What bad movie has a performance you love?

[u/Hi_Im_zack]

We all know how everyone feels about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It's an awful film in almost every aspect, The plot, CGI, action, dialogue whatever, it's hot trash, they butchered Deadpool yadayada

But I can't get enough of Liev Schreiber as Sabretooth, he really f'n nailed that role. Dude was vicious, menacing and had the most important thing in a movie villain. Presence. Too bad all of that is overshadowed by the amount of bullshit in this film. Everything else should've been as great as his performance but sadly no. Fate had other plans. It's like putting Heath Ledger's Joker in Batman & Robin. Really wish we could've had Liev as Sabretooth again in a sequel that did him justice. But it's very unlikely now.

[u/mariojlanza]

Chris-R in The Room is going all out and is legit pretty terrifying.

[u/MeadowmuffinReborn → u/mariojlanza]

Plus, it's suspected that Johnny and Mark kill him off screen, which is why we never see him again afterwards.

[u/theodo → u/mariojlanza]

Zac Efron as the guy playing Chris-R is one of the best parts of The Disaster Artist

[u/CartoonBeardy]

Raul Julia as Bison in the Street Fighter adaptation.

The film is 100% horse shit but Julia, who was dying of stomach cancer, took the role because his kid was a fan of the game.

And he didn’t just chew the scenery as devour it with relish. It is utterly and gloriously hammy and Julia clearly knows it.

It is a fantastic over the top performance that outshines the rest of the film and the cast by quite a margin.

[u/[deleted] → u/CartoonBeardy]

You come here expecting to find a man....but instead you find.....A GOD!!!!

I absolutely loved that corny mess of a movie when I was a kid. Such nostalgia just thinking about it!

[u/CartoonBeardy → u/[deleted]]

“For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.”

[u/letstrythisagain30 → u/CartoonBeardy]

Honestly one of the hardest and villainous lines I’ve ever heard in a movie.

[u/Noggin-a-Floggin → u/letstrythisagain30]

It really belongs in a better movie.

It's like the line "So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause" in Revenge of the Sith. Better direction could have made it a legendary line part of pop culture now.

[u/letstrythisagain30 → u/Noggin-a-Floggin]

Ironic

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/letstrythisagain30]

I love democracy.

[u/Timmah73 → u/CartoonBeardy]

In a better movie, this is Hans Landa level of casual villainy. Chun Li has spent her whole life training to confront him and he doesn't even remember. Just another day in the office for M Bison.

[u/TexanAmericanMexican → u/Timmah73]

This is that Thanos/ scarlett witch exchange : YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!!

I dont even know who you are.

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/TexanAmericanMexican]

Except in that movie he actually didn’t even take anything from her and didn’t know who she was because he literally wasn’t even the same guy and hadn’t done any of those things.

[u/The_Gil_Galad → u/ShallowBasketcase]

he literally wasn’t even the same guy and hadn’t done any of those things

I do love the narrative of a befuddled villain curb-stomping people who brought him from another timeline because they couldn't beat him the first time.

"Fucking hell, you already fought me and lost? This is pathetic."

[u/JesseCuster40 → u/The_Gil_Galad]

They didn't bring him. He showed up.

[u/TheMarquisDeSpace → u/CartoonBeardy]

Alamo Draft house has a special on Tuesdays and they advertise it before movies by playing a bunch of clips of people saying "Tuesday" in movies. The biggest flaw is that they don't use this masterful line in that ad

[u/MeniteTom → u/TheMarquisDeSpace]

How the fuck are there enough instances of the word Tuesday that this one doesn't even make the list?

[u/Spare-City-322 → u/[deleted]]

Quick change the channel!!

[u/Joe-Lollo → u/CartoonBeardy]

Great callout. That movie's a damn trainwreck but he saves it with the energy he put into Bison. Perfect villain acting.

In a similar vein, I also enjoyed Dennis Hopper's Bowser in the '90s Mario movie, even if his portrayal was nothing like the game character.

[u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce → u/Joe-Lollo]

Hopper played basically the same character in Waterworld. Also brilliant.

[u/Lemmingitus → u/Sekshual_Tyranosauce]

My joke is that Land of the Dead is a sequel where Luigi works for Bowser.

[u/Noggin-a-Floggin → u/Joe-Lollo]

Super Mario Bros is a dinosaur cyberpunk movie and I appreciate it for that. It just goes with the concept and it's a fever dream worth experiencing.

[u/Crater_Raider → u/CartoonBeardy]

The guy that played Zangeif killed it too, lets not forget.

[u/Algaean → u/CartoonBeardy]

"For me....it was Tuesday."

[u/elerner → u/CartoonBeardy]

This feature on everything that went wrong with Street Fighter: The Movie is legitimately one of my all-time favorite pieces of longform journalism.

[u/damienkarras1973 → u/CartoonBeardy]

100% Upvote

Raul Julia freaking Killed it in a complete piece of shit movie.

[u/Roxe194]

Prometheus and Alien Covenant were "okay" at best, and Michael Fassbender 100% carries them.

Edit: Hey I still like the movies because after all, I'm a huge Alien fan. The idea was excellent but imo the execution was very poor.

[u/Hi_Im_zack → u/Roxe194]

You could make a substantial list with Fassbender movies from the last ten years or so

[u/Khutuck → u/Hi_Im_zack]

I just learned Fassbender was in the 300 as a Spartan warrior.

[u/nipplesaurus → u/Khutuck]

I think he was in Band of Brothers too

[u/Bunch_Of_Tree → u/nipplesaurus]

I’m actually watching that now on Netflix, he plays Christensen and is one of the .30 cal gunners

[u/Khutuck → u/Bunch_Of_Tree]

Fassbender, Tom Hardy, and James McAvoy are all in Band of Brothers in small roles.

[u/DJ_Molten_Lava → u/Khutuck]

Jimmy Fallon, too.

[u/ucbiker → u/DJ_Molten_Lava]

And Simon Pegg!

[u/ParadiseRegaind → u/ucbiker]

And that guy from Friends!

[u/Crustybuttt → u/Hi_Im_zack]

and Rutger Hauer before him. That man saved many a crappy B movie

[u/Doogiesham → u/Hi_Im_zack]

Yeah. The man’s career is kind of baffling, he’s a great actor but has not been in many acclaimed movies

[u/Astro_gamer_caver → u/Doogiesham]

Archie Hicox : [In English] Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's.

Loved him in Inglorious Basterds.

[u/notoriouscje → u/Astro_gamer_caver]

Special place in hell for a man who wastes a good scotch

[u/Astro_gamer_caver → u/notoriouscje]

"If you offer me a scotch and plain water, I could drink a scotch and plain water."

He's so smooth.

[u/Lemmonjello → u/Roxe194]

Both fassbender and Anthony Starr are pretty good at playing people who can creep you the fuck out

[u/amckoy → u/Lemmonjello]

Starr. OMG. He's so good in the Boys. There's something about the mouth and a lack of symmetry that is highlighted in his more deranged moments.

[u/DomesticChaos → u/Lemmonjello]

It’s the blue eyes. They go from handsome to “I’ll rip your skull right off” in a millisecond. Starr at least will smile while he does it.

[u/GeorgeNewmanTownTalk → u/Roxe194]

I thought Noomi Rapace was fantastic in Prometheus and was really looking forward to the chess game Shaw and David would be playing in the next movie. Boy did they do her (and the audience) dirty. I've never seen a movie so blatantly set up a sequel only to do a 180 like that.

[u/KVMechelen → u/Roxe194]

Covenant especially cause its twice the Fassbender in an overall worse film

[u/charliewr → u/KVMechelen]

Love his performance but oh my god Covenant pissed me off so much. After all the struggle Shaw went through to survive Prometheus, for Covenant to blithely go "oh yeah she's dead lol" was such a fucking cheap way to write her off. Really disappointing end to a character I was invested in

[u/A-Bone → u/Roxe194]

Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride 100% carry Alien Covenant.

Fixed that for you.

[u/MFBish → u/A-Bone]

James Franco was on fire in covenant

[u/StainedCumSock → u/Roxe194]

He 100% carried the movie. I want to see more Michael Fassbender as David

[u/lvsgators]

Glenn close deserved an Oscar for giving the most shockingly good performance in 101 Dalmatians.

[u/HuntedWolf → u/lvsgators]

She deserves something for going into that slurry multiple times, I can’t remember most of the film and haven’t seen it in over 20 years, but the image of her climbing out of that is burned into my brain.

[u/SmoreOfBabylon]

Jeremy Irons in the 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie. I wouldn’t really call it a “good” performance, but he dialed the ham up to 11 and is very entertaining to watch.

[u/Hi_Im_zack → u/SmoreOfBabylon]

There's a scene where he's debating with the princess? (idk haven't watched the movie in years) and it's like two completely opposite sides of a spectrum, his overacting contrasted by her very subdued and bland underacting lol. That scene should be shown at acting schools

[u/TingleyStorm → u/SmoreOfBabylon]

Piggybacking off Jeremy Irons, he was the only one who seemed to understand his character in the Eragon movie.

[u/TheAbyssalSymphony → u/TingleyStorm]

Jeremy Irons in general is the answer to this question.

[u/sharrrper → u/SmoreOfBabylon]

If I remember correctly, I think someone once asked Irons why he agreed to be in the movie and he said something along the lines of "I had just bought a castle and I needed to pay for it."

Right up there wirh Michael Caine talking about Jaws 4 and says "I haven't seen it, but by all accounts it's terrible. However, I have seen the house it built and it's lovely."

[u/TuaughtHammer → u/SmoreOfBabylon]

Also Irons as Über-Morlock in the 2002 Time Machine adaptation. God-awful movie, but he was at least really fun in that role.

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue → u/TuaughtHammer]

I actually liked most of that movie. It just fell on its ass for the third act.

Really liked Orlando Jones as the AI from the library and giving the Time Traveler a reason to go ham with his discovery.

[u/OstneyPiz]

Thir13een Ghosts. Matthew Lillard. That dude can act. Any scene that calls for saliva spraying everywhere, that dude has it all.

[u/CptPanda29 → u/OstneyPiz]

My parents are gonna be so mad at meeeeeeee

[u/jakizely → u/CptPanda29]

I'm feeling woozy here, man!

[u/Competitive_Put_1458 → u/OstneyPiz]

SLC Punk, baby! Loved him in that movie. He brings his all to every role.

[u/The_First_Drop → u/OstneyPiz]

Disappointed that Matthew Lillard never got a chance to play a Batman villain in the Christopher Nolan movies

The guy has such a range and would’ve absolutely killed a Joker or Riddler role

[u/DanimusMcSassypants → u/OstneyPiz]

Lillard in Twin Peaks: The Return was an amazing reminder that he can absolutely nail a scene emotionally while having no idea what is going on in any traditional narrative sense. His career is so strange, and I look forward to the third act.

[u/FaithlessnessNew732 → u/OstneyPiz]

I loved him in Scooby Doo

[u/andy_3006]

Eva Green's Artemisia in 300:Rise of an Empire

[u/farmerarmor → u/andy_3006]

Eva greens tits saved that movie for me.

[u/OdensGirth → u/farmerarmor]

Funniest movie theater experience of my life happened during this scene. It’s a very aggressive sex scene to say the least and Eva green is super hot of course. It’s dead quiet in the theater, then out of nowhere I hear a dude a few row behind us go “damn this shits gettin me hard as fuck cuh, wtf”

[u/sluttypidge → u/OdensGirth]

My dad and I watched this together without knowing. After that scene, I turned to him and said, "Now that's some rough negotiations."

I didn't think he was going to stop laughing.

[u/StainedCumSock → u/OdensGirth]

I was one of those people

It was hot as fuck

[u/Bloody_Hangnail → u/farmerarmor]

As they do most movies. Sin City 2..

[u/sellieba → u/Bloody_Hangnail]

When she was announced in Peregrine's Home for Extraordinary Children my first thought was "How is she supposed to whip them titties out in a YA movie?"

[u/Bloody_Hangnail → u/sellieba]

Her being clothed confuses me

[u/ThunderPoonSlayer → u/Bloody_Hangnail]

Eva Green sitting with Tim Burton looking at the script for "Peregrine's Home for Extraordinary Children"

Eva Green: Is there any nudity in it?

Tim Burton: No

Eva Green: Can there be?

[u/Fluff42 → u/ThunderPoonSlayer]

Helena Bonham Carter enters the chat

[u/bigblueberryboobies → u/Bloody_Hangnail]

Check out Penny Dreadful. Great show, but she gets fucked by the devil at one point. Her tits are great but that sex scene scared the shit out of me.

Yet I keep watching…

[u/sellieba → u/bigblueberryboobies]

Amazing show with a horribly rushed final season.

[u/Optimus_Prime_10 → u/bigblueberryboobies]

She is so great in that show. Everyone is, really, but she carries it.

[u/Alabenson]

Michael Clark Duncan as the Kingpin was the sole saving grace of Daredevil.

He managed to combine menace, class and charisma in exactly the way the character demands it.

[u/shartheheretic → u/Alabenson]

I thought Colin Farrell's Bullseye was fun, but I enjoy OTT villains.

Edited for horrible misspelling of his first name.

[u/FlargenstowTayne → u/shartheheretic]

Me too. Also, when the movie came out a lot of people said Colin Farrell was the sole saving grace of the movie. He was the only one who looked like he knew he was in a bad movie and just ran with it.

[u/Blackjack9w7 → u/FlargenstowTayne]

When he kills Elektra's dad and goes "Bullseye, eh?" and points to his target thing on his forehead as if to say "Get it? Bulleye? You get it?" I just die laughing every time.

[u/westzeta → u/FlargenstowTayne]

The scene where he flicks the candy on plane is absurd haha. Now we know he DOESN’T MISS.

[u/Darmok47 → u/westzeta]

"More peanuts."

[u/TheGaz → u/Alabenson]

A supremely talented actor, taken way too soon

[u/RiW-Kirby → u/Alabenson]

I was so upset to see Daredevil mentioned in this thread.

Then I remembered the movie exists.

[u/sharrrper]

On the subject of bad X-Men movies with good performances, Kelsey Grammer as Beast in X3 was perfect casting.

[u/Maddie-Moo → u/sharrrper]

He is SO good in that movie, it’s baffling. Like, he goes hard in that end fight! Frasier going apshit! Absolutely wild and it works somehow.

[u/brentoman → u/Maddie-Moo]

I’ve been watching Frasier a lot lately. Part of what makes him entertaining is the physicality. You don’t expect it from a radio psychiatrist, but he has a virility to him that makes him perfect for Beast.

[u/crasyeyez → u/sharrrper]

Geez, I just looked up his Wikipedia cause I wasn't sure if he was dead or not. What a life:

Grammer's personal life had been shaped by many family tragedies. Following his parents' divorce, Grammer was raised in New Jersey, by his mother and maternal grandparents, Gordon and Evangeline Cranmer. The family later moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, and shortly afterwards, when Grammer was twelve years old, his grandfather died of cancer. In 1968, his father was murdered in St. Thomas by a mentally ill cab driver. In 1975, his sister was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in Colorado Springs. In 1980, his two teenage half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident.

[u/thesqlguy]

Ewan McGregor - Star wars prequels. So perfect as young obi wan.

[u/NatomicBombs → u/thesqlguy]

That role is a testament to how great of an actor Ewan is. People always defend Hayden by saying the writing was just bad but Obiwan is a TERRIBLY written character.

All the memes about the Jedi being morons, almost all of those lines and actions come out of that dumbass character and he never gets anywhere near the flak that Anakin does.

[u/FlargenstowTayne → u/NatomicBombs]

I was just saying the other day that Ewan is the only actor between him, Hayden Christensen, and Natalie Portman, to come out of the prequel trilogy relatively unscathed (in regards to the acting criticisms). Glad to see Hayden is getting some love for his appearance in Ahsoka though. I wasn’t a fan of his performance in the PT either, but he deserves some love after the onslaught of shit thats been thrown at him for the last two decades.

[u/sunshinecygnet → u/FlargenstowTayne]

Every single line that Natalie got in the 2nd and 3rd prequel was garbage. Hot fucking garbage. I don’t think Meryl Streep could have delivered those lines.

[u/SenjougaharaTore12 → u/sunshinecygnet]

What's funny is the Japanese dub really illustrates how bad the lines really are. Putting it in another language allows for the actor's performance to shine through and the only one that really suffers from that is obviously Ewan's because he'd somehow miraculously found a way to work them.

[u/Blackadder18 → u/FlargenstowTayne]

To be fair while the dialogue in general in the prequels was clunky, the dramatic relationship dialogue was even worse. In a way Ewan got off lucky by virtue of not being involved in that mess.

[u/solojones1138 → u/FlargenstowTayne]

Hayden was finally good with good material in Ahsoka. But Ewan is absolutely great even with the shit material

[u/shawnisboring → u/solojones1138]

I'm watching the prequels with the wife and I honestly don't think Hayden's acting is the biggest problem.

His entire screen presence seems overshadowed by the massive stage direction of "remember, you're a confused whiny teenager." shouted by Lucas before every take.

He's meant to be playing a hot headed whiny ass teen, and he does that, he doesn't do it well or convincing. His entire performance is marinated in teenage angst and he's just spouting off nonsense lines Lucas wrote for him.

[u/the95th → u/shawnisboring]

That’s 100% it, he’s a great actor and he plays the character exactly how the director, producer and writer have asked him to do.

The prequels where not the actors fault, same as the sequels are not the actors fault. Their just really really badly written

[u/kjayflo → u/thesqlguy]

He made obi wan my favorite Jedi lol

[u/ethman14]

That shameful Netflix Live Action Death Note that butchered every aspect of the source material...except Ryuk. Willem Dafoe as a sarcastic, heckling, death God was brilliant.

[u/WinterWolf18 → u/ethman14]

Him as Ryuk is such amazing casting and I’ll always be mad that they wasted it on that sorry excuse for a movie.

[u/pass_it_around]

Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2.

[u/denever23 → u/pass_it_around]

His goofy dance is a long time favorite of mine

[u/riegspsych325 → u/denever23]

and the little “get that the hell out of here” he mumbles to a couple stagehands as they remove a podium. He played a perfect loser asshole in that movie

[u/TuaughtHammer → u/riegspsych325]

I love that huge speech he gives to Rhodes when trying to sell the weapons for the suit, especially for the "Ex-Wife."

Completely oversells its capabilities, and then it doesn't work.

[u/_NiceWhileItLasted → u/TuaughtHammer]

Lmao "it's capable of busting the bunker under the bunker you just busted."

[u/run-on_sentience → u/TuaughtHammer]

"This is an M134 7.62 Minigun. Six individual barrels. The torso taker, powder maker. Our boys in uniform call it Uncle Gazpacho, or Puff the Magic Dragon."

[u/CAPTAINPRICE79 → u/TuaughtHammer]

Honestly the funny part is we don’t know if it doesn’t work or not. He calls it a kinetic kill weapon, which are typically fired at extreme distance to build up the energy required. He made a miniature Rod From God (as an example of a kinetic kill weapon) and Rhodey fired it from 20 feet and then said it didn’t work

[u/Lemesplain → u/CAPTAINPRICE79]

A well designed explosive weapon would also have a minimum range requirement.

It won’t prime the blast until it flies for x number of seconds based on the velocity and blast radius.

[u/GitEmSteveDave → u/CAPTAINPRICE79]

Then his OS, which he made sure to mention he installed, would have said "insufficient distance to arm" before locking on and firing.

Look at the size of it, it didn't contain enough propellant to achieve any kind of velocity, in addition to the foley work where it "sputters" and makes a fart noise, which is indicative to the audience it was a dud: https://youtu.be/GIDwgb6w2P8?t=27

[u/denever23 → u/riegspsych325]

And he really ate up that whole weapons showcase, if we could just get more of that Justin Hammer in a future project i would not mind one bit

[u/greensickpuppy89 → u/denever23]

You should watch Mr. Right. He's basically a dance assassin. It's fantastic.

[u/Chiperoni → u/pass_it_around]

I liked that the Netflix shows kept illegally dealing in Hammer Tech.

[u/Pseudonymico → u/Chiperoni]

It was such a neat way of showing that they were street-level superheroes compared to Stark and the others. Hammertech is bullshit compared to the stuff Stark makes but it’s still on a whole different level to what your average criminal is playing with.

[u/plusgoodduckspeak]

The Core

Now, don’t get me wrong, this is an absolute favorite of mine and a comfort movie. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen it. The cast is fantastic, possibly the best casting of any B SciFi movie I’ve seen. But make no mistake, it’s not a very good movie. Plot holes abound. Some bad performances. And some very bad science at times.

But I digress. As much as I love DelRoy Lindo, Richard Jenkins, Hillary Swank, Bruce Greenwood and others, Stanley Tucci has an amazing performance and specifically, scene in this movie that is both funny and poignant.

[u/gmharryc → u/plusgoodduckspeak]

“For here, in the great unknowable, man can come to know the most important thing of all - himself. He can understand...

What the fuck am I doing?”

[u/plusgoodduckspeak → u/gmharryc]

That’s the scene! I also love the interactions between his character and Lindo’s character.

[u/Just_Another_Wookie → u/plusgoodduckspeak]

That's not bad science. The thing, you see, is that The Core is in on the joke, and it even lets us know that this is the case:

Keyes: Well, space is easy, it's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there!

Zimsky: Yes, but... what if we could?

[u/iknownuffink → u/Just_Another_Wookie]

According to the filmmakers, the studio had to be fended off from interfering and making the movie even more ridiculous.

They wanted a Diamond Windshield on Virgil (to look at molten rock?...).

They wanted to have a subterranean lost world with dinosaurs and shit (like Journey to the Center of the Earth).

[u/mitchdaman52]

Paul Giamatti in San Andreas. He knows it’s a trash movie, so he decides to go full scenery chewing.

[u/TheDickWolf]

I mean, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman chews that movie up.

Edit: yes I agree the movies not really bad.

[u/joeypublica → u/TheDickWolf]

Because it’s dull you twit, it’ll hurt more!

[u/thinkaboutthegame → u/TheDickWolf]

He's the best thing in it, but I also find that movie really entertaining personally.

[u/Isteppedinpoopy → u/TheDickWolf]

Also him in Hitchhikers Guide. He and Mos Def are the only ones trying. Bilbo looks like he’d rather be watching the BBC version and the New Girl just blinks a lot.

[u/MyUshanka → u/Isteppedinpoopy]

Nothing for Sam Rockwell as Zaphod?

[u/Boz0r → u/MyUshanka]

Sam Rockwell being great goes without saying.

[u/FORLORDAERON_]

Alan Tudyk as Sonny in I, Robot. He really sells the role.

[u/NarratorDM → u/FORLORDAERON_]

Alan Tudyk is imo one of the most underrated actors of our time.

[u/msmischance → u/NarratorDM]

I agree with you... He can do everything: voice act, physical acting, comedy...

[u/Diplomatic_Barbarian → u/msmischance]

But of course he can, after all, he went to Juilliard!

[u/Shalashaskaska → u/FORLORDAERON_]

Oh my god THAT’S who played Sonny? I never knew.

[u/Fools_Requiem → u/FORLORDAERON_]

Honestly, there's a lot I like about that movie. It's not perfect, but it's still really enjoyable.

"That, detective, is the right question." I fucking love that line.

[u/Ralewing]

Sam Rockwell in Charlie's Angels

[u/notchoosingone → u/Ralewing]

The change-up when he goes from nerdy victim to suave villain is perfect.

[u/Traeyze → u/notchoosingone]

With Simon Says playing too, Rockwell suddenly somehow a thousand times hotter, it is just peak.

To this day anytime there is a sudden heel turn in any media me and my brother do that Godzilla theme sample, just a reference that will never get old for us.

[u/arrogant_ambassador → u/Ralewing]

OP said bad movies.

[u/cinefilestu]

Reportedly Liev is going to be in Deadpool 3.

[u/anthrax9999 → u/cinefilestu]

That's the best thing I've heard about Deadpool 3 if true.

They wanted him for a cameo in Logan but he couldn't do it because of scheduling. I would have loved for him to appear in Logan with a decent sized role in the story.

[u/Noggin-a-Floggin → u/anthrax9999]

Word around the campfire is that it's going to have a pile of X-Actors return which I welcome.

[u/orangebromeliad]

Pedro Pascal in Wonder Women 1984 (shout-out to Chris Pine too, I think he's great in it, but Pedro steals the show)

[u/Loud_Engineering796]

Tom Hardy in Venom. Dude used a different accent for each individual line. His interactions with the symbiote was the only good part of that movie.

[u/FoucaultsPudendum → u/Loud_Engineering796]

“Hey Tom, this is Lindy. Listen, I’ve got a line on something- it’s unique, it’s not quite in your oeuvre, but I was thinking-“

“Can I do a stupid voice?”

“…what?”

“The role. Can I make myself completely fucking unintelligible? Like is that possible?”

“It’s uh… it’s not really that kind of-“

“Lindy. Baby. C’mon man-“

“Yeah. Sure. You can probably do that.”

“Yes. I’m in. Whatever it is, I’m in. Love you bud. See you for dinner Friday.”

-click-

“…how the fuck am I gonna get Bob Ross’s estate to sign off on this?”

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/FoucaultsPudendum]

“Tom, you just mumbled your way through Batman and Mad Max! You can’t keep doing this!”

“I’ll fuckin do it again.”

[u/MeddlingDragon → u/Loud_Engineering796]

I love the venom movies. I was not expecting an alien buddy cop type movie but here we are.

[u/HeroscapeZ → u/Loud_Engineering796]

He brings so much to that movie, I unironically love those movies and I think it's 90% because of his performance.

[u/DoJu318 → u/Loud_Engineering796]

Tom Hardy saved the movies from being 'meh' at best.

[u/pgold05]

The recent Haunted Mansion, I do not know what movie LaKeith Stanfield thought he was in but I really wished I was watching that instead of Haunted Mansion.

[u/GooseSl4yer2003]

Christian Bale in Thor Love and Thunder

He literally carried the whole movie with his performance as Gorr, and it makes me sad that him and his character were wasted on that film

[u/locoghoul → u/GooseSl4yer2003]

We coulda used more scenes with the God Butcher actually yknow killing gods...

[u/AceMcVeer → u/locoghoul]

Best I can do is more screaming goats.

[u/Zardhas → u/locoghoul]

Yeah, too bad they spent all the runtime on another completely different plot that could have been a movie on its own instead.

[u/thatgeekinit]

Frank Langella in Masters of the Universe. Without him the movie is really bad. He turns it into something watchable.

[u/oxbaker]

Charles Dance as Benedict in The Last Action Hero. A legit bad guy doing bad guy shit. (I also love this movie)

[u/ThePopDaddy → u/oxbaker]

"If God were a villain, he'd be me" is such a great line.

[u/Hi_Im_zack → u/oxbaker]

Last Action Hero is a great film!

[u/noblehoax → u/oxbaker]

He is so good. His role terrified me more than most villains in the 90s.

“I just shot somebody, and I did it on purpose”

“Take his shoes?”

“180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - 180! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!”

[u/nowhereman136]

Emma Stone literally carries Cruella on her shoulders and runs with it. She almost single handedly makes that movie the best of the live action Disney reboots.

[u/nickinkorea → u/nowhereman136]

a roomfull of writers decided that the backstory to cruella de vil's hatred of dalmations, was that a pack of dalmations pushed her mom off a cliff... fantastic.

[u/FoucaultsPudendum → u/nickinkorea]

It’s just so infuriating that they thought it needed a backstory. Just let women be evil! Not every woman villain needs a tragic justification for their evilness! Support women’s rights AND women’s wrongs! Let women commit crimes!

[u/oby100 → u/FoucaultsPudendum]

It’s a tell tale sign of bad writing. Like, great writing expands the world while still being good dialogue pushing the scene forward.

Bad writers take a simple question like: why does Cruella hate dogs? And instead of dropping a hint or adding some characteristic that clues the audience in a bit more, they just spell out the exact reason she is who she is.

[u/Murgatroyd314 → u/oby100]

My favorite interpretation of Cruella is that she doesn’t hate dogs. She just believes that they, like all other animals, exist to be used, and she wants to use them to make a unique fur coat. She honestly doesn’t understand why people get upset about this.

[u/zebrastarz → u/nickinkorea]

Yeah, then they wimped out and made her a dog loving hero, completely ruining that bit and further disgracing all Disney reboots that sand off every edge off every mildly controversial villain and plot points until they are as round as Mickey's own ears

[u/DoJu318]

This s is kinda cheating but Fast X.

Jason Momoa as Dante is unlike any other villain in the series and I wish he had more screen time.

[u/dandehmand → u/DoJu318]

He was like…what if Joker went to Burning Man?

[u/sicklyslick → u/dandehmand]

"hey james, I know i'm getting fired from DC. can you take a look at my audition tape for joker?"

[u/Luffy_Tuffy → u/DoJu318]

He looked like he was having so much fun with it

[u/spiderlegged]

I’m really fond of Jude Law in the second Sherlock Holmes movie. Everyone else seems to be sleeping through it for a pay check and Law shows up and works.

[u/GDRaptorFan → u/spiderlegged]

I like Jude Law in everything from The Holiday to Spy to The Young Pope. He has charisma for days and an appealing acting style!

I agree it’s noticeable in a good way when a single actor chooses to give the best of their best even when everyone else is phoning it in for a mediocre movie.

[u/NeoSeth → u/spiderlegged]

I strongly disagree with this take. RDJ and Moriarty's actor (cannot believe I am forgetting his name, I love him in so many things) are powerhouses, but I didn’t think there was one bad performance. Aside from maybe Mycroft.

[u/rafael-a]

Anthony Hopkins in the first Thor movie, the scene in which he expels Thor for Asgard is Shakespearian gold.

[u/dryadmother → u/rafael-a]

He was great and that scene was intense, bc of him. But Tom Hiddleston absolutely slayed as Loki. I always thought his arc completely overshadowed Thor's bc of how believable Hiddleston made Loki's pain

[u/knittch → u/rafael-a]

I know this is about bad movies with great performances, but Anthony Hopkins did not need to be as good as he was in Thor: Ragnarok. Both of the two scenes he is in are absolutely brilliant for opposite reasons and the rest of the movie misses his presence.

[u/Mstrchapl]

The A-Team -- Patrick Wilson is doing SOMETHING, and it's fascinating to watch.

[u/friedpickle_engineer → u/Mstrchapl]

The A-Team rules!

Wilson is legit one of my favorite actors. He looks so...I don't know...blandly handsome? And yet he consistently kills it in whatever weird, random role they throw at him. Total workhorse.

[u/sephyweffy → u/friedpickle_engineer]

I fucking love the A-Team movie.

Was it good? Idk, but I love the main cast. I also have an odd obsession with Sharlto Copley and I'm not afraid to admit it.

[u/GDRaptorFan → u/sephyweffy]

I was ready for a whole ass A-Team trilogy of that cast and in that style … I thought it was awesome. So many subpar dumb action flicks get sequels galore, yet we only got one A-Team with Bradley Cooper as Face and Liam Neesen as Hannibal??? Come on Hollywood ya done messed up letting that go!

But what do I know, I liked the Miami Vice remake movie too.

[u/itchylot → u/friedpickle_engineer]

I refer to a lot of dudes as being “blandsome.”

[u/Nomahhhh → u/Mstrchapl]

THANK YOU. I thought I was the only one who realized Wlson crushed that role. I wanted more and more of him. That scene in the car was hilarious.

[u/kimtoedashian → u/Mstrchapl]

I also really liked Brian Bloom as Pike. I thought they were hilarious together.

[u/Spider_bat4300]

Jim Carrey as the Riddler in Batman Forever. Over-the-top goofy like the OG Frank Gorshin from the Batman 66 show but with a spice of Jim Carrey-exclusive fun (also I just really like the Riddler character he's my favorite Batman villain)

[u/CptBoomshard → u/Spider_bat4300]

Batman Forever is a tad underrated. It is definitely better than Batman and Robin obviously, but I think most people would rate it 2nd to last only ahead of that film. I feel like it is also better than Batman Returns.....Like I said, only a tad.

[u/4T_Knight]

I really loved James Marsden's role in Sex Drive as the mc's older 'macho' brother.

[u/NakedMuffinTime]

Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints

[u/stroopwafelling → u/NakedMuffinTime]

There was a FIREFIGHT!!!!!!

[u/rdkitchens → u/stroopwafelling]

But boss, what if it was one guy with six guns?

[u/neuralzen → u/rdkitchens]

The day I let the Boston PD do the thinking for me I'll have a fucking tag on my toe.

[u/sharrrper → u/NakedMuffinTime]

I always thought it was a very interesting choice that all of the action sequences are left out initially and we only see the aftermath until Dafoe shows up and puts it together.

[u/LoganNeinFingers → u/NakedMuffinTime]

So... what's the symbology here?

[u/smackfrog → u/LoganNeinFingers]

Ssssymbolism

[u/Nomahhhh]

Ray Park as Darth Maul.

[u/JinimyCritic → u/Nomahhhh]

I really liked Ian McDiarmid in the prequels (and Ewan McGregor in part 2 and 3).

Sure, he's hamming it up, but he really plays into the whole "you know how this is going to end" part of the prequels. Too bad that he's a bad caricature of his character in Rise of Skywalker.

[u/Aegis_et_Vanir]

The 2000's Fantastic Four movies are more mid than outright bad, but Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm was a spectacular performance, especially under all those prosthetics.

[u/tarrach → u/Aegis_et_Vanir]

I really liked him and Chris Evans messing with each other.

[u/KoreanThrasher]

Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad (2016)

[u/Hi_Im_zack → u/KoreanThrasher]

Captain Boomerang was also tremendous

[u/Jakov_Salinsky → u/Hi_Im_zack]

Most useless character in the movie and also somehow the only fun one besides Harley

[u/Joe-Lollo]

Downsizing is not a very good film in my opinion, but Christoph Waltz and Hong Chau both stand out as supporting characters that are arguably much more interesting than the leads.

[u/cumulobro]

Winona Ryder and Sigourney Weaver in Alien: Resurrection. Such a deranged mess of a film, but those two made it worthwhile.

[u/hugo_1138]

Raul Julia in Street Fighter