Niners Fan in CT Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Some say De Niro has been phoning it in for years now but he can still be quite good (See: Silver Linings Playbook). However, I watched Righteous Kill and boy did I feel both he and Pacino were phoning it in but I guess that film had a lot of issues. Nicolas Cage has been a good, sometimes very good actor but Knowing was a pretty awful performance and there's many others. Add on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face in BATMAN FOREVER. Granted, it was a shit movie, and Two Face was probably the worst written part of the whole movie, so clearly it wasn't all his fault and I doubt he could've saved it if he had been on his A-game. But he clearly made the choice to try and go toe-to-toe with Jim Carrey in terms of over-the-top scenery chewing, and he chose...poorly. Maybe the most embarrassing role of his career. At least in the shitty MEN IN BLACK sequels he gets to act like he's over the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 When I saw this title Righteous Kill was the first movie I thought of. It was like one of those low budget action flicks that TNT used to make only it somehow managed to cast the 2 greatest living actors in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Mark Wahlberg in The Happening. Terrible perfomance in a terrible movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Mark Wahlberg in The Happening. Terrible perfomance in a terrible movie. Leguizamo was so bad that I never noticed Wahlberg being shitty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 My only memory of Righteous Kill, besides calling the ending 15 seconds in, is how bad both Rob and Al were. I mean, of all the movies for those two to sign on together, it had to be THIS ONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Peter Sellers in The World of Henry Orient. Which is generally rubbish anyway and a film of no particular note. You ever see that comedy bit where an actor has a different accent in every scene they are in? Sellers is rocking that pretty hard in that movie, but not on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 My absolute favourite actor by far is Bill Murray, but having just re-watched it, I have to say his performance in Ghostbusters 2 is pretty bad. It's Robin Williams-esque in the amount of over-the-top mugging he does. Especially the scenes with Dana and the baby and the one where he's taking pictures of the Vigo painting and is giving it fashion model directions. The psychic talk show scene was brilliant. More of that and the movie would have been better off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 I just watched it too and it felt like he was being RDJ in the Avengers where every single space in the dialogue needed to be filled with hilarious improv. Except Murray is ten times better at it. I didn't mind so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I just watched it too and it felt like he was being RDJ in the Avengers where every single space in the dialogue needed to be filled with hilarious improv. Except Murray is ten times better at it. I didn't mind so much. One of the strengths of the first Ghostbusters was that, in a movie about dudes working as Ghost Exterminators, all the characters were pretty grounded. Venkman is a guy that walks through life with a smirk, but he knows when to dial it down. It's like in the sequel, Murray decided that the character should be Shecky Greene or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 FSW hate of RDJ is starting to get to me. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebbie Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I hate RDJ because my mom told me when I was 8 she loved him and Nic Cage more than me. I fucking hate Nic Cage too. Back to topic, Tom Hanks in The Ladykillers. I don't know what it was, but it just wasn't funny. Like the delivery, the script, him.. Everything was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Pacino in Phil Spector was bordering on self-parody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buy Me a Burrito Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Johnny Depp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricR Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Pacino in Phil Spector was bordering on self-parody. Pacino has been doing a bad Pacino impression for 20 years now. His death monologue at the end of Carlito's Way is freaking hysterical. "Dana's gunna be a GOOD mom." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 At some point Pacino seemingly deciding to stop acting and START YELLING ALL THE TIME. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 FSW hate of RDJ is starting to get to me. Wow. You can't tell me his constant yammering through the Avengers wasn't irritating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 FSW hate of RDJ is starting to get to me. Wow. You can't tell me his constant yammering through the Avengers wasn't irritating? I'm pretty certain the massive consensus opinion is that it was highly entertaining. I mean, clearly, audiences didn't turn on RDJ as Tony Stark after it, given that Iron Man 3 is the highest grossing movie of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 FSW hate of RDJ is starting to get to me. Wow. You can't tell me his constant yammering through the Avengers wasn't irritating? I'm pretty certain the massive consensus opinion is that it was highly entertaining. I mean, clearly, audiences didn't turn on RDJ as Tony Stark after it, given that Iron Man 3 is the highest grossing movie of the year. But Man of Steel was 4th and you said it sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Yes, but I also acknowledge other people like it, rather than insisting that everyone agrees with me that it was terrible, the way you do with RDJ's mostly beloved ad-libbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Yes, but I also acknowledge other people like it, rather than insisting that everyone agrees with me that it was terrible, the way you do with RDJ's mostly beloved ad-libbing. It was ok in every movie other than Avengers. Then it was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Not a movie, but I'd say season 2 or 3 of Homeland when Claire Danes stopped portraying Carrie as a troubled, but brilliant woman and turned her into a borderline hysterical cartoon character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 What's that? It's stupid to treat someone with bi-polar disorder like a bad caricature of something you'd see 50 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Can I say Anthony Hopkins in Red Dragon? He was amazing in Silence of the Lambs and good in Hannibal but by the time Red Dragon rolled around he was hammying it up like a Bond villain. He was just too over-the-top with it. The character wasn't anything resembling scary. I've wondered if Mads Mikkelson's subdued performance in Hannibal was a response to that portrayal. Definately Gideon, who pretty much acts the exact same scenery-chewing way Hopkins did in Red Dragon but is shown to be nothing more than a Lector-wannabe, has to be a dig at the later films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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