Forum menu
most wooden actor y...
 

[Closed] most wooden actor youve ever seen?

Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Mathew Mahogany - not a fan of his acting but diffcult to dislake as he seems such a nice guy
Did anyone see the prequal to Carlitos Way (carlitos Way, Rise to Power), worst acting ever?


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:13 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Ikea Nightly


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:18 pm
Posts: 513
Free Member
 

surely no one can beat this bulb end of being wooden[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:23 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I can never tell Tom Cruise and Demi Moore apart. Identical contribution to the world of acting - the meaningful cheek bulge combined with wide-eyed stare. The old adage, where there's muck there's brass needs to be modernised with, where there's wood..... (unlike Life of Pi, that is not meant to be interpreted in different ways ๐Ÿ˜‰ )


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:24 pm
Posts: 1277
Free Member
 

Keira Knightly, great to look at but terrible to watch.

Yes Mr Potatohead. I prefer to think of her as 'Ikea Knightley' too.

(Actually Marky Mark was just about ok in The Fighters)
Ted, too.

Nicholas Cage. Luckiest man in showbiz.

But, yes, Hayden Christensen. Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful actor.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:26 pm
Posts: 3008
Full Member
 

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:29 pm
Posts: 7623
Full Member
 

The trouble with really wooden actors is when they appear alongside someone who can actually act it just all goes completely pear shaped.

So Keanu Reeves opposite absolutely everyone else in Dracula for instance just looks dreadful.

In Point Break opposite Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey here fairs a bit better.

Can't think of a film where Hayden Christiansen hasn't looked like an android needing an emotion software patch though - but acting opposite Natalie Portman doesn't help


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 12:53 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:00 pm
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

Gawd yes, both Hayden and Ikea get my vote.. Simply put they both could do with some method acting lessons then join their local AmDram.

Nick Cage though I quite like, whats that film where he's doing a "DaVinci Code" replica?? Thought he was ok in that, just.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:06 pm
Posts: 9238
Free Member
 

National Treasure. It wasn't awful. He wasn't good though.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:15 pm
 SnS
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Most 'wooden' actor has to be ....Steven Seagal ?

Chris


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:17 pm
Posts: 21016
Full Member
 

Nicholas Cage. [s]Luckiest man in showbiz[/s] Francis Ford Coppola's nephew.

He's ok in Wild At Heart, but I've never felt the need to intentionally seek out anything else with him in it.
One Nick Cage film goes a long way.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:18 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Orlando Bloom


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:20 pm
Posts: 9145
Full Member
 

Kristan Stewart or whatever the lass from Twilight was called.

I saw Snow White with her in it and I swear her facial expression did not change for the entire film. That speech before the battle? I'd run like hell if I'd heard that.

Roger Moore - The original and still the woodenest.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:21 pm
Posts: 4097
Free Member
 

Was never a fan, but I changed my opinion of Tom Cruise after Interview with a Vampire. I thought he was genuinely good in that. I wonder if the problem with him is not that he's a crap actor, but that he generally appears in crap films.

My vote is for Letitia Dean (Sharon in Eastenders).


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:27 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Mel Gibson


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:34 pm
Posts: 513
Free Member
 

ive never understood why harrison ford ever got work either tbh


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:39 pm
Posts: 6925
Free Member
 

willard: watched that last night..very true! She is pony, miserable and her front teeth are HUGE


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:41 pm
Posts: 23597
Full Member
 

I wonder if the problem with him is not that he's a crap actor, but that he generally appears in crap films.

[url=

because all his films only really have one plot[/url]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:41 pm
 DezB
Posts: 54367
Free Member
 

I'd watch a wooden actor rather than a hammy [u]over-actor[/u] any day.

examples: Al Pacino (later life), Bill Bixby, Roddy McDowell, Nicolas Cage (not wooden! OVER!)

Most wooden ever:
[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:43 pm
Posts: 5300
Full Member
 

Christopher Walken.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:43 pm
Posts: 2623
Full Member
 

Can't think of a film where Hayden Christiansen hasn't looked like an android needing an emotion software patch though - but acting opposite Natalie Portman doesn't help

My (fading) memory of Revenge of the Sith was that Hayden Christiansen actually did better in his scenes with Ian McDairmid than in his scenes with Natalie Portman. My friends and I had a theory that Ian McDairmid was taking him aside between takes and giving him the acting tips and direction that George Lucas was unable to provide.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:45 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

oh yes, I meant hammy.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:49 pm
Posts: 10341
Free Member
 

Nicholas Cage must be an acquired taste ๐Ÿ™‚ I liked him in Raising Arizona and Adaptation.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:55 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I thought Nick Cage was great in Leaving Las Vegas, even won an oscar for it. Its just like he's just given up on acting in the last 15years.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 1:58 pm
 DezB
Posts: 54367
Free Member
 

He's ok in Red Rock West too. Good film that he manages not to ruin.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 2:00 pm
Posts: 813
Full Member
 

woody woodpecker then woody from toy story followed closely by the guy Steven Tomkinson and Robson Greene


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 2:07 pm
Posts: 7100
Free Member
 

Adam Sandler


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 2:08 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Christopher Walken.

How dare you!

Agree with Dez, since about ten years ago Pacino just became a parody of himself, WOOOOOH!!!


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 3:38 pm
 10
Posts: 1506
Full Member
 

[img] [/img]

I hate him.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 3:45 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

George Lazenby


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 3:49 pm
Posts: 12088
Full Member
 

I suppose we're talking well-known actors here, move into the wonderful world of b-movie karate films and you have class acts such as Cynthia Rothrock, quite possibly the worst actress I've seen outside of porn:

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 3:52 pm
Posts: 78513
Full Member
 

I think there's actually two Nic Cages. Maybe he's got a twin brother or something.

One is the batshit-crazy Nic Cage. The other seems to be carved from mahogany. In batshit mode he's actually pretty entertaining and a decent actor, the rest of the time they could readily replace him with some laminate flooring.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:29 pm
 DezB
Posts: 54367
Free Member
 

You gotta wonder about someone if they really think Christopher Walken is wooden..


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:34 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Herman Therman- she's the origonal flat pack chest


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:38 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Bill Paxton. Dreadful.
Andi Mcdowell


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:51 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Arnie?

Jason Statham?

Jude Law?


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:51 pm
Posts: 2652
Free Member
 

The inflatable co-pilot in Airplane didn't seem like a great actor .


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:58 pm
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

I quite like the fact that either of these two are better "actors" that a host of the Hollywood A list..........

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 4:59 pm
Posts: 13291
Free Member
 

At times it's shocking how wooden
Brando and Steve McQueen could be.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:02 pm
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

Every actor in any soap. Utterly rotten, laughable, why do people watch soaps? I don't get it.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:05 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Nobody mentioned Tommy Wiseau?

Bear in mind this is supposed to be a serious movie.

The Room - Worst film ever.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:09 pm
Posts: 9145
Full Member
 

Cynthia Rothrock... Dear gods, I remember her films from years ago. Those were the heady days of Vince Murdocco, Chuck Norris and Steven Segal (before he got fat). Great days, appalling acting.


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:20 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Arnie?
I'll pretend you didn't say that!!

Despite Nick Cage being added in the first few posts, I can't get my head around how his thread has run for 3 pages ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:20 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I'll pretend you didn't say that!!

Let off some steam, lilchris.

I'll admit he's no Tommy Wiseau. Thanks for the recommend!


 
Posted : 17/01/2013 5:26 pm
Page 2 / 3