Your Top 10 worst Actors/Actresses Ever...

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I'm a bit in a mean spirit today so I'm trying to find something fun but harmless to channel my negativity before the WE. >:)

Denise Richards- her hair has more talent
Steven Seagal - why just why so much money wasted on so little talent
Jean-Claude Van Damme- I guess he was pretty and rather flexible...
Orlando Bloom - sorry but I just do think he's a bad actor
Melanie Griffith - apart from licking her lips in every scene I seen no acting
William Baldwin- Oh boy he's lucky that he was the pretty one
Arnold Schwarzenegger- Every time he said 'I'll be back', I wanted to say 'please don't bother'
Adam Sandler - that's a mystery but how does he manage to be so bankable?
Milla Jovovich - plastic beauty with very little substance.
Christopher Lambert- His French accent?... otherwise I don't get it.

The 100 Worst Actors and Actresses Ever - Subjective view
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls071395299/

Top 100 Greatest Actors of All Time (The Ultimate List) -Subjective view
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050274118/
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  • LMLM Posts: 63,327
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    edited 27/05/22 - 13:06 #2
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

  • pearlsandplumspearlsandplums Posts: 29,389
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    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman
  • AerickAerick Posts: 1,528
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    Funny someone says Melania Griffith, because I'd probably say the same. BUT Melanie has the unique ability to be a poor actress in some very good films that are highly entertaining. Apart from Working Girl (which I love "I have a brain for business and a bod for sin"), the best film she has been in and one of my faves is 1992's "Shining Through" (Michael Douglas, Liam Neeson and Joely Richardson) . Melanie plays a daughter of a German immigrant sent to Berlin during WW2 to infiltrate a Nazi offices household. If you think Melanie has a bland voice in general, gotta hear her speaking German. GREAT film though.
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    edited 27/05/22 - 23:29 #5
    xanderkey wrote: »
    I'm a bit in a mean spirit today so I'm trying to find something fun but harmless to channel my negativity before the WE. >:)


    Adam Sandler - that's a mystery but how does he manage to be so bankable?


    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050274118/

    He has an endearing quality to many.
  • pearlsandplumspearlsandplums Posts: 29,389
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    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman

    Slate
  • WhedoniteWhedonite Posts: 29,088
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    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman

    I said before that I think Caine is a poor actor, but I enjoy him in Educating Rita. I remember watching him in the Dark Knight and thinking his acting was baffling.

    I don’t mind Firth though. I saw him in Supernova recently and he was great. Same with the Staircase.

    No opinion on Hoffman’s acting, but I liked Rickman and he was great when he had to chew the scenery.
  • WhedoniteWhedonite Posts: 29,088
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    edited 28/05/22 - 02:10 #8
    xanderkey wrote: »
    I'm a bit in a mean spirit today so I'm trying to find something fun but harmless to channel my negativity before the WE. >:)

    Denise Richards- her hair has more talent
    Steven Seagal - why just why so much money wasted on so little talent
    Jean-Claude Van Damme- I guess he was pretty and rather flexible...
    Orlando Bloom - sorry but I just do think he's a bad actor
    Melanie Griffith - apart from licking her lips in every scene I seen no acting
    William Baldwin- Oh boy he's lucky that he was the pretty one
    Arnold Schwarzenegger- Every time he said 'I'll be back', I wanted to say 'please don't bother'
    Adam Sandler - that's a mystery but how does he manage to be so bankable?
    Milla Jovovich - plastic beauty with very little substance.
    Christopher Lambert- His French accent?... otherwise I don't get it.

    The 100 Worst Actors and Actresses Ever - Subjective view
    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls071395299/

    Top 100 Greatest Actors of All Time (The Ultimate List) -Subjective view
    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050274118/

    Lambert is an actor who isn’t fantastic at acting, but he’s very charming and has a certain charisma.

    I’m currently watching a Denise Richard’s movie and she’s watchable. Not a great actor, but also rather charming on screen. Dolph Lundgren is also in it. He’s… there.

    Adam Sandler is also a good actor, when he isn’t making terrible comedy movies.
  • LMLM Posts: 63,327
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    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman

    Oh i could have listed so many more actors and Alan likely would have made the list.

    I was racking my brain for bad female actresses though.
  • pearlsandplumspearlsandplums Posts: 29,389
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    Whedonite wrote: »
    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman

    I said before that I think Caine is a poor actor, but I enjoy him in Educating Rita. I remember watching him in the Dark Knight and thinking his acting was baffling.

    I don’t mind Firth though. I saw him in Supernova recently and he was great. Same with the Staircase.

    No opinion on Hoffman’s acting, but I liked Rickman and he was great when he had to chew the scenery.

    Colin firth seems to play mostly the same character - an unlikeable bumbling posh Englishman. He's quite likeable in mamma Mia, but he's still not very good at acting.

    I'm surprised Gwyneth paltrow is featuring so heavily (no 1 on that strange IMDb list). I don't particularly like her, but I've never found her spectacularly bad.
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    Emma Watson
    Florence Pugh
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    Scarlett Johansson
    Emilia Clarke
    Vanessa Hudgens
    Zooey Deschanel
    Julia Roberts
    Sally Hawkins
    Emma Stone

    James Franco
    James Corden
    Matthew Broderick
    Dermot Mulroney
    Ben Affleck
    Jason Segel
    Eddie Redmayne
    Kenneth Branagh
    Jeremy Irons
    Chris Pratt
  • WhedoniteWhedonite Posts: 29,088
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    edited 28/05/22 - 10:14 #12
    Whedonite wrote: »
    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    Thank you. I've never heard anyone else skate Michael Caine and Colin firth before. I think they're both awful too. I'll also add in Alan rickman and Dustin Hoffman

    I said before that I think Caine is a poor actor, but I enjoy him in Educating Rita. I remember watching him in the Dark Knight and thinking his acting was baffling.

    I don’t mind Firth though. I saw him in Supernova recently and he was great. Same with the Staircase.

    No opinion on Hoffman’s acting, but I liked Rickman and he was great when he had to chew the scenery.

    Colin firth seems to play mostly the same character - an unlikeable bumbling posh Englishman. He's quite likeable in mamma Mia, but he's still not very good at acting.

    I'm surprised Gwyneth paltrow is featuring so heavily (no 1 on that strange IMDb list). I don't particularly like her, but I've never found her spectacularly bad.

    That’s why I recommend the Staircase. He plays a creepy American who murdered his wife and he plays him really well.

    I have no issue with Paltrow, but I mostly know her for Shallow Hal and Iron Man, so not the best movies to judge her acting.
  • HelboreHelbore Posts: 16,066
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    You can't truly be classed as a bad actor until you put in a performance like this.
  • Walter NeffWalter Neff Posts: 9,148
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    LM wrote: »
    I love a good mean spirit thread @xanderkey I know many of mine have expressed before and some of which won't be popular but oh well. I feel this list would change all the time though if you asked me once a year.

    Worst actresses

    Kristen Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Leslie Caron, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Emma Thompson, Ingrid Bergman, and Cameron Diaz.

    Worst Actors

    Michael Caine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, Clint Eastwood, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson, Steve Seagal and Julian Sands

    I have never known anyone apart from me who thinks that Bergman is a lousy actress. When fans raved about her ethereal smile, I always saw it as a self regarding smirk.
  • sussex_seagirlsussex_seagirl Posts: 1,302
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    I suppose it depends whether you can say that someone is a bad actor/actress if they are effectively typecast into exactly the same kind of role each time, but they don't necessarily play it badly. I was surprised to see Colin Firth mentioned here, because I thought he was very good in The King's Speech, but then I do take the point that some of his roles are very similar. I didn't particularly rate Hugh Grant for the same typecast reason (many of his movie roles are almost interchangeable in my mind). But I thought he was good as Jeremy Thorpe in the TV series A Very English Scandal.
    I don't rate Steven Seagal or Arnold Schwarzenegger at all.
    I know lots of people think that Keira Knightley is great, but I find her quite irritating and I wouldn't say she's a brilliant actress.

  • HelboreHelbore Posts: 16,066
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    I suppose it depends whether you can say that someone is a bad actor/actress if they are effectively typecast into exactly the same kind of role each time, but they don't necessarily play it badly. I was surprised to see Colin Firth mentioned here, because I thought he was very good in The King's Speech, but then I do take the point that some of his roles are very similar. I didn't particularly rate Hugh Grant for the same typecast reason (many of his movie roles are almost interchangeable in my mind). But I thought he was good as Jeremy Thorpe in the TV series A Very English Scandal.
    I don't rate Steven Seagal or Arnold Schwarzenegger at all.
    I know lots of people think that Keira Knightley is great, but I find her quite irritating and I wouldn't say she's a brilliant actress.

    There's kinda different grades of actors;
    • Those that can play a completely different character in every role.
    • Those that play themselves inhabiting the life of a fictional character.
    • Those that can only play a particular type of character.
    • Those that have a limited range but get by on charisma.
    • Those that fail to talk or move like real people to the point you can't even suspend your disbelief.

    That's kinda my criteria. I'd probably put Colin Firth into category 2, whereas Hugh Grant would be cat 3. Someone like Schwartzneggar is definitely a category 4 and Tommy Wiseau is cat 5. I'd put someone like Gary Oldman in category 1.
  • pearlsandplumspearlsandplums Posts: 29,389
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    For all his playing the same character-ness, Hugh Grant was excellent in a very English scandal.
  • LMLM Posts: 63,327
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    For all his playing the same character-ness, Hugh Grant was excellent in a very English scandal.

    Hugh Grant seems to be having a late-career renaissance. His choice in roles and performances are really becoming quite varied since he ditched the rom-com genre.

    I have really enjoyed his work in Florence Foster Jenkins, Paddington 2, A Very English Scandal, The Gentlemen, and his appearances on Death To 2020/2021.
  • WhedoniteWhedonite Posts: 29,088
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    edited 29/05/22 - 16:39 #19
    Hugh Grant also played a completely different character in the Gentleman.

    Has any actor truly only ever played the same type of character? It seems like people just assume actors like Firth and Grant have only ever played stuffy English guys, because they haven’t seen their other roles.

    It reminds me of when people say Jennifer Aniston has only ever played 1 type of character, which completely ignores many of her roles. Who can watch Horrible Bosses and say that her rapist character was exactly the same as Rachel Green?
  • JamieHTJamieHT Posts: 12,195
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    Helbore wrote: »
    You can't truly be classed as a bad actor until you put in a performance like this.

    Who is that?
  • LMLM Posts: 63,327
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    JamieHT wrote: »
    Helbore wrote: »
    You can't truly be classed as a bad actor until you put in a performance like this.

    Who is that?

    Tommy Wiseau.
  • NoahsGirlNoahsGirl Posts: 454
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    Helbore wrote: »
    You can't truly be classed as a bad actor until you put in a performance like this.

    I see your Tommy Wiseau and raise you

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwwIjGTf2o
  • WhedoniteWhedonite Posts: 29,088
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    NoahsGirl wrote: »
    Helbore wrote: »
    You can't truly be classed as a bad actor until you put in a performance like this.

    I see your Tommy Wiseau and raise you

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwwIjGTf2o

    I highly recommend the Cinema Snob’s reviews/piss takes of his movies.
  • Legally_BlondeLegally_Blonde Posts: 1,646
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    Guess it's me again who's going to say Channing Tatum.

    I like Anne Hathaway but she's not great at accents.
  • dearmrmandearmrman Posts: 21,435
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    Quentin Tarantino should always stay behind the camera.
  • GulftasticGulftastic Posts: 127,194
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    Those saying Firth should check out 'Conspiracy'.

    It's chock full of thespianism at its finest, and he stands out.
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