Best performance by a "bad" actor

[carson005]

I don't think there's any debate.

Nic Cage- Leaving Las Vegas.

Nic Cage in Raising Arizona.

Nothing beats Nic Cage in Adaptation, IMO. This thread just SCREAMS that.

Nic Cage isn't even a bad actor, he just sucks in a few roles, and was also in some terrible movies.

[Tragedy]

Nic Cage isn't even a bad actor, he just sucks in a few roles, and was also in some terrible movies.

I thought Raising Arizona and Adaptation was the only two good movies he was ever in. His performance in Adaptation was excellent. I thought Leaving Las Vegas blew ***, but he did a good job in it.

That's about it. After that?

-Knowing
-Bangkok Dangerous
-Next
-National Treasure
-Ghost Rider
-Wicker Man
-World Trade Center
-Wintertalkers
-City of Angels

...All terrible movies. The only movies that I enjoyed of his as I read down the list of movies he was in was The Rock, Face/Off, and Con Air, but I take none of those movies seriously at all.

[Da Jam Hammer]

Nic Cage isn't even a bad actor, he just sucks in a few roles, and was also in some terrible movies.

You in The Wicker Man, you a bad actor.

[carson005]

I thought Raising Arizona and Adaptation was the only two good movies he was ever in. His performance in Adaptation was excellent. I thought Leaving Las Vegas blew ***, but he did a good job in it.

That's about it. After that?

-Knowing
-Bangkok Dangerous
-Next
-National Treasure
-Ghost Rider
-Wicker Man
-World Trade Center
-Wintertalkers
-City of Angels

...All terrible movies. The only movies that I enjoyed of his as I read down the list of movies he was in was The Rock, Face/Off, and Con Air, but I take none of those movies seriously at all.

Like I said, hes been in some terrible movies, but I don't think that makes him a bad actor, just means his movies suck.

[Tragedy]

Like I said, hes been in some terrible movies, but I don't think that makes him a bad actor, just means his movies suck.

But the performances within the movies also just sucked badly.

[Boston-Born]

I thought Raising Arizona and Adaptation was the only two good movies he was ever in. His performance in Adaptation was excellent. I thought Leaving Las Vegas blew ***, but he did a good job in it.

That's about it. After that?

-Knowing
-Bangkok Dangerous
-Next
-National Treasure
-Ghost Rider
-Wicker Man
-World Trade Center
-Wintertalkers
-City of Angels

...All terrible movies. The only movies that I enjoyed of his as I read down the list of movies he was in was The Rock, Face/Off, and Con Air, but I take none of those movies seriously at all.

I thought Lord of War was a good movie.

Edit: and Matchstick Men

[whitesoxfan83]

I dont think you can consider Nick Cage a bad actor.

The Colin Farrel pick for In Bruges is a good one.

[TheRuckus]

You in The Wicker Man, you a bad actor.

Greatest unintentional comedy of all time, hands down.

Rarely does more than a few days go by that I don't get or send a text that says "OH GOD NOT THE BEES" or "KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMNED HONEY!"

And Nic Cage is an absolutely awful actor. He's simply been fortunate enough to land a few roles that nobody could **** up.

[Iansnightout]

Nothing beats Nic Cage in Adaptation, IMO. This thread just SCREAMS that.

I don't know how I could have forgotten this.

I thought Raising Arizona and Adaptation was the only two good movies he was ever in. His performance in Adaptation was excellent. I thought Leaving Las Vegas blew ***, but he did a good job in it.

That's about it. After that?

-Knowing
-Bangkok Dangerous
-Next
-National Treasure
-Ghost Rider
-Wicker Man
-World Trade Center
-Wintertalkers
-City of Angels

...All terrible movies. The only movies that I enjoyed of his as I read down the list of movies he was in was The Rock, Face/Off, and Con Air, but I take none of those movies seriously at all.

One of my favorites. Such a depressing movie and I love the heavy movies.

[Chest Rockwell]

Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream. Overrated movie, still good though.

[Wiz kids]

Actress:

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

[Pran Raznor]

Colin Farrell in the movie "In Bruges"

Yes

[ElFuturoDeESPN]

Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream. Overrated movie, still good though.

And one of the greatest scores (in my mind) of all time not by John Williams:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Ma4BvMUwU

[Sick Of It All]

Will Smith in Ali.

[Dark Donnie]

I'd say Micke Rourke is far from a bad actor.....I've seen him in plenty of movies that he was great in.

I'd say Nic Cage is pretty terrible.