts.
#23re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 6:22amI think Affleck in almost every movie he's in. He almost ruins Kevin Smith movies for me.
#24re: Worst Performance In One of the Best Movies?
Posted: 8/10/05 at 8:36am
I really like Patrick Fugit in Almost Famous!
And off the top of my head, a bad performance (or at least one that irked me) in a good movie was Claire Danes in Stage Beauty. She has such an annoying voice. I'm sure there are many others that'll come to mind, but I just saw this and she really irked me.
Oh, and yeah...Andie McDowell is pretty horrific. She didn't ruin Groundhog Day, but just think how much better it could have been! God, I love Bill Murray!
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