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Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Every scene is cringeworthy. The fact that she later married Stephen Spielberg probably accounts for her casting in the role. She certainly didn't impress anyone with the screen test.

Side note:

As much as I love Brett Favre then and now I have to admit that his one and only acting cameo in Something About Mary is among the worst of all time. But I don't figure cameos are worthy.

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Mar 4, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

The Star Wars Universe was never the place to go for thespian excellence. Yet in the original trilogy, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and especially Harrison Ford brought great charm to occasionally quite wooden dialogue (as Ford was alleged to say to Lucas, "George, just because you can type this {stuff}, it doesn't mean people can say it.")

But Hayden Christensen brought no charm to Anakin Skywalker and he made the worst prequel, Attack of the Clones, an even more painful sit. He makes Natalie Portman look, in comparison to his performance, like M. Streep in their excruciating love scenes.

This is my final answer, since I'm not going to pick on poor Jake Lloyd. He was only a kid and who had to unfairly endure much scorn in the early days of the internet. Besides, he was even worse in Jingle All the Way.

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Oh wow... there is no shortage of choices to pick from when it comes to bad acting, but the one that comes to mind immediately, and is most grievous in my book, is Kevin Costner as Robin Hood. It’s not entirely his fault since the writing and directing are the greatest contributors to it poor execution, but he was completely awkward through the whole thing with his horrible attempts at staying in character and holding onto what was supposed to be an English accent. The whole movie had a serious identity problem and he only compounded it further with his lack of commitment to the role.

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The girl who played Ruby Gillis in Anne of Green Gables, 1985. The girls think Anne has drowned, Ruby runs off waving her hands from side to side in the worst display of immature pretend hysterics; I am more angry at the director for allowing it to stay in the movie. You kinda have to wonder how many takes they went through in coaching her to be more believable before giving it up as hopeless.

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Mar 5, 2023Liked by Vince Guerra

Jerry Seinfeld in the animated, "Bee Movie."

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In my experience, an actor has to be pretty bad to make their incompetence obvious in an animated work

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Jerry Seinfeld is a bad enough actor to accomplish this.

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I have never seen that one. Is this a Thumbs Down, Do Not Recommend? 😁

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And the winner is Eustace Scrubb with the sad acting of whiny Anakin in Attack of the Clones. Great job, Eustace. You get to choose tomorrow's question.

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Mar 4, 2023·edited Mar 4, 2023

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins has to go down as perhaps the worst ever. It's a fantasy, but did anyone actually believe his portrayal of Burt? Charity ain't in it.

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Worse, it's a musical fantasy. Musicals should be their own category for this question.

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I mean it has to be Neil Breen in every Neil Breen movie. I can’t wait to watch his latest masterpiece.

https://youtu.be/rEVW4AY4nJI

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