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by coffee
Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How do you distinguish between “bad acting” and “good acting”?
Replies: 8
Views: 7577

Re: How do you distinguish between “bad acting” and “good acting”?

Because we are not living in the 40's.

This sentence alone doesn't mean much but as a matter of fact this is 21st century. So in technical properties, forget about big budget movies, even weekly TV shows are almost perfect. The industry could produce hi-def films in days and you can't find a glitch, synchronization problem, editing issue or else. There are no dark spots, costumes are not borrowed from the crew, sound is not mono and the list goes on.

There is also no shortage on actors. Thousands of people are studying acting, doing independent work, youtube videos etc. They want to do films. They are in the business. Acting is not a side job now. So of course most of the time we can't find bad acting even in direct to dvd films. Ed Wood days are over.

I believe nowadays, most of the bad acting are results of star thickness. Johnny Depp is bad in the last PotC films. Why? He doesn't care anymore. Or Nic Cage is terrible at some films because of the IRS. An actress doesn't feel right there because she actually wants to leave the franchise and her acting becomes dull... etc.

Other acting problems are actually problems of the movie. "The Martha Abomination" is not an acting problem. It's Zack Snyder's fault, not Ben Affleck or Henry Cavill's. Even a young De Niro couldn't have saved that.