Don't you think Brad Pitt's is the worst actor ever ??

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Yikes...saw the moving 12 Years a Slave the other night.

Brad Pitt's role is very minor in screen time - and he probably doesn't even have 10 lines. You would think he would NAIL a southern accent (although think he says he spent lots of time in Canada and traveled all over). Not sure what his accent is supposed to be. One time he drifts into Southie speak. Bet he got millions for being in this film.

good thing he's good looking

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Not a fan of his in general

Though I really liked his performance in A River Runs Through it and Spy Game.

And what's the common thread with those two movies? Double R Super Star!


Seeing your point though and it drives me crazy when he gets compared to Redford.

Watch the movie Brubaker . . . I think Reford says 8 maybe 10 words the first 26 minutes of the movie and he's on screen pretty much the entire time -but he's telling you everything that's going on in his face, eyes, body . . . Pitt can't do that.

He's not awful - he's just not in that class.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Think BP was better when he was younger. So true about RR nt

[Trajan]

2. I've enjoyed Brad Pitt's performances ...

Inglorius Basterds is one, well acted role ... Benjamin Button is another

I also enjoy many of Tom Cruise's acting roles, much to the chagrin of DU's super duper critic's class ...

I refuse to let internet critics ruin a good movie, on my behalf ...

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Oh I forgot about Benjamin Button

Yeah - he did a stellar job in that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Not really trying to start a bash-fest of BP - but his accent

in Inglorious Bastards was horrible.

[Howler]

4. i like brad pitt

He was excellent in fight club,kalifornia and I think the name of the movie was 12th Monkee! I will google it to make sure! Ahhhh 12 Monkees !

[SoonerShankle]

21. I still love watching him in

True Romance. I chuckle every time I watch that scene.

And people started naming their sons Tristan after Legends of the Fall.

Pitt is Oklahoma born and Missouri raised, so I'm sure he can find a southern accent doable. But I will forever think of him as Rusty Ryan, his Ocean's 11 character, with food in his hand scene after scene.

[Howler]

22. ooooooooo!

Me too SoonerShankle! I should probably be embarrassed but I loved Pitt in the movie he played death .it also had Anthony Hopkins in it.... O! I think it was called Joe Black or something like that.

[Scootaloo]

5. No, I don't.

I've actually enjoyed quite a few of his roles. Snatch, Interview with the Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Seven, even Cool World, he was good in. And Cool World was absolutely terrible.

But... at some point - I think immediately after Troy - he fell into the same trap as Johnny Depp and Bruce Willis; No matter the role or character, he was told, basically, "Just be Brad Pitt." 'Cause really, you know that in a lot of these, he's being cast just so they can have "Brad Pitt" in the credits. Ten lines in Twelve Years a Slave? That's a waste of a casting... but he's in the credits, so he can be on the poster.

No shit, this is the Italian movie poster!

Chiwetel Ejiofor? Who the fuck is Chiwetel Ejiofor?

And then you have something like World War Z. I will leave aside my disappointments with this movie, for they are many and vast... But just think... would you cast Brad Pitt as the lead in a zombie apocalypse movie> Oh lord! it's dumber than Tom Cruise in a Sci-Fi doomsday movie! At least that cast job had the ironic amusement of Scientology to snicker about.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I had not seen the Italian poster

Ahhh - yeah for International Distribution they generally will make the lesser known a small piece of the promotions - and the 'big global name' huge.

Sometimes at DU (especially amongst us film lovers - we are the worst) we forget the Hollywood/Movie Industry is HUGE. Billions of dollars at stake in down and dirty pictures domestically and abroad. And since he was a Producer of the film - he would have signed off on that promo to make sure he's getting his ka-ching!

[Staph]

8. Brad Pitt was one of the producers of 12 Years A Slave.

According to IMDB (take this with the usual grain of salt), Pitt could only get large funding for the film if he agreed to play a part.

[helenmalone]

40. I agree.

I agree. Even I liked him in Snatch, Seven and Fight Club.

[CrispyQ]

7. He was great in True Romance.

[applegrove]

9. He plays a Canadian in the movie.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. That's what I thought. But his accent sounds southern. nt

[applegrove]

13. They did a story on him in the news in Canada. He was a real person. They even talked to his

descendants still here. He left the family for a long while to work in the United States. Don't know if he ever came back to Canada.

[Pike Bishop]

14. A little too laid-back, but better than most think.

He was excellent in Seven, Kalifornia, Moneyball, and his recent supporting turn in The Counselor. Pitt is a lot like another actor who mostly made it on his looks, Tom Cruise. if you give him the right role, he can shine; if you don't, he fades into the scenery.

[DebJ]

15. Just saw Fury. Very powerful. I thought Pitt was great in it.

But then again, though I have never been one to be gaga over men in movies,
watching him does seem to fascinate me anyway.

[bigwillq]

16. No

I've seen worse.

I actually think he's underrated as an actor. He gets a lot of hype because a lot of folks think he's so dreamy (I think he's a decent looking man, but not my type), but I think he's a pretty decent actor.

[LawDeeDah]

17. I like him. Interview with a Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Fight club

He has done a lot of good acting and choosing good films, imo.

Inglorius Bastards I didn't like so much.
Moneyball was pretty good.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. One critic's take on Pitt in 12 Years.

15) The character, on the other hand, that stands out most in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is Bass, played by Brad Pitt. I saw somewhere that Brad Pitt suffers some disease where he can’t remember people’s faces and from the way his face looks in 12 Years a Slave (lost, blank, zero) I can totally believe it. Even most of the film’s most glowing reviews set aside a caveat for the “misstep” of casting Brad Pitt (one of the film’s co-producers) as Bass:

“The one flaw with “Slave” comes in the form of Brad Pitt’s character, Samuel Bass, and you sense screenwriter John Ridley struggling to further the story along with Pitt’s abolitionist from Canada. While Pitt is fine, his dialogue is stiff, intended to be the bridge for the next development. Fortunately, it doesn’t diminish the film’s overall effect” (Randy Myers in the San Jose Mercury News).

16) Okay, I’m sure you’ll be relieved to hear, now, that I’m joking about Brad Pitt (Bass) being the most memorable character in a movie made of such an ensemble of skillfully-realized characters who either inflict or endure such horrors and evils. (This is a movie, after all, about Slavery). I mean, c’mon, I must be joking. Well, I am not joking. Up to the Pitt debacle 12 Years a Slave had built up quite a bit of gravitas (a kind of dark ice itself) which then gets smashed to pieces by the awkward and laughable Brad Pitt character.

(Pitt is listed as one of the film’s co-producers and how ironic to see the star of the movie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, quoted as follows: “I think the truth is we wouldn’t have been able to make this film without Brad Pitt, because of what he brings.”)

17) Yes, the Brad Pitt/Bass deal is a complete fiasco. As the movie looks to wrap itself up, looks to move Solomon back to his family up North, any continuity of immersion within the narrative (strained at times anyways) is wrecked by Pitt, like a teddy-bear landmine. And most critics are aware of the Pitt disaster (aware also of the movie’s problems as a “movie”) but in an amazing trick of double think (a strange binary) they don’t allow any of this to dull the movie’s Oscar glow at all. (on the contrary, the community of critics as a whole are actively buffing up its Oscar glow).

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. Brad Pitt, while not a great actor, is far from the worst.

In even actors currently working, whose names everyone knows, there are plenty. How about Steven Seagal? Kevin Costner? Vin Diesel? Sylvester Stallone? Yahoo Serious? If I know that Adam Sandler is going to be in a movie, I will not waste my time seeing it. Has anyone ever watched Paris Hilton except in the expectation of seeing her naked?

Among classic films, I give you Ray Dennis Steckler, writer, producer, director and star of The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies. Tom Laughlin (for a movie which preaches nonviolence, Billy Jack is a very violent movie). Rod Steiger gave some terrible performances (see his turn in W. C. Fields And Me -- Billy Barty is also pretty bad in that turkey). I shall just mention the names John Agar and Sonny Tufts, and I shall see you nodding in agreement. And, of course, the worst movie actress of all time, Pia Zadora.

That just scratches the surface.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. He's a movie star, not so much an actor

And that's fine. Some movie stars can bring just as much to the table and drive a film as a good working actor can.

[Blue_Adept]

23. With a $22 million budget...

I doubt he got millions for being an actor in it. A lot of actors do very small parts just to be a part of something, often with little financial involvement.

I suspect that his financial gain from this was because he actually produced the film and invested in it to get it made.

[SMC22307]

24. He's good in "manic" roles like in...

Snatch, 12 Monkeys, and Fight Club.

Thought he did a good job in a River Runs Through It, Seven, and the Oceans' series.

Good-looking, indeed. I remember sitting through the credits of "Thelma and Louise" way back when to see who he was -- definitely made an impression!

[Wolf Frankula]

25. No. Not as Long as There's a Richard Gere

Goes the gamut from smug to smarmy.

Wolf

[clarice]

26. "Snatch" nt

[kairos12]

31. "Do you like daags?" Love that movie.

[clarice]

33. lol. :Always be wary of a man who owns a pig farm" nt

[michaljohnson]

27. Don't you think Brad Pitt's is the worst actor ever ??

No not at all i don't think so that Brad Pitt is the Worst Actor ever. William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American Actor as well as Producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as Three Academy Award Nominations in Acting Categories as well as received. So how can you say that Brad Pitt is the Worst Actor ever in his Career.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. Admit - this was hyperbole - sure there are worst actors than he is. But - had

just seen 12 Years and he stuck out as almost ruining the film.

He, just like Julia Roberts, had good performances early on - Thelma and Louise, Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza - and they are gorgeous. So, the producers thought they were good enough to push on the public for many years after. The public supported them because they were the "it" people. But the acting got worse and worse.

My main problem with Pitt is his overwhelming inability to take on an accent - He is ridiculously bad at it. Think they should just let him talk in his own accent - however anachronistic it is - would be better to explain that than to have him make a fool of himself.

BTW - no one who isn't from Boston should EVER fake a Boston accent.

[ChazInAz]

28. I have a sneaking fondness for him.

The guy's type cast, and can absolutely shine in the right role. "Cool World" is one. My favorites are "Inglorious Basterds" and that idiotic jock in "Burn After Reading". Of course, the latter was an ensemble piece with Dick Jenkins and George Clooney in the mix, so everyone looked good.
One of the worst current stars is Val Kilmer. I was an extra in "Tombstone", and remember his behavior towards anyone who wasn't Val Kilmer.

[ImaPolitico]

30. Brad Pitt is so easy on the eyes….

One of his best movies was (and my fav.) `` "A River Runs Though It," directed by Robert Redford. Have to say, Pitt was pretty good in this movie.

[joshrichiiji]

32. I dont think so

He is a good actor

[trof]

34. No

Ahnold?
Stallone?
Come on.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. Not his biggest fan

but I can't say that he is the "worst actor ever" either.

[aikoaiko]

36. He never really got out of character from Oceans 11.

Rusty Ryan kind of stuck with him thereafter as an actor.

He definitely rose up for certain moments in different films.

[clarice]

37. No WAY !!!! nt

[CrispyQ]

38. He was great in "True Romance!"

[valerief]

39. This is Southie speak.