Most embarrassing/poorly acted scenes in movies

Watch "East of Eden": much better!

I watched Rebel WOAC recently. The only one who could act his way out of a paper bag was Sal Mineo. The high school male students all looked like they were a decade older. I saw this as a young teen at the local movie theater back in the day

Nicolas Cage in many things, but mainly The Wicker Man. The "OH, NO, NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES!" scene is famous for being so cringey.

Anne Baxter in All About Eve

But I guess, like Birdie (Bertie?), the audience was supposed to see through her

"Cringey" makes you sound like a moron, OP.

In Rebel, East of Eden and Giant Dean is an exponent of the Marlon Method and over-reactive and mannered. Contorted face, head clutching and shrieking!

Exactly R5.

I think OP was bored tonight and needed attention.

[quote] "Cringey" makes you sound like a moron, OP.

Is everyone posting on DL tonight a fat hundred year old prisspot?

The cast of Showgirls

Candice Bergen in [italic]Gandhi[/italic]. Margaret Bourke-White's actual photographs have more life than her performance.

"Andy...Debbie...Shelly's DEEEAD!" from Friday the 13th Part 3 (anybody who's seen the movie knows the one I mean)

And a scene in Halloween (2018) after Laurie has her wine drinking breakdown at the restaurant and Karen is standing in the parking lot with her family talking about what a rough childhood she had. Yet Judy Greer sounds like she is reading off a cue card. No emotion in her voice whatsoever.

Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire- STELLA!!

Stick a fork in him. He's DONE.

Cowardly Lion in Wizard of Oz - no real lion would act that way!

William Shatner in anything

British accents from Julia Roberts in Mary Rilley, Kevin Costner in Robin Hood.

Go back to Leonardo DiCaprio and comic book movies, OP.

Couldn't agree more, OP. So pleased someone finally said it! Dean was just awful in Rebel. It wasn't even a roughly accurate imitation of a teenager, and his "anguish" did not look truly felt in any way. He was not much better in Giant. I didn't bother with East of Eden.

Brando may have been impaired by The Method, but he was an infinitely better actor than Dean. Look at On the Waterfront.

As a gay sidebar, does everyone think JR Ewing in Dallas got his initials from the prominent "JR" Dean's character featured as his oil company logo in Giant?

Danny Pintauro in [italic]Cujo[/italic] whining so much he made me root for the dog to devour both him and his mother and then let loose a loud belch while picking his teeth as the film ends on a Looney Tunes-style iris out.

Lynda Day George in “Pieces”.

R19 is homophobic and anti-HIV. You are.

R20 Holy fuck! That bish deafened her poor co-star and us.

Sherrie Moon Zombie in all of her husband Rob Zombie’s horror movies. Absolutely hideous.

All of the scenes in Catwoman.

Obviously there's the scene in Valley of the Dolls where Neely just calls out a succession of names, with increasing actorly anguish, ending in her own.

Yet I'm a big Patty Duke fan otherwise.

Never Forget

I thought James Dean was a good actor and might have become a great one. But Paul Newman who basically replaced him was great from the get-go.

Leslie Howard in Gone With The Wind. I can imagine Hattie McDaniel watching him and saying under her breath, “Who’d he blow to get in here?”

R21 is a racist piece of shit for defending a terrible actor and beneficiary of white privilege and gentile privilege who deservedly became washed up by the end of the 20th century and who publicly offered to bareback long after he seroconverted. He is. Of course you defend a gay man whose behavior was so stupid and reckless that it hurt other gay men: he's white and you're a miserable self-loathing racist piece of shit so you project it onto me. If it wasn't for that no-talent greaseball, AIDS might be as rare as smallpox by now.

Shut your racist white ass the fuck up. It is not homophobic to criticize bad acting by gay people. He's worse than a bad actor, he's a bad person, too. He infected other people on purpose. He should be in jail. He doesn't deserve to be gay but he sure as fucking HELL deserves to be HIV-positive both for trying to infect others and for all the racist shit Blacks and Mexicans have gotten because of it. If there is a Hell, he, Kirk Cameron, and Milo will all be roasting on a spit there in the Ninth Circle with plenty of room for Scott Baio. Bad acting knows no sexual orientation, no race, no religion, no nationality, no demographic categories of any kind. Your homophobia is the soft bigotry of low expectations.

He's the white Jussie Smollett and you know it.

Just for that, anyone who posts anyone fat is fatphobic and anti-diabetes. You are!

OP, I agree with you. His facial expressions and his overly-emotional delivery: people actually thought he was good? He is before my time (not by much) and when I finally tried to watch Rebel, I was surprised that this was considered good acting.

R29 What you talkin' bout Willis? Danny Pintauro from Who's the Boss? He infected everyone with HIV? That's news to me, Willis.

OP is Boomerphobic and anti-Alzheimer's. He is.

Rob the meathead Reiner in [italic]Sleepless in Seattle[/italic] reminding why both he and his ex-wife became directors instead.

R34 Get lost, Janbot. Go infect everyone with HIV as you claim innocent lil Danny Pintauro of.

R11 . . .a pall of incredibility falls on every scene she is in. Though she is a bit of a real-life photographer, Miss Bergen does not even handle a camera convincingly, albeit this is nothing compared to what she does with acting.

John Simon

Innocent? Little? He's a middle-aged man. You're a sick pedo in addition to being a racist. And he's still a bad actor.

R32 Exactly. Getting his head cut clear off in his car accident was the best thing to happen to the world.

R38 You are the only pedophile on here, sweetheart. You are guilty of all the crimes you project out.

R38 I checked out your sick history. You just go on and on about pedophilia. Clearly you are a N ambla lover. Get off DL, you sick pedophile.

Nope, I'm not the one facilitating either the abuse of children or the infection of other gay men with HIV. You're a pedo for defending this no-talent ex-passaround boy.

You're not just a pedo but a homophobe for turning a blind eye to those who deliberately spread HIV. That makes it harder for medical professionals to do their jobs. It puts an additional strain on the collective health of all gay men everywhere.

R42 Pedo. Pedo. Pedo. You should be banned from the Internet, Janbot.

R44 is Janbot in one of her psychotic iterations. She is the most disturbing thing on DL. She creeps me out.

Wrong again. I'm not a pedo, and I'm not Janbot even though she got an Oscar nomination when that lowlife dirtbag was already a trivia question nobody asked for the answer to.

You're a pedo and a homophobe for defending a bad actor who deliberately infected people with HIV.

Just for that, you're a racist if you don't watch [italic]Good Times[/italic].

There are several psychopathic posters on DL. All are Janbot with one of her 50 to 60 sock accounts. Busted.

You're a homophobe for defending someone who used undeserved fame gained through being a beneficiary of white supremacy to infect other gay men with HIV. He hurt gay people. He deserves to suffer for causing the suffering of gay people. He committed gay on gay sexual violence. Stop defending him.

Janbot is a myth made up by psychopathic Madge stans to project her lack of talent onto Academy Award Nominee Janet Jackson.

At least Vadge won awards for her acting. All of them were Razzies.

And she earned every single one of them!

R49 You are gulty of all the crimes you accuse others of. We know your games, Janbot.

Madonna is a no-talent gap-toothed slut who normalized the sexual exploitation of women and took gay people's money while changing nothing in the real world. No, being friends with Rosie O'Donnell doesn't count.

Mia Farrow in anything after Woody Allen rightly dumped her ass.

By contrast, the kids from E.T. could actually act. They seemed like normal kids you could relate to.

Janbot's posting history is nothing but accusing everyone else of being pedos and racists when she is the only pedo and racist on here. If only Muriel could block all of her 60 sock accounts.

Todd Bridges looks like a master thespian compared to that no-talent ofay.

Janbot goes on and on about kids in movies because she's a disgusting pedo. Gross.

Name one actress who could do a better job of being scared of being branded with an iron like a cow.

R58 accuses people of pedophilia to cover up for his own sick obsessions. Was my grandmother a pedophile for introducing me to the movie [italic]A Christmas Story[/italic]?

I doubt anyone is reading any of pedo racist Janbot's posts because anyone with a brain will block her everytime her turtle head pokes up from the asshole of all pedos.

what's with the two posters bickering like drunken fishwives?

You're the pedo for calling someone a homophobe for criticizing a bad performance by a child "actor," if you can even call him that, who turned out gay. Gay people do nothing but throw shade at each other all the time, but the one time legitimate criticism of a gay white man's behavior is warranted you project your own bigotry and sickness onto me in order to defend putting gay men's lives at risk. You're a homophobe and a pedophile, Vadgebot.

R62 I love attacking Janbot. She is so absolutely psychopathic. It is fun. Just read her history. All psychotic gibberish.

Vadgebot likes accusing people of being Janbot over things that have NOTHING TO DO WITH JANET JACKSON! She wasn't even in that damn movie. The only connections she has to him is that the two sitcoms she was on as a child were made by the same people as his lousy show that made hers look like classic TV by comparison.

In a Streetcar Named Desire when Stanley and his buds are playing poker, suddenly Stanley becomes irate by Blanche's music playing and breaks the stereo radio in her room which prompts Stella to tear the white T half right off the back of Stanley's above-room-temperature-moist-riddled body (the shirt must've been made from some incredibly thin industrial paper towel material, otherwise how else would it have come off so readily?...) anyway, this causes Stanley the brute to fate with such daintiness that he is dragged off to the showers by Moe, Larry and Curly who then proceed to tickle slap him into consciousness....

This whole scene was so out of place it actually took me out of the film as well. I was laughing but for all the wrong reasons. Elia Kazan seems to be one of the all round lousy directors of that time, he really knows how to cheapen the potential of a film.

M in [italic]Floppy Poopy Turds[/italic].

Diane Keaton in the Godfather.

Shut up, Mia, you lying bitch!

As mentioned in another thread, Helen Lawson in all her scenes in Gone With The Wind. The blackface was just over the top.

Daniel J. Travanti in Midnight Crossing

Do I dare mention John Travolta and Lily Tomlin? It’s like a SNL parody of bad acting.

R71: Now i know where Ed O'Neill got the inspiration for Al Bundy's speech patterns.

[quote] Do I dare mention John Travolta and Lily Tomlin? It’s like a SNL parody of bad acting.

SNL has enabled enough bad movies that they forfeit all right to parody anyone else's badness.

Despite her Academy Award for the role, Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor.

"Ah ya kidding papa? I has no hon-ah".

A while back, a DLer shared a clip from the film "We Were Soldiers." It's a scene where a black lady has just received the news of her soldier husband's death. She's in denial at first and angrily goes "Mmm-mmm! Mmm-Mmm!" (in a "nuh uh!" tone) over and over.

I can't find the clip anymore (it was once on YouTube) but it was the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've ever seen in a movie.

It looks great R76

She is giving us a master class in facework. A whole journey of a trip.

R77/R78 LOL THAT'S THE SCENE! I just wish there was a clip with sound. It's not as funny unless you actually hear the "Mmm-Mmm!"s.

Go dub yourself, R79.

RWAC is another one of those movies I can’t believe is so revered. No likeable characters, especially the puppy killer. They’re whining upper middle class kids. James Dean sees his dad in an apron and it’s tearing him apart....

Bonnie Franklin in "You're the Judge".

Because his father is a transvestite? Yes, in the 1950s that would be shocking.

R84 That has no relation to this thread, moron.

The "babies taste best" scene from Snowpiercer.

R82: Helen Hayes and Sarah Bernhardt couldn't make that whole setup any less hokey.

R20, yes, love it! I remember when Lynda drank the drugged coffee & said “mmm. I love the cream.” It was lol in a serious moment, so campy.

Recently I watched Gran Torino & the poor young male lead needed some acting lessons. The scene where he’s locked in the basement, freaking out, comes to mind.

Also season 5 of Footballers’ Wives, the actress who played Liberty (phina oruche, rhymes with douche), was awful. She was a British actress playing an American role, her accent was atrocious. “You wankerrrrr.” But her British accent kept cropping up.

M trying to play a teenage girl in Plenty. She was aged about 35 at the time.

I'm embarrassed by the Patrick Wilson sex scenes in Watchmen. He's a terrible actor, the thrusting was disgustingly-vivid and he looked bad naked. Anyone else hate watching Nite Owl fuck?

Ava Gardner dancing in The Barefoot Contessa. Yes she was gorgeous but Rita Hayworth she was not. There's a reason why Joe Mankiewicz edits her first dance scene so that we never see her.

I tried watching A Streetcar Named Desire, and I just can’t take Brando. Also every single character in that movie/play is awful and unbearable.

Noël was genius at writing witty ditties but he had a a big ego and an exaggerated sense of duty.

The lovely, closeted Michael Redgrave had his share of personal psychological crises and for some unknown reason freaked out while filming this story about a psychologist. Silly Noël stepped in and unfortunately ruined the movie.

I watched Splendour In The Grass recently. That was crazy. It was so coded I couldn’t even really discern what was happening.

In a cavalcade of embarrassment, gay lovers Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand stand out in "Rock of Ages"

R82- Bonnie Franklin STINKS as usual but I'd would GLADLY have a THREESOME with those two handsome guys in the video.

Though he was at his most beautiful (as was she), Paul Newman’s acting in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was awful.

East of Eden. James Dean was terrible. Ruined the movie. Why did the ham hug me in the birthday scene? It wasn't in the script. Little fucker was insufferable.

Good call R96. My friend and I walked out of his horrible, unfunny remake of Arthur. So glad his "acting" career died after that.

R32- Beside his HAMMY acting, James Dean was 24 years old playing a 16 year old but he looked 35 years old.

someone wrote this on Reddit: He was no great actor. He was barely an actor at all. He was just a personality. In Rebel Without a Cause, he gets destroyed by Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood, among others. And Rebel Without a Cause is laughingly bad.

I never cared for Sal Mineo in Rebel, way too feminine and effete. Natalie Wood was really good. Too bad she was killed by Robert Wagner.

Bonnie must have been remembering that movie every time she lost her shit on ODAAT.

"Mama, face it: I was the slut of all time."

Ali MacGraw’s death scene in love story.

OP, I can’t believe you don’t like that movie.

You’re TEARING ME TO PIECCCCEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!

[quote] Getting his head cut clear off in his car accident

You do know that didn’t happen, right?

R107 Who cares, it's funny. His acting was so bad, he deserved a gory end.

R5 it’s the cringe troll! What is it about all forms of that word that upsets you so?

as for James Dean, I think he’s riveting in the movie. There was really no one like him at the time.

R5 Cringe is an actual word, you fucking moron. LOL. Try to learn a few more words.

The lobster scene in Summer Rental.

[QUOTEI]s everyone posting on DL tonight a fat hundred year old prisspot?

Is it a day ending in y?

Thanks for the edit function, Muriel!

I thought the most comical part of East of Eden was when Aron smashed his head through the train window then started to laugh hysterically while pops looked on in dismay. It was so over the top. Also Rebel Without A Cause, the end scene was beyond absurd, no teenager with a gun would ever run out with the lights on towards the cops!! So stupid. And Dean yelling "I GOT THE BULLETS" right after the boy gets shot LOL.

R113 Hey but now I know how the quote function works anyway.

The Coppolatwat in Godfather III.

[quote]Dumbshit.

That awful woman Blake Edwards married

Any scene, any film

Ahem...

Justin Timberfake in [italic]The Love Guru[/italic]. Worst Quebeçois accent ever.

I have a kind of disorder I guess, I always love performances people hate. Andie McDowell in Four Weddings, Ali MacGraw in Love Story, Anne Baxter in All About Eve....to me they were all perfect and great.

I know it is ancient, but the two worst performances ever filmed are both in the same movie. Anne Baxter and Edward G. Robinson in The Ten Commandments are so awful it is nearly incomprehensible that they were allowed by the director.

I can't figure out if this is brilliant and intentionally funny or if the actress is just awful. She only has 2 other lines throughout the whole movie, so a part of me wonders if she was only hired because she looked right and would agree to do nudity and they just trimmed all her lines when they found out she couldn't even walk and talk at the same time.

R122 They were FABULOUS!

You expect realism from a movie where the fucking Red Sea splits in half with a giant stick?

I liked Patrick Swayze in his prime but Ghost was one of the worst movies EVER. Worst acting/poorly acted from Demi Moore, with her horrible fake tears and wooden performance. Whoopi and Patty couldn't save that turd of a movie. Not a movie I'd ever be able to sit though.

Demi was especially bad in [italic]Striptease[/italic]. What's worse is that the mother-daughter scenes were especially awful when she was playing against her real-life daughter!

*Clue. As in you don't have one

R128 More brilliant incisive commentary from Janbot. LOL. Don't you have some Jane Jacket to "dance" to with your fat jello-like ass.

Any scene with Kristen Stewart will obviously be the worst. She has absolutely no acting ability, charisma, or intelligence.

R130 Have you seen American Ultra? She's okay in that. I wouldn't say she has ZERO acting ability.

Not. Anyone who knows the slightest thing about acting knows Kristen Stewart is one of the worst things to hit Hollywood in a very long time. All the frau morons who ate up the Twilight series clearly knows nothing about good acting, writing, or anything.

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump is amazingly bad. I mean the whole thing is pure tripe!

Although Oscar nominated, Sacha Baron Cohen's American /Boston accent in "The Trial of the Chicago 7" is embarrassingly bad and he worked on it for months!

R132 So you haven't seen it but you're absolutely certain she's shitty in it. Okay. Well in case you ever want to broaden your horizons, she plays a supporting role and doesn't hurt the movie. Not going to argue about the shitiness of the twilight films.

Linda Day George

Anything with Jaclyn Smith.

Neely! Neely O’Hara!!!

Kevin Costner in that Robin Hood movie, unwilling? or unable? to do an English accent.

If anyone would wish to start a category of films that's start incredibly good but then slowly deteriorates into total and unbelievable ineptitude that would be Valley of The Dolls. I believe it was "Neely O'Hara" who put in the last nail in a final scene. Hard to believe what you were watching.

ANY dialog in a porno movie.

^ sorry it's spelled dialogue

Wait, R140, when is Valley of the Dolls every any good? Helen Lawson's first scene? Seriously, there is never a moment when it isn't unadulterated camp.

R143- THAT is what makes Valley Of The Dolls so good.

Dr Dre in Training Day, absolutely awful

Porno has never counted as being movies. Give me a break. Like the overacting lil slut Austin, who has taken a million bare cocks but acts like he's losing his cherry every time. Puke.

How the fuck did Roy Jones Jr get cast in The Matrix 2. His scenes are down righy laugh out loud cringey.

R122 try saying it in a gangster accent.

"Yeah. Yeah. Where's your Yahweh now, Moses? Yeah. Give them mouse knuckles."

The Hardy Boys and The Case of the Changing Pronouns

Gale Harold was always wooden and a poor actor on QAF. He was a pretty bland gentile. That's all he needed to be. I always hated him.

Fun fact, R125. The Red Sea really can part.

[quote]“The place I picked is not at the Red Sea proper, it’s at the north end of the Suez Canal in one of the shallow lagoons along the Mediterranean Sea.” As Drews points out, the term Yam Suf, a biblical term used in Exodus, means a marshy area filled with reeds. This is the same area where a British general named Alexander Tulloch witnessed a similar wind set-down event in 1882.

[quote]“He observed a strong east wind blow all night long, and in the morning the water had completely disappeared,” says Drews. “The lake was blown seven kilometers to the west.”

Winona Ryder. Doesn’t matter who the actor or director is, she’s working with. Has about the range of a middle school children’s play in all her movies.

R152 You're right, come to think of it. But that doesn't prevent her from being perfectly effective in the role – as in "The Age of Innocence," for example.