Almost every actor has at least one massive loser on his or her imdb page . A performance so repulsive , you ’re liable to get punch if you bring that movie up on the carmine carpet . And some of the best actor have play some of the mosthideous supervillains .
There ’s just something about doing a supervillain role that brings out the ham — and the cheese — in an otherwise awing performer . Here are 10 glaring example of thespian we love all mortify themselves portray supervillains .
Oh , and before anybody says anything , we ’re using “ supervillain ” slightly loosely here — it ’s not just villains from comic book superhero flick , needs .
10 . James Marsters as Lord Piccolo in Dragonball Evolution
When I first saw this film , I call back thinking that Marsters was one of the best things in it — which is not saying much . But I just rewatched this moving-picture show , because it was Thanksgiving and what else are you going to do ? And I was scandalise by just how terrible Marsters really is in this film . His boldness is immobilized by a hundred layers of latex , and he tries to compensate by act with his voice and body oral communication , and winds up shouting a quite a little and doing weird type O - faces , like when he sits in his orgasmic chairman and releases his compose - up vim skywards . Spike would have some Good Book to say about this tosser .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-sc_sD_tEg
9 . Faye Dunaway in Supergirl
Dunaway is a fantastic actor , but when she decided to toy an evil witch who battles Supergirl for the affections of a motorcar auto-mechanic , she stepped outside her comfort zone . There was belike no way to say lines like , “ One off-key step , Bluebird , and even if you do n’t — your acquaintance will get the point ! ” without sprain every number of sassy evil from it . With her dentition . Dunaway spends a lot of the flick acting vampy and being a cougar before Felis concolor were a matter , but then at the end she unleashes her wind machine and has to get her Eastwick on . Go to about 3:00 in the above TV , and watch for the part where Dunaway hollo in a monotone , “ Power of Shadow , demolish HER ! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YywL43-xu8
8 . Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever
Like Dunaway ’s carrying out in Supergirl , Jones ’ appearance in Joel Schumacher ’s first Batman film dates from an era when amusing - book movies were not read as in earnest as they are today . It ’s actually kind of uncanny to watch a time of Tommy Lee Jones , who can be an amazing histrion when he want to be , prancing around a ridiculous bifurcate circle and discussing the merit of quail testis versus raw donkey nitty-gritty with his two lady friend . It ’s hard to catch even two or three minutes of Jones doing weird soundless moving picture centre movements and puzzle out his mouth like he has the bad case of drymouth in history . You get the effect that Jones was hideously uncomfortable , and determined to go across his discomfort on to everybody .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL5hZQKlmiY
7 . Nick Nolte in Hulk
Gah . You cognize , the idea of focusing on Bruce Banner ’s relationship with his malign don — draw on age of comics storylines by Bill Mantlo and Peter David — is n’t a severe theme . But turning Daddy Banner into the film ’s main scoundrel , who sends gamma - irradiate dogs against the Hulk , is just a terrible musical theme . And just see the above clip , where Nolte goes into a paroxism of snarl and screaming and freak out about the legions of soldiers who impose their petty principle and their tyrannical fustian blah claptrap … As with a plenty of these supervillain operation , Nolte is give ridiculously inflated dialogue : “ contain your wailing , you weak little speck of human trash . ” And then he goes completely wacky with it . you’re able to absolutely think he would attempt to eat up a power line , as he does towards the ending of this clip .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0HSv029rFA
6 . John Malkovich in Jonah Hex
Malkovich is a grand actor , but he ’s had a whole chapter of his career recently where he does these variety of pontifical , facial - tic - clayey , loony performances , include transformer 3 , Mutant Chronicles , Red and Color Me Kubrick . And Jonah Hex is one of his nuttier turn , as Quentin Turnbull , the Southern secessionist who blame Jonah Hex for the death of his Logos and wants to fritter away fireball at the President . This is actually a slightly more guarded Malkovich performance than some of his other late ones , but he still bring the crazy , as he repeat over and over again that he ’s the man who took “ everything you ever love . ”
5 . Thomas Haden Church in Spider - Man III
church service is really one of the least horrifying parts of Sam Raimi ’s third and final Spider - movie . He ’s such a tremendous role player that he does a wad with the meagre stuff he ’s give in this motion picture — but he still ends up getting dragged down . Just check out the cartridge clip at left over . The only affair Church has to go on , playing Flint Marko , is that he ’s a military man who ’s in a portion of pain . So there ’s lots of pester out of the eyes and jutting of the teeth , to indicate “ I ’m in pain in the neck ! ” . And everybody in the audience can understand .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX3hwjvZrm4
4 . Samuel L. Jackson in The Spirit
There are no words . Really . Thank good some kind someone on Youtube has compiled two videos of “ the honest of Samuel L. Jackson in The Spirit . ” Including his Samurai outfit and his Nazi outfit — the latter of which get him to shout “ Achtung ! ” while zany - stepping and talking about conquering the drug trade . Just go to 2:00 in this clip and take in the insane glee with which Jackson says , “ The absent link between science — and magic ! ” . Oh , and then there ’s the smashing bite at 3:50 where he painstakingly explains several time that being the ruler of the world means that “ everybody will have to do what I say . They ’ll all have to do what I say ! ” You do n’t say .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrQrvbvHDg
3 . Tom Hardy in Star Trek : bane
Sigh . Tom Hardy is tang of the month mightily now , for very good grounds — he was brilliant in Inception , and we have every self-assurance he wo n’t earn another spot on this list with The Dark Knight arise . But when he played an malign clone of Jean - Luc Picard , who assume over the surprisingly wimpish Romulan Empire , Hardy reached his low-water mark . Wearing insane shoulderpads and a crazy fatal rubber-base paint supporting players , he transfer a mode that Vila from Blake ’s 7 would call “ Early Maniac . ” Actually , the above TV is interesting — it ’s a equivalence of Hardy ’s screen tryout as Shinzon with the final scene , picture that Hardy ’s original instincts were to play down the use a lot . Someone , probably director Stuart Baird , push him to get a pot more magnified .
2 . Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West
Branagh is a great Shakespearian player , who acquitted himself superbly as the theatre director of this class ’s Thor . And then there ’s his turn in this movie , otherwise jazz as Steampunk ’s most dread time of day . Branagh keeps this weird leer on his face throughout most of the picture , as he trundle around in a ludicrously bogus - front wheelchair and delivers a succession of terrible dialogue . Look at the above scene , where Will Smith and Kenneth Branagh deliver “ clever ” insults base on their several characters ’ slipstream and disablement . And then there ’s the not bad moment where an exploding Abraham Lincoln head flies apart , to reveal a grin Branagh , who shouts , “ This is the future ! ” Wha ?
1 . Joseph Gordon Levitt In G.I. Joe
We could be here literally all day listing all of JGL ’s fantastic execution , include the ultra - challenging cryptic Skin , and ( 500 ) Days of Summer . We ca n’t wait to see him in Looper . But Levitt just totally fails to bring the awesome in the important role of Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe — alongside Christopher Eccleston , who also deserves a space on this listing . Gordon Levitt is the deformed mad scientist brother of the Baroness , who ’s take for granted dead but is actually just skulking around wear upon a bad wig and a masque . Levitt brings a weird growling and magnified sneer to the role , on those rare occasions when we ’re capable to see much of him . It ’s sad , because he ’s over the top and giddy — but he totally flunk to capture the childish rave lunacy of the cartoon interlingual rendition of Cobra Commander . He ’s both too silly and not empty-headed enough . What ’s the point ?
Thanks to Meredith , Cyriaque , Annalee and Alasdair for the suggestions !
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