Worst Screen Performance (from a usually decent actor)

[HardcoreNinja]

Originally Posted by CastroGiovanni

So, Nic Cage... How do you even begin to single out one of his performances as worse than any of his others?

Couldnt of said it any better if you tried.

[Ancient One]

Wild At Heart, Raising Arizona, Con Air, The Rock, Gone In Sixty Seconds.
You think he was awful in these ?
Granted some of them weren't fantastic but they were a LONG way from being bad performances. I think you are being a bit harsh here.

[thedude]

Originally Posted by CastroGiovanni

So, Nic Cage... How do you even begin to single out one of his performances as worse than any of his others?

Using a pie chart and votes from 100 peole, Leaving Las Vegas and Raising Arizona are exepmt.

[fortunesfool]

I think Nic Cage had been in a lot of bad movies. I wouldn't say he's a bad actor.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a bad actor.

[Porkchopexpress]

Hmm I agree it's often very difficult whether to determine actors are genuinely poor or making do with a poor script. When I try and think what I rate as a very poor performance, I tend to think of actors who I just genuinely find irritating as opposed to a particular performance, like Alan Cumming, Rene Zwelleger or Catherine Zeta Jones.

Whether it down to being woefully miscast or just plain personal preference, a lot of poor performances probably boil down to taking the money. For some reason John Malkovic likes to do this and phone it in on a regular basis.

I'll have to go with Charlie Hunham in a dead tie with Elijah Wood in 'Green Street', Hunham acts quite well in it and if I was deaf it would be a tour de force, sort off, but as it is my lobes work well and I can hear every mispronounced public schoolboy 'mockney' impersonation, shame.

A rubbish accent is often the biggest crime for me, 'Enemy at the Gates', I find Jude Law so anaemic and his accent so annoying it just ruins the film for me, it's not a classic, but with Ed Harris's great turn and Hoskins and Pearlman throwing out random accents as hoc, it's just a mix match and fails for me.

[Cropsy]

Originally Posted by jaykays hat

Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones, and probably anything else that he has been in.

I would'nt honestly say Mark Wahlberg is terrible in everything he is in, Three Kings, Boogie Nights, The departed, The Yards he was excellent in all of them, he has been in some poor films of late thats all.

[Cropsy]

Originally Posted by Porkchopexpress

Hmm I agree it's often very difficult whether to determine actors are genuinely poor or making do with a poor script. When I try and think what I rate as a very poor performance, I tend to think of actors who I just genuinely find irritating as opposed to a particular performance, like Alan Cumming, Rene Zwelleger or Catherine Zeta Jones.

Whether it down to being woefully miscast or just plain personal preference, a lot of poor performances probably boil down to taking the money. For some reason John Malkovic likes to do this and phone it in on a regular basis.

I'll have to go with Charlie Hunham in a dead tie with Elijah Wood in 'Green Street', Hunham acts quite well in it and if I was deaf it would be a tour de force, sort off, but as it is my lobes work well and I can hear every mispronounced public schoolboy 'mockney' impersonation, shame.

A rubbish accent is often the biggest crime for me, 'Enemy at the Gates', I find Jude Law so anaemic and his accent so annoying it just ruins the film for me, it's not a classic, but with Ed Harris's great turn and Hoskins and Pearlman throwing out random accents as hoc, it's just a mix match and fails for me.

Agreed with green street, One of the worst cockney accents i probably have ever heard in a film, Jason Patric in not only The Lost Boys but everything else i have seen him in and Jason Statham simply because all his characters in the last few years cant seem to be able to decide if they are cockney or american.

[StuntMonkey]

Tobey Maguire - SpiderMan 3 especially but not exclusively....

Any American who puts on an English Accent. It always sounds like Daphnie from Fraiser and that was bad enough on it's own!!

[Jonesy]

After seeing Terminator Salvation, I'm beginning to think that Christian Bale manages to put in a crap performance in films as a matter of course these days. He's become so dreadful, that I can barely watch him. I feel embarrassed for him.

[thedude]

Originally Posted by Jonesy

After seeing Terminator Salvation, I'm beginning to think that Christian Bale manages to put in a crap performance in films as a matter of course these days. He's become so dreadful, that I can barely watch him. I feel embarrassed for him.

I would love to see him put in a decent performance, I cant remember him being that good since American Psycho.