Horrible Movies, Outstanding Performances

Perry Winkle • Apr 21, 2007 3:39 pm
"Made in America" (1993) Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg, Nia Long, Will Smith.

This is one of the worst movies ever. Sweet premise, horrible story. However, Will Smith steals the show, especially in the scene where he asks himself out and turns himself down.
duck_duck • Apr 21, 2007 3:44 pm
I thought Gangs of New York was a horrible movie. It was too bloody and too long but Daniel Day-Lewis did a wonderful performance.
Clodfobble • Apr 21, 2007 5:54 pm
Opposite of the thread topic: Lord of War was an excellent movie overall but Nicholas Cage sucks ass. I know it would seem impossible since he's the lead character, but the movie really does shine beyond his cheesy acting.
Perry Winkle • Apr 21, 2007 6:34 pm
Clodfobble;336244 wrote:
Opposite of the thread topic: Lord of War was an excellent movie overall but Nicholas Cage sucks ass.


Agreed. Who do you think would do a better job?
Ibby • Apr 21, 2007 7:47 pm
Nicholas Cage has only ever really shined in one movie.

Raising Arizona.

After that, I can't watch him in any other movie. When he tries to be serious, he just can't act.
duck_duck • Apr 21, 2007 7:48 pm
Ibram;336262 wrote:
Nicholas Cage has only ever really shined in one movie.

Raising Arizona.

After that, I can't watch him in any other movie. When he tries to be serious, he just can't act.


I thought he was good in The Family Man and Leaving Las Vegas.
Clodfobble • Apr 21, 2007 8:49 pm
grant wrote:
Agreed. Who do you think would do a better job?


Dunno. I'm not good with imagining casting. Just about anybody, really. :)
Cloud • Apr 21, 2007 9:04 pm
I liked Nicholas Gage in Moonlighting. But Cher was better. :)

Eragon. Jeremy Irons.
bluecuracao • Apr 21, 2007 9:43 pm
Cloud;336279 wrote:
I liked Nicholas Gage in Moonlighting. But Cher was better. :)


You mean Moonstruck! Moonlighting was a great TV show with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. :)
Cloud • Apr 22, 2007 12:24 am
Moonstruck, duh. Yeah!
Aliantha • Apr 22, 2007 4:02 am
Stop bagging Nicky baby. He's such a spunk! One of my favourite actors although mostly for the perv. I thought he was great in Con Air, but he has become very badly typecast.

Someone else I love perving at is the guy who played aragorn in lotr. I forget his name now and can't be bothered looking it up, but you know who I mean.
bluecuracao • Apr 22, 2007 4:26 am
Viggo Mortensen! Yum!
Perry Winkle • Apr 22, 2007 9:11 am
Aliantha;336353 wrote:

Someone else I love perving at is the guy who played aragorn in lotr. I forget his name now and can't be bothered looking it up, but you know who I mean.


Viggo is pretty badass in "A History of Violence." Anybody who can run a few miles the day after getting stabbed in the foot is a scary motherfucker.
DanaC • Apr 22, 2007 11:27 am
One of my favourite actors is routinely in very bad films.

Dead Man Walking.....no not the the well known hollywood film, the little known sci-fi, apocalyptic-future movie. Awful flm....Jeffrey Combs was, as ever, superb.

From Beyond.....possibly one of the worst [best?] horror films ever made, but worth watching for Jeffrey Combs. He delivers one of my favourite ever movie lines in that film.

"It bit off his head.....like he was a gingerbread man"
freshnesschronic • Apr 22, 2007 1:57 pm
Great movie--The Matrix I and II (but III's ending puts it to shame)
Bad actor-- Keanuuuuuuuuuuuu duh
duck_duck • Apr 22, 2007 2:56 pm
Only the first one was good.
Happy Monkey • Apr 22, 2007 4:40 pm
freshnesschronic;336489 wrote:
Great movie--The Matrix I and II (but III's ending puts it to shame)
I hope you mean "was a shame" instead of "puts it to shame".
TheMercenary • Apr 22, 2007 7:33 pm
Outstanding movie:

Battle of Algiers.

http://www.videovista.net/reviews/nov03/batalgiers.html

It is in French and subtitled in English. So if you don't have the skills to read and watch you may not like it. A classic in teaching circles about insurgencies and terrorism.
Guyute • Apr 22, 2007 11:11 pm
Shitty movie- Pursuit Of Happyness. Will Smith was great though.
Shawnee123 • Apr 23, 2007 1:03 pm
Bad movie: Pirates of the Caribbean

Good performance, as always: J Depp (Keira and Orlando can bite me.)
Sundae • Apr 23, 2007 1:17 pm
Shawnee123;336749 wrote:
Bad movie: Pirates of the Caribbean

Good performance, as always: J Depp (Keira and Orlando can bite me.)

If Keira bites you I'd make sure you got shots - there's something about her that suggests dirty to me.

Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. It might be unfair to call it a horrible film, but it certainly wasn't one I rated.
Spexxvet • Apr 23, 2007 5:02 pm
Sundae Girl;336754 wrote:
...Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. It might be unfair to call it a horrible film, but it certainly wasn't one I rated.


Alan Rickman is great in whatever he does.
Perry Winkle • Apr 23, 2007 6:41 pm
What's a Metatron?
BigV • Apr 24, 2007 4:04 pm
TheMercenary;336561 wrote:
Outstanding movie:

Battle of Algiers.

http://www.videovista.net/reviews/nov03/batalgiers.html

It is in French and subtitled in English. So if you don't have the skills to read and watch you may not like it. A classic in teaching circles about insurgencies and terrorism.
So *that's* why GWB hasn't learned from it. Thanks for clearing that up, mercy.
rkzenrage • Apr 24, 2007 4:19 pm
Night Of The Living Dead, the first one. Some good acting.
DanaC • Apr 24, 2007 6:07 pm
Outstanding movie:

Battle of Algiers.

http://www.videovista.net/reviews/nov03/batalgiers.html

It is in French and subtitled in English. So if you don't have the skills to read and watch you may not like it. A classic in teaching circles about insurgencies and terrorism.


I love that movie. It's also used in teaching circles to look at the cultural/social/political effects of colonialism.
TheMercenary • Apr 24, 2007 7:25 pm
BigV;337107 wrote:
So *that's* why GWB hasn't learned from it. Thanks for clearing that up, mercy.


Bet you $100 that he has never even heard of it, neither has most of his generals, except for those in Spec Ops or SF.
TheMercenary • Apr 24, 2007 7:27 pm
DanaC;337155 wrote:
I love that movie. It's also used in teaching circles to look at the cultural/social/political effects of colonialism.


I agree, it really is a great snapshot of so many angles associated with colonialism, terrorism, and the people who are outside those two groups who are affected the most, the population at large. It has some great trailers and bonus features that interview people the movie was based on.
DanaC • Apr 24, 2007 8:02 pm
Not to mention it's beautifully directed.
Hyoi • Apr 26, 2007 5:41 pm
Costner's Wyatt Earp was sorta slow until Dennis Quaid came in as Doc Holiday. I didn't know Quaid could act.
BigV • Apr 26, 2007 6:09 pm
"I'll be your huckleberry."

I love that line.