Abysmal performances
11-10-02, 04:09 PM
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Kevin Costner in Thirteen Days - that accent was painful to listen to.
Denise Richards in TWINE was truly abysmal and probably the single most excruciating performance ever put to celluloid....
Tara Reid in anything.
Keanu Reeves in most anything - especially Point Break, Sweet November, and Dracula.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
Denise Richards in TWINE was truly abysmal and probably the single most excruciating performance ever put to celluloid....
Tara Reid in anything.
Keanu Reeves in most anything - especially Point Break, Sweet November, and Dracula.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
11-11-02, 03:47 AM
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Originally posted by Pants
Rolling Stone is (as usual) wrong. Of course you can fake intelligence (You mean Russel Crow isn't a Nobel Prize winning genius?). The problem isn't that they cast a beautiful woman as a Nuclear scientist, the problem is they cast a beautiful woman who can't act as a nuclear scientist. Ingrid Bergman played scientists and doctors because she was a good actor not because she was a brilliant scientist. I'm tired of hearing people point to Denise Richads casting as unbelievable because of the part she was given to play, she would have been equally unbelievable if she played a hairdresser or a hooker. She sucks.
Rolling Stone is (as usual) wrong. Of course you can fake intelligence (You mean Russel Crow isn't a Nobel Prize winning genius?). The problem isn't that they cast a beautiful woman as a Nuclear scientist, the problem is they cast a beautiful woman who can't act as a nuclear scientist. Ingrid Bergman played scientists and doctors because she was a good actor not because she was a brilliant scientist. I'm tired of hearing people point to Denise Richads casting as unbelievable because of the part she was given to play, she would have been equally unbelievable if she played a hairdresser or a hooker. She sucks.
(She wasn't very good as a captain in Starship Troopers either)
still think Rolling Stone is a funny magazine. good pictures, too.
11-11-02, 10:24 AM
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Originally posted by bgills
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
Also, I'll nominate Stephen King in Creepshow. Sadly hilarious in that he took it so seriously and failed so utterly miserably.
11-11-02, 10:52 AM
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hudsucker Proxy is another performance that is great if you understand where the character is coming from, and are familiar with the actresses being referenced.
11-11-02, 11:17 AM
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Originally posted by Deckard-10
Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons.
Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons.
At least Irons was laughably over the top. Birch (who is generally quite good) was just a big stiff.
11-11-02, 11:18 AM
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Originally posted by bgills
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
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11-11-02, 12:59 PM
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Denise Richards in TWINE
Jake Lloyd in SW-TPM
Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair
Catherine Zeta-Jones in anything and everything she has ever been in, including those cell phone commercials. She practically brought tears to my eyes while suffering through Entrapment. I'm sure someone will disagree with me on this, but your wrong
Jake Lloyd in SW-TPM
Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair
Catherine Zeta-Jones in anything and everything she has ever been in, including those cell phone commercials. She practically brought tears to my eyes while suffering through Entrapment. I'm sure someone will disagree with me on this, but your wrong
11-11-02, 01:56 PM
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I don't even see how Catherine Zeta-Jones could be placed on the same list as Denise Richards.
Catherine may not be the greatest of all time, but she's definitely not Denise Richards for godsakes.
Catherine may not be the greatest of all time, but she's definitely not Denise Richards for godsakes.
11-11-02, 03:08 PM
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
11-11-02, 03:11 PM
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Originally posted by movielib
I'll add another vote for disagreeing with this one. I think her exaggerated Katherine Hepburnish imitation was perfect for the film's setting and the way in which it was so highly stylized.
I'll add another vote for disagreeing with this one. I think her exaggerated Katherine Hepburnish imitation was perfect for the film's setting and the way in which it was so highly stylized.
However, this is obviously a matter of taste, and seeing as how i just got this from the DDD $5.88 deal - I'm a huge fan of the Coen Bros and Paul Newman too for that matter - i'm going to give it another try soon enough. Perhaps my more refined film viewing skills in recent years will inspire a reevaluation of this sentiment....I hope so in all honesty.....
11-11-02, 08:27 PM
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Re: Abysmal performances
Originally posted by Norm de Plume
Sofia Coppola in Godfather III (1990) - Nepotism at its most disastrous. Not only couldn't she act to save her life, but she was ass-ugly too.
Sofia Coppola in Godfather III (1990) - Nepotism at its most disastrous. Not only couldn't she act to save her life, but she was ass-ugly too.
Anyway, while Sofia certainly had a stilted delivery and didn't exactly "command" the screen, the part was underwritten. She had little to do, but when she was on screen I never felt that she was particularily effective, but I didn't feel she was distracting either. Just... there.
IMHO anyway...
-matt
11-11-02, 08:34 PM
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Originally posted by ccoolidge
Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair
Catherine Zeta-Jones in anything and everything she has ever been in, including those cell phone commercials. She practically brought tears to my eyes while suffering through Entrapment. I'm sure someone will disagree with me on this, but your wrong
Rene Russo in The Thomas Crown Affair
Catherine Zeta-Jones in anything and everything she has ever been in, including those cell phone commercials. She practically brought tears to my eyes while suffering through Entrapment. I'm sure someone will disagree with me on this, but your wrong
And I do disagree. I am not at all a CZJ fan, but I have never seen her give a performance that was abysmal.
11-11-02, 08:38 PM
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Originally posted by bgills
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy - ruined the movie for me.
Her character may be annoying, but JJL was spot-on in her performance. Definitely a reference to actresses of that time frame in the film.
11-12-02, 11:33 AM
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Originally posted by subbacultcha
Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature....Asian-American please.
Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature....Asian-American please.
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