shitty performances by respected actors

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:30 pm

i happened to catch "the happening" the other day on cable and ,man, is marky mark the worst. shit is pure comedy.
it may be a stretch to call marky mark a good actor but he's done well in a handful of movies (don't sleep on "fear", he kills it in that). so i was thinking of other "respected" actors who screwed the pooch big time...
like forrest whitaker in "street kings" and "species".
or
al pacino in anything he's been in in the last 10 years.
i know there are loads more but i'm hung over and half retarded right now.

feel free to add on.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:32 pm

Blockhead wrote: al pacino in anything he's been in in the last 10 years.

Came in here to say just that.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:35 pm

Nic Cage pretty much dominates in Adaptation, Moonstruck, Raising Arizona and Leaving Las Vegas but is a horrible actor in everything else. Doesn't mean some of those movies aren't good, it's just that the acting isn't.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:57 pm

christian bale in harsh times (i don't know if i'm being unfair to him because of how shitty the movie was, or because of how shitty the performance was)

deniro in most of the stuff he's been in lately

struggling to think of more right now

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:59 pm

Gary Oldman in Air Force One.

dat piff · Post by **dat piff** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:23 pm

Philaflava wrote:
Blockhead wrote: al pacino in anything he's been in in the last 10 years.
Came in here to say just that.

Al Pacino's performance in s1mone was oscar worthy

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:57 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyBdPeKHg

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:07 pm

lol i've never seen that before

calling ryan oneal a good actor is a stretch though

battlecatmeowstab212 · Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:31 am

Christian Bale in "Terminator Salvation"

Mos Def in "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind"

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:01 am

drizzle wrote:lol i've never seen that before

calling ryan oneal a good actor is a stretch though

if he's good enough for Stanley Kubrick he's good enough for me
(he's not very good though, but I would say he's respected)

from IMDB:
Norman Mailer, in the director's commentary on the DVD, said that he was counseled to cut the ending of the scene in which Ryan O'Neal's character Tim Madden reads a note from his ex-girlfriend Madeline informing him that his wife was having an affair with her husband, and he exclaims, "Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man!" because of O'Neal's poor performance. Mailer kept it in because he thought the poor line reading actually added something to the picture. O'Neal, who had been friendly with Mailer, turned on him, as the bit revealed his shortcomings as an actor and embarrassed him.

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:04 am

Did not expect Marky Mark to be the first mentioned.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:05 pm

Sankofa wrote:Gary Oldman in Air Force One.

he said he did it just for the paycheck

christian bale was dope in harsh times. i know a guy back in vancouver who's exactly like that. there were a couple problems with the movie but overall it was dope. lol plus my buddy back in van loves the movie, introduced me to it n i don't think he realizes he's watching himself.

Loki · Post by **Loki** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:32 pm

winona ryder in bram stoker's dracula
danny glover in saw
forest whitaker in bloodsport
brad pitt in troy (fucking awful)
russell crowe in virtuosity
renee zellwegger in 310 to Yuma
sam jackson in the spirit
jim carey in 23
vince vaughn in any serious role

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:48 pm

geroge clooney in the facts of life

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:22 pm

Loki wrote:danny glover in saw
russell crowe in virtuosity
renee zellwegger in 310 to Yuma
vince vaughn in any serious role

Glover in saw is

renee zellwegger is terrible in ANY movie

I didn't think Crowe was THAT bad in virtuosity. the movie was campy as hell regardless.

I also didn't think Vince Vaughn was that bad in into the wild. can't think of any other serious roles he's done

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:22 pm

battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:Mos Def in "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind"

and he was good in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy??

seriously though, what other movie(s) has Mos Def been in?

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:24 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:Mos Def in "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind"
and he was good in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy??

seriously though, what other movie(s) has Mos Def been in?

I thought he did a good job in 16 blocks. He was phenomenal in Something The Lord Made.

battlecatmeowstab212 · Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:47 pm

Tommy Bunz wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:Mos Def in "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind"
and he was good in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy??

seriously though, what other movie(s) has Mos Def been in?
I thought he did a good job in 16 blocks. He was phenomenal in Something The Lord Made.

He was PERFECT in "Bamboozled," better than Diddy in "Monster's Ball" and good on Chapelle's Show.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:55 pm

he wasn't bad in the italian job either.

Skeptic · Post by **Skeptic** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:34 pm

Michael Gambon in The Insider

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:14 pm

Moolah wrote:

Did not expect Marky Mark to be the first mentioned.

seriously, watch "the happening" and you will be amazed that it even made it past the first test screening. marky mark is on some after school special shit in that.

Pronay · Post by **Pronay** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:44 pm

Loki wrote:winona ryder in bram stoker's dracula
danny glover in saw
forest whitaker in bloodsport
brad pitt in troy (fucking awful)
russell crowe in virtuosity
renee zellwegger in 310 to Yuma
sam jackson in the spirit
jim carey in 23
vince vaughn in any serious role

agree with a few of these, but zellwegger wasn't in 310 to Yuma

she was horrible in leatherheads, as was everyone imo

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:04 pm

battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:
Tommy Bunz wrote:
GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
battlecatmeowstab212 wrote:Mos Def in "16 Blocks" and "Be Kind Rewind"
and he was good in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy??

seriously though, what other movie(s) has Mos Def been in?
I thought he did a good job in 16 blocks. He was phenomenal in Something The Lord Made.
He was PERFECT in "Bamboozled," better than Diddy in "Monster's Ball" and good on Chapelle's Show.

a rapper playing a rapper is a fish-in-a-barrel role. Obviously Mos is not that kind of rapper, but it was easy to nail down. Damon Wayans delivered in that movie.

I actually enjoyed Mos in Be Kind Rewind and enjoyed that movie. Gondry did a nice job toning down the weirdness. He went too far in Science of Sleep.

but that's not what this thread is about.

Samuel Jackson owns this thread for 5 years running. He's a hollywood whore. I love the man, but he dials in so much shit.

off the top, last Sam role I thought he did some major work in, maybe, Black Snake Moan?

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:42 pm

I dunno about big time or respectable, but Dominic West's acting in the latest Punisher movie was incredibly bad. Great movie though.

samdoom · Post by **samdoom** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:57 pm

Pronay wrote:
Loki wrote:winona ryder in bram stoker's dracula
danny glover in saw
forest whitaker in bloodsport
brad pitt in troy (fucking awful)
russell crowe in virtuosity
renee zellwegger in 310 to Yuma
sam jackson in the spirit
jim carey in 23
vince vaughn in any serious role
agree with a few of these, but zellwegger wasn't in 310 to Yuma

she was horrible in leatherheads, as was everyone imo

i think he was thinking of appaloosa, not 310 to yuma, which she was terrible in, as always

MD · Post by MD » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:07 pm

John Turturro in Transformers.

Simply ridiculous.

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:10 pm

Great actors can sometimes act according to the shitiness of the movie their in.

Except for DeNiro. He's good even in shitty movies and I think that's why he seems like such a miserable bastard.

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:35 pm

what

i thought turturro was the man in transformers.

Gregg Popabitch1 · Post by **Gregg Popabitch1** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:36 pm

Christian Bale's voice in The Dark Knight.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:09 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:what

i thought turturro was the man in transformers.

As did I.

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