overrated actors/actresses

[brainhulk]

Bryan Cranston. I know i'm gonna get flamed for this, but something is off about his delivery. Trying to finish Breaking Bad finally, and their is an annoying sense that he IS acting out some of his lines and the realism is lost. Show is great, but I find his acting in some scenes distracting.

/hides

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Oh, I see what's going here. I'll go next.

Umm.... Daniel Day-Lewis.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Laurence Olivier. Hack!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He wasn't that good in Mission impossible or hunger games. I'm guessing his big roles came from elsewhere.

 

[kage69]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He wasn't that good in Mission impossible or hunger games. I'm guessing his big roles came from elsewhere.

Aww now that just hurts.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ_4m2ocxhI

 

[TwiceOver]

People keep hiring Uma Therman and I dont' know why. Especially when they hire her for the role of "Hot Female Lead". Sorry but, "Woof".

Leonardo DiCaprio.

 

[master_shake_]

Bryan Cranston. I know i'm gonna get flamed for this, but something is off about his delivery. Trying to finish Breaking Bad finally, and their is an annoying sense that he IS acting out some of his lines and the realism is lost. Show is great, but I find his acting in some scenes distracting.

/hides

 

[blankslate]

Al Pacino terrible in the Godfather... Francis Ford Coppola couldn't even get a decent performance out of him...

Sadly outdone for overrated by DeNiro in the sequel...




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[thebestMAX]

Emilia Clarke

 

[saratoga172]

Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games. Haven't seen her other stuff.

 

[Strk]

Emilia Clarke

I don't know. It's not that I think she is great, but they aren't exactly giving her loads of work either other than GoT.

As far as overrated, I'd probably say George Clooney.

I'd say Adam Sandler too simply because of the money studios throw at him, but I think most people are aware he sucks

 

[blankslate]

Meryl Streep... definitely overrated... the Academy has no taste.



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[tynopik]

overrated: Patrick Stewart

underrated: Kate Mulgrew

 

[CZroe]

I don't think the OP understands what's going on with some of his acting. A lot of his stuff in the final season was double-acting, playing people against people by deliberately betraying his true feelings, motivations, and actions while making people think/blame others.

A second viewing once you already know what's going on makes it appear absolute genius:

Spoiler

his relenting to turn Jack's men on Jessie after expressing repeated reluctance was well done. His confrontation with Hank was perfect. He was especially powerful when he is crying while simultaneously saying hurtful things to his wife to exonerate her from suspicion because he knows the authorities are listening. He didn't even need dialog in a slightly earlier scene where the kidnapped baby starts asking for mama and he has a reaction (the baby was unscripted/unedited, BTW, so he had to react to that and NAIL it in one take).

Even season 4 while he's begging for Jessie to spare his life while still lying through his teeth:

sounds like acting because the character is supposed to be acting. Criticizing such acting as "unrealistic" is actually praising it (the character is a liar, not a professional actor).

 

[Newell Steamer]

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Don't know what your beef with him is, but take it up with him, not in here.
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[brianmanahan]

newell steamer is the most overrated actor on ATOT

 

[tynopik]

jim carey gets a lot of hate, but . . . it's completely deserved

 

[mikeymikec]

Who honestly expected to see good acting in the Hunger Games movies?

Wasn't "based on a teen fic" and "Hollywood blockbuster" enough clues for you?

overrated: Patrick Stewart

Take that back, you meanie!

underrated: Kate Mulgrew

Maybe. I honestly haven't seen her in anything else.

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Overrated actors, always a difficult one to judge, after all, many actors need to be 'pushed' sufficiently by a good director with a decent vision in order to give it their best, that is assuming that they were right for the role in the first place.

 

[Newell Steamer]

newell steamer is the most overrated actor on ATOT

 

[BudAshes]

I hate the actors/actresses that are most loved by everyone else. It's why I am a badass.

Seriously though Cranston is amazing. He was even great in Godzilla, despite them killing him off half way through and ruining the movie. I haven't even watched Breaking Bad and I know this. In fact everyone knows this...

 

[BudAshes]

Who's the greatest?

 

[brianmanahan]

Who honestly expected to see good acting in the Hunger Games movies?

still better acting than twilight

 

[BudAshes]

still better acting than twilight

Does that mean you are admitting you watched a twilight movie?

 

[gururu2]

all actors suck because they aren't real

 

[Balt]

overrated: Patrick Stewart

underrated: Kate Mulgrew

Following the Star Trek theme, I don't understand how anyone can think Avery Brooks is a good actor. I think he's one of the most awful I've ever seen.