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Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:05 am to AZTiger7072
Michael B Jordan
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:36 am to AZTiger7072
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Leaving Las Vegas is not really a movie that shows chops….
I've known my share of alcoholics and he nailed it. That was a very strong performance and I'm pretty critical. It's hard to judge Cage because after he got into financial straights, he basically accepted being a cartoon character.
Because it seems to piss off the fangirls, I'll go with Zendaya. She basically can look mildly perturbed and that seems to be the bulk of her acting ability.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:56 am to AZTiger7072
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Worst A list actor of all time? In terms of ability to act
Mark Wahlberg. 100%.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:01 am to CocomoLSU
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Mark Wahlberg. 100%.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:01 am to DR93Berlin
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If A-list includes Eric Bana….the scene at the end of Blackhawk Down where he seems to be chewing cud is awful.
You mean the scene where he's literally eating a bowl of food?
What else is he supposed to do in that scene?
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:04 am to TeddyPadillac
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TeddyPadillac
I almost put "cue the gif" in my post since it's the exact same response I get every time I bring him up.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:12 am to AZTiger7072
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:18 am to AZTiger7072
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I submit Nicolas Cage
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:30 am to Kingshakabooboo
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I think we first have to understand that there are great movie stars and then there are great “actors”.
Sure. But even some of our movie stars are pretty dadgum good actors. Brad Pitt has range outside of being Good Looking Man. Tom Cruise does, as well. Conversely, Matt Damon is usually just Matt Damon.
DDL is a fantastic actor who is usually on my list of must-watches, but I don't think he's a movie star, either.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:38 am to AZTiger7072
Ben Affleck should be in consideration
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:51 am to Kafka
quote:Many actors deliver their best performances early in their careers when they are less choosy, and play a wider variety of roles, or make their name in roles that are different from what they play later in their career. Eventually they settle in to just playing themselves. Pacino, DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicholson, Samuel L. Jackson, Redford, etc, all basically play themselves now, but earlier in their careers played a wider variety of characters.
Robert Redford has only ever played Robert Redford.
The weird thing about RR is his best performance came very early in his career, in the 1960 TV production of The Iceman Cometh (when he was 24)
Also, for the OP, I'd say Keanu Reeves is a pretty bad actor.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:57 am to AZTiger7072
Humphrey Bogart
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:58 am to Grievous Angel
quote:I'm pretty sure Tarantino wrote the role of Jules specifically for Samuel L Jackson. Jackson apparently fricked up the audition and almost didn't get the part. According to the linked article, the actor reading with Jackson for his audition thought he was Laurence Fishburne. I bet Jackson went ballistic on that. I think that also happened on a live television interview.
I heard Tarantino say on a podcast that he wanted Lawrence Fishburn for the Jules role in Pulp Fiction.
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:07 am to CocomoLSU
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You mean the scene where he's literally eating a bowl of food?
What else is he supposed to do in that scene?
Ridley didn't help him out there, though.
Maybe it started before that, but there are tons of UK and Anzac actors playing U.S. servicemen in things like Band of Brothers and Blackhawk Down (SPR, by contrast, had almost all American actors playing American troops, with Barry Pepper being Canadian-born, but (at least now) is a naturalized U.S. citizen).
In Blackhawk Down, you had:
Ewan MacGregor
Ewen Bremner
Hugh Dancy
Ioan Gruffudd
Jason Isaacs
Tom Hardy
Matthew Marsden
Orlando Bloom
...all playing American rangers, and -
Eric Bana and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (not UK or Anzac, but Danish) playing American Delta operators.
Now, most of these guys have done reasonable American accents. Bana was playing a fictionalized and composite Delta operator. He could have had any accent, but they wanted some generic Southern/country accent and Bana did aight until he had to eat while doing that, which exaggerated to a point of distraction. While it is a great scene, anyway, that bit hurts.
Could have been avoided by just letting him do a more generic accent, IMHO.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 8:08 am
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:16 am to AUCom96
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I'll go with Zendaya.
I'm not saying she's absolutely awful, but there is zero basis for just casting her in everyfrickingthing.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:22 am to AZTiger7072
Prime Nic Cage was amazing and his range today is still very good. Worthington lucked into Avatar after Damon passed on it.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:31 am to AZTiger7072
For whatever reason, Mark Ruffalo has never sold a scene to me. Every time I see him on screen, I feel like I am watching a guy struggling to act.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:47 am to Ace Midnight
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Do you mean Bram Stoker's Dracula?
I don't know. Does it matter?
Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:13 am to mauser
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Someone posted a clip a few years ago of Keanu trying to do an English accent. It's hilarious.
His British accent was a joke in "Dracula" with Gary Oldman and Wynona Ryder. It was so bad, it was downright laughable.
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