Anyone else find Marlon Brando overrated as an actor?

His early work was great but he gave some really bad self indulgent performances from the 60s onward.

Yes. Overrated in both looks and performances.

Mumbled too much but certainly had charisma and presence. Montgomery Clift and Paul Newman were superior in every way.

STELLAAAAAAAA

Watching him utter that word I wanted to say- Stick a fork in him he'd DONE.

lazy actor for the most part and his weirdness is sometimes interesting as in Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

No. He’s Marlon Brando.

R4 Take away the hotness factor and is his performance really that great? Vivien Leigh owns that movie imo.

R1 What early great performances does he have besides Streetcar and On the Waterfront? He wasn’t that impressive in The Men or The Wolf One to me.

R1 I liked him in The Chase.

R8 The Wild One**

Marlon was always interesting. I even like his "bad" films, such as Burn!, Reflections in an Golden Eye, and The Nightcomers.

R3 Seems like Monty was a better method actor than Marlon and Paul was a better movie star than Marlon.

I liked him in The Wild One. He was good as the moody antisocial leader of a biker gang. Likely bipolar like his true self. His looks was mostly his beautiful lips and extremely tight body and ass. He lost all of that early on. It's scary how ugly and fat he got so fast.

The Godfather was by far his best role/performance

I don’t think Marlon is a bad actor btw. He was obviously talented and influential. But for someone who is constantly heralded as the greatest actor of all time, his list of great performances is severely lacking to me.

R14 He’s iconic in The Godfather, but Al Pacino gives my favorite performance in that movie by far.

R14 perhaps because he has so few lines and is in less than a third of that 3-hour movie. Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall have more scenes and dialog than he does.

He reminds me of George Michael: a genius, but lazy.

One of his last roles was one of his most entertaining.

No.

John Garfield was already doing what Brando got lauded for, but Garfield you could actually understand what he was saying, too. He died just around the time Brando started in films, so Brando inherited some of his roles, same way Paul Newman got the roles James Dean would have been cast had Dean not died so young.

John Garfield's life was destroyed by McCarthyism. He was involved in leftist organizations and was blacklisted. Even after he wrote a plea denying his involvement, it didn't work. He died from a heart attack likely the result of stress.

Perhaps Brando stopped trying because he had no competition. Garfield died, Dean died, Clift became a drugged out mess and eventually died, etc.

He can not be overrated.

Sure he can. I dropped one acting teacher at HB who was brilliant, but also repetitive; enough with the Marlon Brando stories already!

Mr. Mumbles. Someone should have created a role for him where he mumbled even more.

Newman, Beatty and McQueen all seemed to borrow more from Montgomery Clift than Brando.

R26

Beatty/Dean

Newman/Brando

McQueen/Garfield

Beatty felt more like Clift than Dean.

Actually, I am more appreciative of Brando as years go on.

His impact on acting has diminished imo.

He was fashionable and willing to take risks.

Anyone who gets the title “worlds greatest actor” is inevitably overrated.

But yes, it’s depressing how lazy he got (pretty early on) and more or less threw all his talent away. Compare him with someone like Paul Newman, who never had that “greatest actor” thing to live up to, but just got better and better. And arguably is remembered much more favorably today.

His Godfather performances are laughable. Like a SNL skit.

He had a good PR team, just like that of Andy Warhol.

I felt and looked like Brando in The Godfather when I had my wisdom teeth extracted. That's all I have to add.

Why was he so fat?