Worst big name actors.

[kippaxwarrior]

Jim Carrey

Never thought he was particularly a top tier actor

Edit - been beaten to it

Disagree. Yeah he's known for his comic roles like Ace Ventura, Dumb And Dumber The Mask ect but given the right roles he's an outstanding actor.

The Truman Show
Man On The Moon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

All great films and Carried by Carrey

For me it's got to be Vin Diesel.

Shocking actor who is as wooden as a 4x2 plank of wood. The only half decent performance I've seen him in is Saving Private Ryan and Steven Spielberg had the good sense to kill him off early. Even in his death scene he's fucking terrible.

Apparently he's earnt over 50 Million Dollars for playing Groot in the Marvel films and he only says 3 words!! Nice work if you can get it.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

That silly cow who plays Dr Foster, lousy actress.
I think she was once in coronation Street.

I think it’s harsh to put her on the list! Thought she was v good in Dr. Foster.

 

[Kinkladze 1]

Benedict Cumberbatch anyone? Can’t stop thinking of beavis and butt head when I see him.

 

[bondsman]

Clive Owen. Wooden
Daniel Radcliffe as well

 

[Uffa]

To be fair I think now we're just starting to add good actors to the thread for the sake of naming new names. Or maybe you only saw one movie - or type of movie - with them in it; here we're discussing their whole career if I understood correctly.

In the last couple of years I've seen him in two roles which has changed my opinion of him

Jeremy Thorpe in A very English scandal and Fletcher in The Gentlemen

Yeah, I think Grant's true skills suffered by being typecasted and put into so many romantic flicks. He's quite good when he gets a good role.

Thought it was just Aaron Ramsey scoring

Eh, I wish. Hopes up for today.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Russel Crowe

Wash your mouth out

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

I still "don't get" Michael Caine


Honourable mentions also go to Richard Gere and Sarah Lancashire, for simply staring into the middle distance, trying to look enigmatic, in whichever role they're playing

Sarah Lancashire?! Loved her in Happy Valley

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Can’t believe this thread has run to 19 pages without anyone mentioning the worst actor of all time....Mr William Shatner

Illumination for non-believers comes courtesy of Kevin Pollak

 

[laserblue]

Ray Winstone, Looks the same sounds the same in everything he does, crap.

You slaaaag.

 

[laserblue]

Not exactly a Hollywood blockbuster but Arthur Lowe was one of the worst and most overrated actors on British TV. He was always typecast as a pompous snob. His frequency of forgetting lines and stumbling over them were legendary. In Dad's Army they had to do so many takes of him cocking up his lines that they often ended up keeping the least worst one in the final cut. He frustrated the rest of the cast with his incompetence and apparently John Laurie, who was a respected Shakespearian actor back in the day, called him out for being a shit actor.

 

[laserblue]

Never rated him. He seems to think pulling a funny face equals humour. He's as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

You are Bernard Manning and I claim my £10.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

Clive Owen. Dull and uninspiring, so much so I had to Google the film I was thinking of to remember his name!

 

[laserblue]

David ‘one facial expression’ Tennant.

now, he is a shit actor.

Tremendous range of accents though.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Kiera Knightly !

 

[Ste1969]

Danny dyer... although he's not a big actor

 

[hilts]

Oh come off it. The guy's the next Laurence Olivier.





To be fair to him, I've never seen him in anything else, and those were the worst scripts ever from a director who is famously awful at directing actors.

Not sure if him and the writer were in front of you and you only had one bullet which would get shot. As it’s that funny I would probably let them both off.

I don’t like sand haha must be the funniest unintentional scene ever put on film.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Russel Crowe

Peter Finch

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Ray Winstone, Looks the same sounds the same in everything he does, crap.

His Manc accent in Jimmy Grimble was the equivalent of Dick van Dyke's yank cockney accent in Mary Poppins

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Presumably the mentions of Morgan Freeman, Russell Crowe and Robert De Niro were made in jest.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Brad Pitt. Hes a good character actor, but give him something normal, dramatic, and hes left wanting. For example, in Oceans 11 he lacks the charm and charisma of Clooney.

He was terrible in Troy