Better Call Saul

Jeremy Blackman · August 10, 2022, 01:36:30 PM

Quote from: Drenk on August 10, 2022, 01:31:46 PMBryan Cranston's acting makes Breaking Bad unwatchable for me now; I've never thought that what he did was great acting, or even particularly good, but I can't stand it today. It's cringe inducing.

I rewatched Ozymandias recently and it was painful.

What about it is bad? Too exaggerated/theatrical?

Drenk · August 10, 2022, 01:53:24 PM

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on August 10, 2022, 01:36:30 PM
Quote from: Drenk on August 10, 2022, 01:31:46 PMBryan Cranston's acting makes Breaking Bad unwatchable for me now; I've never thought that what he did was great acting, or even particularly good, but I can't stand it today. It's cringe inducing.

I rewatched Ozymandias recently and it was painful.

What about it is bad? Too exaggerated/theatrical?

He's not bad-bad, but his acting is distracting. I should rewatch another episode because Ozymandias is, obviously, very dramatic so he's doing A LOT.

Overacting as a way to be critical about acting never satisfied me because, for example, Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood can be described as overacting, but I find him perfect in this movie.

Cranston is, yes, too theatrical in the sense that he looks like he's playing for somebody at the back of a theater. Every movement is big, every expression is The Expression at its Biggest Intensity (Angry or Sad), and nothing can be simple because this is a Drama. He's like this moment in the Magnolia documentary where PTA parodies PSH.

That said: Walter White being bad at being a "bad guy" (a bad actor in a way) makes it work sometimes.