Actors/Actresses who can't act for crap

[Savage Beast 1]

Ever wonder why some actors/actresses ever get work?

 

Name the one's who you think can't act their way out of a crap sack.

[Barnaby Wilde 0]

Kaenu Reeves instantly comes to mind

[peenie 1,915]

halle berry

but she's gorgeous!

[crackattack 520]

Jessica Alba. If she wasnt so freakin hot, she would be nothing but a trophy wife.

[redtodd 7]

Off the top of my head:

 

Ben Affleck

Nicolas Cage

Matthew McConaughey

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Kevin Costner

Owen Wilson

[wiffleball 4,790]

Kaenu Reeves instantly comes to mind

 

Absolutely.

 

On the female side, Andie McDowell wins hands down. She must be able to suck the chrome off a trailer-hitch to have ever gotten past the first audition.

[wiffleball 4,790]

Off the top of my head:

 

Ben Affleck

Nicolas Cage

Matthew McConaughey

 

Definitely agree with the first two. Nick Cage wouldnt' have gotten a gig if it weren't for his family connections.

 

last one: Disagree. I agree that he's never really ACTED, but people said that about Jimmy Stewart too. There's certain actors that are - am I using this right? - Character Actors. They never really shift from their onscreen personna from film to film, but they're enjoyable to watch. I'd probably put George Clooney in this category too.

[King of Gondor 0]

I don't get Denzel Washington. To me it just seems he "acts" his characters all in the same way, they just change his clothes

[KSB2424 3,148]

Kaenu Reeves instantly comes to mind

Yes, however he has a great skill that gets him by. Script Reading. Dude must be one helluv a script reader to pick the movies that he does. Speed, Matirx, Devil's Advocate, Point Break ect. Dude is an awful actor, but he knows which movies to take.

[peenie 1,915]

I don't get Denzel Washington. To me it just seems he "acts" his characters all in the same way, they just change his clothes

i agree, but robert deniro and jack nickelson are pretty much the same in each role as well.

[dain11279 976]

I don't get Denzel Washington. To me it just seems he "acts" his characters all in the same way, they just change his clothes

 

Wow. I super disagree. I think the dude has been amazing in all the movies I've seen him in.

[redtodd 7]

Absolutely.

 

On the female side, Andie McDowell wins hands down. She must be able to suck the chrome off a trailer-hitch to have ever gotten past the first audition.

 

I was actually going to include her on my list, but I haven't seen her in anything in a while. She is an awful actress and nothing special to look at either.

[King of Gondor 0]

Wow. I super disagree. I think the dude has been amazing in all the movies I've seen him in.

 

well, this probably belongs in an over-rated actor thread. To say he can't act is harsh. I think most of the movies he was in were pretty good, he's just not all that. He picks good roles, you got to give him that.

 

i agree, but robert deniro and jack nickelson are pretty much the same in each role as well.

 

I agree they both have distinct styles that carry over into each role. DeNiro usually plays similiar roles, but I think Nicholson was different. He definitely has a distinct style, but his roles were more diverse from 'one flew over' to 'the shining' to even 'a few good men'.

[redtodd 7]

Definitely agree with the first two. Nick Cage wouldnt' have gotten a gig if it weren't for his family connections.

 

I have a friend who loves any movie with Nick Cage. Drives me nuts. I try to explain to him that Nicholas Cage plays the role of Nicholas Cage in EVERY movie he is in.

[Franknbeans 46]

Ben Stiller

 

 

Cameron Diaz

[Brad GLuckman 519]

Jessica Alba. If she wasnt so freakin hot, she would be nothing but a trophy wife.

 

Agreed. One of those actresses who just seems like she's reading her lines from a piece of paper. But god damn she's hot.

 

I don't get Denzel Washington. To me it just seems he "acts" his characters all in the same way, they just change his clothes

 

I disagree. To me he's maybe the best actor today. I can't think of one movie he has been in that wasn't at least good. I'll watch anything he's in

[mighty_thor 115]

I have actually liked some of the movies these two guys have been in but if you really look at their acting it is pretty weak:

 

Kevin Costner and Ben Affleck.

 

There are plenty of others but these two standout to me because they are so overrated.

 

Matt Damon acting >>>>>>> than his buddy Affleck's acting

[mighty_thor 115]

i agree, but robert deniro and jack nickelson are pretty much the same in each role as well.

 

Denzel, nickolson and deniro are among the the greatest actors of today. They have played diverse rolls. They may have a niche with a certain type of roll but they have also stepped out and played different types of rolls.

[Old Sarge 0]

Completely agree with Reeves.

 

I'll add:

 

Danny Glover

Tom Berenger

John Travolta

[The Moz 69]

Bruce Willis -- Acts the exact same way in any fockng role!

 

I disagree With Cage - he isn't horrivble but admit he did get where he is becasue he is Coppalo's kid!!

[Savage Beast 1]

Kaenu Reeves instantly comes to mind

 

We have the winner.

 

And Nick Cage wins second place.

 

As for actresses, Pamela Anderson is as bad as it gets.

[Jeff Garcia 8]

Cindy Crawford

 

 

Pretty much any Baldwin brother minus Alec.

[gocolts 300]

Ben Stiller

Cameron Diaz

:pointstosky:

[gocolts 300]

Danny Glover

:pointstosky:

[Vikings4ever 550]

I don't get Denzel Washington. To me it just seems he "acts" his characters all in the same way, they just change his clothes

If that's the criteria, then Will Ferrell.

 

He plays the same damn arrogant doucheb@g in ever movie.

[Lionsjunkie 1]

If that's the criteria, then Will Ferrell.

 

He plays the same damn arrogant doucheb@g in ever movie.

 

I agree...not a fan of Will Ferrell at all

 

Cage played a good role when he was a fall down drunk in Leaving Las Vegas.... actually he won the Oscar for that role, other than that he is mehhhh

[wiffleball 4,790]

I have a friend who loves any movie with Nick Cage. Drives me nuts. I try to explain to him that Nicholas Cage plays the role of Nicholas Cage in EVERY movie he is in.

 

That one where he was the prisoner on the plane? Great cast - horrible lead. WTF? How do you fock up a southern accent? That accent was so on again, off again - it reminded me of Costner's phantom ("Oh yeah! I'm British!") accent in Robin Hood.

[Franknbeans 46]

I enjoyed Nick Cage in Kiss of Death

[gocolts 300]

I enjoyed Nick Cage in Kiss of Death

 

 

He played a real good dipshit in Raising Arizona. That role must have been very easy for him to play though.

[peenie 1,915]

Denzel, nickolson and deniro are among the the greatest actors of today. They have played diverse rolls. They may have a niche with a certain type of roll but they have also stepped out and played different types of rolls.

i don't think anyone was arguing that these guys aren't great actors. i think king of gondor was just noting that he acts the same way in all of his rolls. i love denzel, deniro and nicholson.

[porkbutt 893]

brad pitt

[King of Gondor 0]

i don't think anyone was arguing that these guys aren't great actors. i think king of gondor was just noting that he acts the same way in all of his rolls. i love denzel, deniro and nicholson.

 

[IGotWorms 4,058]

Natalie Portman is a focking terrible actress. The only movie I have seen that she was even okay in was Closer, and I think that is just because Jude Law and Clive Owen carried her performance.

 

 

And I gotta disagree big-time on George Clooney. Look at the role he plays in movies like Ocean's 11 and compare that with his performances in Syriana or Michael Clayton. The dude can obviously play more than one character. Plus he is a pretty good writer and director as well.

[Savage Beast 1]

What about 25 million per film actor Tom Cruise?

 

He can't act for crap, but he is a master of the Scientology scam.

 

He would make a used car salesman.

[wiffleball 4,790]

Natalie Portman is a focking terrible actress. The only movie I have seen that she was even okay in was Closer, and I think that is just because Jude Law and Clive Owen carried her performance.

And I gotta disagree big-time on George Clooney. Look at the role he plays in movies like Ocean's 11 and compare that with his performances in Syriana or Michael Clayton. The dude can obviously play more than one character. Plus he is a pretty good writer and director as well.

 

Wow. We are seriously going to have to disagree. Portman was amazing in The Professional. I remember seeing her in that movie and thinking she was going to be great. The only thing I haven't liked of hers was that godawful star wars crap and she didn't have a lot of material in that shiitfest.

 

Don't get me wrong. I like George as an actor, but he's really not that different in any of those three roles. - Still one of my favorite to watch along with Duvall.

[wiffleball 4,790]

brad pitt

 

Gotta admit, I've never really seen a role where I wasn't thinking the whole time, "yeah, he's Brad Pitt and he's acting allright."

 

I dunno where I stand with him. I mean, he's believable when he's distressed or angry (Seven, Mexican), but even then, I don't think of him as the character as much as I think of him as Brad Pitt Acting.

 

Contrast that with some of Clooney's roles where, while I obviously knew who he was, I at least bought off on the idea that he was Danny Ocean, etc.. Same with Mel Gibson - HUGE movie star, yet, even though I know who he is, I buy off on the character he plays. Just never been able to do that with Pitt.

[Savage Beast 1]

Natalie Portman is a focking terrible actress.

 

 

And that pretty boy Hayden Christensen who played Skywalker in the new Star Wars movies with her is even worse at acting.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

Wow. We are seriously going to have to disagree. Portman was amazing in The Professional. I remember seeing her in that movie and thinking she was going to be great. The only thing I haven't liked of hers was that godawful star wars crap and she didn't have a lot of material in that shiitfest.

 

Don't get me wrong. I like George as an actor, but he's really not that different in any of those three roles. - Still one of my favorite to watch along with Duvall.

 

Portman is terrible! I remember watching her in Garden State and she couldn't even fake cry for sh!t. It is pretty much the one thing that any actress ought to do. Even two-bit local performing artist center actresses can fake cry well. But not Portman--the scenes in Garden State where she was supposed to be all torn up were focking hilarious because she sucked so bad at it. She is just a cute face and nothing more in my opinion.

[Savage Beast 1]

Pirates Of The Caribbean's hot actress Keira Knightley can't act for crap. She's hot, but that's the only talent she has.