ok which famous or semi famous actors do you think cant act?




his roles in pulp fiction and dusk till dawn are hard to watch, he seems like he is reading his lines and doesnt have much range,
i dont know why he gets work

12/8/2008 3:25:52 PM

Christopher Walken (most specifically) on SNL

12/8/2008 3:29:31 PM

Corky

12/8/2008 3:29:53 PM

you've got to be kidding me

lock this abortion of a thread if it's going to start with harvey fucking keitel

12/8/2008 3:29:55 PM

^haha, bring up oscar nominations, thats wack, how about talking about any of his great performances.

keitel has sucked hard core in many roles, there may be a few he is good at but the vast majority of times he sucks

12/8/2008 3:31:11 PM

i knew it wasn't gonna take long before people started gettin RILED

OH GOD

SEASON 2

12/8/2008 3:32:07 PM

ok.... the thread title and opening question are very different.

the list famous actors that can't act has to start with Brendan FUCKING Fraser.

12/8/2008 3:34:15 PM

yeah, then Keanu Reeves

12/8/2008 3:44:44 PM

and heather graham

12/8/2008 3:51:33 PM

i disagree with ^^ and ^^^, keanu has his style of acting and is always believalbe even if he doesnt have a good range of emotions
i totally dont get the brendan, check out "with honors", "blast from the past", etc

[Edited on December 8, 2008 at 3:53 PM. Reason : ^]

12/8/2008 3:53:01 PM

are you telling me that there's redeeming qualities to "Blast From the Past"!?!?!

12/8/2008 3:55:32 PM

i'm also of the opinion that walken is playing what people want to see as "christopher walken" when he's on snl

he knows he's on live tv, and you know he's on live tv, but the important part is that he knows you know he knows

you don't throw down like that in biloxi blues if you can't act

the redeeming qualities in blast from the past are everything except the two leads; walken, spacek, and foley are pretty good

12/8/2008 3:55:55 PM

Blast from the Past does remind me how god awful Alicia Silverstone is.

12/8/2008 4:00:48 PM

christopher walken is awesome, and whether he can act or not, he regularly doesn't, vinylbandit be damned.

12/8/2008 4:09:32 PM

yeah thread title and OP question can be considered different.

why didn't you just say "Famous Actors that can't act" i mean seriously.


i can agree with you about Keitel to a degree, he's not that great on Life on Mars.

Beyonce Knowles is a horrendous actress.

12/8/2008 4:11:56 PM

phoning it in is a whole different thing, though

paging dennis hopper and gene hackman

12/8/2008 4:12:12 PM

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"i disagree with ^^ and ^^^, keanu has his style of acting and is always believalbe even if he doesnt have a good range of emotions"

yea I kind of agree with that, I would like to hate on the guy but he does usually get the job done, even if his abilities are somewhat limited

12/8/2008 4:18:31 PM

i swear to god if i see Kevin Costner's name in this thread i will bring a gun and shoot the place up.



Yah Mo B There

12/8/2008 4:22:24 PM

I really don't think Brendan Fraser is a bad actor. Most of his roles are for pretty corny movies, and he plays those roles well.

He was pretty awesome in "With Honors" and "School Ties."

12/8/2008 4:30:57 PM

and really shitty in the Mummy series.

12/8/2008 4:34:14 PM

Again...

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"Most of his roles are for pretty corny movies, and he plays those roles well."

I don't know what the fuck you are expecting from the lead actor in the Mummy series...but I think he pretty much hits the nail on the head.

12/8/2008 4:43:00 PM

Is it wrong of me to LOVE The Mummy series?

12/8/2008 4:48:13 PM

yes

12/8/2008 4:50:51 PM

the mummy is garbage

but the mummy returns is too ridiculous not to love

12/8/2008 4:52:44 PM

VAN DAMME

12/8/2008 4:57:45 PM

Encino Man changed my life.

12/8/2008 4:58:39 PM

12/8/2008 5:00:03 PM

Kevin Costner

although I enjoy most of his movies

12/8/2008 6:29:13 PM

ever seen oceans eleven/twelve/seventeen? classic "put actors who can act with actors who can't" movies


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12/8/2008 6:32:14 PM

i'm confused, is this can't act as in soap opera can't act or is this the same as actors that play the same character in every movie? because to me, that's not really acting. i'm looking in your direction owen wilson.

12/8/2008 6:41:12 PM

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"same as actors that play the same character in every movie"

i think it has to be this

12/8/2008 6:44:12 PM

wait

lafta thinks keanu reeves brings better performances than harvey keitel?

wow

and i love how the guy uses "dawn of the dead" as one of keitel's sub-par roles, as if that movie is a good barometer or something

i really hope lafta is trolling us all

12/8/2008 6:59:59 PM

"dawn of the dead" ?

what on earth are you talking about, lol

12/8/2008 7:15:40 PM

Hayden Christensen

Although I wouldn't consider him the "best" anything, he definitely can't act.

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"VAN DAMME"

He's actually getting great reviews regarding his acting in JCVD. I'm thinking about checking it out.

12/8/2008 7:20:33 PM

sorry

"dusk till dawn" =/= "dawn of the dead"

12/8/2008 7:23:43 PM

Harvey Keitel is the man.

So is Walken.

12/8/2008 8:52:26 PM

lafta is quite possibly the most consistently stupid poster on TWW.

12/8/2008 8:55:01 PM

Taxi Driver
Mean Streets

12/8/2008 9:14:51 PM

are we talking consistently successful actors that can't act for shit but somehow continue to get work?

Nicolas Cage.

are we going people who believe they are fucking thespians and really are ass?

jeff goldblum. but that's more of a he knows you know he knows situation vinylbandit was talking about.

12/8/2008 10:51:21 PM

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"Kevin Costner"

12/8/2008 11:52:53 PM

Philip Seymour Hoffman

12/8/2008 11:57:29 PM

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"Philip Seymour Hoffman"

whats it like in your bizzaro world

12/9/2008 1:16:12 AM

hah, the dude can't act. He is probably the most overrated actor of our lifetime. He has the same mannerisms and expressions regardless of the role he is playing.

12/9/2008 1:20:49 AM

these guys are all pretty sure you're trollin on the river right now

12/9/2008 1:56:28 AM

marky mark

12/9/2008 2:06:55 AM

kevin costner, nick cage

12/9/2008 3:13:32 AM

haha philip seymour hoffman...

that's funny

lock this up

12/9/2008 5:31:09 AM

Those pictures prove my point. He has the same dumbfuck expression all the time.

12/9/2008 5:33:36 AM

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"same as actors that play the same character in every movie"

12/9/2008 7:40:51 AM

wow...this thread got serious quick. i personally love actors like philip seymour hoffman and steve buscemi...and they DO NOT play the same characters all the time. they are just pidgeonholed into weird roles because they look weird...ha.

i took this thread as famous bad actors. and immediately thought of the king:



i think the man has actually embraced the fact that he's not a great actor, and that we love him for it.

12/9/2008 10:58:04 AM