Movies you love, but with some performances you hate
11-20-06, 07:59 PM
#26
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Originally Posted by Doughboy
Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral - Great flick, but the leading lady was lifeless and dull. Why Hugh Grant was madly in love with her I'll never know.
11-21-06, 12:29 AM
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-Pretty much the entire cast of Sin City except for Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl and Benicio Del Toro. Fun movie, but it felt like most of the actors were reading the script for the first time on camera. Their delivery was just cringe worthy.
-Juliet Lewis in Natural Born Killers. I can't stand her.
-Juliet Lewis in Natural Born Killers. I can't stand her.
11-21-06, 11:33 AM
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Michelle Monaghan in M:I:III, I don't know if it was the way her character was written or if it was just that she wasn't given much to do, but I tend to fast-forward through her scenes (and just stomach the scenes where she becomes heroic at the end). It's a shame because she was great in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang..
11-21-06, 12:09 PM
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It's been a while since I last saw it, but I think there were a couple of performances in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet I didn't care for. Robin Williams and Jack Lemmon's were the ones I didn't like. I didn't have a problem with Billy Crystal though.
11-21-06, 02:06 PM
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A classic answer from cinema's classic past:
This charming romantic comedy, one of the most beloved films in Audrey Hepburn's career...
*ALSO* features one of the most offensive racial-stereotype performances in mainstream Hollywood history. Even if you love being non-PC, you can't help but cringe at Mickey Rooney as the comic relief: slanty-eyed, buck-toothed, consonant-impaired Mr. Yunioshi! He so funny! Because he oriental!
This charming romantic comedy, one of the most beloved films in Audrey Hepburn's career...
*ALSO* features one of the most offensive racial-stereotype performances in mainstream Hollywood history. Even if you love being non-PC, you can't help but cringe at Mickey Rooney as the comic relief: slanty-eyed, buck-toothed, consonant-impaired Mr. Yunioshi! He so funny! Because he oriental!
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11-21-06, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Drexl
It's been a while since I last saw it, but I think there were a couple of performances in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet I didn't care for. Robin Williams and Jack Lemmon's were the ones I didn't like. I didn't have a problem with Billy Crystal though.
11-24-06, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by UAIOE
Alan Rickman's over-the-top-campy-frustrated sheriff *MADE* that movie. Without him bringing the laughs there is no reason to even watch "Prince of Thieves".
11-24-06, 10:44 AM
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Considering the film has the most naturalistic actors of three generations - Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, and Edward Norton - I must say The Score also features the least-natural performance I've ever seen by Angela Bassett.
11-24-06, 02:10 PM
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Methinks this name won't otherwise come up, since I had to IMBD him, but:
Thomas Wilson Brown in Diggstown. An utterly fantastic little overlooked early 90's movie, that nearly falls off the tracks whenever this guy opens his mouth. Every word he throws out is either unintelligible, unbelievable or both.
Thomas Wilson Brown in Diggstown. An utterly fantastic little overlooked early 90's movie, that nearly falls off the tracks whenever this guy opens his mouth. Every word he throws out is either unintelligible, unbelievable or both.
11-26-06, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Doughboy
Paul Gleason in Die Hard - It wasn't his fault the role was written this way, but his police chief was a pain in the ass and nearly brought the 2nd half of this classic movie down.
"The FBI... the FBI Guys are here?!"
"Want a breath mint?"
11-26-06, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Millheiser
Um... that was the point of his character, to not only be an obstructionist pain in the ass, but also to provide some comic relief without being over-the-top. I thought he was fantastic.
"The FBI... the FBI Guys are here?!"
"Want a breath mint?"
"The FBI... the FBI Guys are here?!"
"Want a breath mint?"
At least Dennis Franz was a stubborn hardass in the sequel, not a dumb one.
11-26-06, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Arpeggi
The kid in Carol Reed's Fallen Idol. What an annoying little fucker!
11-27-06, 07:53 AM
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Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hudsucker Proxy. Now, I usually find her only slightly annoying but in this movie she made me cringe each time she opened her mouth. Someone should have told her to leave her miserable impersonation of Dorothy Parker in that other movie she made in '94.
11-29-06, 01:29 PM
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I agree with the folks that said:
Brittany Murphy - Sin City - She is just a terrible actress with a squeeky voice and she thinks she is gods gift. Bloody horrible in every way.
Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds - This could have been so much better if the kids were taken out of it. She is a rubbish child actress and just squeals through this films. Damn those Martians for not vaporizing her ass.
Linda Fiorentino - Dogma/Men in Black - She speaks the same way in every film. She obviously thinks that it makes her appear sexy. Maybe she should concentrate more on the acting aspect.
Sharon Stone - Casino - This is a great film up until the point where Gingers character gets introduced. Then it goes downhill everytime she is on screen.
Diane Canon - Dethtrap - I love this film, but again a whiny actress making a nuisance of herself.
Courteny Love - Man on The Moon - Jesus.....Milos Forman screwed the pooch when he allowed this excuse for a human being to appear in his film.
Chris Tucker - Fifth Element - I liked this film a lot except for this character. Again guilty of squeekiness and general bloody irritability.
Joe Pesci - Lethal Weapon 2 - Awful character that just got progresivley worse as the movies did.
I would say that i didn't mind Michael Madsen too much in Sin City.
Brittany Murphy - Sin City - She is just a terrible actress with a squeeky voice and she thinks she is gods gift. Bloody horrible in every way.
Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds - This could have been so much better if the kids were taken out of it. She is a rubbish child actress and just squeals through this films. Damn those Martians for not vaporizing her ass.
Linda Fiorentino - Dogma/Men in Black - She speaks the same way in every film. She obviously thinks that it makes her appear sexy. Maybe she should concentrate more on the acting aspect.
Sharon Stone - Casino - This is a great film up until the point where Gingers character gets introduced. Then it goes downhill everytime she is on screen.
Diane Canon - Dethtrap - I love this film, but again a whiny actress making a nuisance of herself.
Courteny Love - Man on The Moon - Jesus.....Milos Forman screwed the pooch when he allowed this excuse for a human being to appear in his film.
Chris Tucker - Fifth Element - I liked this film a lot except for this character. Again guilty of squeekiness and general bloody irritability.
Joe Pesci - Lethal Weapon 2 - Awful character that just got progresivley worse as the movies did.
I would say that i didn't mind Michael Madsen too much in Sin City.