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Post by darksidebeadle on Sept 17, 2021 21:50:26 GMT
Okay, now you're just trolling Maybe not worst but bottom 10
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Post by amyghost on Sept 18, 2021 14:58:11 GMT
Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man. Yes, I know the character is supposed to be fingernails-on-a-blackboard annoying, but so was Hoffman's performance. The worst sort of sentimentalist, Oscar-bait thing.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 20, 2021 15:22:39 GMT
Okay, now you're just trolling Maybe not worst but bottom 10 Still trolling
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Post by rudeboy on Sept 21, 2021 23:50:22 GMT
Plenty to choose from but some that particularly irked me:
Robert Strauss, Stalag 17 - otherwise terrific film, but he is terrible Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite Brenda Blethyn, Little Voice Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
I never put myself through Love Story.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Sept 22, 2021 20:11:33 GMT
Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man. Yes, I know the character is supposed to be fingernails-on-a-blackboard annoying, but so was Hoffman's performance. The worst sort of sentimentalist, Oscar-bait thing. I have to agree. I didn't think it was an Oscar kind of role. It seemed too easy, there was no emotion, no subtlety, no nuance. It was a role that anyone who played it could have done the same thing. It is almost a case where we could say, Hoffman wasn't bad, per se, but the role didn't require anything much in the way of acting and wasn't Oscar worthy.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 23, 2021 12:45:14 GMT
Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man. Yes, I know the character is supposed to be fingernails-on-a-blackboard annoying, but so was Hoffman's performance. The worst sort of sentimentalist, Oscar-bait thing. I have to agree. I didn't think it was an Oscar kind of role. It seemed too easy, there was no emotion, no subtlety, no nuance. It was a role that anyone who played it could have done the same thing. It is almost a case where we could say, Hoffman wasn't bad, per se, but the role didn't require anything much in the way of acting and wasn't Oscar worthy. Hoffman, to my way of thinking, is surely one of the most consistently overpraised without good cause of film performers around. He established a gold-plated reputation early on, but although he's done excellent work in a handful of films that could be called actual classic material, much of what he's put to film has been relatively pedestrian and certainly nothing that you couldn't imagine another actor doing just as well or better in. IMO he was by far the weakest link in Little Big Man, the role that made him virtually critic-proof, and he's done actual stinkers such as his Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (stage, not screen, but his over-rated-ness as an actor really came out in that performance); but at this point in his career, few critics of any heft are going to point out how average he is as an actor much of the time. In fact, apropos of Death of a Salesman, I read one critic's appraisal of him as the greatest actor since Olivier! Sheesh. I think he was the easy and obvious choice for Rain Man, and also one of the worst. He coasted through the role with no feeling, as you point out, and I have little doubt he was pretty self-assured that it would lead to the easiest Oscar of his career.
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