17 Movie-Ruining Acting Performances

Someday we’ll have perfect CGI and be able to avoid actors entirely.
17 Movie-Ruining Acting Performances

We've all just seen a fine film wrecked by one bad performance, but most can think of a time when such an actor's inspired approach on a part prevented a mediocre film from becoming a disaster.

An excellent film requires a large population of people to do a wide range of tasks. Although cinematography is a complex art form with limitless moving pieces, we watch films to see performers tell stories.

An actor's appearance can make or break a film in a million different and terrifying ways. A lack of interaction with a co-star, as well as irreconcilable differences with a director, can sabotage the whole performance.

Whatever the cause for an actor's successes or failures in part, there's no denying that performing is the factor that determines whether or not a film story is successfully translated to an audience.

A single outstanding performance can save an entire picture. Unfortunately, one bad one can put your life in jeopardy. Accents, affectations, and acting decisions that are beyond comprehension will severely destroy what could have been a fantastic film or television show. Things such as...

THE DARK KNIGHT may be a paradigm of what a good superhero film should be... But Maggie Gyllenhaal's monotone portrayal of Rachel Dawes is So dry and
It's hard not to like CAMERON DIAZ -as long as she sticks to comedy. Somebody should have mentioned that to MARTIN SCORCESE when HE cast her in GANGS
Dick Van Dyke is having a great time in Mary Poppins, but every time he opens his mouth, it sounds like he's doing a bad Michael Caine impression, and
17 Movie-Ruining Acting Performances
17 Movie-Ruining Acting Performances
I enjoyed almost everything in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice cRAUn Everything, except this guy. Jesse Eisenberg's over the top, cringeworthy port
CRAGKED COM 'l C C ALBA, JESSICA SORRY you TAKE I CAN'T SERIOUSLY... AS A STRIPPER WITH A TROUBLED PAST WITH your OVERLY-INNOCENT LOOK AND LAID-BACK P
STAR THE LAST JEDI WARS Andy Serkis' performance as 10111 Supreme Leader Snoke took me completely out of the moment. While he can play an ape better t
Conan the Barbarian could have been a fantasy classic, if Arnold's performance wasn't sO cheesy. The movie has great visual style, a world built with
THE EREVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio is trying really hard to show the audience what an amazing actor he is, by over-exaggerating everything he does. He gr
CRACKED.COM IRONMAN Jeff Bridges' performance as Obadiah Stane is the weakest aspect of 2008's Iron Man. The performance isn't exactly the same as whe
QUENTIN TARANTINO'S DJANGO CAMEO IN HIS OWN LNCHAINED D NOT ONLY REMINDS VIEWERS THEY'RE WATCHING A TARANTINO MOVIE, but the director's attempt at an
XMEN FRST CLASS IS perceived as one of the best X-Men movies out there, but I just can't get over January Jones' terrible portrayal of Emma Frost in t
17 Movie-Ruining Acting Performances
Pearl Harbor would've been fine if Ben Affleck hadn't forced a Southern accent. CRACKED.COM
Kate Capshaw's over-the-top damsel in distress act spoiled Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. She's needy and helpless pretty much all the time, dr
While Bruce Willis and Michael Clarke Duncan save the world through the power of explosions and bad science, Liv Tyler musters the emotional range of
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