Best and worst actors working today

[Jorge]

Use this thread to discuss actors/actresses and performances

[lennytheweedwhacker]

worst: ryan reynolds; miles teller; ryan gosling

[LoathedVermin72]

If we’re talking newish/youngish:

Best: Dakota Johnson, Tom Hardy (if he would ever choose an interesting role again), Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton

Worst: Ryan Reynolds, Miles Teller, Jessica Chastain, Emilia Clarke

[VinylGuy]

yeah, both ryan reynolds and emilia clarke are plain awful.

[VinylGuy]

in the worst series i would add kate mckinnon. Actually the whole cast of the ghostbusters reboot.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

If we’re talking newish/youngish:

Best: Dakota Johnson, Tom Hardy (if he would ever choose an interesting role again), Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton

Worst: Ryan Reynolds, Miles Teller, Jessica Chastain, Emilia Clarke

i love edgerton...am i crazy in thinking he’d make a good batman?

[Blaine Ryan]

If we’re talking newish/youngish:

Best: Dakota Johnson, Tom Hardy (if he would ever choose an interesting role again), Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton

Worst: Ryan Reynolds, Miles Teller, Jessica Chastain, Emilia Clarke

Mendelsohn has been one of my favorites ever since I binge-watched season 1 of Bloodline on Netflix. Love that guy.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

team mendelsohn as well

[Blaine Ryan]

Worst: Rob Schneider

[lennytheweedwhacker]

oscar isaac but i wish he’d pick better roles

[VinylGuy]

oscar isaac but i wish he’d pick better roles

i actually thought you meant he was one of the worst. Yeah, he is good but i agree his resumee is...not.

[McParadigm]

The Meg.

[McParadigm]

Honestly, I don’t have an answer to this, so I’ll just say:

He’s not bad by any measure and he’s usually really fun to watch, but The Rock seems incapable of portraying a character.

The entirety of Chris Pratt’s range is on display in Guardians, he is boring in any scene that requires a modicum of seriousness or weight, and I do not consider him to be more capable than Ryan Reynolds.

I think, the way that modern blockbusters are constructed, acting talent is irrelevant beyond a narrow window. The breakneck pacing, expository drive, and anchorless (or just presumed and never shown) character traits are like a gravity well, pulling every performance towards the center. This constant by-the-gram dolling out of human interaction in big projects tends to make the performances in smaller movies stand out that much more, until I feel like I overrespond to them. Like, I think Olivia Coleman is incredibly, incredibly talented, but in-between her projects I’m mostly just watching flashing lights, pretty colors, and at least one spaceship that’s not gonna fit but then it does woops there’s a scratch tho so cue the punchline. Actual acting feels like an innovation, after too much of that.

[VinylGuy]

So you only think about acting in modern blockbusters? There are so many movies besides blockbusters.

[McParadigm]

So you only think about acting in modern blockbusters? There are so many movies besides blockbusters.

That’s not what that says, no.

[McParadigm]

I have a 13 year old who only wants to see Jurassic Force Awakens: Ragnarok and a 6 year old who only wants to see cartoons. So that’s about 70% of my movie watching. What I’m saying is, when I’m watching *my* selected movies it always feels a bit like seeing your first painting after 3 months of being temporarily colorblind and reading only excel files. I feel like I can’t tell what’s great vs good under those conditions, because it all feels so vibrant and wild to me.

[VinylGuy]

Seems you hate your kid.

[McParadigm]

Seems you hate your kid.

Reserving comment until you clarify which kid

[VinylGuy]

Seems you hate your kid.

Reserving comment until you clarify which kid

both of them!! i mean modern blockbusters and cartoons!!

[McParadigm]

Seems you hate your kid.

Reserving comment until you clarify which kid

both of them!! i mean modern blockbusters and cartoons!!

Yup. That’s what I said. I hate all blockbusters and cartoons.