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Harrison Ford hasn't looked enthusiastic playing any role in the last twenty years, I'd argue. He just seems done with Hollywood but needs to pay the bills.
Off subject, since Michael Caine did his best with the script in "Jaws: The Revenge", but I always found his quote about the film hilarious, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"
The Simpsons had an episode where Michael Caine is filling out an application form and asking if he had to list that movie. Maybe he should have added, 'Or The Swarm, The Island...'
Unless the actors themselves have actually said something, I find a few of these to be baseless. Murray in Scrooged was perfect. That is how the character is supposed to be. Bridges in RIPD looked like he was having fun with the character not that he hated it. He did ham it up which added to the comedy while Reynolds actually played it straight. This list even acknowledges the possibility with January Jones in X'men that it could simply be an acting choice. Something that could be said for a few other roles mentioned.
That's just how January Jones acts. It worked in Mad Men because her character is supposed to be cold and repressed. But it doesn't work in other situations. There's a reason she's done nothing of note since Mad Men.
Much like Sparanos, or Breaking bad, no one really cared about Don's family life. It was his work family people liked, not the wife & kids complaining about all the luxury it gave them.
I mean, Emma Frost is supposed to be cold, aloof, regal and a bit of bish. That's like her whole characterization. She doesn't need to say much because she has no moral argument against reading anyones mind at any time. While a person might think she's staring at you vacously, she's actually familiarizing herself with your deepest, darkest secrets to use and manipulate you. January Jones nailed it
@@clnblk7773 I think January doesn't come across as smart enough to be Emma. Betty on Mad Men was also cold and aloof but it was also a major part of her character that she was very immature and child like and that's what January excelled and conveying and why she doesn't work as Emma for me.
@saltydog7038 That's kind of part of her persona too though, like the scantily clad thing is a distraction and manipulation, I think it's also so that people and specifically men only think of her as a sexpot and not someone who could seriously ruin their day
Sorry bro. You lost me at Scrooged. I realize that Richard Donner and Bill had problems on set, but Bill Murray kills that role. I was a little kid at the movies and the ending of the movie, when Bill is talking to the audience, is something I’ve never experienced again. Just magic. It’s a must watch during the Holidays, and everyone I’ve showed this movie to, that’s never seen it, has a great time.
Well this isn't a list of people who hated the movie role and phoned in their performance. Some of them hated the movie role and still managed good performances.
@@peterkottke2570 That's the thing, though. Murray did NOT phone in his performance. He looked like he was yelling at everybody and had no humanity in him, but that was exactly what the part called for. You see the humanity in the character after he wakes up the next day from the ghosts visiting him. Makes it a much more believable change.
Scrooged? I mean that was the character... a cold heartless sycophantic boss. Everything you say is just proof of he nailed it. I watched that movie many times and I think you turned it off before the end, honestly. It's the reversal to the over-the-top happy Bill Murray that we all knew at the end that really makes it sink in as a retelling of the classic story.
'Fans were thrilled when Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Mystique'? Not this one. Rebecca Romijn was far better as Mystique. Granted, the recasting was to go with an appropriately younger cast considering the next four were prequels, but it looked like they went purely with a big name, rather than someone who actually wanted the role and would willingly go through the necessary makeup process to do it.
to be fair, when she was cast, she didn't know she'd have a reaction to the makeup. she should have been okay with backing out and letting someone else take the role tho. it's too important to who Mystique is
@@brokenfoxx The real issue is Fox wanting to cash in on her sudden fame. After Days of Future Past, she wanted out and they should have written her the heck out. Instead they try to shoehorn in a villain, who they literally spent the entire last movie setting up her turn away, into a leader of the X-Men, because money. It made for two terrible movies after.
IIRC, Chris Hemsworth's wife played the scene with the kiss because Chris felt uncomfortable kissing someone who WASN'T her. It wasn’t because Portman didn’t want to do it.
Not so much that he hated it. He intentionally hammed it up. I can't find the interview anymore, but he said, "I was playing a character named August de Wynter who wanted to take over the world by controlling the weather. Of course I played it 'over the top'." I think he picked that up from Michael Ironside who did the same with Highlander II and just decided to have fun with it.
On the topic of x men actors who hated their roles, Oscar Isaac said it was excruciating filming Apocalypse because of his awful costume, and you can sort of tell from his bored performance how much he doesn't want to be there. Its been said before but he really should have been CGI like Josh Brolins Thanos, and we would have gotten a better film and performance as a result
Apocalypse is one of the few instances where practical effects made the movie worse. True. His performance was bad and it just looked weird and distracting. Either CGI it or they should have had him turn into Isaacs as a human for the bulk of the movie.
Jennifer Lawrence wasn't a big fan of being a superhero? You know, you figure a RU-vid channel like this would have remembered that Jennifer literally said in an interview that she's the first female hero, pretty clearly saying Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley and others didn't exist until she was in Hollywood
Jenifer Lawrence has gone on record complaining about Hunger Games and Passengers as well. I'm pretty sure she just hates acting, or hates fans I really don't think she should be famous at this point.
there was no logic behind casting jones for the part, other than her appearance. her acting skills are nonexistent. she has one facial expression (even kristen stewart delivers more nuanced and layered performances)
McAdams would have put a bit of fun into it at least. I always loved Emma Frost as a kid and was def bummed with what we got. she's not the only weakness in the film (some of the first class themselves are iffy) but probably the most standout
@@DamienHurts She was very good looking and obviously agreed to do it as someone specifically there to be really good looking. I think a better actress nowadays would not want to do such a part. I do think it was more the movie than her. She was very sexualized in that movie.
January Jones's role in First Class wasn't sexist. That's the character. Imagine signing up to play a prostitute and balking when the character has to kiss someone she doesn't love. Or a mud wrestler who, you know, wrestles in mud. Imagine playing some guy name Wyatt Earp and being surprised when he turns out to be a cowboy. Know the role before you accept it, Emma Frost is quite important in the X-Men comics, Contractually obligated to play a character you don't want to is one thing, but ignorance is another entirely.
That's kind of what happened with Mike Meyers and the Love Guru. It was contractual obligation. So he put out the worst performance ever. It kinda bit him in the butt though
Calling thor the dark world, the worst MCU movie? Then again this is the channel that also says the last Jedi was a good movie… Why am I not surprised?
I agreed with 99% of this video, but have to disagree both with the statement that Jones might have been making a mistaken acting attempt, and the idea that she was "passed off by the sexism of it all." In 15 seconds on your phone you can look up the character Emma Frost and figure out what kind of outfits you are going to be expecting to wear. In 15 min on any wiki page you would know that she is less fembot and more dominatrix/femme fatal. The closest you could get for an excuse for her performance is her "in private" distaste of her bosses, something that Emma wouldn't show in their presence. Assuming she didn't just wrap them around her finger, but that's the writers problem.
I'm willing to put the Emma Frost thing down to poor creative choices more than anything. I can kind of see what they were aiming for with a 'cold, emotionless' characterisation and things like the skimpy attire were nothing more than them being comic-accurate, but fundamentally they missed the mark (as is done in many adaptations) by taking an OP villain from the comics and relegating them to henchman status. Anyway, ones you could have added to that list were Whoopi Goldberg in that dinosaur flick (whatever it was called), or Marlon Brando in any one of a number of his later films. If I had to pick one, I'd say The Score if only because of how badly his phoned-in performance clashed against an on-fire pairing of Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton. Finally, there's Peter Fonda in Ghost Rider where he clearly had less enthusiasm for this than the many other times where he was dropped into a role to play to his 'biker outlaw' typecast. Again jarring because he was playing against Nicholas Cage, who never underacts any role, regardless of how bad it is.
Wait a minute. Bill Murray is playing SCROOGE. You know, the guy that wants to make his employees work Christmas and barely sheds a tear at Tiny Tim. Possibly one of the most deliberately miserable characters ever written, and Murrays getting complaints because he didn't crack enough smiles? What crap.
Natalie Portman looks like she hates her career choice in every single movie she's ever done since the beginning of time! Someone get that woman a job at Dutch Bros where she can be upbeat and actually love her work.
I think the character of Emma Frost is supposed to be a flat aspect, and January Jones delivered on that. You can argue that other actresses would have been able to provide some slight tweaks that would have helped improve the presentation of that character, but I don’t think you can rightfully claim that January Jones failed to deliver on the key attribute of the character.
I was honestly shocked when last one was revealed to be Emma not only she was hollow but canon wise she was still with her family as wealthy lady so it didn’t make sense for me.
I thought Norton crushed it in Italion Job. The way the character was written Norton's "I couldn't care less" attitude delivering the lines came off perfectly. Gave me the impression that the character was a psycopath and felt everyone else was beneath him. I think that was a great villian. The way he cuts off Wahlberg's "how could you speech" with a "You can stop with all that cause I just don't give a sh**. I played my cards and you played yours and you lost"
Why not count Punisher Warzone? The villains aren't much cheesier than anything the MCU is doing these days and it's the most accurate live action adaptation of Frank Castle to this day.
Regarding Edward Norton, they made a mistake in that court case. They should have just sued him for breach of contract and made him pay cash to end the relationship. His lawyer was on the right track cause why would you want apathy in your movie? Nah, let him go for his $10 million paycheck for a role he wants and then sign it over to the studio as damages!
Let's be fair. Most everyone in Ender's Game is sleepwalking through it. And Dakota is NOT a good actress. I haven't seen her in anything that doesn't look like a high school level performance. And that's not even counting Madam Web.
Actors really should do some research if they are gonna be playing a comic character. Emma was debuted in comics wearing a corset and a thong, The fairly tasteful underwear she ended up wearing was nothing compared to actual things emma has worn over the years.
January Jones is a jerk from what I’ve heard. The kids who played her kids in Mad Men even said she was awful for work with. Also, she wasn’t even supposed to play Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. It was supposed to be Alice Eve but she turned it down. Oh, and she tried extorting money from the director Matthew Vaughn, saying she deserved more money in child support because she’s a big star. The judge in the case laughed and told her no. So yeah, she’s full of herself and is overhyped and wooden.
@@OnafetsEnovapnot surprised. I haven’t seen her in anything lately. She may have done things, but from what I’ve heard, no one wants to work with her.
You are getting paid millions of dollars for a few weeks to a few months of work. Get over it. Its whiny unprofessionalism like this that proves that actors have no idea what it life is like for the average person. But they still want to tell us who to vote for.
To complain that EMMA FROST is dressed skimpy is a pretty dumb take. January Jones played the character well and looked the part. Maybe, you just don't know the character Emma Frost???
Might be a hot take, but whenever Will Arnett is on screen and not just behind the mic, he always looks uninterested and his performance comes off as fake.
Years ago, I heard rumors of Nathan Fillion slated to play Wonder Man for a Marvel film, and that was a project I’ve always wished had come about. Also, I’d love to see Christopher Walken come back into a super hero movie with a bigger role than his Maxwell Shrek in “Batman Returns”; I picture his as any of the more cerebral, scheming villains, such as Lex Luthor type, or possibly a Dr Doom
Oof. Raul Julia did Street Fighter for his son who liked the game series. He was already diagnosed with cancer at the time. He passed shortly after it's release.
No, Lady Thor was NOT one of the best parts of Thor 4. In fact, if you removed her, it would NOT impact the movie at all & it would make the movie probably 30 minutes shorter, which WOULD be a good thing. Heck, removing Her from Thor 2 & them all just talking about red goo would improve that one too
Well, now I need the inverse list of actors giving their all in movies that don't really deserve it (like Raul Julia in Streetfighter, or Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne) :)
I like Chris Judge’s approach better. I have seen him in absolute crap, and he always gives his best. It tells his next employer he’ll always give them his best. Maybe it led to his God of War gigs.
