All movies with Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. They both can't act. But I like Keanu Reeves a lot, he seems to be a nice person.

ludwig said:

All movies with Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. They both can't act. But I like Keanu Reeves a lot, he seems to be a nice person.

Nic Cage was amazing in Leaving Las Vegas. If an actor has a decent script and Director, it makes all the difference.

PurpleJedi said:

Empress said:

ludwig said:

All movies with Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. They both can't act. But I like Keanu Reeves a lot, he seems to be a nice person.

Nic Cage was amazing in Leaving Las Vegas. If an actor has a decent script and Director, it makes all the difference.

I hate this movie with a passion. And Cage's acting is horrible in most movies, he's always overacting like crazy.

Not just saying in order to wind PJ up but rather facing into the truth...

But Star Wars : The Phantom Menace has easily the worst acting. Not just one performance but each character on the screen was terrible, across the board.... even R2D2 looked as if he was just going through the motions.

^ Hate to say it, but the best acting in that movie was the lightsaber sequences.

Also, Sofia Coppola singlehandedly dropped The Godfather Pt. III from potential classic to just-a-good-movie.

^Its not the actors, its the director on this one. Lucas is notorious for giving no direction what so ever. He's all bout the special effects.

lazycrockett said:

^Its not the actors, its the director on this one. Lucas is notorious for giving no direction what so ever. He's all bout the special effects.

I agree with this.

Natalie Portman, Liam Nieson, And Ian McClellon (sp?) in a movie that ends up being bad is just unforgivable, and is the director's fault.

THe movie suffered from :

1. no clearly defined protagonist

2. far too much explaining of the plot through dialogue (bad dialogue)

3. boring scenes with cameras that don't move.

4. too many thing going on, but with no emotional investment from the audience.

And finally, who the hell casts Natalie Portman but fails to put her

in one of those skimpy Princess Liea outfits from Return of the Jedi?

Damn shit.

I completely forgot about Episodes I, II & III.



Sometimes I think that I pretend it's all a dream...that Jar-Jar never made it to the big screen.

PurpleJedi said:

ufoclub said:

I just saw the end of "Se7en" again, you know with the Fedex box. And compared to Freeman and Spacey... Pitt seemed to be showing off some really bad unconvincing acting there at that intense moment.

I was shocked by how bad it seemed.

Really? I'm not going to argue that his performance pales in comparison to Freeman and Spacey, but that scene at the end was convincing to me when I saw it.

Maybe I need to watch it again.

He's great in other things, but, yeah, I don't know about that one. Watch the end again, see what you think.

PurpleJedi said:

I completely forgot about Episodes I, II & III.



Sometimes I think that I pretend it's all a dream...that Jar-Jar never made it to the big screen.

I completely ignore them.


For me the stories began at Episode IV.


I mean in Empire Strikes Back the Darth Vader 'reveal' is supposed to be a big deal.
The prequels kill that (among other things they destroy, like our souls).

For me, the movies sound be watched (if you must watch them all) as 4,5.6 and 1,2,3.

The of course 7,8,9

The sequential timeline Lucas sets up kills all suprises, and bores us to tears

before we are given a chance to care.

ufoclub said:

I just saw the end of "Se7en" again, you know with the Fedex box. And compared to Freeman and Spacey... Pitt seemed to be showing off some really bad unconvincing acting there at that intense moment.

I was shocked by how bad it seemed.

I hadn't until recently realized the level of debate that continues over Pitt's performance in that final scene. To some people, it seems to be among the worst performances from the 90s. Others argue the over-the-top antics are pretty realistic of a person hit with such an unexpected and shocking loss.

I'm undecided, but the whole "What's in the bahhhhhhxxxx!?!?" thing does tickle me.

Stymie said:

Nothing is worse than The Room. Nothing.

I was trying to think of the title of this one

Purple Rain

Howling II

Showgirls

Anything with Chuck Norris

Walk in the Clouds

lazycrockett said:

^Its not the actors, its the director on this one. Lucas is notorious for giving no direction what so ever. He's all bout the special effects.

Perhaps, but Haydn Christianson's Annikan could not have been salvaged by any director, Shattered Glass or no Shattered Glass

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prittypriss said:

Stymie said:Nothing is worse than The Room. Nothing. *I love The Room! Exactly because it is TERRIBLE!

Same here.

I still laugh at the flowershop scene EVERYTIME I see it.

"Bad acting" shouldn't be confused with simply a bad role / bad casting / bad script / bad directing. Sometimes, the actor might prove a really good actor under different circumstances. Also, "bad acting" shouldn't be confused with "I just hate that actor" - I was going to put Jennifer Aniston, but upon reflection I realized she's actually not a bad actress, I just don't like her and/or her roles.

When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of Denise Richards in "The World Is Not Enough" as "Dr." Christmas Jones. I still remember that moment when she first spoke in that movie, like 15 years ago, there were audible groans in the theater. Her lines were delivered like bricks. Everybody else in the movie did well with the material, and Sophie Marceau even elevated the paltry stuff she was given, as does Dench. So there is noone to blame for Denise Richards' horrible performance except her bad acting.

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just watch Oz the great and blah blah blah. You will see plenty.

Lammastide said:

ufoclub said:

I just saw the end of "Se7en" again, you know with the Fedex box. And compared to Freeman and Spacey... Pitt seemed to be showing off some really bad unconvincing acting there at that intense moment.

I was shocked by how bad it seemed.

I hadn't until recently realized the level of debate that continues over Pitt's performance in that final scene. To some people, it seems to be among the worst performances from the 90s. Others argue the over-the-top antics are pretty realistic of a person hit with such an unexpected and shocking loss.

I'm undecided, but the whole "What's in the bahhhhhhxxxx!?!?" thing does tickle me.

lazycrockett said:

^Its not the actors, its the director on this one. Lucas is notorious for giving no direction what so ever. He's all bout the special effects.

You're right, but a bad cook makes terrible food with great ingredients.

I liked Brad Pitt in Snatch, Babel, The Tree of Life and Moneyball. He was okay in Inglourious Basterds. He brought some much needed comedy to that film.

sexton said:

I liked Brad Pitt in Snatch, Babel, The Tree of Life and Moneyball. He was okay in Inglourious Basterds. He brought some much needed comedy to that film.

I thnk he's okay in 12 Monkeys, cuz the whole thing is over the top.

sexton said:

I liked Brad Pitt in Snatch, Babel, The Tree of Life and Moneyball. He was okay in Inglourious Basterds. He brought some much needed comedy to that film.

Those, and 12 Monkeys are good performances.

But his cameo in True Romance almost stole the flick (were it not for Bronson Pinchot).

Forget modern films, the old "classics" are sometmes shocking. Pretty much anything Jennifer Jones was in, and she was nominatd and won Oscars for utter drivel like The Song of Bernadette and Love Letters.

All I could think of when watching her was that she must have been a great fuck on the casting couch.

anything with Scarlett Johanssen

Ellie said:

Forget modern films, the old "classics" are sometmes shocking. Pretty much anything Jennifer Jones was in, and she was nominatd and won Oscars for utter drivel like The Song of Bernadette and Love Letters.

All I could think of when watching her was that she must have been a great fuck on the casting couch.

That ain't even right.

In highsight... Loves Letters

I thought the script, Joesph Cotten, and the supporting cast buoyed her performance.

As far as the casting couch. David O. Selznick was the other person on the couch; after his death her career took a dive and the knives came out. It wasn't pretty...

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artist76 said: