Guest zaphod Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 good call on all those sr4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Humphrey Bogart was pretty crap Jack Nicholson was shit too Anthony Hopkins is fucking horrible Klaus Kinski- yeah lets put a retarded man on screen for two hours and call it art Toshiro Mifune- im the same damn samurai in every movie hurr durr lol you forgot one JOHN WAYNE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 come to think of it, both Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins are pretty meh. Don Johnson? oh, oh John Cusack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shit Attack Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 richard dreyfuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 good one you know who was pretty bad? Paul Newman. Ever watched Cool Hand Luke? Pretty good movie but the more you watch his acting, the more you realize how terrible it is (especially his shouting at god at the end, and his body language when stuffed with eggs/exhausted). Fun fact, Newman himself was embarrassed with his acting in that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 marlon brando clint eastwood robert de niro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest M360 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Orson Welles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Adam Sandler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Orson Welles yeah. if the fat bastard could lose a few pounds he might have been half decent. shit director too. oh wow the whole movie was about a fucking sledBESTMOVIE EVER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Humphrey Bogart was pretty crap Jack Nicholson was shit too Anthony Hopkins is fucking horrible Klaus Kinski- yeah lets put a retarded man on screen for two hours and call it art Toshiro Mifune- im the same damn samurai in every movie hurr durr You forgot Lawrence Olivier, Max Von Sydow, George C. Scott, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 let's be honest here guys, film is a shit medium and doesn't rate as art. actors are just professional sociopaths and film only exists as a medium for advertisers to sell product to braindead consumers. *butt cheeks flap wildly* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manmower Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 come to think of it, both Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins are pretty meh. Don Johnson? Underrated. Philip Michael Thomas though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 It's all about expectations. The actors that aren't effective to a particular person just aren't selling their particular brand of emotional comfort. *reclines armchair and smokes pipe* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I'd like to point out that all the female ones are obviously the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shit Attack Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 gwyneth paltrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 my dad used to like to say that American actors play themselves, while English actors actually play the character on the whole, can't say he was wrong, it's an interesting observation. America certainly trades in guys playing themselves, whether it's John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, Steve McQueen, etc., whereas in England you get more chameleonic folks like Ian Mckellen, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Michael Caine, Derek Jacobi, etc. Of course there are exceptions - plenty of superb character actors in the US, and actors like Sean Connery in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Jack Nicholson was shit too Yeah he's pretty one-note and that one-note is quite grating. Like in Departed, he didn't play an Irish mob boss, he played himself, and it seems like he got to say "chink" outload, enthusiastically, without consequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SR4 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 my dad used to like to say that American actors play themselves, while English actors actually play the character on the whole, can't say he was wrong, it's an interesting observation. America certainly trades in guys playing themselves, whether it's John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, Steve McQueen, etc., whereas in England you get more chameleonic folks like Ian Mckellen, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Michael Caine, Derek Jacobi, etc. Of course there are exceptions - plenty of superb character actors in the US, and actors like Sean Connery in the UK. Id argue this on the grounds that American audiences actually wanted the repeat characters. People didn't go to John Wayne movies to watch not-John Wayne. That has a lot to do with what's expected of the actors. Marlon Brando got plenty of shit for trying to take roles far outside his tough-guy leather jacket persona of the 1950s. I don't think most of those guys played themselves because of lack of talent; they were playing themselves because they had to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Marky Mark bears mention if only for his disgusting offscreen thuggery.And also he's a terrible actor.He was a pot dealer in Boston before using NKOTB to start his "music" career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 my dad used to like to say that American actors play themselves, while English actors actually play the character on the whole, can't say he was wrong, it's an interesting observation. America certainly trades in guys playing themselves, whether it's John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, Steve McQueen, etc., whereas in England you get more chameleonic folks like Ian Mckellen, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, Michael Caine, Derek Jacobi, etc. Of course there are exceptions - plenty of superb character actors in the US, and actors like Sean Connery in the UK. what in the world... michael caine is literally michael caine in any fckin movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDobalina Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Like in Departed, he didn't play an Irish mob boss, he played himself, and it seems like he got to say "chink" outload, enthusiastically, without consequence. Ah this just reminded me, the woman who played the female lead had one of the worst fake Boston accents ever. Compounding it was that she was constantly letting it drop and then turning it back on, often within a single scene. I still remember literally doing a Picard wtf at our TV screen when Mrs. Dob and I were watching it for the first time. Given all the other actors in the movie - most mentioned in this thread already - I'm guessing that the director had to pick his battles and this was one of those things to slide. Also, add Tom Cruise and Jennifer Aniston to the most dimensionless list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Can't be as bad as Ray Winstone's hilarious accent. Especially when he says "douchebag" Haha I still <3 The Departed though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Laurence Olivier Robert Redford Ben Kingsley Kirk Douglas Cary Grant Sidney Poitier Heath Ledger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rekosn Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 charlton heston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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