Good, but irritating performances
 

What are some performances you think are good, but irritating at the same time? For me, Joey Lauren Adams in Chasing Amy.

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James Woods in just about everything.

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Nick Cage in Vampire's Kiss

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Tom Hanks- Forrest Gump

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Puff Daddy in Monster's Ball. He definitely did a good job, but the fact that he's P. Diddy made it hard to take his good performance seriously. Had he been an unknown and given the same performance I would have given him much more props.

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Mickey Rooney in pretty much every movie he made from 1935 till he joined the army around 1943. Esp. those musicals with Judy Garland. He's like a pint-sized Robin Williams, but without the wit. He was a huge boxoffice star for a few years (1939-43) and he's full of boundless energy in those performances, but he's really damned annoying and overshadows poor Judy, who excelled away from him in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS and a bunch of other musicals, as well as THE CLOCK.

But I will say this for Mickey--he married Ava Gardner while he was on top. That's more than Robin Williams ever did.
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Matthew McConaughey - We Are Marshall

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Matthew McConaughey is irritating in everything. And he doesn't get a pass because he has 30 seconds of screen time in Dazed.

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[puts on asbestos undershorts]

Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element. I have and continue to think he was terrific in that role.

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Good call on Chris Tucker.

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Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2. I don't consider him good in any of the other sequels.

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Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny

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Rosie Perez in White Men Can't Jump (well, pretty much in ANYTHING...but most of those others weren't particularly good performances)

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She was absolutely perfect in Night on Earth.

Al Pacino in Heat, Rod Steiger in The Big Knife and Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. James Dean in everything.

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That dude in Iron Man 2, ughhhh...

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Jim Carrey in Batman Forever. Brad Pitt in Se7en.

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Benicio Del Torro, The Usual Suspects. :)

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Sellers in Lolita.

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The guy that played Samwise in LOTR (forgot his name).

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Al Pacino in the final scenes of "The Devil's Advocate." Personally loved Taylor Hackford's twisted Faust-like film but felt Pacino just went totally over-the-top with all the shouting.

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Sharon Stone in Casino

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Al Pacino in Scent of A Woman. Hoo-Ha!!!

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The lady that answers the phone in Office Space.

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John Turturro as Bernie Bernbaum in Miller's Crossing

He is so hateable. Which of course was the purpose

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Julianne Moore, Magnolia.

She's one of my favorite actresses, but some of her scenes make me cringe when I watch them.