Most successful actors that are terrible
Actors
Michael Myers
Terrible?
That's awfully hard to do.
I can think of plenty of successful actors that are vastly overrated though.
Reading the responses on here, it's clear that this is all down to personal opinion. That's it.
You cant define a bad performance any more than a good one. Only personally what you do and do not like.
An actor may give a critically acclaimed, award winning and lauded performance, and yet some will say its the worst ever. And vice versa.
Wow!!
Are you not using opinion in judging of us guilty of bias as well?
I have no problem with people using opinion, but your post reeks of like bad judgment.
I agree so much with this. Acting is so subjective maybe there are technicalities which guide you judge certain performances but at the end it’s all about taste.
And the audience connecting with the actors and them choosing good films to be in and by good films I Also include blockbusters i do think getting big recognition in a success blockbuster is a huge deal shouldn’t be seen as something less than an Oscar bait movie.
Right. Usually when someone says a performance was good, or a film was great because the acting was so good I'm like, what does that mean? What do you mean?
shareWell that means he/she liked the acting in it.
Actually it’s part of why I do love The MCU they picked the perfect actors for each character and they have all been Doing a great job.
Yes, there is good acting but it is subjective, it’s valid to a like a certain film because you enjoyed the Acting in it but for someone else in that same film the acting wasn’t that good.
Another thing the character also makes a huge influence on an actor’s popularity for Example Jennifer Lawrence with the Hunger Games sure people loved her performance but also loved the character.
That’s why it happens that actors can’t be successful in more than one role.
A very personal example I do like Robert Downey Jr very much and I am looking forward to see him in Dr Dolittle but I will always love him the most as IronMan because yes his performance in it was great but the character in its own is really cool as well.
So a great performance in a great character is the perfect match.
That's a great point! You can't separate a performance from the role. Also every other aspect of filmmaking plays a part in shaping what will be perceived as performance. Every element influences every other and in concert they form the context that dictates how each aspect will read.
It's being so pedantic obviously, and I'm not so annoying as to actually challenge it every time someone innocuously comments on "good acting". But there tends to be a sort of engrained ideology about what "good acting" looks like and what it doesn't, and the idea that there's an innate standard for that is in denial of the contextually sensitive nature of a performance.
The thing is that saying something is good or bad is essentially a zero information statement. If we can be a little clearer and more descriptive about what worked and didn't, and why, then we're on to comments that have some real substance.
Yes ofcourse all elements in filmmaking are connected.
We care for a few more than others but all influence each other. Some elements more connected than others.
For example writing and acting are extremely connected, a very written character helps to create a great performance.
Another thing about acting different actors have different skills or different characteristics which make them stand out
Daniel Day Lewis and Christian Bale are great chameleons who transform themselves in every role they portray but their weakness to me it’s that they can only do drama.
Comedy is definitely not their thing.
Meanwhile someone like Julia Roberts might not be one of the most transformative actresses but she has no problem doing comedy and drama.
Other who I think are way are
Robert Downey Jr.
Chris Hemsworth
George Clooney
Reese Witherspoon
Other actors have great charisma that with just that people go crazy fir them examples the Rock or Vin Diesel
And well because Robert won’t transform completely into a different character physically doesn’t mean he less of an actor than Christian Bale.
Of course, you are all right about each actors and acting are subject to opinion. For example, Oscars, Golden Globe, Pulitzer, beauty contests, any contests, and even the courts are run by opinions.
Laurence Oliver and Richard Burton once dubbed as the greatest actors by someone in press and it even accepted as logic and fact with taking a hard studying each films and plays they acted in. Interesting, no female actresses were acclaimed the greatest actresses.. Bette Davis came close to acclamation, but no one says so.
For me, I always wanted to be actor. I study at night memorizing the lines and it pissed me off when an actors did not do same thing, but doing something else for fun like playing baseball. That is why Frank Sinatra annoying me with his lazy way. He rather sings than acting. The same goes the rest of actors who want to do something else rather studying hard. They had no business in acting.