#3 worst actor nomination thread

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I have a general fondness for Wilkinson without really remembering why, but also a general unease recalling his American accent

rob, Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:38 (five months ago) link

the lord help us the man is still warm lads

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:39 (five months ago) link

sam neill is perfect as sam neill in jurassic park but hes a good deal better than that in hunt for wilderpeople

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:39 (five months ago) link

Wilkinson is amazing in Michael Clayton.

I think it would have been great if at some point in either of the Jack Reacher movies someone had quoted Road House to Cruise: "I thought you'd be bigger."

Matt Damon is really good in a whole lot of stuff — the first Bourne movie, The Good Shepherd, plenty more if I gave it some thought.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:40 (five months ago) link

He was even good in his brief appearance in Interstellar.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (five months ago) link

I like Wilkinson, loved him in Michael Clayton but that’s exactly my favourite kind of George Clooney movie

My actor uncle has at least twice gone off over dinner about how much he loathes Michael Douglas— but a large part of that is informed by his adulation for Kirk

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:44 (five months ago) link

id swap woodface kirk all day for michael tbh bit that could be his style mixed with how he was cast back then

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:47 (five months ago) link

Ya. I don’t mind Michael, but I loved The War Of The Roses and Romancing The Stone as a kid

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:50 (five months ago) link

TS: Lloyd vs. Jeff

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:51 (five months ago) link

Michael Douglas has this tick where he sighs to get him through what he thinks is a difficult line. Annoying as hell. A bit like Julia Roberts (whom I like!) and her throat-clearing thing.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:52 (five months ago) link

xp Jeff, but I’m the worlds biggest Fisher King stan

T/S: Amanda Plummer vs Holly Hunter

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:55 (five months ago) link

jeff all day! i think hes been brilliant across a lot of roles for a long long time

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:57 (five months ago) link

we might think holly hunter gnawed her way through amanda plummers alternative career tbh?

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 17:58 (five months ago) link

Yeah, I was kind of kidding about that, just thinking about actor fathers and actor sons. I honestly can't think of a thing that Lloyd Bridges was in. Something about scuba diving?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:00 (five months ago) link

Airplane!

1980 Jackanory spinoff (Matt #2), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:03 (five months ago) link

jimbeaux picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:07 (five months ago) link

Something about scuba diving?

Sea Hunt!

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:10 (five months ago) link

I always get Jeff Bridges and Jeff Daniels confused

James Garner and James Coburn also

Just from the names, I always have to look up which is which

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:11 (five months ago) link

Yeah, I was kind of kidding about that, just thinking about actor fathers and actor sons. I honestly can't think of a thing that Lloyd Bridges was in. Something about scuba diving?

High Noon!

The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:12 (five months ago) link

Lloyd probably spent longer playing spoofs of the hero persona than he did playing the hero

emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:17 (five months ago) link

Back on topic, today I cannot think of a worse actor than Jared Leto. Surely he’s adjacent to Bloom County

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:22 (five months ago) link

i always think hes unfairly criticised tbh hes a weird fellow who works pretty well as a weird fellow

thing he was in lately with denzel and remi malek he was perfect

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:30 (five months ago) link

Again it's a surplus of ideas (in this case nearly all bad) that's the issue there

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 30 December 2023 18:50 (five months ago) link

Leto's presence in a movie is an instant deal-breaker for me.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 30 December 2023 19:42 (five months ago) link

just sat through a legolas monologue

the bar is if anything undersold itt

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2023 20:11 (five months ago) link

Acting on film isn’t really acting, there’s no such thing as bad acting, you just point the camera at someone pretty or funny-looking and that does most of the work, Robert bresson was right

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 31 December 2023 15:55 (five months ago) link

Acting is when an Australian does an American accent

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 31 December 2023 15:55 (five months ago) link

Acting is all in the eyes.

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jmm, Sunday, 31 December 2023 16:12 (five months ago) link

silby a stór u are rarely wrong-wrong wrong but on this occasion alas

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 December 2023 19:37 (five months ago) link

My dumb opinion is indefensible but it’s mine

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 31 December 2023 23:00 (five months ago) link

Surely John Wayne should be on the shortlist for this.

Marcel, Monday, 1 January 2024 10:54 (five months ago) link

and terrible 'actors' with good presence dont qualify, harrison ford most certainly aint it

― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 14:35 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 11:04 (five months ago) link

I've ctrl-f'ed the shit out of the thread and can't find mention of Clive Owen.

Now, I think he's perfect in *Children of Men*, but could easily be convinced it's a fluke that his dead-eyed shamble was just what was needed. Maybe I'm just scarred by *Closer*.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 1 January 2024 14:53 (five months ago) link

I liked him as the drug addicted doctor in The Knick and in Gosford Park, he doesn't seem like a bad actor to me. Bad decision to do that Patrick Marber shite.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:10 (five months ago) link

i think hes under consideration as an awful actor tbh, that one with bellucci and giamatti was i think the last movie i walked out of the cinema on

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:29 (five months ago) link

his turn in the bourne identity kind of brings him fairly high above bloom bar tho

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:30 (five months ago) link

I've ctrl-f'ed the shit out of the thread and can't find mention of Clive Owen.

Now, I think he's perfect in *Children of Men*, but could easily be convinced it's a fluke that his dead-eyed shamble was just what was needed. Maybe I'm just scarred by *Closer*.


Closer is great and him in it.

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:33 (five months ago) link

heh! you won't be impressed that I put the screenplay of Closer into the burner during my book-burning spree last summer, then.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 1 January 2024 15:42 (five months ago) link

Closer is great and him in it.

Oof. I hated every square inch of it. It's the best part of 20 years since I've seen it, but there are certain lines I remember that make me do a kind of internal 'chucks script across room' swim in my guts. Don't make me watch it again to check!

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:21 (five months ago) link

We could just stop naming people with at least one good performance in them and respect the fact that the bar is Bloom

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:24 (five months ago) link

i will tap the sign that reminds us all that this is a discussion thread and nominations are welcome as long as nobody gets precious about their nominations being immediately flung out

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:27 (five months ago) link

I feel like I’ve mentioned Clive Owen in a previous thread, he sucks. I only once saw Closer when it came out and don’t care to revisit it. He sucked in Croupier, he lucked into a great film with Children Of Men but conspicuously was extremely out-charisma’d by Caine and Moore, his entire sequence in Sin City leaves me punching the couch in boredom (in part because of perennial deadweight Rosario Dawson). He always plays Brits but specifically that kinda Guy Ritchie version of cartoon Britishness. Ryan Philippe alone saved him from being the weakest link in Gosford Park

That said Owen’s been in too many things that I haven’t seen (GG nom for a doctor role? Played Bill Clinton in something else?) that I can’t totally write him off. I think I just watch dumb bad films. He’s probably great in those good cool films that I haven’t seen him in.

he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:28 (five months ago) link

dont bank on it

rosario dawson slander btw what

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:30 (five months ago) link

We could just stop naming people with at least one good performance in them and respect the fact that the bar is Bloom

― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, January 1, 2024 4:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Can any among us truly say that they've watched the entire filmography of The Bloom? Perhaps there's a decent performance or two lurking in the archives! Sympathy for Delicious (2010), maybe. Or his 1997 role as 'rentboy' in Wilde. You never know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bloom#Filmography

CDs sound better than vinyl (Matt #2), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:38 (five months ago) link

i will tap the sign that reminds us all that this is a _discussion_ thread and nominations are welcome as long as nobody gets precious about their nominations being immediately flung out


And as long as people respect the fact that the bar is Bloom

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:47 (five months ago) link

_We could just stop naming people with at least one good performance in them and respect the fact that the bar is Bloom

― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, January 1, 2024 4:24 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink_

Can any among us truly say that they've watched the entire filmography of The Bloom? Perhaps there's a decent performance or two lurking in the archives! Sympathy for Delicious (2010), maybe. Or his 1997 role as 'rentboy' in Wilde. You never know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bloom#Filmography🕸


I have seen Wilde, if he was in it I never noticed!

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:48 (five months ago) link

Ryan Philippe…You might have something there. Even though I really do like Cruel Intentions

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:49 (five months ago) link

Back on topic, today I cannot think of a worse actor than Jared Leto. Surely he’s adjacent to Bloom County

Co-sign. The bar is Leto … but, as I mentioned waaaay upthread, the prompt is for #3 worst actor. Leto is the #1 and #2 worst actor

stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:01 (five months ago) link

Surely John Wayne should be on the shortlist for this.

Limited range isn't the same as bad. Wayne knew which roles suited his ability and just about the only time he strayed into territory where he was stupidly miscast was that movie where he played Genghis Khan. Otherwise he habitually filled roles of the sort where his heroines wore beautifully tailored gingham dresses and you might find Gabby Hayes sharing a scene. In those films he was good.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 1 January 2024 17:35 (five months ago) link


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