Worst big name actors.

Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Fucking horrific. I can only assume that public appetite for cowboy/war films and the familiar kept him in work, or maybe he had dirt on Hollywood bigwigs.
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True this .. he refused to appear in the longest day unless his name appeared at the very top of the credits at the ending
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Fucking horrific. I can only assume that public appetite for cowboy/war films and the familiar kept him in work, or maybe he had dirt on Hollywood bigwigs.
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True this ... as a condition he appeared in the longest day it was a contractual agreement his name appeared first and in large type writing in the closing credits ... seriously this is probably one the greatest films you will ever get in a all star cast at the time. Richard Burton and Kenneth Moore .. John you wasn’t fit to be their brew boy.
 
Not sure a lot of these are bad actors, some can only play a certain type of character but have been great in some great films. They have been badly cast sometimes.Arnie was great in Terminator,Reeves in Matrix. Same as Michael Caine can be terrible but in the right film brilliant.
Anyway my choice Jason Statham.
 
blueparrot said:
Not sure a lot of these are bad actors, some can only play a certain type of character but have been great in some great films. They have been badly cast sometimes.Arnie was great in Terminator,Reeves in Matrix. Same as Michael Caine can be terrible but in the right film brilliant.
Anyway my choice Jason Statham.
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I quite enjoy arnie films, but the pretexts they had to create to shoehorn his physique, and poor English /acting into the plot are pretty ingenious.
 
blueparrot said:
Not sure a lot of these are bad actors, some can only play a certain type of character but have been great in some great films. They have been badly cast sometimes.Arnie was great in Terminator,Reeves in Matrix. Same as Michael Caine can be terrible but in the right film brilliant.
Anyway my choice Jason Statham.
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Well to be fair, if you can only play a certain type of character, then surely that's the definition of a bad actor? Or at least not a great one.

But I know what you mean. Lots of 'big' actors aren't rewarded for their acting abilities but for other qualities. Nobody is hiring Jackie Chan or the Rock because they're going to win an Oscar.

It's also worth mentioning that even very good actors can be shit if they don't get cast correctly or don't get proper time to prepare. Don Cheadle is a great actor, but he's embarrassing in Oceans 11 because of that horrendous fake accent. Maybe he's just not good at accents, but chances are he just wasn't given the time to properly learn it.
 
Imre_Banana said:
I remember going to see The Twilight Saga, but the film was totally ruined by some dopey bird talking all the way through it.

Kristen Stewart I think her name was.
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Great thread.

Genuinely one of the worst actresses I've ever seen.

I would say that some of the names in here are not bad actors but can only play a very limited range of characters and if they stray out of these roles they get badly exposed. Others are excellent support but hopeless when carrying a movie by themselves Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell fall into this category for me.

Seen people mentioning Nicholas Cage, to me cage is a good actor with a tendency to take on shit roles. He does have a pretty narrow range, at his best in movies like leaving Las Vegas and lord of war he has been good. In movies like the wind talkers he is fucked. Michael Douglas is another, basically can play a rich guy with dodgy morals and borderline sexual deviant, then no better man. Falling down is the exception.

Tom Cruise, blockbuster lead but he has been doing this for 20/30 years now, he's solid in the role but you never see anything special. For truly shit actors you need to look no further than Megan Fox, Vin Diesel and Andrew Garfield.

But for Michael bay been an absolute creep I would struggle to see how Megan fox could have a career, stunning looking woman but there is a reason she is always in movies with copious amounts of CGI. Ditto Vin diesel, a career built on shiny cars. Garfield is someone I find intensely irritating, lacks charisma and always seems like he chewing the scenery with his overacting.
 
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