10 Movies That Actually Benefited From Bad Acting
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- Starship Troopers' wooden cast only elevated its satire.
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you really need to learn to distinguish between genuinely bad acting and acting (or directing) choices.
Gal as Wonder Woman was awesome! Pairing her with Lucy Davis was perfect casting. Her flow gratly complimented Gals more reserved style.
Killed every scene they were in.
Terminator is his signature role, but I am pretty sure Arnie got on the map with Conan, the Barbarian.
Conan was more of a cult hit rather than a smash in the box office. While he was remembered for it years later, at the time, Terminator is what put him on the map, and Terminator 2 made him an untouchable Superstar.
Keanue Reeves "lack of emotion " worked PERFECTLY in The Day The Earth Stood Still
He was saving all that emotion up for _John Wick._
@@benmcfee would give you 2 upvotes if could. lelz
Arnold was perfect as the Terminator. He understood the character completely and crushed the role precisely. I would not call that bad acting. Also one has to remember it was a career risk because he was breaking away early from heroic roles. He bought it completely and it showed.
I love in starship troopers that the main casts always have perfect hair every time they take their helmets off
There should be a top 10 of dumb, lazy, and plain wrong what culture top 10 list
@AW-vw4yn, you really think you can narrow it down to just 10😂
It annoys me a little that people call Arnold a bad actor. I always thought he played every character he was casted as perfectly. He was always a joy.
I agree. Greatly underestimated and a natural comedic flair.
What's that zombie film that he did? Maggie, I think was the name. He was brilliant in it
He firmly stuck within his range and excelled, not “bad” by any stretch
I think people are predisposed to believe muscles are mutually exclusive with talent or intelligence, and tend to judge him on that. Like that stupid phrase that I think made the rounds on Twitter: "Each large muscle of a bodybuilder represents a language he didn't learn, a poem he didn't read, a fun fact he never memorised."
But I agree with you; I think he was great in everything I've seen him in.
M. Night Shyamalan's The Village is a good example of intentional bad acting. The elders are actually trying to live 100 years in the past when they think things were "simpler." But you can see moments where Sigourney Weaver's character rolls her eyes. And William Hurt sucks badly but he's trying so hard to sound like someone from the 19th Century.
Laura Linney in The Truman Show is brilliant. She sucks in the role. But "Meryl" is played by a bad actress who's supposed to be a former child actor. And many child actors have a hard time transitioning to adult roles. It's one thing to suck in a role. It's another to play a character named after a good actress who is supposed to be a horrible actress.
Laura Liney is an amazing Actor.
On her Majesty's Secret Service is one of my favourite James Bond (I'll probably get criticised for this) because he was vulnerable, he falls in love, gets married. A different James Bond, which gets referenced in A spy who loved me (another one of my faves).
While I'll always be a Sean Connery fan, Lazenby was probably a better pick for the role, particularly after Connery's tired performance in You only Live twice.
A lot of critics have made the same (correct) observation about Lazenby in OHMSS. Connery would arguably have been too tough and cruel to let his guard down, and Moore wouldn't have been interested in playing Bond's emotional vulnerability, and, so, Lazenby ended up being the right actor for *this* film.
I don't think you need to worry much. OHMSS is generally considered in the top 5. Often taking the #1 or 2 spot (usually not as often since Casino Royale). The film is beautiful. Until Skyfall came to rival it, it stood head and shoulders above the other Bond films in terms of visuals.
It wasn't his performance that got him fired from future films, it was his attitude. I read an interview with Diana Rigg where she stated he offended many of the actors who'd been building careers for years and he didn't appreciate the opportunity that had fallen into his lap.
most of the main character actors in Clerks were local theater kids, ok not Hollywood actors but not completely green amateurs either
i actually think o'halleran is pretty good and anderson definitely nails the comedic timing of his lines even if he can be unnatural interacting with other actors. it's mostly the other performances that are particularly not great. mewes just seems like a guy goofing off they turned the camera on and a lot of the customers and one off characters who appear for a scene are particularly wooden.
@@wfchannel4673 I agree with you. The two leads actually are good. It was the secondary characters that were particularly bad.
@@wfchannel4673 I'll give ya Mewes, he was just one of Smith's hangers-on, but he liked the kid so much he decided to write a role for him... he did get slightly better as their movies went on, he was very raw in the first few
Couldn't disagree more with most of these choices. Most of these characters are designed to be awkward & off putting and you call them out for doing that, and then say but it works.
WhatCulture doesn't understand not every character is fucking Shakespearian and requires Robert De Niro level acting
So now Keanu Reeves is Philip Seymour...
I agree, first two movies The Matrix & Clerks , um No. Those were not bad acting.
It's why I didn't like the video.
To be fair, Paul Verhoeven films have been criticized for the bad acting since at least Robocop, even though the films are designed that way. But I 100% agree with your sentiments.
Arnold as Terminator, oh, you mean his iconic never to bettered performance.😅😅😅😅😅. Wiggins in Dazed is off the chart genuine and spot on. 😅😅😅😅
I like how they accuse him of being terrible because he's robotic, without ever considering he was possibly doing his best to be robotic because he......read the script saying "Arnie you are a fucking robot in disguise"
@@benmarshall2440ok, but if he's robotic in every role he ever plays, then point is kinda valid, no?
The Wachowski's weren't "smart enough to appreciate Reeve's stoicism". It was a $60m major studio production, the Wachowskis weren't free to cast whoever they wanted for the lead. They were being given the a-list movie star that the studio decided the project needed. And the studio originally wanted Will Smith, who turned it down for Wild Wild West. It was only then that the studio offered it to Reeves.
Sometimes you just get lucky, and The Matrix is a classic case of a lot of things falling neatly in to place.
Showgirls is a film that in retrospect benefitted from bad acting. Gina Gershon was the only performer who understood just how gloriously awful the script was and went for it, while the cluelessness of the other actors made the experience far more enjoyable. It is a camp classic that nobody would care about 30 years later if not for the truly terrible acting. I'd put it #1 on this list for sure and would have omitted The Matrix. You could also include any John Waters film released before Hairspray (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, etc.)
Elizabeth Berkeley was incredible to watch just missing the tone by a mile at every opportunity.
@@mage1439she sure looked great doing that
I would suggest that it is remembered more for other things than the acting, however a place in the top 10 is certainly deserved. I would argue that The Room should be number 1 as everything about it is truly terrible, however we have all seen clips of the atrocious acting, a film about its making was even made so surely a contender!
I don't necessarily think keanu reeves is a good actor but he's always in good movies. I think his best movie is constantine. He was really good in it.
Trolls 2. A masterpiece
The "T" in "Gadot" isn't silent. She's an Israeli Jew, not French.
Jake Busey is awesome.
YES!!!
The Room
Technically, M. Night Shyamalan has a very unusual directing style that doesn’t always work.
Good point
*very rarely works
@@ChristophBrinkmann 🤷♂️? Some of his hits were BIG hits. It's just that his misses REALLY SUCK 👎👎
His biggest problem is that after his 2nd movie, people now go in looking for the twist from the moment they see his name attached. I agree the acting is on the same level as a Bruckheimer or Bay movie BUT it could be Spielberg and nobody would give a 💩 unless that was the twist!🤪😹
You did NAAAAAT mention The Room. A movie where everyone acts so badly that it’s unintentional funny and has become a cult classic.
I think you misunderstood the assignment. The list is about bad acting that actually made the character more believable.
Oh, hi Mark!
Coppola may have floundered with Megalopolis (admittedly, I haven't seen it yet; it's just what I've heard), but back in the day, he was one of the greatest filmmakers in the world, partly because he had the smarts to make virues out of apparent liabilities. Truly great artists have the smarts to improvise and see the potential in an apparent pitfall.
Lazenby did very well in the romantic scenes, possibly because Diana Rigg could carry much of the load. He does deserve credit for absolutely killing it in the final scene. He may not have been much of an action star, but showed potential for drama.
Keanu Reeves works PERFECTLY as an office worker/hacker in Matrix. He's made for that role. Born to play that part.
I'd like to add in Taimak in The Last Dragon. He lack of acting experienced worked as an awkward teenage who's more connected to the Asian culture as presented in Bruce Lee films than to his own urban African American culture. He's been training martial arts and watching those movies his whole life and you even see how different he is from his family, although he clearly cares about them and is protective.
I'm such a bad actor I'll get your movie an oscar if I'm in it!
The Terminator's eyebrows were burned off in an explosion. His model originally had them.
And Wonder Woman isn't an alien. She was born and raised on Earth,just on an island of Amazons. Even as an metaphor, calling her an "alien" is nonsensical. She had friends and family growing up.
Yeah, I think Lazenby and OHMSS are underrated. I think he did a great job giving us a vulnerable Bond before we were ready. We weren't ready until Skyfall.
Nicholas Cage is a hell of an actor. He figured out exactly what movie he was in and he made the best of it.
The Wicker Man's most famous scene is the "Not the bees" scene and it's not even in the theatrical release of the film. I watched it with friends during a Halloween movie marathon (we put this on to make fun of it) and were so disappointed when that scene was missing
I honestly thought Dave Bautistas portrayal of Drax was a happy mistake due to bad acting.
Dave wasnt exactly a seasoned actor, and was just getting started trying to get major roles after leaving WWE. He had a couple small roles in notable movies like Scorpion King, but I think Man with the Iron Fist and Riddick were his 2 most biggest roles before landing the spot in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I thought his acting was legit because he just wasnt that great at it, but made it work for the character. Whether or not it was on purpose at the start, the guy has definitely become a great actor in since then. And the Guardians benefitted from Daves portrayal of Drax.
I liked him in Blade Runner 2049 and that Bond film with Daniel Craig (I forget which one, Spectre maybe).
The satire in Starship Troopers didn't completely sail over my head at the time, but I did miss the point about the overly good looking actors; that kind of thing was normal for a lot of 80s and 90s action cinema. I also wouldn't say it completely benefited from it either - I found Denise Richards' acting in particular to be distractingly bad, which is true of most films I've seen her in.
Totally agree about Gal Gadot; the only reason why the first WW film worked so well is because her innocent and slightly clueless demeanour worked for an origin story. However for the sequel, we needed the more assured and commanding presence that we would expect from the character's portrayal in other media, and she couldn't quite come up with the goods.
Sean Connery was a Scottish male model non actor until he got the role of 007, for which he played Sean Connery. He continued to play Sean Connery for every other part he ever got. George was just as good an actor, but he wasn't Sean Connery enough.
It’s criminal that this list dosent have Troll 2 on it.
I don't know what the deal is with Shyamalan's directing, but he almost always has his actors give exposition like day players at a community theater. They could be academy award winning actors, but they still look awkward and confused.
I think it’s also the bad writing. Nothing will make an actor look bad like terrible dialogue.
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" needed a veteran actor to play Bond. Connery preferably, but any seasoned actor with a British accent, really.
I would add Carnival of Souls. It is full of bad acting but it adds to the strange and otherworldly quality of the story. Since the entire film turns out to be "a dream" all of these performances fit the tone of the story. Once you adjust yourself to this style it becomes a lot of fun.
Everybody in The Room, adding a hilarious surreal element that could never be done as perfectly if done on purpose.
nah. the performance of the actor playing chris r is actually pretty decent, even if everyone else is really bad.
I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally cast to be the good guy in the terminator, and only became the bad guy when he asked if he could play the bad guy instead...
Surprised you didn’t put Showgirls here as this channel sorta repeats the same few films a little too much….
Bad acting is scarlet johanson, brie larson, jennifer lawrence and anything m.night shamalamadingdong writes except the 6th sense. You have no idea the difference between how a character should act like and actual bad acting.
I found Starship Troopers was more of a satire of Facism than the US.
But Paul Verhoeven does satirize American culture a lot in his films: Robocop and Showgirls particularly. And hyperbolic acting is kind of a signature of Verhoeven films, probably best demonstrated in Basic Instinct - which itself is kind of like Verhoeven's tribute to Hitchcock, particularly Vertigo. He also used Schwarzenegger in Total Recall. While often not loved by critics, Verhoeven is one of my all-time favourite directors.
I love how your entire description of Cage's performance explains how he elevated shitty material and made the movie memorable, and yet somehow you think it's the #1 example of "bad acting" 🙄
Though she got better in her following efforts , Andie MacDowell was extremely stiff and uncomfortable with the camera in her first few films like Greystoke, but that discomfort and self-consciousness worked perfectly for her character in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
OHMSS is the best Bond story. Outside of Dr No, it's the MOST Bond story as well. Worth the watch.
I vote for Sleepaway Camp (Aunt Martha).
Give Arnold credit. He taught himself how to quickly change a magazine clip in a hand gun without even glancing down for a second. He knew a machine would be programmed to do so easily.
Yeah, people like to stereotype him as the no-brains, all-brawn action star who wouldn't know real acting if he punched it in the face, but I feel like the man puts a lot of commitment and intelligence into everything he does.
During his Terminator/Conan time he was still working on thinning his accent, so it made sense to take roles that emphasized his physical size and limited his dialog. Once his English improved, he was able to display a lot more of his natural charm and charisma.
Verhoeven, without a doubt, has one of the most daring, uncompromising, audacious filmographies, with the likes of Starship Troopers, Robocop, Total Recall, Flesh and Blood, Basic Instinct and Showgirls.
I've heard that Schwarzenegger said the Terminator role was the easiest acting gig he ever did, precisely because the character was so monotone.
Why do people keep shitting on Keanu's acting when it comes to acting especially in the fucking Matrix??? Dude was also great In Speed and Point Break before this as well. I'm tired of this joke at this point
because he's not a very good actor...
He's great in lots of films. See also the Bill and Ted movies, and Parenthood, where he holds his own against Academy Award winners like Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, although it helps that he's playing to his strengths/image as the slightly clueless, spaced-out, surfer dude type.
"Why do people keep shitting on Keanu's acting when it comes to acting .."
Compared to his acting when it comes to what, gardening?
Because his acting was pretty stiff on that movie. He’s not a Terminator, a machine or anything like that, he’s a human that just learned his entire world and life is not what he thought, and that the real world he chose to be in is a wasteland. That’s heavy emotional stuff and you barely see him portray emotions. But, somehow and I don’t know why, his acting worked very well when you would have thought you needed a Pacino or Brando level of expressions. His acting is naturalistic, but just very stiff. I agree with him being on this list and that’s not a critic towards Keanu, after all, a good performance is not one that looks great, is one that’s right for the role. And boy he was perfect for it, I can’t imagine anyone else playing Neo.
PS: he’s proven he’s not a bad actor at all, and with a very good range of expressions. He’s excellent in John Wick, Speed, Constantine, Point Break, etc, so I’m not sure why he chose to be less expressive as Neo, but it turned out to work like a charm.
@RaulGarfias Keanu's acting is stiff in more than just the Matrix movies. It's stiff in John Wick, Speed, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Constantine, 47 Ronin, and almost any movie he's been in since Speed. Once he shed the brainless surfer dude style, he pretty much had no other way to show actual emotion. Reeves is a wooden board when he's not playing Ted.
Clerks is SO good.
yeah, and i don't think o'halleran and anderson are bad. everyone else though...
@@wfchannel4673 Absolutely. Those two are great, and I'd give a pass also to Rick Derris and the guy who dies on the toilet. Jason Mewes was especially rough in this one.
Arnold's acting in Terminator was deliberate, according to him. He claimed that every movement and line was delivered with him constantly thinking "how would a machine do or say this?" This could be him covering up for himself, the man is a master of putting a spin on things after all. He could also be telling the truth though. Either way, it worked.
Verhovens biggest issue was he made it look to good.. yeah he was aiming for satire but he made the satire look to good.. it became something you would almost WANT as compared to laugh at. He forgot to add the bad parts (or at least to quickly glossed over them) of what he was mocking,,
Gal Gadot is very pretty, but shit in every role she plays idc how you guys try to spin it.
She literally only gets work to entice the hormonally challenged into the cinema! 🤣🤣
well, that is what people care about. Just like Halle Berry, some women are so attractive that just being hot is enough. And she is not doing Shakespear. They are action movies and she is generally fine in them acting wise. She gets a bad rap as she knows her lane and is good in her limited range.
Cameron originally offered the role of John Connor to Arnold given his amerging popularity but Arnold read the script and said he want to play the terminator instead.
Yea... This list is has no sense. That's like "in this movie pele is limping... He can't act as an injured player"... When he IS a professional football player AND he HAS been injured... He is doing exactly what an injured player looks and acts like.
Whatsculture has no idea of what they are talking about. If you feel the dude awkward... It is the actor's good job.. Good acting
The rare and elusive Jules. We are blessed.
You are NOT talking shit about my boy Lazenby. While I still feel Timothy Dalton is the best Bond, but I love George, too.
Is anyone else terribly distracted by RUclips randomly sticking advertisements in the middle of the video, interrupting the flow of the content? Are they trying to drive us away? Is there any reason to think that pissing me off is *more* likely to make me want to give them money? Because that seems like a supremely stupid assumption. Not only are they sticking things in the middle of chapters, they are often in the middle of sentences. TV learned pretty quickly how to write around ad breaks to use them to create good content; RUclips should learn to use natural breaks in content to make effective ad placements. This is just annoying.
5:16...Wonder Woman is not THAT kind of "Alien"😂
The Dutch movie Rent A Friend is brimful of wooden acting on purpose.
Little Miss Cinciwhatski.
Just waiting for Hollywood to remake "clerks" with a $50mill budget
I would add Shelly Duvall in The Shining. Her reactions to Jack Nicholson were so weird and jarringly theatrical. It was feasible though that enough blind terror could evoke that behaviour. It’s hard to tell if her performance is brilliant or campy or both.
Sometimes its bad casting. Even the best actors & actresses need the right part for them. (Collateral Beauty)
Going to disagree with some of these. Specifically Clerks. These guys, especially Randall, sound like actual people having actual conversations to me. The only time it gets a bit dicey is when their dialogue has to push the story forward.
You know, now that I think about...I've never seen Clerks.
Well, go watch it and maybe the second one, but stop after that
Is George Lazenby related to someone in the WhatCulture team? If so, good on you for defending Uncle George in video after video for a truly terrible performance. Similarly, I admire WhatCulture for endlessly trying to convince us that Starship Troopers was a satire. I'll never be convinced, but it's nice that you keep on trying. 😊
90 seconds in, and you believe Keanu was worse than Carrie Anne-Moss? I am fairly certain she is one of the worst actresses that keeps getting roles and cant think of anything she has ever been good in.
George Lazenby is my favorite main series James Bond!
David Niven is my all time favorite James Bond!
How about a "bad" movie made good because of one actor's performance?
The Rodger Corman fantastic 4 I love it so much especially the character that was a what if Freddy Kruger was assimilated by the borg. I imagine him yelling "Resistance is futile, b!tch!" to a trying to stay awake Captain Picard.
Its comical when someone with no accomplishments attacks the work of the successful
Uh, Gal Godot acted circles around Chris Pine.
7:42 right...a stroke...👀
Who knows, he MAY have been having a stroke... while he was being killed...
I would argue that this list is completely wrong. Part of acting is to create a character. Is that character believable? In everyone of these examples, the characters were believable. Too many people have a narrow view of what acting should be at times. We often ignore the fact that people receive things differently. Personally I think DiCaprio is highly overrated and not very good as an actor, but I'm sure many will come to his defense. While not right for every part, Keanu Reeves more stoic interpretations can be very effective. There are people in the world that are similarly stoic. Just like in many of these examples, we can actually see some people behave like that. If the character the actor is playing is believable in the story, then it's good acting.
FYI, unlike French, in Hebrew the final "t" in "Godot" is not silent
So then is it pronounced phonetically, or the way people typically say her name, but with a t at the end
@@chrislair6832 it's pronounced just like it's spelled, with the "o"s both "long"
(though it's been a long, long time since Hebrew school, so I'm ready to be corrected by someone who knows the language better than me)
Gal Gadot. with a T at the end. GadoTTT! it's not French, with silent letters...
The T is not silent. The name is Hebrew, not French.
Renee Zellweger was in Dazed and Confused?
This list is bad, and the maker should feel bad.
The overall negative, condescending, smarmy tone of this list is really off-putting.
Regardless of the unnecessary bile-infused criticism, it's wryly amusing that the writer of the article doesn't understand the role of the director in filmmaking.
WhatCulture's decline continues. I'm not sure why RUclips recommended this video as I unsubscribed from most WC channels (all except Who-) weeks ago.
At some point, the culture projected by the overwhelming majority of the site's content, tipped over into crass negativity. The very worst exponent of this decline is of course exemplified by Scott Tailford's apparent bitterness toward just about everything in gaming. To see Jules infected is just sad.
6:32 I think you mean 'consensus' not 'defacto'
Not bothered by gadot as wonder woman it's the script she has to work with and direction the first wonder woman should have stopped there
Another GARBAGE LIST
Breakin' Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo Films I Actually think have more creative merit than any Hollywood movie In the past 15 years
Hey, Turbo, Ozone and Kelly are SAINTS!
To be fair, I would suggest that Keanu's performance is pretty spot on for someone learning how to overcome decades of experience in one existence only to find out that it... isn't that. And Gal Gadot was a brilliant Wonder Woman, and I will absolutely die on that hill. That movie was a mitzvah.
Ummm… that’s literally the point of this list.
Basically, Paul Verhoeven did better what CW fails at.
CW tries to make sub-standard soap opera actors seem like movie stars, and it fails. Verhoeven got movie actors (okay, maybe not 'stars' exactly) and intentionally directed them to appear like soap opera actors.
Malignant should be number 1
What non sense of bad acting, are you saying in the Matrix, there are none, completely hors sujet.
Another funny thing about Gadot's performance in Wonder Woman is that forced to all other actresses that played Amazons to mimic her horrendous accent, turning it in Themyscira's dialect
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Cage is the worst “actor” I’ve ever seen.
Fight me.
Hmmmmmmm 🤔 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Okay, name a place and a time.
@@GregOrCreg 😂
Leaving Las Vegas and Lord of War.
But also, The Wicker Man. He’s… unique. He can be so bad that he’s good and so good that he’s is excellent. But I rarely see him being so bad that he’s bad, at least he’s always memorable 🤷🏻♂️
He's always gives an over the top performances but damn it can be entertaining
I couldn't stand Starship Troopers due to acting, and the lack of "satire" promotions. take this seriously? good god. still haven't seen the WickerMan remake. the original was an early favourite...
Gadot has all the acting abilities of a brick wall!
To say she is wooden in everything she does is being offensive to wood!