Worst Actor

True! :D But only in the first Harry Potter..and the second..and possibly the third..the fourth as well..haven't seen any since then. Walked out of the fifth one because Hermione was getting to me :mad: Whiney b****!
 
I completly forgot he was in The Black Dahlia - I am glad to find someone else who liked it as I liked a lot but a lot of others told me I was mad for enjoying it. I also like Ben in Boiler Room, he only had a small part but the speeches he gives to the new recruits are really well done.
 
Knightley is nearly as wooden as Bloom in my opinion. Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport and Jonathan Pryce were all great however.
 
He is a great actor but sometimes he is in bad films. Being in bad films doesn't make you a bad actor, same as being in good films doesn't make you a good actor.
Ben Affleck isn't bad, he was good in Good Will Hunting and others but again he is just in bad films. Also, John Cusack is awesome :D
You don't have to be an acting expert to spot a bad actor and Orlando Bloom just epitomises it, and we all know if he looked like the back end of a bus he wouldn't be in the business.
 
And I respectively disagree. He did a very fine job in Kingdom of Heaven (I refer specifically to the Director's Edition an altogether more rounded film). Ridley Scott is a director of actors as opposed to merely a director of action sequences. Scott would not have tolerated a garbage performance from his lead. To criticise Bloom is to criticise Scott for allowing his film to be brought down by a bad performance.

Just go and watch direct to DVD films languishing in the bargain bin of the local pound shop, then come on her eclaiming Bloom is the worst actor around. I'm sure you'll find plenty.
 
Really? Are you living in some kind of Alternate Reality where wood actually comes to life and turns into a stammering, shy, twitching idiot by the name of Huge Grant who plays himself in every single role? That's the only explanation I have for your statement :D
 
Costner was tremendous in JFK as Jim Garrison, as Dunbar in Dances with Wolves as Elliot Ness in The Untouchables plus other films sush as No Way Out, Perfect World. I have not seen the Bodyguard thank god.
 
I can't believe that in a whole two pages no-one has said Paul Walker - he is the poor man's Keanu and that is saying something.

I disagree on Ben Affleck - with the right direction he can be good.

Agreed wholeheartedly on Orlando Bloom.

Hayden Christensen got a lot of grief portraying a bratty young man as a bratty young man but he was fantastic in Life as a House.

And... John Cusack!!! What are you smoking, I love that man.
 
Watch him play Archie Rice in The Entertainer (1960), and you will see one of the all time great film performances. He is also superb in Sleuth (1972), the original version with Michael Caine.

As another poster said, Olivier and Burton and other stage actors took a few years to learn to ease up and be more subtle on film. But when they did, their performances were superb.
 
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