{"id":2028,"date":"2014-09-29T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2014-09-29T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:20:27","slug":"5-and-a-bit-surprisingly-good-movies-from-supposedly-bad-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/5-and-a-bit-surprisingly-good-movies-from-supposedly-bad-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"5 (and a bit) surprisingly good movies from supposedly bad actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a broken clock is right twice a day, an apparently &#8216;bad&#8217; actor will occasionally star in a genuinely brilliant film.<\/p>\n<p>Take Adam Sandler (who stars in <i>Blended<\/i>, which is released on DVD today), for instance. Although he has unleashed <i>Little Nicky<\/i>, <i>That\u2019s My Boy <\/i>and <i>Jack and Jill<\/i> on the world, he\u2019s also been responsible for <i>Punch Drunk Love<\/i> and <i>Happy Gilmore<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more surprisingly good movies from supposedly \u201d\u02dcbad\u2019 actors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Leaving Las Vegas (and quite a few others) &#8211; Nicolas Cage<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ke6kU0rD8Jg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Poor old Nic Cage is often described as a bad actor, but that\u2019s definitely not the case; he\u2019s just a bit misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>To unlock the full power of the Cage, you just need to cast him in the right role. And for Nic, the right role is always \u201d\u02dccrazy guy\u2019. For example, there\u2019s <i>Vampire\u2019s Kiss<\/i>, where he plays a paranoid young chap who think he\u2019s a vampire. Then there\u2019s <i>Wild at Heart<\/i>, where he plays a crazy outlaw with a thing for snakeskin jackets.<\/p>\n<p>The pinnacle of Cage\u2019s career, though, is <i>Leaving Las Vegas<\/i>. Cage plays a man who decides to literally drink himself to death, which he approached by <a title=\"studying videos of himself getting absolutely hammered in real life\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113627\/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv\">studying videos of himself getting absolutely hammered in real life<\/a>. It worked though, as he won an Oscar for his performance. Yes, Nicolas Cage has <i>won an Oscar<\/i>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Precious &#8211; Mariah Carey<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rx-3jYJkUWQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prior to making <i>Precious<\/i>, famed warbler Mariah Carey\u2019s movie career consisted of one film called <i>Glitter<\/i>. Her performance was so bad that she won the Worst Actress Razzie (which is like an Oscar for bad actors) for her efforts.<\/p>\n<p>And then along came <i>Precious<\/i>. Stripped of make-up and any sign of being a pop star, Carey starred as a big-hearted but beaten-down care worker and turned in an understated but powerful performance. Who knew she had it in her?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Requiem for a Dream &#8211; Marlon Wayans<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgo3Hb5vWLE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Marlon Wayans is best known for movies like <i>Scary Movie 5 <\/i>and <i>White Chicks<\/i>, which is a short way of saying that most critics hate his work.<\/p>\n<p>One movie stands out on his CV, though: <i>Requiem for a Dream<\/i>. Starring alongside acting heavyweights Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly, Wayans more than holds his own as a happy-go-lucky drug dealer for whom things go horribly, horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Having proved he can act, Wayans promptly blew a raspberry at the critics and went back to making bawdy comedies that make loads of money. Good on him!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Everything since 2011 &#8211; Matthew McConoughey<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSLYyPK2vsc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, there was an actor named Matthew McConoughey. He was good-looking and had abs of steel, and so he was cast in lots of romantic comedies where his sole purpose was to take his shirt off. Unfortunately, this led to people called him nasty names like Matthew Mahogany (it wasn\u2019t us, promise).<\/p>\n<p>And then, something amazing happened: McConoughey put his shirt back on and started acting. And he was good at it too! Since 2011, McConoughey has appeared in some great films, including <i>The Lincoln Lawyer <\/i>and <i>Mud. <\/i>His ascent to acting glory has even been given a name: the <i>McConaissance.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The <i>McConaissance<\/i> hit its peak earlier this year, when McConoughey won an Oscar for his performance in <i>Dallas Buyer\u2019s Club<\/i> and universal praise for portrayal of Rust Cohle in <i>True Detective<\/i>. And this was the bloke who starred in <i>Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/i>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>JCVD &#8211; Jean Claude Van Damme<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4z_6UfkQ-c0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Van Damme must hate looking at his Rotten Tomatoes page. It\u2019s an almost constant stream of bad films, with <i>Universal Soldier <\/i>(19%), <i>Street Fighter <\/i>(12%) and <i>Derailed<\/i> (0%) particular low lights.<\/p>\n<p>Take a closer look, however, and you\u2019ll find <i>JCVD<\/i>, which currently has a staggering (for poor Jean-Claude) 83%.<\/p>\n<p><i>JCVD<\/i> sees Jean-Claude take on the role of a lifetime as&#8230;erm, Jean-Claude Van Damme. The Muscles from Brussels plays a fictionalised version of himself, a down-and-out washed up actor who ends up getting involved in a hostage situation at his local post office.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlike anything he\u2019s done before, with the highlight of the film coming when Jean-Claude delivers a 6-minute monologue to the camera about his life, his family and his own failings with all the conviction of an Oscar winner (who happens to be good at kicking people in the head).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Can you think of any films we\u2019ve missed? Tell us in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Got <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/sell-dvds\/\">DVDs to sell<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/start-selling\/basket-media\/\">Get an instant price for them with musicMagpie<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a broken clock is right twice a day, an apparently &#8216;bad&#8217; actor will occasionally star in a genuinely brilliant film. Take Adam Sandler (who stars in Blended, which is released on DVD today), for instance. Although he has unleashed Little Nicky, That\u2019s My Boy and Jack and Jill &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}