Worst acting in a film and/or tv series (past or recently)

[QuinnFillory]

Sometimes there is exceptional acting in our favorite movies and tv shows. And sometimes, there is...well, bad acting. I mean, really bad acting. It doesn't matter if the person doing the bad acting is usually good and they had a off day or role, or if they are a novice and this is their first acting role, or they were always that bad. Bad acting can even ruin an entire movie or episode, end careers and just screw up everything.

Example: Megan Fox in Jonah Hex.

[titanfan]

For me:

Eddie Redmayne Jupiter Ascending
Joaquim Phoenix as Jesus in Mary Magdeline -- If you ever wondered where Joaquim was practicing for the role of Joker when he was supposed to be playing Jesus, this movie is it.
Elisha Cuthbert in "24" -- She wasn't good and the writers seemed to hate her by giving her awful time-filler storylines.
Child Acting in 1st Harry Potter Movie -- Just rewatched it and several of the child actors in supporting roles were cringeworthy. The main cast was still learning it as you can see.

[Riv86672]

I LOVE KEANU REEVES!

He should never have been in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

[Blind Wedjat]

Everybody in that 365 Days movie.

I have so many regrests.

[Guy1]

Need I say more?

[Sutekh]

Eddie Redmayne Jupiter Ascending

Oh wow, yes. This hoarse 'whisper/screaming' sort of overacting just bugs me.

The first Dungeons and Dragons movie had a ton of it from Jeremy Irons (who is normally a much better actor, IMO) playing Profion, and Bruce Payne, as his main henchvillain Damodar. So much terrible overwrought acting. And then there was Snails, who was like the Jar Jar Binks of this movie. Ugh.

In the Van Helsing movie (the one with Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale), the dude who played Dracula, Richard Roxborough, was also screaming his lines, along with his vampire brides, despite the three or four of them standing alone in a room, practically embracing each other, and I was perplexed. "I have to turn this down, and I'm across the room, have they all made each other deaf, and that's why they're shouting all the time?"

[Thezmage]

Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into Darkness. I won’t say he made the film unwatchable, but he was part of what made that the most painful theater going experience in my life

[Starter Set]

The first Dungeons and Dragons movie

Oh yes, that's a gem.

I mean, it does take some kind of talent to make a movie in which even Jeremy Irons looks so bad. It was released in 2000 i believe but it still has that delicious 90's cheese to it and some special effects so bad they wouldn't even used them in a Xena episode.

10/10, watch it guys if you want a piece of history.

[Username taken]

Everybody in that 365 Days movie.

I have so many regrests.

Lol...the movie was Fifty Shades of Gray but on steroids. Or viagra.

The main guy pretty much wore about two expressions the entire movie.

[lowfyr]

I LOVE KEANU REEVES!

He should never have been in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Even Coppola would have prefered to not cast him. But he was needed for the ladies if I remember correctly^^

[Gray Lensman]

Oh yes, that's a gem.

I mean, it does take some kind of talent to make a movie in which even Jeremy Irons looks so bad. It was released in 2000 i believe but it still has that delicious 90's cheese to it and some special effects so bad they wouldn't even used them in a Xena episode.

10/10, watch it guys if you want a piece of history.

I considered Irons and Payne to be the only watchable things in that film - Irons was chewing what little scenery in the film that wasn't (atrocious) CGI, and hamming it up more than a Hormel plant, but to me what stood out as the worst performances were Snails (Black comic relief!) and Thora Birch as the princess - they could have gotten a more lifelike performance from an actual mannequin. The lead was pretty bad too, but his mediocre performance was overshadowed (undershadowed? can that be a thing?) by others around him.

[Gray Lensman]

I LOVE KEANU REEVES!

He should never have been in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Double quoting rather than using multi-quote, but bear with me...


No one watches Coppola's Dracula for Reeves - you watch it for Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. And it is somehow the most book accurate theatrical release that's been done - the only competition is from the BBC in a made for TV adaptation (and I'm not sure if that is a TV-movie or a miniseries, I only know about it from reviews, but it is about as accurate as the Coppola film without adding extra stuff)

Much like how no one watches the Kevin Costner Robin Hood film for the main character, you watch it for Alan Rickman in his perpetual sneering voice (no one could do that better than him), and Mike McShane's Friar Tuck. And to understand all the jokes that you might otherwise miss watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

[AnakinFlair]

[AnakinFlair]

Double quoting rather than using multi-quote, but bear with me...


No one watches Coppola's Dracula for Reeves - you watch it for Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. And it is somehow the most book accurate theatrical release that's been done - the only competition is from the BBC in a made for TV adaptation (and I'm not sure if that is a TV-movie or a miniseries, I only know about it from reviews, but it is about as accurate as the Coppola film without adding extra stuff)

Much like how no one watches the Kevin Costner Robin Hood film for the main character, you watch it for Alan Rickman in his perpetual sneering voice (no one could do that better than him), and Mike McShane's Friar Tuck. And to understand all the jokes that you might otherwise miss watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

I liked Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. But then I have a soft spot for that movie- it was one of three movies I ownded on VHS when I was a kid, and I watched it almost every day after school for like a year.

The other two movies I owned were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and Short Circuit 2.

[Midvillian1322]

The 3 white kids from the Avatar the last Airbender movie. The guy who played Saka was especially bad in that.