Great acting performances in bad movies

Jon Voight in Anaconda.

That movie could have been loads better if it was mainly about Voight's character hijacking the ship and dragging the crew through all these crazy adventures. Voight pulled off a great performance that was overshadowed by 5-6 bad ones and an unrealistic snake doing unrealistic things with chesst effects. As a matter of fact, Anaconda was a pretty good movie until, ya know, the Anaconda showed up.

Love the thread, but don't agree on Voight, just a regular performance, always remember when he got regurgitated by the anaconda and winks at Lopez.

Nice idea for a thread.

James Gandolfini in the Last Castle

Christopher Walken in Things to do in Denver When You're Dead

John Belushi in Continental Divide

Elisabeth Shue in Palmetto

Last Castle wasn't really a bad movie.

Actors are 80 percent (my opinion) so this is a good idea for a post but a difficult one. Morgan Freeman has given good performances in many an awful "Who dunnit." That's the only one that comes to mind right now.

There was a stupid movie called K-9 starring John Belushi. The dog that was in it was pretty good.

that little kid in Cop and a Half

haha

ernest in "Ernest goes to summer camp"

To be honest, my experience has been that if there's a "Great" performance in a movie, it's a good movie.

2pac in Juice

ya i said it Juice was a pretty average movie

We need to define great acting performance here. For example, Marlon Brando was great in the "Godfather." The thread says great, not exciting, crowd pleasing or even good.

Birdofthad wrote:

2pac in Juice

ya i said it Juice was a pretty average movie

You say that like you're expecting someone to argue with you and claim it was good lol

Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. Not that I think its a horrible movie but it isn't that great

4445Frank wrote:

Actors are 80 percent (my opinion) so this is a good idea for a post but a difficult one. Morgan Freeman has given good performances in many an awful "Who dunnit." That's the only one that comes to mind right now.

See I'd argue script is 80%, So far we have 160% of a movie.

I got the juice now

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop.

John Lithglow in Daylight ??