HeIsTheZissou

Nic Cage was goofy fun in his role in "Drive Angry" but I thought Amber Heard really shit the bed.

Ash Ketchum

Oh c'mon, now you're just aiming at low-hanging fruit. There are Academy Award nominees who are just as bad. (And, no, I'm not gonna name any. They probably all have fans on this board.)

JeffTheAlpaca

Agree and that is easy to name the first two but be more original than JCVD.

Abigail Breslin.

She is horrible.

She makes the actors in the Lifetime movies look like Christian Bale.

GoldenJCJ

Halle Berry, Cuba Gooding Jr., Roberto Benigni?

JeffTheAlpaca

Kim Bassinger won a Oscar and she is not a good actress.

bluetoast

Vin Diesel is not a bad actor. He currently does bad roles that make him money, there’s a difference. This got him noticed by Spielberg who then cast him in Saving Private Ryan.

Decker

Strongly disagree. I’ve seen her be really good in stuff. Working Girl, Nobody’s Fool, Something Wild, Body Double. Also that making-of Citizen Kane HBO movie RKO 281, where she played the same part that Amanda Seyfied was Oscar-nominated for in Mank. I think she was actually better.
Now her daughter Dakota Johnson on the other hand…..
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One that used to always bother me was David Mamet’s wife Rebecca Pidgeon.
He cast her as the lead in most of her films during that period like The Spanish Prisoner, State & Main, Heist and The Winslow Boy. I found her painful to watch, cast against real actors. She’s hardly worked outside of him, did have a smaller part in Red.

kd5

Lucas Black was all right as a kid in American Gothic. Haven't seen him in anything newer.

Count Dooku

That's because he spent 5 years starring on one of the NCIS shows on CBS, so no one on this forum had any idea he was still alive.

JeffTheAlpaca

But she was really bad in Shining Through and the narration she did throughout the movie was cringe

JeffTheAlpaca

Mark Hamill.

He played one of the iconic characters in cinema but that does not excuse him for not being a master thespian.

nikkijo

He played Capt. Kirk very good.

JeffTheAlpaca

Blake Lively and Minka Kelly

Yes they are smokeshows but not really good in the acting department.

OldBoy

he's been good in a lot of stuff since SW. sometimes small roles as a professor of something, but he was always pretty good in those roles. Especially, in The Fall of the House of Usher. His voice work as Joker certainly has been amazing. I think he garnered a nice and fruitful career post Star Wars.

Noonan

Anyone who can only play themselves. Casey Affleck, for example. He can only play an asshole New Englander. He does well in those roles, but I don't think he could ever do well if he had to act as someone different from himself. He was the first example I could think of, but it applies to quite a few working actors.

Bluelitespecial

I feel that way about Ryan Reynolds. He plays the same smart ass character type in every movie.

HeIsTheZissou

Even when his mouth is closed he looks slack-jawed. Ben, too. Weird genetics in that family.

sleepyhead55

With the exception of LA Confidential, she always puts me to sleep or bores me. If I like any of her other films, it's because of the other actors or the premise etc.

Ash Ketchum

See what happens when we reach a little higher? And they're not just nominees, but actual Oscar winners!

JeffTheAlpaca

I thought Casey Affleck was ok and better than his brother Ben Affleck.

Count Dooku

jennifer lopez

not so much bad, as limited and over-hyped

GoldenJCJ

I aways scoff at Jennifer Lopez the actor and then I remember she starred in one of my favorite movies of all time.

JeffTheAlpaca

Alec Baldwin

His last performances seem off and unnatural.

HeIsTheZissou

Jennifer Lopez is both a mediocre actress who'd be better off focusing on music and a mediocre musician who'd be better off focusing on acting.

Noonan

Disagree. Ben has some actual acting talent. He's believable in rolls that differ from his personality. I found it laughable that Casey won an Oscar for memorizing a script and just being himself on screen. Good performance; not good acting.

And don't forget, Ben was the BOMB in Phantoms.