Nominations for Worst Acting Ever please.

I've thought long and hard. There are so many sub-categories to this award. There's 'Worst Acting by a Rock Star' which will be shared out posthumously by Michael Hutchence for 'Dogs in Space' with David Bowie for 'The Linguini Incident'. There's 'Worst Acting by a Great Actor' which goes to Ian McKellan for 'The Shadow'. Worst Acting in a Sci-Fi role? Ms. Jane Badler who memorably portrayed space-nazi Diana in 'V'. Oh, and there's Vin Diesel.
Start nominating, peeps.

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..but Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls really was THAT bad. I've seen many of Z-grade, direct to video movies with horrible actors and actresses in them. But her performance in that movie really was one of the worst things I've ever seen.

Sorry I couldn't be more creative. I've literally seen thousands of movies over the years. But no performance sticks out in my mind like that one.

Showgirls was on Sundance (or was it IFC) and the movie is so freaking bad it's funny as hell!

The Godfather part III. Although she's redeemed herself with Lost in Translation.

Any movie Theresa Russell is in.

Any movie Sean Young is in.

(I don't watch Vin Diesel movies for his "acting")

...when she got killed at the end of the movie!

The criticism against SC's performance was, IMO, driven by petty critics infuriated by the nepotism involved, and disappointed that Copola didn't put one of their preferred "babes" in the role. Then successfully filtered down to the masses.

SC did at the very least, provide an adequate job of presenting a believable character.

I didn't know who she was when I saw it. But that death scene kind of sealed it for me.

her hesitancy and naivete seemed very appropriate for the well-shielded daughter of a mafia don. I generally deplore nepotism, but I do think that she was right for the role.

She was absolutely the worst, and I don't think I was influenced by critics, just by what I saw on the screen.

I will say that Kelly Preston's "performance" in "For the Love of the Game" was right up there among the worst performances of all time.

Was SC's performance any more or less memorable than that of the actor casted to play Michael's son? How many DUers, without looking it up, can even name the actor who played Michael's son?

She was simply awful IMHO. So I would say yes, her performance was worse than the kid who played Michael's son.

Hey, it's all subjective after all.

On the other hand, I liked "Virgin Suicides" and "Lost in Translation," so I do appreciate her as a writer and director.

even crappier than what the critics told me it would be. And believe me, Andy Garcia has so much freaking chemistry you could have put a kumquat in the role of Mary and Garcia and the Kumquat would have sizzled on screen.

Sure, Mary was suppose to be the protected daughter of a major mafioso who just so happen to have the hots for her half-cousin. Coppala just seemed like a dingbat around Garcia which made the whole 'half-cousin' thing even creepier.

It's a shame that Wyonna Ryder had backed out of the role. I think that Wyonna could have pulled off the whole relationship with Andy Garcia's 'Cousin Vinnie"

that a young Winona Ryder was originally set to play that role, but dropped out at the last minute, leaving FFC scrambling to find a replacement.

That said, Coppola's nepotism is evident in many of his films, and a bit too much on occasion.

for that. Talia Shire will never be the world's most brilliant actress, but she IS Connie.

And yeah, I knew about WR, too. Her nervous breakdown. Well, reported nervous breakdown.

Coppola should have quit while he was ahead. There was no way he was going to top I and II, or even come close to being as good. Frankly, I can't see Winona Ryder in that part either. Joe Mantegna and Andy Garcia were both great, but I'd watch either one of them combing their hair for 2 hours.

that he's working on a Godfather IV for some reason.

in Battlefield Earth. He did have the advantage of an incredible script, though.

His poor modern day diction was just horrible on the ears.

Kevin made one of my all time favorite movies, Dances With Wolves, but I think he is a lousy actor in just about anything. He can't keep an accent most of the time, and is laughable. I'm not just talking about his laughable British accent in Robinhood. In JFK, he would have a sort of southern accent for a few minutes, then sound like Midwestern right in the middle of his sentence.

Of course his rating as a director/producer went way, way down when I saw Waterworld. Yikes, talk about a bad movie. It makes me wonder who really made Dances With Wolves. ;-)

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The President of World Wrestly Federation. He was in a "movie" with a female wrestler named Tammi. Absolutely the worst acting job I have ever seen.

Single worst performance I've ever seen.

Why do I get the feeling he'd be starring in Revenge of the Nerds VII were it not for his fair prospect?

...the estimable "Nerds" franchise wouldn't have him.

Pitt isn't half the actor Curtis Armstrong is.

:evilgrin: and how do you know for sure?

How often do we see terrible actresses in a part just so they can be eye candy? Well Brad is my eye candy!

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Nevertheless, I have a hard time coming down on actors for bad acting because it's the director's responsibility to get the best performance out of them. Actors go after a role, but they don't hire themselves. If they get miscast, it's not really their fault. They don't write their own lines either. Saying that Elizabeth Berkley was bad in Showgirls kind of misses the point. It was a shitty movie with a shitty script. No one is going to turn it into Shakespeare. If anyone's to blame, it's director Paul Verhoeven and writer Joe Eszterhas.

Oddly enough, Showgirls' badness is being capitalized on now:

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2004/07/26/showgirls_dvd/index.html

Need. I. Say. More.

Sometimes the material is so bad that even good actors are crap. However, there is a group of highly-paid, should-be-better actors that can only play one character. Themselves.

Most Guilty - Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise

Cruise can act when he wants to. He put Pitt to shame in "Interview with a Vampire", actually I've never liked Pitt in anything, and did a good job with "Born on the 4th of July". But yes...there are several who are very rich just by playing themself.

...this weekend. It's a movie based on an Anne Rice novel about mixed race blacks in New Orleans in the 19th century. I nominate everyone that was in it. HORRIBLE acting all around. Bad French accents coming and going like the wind. Just bad.

She wrote it before the vampire and witch books. I dread what NBC will do to "The Witching Hour" since they bought the rights and plan a mini-series on it. It should be on cable, so they can really be true to the book. And leave any reference to the lame-ass sequels out, except end it with Lasher's death, not the way she ended the book.

...being filmed. I don't have high hopes these days for film versions of books that are epic in scope. My favorite part of that books was "The History of the Mayfair Witches". I hope I'm wrong but I don't imagine the filmmakers getting it right.

It's easy to pick on non-actors, but she's done OK in other movies. And it's easy to pick on movies that were all 'round turkeys. However, Michael Collins was a big production, starring Liam Neeson. It had an important story to tell & was excellent in many ways.

But poor Julia made no effort at an Irish accent. Beyond the accent, she just seemed lost. I guess they thought they needed a "star". If only they'd hired a good Irish accent, the whole movie would have benefited.

Totally ruined the movie, which I otherwise loved. She was not the least bit convincing as Kitty, let alone an Irish woman.

In "Bedtime for Bonzo" and POTUS

Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter were atrocious.

Yeah, I saw the KISS thing on VH-1 this weekend! What of it? I defy you to top that one.

There's no way that was meant to be serious. Surely? Right? AARRGGHHH!

I tried to soothe my aching soul with that justification...

but, alas... I think it was intended to be taken as seriously as 4 jewish men in makeup fighting amusement-park monsters CAN be taken.
(Actually 2 jewish guys -Gene & Paul-, an Italian -Peter- and a full-blown alcoholic -Ace-...)

Live-yes it was very bad.

Up yours, ratso!

Not realy bad acting ( I know I know ) but just a HORRIBLE movie. It took me several years to be able to watch a movie by any of them again.

Hey, Charles Napier was in that movie - he's a great actor! ;)

Serna played the police lieutenant, and was so amazingly bad that it sticks with me to this day, over a dozen years later. I've seen bad acting before, but this is actually miles worse than anything I've ever seen. ANYTHING.

mechanical :eyes:

I swear I never knew that doctors could flash their medical license in order to extract information from people like Hotel Employees, Costume Shop Owners et. al.

The novelty of Goldie's kid wore off after about five minutes.

she glows, somehow

m even :hi:

liked those cute pix of you and yours the other day.

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and Madonna stink at anything other than light comedy. Whenever they try to do any deep, dramatic role, like the recent Eisenhower mini-series, its just awful. He really stunk. Light comedy is all these two can do and they should not attempt anything more difficult.

She has never been any good in any movie. Not even Evita or Desperately Seeking Susan. She is the worst case of David Bowie syndrome extant.

"A League of Their Own." Made me laugh with her wisecracks. It was a supporting role, and light. But that's what she should stick with. Nothing harder than that.

She's got some skills but her choice in scripts have been horrible

Madonna lived the role of marginally talented ambitious sleep-your-way-to-the-top heroine. Other actresses might have been better, but none could have embodied Evita the way Madonna did. But, other than that, she's not a very good actress. Though I like her anyway.

:D

I decided to give it a try only because she was paired with a "real" actor in Kevin Kostner. She was so awful not even HE could conceal his contempt--he spent the entire movie looking like he was five seconds away from throwing up.

The Bodyguard isn't the only movie I've regretted sitting through, of course. But it is the first one that made wish I could sue the producer for robbing me two hours of my time!

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rocknation

The ending was stupid and Houston didn't sound right cussing.

From what has come out in the media, Ms. Whitney is a true Thug-ette. She is very street, despite the good-girl image her record label has tried to promote these last 20 years. Why the hell else would she marry a sleaze-bag like Bobby Brown?

I was SO looking forward to this movie, and they RUINED it with their terrible acting and horrible attempts at British accents.

One day, the technology will exist to replace them in the cut with Helea Bonham Carter and Errol Flynn

Fortunately, for me, Gary Oldman's performance compensated alot for me. So I still like watching the movie.

His accent not only was ridiculous, but it came and went throughout the film.

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he as totally wooden and devoid of any depth. THe kid who played him when he was little had much more skill.

NOOOOOO!!!!! - pathetique!

I haven't seen him in anything else. He was supposed to be good in that film about the guy who fooled everyone as a reporter for The Nation. (?)

An actress who should know better.

Liam Neeson and Ewan Mc Gregor were wasted somewhat in the first one, and McGregor had little to do in the second one, except to play the dispproving dad. What a waste of real talent. Although, you could also argue that Alec Guinness was wasted in the originals.


Lucas has a lot to answer for, esp. in that teen-smooch/love scene/ gagfest between Anakin and Amydala. Not even as good as MTV fare.

Hayden Christensen couldn't hold a candle to some of the local cable used car sales guys we have out here.

want to wretch :puke:

when he's dead.

your pick

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Tried to make it look like a serious performance but couldn't pull it off.

From the heights of 'A Clockwork Orange', 'O Lucky Man', 'If...' down through 'Time After Time', 'Cat People' to 'Blue Thunder' and a host of dreadful, dreadful roles. He deserved better.

from Ms. Griffith's body of work is extremely tough...but I have to say that her hilariously bad acting in "Vanities" is the worst ever.

Melanie Griffith deserves a place in the "Worst Acting Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement".

God, he's terrible. I'll choose "Point Break" as the worst of his worst, though. :puke:

jon voight in anaconda

Ohhhh, sooooo many more I could name. Everything Hollywood has touched recently has turned to shit. Our standards for cinematic adequacy are so low, we've learned to not even recognize bad acting when it appears. For instance, some people think that "The Matrix" is a great movie.

Pitt was excellent in "12 Monkeys".

I think the fact that he is so pretty is one reason so many people dump on him as an actor.

And I thought "The Matrix" was a great movie. Great fun, great effects. Is it Shakespeare? No. But some people don't require Shakespeare out of every film.

So, when was this mythical Golden Age when everything Hollywood turned out was pure cinema magic?

12 Monkeys, True Romance, Snatch, Seven, and Fight Club. Of course in Fight Club he was playing a role that probably came easy. Looks like you wanna look, fuck like you wanna fuck, and so on. Can't guarantee he fucks like I wanna fuck, but he does so with someone that I wouldn't pass up.

The Godfather, The Conversation, Harold and Maude, MASH, The King of Marvin Gardens, Five Easy Pieces, Up in Smoke, Save the Tiger, Taxi Driver, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mean Streets, Catch 22, Love in Bloom, Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, Nashville, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein..... need I go on? It's a long list. Major studio movies have basically been shit since the ascent of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

ANYONE can do what Brad Pitt did in 12 Monkeys. It goes like this: "Oh, I'm insane, I'mstutt-stutt-stuttering and I'm blinking a lot, andI'mtalkingreallyfgastnow, then I laugh maniacally HAHAHAHAHA!, and then I'm stutt-stutt-stuttering again, Oh my god can't you see how insane I am?" And then bug out your eyes and pretend you have a facial tic. Easy.

Angels Revenge
The Day of the Dolphin
Death Race 2000
Invasion of the Blood Farmers
Mitchell
Ms 45
Pay Off Time aka Death promise
Roller Boogie
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Swarm
The Towering Inferno (actually nominated for a Best Picture Oscar!)
Earthquake
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
and the Billy Jack trilogy

yeah, some real classics there.

EVERY decade has its share of dogs, of trash cinema. The seventies were no better in this regard.

As for Pitt's acting: Great, if it's so easy why aren't you doing it? You didn't see the subtlety in the performance, obviously.

Horst Janson rawks!

Christian Slater in anything but "Heathers" and True Romance", Kenneth Branagh in "Hamlet" (Stop yelling, it's a movie!)

Worst actress EVER...especially bad in Tombstone!!!

If only as a subtle, "don't make any more fucking movies" hint. He's awful.

I'm not sure he even bothers pretending.

Or do they just throw him onto a set with exploding stuff and tell him to do whatever he wants?

and all this stuff is real?

and anything he appears in!

in anything.

Bad, bad, bad in everything he has done. I find him very annoying- Though I loved Fish Called Wanda.

watch it without blinking and you can cry just like Demi! She's horrible.

Anything with Julia Roberts. I can't stand her.

Agree also with you on Julia Roberts.

Although All Quiet on the Western Front is a wonderful anti-war movie from the 1930s, Lew Ayres as the central character is bad, bad, bad. He recites his lines as if he's reading a story to kindergarteners.

Bad acting awards: Historical television division: In the mid 1970s, I saw both Mark Spitz and Billie Jean King doing small roles in sitcoms. There is a very good reason that neither one of them ever had an acting career: they were both absolutely wooden in their performances.

It was hard to beat out Neil Diamond for the same movie, but the Jewish accent Olivier used put him over the top. Way over the top.

If you haven't seen this movie, it's worth it. One of the best unintentional comedies ever made.

Yes, let's do get Sir Laurance Olivier to play a Jewish rabbi. It was SO darned convincing. :-)

But then I'm prejudiced for the original.

Hey, sports fans: You too can do a fantastic impression of Stephen Segal!

Just say to a friend: "Hey, look at my impression of Stephen Segal! But I need your help: Say "ring-ring" like a telephone."

When your friend says "ring-ring," say, "Hello?"

Then pick up the phone.

Your friends will be amazed!

and "The Never Ending Breakfast" wasn't bad either.

in many, many movies! I can't believe he hasn't been added yet. He also is a favorite of the Rassie's for worst actor.

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Ronald McDonald Raygun, role as a Saint/Savior, failed to raise after 3 days.

i've never understoos how this no-talent was able to stretch the fame of a niche character like Ted out into a career

Cold Creek Manor (2003) or The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Need I say more?

"are YOU an ANGEL?!" god he was awful.

I'm surprised that no one came up with that one. . .

Which film? Pick one.

Or even Roger Moore....

P.

for Unparalleled Achievement in Single-Handedly Ruining an Otherwise Watchable Film.

Worst Single Line goes to the husband in The Hand That Rocks that Cradle for his suave, nearly conversational delivery of "I think I've broken my leg" after falling down a flight of stairs.