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Can you name a great performance by an actor that you generally dislike?

Asked by rockfan (14632points) July 7th, 2017 from iPhone

I have a few:

Hayden Christensen – Shattered Glass
Chris Tucker – Jackie Brown/Silver Linings Playbook
Ed Helms – Jeff Who Lives at Home
Dane Cook – Dan in Real Life
Hugh Grant – About a Boy
Jennifer Aniston – The Iron Giant
William H. Macy – Fargo

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flutherother's avatar

Nicholas Cage – Kickass

filmfann's avatar

Tom Cruise: War of the Worlds

Leonardo DiCaprio: Titanic, The Great Gatsby, and Man in the Iron Mask

Nick Cage: Wild At Heart

John Travolta: Pulp Fiction

jonsblond's avatar

Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

Lightlyseared's avatar

Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls

mazingerz88's avatar

Leonardo Di Caprio – What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

janbb's avatar

@mazingerz88 I was just about to post that exact same thing!

NomoreY_A's avatar

Johnny Depp – Danny Brasco

ragingloli's avatar

Clint Eastwood.
Uh, nothing.

Patty_Melt's avatar

!!!!!! ^^ @ragingloli, not even Hang Em High?

I have a few. Let me marinate in thought for a bit, and I’ll toss in some.

tedibear's avatar

Jim Carrey – The Truman Show.

janbb's avatar

I thought Million Dollar Baby was great and Eastwood was great in it.

Brian1946's avatar

It’s my understanding that John Wayne was an anti-Native American bigot, but I liked him in True Grit (but not nearly as much in the secret flop sequel, False Grease. ;-p).

rockfan's avatar

@Brian1946

He also said this about black people:

With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

General Zod in too wan foo.

Kardamom's avatar

Tom Cruise (as a child) in Taps.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Jamie Foxx in Ray! He wasn’t acting. He was Ray Charles!

mazingerz88's avatar

@janbb Di Caprio is always Di Caprio no matter what role he plays. Lol

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