Most overrated acting performance of all time

[badascan]

Ghost...dog?

Sure... dog...

 

[RetiredSlave]

Ya mean Anthony Hopkins? Because Hannibal Lecter has been played by several actors.

Yeah I forgot his name. The original Silence of the Lambs performance. Buffalo Bill stole that show imo.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Yeah I forgot his name. The original Silence of the Lambs performance. Buffalo Bill stole that show imo.

Well The Silence of the Lambs was Hopkins's original Lecter performance, but it wasn't the original performance. Lecter was actually first played by Brian Cox in Manhunter in 1986.

 

[Jesus X]

Marlon brando in godfather. So corny. Out acted by everyone else in the film.

Nobody talks like that.

marlon brando in apocalypse now that was a dumb film.

 

[Jesus X]

Denzel Training Day.

Wait!!! Lemme land.

Not saying he wasn't good, Denzel is the man. But folks acted like that was his best performance ever (probably because he got the Oscar) I think Malcolm X was his better performance he was performing like he channeled Malcolm or something (some say he did).

A lot of his acting afterwards was a caricature of Alonzo.

<{monica}>

his performance in remember the titans was also better than training day

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Marlon brando in godfather. So corny. Out acted by everyone else in the film.

Nobody talks like that.

To be fair I think the Godfather generally is a much pulpier film than its often talked up as being so the character being so much larger than life isn't really terrible even if its not some great study in naturalism. Its part 2 I'd say comes rather more down to earth in style, especially the Micheal story.

Brando in Apoc Now is great, all that build-up for his appearance and it doesn't feel like a disappointment.

 

[Vergilius]

Look at all you wimps hating on legitimately great acting performances and calling them overrated. Who's next? DeNiro in Taxi Driver? Phillip Seymour Hoffman? Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice? Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardner?

 

[Herwald]

Pretty much every comedian/comedic actor who tried to do a serious role.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Nicole Kidman in The Hours (yay she wore an ugly nose)..

That did feel a bit "give and Oscar to pretty actress who makes some effort to be ugly but isn't really", not a bad performance but actually it was Stephen Dilane who carried those scenes IMHO.

Generally though I think Kidman is someone who naturally got pushed towards quite straight forward roles she wasn't best suited to based on looks, same as Johansson or Colin Farrell. Actors really much better suited to playing oddball roles and in her case I think the uptight/ditzy woman hiding something more, Birth is I think her best performance but that's not a Calculon style "acting talent" style role the academy loves.

 

[Steve Rogers]

That did feel a bit "give and Oscar to pretty actress who makes some effort to be ugly but isn't really", not a bad performance but actually it was Stephen Dilane who carried those scenes IMHO.

Generally though I think Kidman is someone who naturally got pushed towards quite straight forward roles she wasn't best suited to based on looks, same as Johansson or Colin Farrell. Actors really much better suited to playing oddball roles and in her case I think the uptight/ditzy woman hiding something more, Birth is I think her best performance but that's not a Calculon style "acting talent" style role the academy loves.

Plus it was pretty damn controversial.

 

[LHWBelt]

Denzel Training Day.

Wait!!! Lemme land.

Not saying he wasn't good, Denzel is the man. But folks acted like that was his best performance ever (probably because he got the Oscar) I think Malcolm X was his better performance he was performing like he channeled Malcolm or something (some say he did).

A lot of his acting afterwards was a caricature of Alonzo.

<{monica}>

I haven't actually seen Malcolm X but what you just said was blasphemous. Training Day is in my all time top 10 for sure and it's mainly because of him. Fences was quite good by him recently I think that was his best one in a long time.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Plus it was pretty damn controversial.

True although if you actually watch it then its clearly not a fantasy, even without that though its not the kind of thing the academy would go for, subtle performance in a strange arthouse film. The same way say Johansson didn't get nominated for Her or Under the Skin or Farrell didn't get nominated for In Bruges or The Lobster.

Oscars typically get handed out for quite a narrow idea of "serious acting" in "worthy" films.

 

[jimbob27]

The Matrix and Speed are awesome films, but Keanu Reeves has always been a terrible actor.

I just looked it up, and quite rightly he hasn't won or been nominated for any of the big awards.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

The Matrix and Speed are awesome films, but Keanu Reeves has always been a terrible actor.

I just looked it up, and quite rightly he hasn't won or been nominated for any of the big awards.

To be fair I think his built up gravitas with age and now holds his own in the John Wick films, obviously not the most demanding acting roles outside of the action but his presence for that is a positive not a negative.

 

[SamSchmidt]

Denzel Training Day.

Wait!!! Lemme land.

Not saying he wasn't good, Denzel is the man. But folks acted like that was his best performance ever (probably because he got the Oscar) I think Malcolm X was his better performance he was performing like he channeled Malcolm or something (some say he did).

A lot of his acting afterwards was a caricature of Alonzo.

<{monica}>

Meh. I thought Alonzo was one of the GOAT characters. His flaws were realistic. He was Alonzo before he was Denzel

 

[SamSchmidt]

The Matrix and Speed are awesome films, but Keanu Reeves has always been a terrible actor.

I just looked it up, and quite rightly he hasn't won or been nominated for any of the big awards.

Horseshit

 

[BisexualMMA]

The Matrix and Speed are awesome films, but Keanu Reeves has always been a terrible actor.

I just looked it up, and quite rightly he hasn't won or been nominated for any of the big awards.

I doubt we'll see him nominated for anything... I don't think he's a bad actor in terms of reading false. He is just very un-expressive. That said, you don't often see him force an emotion that isn't there and deliver a line that reads patently false, especially these days.

 

[SamSchmidt]

Who you got and why?

I got Heath Ledgers joker due to him kicking the bucket

Tell us why you thought he sucked then

 

[SamSchmidt]

This is a bullshit thread. I'm calling bullshit. Alonzo and heaths joker. Leg wait for it. Come on son. It's obviously not overrated.

Training day was some realistic ass shit.

Heath owned joker.

I don't defend them just defend them they owned those characters

 

[sleepyguard85]

Marlon brando in godfather. So corny. Out acted by everyone else in the film.

Nobody talks like that.

I see his performance in Godfather... and raise you his performance in Apocalypse Now