Find the Anti-Jar Jar in a Movie

[Drizzle]

Inspired by Rowsdower!'s thread "Find the Jar-Jar in a Movie" (http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=471089)

I present you with the opposite question. What are some awesome characters that had the unfortunate luck of being in a crappy movie surrounded by crappy characters? I'll start us off:

Alfred in Batman and Robin - I don't really need to say anything else about this that hasn't already been said on these boards. Alfred was the only character who was taken seriously in this movie.

Sinestro in Green Lantern - You can also throw Tomar Re, Kilowog and Abin Sur in there too. These characters were the only thing this movie got right.

Alan Grant in Jurassic Park III - While the movie isn't terrible, he was surrounded by idiots.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Inspired by Rowsdower!'s thread "Find the Jar-Jar in a Movie" (http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=471089)

I present you with the opposite question. What are some awesome characters that had the unfortunate luck of being in a crappy movie surrounded by crappy characters? I'll start us off:

Alfred in Batman and Robin - I don't really need to say anything else about this that hasn't already been said on these boards. Alfred was the only character who was taken seriously in this movie.

Sinestro in Green Lantern - You can also throw Tomar Re, Kilowog and Abin Sur in there too. These characters were the only thing this movie got right.

Alan Grant in Jurassic Park III - While the movie isn't terrible, he was surrounded by idiots.

Funny, I was thinking about this the other day. I agree with all of yours. Here are a few more:

Snow (Guy Pearce) in Lockout

Murphy (Kevin Costner) in 3000 Miles to Graceland

Silas (Paul Bettany) in The Da Vinci Code

Thor and Loki in Thor: The Dark World

Qui-Gon Jin in The Phantom Menace

The Elf leader (Luke Goss) in Hellboy: The Golden Army

Quarritch (Stephen Lang) in Avatar. I actually think this movie is good, but Lang is so awesome that his performance outshines everything else in the movie for me.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Alex (Shailene Woodley) in The Descendants (a terribly written and overrated film, IMO)

Stark (RDJ) in Iron Man 2: Holding the ill-conceived movie together with white knuckles

Baroness (Sienna Miller) in GI Joe 1

Paul and Jessica Atriedes (Kyle McLachlin and Francesca Annis) in Dune: the only things stopping that hot mess from turning into a straight-to-VHS movie

 

[LordofhouseEl]

Funny, I was thinking about this the other day. I agree with all of yours. Here are a few more:

Snow (Guy Pearce) in Lockout

Quarritch (Stephen Lang) in Avatar. .

you have a thing for archetypes don't you? Both are terrible characters who play to a specific archetype especially Snow.

 

[Schlosser85]

I think Gangs of New York is overrated except for Daniel Day-Lewis.

 

[Rowsdower!]

you have a thing for archetypes don't you? Both are terrible characters who play to a specific archetype especially Snow.

Oh, okay. Thank you for enlightening me. If I ever watch those movies again, I'll try my hardest not to enjoy those characters.

 

[Octoberist]

you have a thing for archetypes don't you? Both are terrible characters who play to a specific archetype especially Snow.

My problem with Snow wasn't his character type: it's that nothing was unique about him and he was in a bad movie.

Snow's lines were just cliche after cliche. Guy did his best though but Snow sounded like a bad video game character.

 

[Octoberist]

How about Lee Pace's rougish character in Twilight: Breaking Dawn. Though brief his character was super entertaining and gave new life to the movie.

 

[Victarion]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Roland Tembo

 

[smallville fan]

In the Star Wars prequels:
Palpatine/Ian McDiarmid
Ewan McGregor/Obi-Wan
Frank Oz/Yoda

 

[Ant-manic]

i feel that most of the performances in Iron Man 3 were really strong. it just turned out to be a somewhat disappointing movie. but James Badge Dale, Ben Kingsley, and Robert Downey jr (as usual) really had fun with it.

 

[Ant-manic]

exterminator Tucker Cleveland (Brad Dourif) in Stephen King's "Graveyard Shift."

Pennywise the dancing clown (Tim Curry) in 'It'

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Honestly, David spade in joe dirt. The movie is stupid as all hell but I really enjoy his performance, there's just this sincerity and likability to it...out of the whole Sandler crew he's the one I find the most enjoyable to watch.

 

[Sawyer]

David Spade is underrated as ****, and I really do wish he would find/be allowed better material.

 

[Sawyer]

Alex (Shailene Woodley) in The Descendants (a terribly written and overrated film, IMO)

 

[Pink Ranger]

Don't get me wrong, I was happy to see him win a freakin' Oscar just for the entertainment value alone, but the movie itself did not deserve it.

 

[E.NormusJohnson]

John Malky in Con Air. One of my fav. villains of all tizzz ime!

 

[DarthDaveBanner]

Raul Julia in the Street Fighter movie!

 

[Visiting Arkham]

The alien dog in John Carter is almost the definition of an Anti-Jar Jar: a cute, entirely CGI non-human creature designed to appeal to children, and it's bizarrely adorable.

 

[Victarion]

Harry Osborn in the original Spider-Man trilogy. His was the best character in the Raimi's series.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Would Snake Plisken in Escape From LA count?

Edit: Also where does Jean Reno in Godzilla 98 fall?

 

[Keyser Soze]

The Frighteners is not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, in fact I'm rather fond of it, but it feels like wacko FBI agent Milton Dammers - played by Jeffery Combs - is just on a whole level above the rest of the characters of the film. He plays a relatively small part, but I'd have watched a whole film just about him.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'm not a big fan of the movie Collateral, but I LOVED Tom Cruise's character in it. I wish Michael Mann would make a prequel solely about him.

 

[Octoberist]

Here's a good one: Frank Langella as Skeletor in 'Masters of the Universe'.

My God, he acted his ass off. He clearly went above and beyond the call of duty.

 

[<(o_o)>]

Sean Connery in Highlander 2: The Quickening/Renegade version.

Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in all the Transformer movies.