why do people say he is a bad actor?
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Shiny-NZ — 12 years ago(June 26, 2013 08:40 PM)
(This is just me lazily copy+pasting pythoner's comment because I agree so heartily):
"It happens on every board for every actor, there are always hater, arm chair experts or people who are just giving their opinion. I found him to be a really compelling actor after watching Touching Evil. As much as I love burn notice, TE remains my favorite of his work."
BTW I was also ridiculously impressed by his performance in TE - glad I gave it a chance, I felt so protectively loyal about the original BBC series that I almost didn't. But he was grand. -
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Dobbsysugarmuffin — 12 years ago(July 08, 2013 10:26 AM)
I agree. I think he's a great actor. The fact that he can put on the different accents, tone of voice, and characters just shows his skills. Now, I'm not sure how his acting is outside of Burn Notice because I've never seen anything else that he's been in. I think his reaction to Nate's death was exactly how Michael Westen would have reacted. He cried and he was extremely upset, but his main reaction was anger. He hated Anson and Anson led to Nate's death. After Nate died, the only thing that Michael cared about was revenge, which is how it should have been.
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danhollow — 12 years ago(July 24, 2013 12:54 PM)
I think a lot of people (actors in particular) are jealous of him. So many actors get caught up playing the same character over and over; Jeff gets to create a new character almost every episode of Burn Notice. He gets to try out ever kind of accent, mannerism, and personality imaginable. Any actor would kill for such an opportunity.
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UnderwayOVERPASS — 12 years ago(August 01, 2013 04:39 AM)
I've only seen him in Burn Notice but I'm going to look into his other work because I find him better and better with each episode - the man can also play a character within a character, a task a lot of other actors fail miserably with. I agree with your "above average" comment. I think he's quite good.
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Ithilfaen — 11 years ago(August 12, 2014 08:58 PM)
other than that, i think he is an above average actor.
If your average is Beyonce then sure. Otherwise, then he just sucks. He's not even his (mono)tone of voice, it's his facial expressions. He's just either wooden or overdoing it. No in-between.
The only reason he ever had regular work (thankfully it seems to be over) is he has baby blue eyes and that's enough for some girls to deserve an Oscar
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occams_tazer — 10 years ago(October 14, 2015 11:56 PM)
the only reason that i can think of has to be his tone of voice and the way he talks and responds
yeah, you nailed it, but you could have paraphrased all that by saying "..has to be because he can't act for sh!t"