View Full Version : The award for the worst actor in a horror film ....
urgeok2
05-07-2008, 07:08 AM
goes to Bruce Payne. in any film he's in.
hands down the most overconfident scenery chewing ham i've ever seen in horror. maybe a decent directer would know how to put this to a better use .. i dunno.
All i can say is that if his name is in the credits, i avoid the film.
(my apologies if he's a nice guy in real life)
runner up - the supernaturally lucky Christopher Lambert.
he's managed to find work in some decent films ... he has an interesting look .. but his woodenness makes Keanu Reeves look like Bugs Bunny.
who else ?
(sorry if this has been done before .. i've been away :) )
neverending
05-07-2008, 07:23 AM
Maybe it's just becausae I watched this film last night, but Jason Ryan Lovett in "Resurrection Mary" was so awful it was unbelievable. It was like the director told him to look sad because that's the expression he uses throughout the movie. A sad little puppy dog look and his lines are delivered with a dead, wooden quality that just kills everything.
Oddly enough, there are four entirely different films named Resurrection Mary made since 2002.
urgeok2
05-07-2008, 07:25 AM
Oddly enough, there are four entirely different films named Resurrection Mary made since 2002.
any i've never heard of one of them.
must be a story with no copywrite owed to anyone.
_____V_____
05-07-2008, 07:28 AM
Warwick Davis in Leprechaun
Doc Faustus
05-07-2008, 07:29 AM
any i've never heard of one of them.
must be a story with no copywrite owed to anyone.
Can't copyright an urban legend.
_____V_____
05-07-2008, 07:34 AM
Busta Rhymes in Halloween Resurrection is another.
goes to Bruce Payne. in any film he's in.
hands down the most overconfident scenery chewing ham i've ever seen in horror. maybe a decent directer would know how to put this to a better use .. i dunno.
All i can say is that if his name is in the credits, i avoid the film.
(my apologies if he's a nice guy in real life)
runner up - the supernaturally lucky Christopher Lambert.
he's managed to find work in some decent films ... he has an interesting look .. but his woodenness makes Keanu Reeves look like Bugs Bunny.
who else ?
(sorry if this has been done before .. i've been away :) )
didja know Bruce Payne was in The Keep?
urgeok2
05-07-2008, 08:05 AM
didja know Bruce Payne was in The Keep?
small non (barely) speaking role as a german soldier ?
small non (barely) speaking role as a german soldier ?
border guard #2
urgeok2
05-07-2008, 08:08 AM
border guard #2
heh :)
see - Mann was a director that knew how to use him ..
.. silently and sparingly :D
The Mothman
05-07-2008, 08:08 AM
Ryan Reynolds.
fucking hate him.
urgeok2
05-07-2008, 08:10 AM
Ryan Reynolds.
fucking hate him.
oh shit - i used to - until i saw Just Friends ...
i have to say he's grown on me ..
i hated him in blade III until i saw it the second time - now i think he's the best thing about it.
Ryan Reynolds.
fucking hate him.
I think he's very affable
Vodstok
05-07-2008, 04:39 PM
Bruce payne....
Did you happen to know he was in Dungeons and Dragons? Probably one o fthe most poorly thought out and acted characters ever. Tried desperately to make him a darth vader type character, but ended up with a bad guy who turns into a pussy once or twice, but whereas anakin is basically good but fell from grace, blue lips from d&d was just an ill concieved retard. Payne merely took all remaining joy and shit-acted it out.
but lets not forget the rest of the cast, they sucked too.
Vodstok
05-07-2008, 04:47 PM
D&D rant aside, mr payne is one of those actors that every time i saw him in a movie, i asked myself "who the fuck does this guy know that he KEEPS GETTING WORK?"
Kinda like mario van peebles (who was in Full Eclipse with him), he gets repeated acting jobs, yet he plays 1 character in all of them, and not very well.
i will list somne other notably sucky actors shortly.
Like Ben Affleck. Sure, he has done some good work, Changing Lanes, Mallrats, Good Will Hunting... But he gets the spotlight and big paychecks when his brother seems to have all of the actual talent in the family. Casey rules.
X¤MurderDoll¤X
05-07-2008, 05:30 PM
Ryan Reynolds.
fucking hate him.
you're crazy. >_>
Elvis_Christ
05-07-2008, 05:55 PM
I thought he was a cock in that pizza shop show but the film Waiting made me see him in a different light. Haven't seen Blade III yet and not sure if I'll bother.
The_Return
05-07-2008, 06:12 PM
Haven't seen Blade III yet and not sure if I'll bother.
Don't.
If you enjoyed the first two, the third is borderline offensive.
If you didn't enjoy the first two, Trinity would be pretty much suicide inducing.
crabapple
05-08-2008, 09:09 PM
Sorry but Keanu's "I'VE SEEN MANY STRANGE THINGS ALREADY!" bit in Dracula puts him squarely at the top of the list for me. Actually I think he's a decent actor, and was just having a bad day that day.