Performances that have ruined films/tv shows

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I'm watching Pride and Prejudice (the BBC version not the Keira Knightley version). P&P is my favourite book and I've watched the show loads but I almost have to fast forward the bits with Alison Steadman (Mrs Bennet). Yes, she's meant to be a bit ridiculous and dramatic but she plays her like an overly- shrill screeching pantomime dame. Ruins the show. Brenda Blethyn did a much better job.

Gerard Butler in most things, but particularly in Phantom of the Opera, ugh, what was that about! Oh and in PS I love you. Just - no!

Leonardo di Caprio in almost everything apart from Titanic (which for years was my favourite film because of him).

He was also great in Catch Me if You Can, Django Unchained and The Wolf of Wall Street, but all his other performances seem so po-faced and over-blown.

The very long sequence in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood when he's filming the Western with the young girl was absolutely toe-curling. He made Brad Pitt look so effortless in comparison.

Years ago in Soldier Soldier there was an actress who played a squaddie and was also engaged to one of the other characters, she was possibly the worst actress I’ve seen and I used too turn the tv off if she was in the show that week.

I can’t believe the person who hated Adam Driver in Star Wars 7-9! He single handed made an objectively terrible character watchable and almost sympathetic against insuperable odds. Can you imagine what those films would have been like with an actor of the calibre of Hayden Christansen playing Kylo Ren?

My nomination is Russell Crowe in anything or Anthony Hopkins not being arsed to do the accent in The Two Popes when everyone else is doing their characters’ appropriate accents.

Cannot agree about Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, I think she is excellent, especially when you hear the actress's natural accent.

Helen Mirren in The Queen. Rubbish accent, nothing like pure enough, completely ruined it for me.

Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast. She was so wooden, completely miscast as far as looks and charisma went and made the character come across as a right snotty effort.

made the character come across as a right snotty effort.

100%. The way she played the character meant that it was suddenly very obvious why none of the villagers liked Belle in the first place!

Always thought someone like Emma Stone would’ve been a much better choice.

Andie McDowell in 4 weddings. Everyone else is brilliant, but you can't believe he falls for her - she is so boring.
Emma Thompson in Harry Potter, but also in pretty much everything.
Kenneth branaugh in Harry Potter! What sort of casting was that! He's supposed to be young and handsome.
Kevin Costner in hidden figures. He's always so fake virtuous in every film. Yuk

I liked Kenneth Branagh in Harry Potter except that he has no lips, which makes him an odd choice for Mr Most Charming Smile.

Cameron Diaz, I've never got her acting appeal. She is exactly the same character in every film

As an aside, she was brilliant in Being John Malkovich

I’d have to go with Keanu Reeves. Lovely man by all accounts and extremely easy on the eye but, plays Ted Theodore Logan in every film. John Wick is 2 hours I’ll never get back

Olivia Coleman in The Crown.

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Honestly I could have picked a more charismatic and talented cast from the attendees from my last speed awareness course.

I sort of agree with lots of comments but I don't think anyone's rubbish performance has actually ruined a film for me!

YY about Bonnie Wright, but film Ginny was so one dimensional. This meme sums it up for me

Bones - the strange robotically patterned way Emily Deschanel started delivering her lines in the later seasons drove me absolutely insane and I just can't watch them. Completely different from how she started off playing Brennan, when she just spoke normally. I often wonder why she started doing it!

the Jenny Lee actress I agree, Jessica Raine, I saw her in Baptiste (think it was that) and she was awful in that too

Eddie Redmayne in Les Miserables. I know everyone said he was amazing but watch him sing - his head wobbles constantly. Put me right off! And now I cant watch him in anything else.

I also really liked Russell Crowe in LM, but was disappointed in Hugh Jackman and he didn't really redeem himself in Greatest Showman either.

And to the PP upthread who mentioned Kristen Stewart in Twilight I used to totally agree that she was awful, but I read on t'internet (where all is truth obvs) that Bella Swann was supposed to be totally charmless/gormless so that was how she played her, and when I re-read the books (yes the shame - I have read them MORE THAN ONCE!!) its true! So the character was crap, and the acting did nothing to make up for it

Michael Gambon was horrifically miscast as Dumbledore. Richard Harris was perfect casting and I appreciate that Christopher Lee would have been problematic given his evil turn in LOTR, but he was the natural replacement. Gambon looks and comes across like an arsey elderly pub regular who shouts at incomers for not being locals.

Lily Collins should have been Belle, not Emma Watson.

Anne Hathaway in One Day. Her Yorkshire accent was terrible, I completely distracted by it.

After Raiders of the Lost Ark I was so looking forward to Indiana Jones and the Thingy of Whatever and Kate Capshaw ruined it with her screamy overreacting and facial expressions.

What is going on wit RDJ in that Doolittle film! Just NO and I usually really rate him. I get the feeling he could be so good if he had the right serious role like Oscar winning good but then he ends up doing something horrifying like that.

I'm looking forward tongue second series of The Split starring Nicola Walker

I've just rewatched series 1 on I player and was reminded how distracting the poor acting was from the woman who played the mother

She was supposed to be a glamorous matriarchal type but instead had wooden acting from a Mrs Doubtfire lookalike

I've not seen the actor, Deborah Findlay in anything else so I don't know if she was having several off days or if she truly is that bad. Totally ruined it for me

Bones - the strange robotically patterned way Emily Deschanel started delivering her lines in the later seasons drove me absolutely insane and I just can't watch them. Completely different from how she started off playing Brennan, when she just spoke normally. I often wonder why she started doing it!

YES! Thank you! It was as if she had a stroke halfway through the seasons. In later episodes it's like she's struggling to deliver complex lines, like she has forgotten a scientific term and needs a second to remember it.

Horribly distracting.

Dominic West, in anything. He may be an okay actor but I cringed through every american accent he failed at. The Mona Lisa Smile accent was particularly bad.....