Find the Anti-Jar Jar in a Movie

[Loki882]

Raul Julia in Street Fighter.
Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons.
Rosamund Pike in Die Another Day.
Peter Cullen in Transformers.
Michael Gough in that godawful George Clooney abomination.
Ewan McGregor and Ian McDiarmid in the Star Wars PT.
Al Pacino in Jack and Jill.
Jean Reno in Godzilla (1998).
Helen Slater in Supergirl.
James Marsden in Superman Returns.
Gary Oldman in Red Riding Hood.
Saoirse Ronan in The Host.
Billy Burke (mustache dad) from Twilight.
Hiroyuki Sanada in 47 Ronin.
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, and Ryan Reynolds in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Malcolm McDowell in Caligula.
Brad Dourif in Halloween II (the remake).
Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clark Duncan, and that NZ guy who played Abin Sur who's name I can never pronounce right, in Green Lantern.
Lynn Collins from John Carter.
Alan Rickman from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Leonard Nimoy in Transformers Dark of the Moon.
Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko in Quantum of Solace.
Eva Green in Dark Shadows.
Michael Fassbender and Josh Brolin in Jonah Hex.

 

[Schlosser85]

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood

Russell Crowe in Virtuosity

Billy Burke and Michael Sheen in Twilight

 

[Donnie Darko]

Raul Julia in the Street Fighter movie!

This wins.

 

[bullets]

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.

I thought Christopher Walken stole the show in that one.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Billy Burke and Michael Sheen in Twilight. Sheen is just over the top.

Burke on the other hand, someone just needs to cut every scene of him and make it into its own movie about a struggling divorced Dad, struggling to do the best he can while dealing with his angst-ridden daughter. Movie would win a damn Oscar and make me feel ten times the emotion any of the Twilight films did.

 

[DA_Champion]

Hector in Troy.

Weyland in Alien vs Predator.

 

[Rowsdower!]

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.

Good one. That movie might have actually been good had they cast an actor with even marginal acting ability as He-Man, hadn't set the majority of the movie on Earth, and hired a director who was more interested in the source material than trying to make a New Gods movie.

 

[Drizzle]

Hector in Troy.

What about Sean Bean? Brian Cox? Peter O' Toole?

 

[Roose Bolton]

Sean Bean was amazing in Troy.

 

[Schlosser85]

The only people in Troy who made an impression on me were Eric Bana and Peter O'Toole.

Brad Pitt was ridiculously miscast.

 

[Schlosser85]

Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a good one.

 

[DACrowe]

Underworld films have two--Bill Nigh and Michael Sheen.

Dennis Quaid's Doc Holiday in Wyatt Earp.

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in X-Men: The Last Stand.

007 and Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.

Oscar Isaac's Prince John in Robin Hood (2010).

David (Michael Fassbender) in Prometheus.

There are more.

 

[NosfeRomas]

CGI Arnold in Terminator Salvation.

 

[smallville fan]

Sean Bean was amazing in Troy.

How was his death?

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.

Well of course Ben Kingsley had fun, he didn't need to do much.

I'll add in Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor in Superman Returns.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a good one.

Definitely. Should have made the movie about him. Well, they shouldn't have made it at all. But if they had to, I mean.

CGI Arnold in Terminator Salvation.

Much as the movie disappointed, I must say that Anton Yelchin's Reese, wasn't bad.

Oh, Brsonan's dreadful Bond movies had Judi Dench as M.

 

[Ant-manic]

How was his death?


Well of course Ben Kingsley had fun, he didn't need to do much.

the little amount that he did made fans angry enough when they revealed him to be not-Mandarin, right?

 

[Thundercrack85]

Underworld films have two--Bill Nigh and Michael Sheen.

Dennis Quaid's Doc Holiday in Wyatt Earp.

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in X-Men: The Last Stand.

007 and Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.

Oscar Isaac's Prince John in Robin Hood (2010).

David (Michael Fassbender) in Prometheus.

There are more.

Guy Pearce as Weyland deserves an honorable mention.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Actually, thinking on the term "anti-Jar Jar" I think the Emperor / Palpatine definitely qualifies.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the only time I wasn't bored or cringing in those prequel movies was when he was on screen having a good time.

 

[Roose Bolton]

How was his death?

He's was just about the only one who didn't die in that

 

[Donnie Darko]

Jason Statham and Jean Claude Van Damme in almost every one of their movies. Neither one is exactly the best actor, but most of their movies would probably be unwatchable with anyone else, but those two make them entertaining in their own way.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Guy Pearce as Weyland deserves an honorable mention.

If we're talking about Weyland in that viral TED Talk video, I totally agree. But the old Weyland that appeared in the movie reminded me of Dan Akroyd in Nothing But Trouble.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

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.

Have you seen the directors cut of the frighteners? They flesh out his backstory a bit and it's awesome.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I don't necessarily agree with this one because I enjoyed the movie (especially the director's cut), but I could see a strong argument for Kingpin in Daredevil being the anti-Jar Jar.

Also, I think Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies was an anti-Jar Jar. Not much in those movies worked, but damn it, I think Human Torch worked just fine.

 

[Rowsdower!]

He's was just about the only one who didn't die in that

Haha, yeah. I think that movie and Silent Hill were the only two times Sean Bean hasn't died on film.

I actually didn't mind Troy though. My only real issue with it is that it didn't feel epic enough. It felt like just another ordinary battle. I wanted to see a massive war and I don't think Petersen knew how to give us that. Of course, after the Lord of the Rings movies, most other battles on film feel small in comparison.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I don't necessarily agree with this one because I enjoyed the movie (especially the director's cut), but I could see a strong argument for Kingpin in Daredevil being the anti-Jar Jar.

Also, I think Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies was an anti-Jar Jar. Not much in those movies worked, but damn it, I think Human Torch worked just fine.

I'd say bullseye was a stand out of that movie as well, and the guy they got to play Ben Urich.