[Closed] "Actors" that couldn't act their way out of a paper bag

Matt Damon is excellent in True Grit, and The Informant! - I really rate him these days

On a thread about actors who can't act the STW massive have managed to list:

Al Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Leo DiCaprio
Christopher Walken
Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks
Jeff Bridges
John Malcovich

This place baffles me at times.

+1

There is a big difference between a poor role in a poor film and a bad actor.

Andie Macdowell has the acting range of an ant. She almost made Hugh Grant look good.

Can't believe it took 3 pages to get to Hugh Grant.

Nic Cage was great in City of Angels and likewise Al Pacino in Heat.

Have we mentioned Lisa Kudrow? Absolute shite.

Is Danny Dyer listed? If not he should be - idiot.

Who just said Brad Pitt?
I'd like to refer the gentleman to exhibit A......a film by the name of "Snatch" M'lud.

I thought Nick Cage was pretty good in Bad lieutenant, whilst it's not the original it was pretty good.In fact it's brought a new film rule in for me, anything with a fat Val kilmer in is going to be a good film.

As for bad actors, with the exception of the first Rocky film it has to be Stallone.Followed closely by his ex, Brigitte Nielson.

I also can't believe no one has mentioned Kevin Costner yet, who seems to have made a career out of simply playing ......Kevin costner.(though 2000 miles to Graceland was a major blip in the theory and a thoroughly enjoyable romp)

I think this has been done before but this is a great parody of Danny Dyer.

[url=

Real Footbal Factory[/url]

John travolta just gets on my nerves. Pulp Fiction would have been as good without him - that part was so well written.

jon1973,

very good - not seen that before! He makes my p155 boil - Mug.

I'm amazed it took till page 2 for Brad Pitt to appear

personally I love what he does on film and Cruise too for that matter

I am a bit gay though

I've never liked Mark Wahlberg.

Brad Pitt is an awful actor, he ruins everything he has been in.

He's great in 12 Monkeys and Fight Club.

Travolta, good call - the man's poor
Huge Ackman - not great, to be honest.
Danny Dyer - just not an actor
Nicholas Cage - been a while since he's done much of note, but God of War wasn't the worst acting I've seen.

But, my two, most loathsome wastes of screen, cannot STAND them because they're just so.... nothing...
Kiera Knightley
Anne Hathaway.
Never seen a film in which either of them are showing any range, defineable characteristics or traits.

Interesting 180 on this - how about actors who just act TOO MUCH?
Sean Penn for me. He devotes so much to it, and clearly knows he's a good actor, but for me it's too much and I can't stand to watch him.

And what about that Colin Firth bloke?? An oscar for "The Kings Speach" and he couldn't even say his lines properly!

Tom Cruise?

Can't believe it took 3 pages to get to Hugh Grant.

I was thinking the same but came to the conclusion that this was because quite rightly no one actually considers him to be an actor.

Stuey01 - Member
Jesus wept.
Is this a competition to see who can come up with the most controversial selection?

On a thread about actors who can't act the STW massive have managed to list:

Al Pacino
Clint Eastwood
Leo DiCaprio
Christopher Walken
Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks
Jeff Bridges
John Malcovich

This place baffles me at times.

So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance...

"So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance..."

The World's Fastest Indian.

So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance...

The Bounty (1984).

So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance...

Vinnie Jones, shocking bad actor, should stick to football kicking players, sorry the pun I meant the ball! 😆

So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance...

nixon

Ah, I feel that we're not doing the man justice here. As you all should know, it's <American accent> Sir An-tho-ny Hopkins </American accent>.

And the Remains of the Day was excellent, in the classic British "room with a view with a staircase" style: nothing at all happens, but every line is very studied and well-delivered. Even so, the role demanded that he not show any emotion, and he mastered that excellently. Good acting, or just wooden - you decide.

grievoustim - Member

Matt Damon is excellent in True Grit, and The Informant! - I really rate him these days

Not entirely sure I'd say he was excellent, but then he was hampered by the role/script. But he did have me thinking he wasn't Matt Damon, which is probably a good thing.

Andie Macdowell has the acting range of an ant.

Steady on, she's not [i]that[/i] good. Then again, no-one's ever pretended that she had anything more than amoebal levels of talent.

The most over-rated actors are more interesting. For my woney the absolute top of the tree here is Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for The Untouchables. But he’s done some unutterably appalling piles of toss. There was one with Catherine Zeta Jones (I can’t remember what it was called, but she was predictably poor, he just phoned his ‘performance’ in), plus any number of pretty ropy ones (the accent in The Hunt For Red October, for heaven’s sake). If you want to see unwatchable tosh, the proper turkeys of his career were The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and/or The Avengers.

Or you have Halle Berry. Won the Oscar for Monster’s Ball, but has squandered it with every single thing done since. Her role in Catwoman was one of the lowest points cinema’s yet seen, though she was spectacularly wooden in Die Another Day. Mind you, that film was terrible in so many ways and it would be unfair to blame just her; the fact that Berry’s laughable performance has been largely forgotten is only because we had the [i]invisible car[/i] to distract our attention.

isnt nmadonna in die another day too, id say she trumps halle berry in teh godawful acting stakes

GlitterGary -
Member ?"So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance..."?
The World's Fastest Indian. ??

deluded - Member ?
The Bounty (1984).

j_me - Member ??
The Remains of the Day ??

kimbers - ??
nixon

Not seen The world fastest Indian, looks an interesting film.

He gave the same performance in the other 3 mentioned, hammier than a one dimensional hammy thing.

If you want to see unwatchable tosh, the proper turkeys of his career were The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and/or The Avengers

You've clearly never seen Zardoz 😀

So, name one decent Anthony Hopkins performance...

Anyone who thinks Leonardo DiCaprio can't act needs to watch The Basketball Diaries, Whats Eating Gilbert Grape and This Boy's Life and then reconsider. He's done some shite (Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, The Beach...), but the lad can act.

Ewan Mcgregor
Good in Trainspotting, but rubbish in everything else, especially Star Wars!

Wow. It took that long to get to Ewan McGregor. More wood than Ron Jeremy!

Can't think of any other big names that bad.