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Scarlet Johansson, she has clearly been to the "look like you are smelling a fart" school of acting, and that is the only facial expression she has.
I think the reason marvel held off on having a black widow film for so long is because she doesn't have the charisma or acting ability to carry a film, and the end product proved it, she was acted of the screen by anyone and everyone she shared a scene with.
I can't believe we're on the second page and no one has mentioned Orlando Bloom.
Acting is often a lot harder than it looks,unless they are just being lazy or deliberately stupid,then I cut them a lot of slack
Theres a crucial difference between making it look easy and making it look like you think its easy 🙂
I think a distinction between Gervais and Sandler is - even if you don't like Gervais's work its fair to say he works hard at what he does - you might like his performance or you might not but he brings interesting new stuff to the screen. Sandler by contrast is fundamentally lazy, and arguably a bit of a swindler. His movies, generally, are the least they can possibly be, plus a bunch of lucrative cameos for his pals.
Half in the bag put more effort, imagination and humour into pointing out every cheap, lazy, pocket-lining shortcut he made in one movie than he puts into any of his movies. He rips off his financiers, crews and audiences by putting as little of the budget (your ticket money) on the screen as possible and as much as he can into his and his friends pockets.
Will ****ing Smith
Chris Pine (?) the one with the square head from the Star Trek films
He rips off his financiers, crews and audiences by putting as little of the budget (your ticket money) on the screen as possible and as much as he can into his and his friends pockets.
Isn’t that just the business model for making movies? I’d like to hate Sandler but he just seems like a nice chap having fun. Plus he gave us Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer.
Ray Winstone , Nicholas Cage obviously and Adam Sandler who doesn't know the difference between stupid and funny .
all the gavin and stacey cast. ****ing shyte.
David Tennant, don’t know why.
Yup, and I feel bad for it too, even bloody loved Staged! I’m very confused….
John Wayne
C'mon, nobody has said Hugh Grant yet!
Danny Dyer.
To those saying
james corden
I urge you to watch this.
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-one-man-two-guvnors
Totally amazing and transformed my view of him.
Minnie ****ing Driver
+ 1 on Scarlett Johansson - also Sarah Jessica Parker
Tom Hanks
can just about manage Saving Private Ryan, but nothing else.
Is the correct answer. Exactly the bloody same performance in every film he's ever been in.
Sean Connery
Ewan McGregor
Hugh Grant
The new James bond guy.. The one with the silly look.. Can't remember his name.. He looks like special needs. Daniel Craig! He just looks too awkward.
It's like a cheap version of mission impossible... And I'm not even a tom cruise fan.
Ewan Bloody McGregor
Get in the sea.. He's a brilliant actor.
Tom Hanks
can just about manage Saving Private Ryan, but nothing else.
The film where he's crashing a plane into to the Hudson River was brilliant I thought. Very dramatic and thought provoking.
sean bean ( mr wooden acting one tone)
gervais
corden
cage
val kilmer
The film where he’s crashing a plane into to the Hudson River was brilliant I thought. Very dramatic and thought provoking.
Fascinating. Obviously not a film I'll ever watch.
Nicholas Cage.
I don’t have the words to describe how bad he is. He makes Jim Carrey………..
Nope, can’t find the words.
Jack Black, I think he’s a t1t.
sean bean ( mr wooden acting one tone)
I’d urge you to watch Time on iplayer. He and Stephen Graham are amazing in it. It’ll confirm, incase you weren’t sure, that prison seems like a really bad place to be.
I’d urge you to watch Time on iplayer. He and Stephen Graham are amazing in it. It’ll confirm, incase you weren’t sure, that prison seems like a really bad place to be.
I grant you that he is very good at playing a Yorkshireman
Is Lawrence Fox too obvious?
Is what Miranda Hart does count as acting? If yes, her.
I watched White Lines on Netflix the other day and thought Lozza Fox was alright as the guru figure.
Whatever, Come at me
For me it’s Nicholas Cage, he absolutely ruins any scene he’s in.
Wrong.
Nicolas Cage movies are either brilliant or terrible, he's never mediocre.
Tom Hanks is consistently mediocre. He's a safe bet, any film with him in it will be safe comfort food but it will never be brilliant like Nicolas Cage at his best. Thing is, any competent actor could be drafted in to replace Tom Hanks and it wouldn't make any difference, he's just utterly forgettable. Kinda like the Billy Joel of movies.
Jim Carrey... it's like watching some scrape their fingernails down a blackboard whilst simultaneously grinding their teeth. Don't know why.
Charlie Hunnam for me. cannot watch him.
I watched The Gentleman and only vaguely knew of Charlie Hunman from the 5 minutes of SOA I'd watched before deciding it was soap opera nonsense and turning it off. Anyway, watching The Gentleman and I thought "My god his attempt at a Geordie accent is terrible"
I was genuinely flabbergasted to discover he was an actual Geordie
Ray Winstone
How he gets roles is beyond me. if he was rolled out as the token cockney geezer I could maybe understand.
Witnessing him as a Boston Irish American gangster in The Departed was hilarious.
"This is America. If you can't make money 'ere you're a faaaaaaaakin douchebag"
I watched Black Widow recently with no idea he was in it. When he popped up as the Russian bad guy I spent the rest of the film pissing myself at his "Russian" accent.
At least Sean Connery never bothered his arse even remotely attempting a Spanish/Russian/Irish accent
Nic Cage is amazing. He’ll take any job no matter how mental and act his arse off. I watched Willy’s Wonderland the other week. It’s basically about sixty minutes of Cage silently doing some cleaning interspersed with violence against possessed robotic animal characters.
At least Sean Connery never bothered his arse even remotely attempting a Spanish/Russian/Irish accent
The Untouchables? Admittedly difficult to tell, but I think he was attempting an Irish accent, until he gave up half way through.
I don't like Tom Cruise. Creepy little git.
Don't hate Ricky Gervais - but i remember when he had a regular slot on the 11 O'clock Show in the late 90s (along with Ali G) and he was absolutely awful. At the time I think he was the entertainment manager at University of London Union where I was spending a fair amount of time. Shortly after The Office started and he was a million times better in that.
Similarly, i first saw Matt Lucas as a warm-up act for Blur on the first night of their seaside tour - he was abysmal. Didn't get a laugh. Then he popped up as George Doors and then Little Britain.
Corden was brilliant as a kid acting in Allan Bennett's History Boys ... but i can see why people don't like him now.
Tim Minchin, smug know-it-all prick so stuck up his own arse he’s become he’s collapsing on on himself like a dying star.
What's he acted in? His live show takes the piss out of his massive sense of entitlement when he was in Hollywood, he's more of a comic musician these days.
And Owen Wilson (though his latest film looks like he may actually be acting in the trailer just to confound things).
I don’t like Tom Cruise. Creepy little git.
He's really good at playing a specific kind of character, he has done some great movies. I thought his role in Magnolia was outstanding. The character was utterly repulsive and then just melted down when he was exposed - Cruise played that perfectly. He's not a guy I would want to hang out with in real life but he's done some great movies.
Oh yeah, Tim Minchin. Sooooo smug.
To be fair, a lot of the people mentioned have something about them, even if it's something you hate. True connoisseurs of appalling actors need to check out the awful Virgin River on Netflix and the guy who plays Jack. I don't know his name, but he's so wooden he makes Keanu Reeves look like a virtuoso character actor rather than the human ironing board he actually is. 'Jack' has one expression which is a sort of slightly mournful, permanent, mild surprise. That's it. That's all you get. He is at the same time both totally unwatchable and utterly mesmerising. You find yourself scrutinising him looking for some micro-flicker of emotion. Honestly, he makes Roger Moore seem expressive.
Noel Gugliemi. Nothing against him really but somebody pointed out to me that he plays 'Hector' in basically every movie he's in. Much like the Wilhelm scream, once you've noticed him it completely breaks the immersion.
Nicholas cage.
Richard e grant.
Johanna Lumley
Christopher Biggins
Noel Gugliemi.
Blimey, just looked him up - he is in A LOT of films! Only ever seen him in a couple TV Series and he didn't really register.
Tom Hanks at his best. A scene of brutal tension and the most raw emotion imaginable...
I've never taken to Leo DiCaprio, even in interesting films like The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street or Inception, he still has an irritating residual layer of smarm, for me.
I can’t believe we’re on the second page and no one has mentioned Orlando Bloom.
Haha, great suggestion. I think we'd all forgotten about the useless, smug prick.
Tom Hanks needs another thread called "Actors you just meh".
The new James bond guy..
Ah yes the "new" James Bond, Daniel Craig who's famously just retired from the role after 15 years 😉
Oh, and Danny Dyer
Although "Actor" is really stretching it...
Jude Law
Miriam Margolyes.
Vile old bag. Potty mouth deployed almost constantly because she is neither funny or interesting.
Nick Cage - well he's just shit.
Steve Coogan - always effuses an air of superiority and smugness irrespective of the role / film.