Great actors in awful movies

[ShoogarBear]

Stallone and Keanu are not good actors, much less great.

Nic Cage is definitely talented, but he falls a little into the Klaus Kinski category of picking lots of crap on purpose.

[ShoogarBear]

Actually, I just thought of perhaps the all-time champeen in this category:

Laurence Olivier in The Betsy. It has to be seen to be believed.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Charlize Theron in Reindeer Games.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Peter O'Toole in King Ralph.

[Spurfect]

Has anyone mentioned half of Nicholas Cage's career yet?

I thought of him but I don't think he'd be considered a great actor. but if we are talking about awful movies I'd have to give it to him with The Wickerman... now that movie is a P.O.S.

[SpursWoman]

But those were comedys, you dont have to be a great actor to be funny. He was funny as in those movies, but I wouldnt say either of those movies cons utes great acting

Not true ... it definitely takes talent to be funny. Look at how many try and fail desperately around here.

[mardigan]

Not true ... it definitely takes talent to be funny. Look at how many try and fail desperately around here.

Yes it is true, talent at one thing doesnt equate to talent at another. Thats why you dont see many comedic actors make good serious movies.

[SpursWoman]

Gene Kelly in ing Xanadu.

I know this because I've seen this movie dozens of times due to my older brother's infatuation with Olivia Newton John.

Bite me ... that was my favorite movie from age 8 to about age 13.

[Kevin Blackistone]

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu!!!

[SpursWoman]

Yes it is true, talent at one thing doesnt equate to talent at another. Thats why you dont see many comedic actors make good serious movies.

So the criteria for "good movie" and "great actor" is relegated to serious flicks only?

[mardigan]

So the criteria for "good movie" and "great actor" is relegated to serious flicks only?

No, not true at all, but if we are talking about great actors in great movies, the first thoughts I have arent usually of Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber or Ace Ventura, or Sandler in Madison or Gilmore. I know how hard comedy is to pull off, very difficult, unless its an extension of you, which is why a lot of comedians are funny, they are just acting natural. Where I think playing something that doesntt come natural, (playing a murder, transsexual, detective), is much harder to pull off

[Fillmoe]

i am still confused as to why ppl would think stallone is a good actor.........

[mardigan]

i am still confused as to why ppl would think stallone is a good actor.........

Didnt you see Judge Dredg?

[CuckingFunt]

If we're going to talk Morgan Freeman in crap movies, how can you not mention Driving Miss Daisy?

I actually thought about this a bit after first mentioning Freeman, and he has been in A LOT of crap movies.

Weird thing is that he usually manages to still be good in them.

[CuckingFunt]

Actually, I just thought of perhaps the all-time champeen in this category:

Laurence Olivier in The Betsy. It has to be seen to be believed.

Olivier and Maggie Smith are both in Clash of the ans.

Which is, to be honest, one of my favorite movies, but still utter crap.

[mardigan]

Olivier and Maggie Smith are both in Clash of the ans.

Which is, to be honest, one of my favorite movies, but still utter crap.

Clash of The ans was one of my favorite movies ever when I was growing up

[miss paxton]

"Clash of the ans" is a dreadful movie. That and "The Breakfast Club" are two of my Worst Movies Ever.

Stallone and Keanu are not good actors, much less great.

This is true, but reminds me of an offhand comment my sister-in-law made one day that Keanu Reeves is, in her opinion, the worst actor of all. Normally, I'm not a huge Keanu defender, except on the basis that he's extremely good-looking and that's as good a reason as any to go to the movies sometimes. But, worst ever? With Stallone out there? And Patrick Swayze who inflicted "Dirty Dancing" on an unsuspecting public? Judd Nelson is also a terrible actor, and I think Kiefer Sutherland is singularly untalented and has been dull in every movie I've ever seen with him (I don't watch "24" so can't speak to that).

[mardigan]

"Clash of the ans" is a dreadful movie. That and "The Breakfast Club" are two of my Worst Movies Ever.



This is true, but reminds me of an offhand comment my sister-in-law made one day that Keanu Reeves is, in her opinion, the worst actor of all. Normally, I'm not a huge Keanu defender, except on the basis that he's extremely good-looking and that's as good a reason as any to go to the movies sometimes. But, worst ever? With Stallone out there? And Patrick Swayze who inflicted "Dirty Dancing" on an unsuspecting public? Judd Nelson is also a terrible actor, and I think Kiefer Sutherland is singularly untalented and has been dull in every movie I've ever seen with him (I don't watch "24" so can't speak to that).

I really believe that Keanu and Cage are the worst 2 popular actors alive, they can single handedly ruin a movie (Con Air, Dracula)

[miss paxton]

Not that Keanu was any good in "Dracula", but neither was anyone else. Plus, everything else about the movie sucked. I agree with you about Nicholas Cage, though--I started finding him intolerable at the time of that awful "City of Angels" movie, or whatever it was called, with Meg Ryan. I saw it with a friend of mine, who loves Cage, and even she didn't like it and had to admit his acting choices in the movie were. . . boring.

[miss paxton]

I just thought of another good example (I think)--Sean Connery in " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Now that was a horrible movie. I'm not sure I'd consider Connery "great", but he's done enough good work and is certainly financially secure enough that he didn't need to ruin his reputation with that trash.

[ShoogarBear]

Dustin Hoffman.

Ishtar.

Do I win?

[cherylsteele]

i am still confused as to why ppl would think stallone is a good actor.........

Good actor is a matter of opinion don't you think?
I don't see you contributing too much to the thread.

[cherylsteele]

Dustin Hoffman.

Ishtar.

Do I win?

Sorry...I beat you to it in post #118.

[mrsmaalox]

i am still confused as to why ppl would think stallone is a good actor.........

You and me both! How about Michael Caine in "Blame It on Rio"? And I think Nicholas Cage is one of those guys who likes to "suffer" for the art; I haven't really cared for anything of his since Moonstruck or Raising Arizona. Now what about this guy Jude Law? I just can't understand his appeal. Did I miss something there? Can anyone recommend one of his films that would help me too see it?