Challenge - Post the best and worst movie by the previously named actor/actress
 

It's a shameless ripoff from a similar thread in the music forum, but I think it could be fun in this context

I'll get it started

Johnny Depp:

Best: Pirates of the Carribean (performance, not movie quality wise)

Worst: 9th Gate

next:

Sean Connery

Remember, this is just my opinion...

Sean Connery

Best performance: The Untouchables

Worst performance: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

next:

Ray Liotta

Ray Liotta

Best performance
Goodfellas

Worst performance
Turbulence

next:

Tom Cruise

Damn, Cyn beat me to it, and picked the same movies, :D

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Tom Cruise

(of the movies I've seen)
Best performance:
Rainman

Worst performance:
Days of Thunder

next:

Sean Patrick Flanery

Sean Patrick Flannery

Best performance:

Suicide Kings

Worst performance:

Best men (That whole movie was painful, thank you, Dean Cain)


I dare someone to find a "best performance" for....

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher..

best performance: The Butterfly Effect

worst performance: dude, where's my car


how about Leonardo DiCaprio??

Good pick for best performance out of Kutcher, Nancy. Who the hell knew he could act? :p

Leonardo DiCaprio:

best performance: Titanic

worst performance: Romeo and Juliet


Let's see....Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster...

Best: The Accused (oscar- winning)

Worst: Bugsy Malone

Next: Julianne Moore

Best: Far From Heaven
Worst: The Lost World

Next: Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacy:

Best: Tie: The Usual Suspects/L.A. Confidential
Worst: The Big Kahuna

Next: Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline:

Best: A Fish Called Wanda
Worst: Wild Wild West

How about Kevin Costner? (Plenty of Worst to choose from haha)

Kevin Costner

Best: Dances With Wolves (I dislike this the least)
Worst: Waterworld

Al Pacino

Al Pacino:

best performance: Dog Day Afternoon

worst performance: The Devil's Advocate


Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton

Best- Annie Hall

Worst- Baby Boom or Father of the Bride, can't decide which.


Okay, how about...
Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

Best- Harry Potter & the sorcer's stone -can't believe I am saying that

Worst- Blow Dry

Jaime Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis

best: True Lies

worst: Perfect

Jon Cusak

John Cusack

Best: Better Off Dead

Worst: America's Sweethearts

Next: Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

Best:Raiders of the Lost Ark

Worst:k-19 the Widowmaker

Next: Famke Jansen

Famke Jansen

Worst: I Spy

Best: X2: X-men United

Next: Toshiro Mifune

Are you serious? IMDB lists 169 movies for him, and I've heard of about two of them.

I guess for best I would have to go with Seven Samurai, since it's the only one I've seen.
For worst, hell I don't know, insert random obscure Japanese title here.

If someone else feels they can do better feel free, otherwise...

Next up, Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi
Best: Tie between all the Coen films he's been in.
Worst: Tie between all the Sandler films he's been in.
:D

Next
Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

Best - Willow
Worst - Batman Forever


Next - Denzel Washington

Denzel
Best: Training Day
Worst: Virtuosity

Edward Norton

Ed Norton

Best: American History X
Worst: Italian Job

I also really like 25th hour, and red dragon, and I haven't seen death to smootchy, or keeping the faith which I hear were terrible.

He has a tiny filmography.

Next: Bill Murray

Bill Murray

Best: Ghostbusters
Worst: What About Bob

Next: Mary Olsen

Mary Olsen

Best: Hot Erotic Dreams
Worst: Hot Erotic Dreams

according to IMDB, that's the only movie she ever did.


Tom Hanks

Whoops- I meant Mary KATE Olsen. I forgot that she was the one with the middle name.

Tom Hanks

Best- a toss between Philadelphia and Forrest Gump
Worst- Ladykillers

Let's try again- Mary KATE Olsen (good luck finding something to fit into the best category)

Wow, this thread kinda exploded in the seven or so short hours its been up

I'll go with

Best: It Takes Two
Worst: Getting There

the only two i've seen

next:

Jim Carrey

Best: Dumb and Dumber and/or Me, Myself and Irene

Worst: Man on the Moon


a hard one....

Jacky Chan :D

Jackie Chan's Best: The Legend of Drunken Master

Worst: The Tuxedo


Next: Tom Sizemore


-Lasereth

Jackie Chan

best:
The Legend of Drunken Master

worst:
The Tuxedo

Julie Andrews

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Edit: Damn you, Lasereth! *shakes fist* :D

Tom Sizemore

best:

Saving Private Ryan

worst:

Relic

Julie Andrews

Tom Sizemore
Best: Heat/Black Hawk Down
Worst: Strange Days/Red Planet

EDIT: MOTHER! Curse you too, Fremen!

Julie Andrews
Best: Mary Poppins
Worst: S.O.B., or maybe Princess Diaries.

Next
Ice Cube

Julie Andrews
Best: Victor/Victoria
Worst: The Princess Diaries

Next: Ice Cube (to continue)

(I can't hold her at this speed much longer capt'n! She'll shiver into a million little bits at around Warp 13)

WOW.

ice cube

best: boyz n tha hood
worst: anaconda

next: uma thurman

Uma Thurman

best: Kill Bill vol 2
worst: Truth about Cats and Dogs

next: Chow Yun Fat

I'm afraid to post on this thread now. Someone is probably answering Uma Thurman as I type this. :)

HA! Told ya!!

-Lasereth

Uma Thurman

Paycheck - Worst

Pulp Fiction - Best

Next - Frank Sinatra

WHAT THE FUCK! I DID UMA! .. I guess I get to do TWO THEN! HAHHA!

Chow Yun Fat

Hard Boiled - Best

BulletProof Monk - Worst
(I am sure he has more worse movies, but since like 55 of them I have never heard of, that is what you get.)

Next - Ol' Blue Eyes!

Man, this thread is going faster than a communism/anarchy/punk music thread in a Teenage Angst forum!

-Lasereth

i have created a monster

Frank Sinatra

best:

The Manchurian Candidate

worst:
a toss up between Robin and the 7 Hoods and Cannonball Run 2


next:

Samantha Mathis

Samantha Mathis

best: Pump Up The Volume
worst: of the ones I've seen, gotta be Broken Arrow, although Punisher is a close second

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson
Best: Mad Max
Worst:What Women Want

Next: Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson:
Best: Chinatown
Worst: About Schmidt

Next:
Pam Grier

Dude. About Schmidt? Cute litte wojumbu? Cathy Bates's breasts?

Pam Grier

Best: Jackie Brown - (Great movie!)
Worst: Escape from LA
(I've only seen a few of her movies)

Next: Samuel L. Jackson

This is fun...

Samuel L. Jackson

Best: Amos and Andrew

Worst: XXX (In reality, anything from the last couple of years.)

Next: How 'bout Travolta...John Travolta

Is this the best perfomance or just the best movie they've ever been in.

Travolta:

Best: Thin Red Line
Worst: Swordfish

Next: Robin Williams

Robin Williams

Best: Death to Poochie

Worst: Jumaji (sp?)

next: Jet Li

Aw man, you didn't even try.

Ah! No way! Reverse those two answers and you have my answer to that- Man on the Moon was great if you were at all a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Jet Li

Best: None. He's not an actor and he shouldn't try to be.
Worst: Cradle 2(shudder) the Grave, or The One.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching him fight, but he cannot act to save his life.

Ernest Borgnine.

Borgnine
Best: Marty
Worst: Laser Mission (with Brandon Lee)

Christopher Walken

Bruce Willis:

Worst-- Hudson Hawk
Best-- Die Hard

awww cameroncrazy822 left it without a new name...

I took someone from the same cast of Hudson Hawk

Danny Aiello

Best: Leon: The Professional

Worst: Prince of Central Park

Linda Fiorentino

Linda Fiorentino

Best - Gotcha!
Worst - Jade

And since he was skipped

Christopher Walken

Best - At Close Range
Worst - Batman Returns

Next - Ving Rhames

You know.. I wish they would release Gotcha! onto DVD.. i really liked that movie.

Now are people making sure to do the worst performance, or are they basing it on how bad the movie is?

Ving Rhames:

Best: Pulp Fiction
Worst: Mission Impossible 2

Next: Will Smith

Will Smith

Best: Men In Black
Worst: Wild Wild West

(to be honest, I have only seen a handful of his movies)

Here's a challenge:

Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

best: Heat
worst: The New Guy


Parker Posey

Parker Posey

Best: House of Yes
Worst: Coneheads

Selma Blair

EDIT:
D'oh!

I've not seen enough of Selma Blair's movies to do this one.

Selma Blair

best:
(tie) Legally Blonde and Kill Me Later
(I haven't seen Hellboy yet, but from what I saw in the "Making of..." special, she looked great)

worst:
Highway

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next:

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock

Best: Hope Floats

Worst: Speed *shudder*


Next: Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant

Best: (this is going to be tough) Love Actually
Worst: (This will be much easier) Nine Months

Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Hurley

Best: *crickets chirping*
Worst: Bedazzled

Next: Brad Pitt

LOL I love that

Brad Pitt

BEST - Fight Club

Worst - Johnny Suede

Psst... name somebody new :p

oh yeah ;)

lets make it harder

Michael Ironside

bah.. that's easy

Michael Ironside

best: scanners

worst: watchers

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Best: The Hours

Worst: Days of Thunder


Next: Russel Crow

Russell Crowe
Best: Romper Stomper
Worst: Virtuosity

Gabriel Byrne

Edit: ahhh dammit!! I got beat...I'll skip this one since I don't know who that actress is....

Garbiel Byrne

Best - Point of No Return
Worst - Trial by Jury


Next - William Hurt

Bones, I think you have commited a mortal sin to include his performance in Point Of No Return ahead of The Usual Suspects

William Hurt

Best- Altered States
Worst- Contaminated Man

David Carradine

David Carradine.....

best The original Kung Fu

worst????? wow take your pick...... I'll say Children of the Corn V

Now then hmmmmmmm how about James Cagney?

I've seen some very interesting opinions in this thread...

Like Russel Crowe... A Beautiful Mind would have been my choice

among others which i care not to read through the thread again to find

James Cagney

Best: Angels with Dirty Faces
Worst: None, really. I guess you could criticize him for being lazy and playing the same role, but he was very good at it.

Next
Ernest Borgnine.

Ernest Borgnine

Best - BASEketball

Worst - McHales Navy 1964

Heh..........


Next - Keanu Reeves

Keanu

Best - Uhhh..... Replacements?

Worst - Much ado about Nothing

next

Dana Carvey

Best: Wayne's World.

Worst: Master of Disguise

Ummm,

Tom (I hate you but you made some cool movies in the 80's) Cruise

Tom Cruise

Best: Last Sammurai (just awsome, I'll pass judgement on the bad acting but the movie itself is damn good!)

Worst: Vanilla Sky (??)

next:
Adam Sandler (good luck mate :D )

cmon people! at least read the thread and see what actors have been done already

Adam Sandler

best - Big Daddy
worst - Little Nicky

edit

next

Michael Crichten (sp?)

Micheal Crichton

He's acted in something?? that's surprising . . .


Edit: He apparently was "Bearded Surgeon" from The Andromeda Strain . . .

Of his screenplays and such:

Best: Jurassic Park

Worst: Timeline (this one was so easy :))

Next: Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Best - Godfather

Worst - 6th Day

Next - Brad Pitt

It's been done Chinga10...and uh..sorry Ace...I'll read the thread more thoroughly next time. :)

Since Brad's been done and to movethis along, I'll pick someone from a Pitt movie.

Rick Schroeder

Rick Schroeder

Best the Champ

worst Poolhall Junkies

Donald Sutherland

Best: M*A*S*H
Worst: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Next: John Goodman

John Goodman

Best: Emperor's New Groove/ Big Lebowski

Worst: Blues Brothers 2000 or whatever that was

Next:

Jason Lee

Jason Lee

Best: Mallrats
Worst: A Guy Thing (correct me if I am wrong on the name of the title- a lot of the chick flick movies are the same, so the titles can get jumbled in my mind)

Mario van Peebles

Marion Van Pebbles:
BEST:
New Jack City
WORST:
Highlander 3

NEXT: Tim Robbins
PS back on page 1 Chingal0
stuffed up and did the best/worst of Uma thurman when they shouldn't have. To quote "I Did Uma!"

I would not complain if I, as you said, DID UMA. :)

I did take that into consideration, but then I figured it was more of a Kevin Spacey good acting, and Byrne was very good, but he was more along for the ride. (Of course the same could be said of my choice....)

Anyway...Best - Wayne's World
Worst - The Master of Disguise

Next - James Van Der Beek

Worst: Varsity Blues

Best: ... enough said.


Dylan McDermott

Wow, Bones, you really boned the thread there.

Dylan McDermott

Best: Hamburger Hill
Worst: Three To Tango

Geoffrey Rush

I'll go ahead an' straighten us out. (edit: I spoke too soon. or not soon enough, as it were)

Tim Robbins

Best: The Player
Worst: Erik The Viking

Dylan McDermott

Best: *crickets chirping*
Worst: *crickets chirping*

Star in some friggin movies, Dylan!

Next: Humphrey Bogart

Geoffrey Rush
Best: Shine (and pretty much anything he is in)
Worst: Tailor of Panama or The Banger Sisters (although he was great in it)

So are we doing actor's worst performance or worst movie?

Bogie

Best: The African Queen
Worst: Some pile of crap he did early like Isle of Fury or something

William H. Macy

We're doing worst performance I thought....