Most overrated acting performance of all time

[Bargey]

Pacino in Heat. Over Acting at its finest. “ Hey I’m sure if I yell my lines no will notice that I’m just above average”

Pacino overacts in alot of his movies. Still compelling to watch though. I think every movie after the Godfather 1 and 2 is him overacting.

 

[HereticBD]

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.

Gonna disagree on Phoenix. I think he carries that otherwise average movie, and is the only reason the movie has any emotional impact at all. Great villain. He keeps you watching just to see him get what's coming to him.

One of the more overrated movies for sure though.

 

[LEWIS540]

BUT...the violence in TDK is tastefully done. As is the dialogue. There's really nothing that would earn it an R-rating. Deadpool on the other hand had gory violence, crass sexual humor, and expletive filled language. The language alone would nab Deadpool an R-rating.

From the categories the MPAA judges when handing out ratings, TDK doesn't even come close to an R-rating. It has nothing to do with Nolan pulling strings. It just rides the line. There is no blood, no foul language, and no sex or drugs. The only scene they might've looked at a bit, is the phone bomb scene, where they show the after surgery with the phone in the guy's belly. That was real close to something they might deem a bit too disturbing and grotesque for PG-13. The hanging scene might be up there too. On the whole though, it's a fairly typical PG-13 cut.

Not even an honourable mention for the guy getting half his face burned off?


I wonder if Aaron Eckhart couldn't handle his drugs, he'd of won awards, too?

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Pacino overacts in alot of his movies. Still compelling to watch though. I think every movie after the Godfather 1 and 2 is him overacting.

I think it's because his voice changes to a more deeper tone after the Godfather 1 & 2. So whenever he shouts it sounds over the top.

 

[Gregolian]

Not even an honourable mention for the guy getting half his face burned off?


I wonder if Aaron Eckhart couldn't handle his drugs, he'd of won awards, too?

Maybe if Eckhart's film library wasn't full of complete "wtfs" like I Frankenstein he'd have won an award.

 

[HereticBD]

Not even an honourable mention for the guy getting half his face burned off?

Ehh, maybe, but it's a trait of the character. Don't know how they take that into consideration, TBH. In a different context, it could nab an R-rating, I suppose, like in a war movie perhaps where it's played up like a serious wound. It was a pretty raw look, but it's also disarming and takes away the realism when he's walking around and hamming it up with that look.

Not that the MPAA's logic is all that consistent though.

I wonder if Aaron Eckhart couldn't handle his drugs, he'd of won awards, too?

No, because his performance was not that good. He's probably the weakest link in that movie.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Gonna disagree on Phoenix. I think he carries that otherwise average movie, and is the only reason the movie has any emotional impact at all. Great villain. He keeps you watching just to see him get what's coming to him.

One of the more overrated movies for sure though.

Crowe certainly isn't bad in it but without Phoenix the film would be a pretty straight forward bit of revenge heroism.

You do tend to see a pattern were a young actor has a break though performance like that and Hollywood ignores what actually made it interesting and tries to shoehorn them into standard leading roles for years. Johansson was the same breaking though with Lost In Translation/Girl with the Pearl Earring and spending the rest of the decade trying to be forced into standard leading actress roles.

 

[StewDogg11]

Surprised how no one’s mentioned how Ledger modeled all his mannerisms from Tom Waits.

 

[lostdog000]

jack nicholson has a few

 

[Danger Dave]

 

[Danger Dave]

Surprised how no one’s mentioned how Ledger modeled all his mannerisms from Tom Waits.

 

[Jim Cozad Jr.]

Robert De Niro...in everything...

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Maybe if Eckhart's film library wasn't full of complete "wtfs" like I Frankenstein he'd have won an award.

He's in a similar kind of position to Fassbender I'd say were he's become a relatively well known but is rather too slimy to be cast as conventional romantic leads so ends up in some "WTF" films instead.

 

[RichardHarrow]

Robert De Niro...in everything...

Boo this man.

 

[lostdog000]

Robert De Niro...in everything...

 

[robertcop2]

Robert De Niro...in everything...

 

[Sir Galahad]

Robert De Niro...in everything...

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[Fight To Win]

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Gangs of New York, was the wrong choice for the role. Any role that involved him doing an accent actually. Blood Diamond for example.

 

[Woldog]

You obviously don't watch them, then.

Not too bad? They have been miserable.

I don't watch any Soccer I'm a rugby man, so you got me on that but aren't they like 2w 3d 2L?

 

[LEWIS540]

I don't watch any Soccer I'm a rugby man, so you got me on that but aren't they like 2w 3d 2L?

Playing like shit though.

RWC has kept me sane.