Posted on 06/26/2011 5:56:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I was just watching the original "True Grit" starring John Wayne. Yes, he deserved his Oscar for the role of Rooster Cogburn but opposite him was someone who played his part horribly. I am talking about Glenn Campbell as the Texas Ranger. Sheesh! Talk about stilted delivery. Really bad. Another example of bad acting was also in a John Wayne movie---"The Alamo." It was Frankie Avalon as Smitty who was supposed to be a young Tennessee frontiersman. I like Frankie Avalon in the beach flicks but, let's face it, he was waaay too urban to be believable in the role of Smitty. Whenever I see "The Alamo," it is impossible to forget that this is just a movie because of Frankie Avalon's completely unconvincing acting.
There are many other major movies with examples of really horrible acting. I cited a couple of such examples, so please list yours.
actually Conan was the only thing he was believable!
he was quite good and playing a two dimensional charcacter.
Dennis Quaid, as Doc Holliday, in Wyatt Earp.
Two come immediately to mind:
Lou Gossett Jr. in Jaws 3(-D)
Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints
There are so many potential winners in the Star Wars movies, but I have to agree with you. I had to use Google to make sure I agreed because my thought was “the guy who played the teenage Anakin” without having any idea what the loser’s name was.
I’m sure I’ll forget it within an hour. Hopefully everyone in the movie business has already done the same so we don’t have to see him on-screen again.
You really don't like song and dance routines, huh?
lol
“I always thought William Shatner wasn’t a very good actor, that whole Star Trek crew was lucky to get their parts and even luckier to have the fan base grow.”
Check on YouTube for Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Yes, but lines like, ...”To crush your enemies, see them driven before you ... and to hear the lamentation of their women!”,..are somewhat memorable.
I thought he said that as Gov. My bad. lol
Turn the heat down to 38 and you get a plane full of hibernating reptiles.
I did go ahead and watch “Snakes on a Tricycle” on YouTube.
Keanu Reeves in Speed tops my list
Didn’t see it. Did she do a lot of crying in it?
+1
All the actors in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The “Shark in the Pond” girl in Jaws, thankfully we never heard from her again
Aw, c’mon. He was great when he yelled “You Meathead !” before plunging the knife into J.C.
John Travolta, “Battlefield Earth”
I actually thought the child Anakin was not too bad - definitely not in the top 10 of bad Star Wars performances.
He was a bit obnoxious/precocious, but I think the role called for it.
As lousy as Grace Jones was in Conan thr Destroyer, she still did a better job than Ahnold.
That would be the dancing gang-bangers in West Side Story.
ANYTHING with a (c)rapper.
Sad part is Russel Crow's Robin Hood is 10x worse than Kevin Costner's.
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