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Old 05-09-24, 05:03 PM
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Call ‘em out. Who are some bad actors?

im watching Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift and seeing this Lucas Black, he’s just terrible. Stiff as a board and looks bored. Is boring. I had to put subs on bc I couldn’t understand his stupid southern drawl.

I’m sure many others…

who are just the worst?
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Re: Bad actors?

Sam Worthington is another cringe inducer.
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Re: Bad actors?

Vin Diesel

Steven Seagal

Gal Gadot
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This thread should be named after Casper Van Dien.
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Re: Bad actors?

Charlie Hunam (I think I've only seen him in Pacific Rim though.)
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Jean-Claude Van Damme is king of the bad actors.

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Re: Bad actors?

Megan Fox can't act. Go watch Expendables 4 or any of her DTV trash movies for examples.

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Re: Bad actors?

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Megan Fox- she can't act. Go watch Expendables 4...
When she sticks out as the worst actor in a cast of mush-mouthed lunkheads you know she’s a bad actor.
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Megan Fox had no business being in Expendables 4 and her performance just made me angry. She made a bad movie even worse.
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Every adult male performer in Grown Ups 2
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Re: Bad actors?

For being an icon, William Shatner is a pretty bad actor at times. It's endearing by this point given his long career and status, but outside of romancing his love interests on screen he's decidedly minor leagues in terms of skill.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
For being an icon, William Shatner is a pretty bad actor at times. It's endearing by this point given his long career and status, but outside of romancing his love interests on screen he's decidedly minor leagues in terms of skill.
Apparently, you haven't watched Boston Legal or Star Trek II. 😉
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by Kurt D
Charlie Hunam (I think I've only seen him in Pacific Rim though.)

I thought he was ok or decent in Shantaram
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Re: Bad actors?

I think almost everybody in the Fast and Furious are bad actors.

Michelle Rodriguez is awful.

Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner.

They are big names and stars but something feels forced and unnatural when they talk on screen.

Keanu Reeves

Penelope Ann Miller who is not a star anymore is pretty bad.
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Re: Bad actors?

This is really old school. but Lucinda Dickey, who starred in Breakin' and Breakin' 2 and Ninja 3, was a pretty bad actress. And she's no longer in the business. Hasn't been in over 30+ years. She only has 5 actual acting credits.
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Another vote for Vin Diesel

Lindsay Lohan
Jaden smith
The Rock
Ashton Kutcher
Cameron Diaz

Most of the Balwin brothers. ( One just filmed a movie in my hometown, Auburn, CA about the homeless. He was hanging out at some dive bar.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
For being an icon, William Shatner is a pretty bad actor at times. It's endearing by this point given his long career and status, but outside of romancing his love interests on screen he's decidedly minor leagues in terms of skill.
I'm not even a huge Star Trek fan and I think this is a supremely bad take.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by Kurt D
Charlie Hunam (I think I've only seen him in Pacific Rim though.)
I am with you here. He sucks but I also have an extreme dislike of him for some reason.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by OldBoy
Call ‘em out. Who are some bad actors?

im watching Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift and seeing this Lucas Black, he’s just terrible. Stiff as a board and looks bored. Is boring. I had to put subs on bc I couldn’t understand his stupid southern drawl.

I’m sure many others…

who are just the worst?
I still remember an interview where Lucas Black stated he didn't want to try out for a specific role because it required a different accent, but he wanted to be true to himself and so wouldn't hide his real accent, or some such nonsense. And all I could think - which is what I'm sure most people who'd seen him in any role thought - is that was transparent nonsense and the reality is he couldn't hide his deep Alabama accent if his life depended on it. Who the hell did he think he was fooling?
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by Kurt D
Charlie Hunam (I think I've only seen him in Pacific Rim though.)
He's among that group of actors who I think could act well if they weren't straining to put on an American accent. But I haven't seen him in anything with his real accent.
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Re: Bad actors?

I like Lucas Black in Tokyo Drift. He looked way too old to be playing a high schooler but I enjoyed his character.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by The Questyen
I like Lucas Black in Tokyo Drift. He looked way too old to be playing a high schooler but I enjoyed his character.
Me too. He was also good in Friday Night Lights. I think the biggest issue in the last Fast and Furious movie is they turned his character into a bumbling idiot. Like sometime between Tokyo Drift and Fast X his character crashed a car and suffered severe brain damage.
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Re: Bad actors?

Channing Tatum, Hayden Christenson, Milla Jovovich, Amber Heard, and Melanie Griffith.

I thought Dakota Fanning was good as a kid or the bar is set low for kid actors but once she got older she seems awkward and wooden and her sister Elle does not have that problem.
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Re: Bad actors?

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
I thought he was ok or decent in Shantaram
He was also good in the movie version of The Gentlemen.
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yeah, Amber Heard is terrible. from the 3 (Drive Angry, Aquaman's) things i saw her in she did nothing.


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