Great Performances That Saved Bad Movies

[Heptapod]

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What are your top picks for great performances that saved bad movies from being totally unsalvavgeable or uplifted so-so movies above mediocrity? Mine are:

Natalie Portman in Vox Lux

Andrew Garfield in Hacksaw Ridge

Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train

Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins

Jennifer Lawrence in mother!

Alison Brie in Horse Girl

Christian Bale and Amy Adams in Vice

Renee Zellweger in Judy

Cynthia Erivo in Harriet

Emma Thompson in Saving Mr. Banks

Gina Rodriguez in Someone Great

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[Dan Jo Joined: Aug 16th, 2017 Topics: 6 Posts: 804 View Predictions]

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Zellweger saved Cold Mountain.

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[Lil Tony Joined: Sep 17th, 2018 Topics: 8 Posts: 2651 View Predictions]

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Denzel Washington, Roman J Israel Esq

FYC:

Riz Ahmed- Best Actor for Sound Of Metal
Daniel Kaluuya - Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah
Amanda Seyfried - Best Supporting Actress for Mank

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[Stank83]

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Dan Jo wrote:

Zellweger saved Cold Mountain.

Nope.

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[Stank83 Joined: Mar 8th, 2020 Topics: 51 Posts: 967 View Predictions]

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Gary Oldman in pretty much anything he did.

Al Pacino in Danny Collins

Cate Blanchett in Where’d you go, Bernardette?

Micheal Shannon in Nocturnal Animals

 

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[Nate Joined: Jun 5th, 2011 Topics: 6 Posts: 890 View Predictions]

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Diane Lane in Unfaithful.

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 2 Posts: 3278 View Predictions]

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Dan Jo wrote:

Zellweger saved Cold Mountain.

How?! She was literally in another movie…

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[Dan Jo Joined: Aug 16th, 2017 Topics: 6 Posts: 804 View Predictions]

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estrelas wrote:

How?! She was literally in another movie…

The movie is almost uninteresting until Ruby Thewes character showed up.

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[Manuelcolon Joined: Nov 20th, 2013 Topics: 31 Posts: 664 View Predictions]

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Rebecca Hall in Christine.

The movie is not bad bad bad, but she definitely is the soul that makes it interesting and drives the story with her glorious and pitch perfect performance.

Jennifer Carpenter in The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.

A quite typical horror film about an exorcism, but what makes it better than most others is the absolutely amazing performance given by Jennifer Carpenter, one that should be hailed as a classic among horror girls, to me one of the best ever in the genre.

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 63 Posts: 5639 View Predictions]

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I wouldn’t say he saved the movie, but Street Fighter suddenly becomes extremely watchable whenever Raul Julia was onscreen.

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[vinny Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 20 Posts: 75235 View Predictions]

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These probably aren’t first in anyone’s mind but came to mine immediately.
Alec Baldwin – Miami Blues
Jean-Claude Van Damme – Cyborg
Chris Pine – Star Trek
Chris Pine – This Means War
Chris Pine – Small Town Saturday Night
Jean-Claude Van Damme – Hard Target

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[loudtoilet Joined: Feb 19th, 2020 Topics: 2 Posts: 379 View Predictions]

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RDJ Iron Man. The movie maybe wasn’t bad but it was utterly mediocre and RDJ elevated it so much it felt like an above average cape****. Which it really wouldn’t be without him.

That’s pretty standard for Favreau, when he nails casting (The Lion King was a disatser in that department as well as everywhere else). Farrell also saved Elf which would be insufferable without his committed performance.

Hardy saved Venom with his committed performance. Now that’s a flat out bad movie that Hardy made more fun than it had right to be.

Lupita in US. That was not a good movie and there will be time when critics who didn’t dare say it was so will admit it wasn’t good. But Lupita was so great she fooled everyone about the rest. Though whole cast did remarkable job, small standouts being Moss and Wright-Joseph.

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[lady_bird]

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The Lovely Bones was a mess but Ronan and Tucci’s performances were uhhh-mazing.

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FYC

Picture: "Minari"
Director: Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland"
Actor: Delroy Lindo, "Da 5 Bloods"
Actress: Carey Mulligan, "Promising Young Woman"
Supporting Actor: Glynn Turman, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"
Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, "Minari"

"Don't be a Republican" - Lady Bird Ronan

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[karls Joined: Oct 8th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 166 View Predictions]

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Manuelcolon wrote:

Rebecca Hall in Christine.

The movie is not bad bad bad, but she definitely is the soul that makes it interesting and drives the story with her glorious and pitch perfect performance.

Jennifer Carpenter in The Exorcism Of Emily Rose.

A quite typical horror film about an exorcism, but what makes it better than most others is the absolutely amazing performance given by Jennifer Carpenter, one that should be hailed as a classic among horror girls, to me one of the best ever in the genre.

Jennifer Carpenter was outstanding in that movie She should’ve got more recognition for this performance Even an Oscar nomination

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