When musicians try to act: "worst performance" nominations

[Jim H]

Good performance: Justin Timberlake in Black Snake Moan.
Bad performance: Prince in Purple Rain
Good performance: Keith Richards in Pirates III
Bad performance: 50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Trying
Good performance: Eminem in 8 Mile
Good performance: Courtney Love in The People VS Larry Flynt

Honestly, I think the average performance level of musicians in acting is quite a bit better than the ratio of bad-to-good acting jobs in Hollywood films in general.

You're sure about Prince in Purple Rain?  Cause I would've nominated him for the abomination known as Under the Cherry Moon.  A bit of an obscure movie, maybe, cause NOBODY remembers that flick.

Also, your pick for 50 Cent: I gotta say, that dude sucks as a rapper too, so it should be noted that NOBODY thought he'd do a good job as an actor.  But either way, it was a horrible performance.

Haven't seen Under the Cherry Moon.  I just remember thinking he wasn't too good in Purple Rain, which is a little surprising as he was basically playing himself.  That's why Eminem did well in 8 Mile, I think.

[BTM]

Good performance: Courtney Love in The People VS Larry Flynt

Well, dunno... Courtney Love playing a slutty drug addict wasn't exactly a character stretch...

[BTM]

Bon Jovi in "Vampires: Los Muertos".. I don't know if it was necessarily a bad performance, maybe more of just a bad choice for a character.  Hearing Bon Jovi drop the F-Bomb was crazy!

I loved what Triumph had to say about that... on one of his segments he's actually interview Bon Jovi and he says, "So, I understand you're acting now, right?  You're playing a vampire.  Finally. a role that REQUIRES you to suck!"

[HappyGilmore]

Good performance: Justin Timberlake in Black Snake Moan.
Bad performance: Prince in Purple Rain
Good performance: Keith Richards in Pirates III
Bad performance: 50 Cent in Get Rich or Die Trying
Good performance: Eminem in 8 Mile
Good performance: Courtney Love in The People VS Larry Flynt

Honestly, I think the average performance level of musicians in acting is quite a bit better than the ratio of bad-to-good acting jobs in Hollywood films in general.

You're sure about Prince in Purple Rain?  Cause I would've nominated him for the abomination known as Under the Cherry Moon.  A bit of an obscure movie, maybe, cause NOBODY remembers that flick.

Also, your pick for 50 Cent: I gotta say, that dude sucks as a rapper too, so it should be noted that NOBODY thought he'd do a good job as an actor.  But either way, it was a horrible performance.

Haven't seen Under the Cherry Moon.  I just remember thinking he wasn't too good in Purple Rain, which is a little surprising as he was basically playing himself.  That's why Eminem did well in 8 Mile, I think.

It's not shocking.  But Eminem did well in 8 Mile.  He even was good in Funny People, but it was mainly a cameo appearance, again playing himself.

[Nukie 2]

Bon Jovi in "Vampires: Los Muertos".. I don't know if it was necessarily a bad performance, maybe more of just a bad choice for a character.  Hearing Bon Jovi drop the F-Bomb was crazy!

But there's nothing like Riffing "Shot through the heart and you're to blame..." when he stakes a vampire!

[Criswell]

this is easy

[Jack]

I nominate Coolio for both Dracula 3000 and Pteradactyl.  Unfortunately, I think the awful performances he gives are probably exactly what both of those directors were looking for.

[D-Man]

Gene Simmons in Runaway.  I'm not really sure what Michael Crichton was thinking when he cast this man as the villain.  I guess he never saw the movie that KISS tried to make in the 70's.