The Most Phoned-In Performances of All Time

[Still Wynning]

There is something about her that just seems to lack enthusiasm, isn't there?

I don't think she's bad, necessarily. She just needs to be in more films where she can really display her range. And, from the films I listed, I definitely know she has it.

 

[Victarion]

Ian McShane as Blackbeard in POTC: OST.

 

[Brother Jack]

Almost all of Bruce Willis' output in the last decade.

 

[Sawyer]

Almost all of Bruce Willis' output in the last decade.

How ****ing dare you....




The Whole Ten Yards was his masterpiece.

 

[zeroapoc]

Halle Berry in all X-Men films

 

[flower]

Keanu Reeves in The Watcher.

In fact, he was literally there for a paycheck, and demanded he be removed from all marketing and posters.



He's even "blacked out" from the poster.

One of the strangest films in history, in my opinion. I remember not even knowing Reeves was in it until I was in the theater!

did his friend did it as a prank because he thought it would be funny or was he just being a jerk?

 

[Warhammer]

Damn, two people beat me to it. The first thing that came to mind was Bruce Willis in almost every film he's been apart of for the last decade.

 

[R_Hythlodeus]

Crispin H. Glover in the Charlie's Angerls movies
he still was the best actor in the movies though

 

[Rowsdower!]

John Malkovich - Jonah Hex, Transformers 3 and Beowulf

Eric Bana - Star Trek

George Clooney & Arnold Schwarzenneggar - Batman & Robin

Tommy Lee Jones - Batman Forever

Hugo Weaving - Captain America: TFA, the Transformers films

 

[Schlosser85]

Good calls on Ian McShane in POTC and Michael Madsen in Sin City. Madsen usually seems kind of bored if you ask me, but in Sin City it was like he wasn't lifting a finger to hide that he couldn't wait to get out of here.

 

[James]

Crispin H. Glover in the Charlie's Angerls movies
he still was the best actor in the movies though

Didn't he have zero dialogue?

 

[Warhammer]

John Malkovich - Jonah Hex, Transformers 3 and Beowulf

Eric Bana - Star Trek

George Clooney & Arnold Schwarzenneggar - Batman & Robin

Tommy Lee Jones - Batman Forever

Hugo Weaving - Captain America: TFA, the Transformers films

Phoned in? That dude was so eccentric, he made Jim Carrey look like he was phoning it in.

 

[Deserana]

This may be a little controversial and I know I've been quite vocal about my dislike for Iron Man 3 in the past but whilst watching it I did feel like RDJ was just on auto pilot for some of it. It just seemed like "talk fast, make a quip" rinse and repeat for a lot of the scenes. Some bits he was good but a lot of it just seemed to be routine...

 

[Micromind]

Natalie Portman in Thor and Hugo Weaving in Captain America.

 

[Schlosser85]

This may be a little controversial and I know I've been quite vocal about my dislike for Iron Man 3 in the past but whilst watching it I did feel like RDJ was just on auto pilot for some of it. It just seemed like "talk fast, make a quip" rinse and repeat for a lot of the scenes. Some bits he was good but a lot of it just seemed to be routine...

I feel like Downey is getting a little tired of reprising Tony over and over again.

What you said about the rinse and repeat routine is how I feel about Depp a lot these days. He's just coasting along on his shtick.

And the Al Pacino and Robert De Niro performances that aren't phone in are few and far between these days.

Unfortunately, Anthony Hopkins just kind of coasts along these days too.

 

[Warhammer]

That's because Hopkins won his Oscar and knows he's one of the finest ever. He's so comfortable.

I'm glad DeNiro did fantastic in Silver Linings Playbook. He needed to remind people.

 

[samsnee]

Any Robert Deniro comedy.

 

[MrMaooz]

John Malkovich - Jonah Hex, Transformers 3 and Beowulf

Eric Bana - Star Trek

George Clooney & Arnold Schwarzenneggar - Batman & Robin

Tommy Lee Jones - Batman Forever

Hugo Weaving - Captain America: TFA, the Transformers films

I'm not sure about that one.

 

[MrMaooz]

I feel like Downey is getting a little tired of reprising Tony over and over again.

What you said about the rinse and repeat routine is how I feel about Depp a lot these days. He's just coasting along on his shtick.

And the Al Pacino and Robert De Niro performances that aren't phone in are few and far between these days.

Unfortunately, Anthony Hopkins just kind of coasts along these days too.

Same.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Sean Connery "Diamonds Are Forever"

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Connery- *Sigh* Blofelds firing a laser at the earth. Where's my paycheck?

 

[Warhammer]

Diamonds are Forever is so bad.

 

[kit1982]

Ed Norton in Red Dragon, I read his paycheck from it went towards financing 25th hour and my god it shows.

 

[Tequilla]

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[Schlosser85]

Caine has too many phoned in performances to even list. But the thing about Caine is, between his ridiculous accent and his genial demeanor, he's still kind of entertaining and *seems* a little more animated than some people, even when he's completely running on autopilot.

Most of Edward Norton's "big" movie roles are phoned in and used to finance smaller movies he actually gives a crap about.

I felt like Ian McKellen was phoning in Gandalf in The Hobbit far more than in LOTR. Like he was bored with reprising a character he played ten years ago.

Maid in Manhattan is a terrible, uninspired romantic comedy all the way around, and Ralph Fiennes goes beyond phoning it in. He looks physically miserable in that movie. It's kind of the same way Tom Hardy is in the equally terrible romantic comedy This Means War with Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon. I wouldn't quite say Hardy "phones it in", but it's by far the closest I've ever seen him come. He and Fiennes both make it pretty obvious they're not romantic comedy people, and they both kind of have this "what am I doing here?" vibe.

Just about everybody in Oz: The Great and Powerful.

 

[Deserana]

For how hammy he was in it Michael Sheen completely phoned in his Twilight performances.