No that hot. Christian Bale gave a very bland performance in that film.
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Actors who were great in one thing but terrible in everything else
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I wouldn't call it bland, but needlessly angry and intense at all times throughout.
Thank goodness it's already been mentioned. Perpetual Grace is sensational.
He wasn't great in GoT.
Some incredible takes here. Nicolas Cage, Russel Crowe, Sam Neil ?
Will was not "terrible" in Enemy of the state, I Robot, the first Men in Black, even I am legend and Hancock, whatever we can think of those movies. He also did Six degrees of separation after Fresh Prince, and even If I didn't see the movie, I heard he was good in Pursuit of happyness.
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Driven is a bad movie, but Stallone was fine in it. I think people are mistaking bad movies for bad performances in this thread.
elijah wood in the war is easily one of the top 10 performances by a child actor.
Thank You For Smoking is an excellent movie, carried mostly by his monologues.
We need a thread about actors who also sing and he'd be the GOAT.
Thought he was really good in Killing Them Softly. Though he appreared to be on the verge of a heart attack the whole time.
Never seen Vice Versa, the second best body switching movie after Like Father, Like Son?
He's definitely better at his post-MM comedy roles. Dude is amazing.
Elysium and A Team. But that's still better than 95% of the picks posted.
In most films Will Smith basically plays himself. He may have a different job or he might live in different time/place but the characterization is pretty much the same.
In Ali he gives an actually convincing portrayal of a real person. It's the only performance from him I have seen where I stopped thinking about the character just as a Will Smith alter ego.
And Free Fire.
Again, Pursuit of Happiness, I Am Legend and Six Degrees and even Enemy of the State.
Hell, I don't even think he's that good as Ali because you can hear him fighting himself in parts of it.
She was incredible. The end of her story literally made my then girlfriend cry as we were leaving the theater. But after that it seemed like everything she was in was plain poor or had bad writing.
Yeah, no, if you think he plays the same character in all the movies I mentioned, we'll have to agree to disagree.
Okay my last correction because I fucking can't with you guys
Jeremy Renner - The Town, Wind River, American Hustle
Adrian Brody - Midnight in Paris (granted, it was a cameo), King Kong, Grand Budapest
Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man, What If, Miracle Workers
Gandolfini had some decent roles but no major lead role afaik. He went into production and theater after The Sopranosa and had a couple of nominations, so still successful.
Eide Falco had Nurse Jackie (won an Emmy, six nominations).
Lorraine Bracco was known before through The Goodfellas. And many others had small roles in other gangster movies before so they were easy to recognize (Imperioli as well in Goodfellas).
Steven van Zandt continued his music career.
Others sort of fizzled away, many simply too old (Pauli for example). Imperioli was one who had potential but he didn't make much of it. Real shame.
Almost every take in this thread is bad.
Mine doesn't quite fit the bill, but for instance Aaron Paul seems to only excel at playing Jesse, and then goes on to half-ass it as Jesse lite characters. I genuinely believe Breaking Bad was just a case of "right place, right time". I haven't watched The Path mind you, so I'd like to be proven wrong with this. But with what I've seen he hasn't been impressive in years.
Mine doesn't quite fit the bill, but for instance Aaron Paul seems to only excel at playing Jesse, and then goes on to half-ass it as Jesse lite characters. I genuinely believe Breaking Bad was just a case of "right place, right time". I haven't watched The Path mind you, so I'd like to be proven wrong with this. But with what I've seen he hasn't been impressive in years.
That must be the single worst performance I've seen in a mainstream blockbuster movie.Too often when people think they are judging acting, they are actually judging writing.
That being said, Mark Wahlberg was the first person I thought of for this thread
What a doofus.
I remember pretty well when he goes "Whaaaatt?? NOoOoooOoo".
Holy shit we actually have Russel Crowe, Gary Oldman, Nicholas Cage, Ben Kingsley, DiCaprio and Sam Neil mentioned here lmao. Watch more stuff people
Then you need to see Adaptation and Leaving Las Vegas Cage has a reputation but when he wants he knocks it out of the park these two specifically are some of the best performances I can think of ever from any actor
Nicolas Cage's only good role (H. I. McDunnough from Raising Arizona.) He is absolutely terrible in everything else that I have seen him in.
I actually thought she did a good role at Emma Frost. It's a shame they killed her and many others off screen for DotF because their villain presence was done well in first classJanuary Jones in Mad Men
People are taking the op too literally.
Of course, there aren't any (well-known) actors that are great in one thing and terrible in everything else. Even a mediocre actor isn't terrible in every project they do. They wouldn't be able to sustain a career longer than a few years if that was true.
Better way to frame this thread would be "actors with one performance that is considerably better than everything else they have done" but that wouldn't be hyperbolic enough for this place so the thread would probably die before the first page.
Of course, there aren't any (well-known) actors that are great in one thing and terrible in everything else. Even a mediocre actor isn't terrible in every project they do. They wouldn't be able to sustain a career longer than a few years if that was true.
Better way to frame this thread would be "actors with one performance that is considerably better than everything else they have done" but that wouldn't be hyperbolic enough for this place so the thread would probably die before the first page.
You probably didn't realize you were watching Gary Oldman in other movies the guy is a friggin chameleon
Adaptation is an incredible performance where he plays two characters.
I agree. It also feels a bit mean spirited picking apart careers of B-listers and below, given the job situation and current times.
Pretty late to the thread but Imperioli is way more of a theater and low budget film actor than a mainstream film actor. He ran a successful theatre school and acted or wrote a lot of small indie films.
It's become an opportunity to recommend other great movies posters missed in most cases. That's not so bad.
I won't because he absolutely does. District 9 was his first and only convincing performance.
I mentally checked out after seeing someone mention fucking Gene Wilder.
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He was hilarious in Elysium and A-Team !
Perhaps in The Crown ? I dunno, didn't watch it...
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Some of y'all should be locked in a supply closet and barred form ever watching another movie again.
Or, conversely, should watch more movies before dishing out those ridiculous hot takes.
I liked him in American Psycho, Requiem for a dream, Mr Nobody, Alexander and Lord of War.Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club.
Absolutely terrible in everything else.
I feel like that's as much as the quality of roles he's given as anything else. I don't know if that bizarre Ryan Gosling film or failed Terminator Reboot No. 124 are enough to go off. Wasn't he axed from Rise of Skywalker too? (Probably a blessing for him)
