Top 5 Worst Actors
- Thread starter Randall Flagg
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bollocks, sandler is quality
I don't understand the Affleck hate either... strange
I'm glad to see that other people have mentioned Keanu Reeves, who was conspicuously absent from the opening post.
Randall Flagg = Keanu Reeves.
Randall Flagg = Keanu Reeves.
classic.1. Nicholas Cage
2. Keanu Reeves
3. Hayden Christensen
4. Shia LaBeouf
5. Jean Claude Van Damme
Paul Walker.
Who told you????????
Seriously though he is crap most of the time. But I forgive him due to the Matrix.
To think my number one Gary Busey and Reeves starred in Point Break alongside Patrick Swayze. Jesus Christ that has to be the worst lead cast of all feckin time.
I used really like the movie when I was a kid. I can only assume I would hate it now
Clive Owen
Me neither, he was the bomb in Phantoms.
Think Keanu Reaves can be allowed off this list because he was actually quite good for the role of Neo in Matrix.
Nicolas Cage's earlier stuff was good - like The Rock, Face Off etc...
Nicolas Cage's earlier stuff was good - like The Rock, Face Off etc...
I thought he did the role of Neo well in the first Matrix, the other two he just became a rake that said "Why?"
It's been downhill for him since Bill and Ted.
The only reason he played the role of Neo well is because all he had to do was look confused and unemotional. I doubt he was even acting.
Brad should be along shortly
You're damn right I will!
Scandalous inclusion to the list Topper. Have a word
I'm gunna throw Brad Pitt in there. He can be a decent enough actor, he's had the odd really good performance. He's had some utter toss outings as well though
I was just reading the plot synopsis of that on Wikipedia, and only made it as far as halfway through the first paragraph when I broke down in uncontrollable tears of laughter:
Wikipedia on "Turkish Star Wars" said:
afleck was the bomb in phantoms yo.. (jay from jay and silent bob)
lol i didnt see your post..
I'd like to make a case for Leonard Roberts aka DL Hawkins in Heroes:
He only makes one face which looks as if he's detected a fart.
He only makes one face which looks as if he's detected a fart.
looks like he's deciding whether he enjoys it or not.
Well he only ever makes that one face, I'm glad he's dead (in the show).
Afflecks done some real shit like Daredevil but he's terribly underrated imo. He's just a soft target, who's hatred has been enhanced by the media.
Great actor, writer and director. How often can you say that?
Great actor, writer and director. How often can you say that?
Well said, the thing that makes him such an easy target is because he doesn't shine from the spotlight.
Good Will Hunting alone gives him my unconditional respect.
but he's so gorgeous - who cares if he can't act?
He was perfect at playing the role he was usually typcast in - the foppish blithering hopeless romantic. How much of that is actually acting is anybody's guess.
Brad Pitt is a good actor.
Affleck isn't a bad actor at all. He has made some awful, and some unfortunate, film choices though; unfortunately people put the failure of those pictures firmly on his shoulders, as though his very presence is the thing that drags down the quality of an otherwise excellent film, which isn't the case. It's just that they're shit films.
Thought he did a good job in the Kevin Smith films and Good Will Hunting. Then there's the fact that, as you say, he wrote some of the latter film. Although, it should probably be noted that most of the work was done by Matt Damon, who if I remember correctly, wrote the beginnings of the screenplay for his final piece in college, and later completed it with the help of Affleck. It's hard to say how much Affleck was responsible for though, Damon could have just included him in the credits as he's a close friend. It's a fantastic screenplay though.
Only directed one film, Gone Baby Gone (starring his little brother, who's fantastic in his own right), and that was impressive.
I just saw him in State of Play as well and he completely outshone Russel Crowe in that one.
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There probably is worse, or, I know there's worse. But if I named them nobody would've heard of them, but as for worst recognized actors, I'd definitely have Adam Sandler in my list. It's an easy man to hate.
Rumours are that Good Will Hunting was feckin' shite until the script doctors had at it.
Ahh, I didn't know that. It's often the case though, the people credited by the Writers Guild of America, and thus the ones put forward to The Academy for nomination, usually aren't the only ones that worked on the screenplay. It's the same with Judd Apatow on The Cable Guy and Edward Norton on The Incredible Hulk: Neither are properly credited I believe, despite being responsible for a bulk of the work.
If that's true though, then what a shame for the ones that did the hard work on that film, because the final screenplay is one of the best you're likely to see.
Tim Robbins
But the odd thing is, each one kinda does look like the stated emotion! That's talent is thatI watched one the other day where some blokes had kidnapped a baby, and it ended with Caruso in an SUV chasing the badguy (who had the baby with him) in his SUV through an airfield. It was a really fecking risky chase, and eventually it ended with the badguy's SUV flipping over, rolling about twenty times and then catching fire.
Of course, Saint Caruso rushed forwards through the burning flames and emerged a few seconds later triumphantly holding the infant aloft, but the fact remains that was the feck did he think he was doing chasing a badguy when he had a baby in the car? Someone who has gone around shooting and kidnapping people isn't going to strap that baby in properly - he had no idea it wouldn't have been killed in the crash.
Basically it was really fecking stupid, but we were supposed to just completely ignore that and instead bask in Caruso's angelic glow. I think we were actually supposed to applaud him for striding through the flames and rescuing the baby, completely disregarding the fact that he was the one that caused that situation in the first place.
The show is utterly, utterly crap.
Yeah I cant believe it is so popular, I remember watching the pilot in like 2002 and being like feck me that was pretty shit
Worst shift I ever had at work - We ended up stranded in the middle of nowhere for like 5 days holed up in some hotel, and the guy I had to share a room with (My boss at the time) had brought along his dvd player and about 40 seasons of CSI: Miami, and practically forced me to watch them all because he was sure I'd think it was the 'coolest show ever'. Longest five days of my entire life. David Caruso needs strangling.
I don't know who said it, but there was a quote going around that was something on the lines of "a good actor doesn't show feelings, they suppress them, as regular people do". Probably horrible paraphrasing but it's true nonetheless. How often do you really go around looking like the green lol smiley?
Steven Seagal is a master of just that, everything goes on in his head, it gives a lot more of credit to the viewers. Is he happy? Is he sad? I have no idea. Every scene with Seagal is up to debate, so much room for different interpretations and meaning, he gives a whole new depth to acting. When his character has just shot someone and he gives a badass line, is that really regret? Maybe it was. Steven Seagals physical acting is a caricatured way of acting, it's hollow and superficial. But when you go around all stone faced everywhere you can't get it better than that.
Maybe he's one of the best actors around? I'd love to see him in a film noir with limited set and budget.
Steven Seagal is a master of just that, everything goes on in his head, it gives a lot more of credit to the viewers. Is he happy? Is he sad? I have no idea. Every scene with Seagal is up to debate, so much room for different interpretations and meaning, he gives a whole new depth to acting. When his character has just shot someone and he gives a badass line, is that really regret? Maybe it was. Steven Seagals physical acting is a caricatured way of acting, it's hollow and superficial. But when you go around all stone faced everywhere you can't get it better than that.
Maybe he's one of the best actors around? I'd love to see him in a film noir with limited set and budget.
wum
you're no fun.