Registered: Oct 2008
Location: Lower Chernobylstan
Best and worst acting in a movie
Well, I've been watching "The Shining" (1980, directed by Stanley Kubrick) for the first time today and all I can say is that Shelley Duvall's (plays Wendy, wife of main character) acting is hurting my eyes, i.e. is awful. The acting in the entire movie is pretty bad imho. It is void of life and too scripted (like in cheap Russian detective series lol). That being said, I think acting started to become less theatrical and more life-like about in the late 80's.
Name the best and worst acting you've seen in a movie
Aug-27-2009 09:19
Acton
Like a FCKNG BIRD
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: London
Re: Best and worst acting in a movie
quote:
Originally posted by boris_the_bear
The acting in the entire movie is pretty bad imho.
Say what?
Jack Nicholson is great it in!
As for personal best/worst acting, I will have to have a long think.
Maybe....
Best -
Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Registered: Oct 2008
Location: Lower Chernobylstan
Yeah, he is a great actor overall. Maybe the directing has effected his performance. But most of all, Duvall's acting.... yuck. Especially when she had a conversation with her son. They were following the script like computer voice generators. Watch the beginning, when they sit at the table and discuss the future stay at the mountain lodge imho, of course..
Aug-27-2009 09:33
Paradox Lost
In This Twilight
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: San Francisco
Not saying these are necessarily Oscar worthy, but these are some of my personal favorite performances that I revisit on a regular basis:
Kenneth Branagh- Conspiracy
Christian Bale- American Psycho
Christopher Walken- Catch Me If You Can
Joaquin Phoenix- 8mm
Brad Pitt- Snatch
Chazz Palminteri- A Bronx Tale
Unfortunately, the list of awful performances (which I also happen to revisit on a regular basis) is much harder to put together, but check out Harrison Ford's Russian accent in K19
...and just about anything in the Friday the 13th series, particularly this awesome moment of Crispin Glover hilarity that's outside the realm of 'good' and 'bad' acting:
Last edited by Paradox Lost on Aug-27-2009 at 11:07
Aug-27-2009 10:00
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
I think you're confusing Stanley Kubrick's style with bad acting. He went to deliberate lengths to make his films dissonant and strange. In A Clockwork Orange there are deliberate continuity errors, for example.
Also: Stephen Lack in Scanners. My brother has the theory he's supposed to be emotionally crippled because he's never had human contact. My theory is that Stephen Lack is an unknown actor for a good reason.
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: The Night's Plutonian Shore
One of the best is Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
The list of worst performances is unfortunately almost endless. Like, everyone in Transformers. Or just think of all the hot chicks who are so untalented that they probably need to sleep with half of the movie crew to get the role.
Best and worst acting in a movie
imho, of course..
