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    #152
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    growleaves wrote: »
    Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    The ROCK.


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    #153
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    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Sandra Bullock. She always looks like a deer caught in the headlights. Can't stand her.

    Ryan Gosling. Completely expressionless, which worked fairly well for his role as a replicant in Blade Runner I suppose, but terrible for everything else.

    Bullock is great. An actor doesn’t have to be an Oscar winner for me to be good. Charisma counts for a lot. Like Bill Paxton as someone mentioned earlier.


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    #154
    Irish94
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    Daniel Radcliffe. As soon as the poor boy reached puberty his acting was notably diabolical.

    I am not the biggest Harry Potter fan at all but the films became unwatchable from the Goblet of Fire onwards, single handily, because of his atrocious expressions and acting.


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    #155
    the purple tin
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    I don't know the chaps name, but this is something else.

    I really want to see this now. What is it?


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    #156
    Insect Overlord
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    How these threads go:
    Original post
    Absurd answer
    Several dozen posts about absurd answer

    :p

    There's a similar thread in the Literature forum, bursting with similar stupid suggestions. People love being controversial just to get a reaction!


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    #157
    SimonTemplar
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Yes, I just think the delivery of her lines is very amateur, almost like watching a pantomime actor. Theres no conviction in her voice I find...


    I've only seen Shelley Duvall in The Shining but I'd be curious to see other performances from her as a comparison to The Shining.

    I think the whole point is that her character is very meek which may come across as poor acting. Given how obsessive Kubrick was with detail, I doubt he would have been happy with Duvall unless she was giving the exact type of performance he wanted.

    And of course she was subjected to a lot of emotional manipulation by Kubrick behind the scenes which is bound to affect the performance.


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    #158
    the purple tin
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    Jackie Chan. Then again english is a second language for him and he is so likeable and such a great martial artist that you don't mind.


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    #159
    Littlehorny
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    Tom Cruise . Has the man acted in a film in the last twenty years? He just plays Tom Cruise in all his movies (maybe that's an act as well :))

    Terrible actor either way.


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    #160
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    StupidLikeAFox wrote: »
    Hugh Grant

    "I..I...I. I'm so terribly sorry to ask this, but I find you quite attractive and, apologies for being so forthright, but it would mean the world to me if.....if you would be so kind as to have dinner with me" - *swoon*

    **** off Hugh, in real life the girl would prefer to go off with a guy who can string a sentence together. Although he was pretty good in that recent thing with Nicole kidman to be fair


    Another ridiculous call. People seem to think that this thread is about excellent actors, who for some reason, they don't like.

    Hugh Grant is a superb actor. He should have won awards for his role in Paddington 2. And he was excellent in Cloud Atlas and as the sleezy Paparazzi in The Gentlemen. But if you want to see a textbook, top tier piece of acting where the actor plays a real person, watch him in A Very English Scandal, where he plays disgraced politician Jeremy Thorpe. He was so good at portraying Thorpe, that Thorpe's real life victim Norman Scott said that he started shaking uncontrollably when he saw him.


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    #161
    Did you smash it
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    Early days but James Galdonfini’s young lad is showing signs of being benefactor of nepotism rather than a possessor of talent.


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    #162
    Mister Vain
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Bullock is great. An actor doesn’t have to be an Oscar winner for me to be good. Charisma counts for a lot. Like Bill Paxton as someone mentioned earlier.
    I agree but Bullock doesn't have an ounce of charisma in my opinion. I think she's dreadful in everything.


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    #163
    johnny_ultimate
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    Shelly Duvall is excellent in quite a few films, including several from the great Robert Altman.

    I think there are exceedingly few successful modern actors who are actively ‘bad’. With the right collaborators, most well-known performers can do something good or great. Adam Sandler is often insufferable, but can turn in stunning performances such as those in Uncut Gems or Punch Drunk Love. Robert Pattinson and Kirsten Stewart were criticised as wooden and one-note in Twilight, and have gone on to be two of the most acclaimed actors of their generation (with good cause). Given the right project, there are few who can’t do a good job. The problems mostly come when an actor gets lazy, apathetic or picks terrible projects - like Bruce Willis in recent years.


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    #164
    the purple tin
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    Samsonsmasher wrote: »
    Titanic Predator 2 The Terminator A Simple Plan True Lies A Bright Shining Lie etc etc. He was brilliant.
    Don't forget Frailty. He directed it too.


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    #165
    is_that_so
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    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I've only seen Shelley Duvall in The Shining but I'd be curious to see other performances from her as a comparison to The Shining.

    I think the whole point is that her character is very meek which may come across as poor acting. Given how obsessive Kubrick was with detail, I doubt he would have been happy with Duvall unless she was giving the exact type of performance he wanted.

    And of course she was subjected to a lot of emotional manipulation by Kubrick behind the scenes which is bound to affect the performance.
    She was pretty awful in that but Robert Altmann liked her and cast her in Nashville, McCabe and Mrs Miller, 3 Women and Thieves Like Us. She was in Annie Hall and Roxanne too.


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    #166
    lawred2
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    Thread is now

    Actors I don't like


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    #167
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Shelly Duvall is excellent in quite a few films, including several from the great Robert Altman.

    Don't forget he seminal role as Pansy in Time Bandits! :)


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    #168
    trashcan
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    I have three. David Caruso (CSI) Leo from Fair City and Dev from Coronation St. someone needs to give them a show together. It would be epically bad :D


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    #169
    FHFM50
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    Dobbytoes wrote: »
    Another ridiculous call. People seem to think that this thread is about excellent actors, who for some reason, they don't like.

    Hugh Grant is a superb actor. He should have won awards for his role in Paddington 2. And he was excellent in Cloud Atlas and as the sleezy Paparazzi in The Gentlemen. But if you want to see a textbook, top tier piece of acting where the actor plays a real person, watch him in A Very English Scandal, where he plays disgraced politician Jeremy Thorpe. He was so good at portraying Thorpe, that Thorpe's real life victim Norman Scott said that he started shaking uncontrollably when he saw him.

    Spot on.

    Hugh Grant is the British Matthew McConaughey, everyone called him **** until True Detective came along, and then the Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club.

    Hugh has taken some great roles along the past 5 years and I genuinely think we could be seeing some even better things in the next 5.


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    #170
    Hockney
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    Bill Pullman.
    Initially didn't think he was noticeably bad in Independence day but watched a whole series of The Sinner and he was absolutely cat.

    Looking back on it he was cat in Independence Day too


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    trashcan wrote: »
    I have three. David Caruso (CSI) Leo from Fair City and Dev from Coronation St. someone needs to give them a show together. It would be epically bad :D

    I'd actually WATCH that!!!!!!....... dev & Leo as a couple of likeable fools inadvertently rip off the biggest drug kingpin in the city ( caruso) & go on the run--- c'mon youd HAVE to watch it!!!! I see " cult classic" written all over this


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    Hockney wrote: »
    Bill Pullman.
    Initially didn't think he was noticeably bad in Independence day but watched a whole series of The Sinner and he was absolutely cat.

    Looking back on it he was cat in Independence Day too



    Couldn't agree more.....the Sinner was a 'gift' role for 99% of actors.....Pullman ruined it


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    #173
    Sakana
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    Natascha McElhone


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    #174
    JP Liz V1
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    Tzardine wrote: »
    Has anybody mentioned Colin Farrell yet?

    No he is a decent actor given the right role Intermission In Bruges and The Gentleman to name a few
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #175
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Littlehorny wrote: »
    Tom Cruise . Has the man acted in a film in the last twenty years? He just plays Tom Cruise in all his movies (maybe that's an act as well :))

    Terrible actor either way.

    American made was a great movie , he should do more like that


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    #176
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    What about Bono's young one in ' behind her eyes'?????
    I dont see any oscar nominations acoming


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    #177
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    American made was a great movie , he should do more like that



    He NAILED IT as Jerry Maguire


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    #178
    Capt'n Midnight
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    IrishLad90 wrote: »
    An actor i have enjoyed over the years but is highly criticised. profile cast in his roles as a tatt'd mexi hardnut.

    TREJO
    To be fair he is a tatt'd mexi hardnut.

    But the reason he plays the same character in Spy Kids and Machete is because it's the same character in the same universe.


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    #179
    AndyBoBandy
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    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    American made was a great movie , he should do more like that

    Edge of Tomorrow was quite good as well I thought.

    Tom wouldn’t be an Oscar winner in my eyes, but he’s a reliable enough actor and puts in the graft on his movies.
    Definitely does not belong on this list (in my opinion).

    Same with Colin Farrel, solid enough, and certainly wouldn’t turn me off a movie...
    I like that now he keeps his Irish accent in a lot of his movies lately...


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    #180
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Infernal Racket wrote: »
    Clint Eastwood. Never got him at all

    "More than an actor, I needed a mask, and Eastwood, at that time, only had two expressions: with hat and no hat.”.
    - Sergio Leone


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    #181
    Mister Vain
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    Say what you like about Tom Cruise, he knows how to do a good action movie.


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