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post #51 of 114
Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
post #52 of 114
Bruce Campbell in 90% of what he does. I'd like to see what someone like Tarantino could do with him.
post #53 of 114
Brad Pitt is my favorite actor, i watch every film with him, and so I bought Troy on dvd, but I regret this sale, because Brad Pitt is acting great but i don't like the story of this film.
post #54 of 114
Denzel Washington - MALCOLM X and TRAINING DAY
post #55 of 114
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Originally Posted by GungaDin
Denzel Washington - MALCOLM X and TRAINING DAY
Shit films, these are not. Though the cracks are starting to show on Training Day with every viewing.
post #56 of 114
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Evi3000
Brad Pitt is my favorite actor, i watch every film with him, and so I bought Troy on dvd, but I regret this sale, because Brad Pitt is acting great but i don't like the story of this film.
While Troy is not great, I can understand someone thinking it's shit, especially viewers who are interested in the period or source material. However, I'd say Eric Bana's performance is the only worthwhile thing there.
post #57 of 114
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Originally Posted by Crow
Shit films, these are not. Though the cracks are starting to show on Training Day with every viewing.
It always pissed me off that Denzel won Best Actor for TRAINING DAY instead of MALCOLM X.
post #58 of 114
Marlon Brando - the Wild One
post #59 of 114
Christian Bale in American Psycho, an absolutely perfect Patrick Bateman in a failure of an adaptation.
post #60 of 114
Angelina Jolie- Gia
post #61 of 114
Matt Damon - Dogma
post #62 of 114
Although I enjoy Teen Wolf and don't consider it shit, I know most people don't think of it as high art... Jay Tarses, the actor who plays the basketball coach. I think he steals the movie.

Also, Christopher Lee in The Stupids.
post #63 of 114
Richard Burton, John Astin, and Marlon Brando in CANDY. "We must find the center of all breath" "GASP, but it couldn't be down there!" "Oh but it is. So soon, we've found it so soon"
post #64 of 114
Not that it was a really shit film, but King Of New York worked 95% due to Walken's superb performance. Watch the film and marvel at how damn good Walken is. In fact Walken has made a lot of turd films watchable.
post #65 of 114
The movie was a new breed of shit, but I always thought that Paul Giamatti turned in a pretty fun performance in Planet of the Apes.
post #66 of 114
I would not call the Last valley a peace of shit. It is a deeply flawed movie, but Micheal Caine make it worth the viewing. The Captain is by far his best performance.
post #67 of 114
I have to revive this topic after suffering through The Devil Wears Prada, which was overly predictable chick movie nonsense. But Meryl Streep deserves all the praise she gets for knowing that being subtle and vicious is even better than being over the top.

And I doubt anyone will agree with me on this, but I've always loved Uma Thurman in Batman & Robin. I think she was the only one who knew what kind of movie they were making and ran with it.
post #68 of 114
I *hated* Uma in B&R. She was overacting something awful, like most everyone in that film. But if I was to pick one good performance in that film it would be Alicia... kidding: Michael Gough as Alfred.

Bana in Troy is a good call, but Sean Bean does very well in his short screen time as Odysseus.
post #69 of 114
Everyone in BABEL.

Movie's not awful but it's not great.
bring on the hate.
post #70 of 114
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Originally Posted by Supremo
And I doubt anyone will agree with me on this, but I've always loved Uma Thurman in Batman & Robin. I think she was the only one who knew what kind of movie they were making and ran with it.
She was second fiddle to Bane and you know it.
post #71 of 114
Leo in The Beach
post #72 of 114
Jeff Bridges - WHITE SQUALL
post #73 of 114
Roma Maffia - DISCLOSURE
post #74 of 114
Keanu Reeves - The Last Time I Committted Suicide

Vin Diesel - Saving Private Ryan

Ryan Reynolds - The Amityville Horror

Adrien Brody - Hollywoodland

Diane Lane - Hollywoodland

James Woods - The General's Daughter

Sandra Oh - Dancing at the Blue Iguana

There are just way too many to name.
post #75 of 114
Saving Private Ryan, a shit film? I assume Tom Hanks and Matt Damon suck in it? BTW, Nathan Fillion has a small role as "the other private Ryan" in that, I remember him being very good in his short scene.
post #76 of 114
Sorry dude, by SPR is on my all-time shit list of films. It is still #1 on my "This shit won Oscars?!" list. Yes, both Tom Hanks and Matt Damon were negligible in this horrible movie, they gave solid performances, but not good enough to save this flick. The only person who ever stood out for me was Vin Diesel, perhaps because he has always been typecast this role made him stand out for me. I also liked Barry Pepper quite a bit in this. I'm not sure why we haven't seen more of him.
post #77 of 114
Saving Private Ryan?

Chris Farley - Almost Heroes

Jet Li - Lethal Weapon 4
post #78 of 114
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Originally Posted by greysfang
Sorry dude, by SPR is on my all-time shit list of films. It is still #1 on my "This shit won Oscars?!" list.
You don't have to be sorry. I don't care. I might question your taste in movies, but I don't really care. And that list has A Beautiful Mind way, waay higher up.
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I also liked Barry Pepper quite a bit in this. I'm not sure why we haven't seen more of him.
2 words: Battlefield Earth
post #79 of 114
Robert DeNiro -- Cape Fear
Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Stay Hungry
Bruce Campbell -- Moontrap
Dustin Hoffman -- Hook

Oh, and Val Kilmer in Alexander!
post #80 of 114
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Originally Posted by Jonathan Banks is my hero
Jeff Bridges - WHITE SQUALL
Wow. I can see why someone might not like White Squall but I think is has enough going for it to avoid being called "shit".
post #81 of 114
Edward Norton in AMERICAN HISTORY X

To the extent that it's not a "shit movie" is totally tied up in Norton's great performance. If anything, it's even more didactic than CRASH.
post #82 of 114
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Originally Posted by EvilTwin
Edward Norton in AMERICAN HISTORY X

To the extent that it's not a "shit movie" is totally tied up in Norton's great performance. If anything, it's even more didactic than CRASH.

I agree. You can't fault the performances or the filmmaking, but it's so fucking thematically dishonest. And then it cuts its own balls out at the end. Everyone talks about how great it is, and that movie actually made me fucking angry when it was over.
post #83 of 114
Since this is still fresh in my mind, Guy Pearce in Factory Girl. He was the only real actor in that movie.
post #84 of 114
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Originally Posted by greysfang
I also liked Barry Pepper quite a bit in this. I'm not sure why we haven't seen more of him.
I just caught The Three Burials of Meliquades Estrada, and he was pretty goddamned great in it. Although that was certainly not a shit film.

I'll try to stay on topic. Here's one out of left field: Annie Potts in Corvette Summer. The movie is a mess, but she's adorable. And in an offbeat way, kinda sexy.

D.
post #85 of 114
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Originally Posted by Zeroillusion
Since this is still fresh in my mind, Guy Pearce in Factory Girl. He was the only real actor in that movie.
Guy Pearce in Factory Girl is, I think, the ultimate definition of this thread. It's hard to top that.
post #86 of 114
Christian Bale in Reign of Fire.

Although . . . I liked Reign of Fire a lot. Nevermind.
post #87 of 114
John Ratzenberger - HOUSE II
post #88 of 114
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Originally Posted by greysfang
Sorry dude, by SPR is on my all-time shit list of films. It is still #1 on my "This shit won Oscars?!" list. Yes, both Tom Hanks and Matt Damon were negligible in this horrible movie, they gave solid performances, but not good enough to save this flick. The only person who ever stood out for me was Vin Diesel, perhaps because he has always been typecast this role made him stand out for me. I also liked Barry Pepper quite a bit in this. I'm not sure why we haven't seen more of him.

If you think Vin Diesel stole SPR then something's wrong with you.

He was a tough guy, who wrote a letter to his dad. Not exactly typecasting.

Whoever mentioned HOOK was right on the money.
post #89 of 114
Christian Bale, The Machinist.
post #90 of 114
Jeremy Irons - "Dungeons & Dragons"

Virtually Everyone - "Caddy Shack"

Billy Zane - "Demon Knight"

Hope & Crosby - "Road To Bali"

Sam Jackson - "Jungle Fever"

Pie - "American Pie"
post #91 of 114
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Originally Posted by www.valiens.com
Everyone - "Caddy Shack"
I've seen some dumb posts for "shit films" in this thread, but this one is by far the dumbest.

Mine:

Jeff Bridges - "The Vanishing" remake...
post #92 of 114
Terry Crews--as Cheeseburger Eddie--in THE LONGEST YARD remake. I'm sorry, but he was fuckin' hilarious.

"I got the FRIES, that'll cross yo' EYES. I got the SHAKES, that'll make you QUAKE. And I got the BURGERS, that'll........well, I just got burgers."
post #93 of 114
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire

What a waste.

And I won't call it a shit film, but after reading (and loving) the novel it's based on, then reading the screenplay and watching it twice to try to get what all the praise was about, I still find Blade Runner to be filled with great heaps of boring, with only the occasional bits of Rutger Hauer livening things up. I know I'm probably alone in thinking this, but damn, everyone in that film except him look like they're just sleepwalking through incredible set designs.
post #94 of 114
Marisa Tomei - WILD HOGS. Even in this piece of shit, she managed to make a go of it.
post #95 of 114
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Originally Posted by www.valiens.com
Jeremy Irons - "Dungeons & Dragons"
I thought in an already shit film he managed to stand out as being even worse.

Rosario Dawson Clerks II
post #96 of 114
caddyshack? malcolm x? the squid and the whale? ali? saving private fucking ryan? jesus christ you guys, come on.
post #97 of 114
Brian Cox is terrific in every single film he's in. And all of them aren't very good. From http://filmsinreview.com/Features/In...-briancox.html

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I mean, I did Chain Reaction, for example, and it had twleve writers. John Wells came in for a weekend, for example, to do a polish on one scene ...Usually if a film has more than one writer, for my money, you know it's going to go down the tubes.

I mean, I love Andy Davis enormously. He's a wonderful man, and I enjoyed working with him. But there was no script. They had one, but they kept throwing it away. And I said, "Well, there must be a script for Tommy Lee Jones" because Tommy Lee Jones was going to do it, but he didn't. And they said, "Oh, there's a Tommy Lee Jones script, but that isn't going to be your script."

A gross example of that was, having improvised all kinds of dialogue for weeks on end, finally Morgan Freeman had had enough of it. Morgan and I are walking at the base of the Chicago River, right under this tunnel, four hundred feet down, where the source of the river bubbles up. And there was this elevator that goes up four hundred feet. So Andy Davis says, "You're coming along, you get off your little golf carts, and then you walk briskly to the elevator and you get in and the elevator goes up and we hear, 'bang, bang, bang!" The gun shots. So I thought, this shot is just going to involve silence, tension... And Andy suddenly says, "I'm going to need some dialogue." And Morgan... I think it was his last day, and he'd had it. He'd been very good all along. And he looked at me, holding this cigar which he used in the shot, and he said, "I ain't gonna say a thing."

So Andy turns to me with this smile and goes, "Brian?"... So I went away and I wrote this long speech about how we're getting too old for all this, which isn't even in the movie, and we do this scene, and Morgan's not saying anything, and I'm thinking "Once we get into the elevator I'll be fine." However, I keep talking, because they [the camera crew] get into the elevator with me. And it's this four hundred foot elevator and it's going up very slowly. So I've actually run out of things to say. So I start singing "On Top of Old Smokey." Which isn't even in the film; if it had been in the film it would have been rather bizarrely wonderful. Morgan and I about to have a shoot out, and I'm using this song to cover my anxiety.

We get to the top, and I'm still singing, and Andy interrupts, saying, "Keep going, keep going. That's in the public domain. Start singing 'Amazing Grace.' So I sing "Amazing Grace" which isn't in the movie either.
post #98 of 114
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Originally Posted by benfortenberry
Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire

What a waste.
Please explain what you mean by this. Shadow of the Vampire was one of the first movies I actually had to seek out due to it's rather limited release. I thought everyone did a great job on it and I agree with it being included on the 100 Underrated Films list.
post #99 of 114
Well, it's okay enough, but it seemed like such a squandering of a really great idea (The making of Nosferatu if Kinski had been an actual vampire). The movie (I think wrongly) centered around Malkovich's character to make its the-director will-do-anything-to-make-the-movie point, but to me, that's not the most interesting or bold approach to take. When you have Willem Dafoe in that make up with that performance, you should make the movie about his character, damn it. As it is, the film's way too reserved and unengaging. I also sought out the movie based on the concept, but was let down that the execution was lacking. Give that idea to an interesting director and you've got something.
post #100 of 114
I agree that Dafoe should have had more screentime. I guess I just appreciated the movie as a whole for presenting such an outlandish idea in the first place. I wish the movie was longer and featured more Dafoe mischief, but I am content with what we got. Thanks for responding.
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