Most overrated acting performance of all time

[rearnakedchoke]

Damn. Was just reading an article that Malcolm in the Middle has CTE from double digit concussions and can’t remember most of his life. Wtf.

Saw a thread on acting.

 

[Madmick]

Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Easily the most overrated duo performance in my lifetime.

Remarkable, generational actors, both of them, but they were hammy in that movie, and these are among the weakest performance in either's filmography. They weren't terrible, but they were mediocre at best. The movie itself is also absurdly overrated. It would be on my nomination list for most overrated action film of all time.

 

[Lando]

Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Easily the most overrated duo performance in my lifetime.

Remarkable, generational actors, both of them, but they were hammy in that movie, and these are among the weakest performance in either's filmography. They weren't terrible, but they were mediocre at best. The movie itself is also absurdly overrated. It would be on my nomination list for most overrated action film of all time.

Oh my goodness

 

[MWB1982]

Not sure if mentioned but Ledger's Joker is super overrated IMO... Most of what made that Joker was the script..

I felt like it got blown way out of proportion because of his death.

I hated his constant lip smacking when he talked.. WTF was that anyway??

Yeah, I did not like his version of the Joker

I think Joaquin Phoenix will make a much better Joker but the script and movie wont be as good so his version of the Joker won't be looked at as good.

 

[Tuf_guy]

I don't know why Jennifer Lawerance got an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook

 

[Madmick]

Oh my goodness

That's how I felt when I read your OP.

Ledger's Joker redefined how comic book movies are perceived and treated. It elevated the entire genre.

 

[DM1982]

I don't know why Jennifer Lawerance woman Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook

Cos she blew Harvey Weinstein when that still meant something in that damn town.

 

[Gregolian]

I know no one watched the first one or second one for incredible Oscar worthy performances but minus the "fight in the shade" and Sparta kick moments... most of both movies were, just... overacted into being corny.

 

[robertcop2]

Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Easily the most overrated duo performance in my lifetime.

Remarkable, generational actors, both of them, but they were hammy in that movie, and these are among the weakest performance in either's filmography. They weren't terrible, but they were mediocre at best. The movie itself is also absurdly overrated. It would be on my nomination list for most overrated action film of all time.

Totally agree. I can't pinpoint exactly what bugs me about their performances, but I don't really like Gladiator anymore. Like TDK, it is impressive on first view, but the second view the major flaws appear.

That's how I felt when I read your OP.

Ledger's Joker redefined how comic book movies are perceived and treated. It elevated the entire genre.

This is overrating Ledger's joker, exactly what the thread is about. Spiderman, Xmen and Iron Man came before TDK.

 

[Madmick]

This is overrating Ledger's joker, exactly what the thread is about. Spiderman, Xmen and Iron Man came before TDK.

And the Oscars didn't give a shit. Critics (and studios) treated them as movies staunchly entrenched in the summer blockbuster tradition. They were fun, but nothing more.

TDK changed that, and Ledger's joke was at the heart of that revolution. That's apparent in the fact that not only did he win Best Supporting Actor for the role, but after the film was snubbed for Best Picture, at the next year's ceremony, it became the first film in history shown in the year-in-review montage as the Oscars that was from the previous year.

That movie is the reason they (regrettably) expanded the Best Picture category to 10 nominations.

 

[Steve Rogers]

I don't know why Jennifer Lawerance woman Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook

I do love a Freudian slip.

 

[robertcop2]

And the Oscars didn't give a shit. Critics (and studios) treated them as movies staunchly entrenched in the summer blockbuster tradition. They were fun, but nothing more.

TDK changed that, and Ledger's joke was at the heart of that revolution. That's apparent in the fact that not only did he win Best Supporting Actor for the role, but after the film was snubbed for Best Picture, at the next year's ceremony, it became the first film in history shown in the year-in-review montage as the Oscars.

Yeah, very overrated, like you are doing right now.

The Oscars are no reliable benchmark for best acting. He won in 2009 because he died. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and RDJ deserved that Oscar more than Ledger.

And TDK snubbed as best picture? You mean to say TDK was among the top 5 best movies of 2008? Not even top 20.

 

[Tuf_guy]

I do love a Freudian slip.

It wasn't really that as much as being scatter-brained. It was at the point I ready to fall asleep, and I couldn't remember her name for a second, so I started to call her that woman in Silver Linings, but I remembered her name and added it. Then I hit send and dropped my phone.

 

[wufabufa]

The scene where Nicole Kiddman smokes weed in Eyes Wide Shut.

Not sure why Kubrik let her get away with that one, it was so bad.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Easily the most overrated duo performance in my lifetime.

Remarkable, generational actors, both of them, but they were hammy in that movie, and these are among the weakest performance in either's filmography. They weren't terrible, but they were mediocre at best. The movie itself is also absurdly overrated. It would be on my nomination list for most overrated action film of all time.

It was a tad hammy, but did you hate Joaquin's character?
i.e. his weird sister love, the way he wants to be 'loved' but won't earn it, he's just a massive ingrate, patricide etc...

I'm not saying he's Jason Isaacs as elder Malfoy or Col Tavington level of disgust, but he did do a good job eliciting that response. IMO at least

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

And the Oscars didn't give a shit. Critics (and studios) treated them as movies staunchly entrenched in the summer blockbuster tradition. They were fun, but nothing more.

TDK changed that, and Ledger's joke was at the heart of that revolution. That's apparent in the fact that not only did he win Best Supporting Actor for the role, but after the film was snubbed for Best Picture, at the next year's ceremony, it became the first film in history shown in the year-in-review montage as the Oscars.

But it caused no such revolution in the movie making comic book film industry like you’re claiming.

Companies didn’t try to re create that at all. In fact The MCU did something completely different with their universe and it turned out the MCU was/is the top dog in comic moviedom. The DCs movies are garbage and never came close to recapturing that one movies feel.

You’re simply being over the top here when saying “it caused a revolution.” It did no such thing

 

[WTF2008]

Both Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCrapio in Django. Great movie but nothing stood out from them.
Don fucking Johnson outshined them in that one.

My pick would be Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump. A stupid haircut and voice is all he brought to the role.

 

[SSOTO]

Ledger played Ned Kelly and it was much better acting than his Joker role.
Gump is the worst acting performance of Hanks career imo. Whether or not it was intended to be silly, it's like calling Jim Carrey in dumb and dumber a great performance.

Debatable . What's not debatable is Tom Hanks' best performance...

Spoiler

 

[Lando]

And the Oscars didn't give a shit. Critics (and studios) treated them as movies staunchly entrenched in the summer blockbuster tradition. They were fun, but nothing more.

TDK changed that, and Ledger's joke was at the heart of that revolution. That's apparent in the fact that not only did he win Best Supporting Actor for the role, but after the film was snubbed for Best Picture, at the next year's ceremony, it became the first film in history shown in the year-in-review montage as the Oscars.

What was so great about his performance as the joker in your view? No one else has answered.

The people that didn't like it in here have said it was somewhat contrived, overacted, hammy, annoying (constant lip smacking) and as I said above all overrated. I personally thought he did good, even really good. But not in any ballpark worthy of the praise he gets.

And if you're going to say on screen presence for example, what makes it any better than any normal Deniro, Crowe, Denzel or Hopkins role who manage to make average movies watchable by virtue of them being in it?

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I would say most performances are overrated. I mean, it’s fucking acting. I act like I give a shit about what people have to say every day.