Worst actor?

FLMountainMan · Nov 7, 2007

Keanu. He's just awful. David Caruso is worse, but doesn't do a lot of movies (he did one with Cage & Samuel Jackson, where Cage was a bodybuilder and Jackson a weepy-eyed cop that was pure schlock).

Marky Mark is one-dimensional, but he plays that one-dimension really well. Same with Kurt. Keanu just blows. Watching an interview he gives is just icing on the cake.

lawyerdad · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by edmorel

I think they are both more than bearable. Keanu was good in Matrix, Bill and Ted and as Johnny Utah. Nic Cage was good in Raising Arizona, Lord of War and the airplane convict movie. If you don't like either, you can always move to Pakistan

Actually, I pretty much agree with you.
I think both are horrid actors, but they "work" fine if cast in the right role. Keanu was pretty much born to play Bill or Ted (whichever he was), and I thought he was fine in speed. (I hated Matrix, but not really him in particular.) I never saw Lord of War or ConAir, but Cage was certainly fine in Raising Arizona. For that matter, ge was fine in Valley Girl, too.
I'll seriously consider the Pakistan thing. I hear lots of people are actively seeking lawyers there.

Thracozaag · Nov 7, 2007

Caruso "highlights" from CSI:

koji

bengal-stripe · Nov 7, 2007

That prize must go to Leslie Howard (1893 - 1943) as Ashley Wilkes in “Gone with the Wind” (1939).

Not only was he at age forty-six far too old (but then, he had played Romeo some three years earlier),
he couldn’t be bothered to even attempt a Southern American accent.

Never seen a more wooden performance!

hamlet · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by Britalian

keanu reeves.
does anyone come close?

Funny, I thought of Keanu even before I opened your thread. He is the worst. Bar none.

Gradstudent78 · Nov 7, 2007

Colin Farrell, just totally horrible.

gdl203 · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by Gradstudent78

Colin Farrell, just totally horrible.
He definitely gets the 2006 Worst Actor award for his performance in Miami Vice. Positively ridiculous

JBZ · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

I hated Matrix

Thank God I've finally found someone else.

As for Keanu, he (and some of the others listed here) might be the worst amongst established "movie stars", but there are any one of a number of actors who appear in Grade B, straight to video features that make Keanu look like Sir Lawrence Olivier.

Thracozaag · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by bengal-stripe

That prize must go to Leslie Howard (1893 - 1943) as Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).

Not only was he at age forty-six far too old (but then, he had played Romeo some three years earlier),
he couldn't be bothered to even attempt a Southern American accent.

Never seen a more wooden performance!

I think I'd actually banished that performance from my memory, and gladly.

(Check out Tony Bennett in "The Oscar", he was aptly described as a 5 foot 9 turd in that stinkbomb of a movie--especially when he's in scenes wearing a brown suit)

koji

Thracozaag · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by gdl203

He definitely gets the 2006 Worst Actor award for his performance in Miami Vice. Positively ridiculous

Didn't he win that the year before, in Alexander?

koji

edmorel · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by bengal-stripe

That prize must go to Leslie Howard (1893 - 1943) as Ashley Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind" (1939).

Not only was he at age forty-six far too old (but then, he had played Romeo some three years earlier),
he couldn't be bothered to even attempt a Southern American accent.

Never seen a more wooden performance!

My parents weren't even born yet

dkzzzz · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by Britalian

keanu reeves.
does anyone come close?

I have seen this actor in several movies (I haven't paid for any of them), including the other night Matrix which is a piece of teenage/student-fan dreck, and each time I can't believe how wooden and/or hammy his performance is.

Can anyone surpass his badness?

I think I have it: Adam the Suck Sandler.

I second Nick Cage and would like to add horrible John Travolta , R. Downey Jr., and that annoying guy from When Harry met Sally, what the hell is his name? He was also twitching in "Analyze this" .

Britalian · Nov 7, 2007

For an (at one time... any more?) A-list actor, I'd put KR above Cage in badness league.

Britalian · Nov 7, 2007

Did anyone see R Downey in Fur, the Diane Arbus bio?

dkzzzz · Nov 7, 2007

Originally Posted by Britalian

Did anyone see R Downey in Fur, the Diane Arbus bio?

I honestly tried , but I became afraid that my Plasma might get a burn-in from his performance.

P.S. regarding Mark Walberg, I have to disagree; rent Boogie Nights, great performance hand down.
I would agree that he got lazy and niched by Holywood like many other actors.

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