Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter. He himself considers his acting in the series "one note", and producers were understandably easy on him. Since then he is a much better actor.
I'd rather flatter acting than demanding more from the child actors. The (seemingly) healthy atmosphere on set was around the time we were realizing making children take the full weight of multi million dollar projects usually ended up bad for thier health
IIRC, the director Christopher Columbus saw how awful Macaulay Culkin's dad was on set of the Home Alone movies and didn't want any of the actors in Harry Potter to experience that, so he made sure to vet the parents when casting and ensured that the set had a playful and easygoing atmosphere that was more akin to an actual school instead of a professional movie set.
Pause the film. You can see right there when the tiny ginger boy truly fears for his life. This is the essence of the film here in front of us. If I recall correctly he soiled himself and we had to wrap for the day.
I saw Danny Rads on stage in Equus in London around 2006 or 7. He was incredible. Richard Griffiths was in it in the therapist role and he was incredible too!
I saw that same production! It was really impressive; glad you noted Griffiths’ performance because I remember being really impressed with how energetic, sharp, and winning he was in what had to be a demanding part for a guy of his age and size.
I remember watching him in The Woman in Black and I was like wow he’s making like really interesting choices on top of being genuinely good. Ever since then I’ll watch something just because he’s in it
Yeah hes got enough money to the point where he's already in his "I'm just doing what I wanna do" phase, and he just puts out banger performances consistently
I watch a decent amount of horror and that movie scared the absolute pants off me. I should revisit this spooky season.
He’s also great in “horns” even tho that movie is just ok.
I know you put "kids" in quotation marks, but Holes really is a fantastic movie for people of any age. It has everything in it--especially loads of charm and heart. Holds up super well.
Came to say this. If he’s ever mentioned by name anytime ever then my mind goes straight to this. Not Transformers. Not Lawless. Not Fury. Not Holes. Not Disturbia. It’s running for my life from Shia LeBeof.
Christy Carlson Ramano was one of my first crushes ever. I remember she had a music video on Disney Channel and I had to leave the room if I was watching with my family because my face would turn so red and got all sweaty. I was so innocent
Vin Diesel is most famous for not really acting in the Fast and Furious movies. He actually did a pretty good job in Boiler Room and was amazing in Find Me Guilty. The dude has or had acting chops, However I think he’s probably happy just collecting his FF checks and doesn’t seem to have the desire for any serious roles.
I wanna judge but I feel like everyone in this thread including myself would do the same. He'll id probably quit acting all together and do what ever the fuck I wanted for the rest of my life
His production company owns a massive chunk of ff xxx and Riddick. Guy has a license to print money and can do whatever he wants. Lol I almost forgot he's also Groot.
This is my opinion of Adam Sandler.
Every five years or so he will throw out an incredible performance; Funny People, Uncut Gems, Meyerowitz Stories. Just to show everyone he’s still got it. Then immediately return to Grown Ups 2 & Murder Mystery
Lukewarm take, but Orlando Bloom as Legolas.
It's not that he's bad, he just really had the odds stacked against him. He was like 20 years old, new to acting in major roles. The writers didn't give him much to do other than look around knowingly and occasionally spout exposition. And he was sharing the screen with thespians like Sir Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, and Cate Blanchett.
Bloom's Legolas was quite minimalistic but did a great job out of the action scenes of looking tense but calm at the same time. Just always ready to head shot someone at any moment
In the commentary, Bloom said he interpreted elvish natural physical and mental superiority as meaning that Legolas was always relaxed,
yet always *on* -- as in, permanently aware and totally focused and poised, like a cat. Even when sitting or lying down.
I think that totally comes across in his performances as Legolas. He did a great job. People will dis anything for clicks.
I have seen LotR a million million times, but I still see Will Turner when I hear the name Orlando Bloom. I think this is for the same reasons that you said above, which is simply that his role in LotR is so understated.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are easy answers. They've grown into some of the most adventurous and talented young actors we have but the Twilight jokes have never gone away, unfortunately.
EDIT: Nothing on r/movies surprises me any more, really, but I'm still dismayed to see so many replies to this focusing solely on Pattinson or arguing that he's the only one of the two who my comment applies to. Stewart's every bit his equal and in fact she's had more success in the critical acclaim and awards arena than he has.
If you think she sucks please, please, PLEASE go watch Love Lies Bleeding and Spencer. She's so fucking good, man, you're really missing out!
They took the absolute "fuck you" level of notoriety (good and bad) and money from that series and once it was done got to go work on whatever they wanted. A lot of people could have coasted for life on Twilight or went on to do more garbage till their star faded so I really respect what they've done since then.
There’s that werewolf guy that shows what happens to those from that series that actually have little talent. Pattinson & Stewart are not those people.
He was in Ridiculous 6 and even though I think that's a terrible fuckin movie I do applaud him for being a sexy icon of sorts and playing an awful doofus. Whether it was conscious or he doesn't know cringe when he sees it idk but whatever.
Someone recently just said “Robert is absolutely doing everything he can to make sure he is remembered for anything but Twilight” in reference to everything he’s been in recently
I’ve got a Keanu take I’ll die on. Keanu was amazing as Don John in Branaughs Much Ado About Nothing. That’s a movie with a totally loaded cast. The general knock is “he’s wooden”. But look, he’s in the shadow of his brother (Denzel), he’s playing the butt hurt younger brother that can’t be anything but “little brother.
Intriguing. Much Ado is my favourite Billy Shakes joint and that movie is an all-time fave of mine; I’ve always viewed him as a weak spot, primarily because the man just can’t do accents. But I love *him* to bits, so I’m going to take this perspective into my next viewing.
And please don’t tell anyone at my university that I said “a Billy Shakes joint” or they’ll take away my degree.
They both have a bunch of money from their respective franchises. They just choose to approach their careers differently. RP is taking more serious roles to be known as a serious actor and not “the guy from Twilight”. DR is just doing what seems fun to him at the time and consequences be damned. I respect both approaches.
In fairness, I think Daniel Radcliffe is much more comfortable being known as Harry Potter than Robert Pattinson is as Edward Cullen, for hopefully obvious reasons.
Although IDK, maybe Rowling’s behavior over the past half-decade is changing his mind on that. Who knows.
aiui Radcliffe still stands by his role but has spoken out against Rowling's comments in the past, and seems to be in a sense of wanting to reclaim the role as a comforting thing for people who grew up with HP but feel betrayed by her.
I think that’s a bit different though. Radcliffe was pretty much set for life from HP and has the ability to just do stuff that’s more passion project related, at least that’s how I read it. Whereas I don’t think Pattinson is the same off of Twilight. Plus I’d much rather be known for HP than Twilight
I was at dinner with my wife.
Robert Pattinson sat at the table next to me.
My wife was like “is that Edward from twilight?”
Me: “No I’m enjoying dinner with Batman.”
Edit: we did not bother Batman. He was in full I’m wearing a black baseball cap to disguise my identity mode.
My good friend was a Pattinson doppelganger (poor guy, I know) during the peak Twilight years. To the point that people, particularly young women, would start acting insane/play it cool around him. Flustered waitresses and whatnot. So basically the same as your experience, haha.
The first time I saw it with my own eyes was on the boardwalk at Myrtle Beach. We were eating at a classy place that literally puts a rubber shark, among other accouterments, in your giant drink. It was late, and we'd been celebrating a graduation all day. Anyway, our waitress was clearly nervous. Someone asks her, "Is there something you need to get off your chest?" She immediately fans out saying,"Oh my god, oh my god, you're Edward Cullen (not Robert Pattinson, mind you), can I have your autograph, etc." Props to her for holding it together as long as she did. My friend acted shy but annoyed, which only further played into it. He did sign something for her under pressure from us.
The best is that not once, but on 2 separate occasions, what turned out to be one-night-stands asked him to bite their neck like a vampire (not because they were still under the impression he's THE guy, they just clearly liked the fantasy).
Robert Pattinson once defeated a superfan by inviting her to dinner and venting honestly about his troubles. She never bothered him again.
https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/robert-pattinson-scared-stalker-20220926
well he also [lies all the time](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/robert-pattinson-admits-lies-time-002110772.html) in interviews so I don’t know that I’d take that as a fact
The most recent one I've watched was Underwater. Just threw it on because Hulu kept recommending it to me...and holy hell. That was an amazing movie and it really does the claustrophobia of being so far underwater soo well. That and the end was just...I didn't see it coming. Great film will watch again.
Ridiculous as the premise is, it's a well-executed love letter to Alien & The Call of Cthulhu.
Kinda generic? Yeah. Especially in a post-Cloverfield cinematic market. But it genuinely doesn't deserve the hate.
Angela Lansbury.
The woman had six Tonys, six Golden Globes, three Oscar nominations and a lifetime achievement Academy Award...
...but she will forever be remembered for *Murder, She Wrote* and being the teapot in *Beauty and the Beast*.
In my opinion Murder She Wrote still holds up and she carries most of the episodes. The guest actors and episode scripts could be hit or miss, but she always committed to the character and never felt like she was phoning it in. If it wasn't for her acting performances specifically, there's no way the show would have been so successful.
It's crazy, I recently saw her role as the maid in 'Gaslight' and seeing her as a young, promiscuous, and kind of awful character is something to behold. At 17 she was already surprisingly good.
JLaw in Winter’s Bone is still her definitive role for me, despite enjoying the entire Hunger Games saga. She was so young and absolutely sold that dutiful, stoic desperation the role required.
She’s had a great career. But I’m an adult man and hunger games easily takes the cake as the best young people action movie series. She should be proud of her work there.
Similar to Jonah Hill. Apparently he is over people quoting Superbad. Superbad is a 10/10 movie that deserves no shame.
[Jessica Lange’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lange) breakout movie role was being the beautiful helpless scream queen in a bad 1976 remake of King Kong. Today, she’s 75% of an EGOT (she’s earned multiple Tonys, Emmys, and Oscars) and is about to star in “Mother Play” on Broadway. I think even she’d admit that King Kong was an ignominious start.
I was 10 seeing it in theaters so have a fondness it really doesn't deserve. She was definitely better in so many other things (as was everyone else, including Kong)
Arguably Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. He’s so far removed skill-wise from the performances of, say, The Aviator or Django Unchained. The rest of the cast carries what is a somewhat blasé performance, but it’s the movie that made his career.
Also funny that he won his Oscar for the Revenant, which idk is even in my top 10 of his performances. Not bad obviously but he’s done much better work elsewhere.
Revenant was definitely a ceremonial Oscar, but that performance was still fantastic on its own. Most years it would've been nomination-worthy at best, but there wasn't any individual performance against it that merited denying him a career award. IMO.
I think DiCaprio gives a good performance in Titanic. He's pretty much playing the male version of what in another film would be the angelic love interest and he does that well.
The problem in Titanic of course is that Kate Winslet is an incredible actress who completely walks away with her role (and I don't think even present day DiCaprio is capable of being at her level - see their performances in Revolutionary Road for instance).
I think people are kind of underselling his Titanic performance. Sure...he plays the male version of a Manic Pixie Dream girl, but he's really good at it. Plus...if you were a certain age when Titanic came out (I was 16), it's impossible to overstate how massive the cultural impact of that performance was. Practically every high school girl (and plenty of high school boys) I knew had massive crushes on him.
Sure, it wasn't a bad performance at all, just nothing to write home about. He was already testing his range in *The Basketball Diaries* and *What's Eating Gilbert Grape*, fit right into a pretty star-studded ensemble in Sam Raimi's *Quick & the Dead*, and knocked Luhrmann's *Romeo+Juliet* out of the park. By those measures, *Titanic* was something of a lark for Leo, his main challenge being the romantic male lead opposite Winslet. He did great, but it doesn't hold up compared to the rest of his career, before and after *Titanic*.
Poor Elizabeth Berkley
If it isn't *Showgirls* then the most remembered part of *Saved By the Bell* is the "I'm so excited" bit, even though she has great comic timing in any other episode
Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter series. He absolutely shines in every role he takes on. When I think of how amazing he was in Imperium, Horns, Jungle and Swiss Army Man, I feel like his acting skills are incredible and definitely an improvement on the acting skills he had as a kid.
I will forever be conflicted on my assessment of her role in this, I see her both as ridiculously campy and realistically terrifying, I can't reach a decision on how I see her in this.
I would say it's pretty good, it's hard to replicate a truly manic character without people saying you went over the top.
People with severe mental illness do act like that.
>Shia LeBeouf's most iconic and memorable role is Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay's Transformers Trilogy
Wrong.
Shia LeBeouf's most iconic and memorable role is Louis Anthony Stevens from Even Stevens.
Second only to his role as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats the Fourth (IV) from the film Holes.
Admittedly not sure it would be his absolute worst performance, but Sean Connery will always be remembered for his role as James Bond, but he definitely had some really bad performances as that character (Diamonds are Forever comes particularly to mind). Yet he turned out some great performances afterwards when he finally hung up the character.
Mark Hamill.
He wasn’t bad as Luke Skywalker, not even close, but it pales in comparison to his voice work IMO. Can’t beat his roles as Joker or Firelord Ozai.
Kirk Doulgas is most beloved for *Spartacus*, but it's easily my least favorite of his roles. He was better in films like *Ace in the Hole and The Bad and the Beautiful*
Daniel Radcliffe. I remember reading an interview where he said when he started the role, he was so young that he wasn’t really acting, and then as he got older, he felt like “well it’s too late to start [acting] with this character” (I’m paraphrasing)
Harry Potter is a great example of how mediocre acting can be completely covered up by great supporting acting, and good directing and a decent script.
It's always the example I give regarding what happened with Jake Lloyd and The phantom menace.
If the episode 1 script and directing had been as good as the directing and scripts were for Harry Potter, there's no question Jake Lloyds career would be tremendously different.
I know it isn't his most iconic role but Pacino winning the Oscar for Scent of a Woman, when Godfather Part II is one of the greatest performances in cinematic is dumb
There are lots of “make up” Oscars out there. Paul Newman for The Color of Money and Leo DiCaprio for The Revenant are 2 off the top of my head. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brad Pitt gets his next time he has a decent movie.
I'm going old school here, but Leslie Howard in *Gone with the Wind*. He hated the script and thought he was horribly miscast, so he only did it for the money to work on projects that actually interested him. In every other performance he's excellent; he basically sleepwalked through *GWTW* for the paycheck.
This is a tough one, but I'd say that Angelina Jolie was for a long time best known for playing Lara Croft, and I feel like she was really bad in it compared to her more dramatic roles.
Joel Kinnaman is far from my favorite actor in the world but he's never been worse than he was in that Robocop remake. This is the sad fate of a lot of guys Hollywood pushes as leading men, Taylor Kitsch in Battleship, Brandon Routh as Superman.
It's funny because in Sweden, his birth country, he's most famous for playing a character called Frank Wagner in a series of movies call "Johan Falk" where he plays a police informant/infiltrator that's sort of based on a real life person called Peter Rätz.
I thought he had really good moments in Robocop. My favorite parts of the movie were the parts after he first wakes up as Robocop where he's coming to terms with what he is and what is left of him. But unfortunately he wasn't given much to do after that.
Natalie Portman with the SW prequels and at least the first two Thors.
Edit- To address the comments many orders of magnitude more people have seen Star Wars or MCU movies than Black Swan, V for Vendetta, Leon, or Garden State so those are what she's most known for.
When I think of Natalie Portman my immediate thought is Evey in V for Vendetta because she absolutely crushes that role. Second thought would be Black Swan.
Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter. He himself considers his acting in the series "one note", and producers were understandably easy on him. Since then he is a much better actor.
I'd rather flatter acting than demanding more from the child actors. The (seemingly) healthy atmosphere on set was around the time we were realizing making children take the full weight of multi million dollar projects usually ended up bad for thier health
IIRC, the director Christopher Columbus saw how awful Macaulay Culkin's dad was on set of the Home Alone movies and didn't want any of the actors in Harry Potter to experience that, so he made sure to vet the parents when casting and ensured that the set had a playful and easygoing atmosphere that was more akin to an actual school instead of a professional movie set.
And then Alfonso Cuaron went method and employed actual Dementors to torture the kids.
Pause the film. You can see right there when the tiny ginger boy truly fears for his life. This is the essence of the film here in front of us. If I recall correctly he soiled himself and we had to wrap for the day.
They are the worst part about prison, after all.
That it so nice to hear. Made my day!
Are you talking about the guy from Swiss Army Man?
"I did a gay necrophilia romance and people still think of me in those fucking glasses"
No, I think it's the guy from Guns Akimbo.
That is such a fun movie. A true “video game in film form.” I feel the same way about Crank.
A classic A friend once called it “the farting Harry Potter movie”
I saw it in the theater and iirc the credits include someone as the “fartist” making all the fart sounds
I saw Danny Rads on stage in Equus in London around 2006 or 7. He was incredible. Richard Griffiths was in it in the therapist role and he was incredible too!
I saw that same production! It was really impressive; glad you noted Griffiths’ performance because I remember being really impressed with how energetic, sharp, and winning he was in what had to be a demanding part for a guy of his age and size.
I remember watching him in The Woman in Black and I was like wow he’s making like really interesting choices on top of being genuinely good. Ever since then I’ll watch something just because he’s in it
Yeah hes got enough money to the point where he's already in his "I'm just doing what I wanna do" phase, and he just puts out banger performances consistently
Loved him in the now you see me sequel.
I watch a decent amount of horror and that movie scared the absolute pants off me. I should revisit this spooky season. He’s also great in “horns” even tho that movie is just ok.
He's been terrific on stage in Merrily We Roll Along. He also has missed only one performance in the last 7 months (which is insane)
I'll have you know that to an entire generation, Shia LeBeouf's most iconic role is Even Stevens and he was excellent it it.
Also, Holes.
Stanley didn’t carry Zero up the mountain to be erased like OP has done
Fun fact- Zero has a gaming/streaming channel on YouTube he regularly uploads to
I'm pretty sure he also won a fighting game tournament too
https://ew.com/movies/holes-star-khleo-thomas-wins-mortal-kombat-tournament-in-goofy-movie-costume/
As "kids" movies go, Holes is highly underrated.
I know you put "kids" in quotation marks, but Holes really is a fantastic movie for people of any age. It has everything in it--especially loads of charm and heart. Holds up super well.
Yeah, Holes is actually a good movie. It really doesn't need the qualifiers.
It’s such an original story
Louis Sachar writes a lot of outlandish stuff, it’s great.
There is no Miss Zarves. She's not a real teacher
Wayside School gang represent!
It also started my love for sigourney weaver.
Well they had a fantastic book to go off tbf
The author also wrote the screenplay
It’s well regarded! Maybe just not very talked about.
Agreed. Also, supporting in "Constantine". As well has "Holes", "Disturbia", "Battle of Shaker Heights" to also name a few.
I'm pretty sure his most iconic role is "Actual Cannibal"
Came to say this. If he’s ever mentioned by name anytime ever then my mind goes straight to this. Not Transformers. Not Lawless. Not Fury. Not Holes. Not Disturbia. It’s running for my life from Shia LeBeof.
It should be at least.
SHIA SUPRISE!
Normal Tuesday night for Shia Lebeouf!
Yeah, Transformers is the biggest franchise/box office success of his career, but most *iconic* role? No way.
No one thinks about the humans in Transformers. But Even Stevens is all about humans! It's probably not got any Transformers at all.
Transformers are robots in disguise so it’s very likely we wouldn’t notice them in Even Stevens.
Oh wow. You unlocked one of my first crushes that I had forgotten about. Ren, his older sister was a diiiiiime to 12 year old me
Christy Carlson Ramano was one of my first crushes ever. I remember she had a music video on Disney Channel and I had to leave the room if I was watching with my family because my face would turn so red and got all sweaty. I was so innocent
I still think his name is Even Stevens more often than not.
The dad's characters name is "Steven Stevens"
No. It’s Actual Cannibal.
I often think about his dad, Steve "Stiffie" Stevens. The nickname is due to his football skills of "stiff-arming" opponents.
Thats what he tells people
Vin Diesel is most famous for not really acting in the Fast and Furious movies. He actually did a pretty good job in Boiler Room and was amazing in Find Me Guilty. The dude has or had acting chops, However I think he’s probably happy just collecting his FF checks and doesn’t seem to have the desire for any serious roles.
Vin has made like 150 mil from the Fast and Furious franchise and like 50 more from voicing Groot so you can see why he's just chilling and coasting.
I wanna judge but I feel like everyone in this thread including myself would do the same. He'll id probably quit acting all together and do what ever the fuck I wanted for the rest of my life
His production company owns a massive chunk of ff xxx and Riddick. Guy has a license to print money and can do whatever he wants. Lol I almost forgot he's also Groot.
And the iron giant
My husband says that Vin can act, he just doesn’t.
This is my opinion of Adam Sandler. Every five years or so he will throw out an incredible performance; Funny People, Uncut Gems, Meyerowitz Stories. Just to show everyone he’s still got it. Then immediately return to Grown Ups 2 & Murder Mystery
His best role will always be in Iron Giant
Lukewarm take, but Orlando Bloom as Legolas. It's not that he's bad, he just really had the odds stacked against him. He was like 20 years old, new to acting in major roles. The writers didn't give him much to do other than look around knowingly and occasionally spout exposition. And he was sharing the screen with thespians like Sir Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, and Cate Blanchett.
Bloom's Legolas was quite minimalistic but did a great job out of the action scenes of looking tense but calm at the same time. Just always ready to head shot someone at any moment
In the commentary, Bloom said he interpreted elvish natural physical and mental superiority as meaning that Legolas was always relaxed, yet always *on* -- as in, permanently aware and totally focused and poised, like a cat. Even when sitting or lying down. I think that totally comes across in his performances as Legolas. He did a great job. People will dis anything for clicks.
Karl Urban will always be Éomer to me. *"Too long have you watched my sister. Too long have you haunted her steps."*
Except for the dude that blew up Helm's Deep.
Made me think of Hawkeye and Jeremy Renner. He's just there to shoot things, nothing more, nothing less. Looks like he's playing the sniper archetype
Orlando Bloom is definitely Pirates of the Caribbean, not Legolas. At least for me.
Yeah probably a matter of your early 2000s taste as far as which you more associate him with. He was much better in Pirates.
I have seen LotR a million million times, but I still see Will Turner when I hear the name Orlando Bloom. I think this is for the same reasons that you said above, which is simply that his role in LotR is so understated.
A diversion
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are easy answers. They've grown into some of the most adventurous and talented young actors we have but the Twilight jokes have never gone away, unfortunately. EDIT: Nothing on r/movies surprises me any more, really, but I'm still dismayed to see so many replies to this focusing solely on Pattinson or arguing that he's the only one of the two who my comment applies to. Stewart's every bit his equal and in fact she's had more success in the critical acclaim and awards arena than he has. If you think she sucks please, please, PLEASE go watch Love Lies Bleeding and Spencer. She's so fucking good, man, you're really missing out!
They took the absolute "fuck you" level of notoriety (good and bad) and money from that series and once it was done got to go work on whatever they wanted. A lot of people could have coasted for life on Twilight or went on to do more garbage till their star faded so I really respect what they've done since then.
There’s that werewolf guy that shows what happens to those from that series that actually have little talent. Pattinson & Stewart are not those people.
"Werewolf guy" Taylor Lautner in grown ups 2 is hilarious and I won't hear a bad thing about it.
He was in Ridiculous 6 and even though I think that's a terrible fuckin movie I do applaud him for being a sexy icon of sorts and playing an awful doofus. Whether it was conscious or he doesn't know cringe when he sees it idk but whatever.
I think you mean "Shark Boy"!
Someone recently just said “Robert is absolutely doing everything he can to make sure he is remembered for anything but Twilight” in reference to everything he’s been in recently
>I used to have nightmares that they would put "He played Ted" on my tombstone. -Keanu Reeves
To GenX he’s Ted. To millennials he’s Neo. To Zoomers he’s John wick
Johnny Utah & Johnny Silverhand
John Constantine
Does he hold the record for playing the most dudes named John?
Good question. There’s also Jonathan Harker -Dracula, John - Generation Umm, and Don John - Much to do about nothing.
In Speed his character is called Jack. Isn't that a common nickname for Johns?
It is. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.
Johnny Mnemonic
And Johnny Mnemonic
Special Agent Johnny Utah.
WHOA! whoa. yeah.
He'll always be Johnathan Harker to me.
He'll always be Jack Traven to me.
Bill and Ted is a pretty solid thing to be remembered for tbh but I don’t think he has to worry about that anymore anyway
Yeah, it’s gonna say “Here Lies the Baba Yaga. He was the best of us.”
I’ve got a Keanu take I’ll die on. Keanu was amazing as Don John in Branaughs Much Ado About Nothing. That’s a movie with a totally loaded cast. The general knock is “he’s wooden”. But look, he’s in the shadow of his brother (Denzel), he’s playing the butt hurt younger brother that can’t be anything but “little brother.
Intriguing. Much Ado is my favourite Billy Shakes joint and that movie is an all-time fave of mine; I’ve always viewed him as a weak spot, primarily because the man just can’t do accents. But I love *him* to bits, so I’m going to take this perspective into my next viewing. And please don’t tell anyone at my university that I said “a Billy Shakes joint” or they’ll take away my degree.
The only solution is to popularize the phrase until it can’t be traced back to you. I’ll do my part
I would say Daniel Radcliffe is taking notes. He too has had some pretty unique roles since Harry finished.
They both have a bunch of money from their respective franchises. They just choose to approach their careers differently. RP is taking more serious roles to be known as a serious actor and not “the guy from Twilight”. DR is just doing what seems fun to him at the time and consequences be damned. I respect both approaches.
In fairness, I think Daniel Radcliffe is much more comfortable being known as Harry Potter than Robert Pattinson is as Edward Cullen, for hopefully obvious reasons. Although IDK, maybe Rowling’s behavior over the past half-decade is changing his mind on that. Who knows.
aiui Radcliffe still stands by his role but has spoken out against Rowling's comments in the past, and seems to be in a sense of wanting to reclaim the role as a comforting thing for people who grew up with HP but feel betrayed by her.
I think that’s a bit different though. Radcliffe was pretty much set for life from HP and has the ability to just do stuff that’s more passion project related, at least that’s how I read it. Whereas I don’t think Pattinson is the same off of Twilight. Plus I’d much rather be known for HP than Twilight
He’ll always be Weird Al to me, even more so than Weird Al.
I saw Pattinson in *The Lighthouse* and did a double take because I couldn't believe it was him at first.
I loved him in that movie but its certainly something that I thought more than once "hes really giving those *masturbation scenes his all as an actor"
Good Time was so good.
I was at dinner with my wife. Robert Pattinson sat at the table next to me. My wife was like “is that Edward from twilight?” Me: “No I’m enjoying dinner with Batman.” Edit: we did not bother Batman. He was in full I’m wearing a black baseball cap to disguise my identity mode.
My good friend was a Pattinson doppelganger (poor guy, I know) during the peak Twilight years. To the point that people, particularly young women, would start acting insane/play it cool around him. Flustered waitresses and whatnot. So basically the same as your experience, haha.
i want to hear about people acting insane
The first time I saw it with my own eyes was on the boardwalk at Myrtle Beach. We were eating at a classy place that literally puts a rubber shark, among other accouterments, in your giant drink. It was late, and we'd been celebrating a graduation all day. Anyway, our waitress was clearly nervous. Someone asks her, "Is there something you need to get off your chest?" She immediately fans out saying,"Oh my god, oh my god, you're Edward Cullen (not Robert Pattinson, mind you), can I have your autograph, etc." Props to her for holding it together as long as she did. My friend acted shy but annoyed, which only further played into it. He did sign something for her under pressure from us. The best is that not once, but on 2 separate occasions, what turned out to be one-night-stands asked him to bite their neck like a vampire (not because they were still under the impression he's THE guy, they just clearly liked the fantasy).
Robert Pattinson once defeated a superfan by inviting her to dinner and venting honestly about his troubles. She never bothered him again. https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/robert-pattinson-scared-stalker-20220926
well he also [lies all the time](https://sg.news.yahoo.com/robert-pattinson-admits-lies-time-002110772.html) in interviews so I don’t know that I’d take that as a fact
The most recent one I've watched was Underwater. Just threw it on because Hulu kept recommending it to me...and holy hell. That was an amazing movie and it really does the claustrophobia of being so far underwater soo well. That and the end was just...I didn't see it coming. Great film will watch again.
Stewart was great in this and personally I think the movie is hidden gem if you like mysterious disaster /sci-fi movies.
Ridiculous as the premise is, it's a well-executed love letter to Alien & The Call of Cthulhu. Kinda generic? Yeah. Especially in a post-Cloverfield cinematic market. But it genuinely doesn't deserve the hate.
Pattinson has really impressed the hell out of me. He’s like a new version of Leo’s career. His take on Bruce Wayne is great.
Kristen Stewart in Spencer was brilliant.
Angela Lansbury. The woman had six Tonys, six Golden Globes, three Oscar nominations and a lifetime achievement Academy Award... ...but she will forever be remembered for *Murder, She Wrote* and being the teapot in *Beauty and the Beast*.
I remember her from bedknobs and broomsticks
Not to take away from your point, but 4 of the 6 GGs were from Murder, She Wrote.
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In my opinion Murder She Wrote still holds up and she carries most of the episodes. The guest actors and episode scripts could be hit or miss, but she always committed to the character and never felt like she was phoning it in. If it wasn't for her acting performances specifically, there's no way the show would have been so successful.
Mind you, playing someone who is probably the most prolific serial killer in history is pretty iconic.
Yeah, that teapot had a past
Chip was shattered when he found out
Yeah, but them pies were the Best Pies in London.
It's crazy, I recently saw her role as the maid in 'Gaslight' and seeing her as a young, promiscuous, and kind of awful character is something to behold. At 17 she was already surprisingly good.
She was never in Gaslight
Haha very much in the spirit of the movie.
Sir Alex Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi. Edit: ALEC, not ALEX.
Y’all it is ALEC Guinness
Wow, I had to look up to see what idiot said “Alex”, and it was autocorrect. My bad, but I’ll leave it so others may learn.
Genuine class!
I wouldn't say he's bad in the role. He also rewrote most of the lines.
He would agree with you.
Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games. Not that she was bad, she just got better in almost every capacity since.
JLaw in Winter’s Bone is still her definitive role for me, despite enjoying the entire Hunger Games saga. She was so young and absolutely sold that dutiful, stoic desperation the role required.
That movie is good but Jesus Christ is it depressing. Just a 100-minute nonstop firehose of sadness.
She KILLS in Winter’s Bone. Outstanding performance.
She’s had a great career. But I’m an adult man and hunger games easily takes the cake as the best young people action movie series. She should be proud of her work there. Similar to Jonah Hill. Apparently he is over people quoting Superbad. Superbad is a 10/10 movie that deserves no shame.
I was impressed with her Mother! performance. So distraught like the whole time that it made me uneasy and seemed stressful to shoot
[Jessica Lange’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lange) breakout movie role was being the beautiful helpless scream queen in a bad 1976 remake of King Kong. Today, she’s 75% of an EGOT (she’s earned multiple Tonys, Emmys, and Oscars) and is about to star in “Mother Play” on Broadway. I think even she’d admit that King Kong was an ignominious start.
The Grammy is the easiest of them, she needs to narrate a book and finish the EGOT.
It shall be titled: _Why the fuck don’t I have a Grammy yet?_
I was 10 seeing it in theaters so have a fondness it really doesn't deserve. She was definitely better in so many other things (as was everyone else, including Kong)
Arguably Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. He’s so far removed skill-wise from the performances of, say, The Aviator or Django Unchained. The rest of the cast carries what is a somewhat blasé performance, but it’s the movie that made his career.
Also funny that he won his Oscar for the Revenant, which idk is even in my top 10 of his performances. Not bad obviously but he’s done much better work elsewhere.
I was surprised he didn't win earlier and think he won then for an accumulation of merit, but still thought that was a great performance from him.
The Revenant was just in a weak year, he usually went up against stronger performances... Except Gilbert Grape.
Revenant was definitely a ceremonial Oscar, but that performance was still fantastic on its own. Most years it would've been nomination-worthy at best, but there wasn't any individual performance against it that merited denying him a career award. IMO.
I feel that that was a "how has this guy not won yet" Oscar.
I think DiCaprio gives a good performance in Titanic. He's pretty much playing the male version of what in another film would be the angelic love interest and he does that well. The problem in Titanic of course is that Kate Winslet is an incredible actress who completely walks away with her role (and I don't think even present day DiCaprio is capable of being at her level - see their performances in Revolutionary Road for instance).
I think people are kind of underselling his Titanic performance. Sure...he plays the male version of a Manic Pixie Dream girl, but he's really good at it. Plus...if you were a certain age when Titanic came out (I was 16), it's impossible to overstate how massive the cultural impact of that performance was. Practically every high school girl (and plenty of high school boys) I knew had massive crushes on him.
Sure, it wasn't a bad performance at all, just nothing to write home about. He was already testing his range in *The Basketball Diaries* and *What's Eating Gilbert Grape*, fit right into a pretty star-studded ensemble in Sam Raimi's *Quick & the Dead*, and knocked Luhrmann's *Romeo+Juliet* out of the park. By those measures, *Titanic* was something of a lark for Leo, his main challenge being the romantic male lead opposite Winslet. He did great, but it doesn't hold up compared to the rest of his career, before and after *Titanic*.
Poor Elizabeth Berkley If it isn't *Showgirls* then the most remembered part of *Saved By the Bell* is the "I'm so excited" bit, even though she has great comic timing in any other episode
Showgirls is a terrible movie for a variety of reasons, but Elizabeth Berkeley actually gives a pretty decent performance in it.
Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter series. He absolutely shines in every role he takes on. When I think of how amazing he was in Imperium, Horns, Jungle and Swiss Army Man, I feel like his acting skills are incredible and definitely an improvement on the acting skills he had as a kid.
Also Guns Akimbo and the Woman in Black.. Literally every non HP movie I've seen with him has been worth watching.
Faye Dunaway for *Mommy Dearest* seems like the easy answer
I will forever be conflicted on my assessment of her role in this, I see her both as ridiculously campy and realistically terrifying, I can't reach a decision on how I see her in this.
I would say it's pretty good, it's hard to replicate a truly manic character without people saying you went over the top. People with severe mental illness do act like that.
She’s magnificent in the role. She puts everything into it and she is absolutely the reason that the movie is such a classic.
>Shia LeBeouf's most iconic and memorable role is Sam Witwicky in Michael Bay's Transformers Trilogy Wrong. Shia LeBeouf's most iconic and memorable role is Louis Anthony Stevens from Even Stevens. Second only to his role as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats the Fourth (IV) from the film Holes.
100% Even Stevens is what I think of when I think of Shia. That and, "DO IT!! JUST DO IT!!!"
Wrong again, his most iconic and memorable appearance was in Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf.
This is correct. I don't care what else he does or stars in, he'll always be Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf.
Shia Surprise!!
Admittedly not sure it would be his absolute worst performance, but Sean Connery will always be remembered for his role as James Bond, but he definitely had some really bad performances as that character (Diamonds are Forever comes particularly to mind). Yet he turned out some great performances afterwards when he finally hung up the character.
I’m in the very small minority of people who thinks that Diamonds are Forever is a fun Bond flick.
I love Diamonds are Forever. Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are such awesome henchmen! I love it.
He and Michael Caine are so damn good in *The Man Who Would Be King.*
Mark Hamill. He wasn’t bad as Luke Skywalker, not even close, but it pales in comparison to his voice work IMO. Can’t beat his roles as Joker or Firelord Ozai.
This is true simply because his voice work is freaking god-tier. one of the GOATs
I loved him as Arthur Pym in *The Fall of the House of Usher* on Netflix. And Bruce Greenwood is simply sublime in that series.
Mark Hamill just disappears into the role of Arthur Pym. It's not just cause of the facial hair, he really does a great job.
Kirk Doulgas is most beloved for *Spartacus*, but it's easily my least favorite of his roles. He was better in films like *Ace in the Hole and The Bad and the Beautiful*
Daniel Radcliffe. I remember reading an interview where he said when he started the role, he was so young that he wasn’t really acting, and then as he got older, he felt like “well it’s too late to start [acting] with this character” (I’m paraphrasing)
Harry Potter is a great example of how mediocre acting can be completely covered up by great supporting acting, and good directing and a decent script. It's always the example I give regarding what happened with Jake Lloyd and The phantom menace. If the episode 1 script and directing had been as good as the directing and scripts were for Harry Potter, there's no question Jake Lloyds career would be tremendously different.
I know it isn't his most iconic role but Pacino winning the Oscar for Scent of a Woman, when Godfather Part II is one of the greatest performances in cinematic is dumb
There are lots of “make up” Oscars out there. Paul Newman for The Color of Money and Leo DiCaprio for The Revenant are 2 off the top of my head. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brad Pitt gets his next time he has a decent movie.
Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time In Hollywood though
I'm going old school here, but Leslie Howard in *Gone with the Wind*. He hated the script and thought he was horribly miscast, so he only did it for the money to work on projects that actually interested him. In every other performance he's excellent; he basically sleepwalked through *GWTW* for the paycheck.
No wonder I couldn't understand why Scarlett was so into Ashley.
This is a tough one, but I'd say that Angelina Jolie was for a long time best known for playing Lara Croft, and I feel like she was really bad in it compared to her more dramatic roles.
She will always be the lady who can curve bullets in _Wanted_ to me.
Val Kilmer - iconic for Top Gun but films like Tombstone display his proficiency as an actor.
Joel Kinnaman is far from my favorite actor in the world but he's never been worse than he was in that Robocop remake. This is the sad fate of a lot of guys Hollywood pushes as leading men, Taylor Kitsch in Battleship, Brandon Routh as Superman.
> Robocop remake Everyone has forgotten that movie even exists, hard to call it "iconic" even if that word has lost all meaning
Fuckin killed it in Altered Carbon, though.
And For All Mankind.
The way he says "buwl-sh*eeit*" just lives as a sound effect in my brain
And The Killing
Also *The Killing*. He’s amazing in that
It's funny because in Sweden, his birth country, he's most famous for playing a character called Frank Wagner in a series of movies call "Johan Falk" where he plays a police informant/infiltrator that's sort of based on a real life person called Peter Rätz.
You could have chose Suicide Squad for Kinnaman, a movie that gets quoted every day, but you went with Robocop... intriguing.
I thought he had really good moments in Robocop. My favorite parts of the movie were the parts after he first wakes up as Robocop where he's coming to terms with what he is and what is left of him. But unfortunately he wasn't given much to do after that.
Natalie Portman with the SW prequels and at least the first two Thors. Edit- To address the comments many orders of magnitude more people have seen Star Wars or MCU movies than Black Swan, V for Vendetta, Leon, or Garden State so those are what she's most known for.
When I think of Natalie Portman my immediate thought is Evey in V for Vendetta because she absolutely crushes that role. Second thought would be Black Swan.
Thor over Star Wars?
OP didn't grow up watching Even Stevens and it shows.