[Film] Worst Acting

[jcdenton08]

You say you don’t like Jason Statham and then watch all his films to see his bad acting?

Hate watching I assume.

 

[BBassic]

For me, Hayden Christensen in Star Wars, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith is excruciatingly bad. I appreciate the script was bloody awful, but my god his delivery was so wooden. I cringed so hard I almost ruptured a kidney.

He's quite good in the Obi-Wan series that came out last year.

 

[Frutos]

William Shatner may be a sci-fi icon, but he has the acting ability of a mouldy banana.

 

[jcdenton08]

William Shatner may be a sci-fi icon, but he has the acting ability of a mouldy banana.

Yet when it comes to casting, they always get the best spots. Got to have thick skin as an actor

 

[Simster]

Seen all of those and didn’t like any of the movies, but I don’t blame him for that personally and think he was competent. Okay not in Rock of Ages!

I get the dislike for Cruise, I really do, and he can fail when carrying a movie like anyone else (“The War of the Worlds” springs to mind) but I just don’t get how anyone could find him a bad actor, let alone one of the worst.

It would be like saying Spacey is a bad actor just because he’s a weird, dodgy bloke. It’s just not true

I agree with everything you say, but with one caveat: I resented the fact he cast himself as the lead role in Jack Reacher.

It was akin to casting Jim Carrey as James Bond. A quick skim through any of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books would tell you Jack Reacher is about 6 foot 6, build like a brick shit house, and not actually particularly attractive. Cruise doesn't tick a single box.

 

[el punal]

Now THAT is a bad actor, he can’t even read a script.

 

[METALMICKY]

His accent is as bad as listening to a Scotsman speaking Scottish

I think the bad accent ' award ' surely has to go to Charlie Hunnam for his turn in the football hooligan film Green Street. Truly appalling and hard to imagine he went on to be brilliant in the biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

As for persistently bad acting I'd plum for Nicholas Cage. Although curiously he smashes it out of the park for the depressing but brilliant Leaving Las Vegas for which is rightly got an Oscar for.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I think the bad accent ' award ' surely has to go to Charlie Hunnam for his turn in the football hooligan film Green Street. Truly appalling and hard to imagine he went on to be brilliant in the biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

As for persistently bad acting I'd plum for Nicholas Cage. Although curiously he smashes it out of the park for the depressing but brilliant Leaving Las Vegas for which is rightly got an Oscar for.

Nothing really beats cardboard actor Steven Seagal

 

[jcdenton08]

I agree with everything you say, but with one caveat: I resented the fact he cast himself as the lead role in Jack Reacher.

It was akin to casting Jim Carrey as James Bond. A quick skim through any of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books would tell you Jack Reacher is about 6 foot 6, build like a brick shit house, and not actually particularly attractive. Cruise doesn't tick a single box.

I agree completely with this. His Reacher was awful.

The only thing I would say again though, is that his acting wasn’t bad. He committed. His line reads were fine. It was terrible and egotistic self-casting but at no point did I think “he can’t act”. I rather thought “you’re not Jack Reacher”.

The guy they cast in the TV show is Reacher.

 

[Simster]

I agree completely with this. His Reacher was awful.

The only thing I would say again though, is that his acting wasn’t bad. He committed. His line reads were fine. It was terrible and egotistic self-casting but at no point did I think “he can’t act”. I rather thought “you’re not Jack Reacher”.

The guy they cast in the TV show is Reacher.

Once again, I am in full agreement.

 

[Randy McNob]

Must be something I don't see but Leo Di Caprio isn't a great actor imo

and Liam Neeson is awful. He can't even do an American accent well

 

[jcdenton08]

I think the bad accent ' award ' surely has to go to Charlie Hunnam for his turn in the football hooligan film Green Street. Truly appalling and hard to imagine he went on to be brilliant in the biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

As for persistently bad acting I'd plum for Nicholas Cage. Although curiously he smashes it out of the park for the depressing but brilliant Leaving Las Vegas for which is rightly got an Oscar for.

Spotters badge accent wise for Don Cheadle in Ocean’s 11

 

[Lenny Rider]

This takes some beating, in her Dad's defence Winona Ryder pulled out at the 11th hour, but both father and daughter were on a hiding to nothing.

To her credit she rebuilt her career behind the camera and has since won an Oscar I believe.

 

[jcdenton08]

Nothing really beats cardboard actor Steven Seagal

Will never forget a YouTube video I saw reviewing his movies - incredibly accurate.

“Steven Seagal, going fatly around corners”

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Unless I'm being whooshed, Garth Merenghi's Dark Place is SUPPOSED to be absolutely terrible. I loved it.

For me, Hayden Christensen in Star Wars, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith is excruciatingly bad. I appreciate the script was bloody awful, but my god his delivery was so wooden. I cringed so hard I almost ruptured a kidney.

He did a book reading in Faversham a year or so ago.
A friend of ours is a promoter and was handling the tour.
So we met him.
He was exactly the same in real life as he was on stage

 

[Rambo]

Will never forget a YouTube video I saw reviewing his movies - incredibly accurate.

“Steven Seagal, going fatly around corners”

He also cooks.

 

[Taybha]

Close this thread immediately

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I loved Auf Wiedersehen Pet, but Pat Roach…. fuckin ell

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The acting on hot new Netflix rave DEPT. Q is wall-to-wall crummy

 

[Frutos]

I think the bad accent ' award ' surely has to go to Charlie Hunnam for his turn in the football hooligan film Green Street. Truly appalling and hard to imagine he went on to be brilliant in the biker drama Sons of Anarchy.

I'd go with French actor Christopher Lambert's attempt at a Scottish accent while Sean Connery played an Egyptian with a Spanish name and a more Scottish accent than the supposed Scot.

Well that, or Dick van Dyke.