There are no bad actors in Hollywood. There are for sure better and worse actors but you don’t get hired in multi-million dollar movies repeatedly for being “bad” at acting. Some of them will do a bad job from time to time (not enough time to prepare or just not in the right place at the moment) but it will be hard to find a famous actor without at least a couple of great roles.
OK, I’ll bite. What’s Gal Godot good in?
She can be pretty on camera.
(making a joke, idk anything really about her acting career)
She’s not starring in the type of movies I watch so I don’t know. I would say she’s probably good fit for this type of movies since she’s repeatedly cast in them. Her looks definitely help and I guess she appears on the set on time, can remember her lines and deliver them convincingly enough. There are definitely better actors out there but I’m pretty sure you can’t just grab any pretty lady off the street and make her do what Gal does.
Adam Sandler is a great actor in more serious roles, but his comedy is pretty cringe. I love Happy Gilmore.
Punch Drunk Love is great, and it came from watching his other movies and pulling on an underlying unexplored thread.
I think he’s also quite good in uncut gems, but my opinion isn’t final. I only made it through 35 minutes of the movie so far and am still recovering from the stress eight months later.
Dicaprio is probably the more accurate, but even then he has his share of meh movies. Cage is also pretty accurate, he is really good when the role fits his style, otherwise he is so cringe. His acting in Pig is incredible.
Depp is IMO super overrated. He was really good in Fear and Loathing, Donnie Brasco or Edward Scissorhands, but since Pirates of the Caribbean he mostly played some variations of Jack Sparrow.
Sandler is actually a fucking good actor, but he always chooses the lazy way out. His acting in Punch Drunk Love or Uncut Gems is phenomenal and it pisses me off that he wastes his talent in some shitty comedies.
Reeves is not a “bad actor”, but he sure is emotionless so I feel like most of the time he does not fit. However, his style is why he fits so well in a role like John Wick.
I think Sandler’s dilemma is that he can do the safe, easy thing and bring all his longtime friends, or he can do something that’s outside his usual by himself.
He doesn’t need to prove himself any more. If he wants to produce dumb comedies where he and his buddies fuck around on camera while on extended holiday somewhere nice, seems pretty baller.
Someone should tell him he can just go on vacation without releasing a movie.
And who’s going to finance that vacation? They vacation AND they get paid for it.
Emotionless. Have you seen Bill and Ted?
(I haven’t in decades, imagine they didn’t hold up that well)
Keanu can do either dude bro, or stone cold badass. It’s why he actually worked well as Johnny Silverhand, a stone cold dude bro.
iirc sandlers after filming 50 first dates he treat his movies like extended vacation with friends. he’s not bad just vibing
Reeves’ “style” is his bad acting.
Depp is not a good actor. I was willing to overlook a lot, until I saw that fucker trying to dig a hole in a perfume ad. Worst.Acting.Ever.
But what about Chacolat…
Except he’s not a bad actor. He’s the only good part of the bad movies he’s in. I’d argue he’s one of the best actors.
I saw some interview with him talking about his acting. He basically likes very expressive roles, where he can do some “over the top” acting. He was talking about how he was inspired by German expressionism for some of his roles. He did tons of great movies in his career. Adaptation or Bringing out the Dead being some of them.
If you’re talking cage yes he’s a good actor. Keanu is straight up a terrible actor
I don’t get it.
He’s been the perfect choice for every major role he’s done and been iconic for it. Everything from matrix to bill and teds to cyberpunk would have been worse with any other actor.
Just because he’s admittedly less flexible doesn’t mean he’s bad at it.
Idk man. I’m a big Keanu fan and I knew as a kid watching The Matrix for the first time that he was not convincing as an actor. Entertaining, absolutely. Skilled, especially in action choreography, no doubt. But I feel like his roles in movies like the John Wick series (where you aren’t expected to take it super seriously) are the only ones where he doesn’t stick out next to even lesser known actors as heavy handed with his acting.
I think in The Matrix the fact that he stands out as a little different and inconsistent adds significantly to the allegory of the movie. I really don’t think the main character in a 90’s movie about the trans experience calls for someone who blends in.
That said he doesn’t stand out all that much. For example, Sandler would be, while i think hilarious(at the time), a completely narrative breaking choice. On the other side, DiCaprio would have “acted” well but broken it as badly by following the assignment too well(as not to do so at all).
yes, I was talking about Cage. I like Keanu, don’t get me wrong, he’s great at performing action choreography, but no, he is not a good actor.
Cage, on the other hand, I don’t think I have ever seen that man not give a role his all.
Cage gives 100% whether the role needs it or not and that’s why I love him.
What else would a good actor do?
Sidenote: I think Face Off is a perfect embodiment of this sentiment. An objectively terrible movie with a monumentally dumb premise, and his acting is what takes it from unwatchable to downright fun.
yes! literally, exactly!!
may i suggest…Ghost Rider 2?
Depp does not do good films?
I think he’s like most long-time actors. He’s had some great roles that wouldn’t have been anywhere near as good had someone else done it, and he’s had “meh” and flops.
You can’t act for 40-ish years and not have a mixed bag.
Opinions are entirely subjective. Only you can answer that for yourself.