Most overrated acting performance of all time

[Takes Two To Tango]

Bill Murray, Steve Martin, and Billy Crystal have all had at least one solid performance in a drama role. The pattern here is they all come from a different era.

I give it to you for Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, not those other guys though.

 

[Loiosh]

Didn't he show up to that shoot half dead from obesity and alcohol?
IIRC the moment he got to set, plans were made to shoot him in heavy shadow and edit around him.
Might be mistaken.
But it isn't exactly a powerhouse performance.

Here's a rare article, from the time the film was released, that wasn't in love with the performance or even the film.

Personally I disagree with most of what is said in it, but it's a valid opinion.

The article doesn't like Pacino either, saying the role was "too big" for him, while I'm hard pressed to think of anyone better as anything than Pacino as Michael.

“The Godfather” and the Decline of Marlon Brando

"I don’t see how any gifted actor could have done less than Brando does here."​

 

[Loiosh]

Didn't he show up to that shoot half dead from obesity and alcohol?
IIRC the moment he got to set, plans were made to shoot him in heavy shadow and edit around him.
Might be mistaken.
But it isn't exactly a powerhouse performance.

Here's a rare article, from the time the film was released, that wasn't in love with the performance or even the film.

Personally I disagree with most of what is said in it, but it's a valid opinion.

The article doesn't like Pacino either, saying the role was "too big" for him, while I'm hard pressed to think of anyone better as anything than Pacino as Michael.

“The Godfather” and the Decline of Marlon Brando

"I don’t see how any gifted actor could have done less than Brando does here."​

 

[Alphaboy]

I give it to you for Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, not those other guys though.

Jamie Foxx, Ray

 

[hiphopnazi]

Like most good actors starting out, they become the character. But Brad Pitt just plays himself in every movie now.

 

[HereticBD]

I recall noone making a fuss about it until after his death as well.

Umm, he died like six months before the movie was released. Nobody knew how good his performance was at the time of his death.

Seriously though, Darth Vader? He's a good character, but acting wise it was a guy walking around in a cool costume, and JEJ dubbing the whole performance. It's not even remotely comparable to the work Ledger put in.

 

[Bacco]

Who you got and why?

I got Heath Ledgers joker due to him kicking the bucket

Came to say Ledger, and i liked HL as actor... Bravo TS

Tbh it's possible see fingers likely touched eyes first before slide down on mouth, and it was a blatant eye-poke attempt while at it

 

[Steve Rogers]

But he has a point. Besides Robin Williams, comedic actors can't really do dramatic roles. They don't come off naturalistic.

Bill Murray, Steve Martin, and Billy Crystal have all had at least one solid performance in a drama role. The pattern here is they all come from a different era.

I've heard Adam Sandler is good in his dramatic roles, although I've never seen any of his dramas.

Here's a rare article, from the time the film was released, that wasn't in love with the performance or even the film.

Personally I disagree with most of what is said in it, but it's a valid opinion.

The article doesn't like Pacino either, saying the role was "too big" for him, while I'm hard pressed to think of anyone better as anything than Pacino as Michael.

“The Godfather” and the Decline of Marlon Brando

"I don’t see how any gifted actor could have done less than Brando does here."​

He was talking about Apocalypse Now when he said that, not The Godfather. Didn't you follow the flow of the conversation?

 

[KaNesDeath]

Most recent to me would be Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone and Assassination of Jesse James.

 

[squeakymcgill]

Heath Ledger's Joker was good...really good...but STILL overrated.

Who the fuck thinks Vader was a great performance? Great character, not acting performance.

 

[4daLuLZ]

Anything harry ford plays in.

I couldn't have said it better.

P.s. and he's a mediocre character, I might add.

No more adding from you

Well, I've said what I wanted to say.

Dropped it on your foot there, buddy.

 

[JOE QUEEF]

 

[Steve Rogers]

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Heath Ledger's Joker was good...really good...but STILL overrated.

Who the fuck thinks Vader was a great performance? Great character, not acting performance.

Sadly Lucas didn't see the genius of Prowse's original vocal performance.

 

[ufcfan4]

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”

I feel like there's two Pacinos...Pacino pre-Sea of Love where he's generally more understated and nuanced. Pacino post-Sea of Love where his cigarette-altered gravely voice is yelling at the top of his lungs continually. Whether it's Big Boy Caprice or Frank in Scent of a Woman or the coach in Any Given Sunday.

That's not at all to say he's regressed as an actor.. He's still great in good movies. The Insider is one of the my favorite films from the late 90s and Pacino is a huge part of that. I think he commands the screen in Scent of a Woman. But some of his films subsequent to 2000 have been rough.

Thought he was great as Kevorkian and deserved that Emmy he got. Interesting that his more acclaimed work in the past decade was in TV movies.

That said, awesome cameo in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and looking forward to seeing him in the Irishman. Seems like a big year for him.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

Who you got and why?

I got Heath Ledgers joker due to him kicking the bucket

And this my friends is the theory that ranks as the most overused analysis on an acting performance to date.

Here's the actual timeline;

• 2006 - Ledger gets announced to play the Joker. Internet mostly explodes with disappointment.
• 2007 - Two Dark Knight trailers and a prologue are released. Internet fully explodes with excitement that acting looks to be amazing.
• 2008 - Ledger dies, Dark Knight released to accolades
• Today - Oh Ledger sucks, his death was the real reason for the accolades.

Your theory is complete bullshit and it's easily proven to be incorrect. If your theory is Ledger wouldn't have gotten an Oscar then thats a possibility but impossible to prove. The theory that his performance got high accolades in general because he died is possibly the dumbest shit I see regurgitated on the internet today. Sometimes I wonder if it's posted by people who were too young to actually know what the fuck was going on in 2006-2007 or possible just hiding on a cultural rock at the time.

 

[fungi]

Dropped it on your foot there, buddy.

Ok.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I feel like there's two Pacinos...Pacino pre-Sea of Love where he's generally more understated and nuanced. Pacino post-Sea of Love where his cigarette-altered gravely voice is yelling at the top of his lungs continually. Whether it's Big Boy Caprice or Frank in Scent of a Woman or the coach in Any Given Sunday.

That's not at all to say he's regressed as an actor.. He's still great in good movies. The Insider is one of the my favorite films from the late 90s and Pacino is a huge part of that. I think he commands the screen in Scent of a Woman. But some of his films subsequent to 2000 have been rough.

Thought he was great as Kevorkian and deserved that Emmy he got. Interesting that his more acclaimed work in the past decade was in TV movies.

That said, awesome cameo in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and looking forward to seeing him in the Irishman. Seems like a big year for him.

The big shift was surely Scarface, that's were the really over the top Pacino first appeared and was clearly his most successful 80's film. Perhaps going back to the stage a lot around that point also resulted in a shifted towards the "hoo-ha" style? you can't really pull off the kind of subtle acting the camera can pickup on stage.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

lol that performance changed movie acting forever.

 

[El Chimpo]

The big shift was surely Scarface, that's were the really over the top Pacino first appeared and was clearly his most successful 80's film. Perhaps going back to the stage a lot around that point also resulted in a shifted towards the "hoo-ha" style? you can't really pull off the kind of subtle acting the camera can pickup on stage.

Scarface bombed in the 80s tho

Only became a cult classic and successful later on