Most overrated acting performance of all time

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Wait co-stars were praising him whilst promoting the film? Wow unusual. That definitely equates to the vague "People were raving about it before he died."

If you enjoy hamburgers over steak mignon my friend, more power to you.

Ledger put in a very good performance, no doubt. Perhaps up there with the best in comic book film / popcorn movie history.

If you want to say it's an all time great performance in the history of cinema.......<45><45><45>.

Yes, Co-stars were talking about how amazing he’d been during shooting, they were saying it was Oscar worthy. I doubt it was lip service, and it was spot on seeing that he went on to win the Oscar, something that most likely happens regardless of his death.


Feel free to post up interviews with guys like Cain and Bale prior to film releases gushing over co-stars performances as Oscar worthy from their other films.


Like I said, you needed to toss out a preemptive disclaimer at the end of your last post so you could come back in here if I responded with a limp wristed attempt to brush off the credit Heath was getting. And the results are par for the course on your end.


And lol @ you saying the performance isn’t an all time great -it won an Oscar, is still talked about years later, and catapulted the Joker character into one of the most scrutinized and sought after film roles for an actor to play. If anyone here is lacking a palate for performance here, it’s you.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I always thought Ledger was great as Joker

Now his relatively weak performance in the Patriot (as well as the better one by Mel), on the other hand, is completely outshadowed by the Masterclass put on by Jason Isaacs as Col Tavington

Another great performance for Heath is Skip Engblum (sp) in ‘Lords of Dogtown’ which has a decent amount of solid performances by others too.

 

[LEWIS540]

Yes, Co-stars were talking about how amazing he’d been during shooting, they were saying it was Oscar worthy. I doubt it was lip service, and it was spot on seeing that he went on to win the Oscar, something that most likely happens regardless of his death.


Feel free to post up interviews with guys like Cain and Bale prior to film releases gushing over co-stars performances as Oscar worthy from their other films.


Like I said, you needed to toss out a preemptive disclaimer at the end of your last post so you could come back in here if I responded with a limp wristed attempt to brush off the credit Heath was getting. And the results are par for the course on your end.


And lol @ you saying the performance isn’t an all time great -it won an Oscar, is still talked about years later, and catapulted the Joker character into one of the most scrutinized and sought after film roles for an actor to play. If anyone here is lacking a palate for performance here, it’s you.

“It won an Oscar”


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If you think it was an all time great performance, fine. I don’t even think it necessarily makes you simple. It’s a nice shiny performance that catches your eye easily when you are a teenage boy. When you grow up you’ll probably develop more mature tastes.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Another great performance for Heath is Skip Engblum (sp) in ‘Lords of Dogtown’ which has a decent amount of solid performances by others too.

It's Engblom with an o. By the way, the Cain in Michael's case has an e on the end. It's Caine, not Cain. Michael Caine.

 

[lostdog000]

Alliance of Women Film Journalists
2013 Nominee
EDA Female Focus Award Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star
Haywire (2011)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
2013 Nominee
Critics Choice Award Best Actress in an Action Movie
Haywire (2011)

Golden Schmoes Awards
2012 Nominee
Golden Schmoes Breakthrough Performance of the Year
Haywire (2011)

 

[I Am Legion]

I don't want my Batman bright and fun and campy. I want my Dark Knight dark.

Doesn’t need to be bright and fun and campy. But needs elements of balance or else it’s Seven or Silence of The Lambs....it’s. Afucking comic book character. It turned out to be a movie with a domestic terrorist. Ok to give Batman a dark edge, but the whole movie was dark.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Doesn’t need to be bright and fun and campy. But needs elements of balance or else it’s Seven or Silence of The Lambs....it’s. Afucking comic book character. It turned out to be a movie with a domestic terrorist. Ok to give Batman a dark edge, but the whole movie was dark.

A more realistic comic book character than most. The more realistic his movies, the better for me.

 

[bigkick]

Rosebud!!!!

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Nailed it with Ledger. With that silly, contrived voice he used, it sounds like he belonged in a big bang theory role instead of the joker. Really though, that entire movie is overrated, and as the years go by more and more people are realizing it. Time has its way of sorting these things out.

It was a great movie and ledger did a great job, gtfo with that nonsense. Its easily top 3 best comic book movies of all time, arguably the best. What kind of crack have you been smoking?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Tom Hanks in almost all of his roles, although I say that as someone that likes him as a human and an actor.

Hannibal Lecter is overrated.

Jodie Foster is overrated.

Meryl Streep is the most overrated thespian in history.

Go back to watching your rom coms , lol

 

[mrsenor]

this character

 

[Deleted member 110072]

“It won an Oscar”

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If you think it was an all time great performance, fine. I don’t even think it necessarily makes you simple. It’s a nice shiny performance that catches your eye easily when you are a teenage boy. When you grow up you’ll probably develop more mature tastes.

To be fair performances in action blockbusters do not win Oscars very often if at all. Guinness for Starwars and McKellan for Fellowship of the Ring are the only two that come to mind as even being nominated although I do suspect his death had a lot to do with the result.

 

[Prutfis]

Will Ferrell is one of the most overrated "actors" around. He isn´t funny and always plays the same semi-retarded manchild who screams a lot.

 

[DM1982]

Leonardo DiCaprio in the Revenant is IMO an overrated performance.

But Leo is a great actor, I feel out of all his Oscar nominated performances, the Revenant was one of the weaker ones but he won the Oscar for it.

He got acted off the screen by Tom Hardy.

If I didn't know who Tom Hardy was, I'd have sworn he genuinely was a legit grizzled southern fella.

That was what Leo was going for but he just isnt up to it, what with his nasally voice and aging manchild face.

Leo was way better in Wolf or The departed.

 

[LEWIS540]

To be fair performances in action blockbusters do not win Oscars very often if at all. Guinness for Starwars and McKellan for Fellowship of the Ring are the only two that come to mind as even being nominated although I do suspect his death had a lot to do with the result.

Of course it did. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being disingenuous (and they probably don't know what that word means).

 

[LEWIS540]

He got acted off the screen by Tom Hardy.

If I didn't know who Tom Hardy was, I'd have sworn he genuinely was a legit grizzled southern fella.

That was what Leo was going for but he just isnt up to it, what with his nasally voice and aging manchild face.

Leo was way better in Wolf or The departed.

Yeah, but he actually ate a raw liver!!!! Fantastic acting.

Yet another example of how media and hype are more important than the acting performance when it comes to these awards.

 

[roman510]

People are tough to please. Heaths Joker was incredible. The issue was the film. It took all the fun and turned it into a brutal, ultra violent crime drama. To me a superhero movie should bring out the joy of when we were kids reading comics or watching the campy Batman TV show. Heath needed a counter balance, but Bale was almost as dark so it was a solemn movie.

Brutal, ultra violent crime drama?

Dude it's fucking PG 13

 

[CyberRubberDuck]

Who you got and why?

I got Heath Ledgers joker due to him kicking the bucket

I disagree. Everyone raved about Jack Nicholson joker and he didn't die. Yet ledgers was far better.
Reason I'm saying is I thought his performance was awesome, to create a new version of an already established character. Him dying played no part in me liking his role.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Yeah, but he actually ate a raw liver!!!! Fantastic acting.

Yet another example of how media and hype are more important than the acting performance when it comes to these awards.

I do suspect he would have been nominated even without that though which is a pretty good achievement for an action blockbuster role.

My view really is "it is what it is", its a very characterful blockbuster villain performance which isn't just going wall to wall and does have some subtly to it relative to what you typically get in such roles but obviously it doesn't give room for any great depth of character/drama and is quite one note.

There does seem to be a tenancy here to favour performances that play up a character and a looking down on someone "playing themselves" but really I'd say that downplays selling drama well. An actor can "play themselves" in terms of voice, mannerisms, etc and still give an excellent performance selling drama that obviously isn't real.

 

[I Am Legion]

Brutal, ultra violent crime drama?

Dude it's fucking PG 13

Everyone knows Nolan had his way with the MPAA. His own crew said the pencil scene alone should have earned the movie an R. Joker lliterally stabs a guy in the head and murders him with a pencil. He burns Lau. So a 13 year old that watches Avengers and X Men type of strife and violence and goes sees this? You don’t see a difference? The ferry scene, the hospital, the interrogations, ....these are brutal intense scenes. This movie should have been an R all the way. Deadpool violence was done in a comic book way...these were not.