View Full Version : Actors who are bad, but you like watching anyway


Flying Dutchman
08-31-2016, 08:24 PM
1st, please forgive me if this has been pasted before. Is there an actor who you think is very bad at acting, but you like watching anyway for some reason? Even actresses by the same token. For me, it's Keanu Reeves. He is not a good actor by any means, but I like him anyway. I like to watch his movies. Actress for me is Reese Witherspoon. She can't, IMO, act for beans, but I like watching her anyway.

Anna Karenina
08-31-2016, 09:46 PM
For me it was Ronn Moss who had an acting job for 25 years on The Bold and The Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEsshy26N4

This scene makes me crack up. Its so bad, its good! :D

Edward216
09-01-2016, 02:32 AM
William Shatner (as Captain Kirk anyways). His overacting in the Star Trek TV series is always good for a laugh. In anything else I can't stand him. I always thought all the other actors in the original Star Trek did a good job though.

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Nordy
09-01-2016, 03:12 AM
I would say Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like his movies like Kindergarten Cop but him just really can't stand him.

Torgo
09-01-2016, 07:55 AM
I don't think Keanu is a bad actor, it just depends on the parts he is given, he was excellent in John Wicke, and Henry's Crime, and earlier films like Permanent Record, River's Edge, Parenthood.
It's the same with Nic Cage, the right parts and he's excellent. And John Goodman, when he's in a Coen Bros movie he's fantastic.
That could be said about a lot of actors, a bad script, etc can make most actors look bad.
And same with Reese, she was brilliant in Election and Freeway.

Torgo
09-01-2016, 08:09 AM
For me it was Ronn Moss who had an acting job for 25 years on The Bold and The Beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEsshy26N4

This scene makes me crack up. Its so bad, its good! :D

Ronn Moss was in the 80's action "classic" Hard Ticket To Hawaii.

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HuntingtonM15
09-01-2016, 01:37 PM
And same with Reese, she was brilliant in Election and Freeway.

Yeah, she was brilliant in those and pretty much everything else she's done, including her Oscar winning and nominated roles. So that selection of a "bad" actor pretty much blew my mind.

HuntingtonM15
09-01-2016, 01:38 PM
I'd have to go with Traci Lords. She has gotten better over the years, but she's by no means great, but I still love her.

Bonniegirl
09-01-2016, 01:47 PM
1st, please forgive me if this has been pasted before. Is there an actor who you think is very bad at acting, but you like watching anyway for some reason? Even actresses by the same token. For me, it's Keanu Reeves. He is not a good actor by any means, but I like him anyway. I like to watch his movies. Actress for me is Reese Witherspoon. She can't, IMO, act for beans, but I like watching her anyway.


Reese was REALLY good as June Carter Cash in Walk the line! :) ;)

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/341-2.jpg

HuntingtonM15
09-01-2016, 02:03 PM
Reese was REALLY good as June Carter Cash in Walk the line! :) ;)

http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/341-2.jpg

Absolutely. And just as good (if not better) as Cheryl Strayed in Wild.

Zoneboy
09-01-2016, 02:17 PM
For me it was Ronn Moss who had an acting job for 25 years on The Bold and The Beautiful.

Ronn Moss was a much better musician than an actor.

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JamesG
09-01-2016, 02:56 PM
They aren't known for their acting chops, but I love mindless action flick stars Dolph Lundgren, Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Stallone (who received praise for Creed), Wesley Snipes...

Edison
09-02-2016, 11:44 PM
Witherspoon's wonderful right from the start, at 14, in "The Man in the Moon" (1991), a very good flick.
As an..actor.. Quentin Tarantino's also wonderful - as Quentin Tarantino.

Tubehead
09-06-2016, 12:55 AM
ones i can think of are
the rock i know some people don't like him but i enjoy his movies!!
dolph lundgren loved him in the he-man movie master of the unisver!!
sylvester stallone
hulk hogan
sin bad
pee wee herman
Mr Bean
shaq

Flying Dutchman
09-09-2016, 03:11 PM
I don't think Keanu is a bad actor, it just depends on the parts he is given, he was excellent in John Wicke, and Henry's Crime, and earlier films like Permanent Record, River's Edge, Parenthood.
It's the same with Nic Cage, the right parts and he's excellent. And John Goodman, when he's in a Coen Bros movie he's fantastic.
That could be said about a lot of actors, a bad script, etc can make most actors look bad.
And same with Reese, she was brilliant in Election and Freeway.
Maybe for some people Keanu and Resse are, but I am an extremely critical person when it comes to acting. I guess it's just to each their own. But I did like John Wicke. And Freeway was also a very good movie, I really like Kiefer in that one. I also recall that Eastwood started out as a bad actor but got better with time. Still I always liked him.

70s show watcher
09-09-2016, 03:35 PM
alan alda is an actor who i think is so so at best but i enjoy watching him same goes for jullia roberts who i have never thought was all that great but i do enjoy some of her movies

Bonniegirl
09-09-2016, 04:08 PM
ones i can think of are
the rock i know some people don't like him but i enjoy his movies!!
dolph lundgren loved him in the he-man movie master of the unisver!!
sylvester stallone
hulk hogan
sin bad
pee wee herman
Mr Bean
shaq
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I like Mr. Bean!!!:lol: :D

Edward216
09-10-2016, 03:52 AM
I'll get a lot of flak for this one I know. Kevin Costner. He's been in a lot of good movies and people rave about his acting but I just don't see it. In all his movies I've seen to me he just does the same monotone stonefaced delivery every time. That's my opinion anyways.

Ed.

Flying Dutchman
09-10-2016, 02:13 PM
I'll get a lot of flak for this one I know. Kevin Costner. He's been in a lot of good movies and people rave about his acting but I just don't see it. In all his movies I've seen to me he just does the same monotone stonefaced delivery every time. That's my opinion anyways.

Ed.
I actually agree with you, Edward. I love Costner, and watch him in almost everything he is in, but never thought he was a great actor, or atleast good enough for many of the movie parts he gets.

Babalu
09-18-2016, 09:53 PM
Bo Derek, Tanya Roberts, Britt Ekland, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Darryl Hannah... I think you know where I'm going with this.