Great Actors Giving Terrible Performances

Olivia Bauer · February 19, 2021, 02:15:59 PM

An actor's performance is only as good as the direction. Give an awful director an Oscar Award Winning actor and they'll find a way to make their performance ungodly terrible. Who here can think of some examples?

retrorussell · February 19, 2021, 02:47:15 PM

Martin Landau and Jack Palance-- both Oscar Winners-- are pretty bad in WITHOUT WARNING.

Ted C · February 19, 2021, 03:06:34 PM

A Christmas Carol (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216621/

Moby Dick (1998)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120756/

How to get terrible performances from Patrick Stewart.

Rev. Powell · February 19, 2021, 03:31:20 PM

Tom Hardy in CAPONE.

Trevor · February 19, 2021, 03:44:33 PM

Harrison Ford in Force 10 From Navarone

Christian Slater in Alone In The Dark.
Joss Ackland in Lethal Weapon 2.

bob · February 19, 2021, 04:09:16 PM

Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau

Allhallowsday · February 19, 2021, 04:17:48 PM

LAURENCE OLIVIER in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL

http://youtu.be/1T5OgFCc0aE

Trevor · February 20, 2021, 01:08:21 PM

John Travolta in Gotti.

Allhallowsday · February 20, 2021, 01:39:48 PM

JOHN TRAVOLTA in HAIRSPRAY.

RCMerchant · February 20, 2021, 02:27:50 PM

I dunno...everyone in the TOWERING INFERN0 (1974).

dcj2112 · February 20, 2021, 04:49:36 PM

In Rock Hudson's only horror movie Embryo, Director Ralph Nelson does absolutely nothing to reel him in. There's going over the top and then there's THAT.

barnsiclese · February 21, 2021, 09:01:28 PM

Gary Oldman in Tiptoes - I think his acting was probably perfectly fine, but shuffling about on his knees was definitely a questionable performance.
It was dull enough that I remember nothing of the plot or acting.

Dr. Whom · February 22, 2021, 01:53:51 AM

John Malkovich on autopilot in Warm Bodies

chainsaw midget · February 22, 2021, 12:13:35 PM

Mike Myers isn't exactly a great actor, but he's usually fun, charming, and enjoyable. Except in Cat in the Cat were he's creepy and annoying.

Clint Eastwood just looks kind of lost and confused in Paint Your Wagon, like he's uncomofrtable being there.

RCMerchant · February 22, 2021, 12:17:47 PM

Richard Burton in EXORCIST II.

By that time he was more than in his cups, he was in the bottom of the bottle. Not his fault that the movie was a derailed train from the get go.
He was a good actor (check out WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?), but like all of us at times, fell on hard times.

http://youtu.be/Mk8QkYgz8QM

I don't know how you folks may feel like about EXORCIST II, but it makes me want to dig up my dead grandmother and ask her "WHY???" Or dig up my dead mother and slap her dead skull and scream at her- "WHY DID YOU BRING ME INTO THIS WORLD?!?!"

Maybe not that bad, but close to it.