Not gonna see anything from Walk Hard on this list. Because that film was a spot on, accurate and fair depiction of the life of Dewey Cox. Absolute masterpiece.
Amelia Earhart... not just the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, she was the 2nd person EVER to do it. only Lindbergh had accomplished it before her.
Everyone was horribly miscast, but considering that it literally killed a bunch of them, I think they deserve a little break from being dogged out on lists like this.
For a director who often tackles historical figures, Oliver Stone must hate history because he’s never met a historical narrative he didn’t turn into near total fiction.
I don't think that's a matter of "hating history" so much as prioritizing a riveting story over accuracy. I think a lot of people who complain about those inaccuracies would reject a movie that was purely factual as a boring trifle.
@@michaelmcdonald8452 I agree. I don’t see his movies as trying to be historical or accurate, but telling an entertaining story first and foremost. Am sure Oliver Stone would disagree but I don’t watch his movies expecting a realistic biopic. I enjoy how mad they are and how intriguing his direction is. Apart from Natural Born Killers….that just gave me a headache
Surprised Monster wasn't in the number 1 spot. The movie portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos as a sympathetic character and portrayed all of the events she lied about as if they actually happened. Like how she killed those men only after they assaulted her. Literally Wuornos herself later admitted she made all of those things up just to try to avoid being convicted... Yet the movie still tried to paint her in a somewhat sympathetic light. Total and utter garbage.
@@magnuskallas Typical that Hollywood would try to make people sympathize with the female serial killer. Imagine if they had done that for Jeffrey Dahmer or someone else.
@@magnuskallas I think the fact you said "great movie" says it all. This wasn't about poor translations from reality to screen, it was about bad movies. It didn't care about accuracy, just about the overall craftsmanship of the movie.
For the most part, the criticisms leveled at these flicks seem less about performance and more about representation, how the characterization was crafted and how the performance was coached and guided. In other words, these are problems of production -- script writing, casting, production design, makeup, direction -- more than they are a product of the actors' performances. In all the cited enactments, I see it as probable that the directors drew out the performances they wanted to present from the script in hand. While I know that some actors may directly influence production, I doubt that was the deciding factor in any of these protrayals, considering how many good actors were involved.
Also, a seriously underapprecitated movie/performance is Rocketman. Talk about spot on 100% across the board. Killer performances and excellent execution of the life of Elton John. It was like watching a Broadway musical of his life on film. Pure brilliance and wonderfully uplifting!
WhatCulture chickened out in its presentation of the problems with J. Edgar. The problem wasn't Leonardo's performance-it was Eastwood's right wing whitewash of Hoover. Clint wanted us to believe that Hoover didn't get married because he didn't want to hurt Clyde's feelings. Horsedoody. J. Edgar was a gay man who hypocritically persecuted other gay men. He was also a vicious, and racist, blackmailer; another historical fact Clint didn't want to talk about.
He's a typical RepubliKlan . Ronald Reagan was one of the worst presidents ever . When he finished his second term America was deep in record debt . Record poverty . Record unemployment . Record homelessness . They talked about the millions of jobs Reagan helped send American jobs overseas and how it screwed up America's economy to Bob Dole and Dole simply replied " It's the crack . " Clinton made America great again when he finished GIS second term : record low unemployment , poverty , and homelessness . American debt GONE .
Donald O'Connor in the title role of "The Buster Keaton Story" (1957). And even though Keaton himself was on the set as a technical advisor he was rarely listened to and the film is more than 50% fiction. John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror" (1956). Nuff said!
Hillary Swank seems to have a fetish for playing characters that eventually die. 'Boys don't cry', 'Million dollar baby', 'Amelia', 'The Hunt', 'Black Dahlia' and many more. She is the female version of Sean Bean.
#1 is spot on ... Heartbreaking 💔 however the actress didnt apologize immediately and did years later. As an actual fan of both women, it was hard to watch.
@@davidrbenoitYeah, just the fact that Zoe originally wrote it off as her "playing a character" Nina was a real person who meant and still means so much to black people because of her music championing civil rights
Good list, but you forgot the Michael Jackson biopic with British actor Joseph Fiennes, best known for "Shakespeare in Love", who probably went into hiding after the movie critics pounced. There may be some kind of record for an actor portraying Shakespeare and Michael Jackson in one lifetime.
Alexander will be forever remembered by me by a statement made by my late best friend. She watched it before me and said " look out for Colin Farrells chunks." They were unceremoniously flashed on screen. I was so grateful for the heads up. 😂
There could be an entire WhatCulture video about inaccuracies in most musical bio pics. Bohemian Rhapsody played down Freddie Mercury's sexuality. The Buddy Holly Story got loads wrong about the title character. La Bamba I'm pretty much against the entire genre. They are all so formulaic.
The only movie worthy of the accolade of bio, and indeed pic, or simply bio-pic, or even, un-hypenated - biopic, is the masterpiece "Walk Hard" - no formulaic cliches, just a bit of blood and guts, bad acting, drug use, out of sequence time events, bad acting, poor musical recreations, bad acting, a hell of a lot of box ticking on the script - everything a biopic needs - "Walk Hard" delivers! Dewey Cox for President 2024!
For a future recording, The Buddy Holly Story, with Gary Bussey. I lived in Clovis N.M. where Holly first started recording music. The movie premiered in my town and people that new Buddy, got up and walked out half way through.
In Meg Ryan's defense,she was trying to stretch as an actor, and she was getting older,and she couldn't be the cute love interest of "When Harry Met Sally"
Meg Ryan has stretched as an actor. I think she's terrific in both Courage Under Fire and When A Man Loves A Woman. A bad performance is just a bad performance.
I think all Biopics are terrible. It takes so much lying and taking liberties with history to make it work dramatically. I hate the genre, give me a really good documentary all days of the week.
I have to disagree with I saw the Light being on here - while I can understand why some people don't like it, I certainly do! Hiddleston gives it his all as do the rest of the cast and the singing is spot-on. Seriously I have listened to those songs back-to-back and it's amazing how much alike they are!
To be fair the Lamborghini biopic had a disclaimer at the end saying they received little to no help from certain individuals or institutions in the making of the movie.
Not sure some of these are bad performances rather than just bad movies... Ashton wasn't great, raising that film to incredible heights, but does anyone think even Michael Fassbender could have saved that film? ;-) The thing wrong with Jobs as a film was Jobs, as a film. Similar to Leo in J. Edgar. I mean, Leo's performance was better than Ashton's in Jobs, but the films were just bad. Hard to judge the actors there...
In the Tuc Pac biopic, the person who played him was the spitting image of Tuc Pac. Can't speak about the movie never seen it. But Demetrius can make a good look celebrity look alike
The movie wasn't that good. They tried to pack so much in the movie and it felt like Demetrius was acting in a high school production of Tupac's life. Even people close to Pac said that there were many inaccuracies depicted in the movie
"The problem with I Saw The Light is that it fails to do justice to Williams' endlessly complex personality." I'm going to go ahead and bet the people who made this video know next to nothing about Hank Williams.
Navi as Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Searching For Neverland I know a Lifetime TV movie hardly counts but I've seen It multiple times and this Interpretation of the late King Of Pop was strange and offputing
You forgot Remi Malek in that HORRIBLE Queen "boiopic". He was terrible. He was obviously in over his head and the writing/directing was trite and insulting to the real life character. At best the whole movie was an after school special...a generic cautionary tale of stardom...cheap and false in regards to who Freddy Mercury actually was. I did not understand how Remi received so much admiration for his performance. It was like a watching a kid playing pretend in his dad's old clothing.
you have Alexsnder in there, a movie which is mostly historical correct and CF performance was quite okay. but you did not include Mel Gibson with Braveheart. A movie where not even the title is correct, coz Braveheart was the name for Robert the Bruce and not William Wallace.
Yes Alexander the Great is actually one of the most factual biopics. I think with Braveheart they put it in everyone of lists like these maybe they just wanted to give it a break. Love Braveheart
I’m really surprised Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson didn’t get to spot. This felt like a list reverse engineered for that to be at number 1. Nina was a good choice too though
@@deeebeee1758 The leaked footage is pretty terrible, but true, it wasn't officially released but it's also 10 performances that got it horribly wrong; so I thought such a performance by a white actor that completely shelved the film would be up there
I’m not the only one who’s noticing that this video is more ragging on actors than anything else, right? Even though they don’t write the scripts, direct the acting, adapt/edit the film….. this guy is literally just ragging on actors
100% disagree of Colin Farrell in Alexander. The character is depicted accurately, and the film (the Final Cut version) is also, mostly historically accurate.
After seeing the clips from the Tupac Shakur movie, it hit me that Mr. Shipp Jr. resembles both Tupac Shakur and Cynthia Erivo in drag. Maybe when Wicked is finished filming, we can get a do-over.
I would nominate Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass". He just wasn't right for the part, and the dyed-white hair and blue contact lenses were ridiculously distracting.
every petrolhead should disown that awful Lambo biopic dishonorable mentions: Johnny Flynn - Stardust US Presidents which were portrayed in The Butler John Travolta - Gotti
That made-for-TV movie about The Beach Boys was atrocious. It made Brian look like a wimp and portrayed Dennis as the band's hero and protector. I loved Denny, but come on!
I saw the lamborghini movie last week! It was a letdown, low budget thing...still interesting but not up to the "ford vs Ferrari" standard...seemed like a made for tv movie...I tought that Lamborghini would put money for it to be as entertaining as the ferrari movie but nope...And i enjoyed "I saw the light", as i am a big fan of Hank William, good movie!
Semi-topical, Agent Elvis was a lot of fun and McConaughy did a good job, but it was pretty uncomfortable how revisionist it was… like not that we were expecting accuracy, but changes like “Elvis wasn’t pro-war propaganda actually” or “Elvis also thought Nixon was a d-bag actually” was… icky.
Cuba Gooding Jr in Radio, a stereotypical cartoonish caricature of a person with a learning disability. The film also packs in 20 years worth of events into a biopic that covers only a few months in real time. Hilariously bad.
I saw jobs I don’t remember not liking it, it was okay, I think it depends on the biopic person too because the Elton John rocket man and the movie about queen don’t interest me, it’s a genre where you have to be interested in the actual person or company
Wait, what? Hank Williams DIED at just 29? And they got TOM HIDDLESTON to portray his life up until that point? I mean, not being funny, but in what universe does he pass for even 29 years old, never mind younger than that?
True, but Hank if you look at his pictures might guess anywhere from 25 to 45 if you did not know. I wouldn't say he was an old 29 per se, but he looked similar to a lot of folk of varying ages.
As an actor, only as an actor, I don't care for Ashton Kutcher. I've started watching things with him in it and can't get through it. Its just my opinion.
DiCaprio is fairly talented. But his performance in Titanic makes me laugh. He looks like a boy trying to be a leading man and he was no where near being able to pull it off.
Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire (1989). I love him as an actor but he played this over-the-top personality…way too over-the-top.
Is this just a lost of bad movies? The title made me think it would talk about, you know, the ways in which the depictions got the person wrong, but this is just a list of "bad bio movies".
Not gonna see anything from Walk Hard on this list. Because that film was a spot on, accurate and fair depiction of the life of Dewey Cox. Absolute masterpiece.
Dewey's downfall was the k'caine..
I support this comment.
If it is a crime to love Dewey Cox then I stand before you Guilty as Charged...!
Dewey proved that child custody should be forced on no man.
It was totally accurate but the whole situation really wasn't fair when you consider that the wrong kid died.
All I know is that John C Reilly as Dewey Cox is by far the most accurate depiction I’ve ever seen. He nailed every bit of it.
Amelia Earhart... not just the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, she was the 2nd person EVER to do it. only Lindbergh had accomplished it before her.
Diane Keaton played Earhart many years ago. It was a TV movie.
What about John Wayne as ghengis Kahn in the coquerer
The classic miscasting.
Everyone was horribly miscast, but considering that it literally killed a bunch of them, I think they deserve a little break from being dogged out on lists like this.
@@Ceares Also, it surely was a product of its time.
Daniele Radcliffe crushed it as Wierd Al. That was, perhaps, the most true to life biopic ever made
That was a blast!
Ashton Kutcher's performance is even more overshadowed by Michael Fassbender's hypnotic turn as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's take on the man.
Really, Ashton is wayyy taller than the depth of his acting.
For a director who often tackles historical figures, Oliver Stone must hate history because he’s never met a historical narrative he didn’t turn into near total fiction.
I don't think that's a matter of "hating history" so much as prioritizing a riveting story over accuracy.
I think a lot of people who complain about those inaccuracies would reject a movie that was purely factual as a boring trifle.
@@michaelmcdonald8452 I agree. I don’t see his movies as trying to be historical or accurate, but telling an entertaining story first and foremost.
Am sure Oliver Stone would disagree but I don’t watch his movies expecting a realistic biopic. I enjoy how mad they are and how intriguing his direction is.
Apart from Natural Born Killers….that just gave me a headache
Surprised Monster wasn't in the number 1 spot. The movie portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos as a sympathetic character and portrayed all of the events she lied about as if they actually happened. Like how she killed those men only after they assaulted her. Literally Wuornos herself later admitted she made all of those things up just to try to avoid being convicted... Yet the movie still tried to paint her in a somewhat sympathetic light. Total and utter garbage.
Yup. That confession destroyed the otherwise great movie and performance.
@@magnuskallas Typical that Hollywood would try to make people sympathize with the female serial killer. Imagine if they had done that for Jeffrey Dahmer or someone else.
@@magnuskallas I think the fact you said "great movie" says it all. This wasn't about poor translations from reality to screen, it was about bad movies. It didn't care about accuracy, just about the overall craftsmanship of the movie.
Add to the list Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly and Angelina Jolie as Marianne Pearl. And Keanu Reeves as young Buddha in Little Buddha.
Angela Jolie putting on blackface to play an Afro Latina was grotesque.
I nominate the mini-series " The Jacksons: An American Dream" for its "rose-colored" adaptation of what was actually a family travesty...
The mini series didn’t exactly shy away from the abuse.
For the most part, the criticisms leveled at these flicks seem less about performance and more about representation, how the characterization was crafted and how the performance was coached and guided. In other words, these are problems of production -- script writing, casting, production design, makeup, direction -- more than they are a product of the actors' performances. In all the cited enactments, I see it as probable that the directors drew out the performances they wanted to present from the script in hand. While I know that some actors may directly influence production, I doubt that was the deciding factor in any of these protrayals, considering how many good actors were involved.
Hmmm. It's easy to blame the main actors but how much of the blame should lie very squarely on the shoulders of the directors?
It's the Star Wars prequels all over again. Blaming the actors for bad writing and bad directing.
@@mandy5549 Yup. You got it in one.
Also, a seriously underapprecitated movie/performance is Rocketman. Talk about spot on 100% across the board. Killer performances and excellent execution of the life of Elton John. It was like watching a Broadway musical of his life on film. Pure brilliance and wonderfully uplifting!
They also made it very clear from the start that it wasn't even going to try to be 100% accurate to real life. Which works in it's favour.
Also, they passed on the god-tier wordplay of naming the Amelia Earhart bio "Air Heart".
How did Amy Adams do a better Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum 2
Because Amy Adams rocks.
WhatCulture chickened out in its presentation of the problems with J. Edgar. The problem wasn't Leonardo's performance-it was Eastwood's right wing whitewash of Hoover. Clint wanted us to believe that Hoover didn't get married because he didn't want to hurt Clyde's feelings. Horsedoody. J. Edgar was a gay man who hypocritically persecuted other gay men. He was also a vicious, and racist, blackmailer; another historical fact Clint didn't want to talk about.
Bingo! Leo did fine. The script just didn’t come anywhere near the truth on what sort horrible person Hoover actually was.
🔥🔥🔥
@@davidrbenoit And it's not the script , it's the way the director misinterpreted it .
He's a typical RepubliKlan . Ronald Reagan was one of the worst presidents ever . When he finished his second term America was deep in record debt . Record poverty . Record unemployment . Record homelessness . They talked about the millions of jobs Reagan helped send American jobs overseas and how it screwed up America's economy to Bob Dole and Dole simply replied " It's the crack . " Clinton made America great again when he finished GIS second term : record low unemployment , poverty , and homelessness . American debt GONE .
first of all j edgar hoover was a douchebag period
John Travolta as John Gotti (2018). Need I say more?
Totally forgot about Gotti. Great call!!
Oof. That was a bad adaptation of Goodfellas.
Donald O'Connor in the title role of "The Buster Keaton Story" (1957). And even though Keaton himself was on the set as a technical advisor he was rarely listened to and the film is more than 50% fiction.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror" (1956). Nuff said!
Hillary Swank seems to have a fetish for playing characters that eventually die. 'Boys don't cry', 'Million dollar baby', 'Amelia', 'The Hunt', 'Black Dahlia' and many more. She is the female version of Sean Bean.
#1 is spot on ... Heartbreaking 💔 however the actress didnt apologize immediately and did years later. As an actual fan of both women, it was hard to watch.
Definitely heart wrenching. I’ll admit because of this film I’m no longer a big fan of Saldana. Just can’t do it.
@@davidrbenoitYeah, just the fact that Zoe originally wrote it off as her "playing a character" Nina was a real person who meant and still means so much to black people because of her music championing civil rights
Good list, but you forgot the Michael Jackson biopic with British actor Joseph Fiennes, best known for "Shakespeare in Love", who probably went into hiding after the movie critics pounced. There may be some kind of record for an actor portraying Shakespeare and Michael Jackson in one lifetime.
Alexander will be forever remembered by me by a statement made by my late best friend. She watched it before me and said " look out for Colin Farrells chunks." They were unceremoniously flashed on screen. I was so grateful for the heads up. 😂
Hugh Jackson as PT Barnum should be #1 on this list hands down. A total fabrication of history. Hugh is likable, PT was not.
While I agree these movies weren't great I would have like objective reasons instead of subjective ones
Right? Some of these movies and performances were actually ok or better.
They’re movies, criticism will always involve opinion.
@webed4hta i get that but I was expecting historical errors like stuff done in a movie that never happened in the real life of the person
Tom Hiddleston was absolutely amazing as Hank Williams Sr. Why he is on this list is beyond me.
When he said "got it horribly wrong" I thought he was talking about historical accuracy. But no... he just hated all the actors.
Hiddleston sang pretty well I thought.
i mean. sure, he's no HW, but still.
You forgot Jason Scott Lee as Bruce Lee in "Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story". An absolutely atrocious film from start to finish !
So weird that everyone but him is good
Actually , it wasn't that bad . It was ok
Loved it as a kid havent seen it in 20 plus years though
There could be an entire WhatCulture video about inaccuracies in most musical bio pics.
Bohemian Rhapsody played down Freddie Mercury's sexuality.
The Buddy Holly Story got loads wrong about the title character.
La Bamba
I'm pretty much against the entire genre. They are all so formulaic.
Spinal Tap is clearly an exception, with Fear of a Black Hat right behind...
Bro pronouncing tupac like "2 pack" is killing me lmao
They never seem to look up at how to
The only movie worthy of the accolade of bio, and indeed pic, or simply bio-pic, or even, un-hypenated - biopic, is the masterpiece "Walk Hard" - no formulaic cliches, just a bit of blood and guts, bad acting, drug use, out of sequence time events, bad acting, poor musical recreations, bad acting, a hell of a lot of box ticking on the script - everything a biopic needs - "Walk Hard" delivers! Dewey Cox for President 2024!
For a future recording, The Buddy Holly Story, with Gary Bussey. I lived in Clovis N.M. where Holly first started recording music.
The movie premiered in my town and people that new Buddy, got up and walked out half way through.
John Travolta, "Gotti".
In Meg Ryan's defense,she was trying to stretch as an actor, and she was getting older,and she couldn't be the cute love interest of "When Harry Met Sally"
While watching Top Gun: Maverick, I half expected her to cameo as Roosters mom, but I guess some roles really are one-&-done!
They should blame the director
Meg Ryan has stretched as an actor. I think she's terrific in both Courage Under Fire and When A Man Loves A Woman. A bad performance is just a bad performance.
@@Ceares agree totally,.
I think all Biopics are terrible. It takes so much lying and taking liberties with history to make it work dramatically. I hate the genre, give me a really good documentary all days of the week.
I have to disagree with I saw the Light being on here - while I can understand why some people don't like it, I certainly do! Hiddleston gives it his all as do the rest of the cast and the singing is spot-on. Seriously I have listened to those songs back-to-back and it's amazing how much alike they are!
To be fair the Lamborghini biopic had a disclaimer at the end saying they received little to no help from certain individuals or institutions in the making of the movie.
You totally missed that disgusting Bowie biopic
Agreed. Matter of fact I can not think of many rock star biopics that are not embarrassing, and formulaic.
I hope a follow up is done for Flex playing Michael Jackson. The single worst biopic performance of all time.
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison
Mel Gibson as William Wallace
Kurt Russel as Elvis Presley
Anson Boon as John Lydon
Chopper Reid as Chopper Reid
Not sure some of these are bad performances rather than just bad movies...
Ashton wasn't great, raising that film to incredible heights, but does anyone think even Michael Fassbender could have saved that film? ;-)
The thing wrong with Jobs as a film was Jobs, as a film.
Similar to Leo in J. Edgar. I mean, Leo's performance was better than Ashton's in Jobs, but the films were just bad. Hard to judge the actors there...
Tom Hardy as Al Capone was... not good
neither was Harvey Keitel as Mayer Lansky
Stalls like someone broke the keys in the ignition?? Yikes
I think it would be harder to find 10 accurate portrayals in biopics.
Angela Bassett in what's love got to do with it. Her performance is outstanding, even though the movie is formulaic.
In the Tuc Pac biopic, the person who played him was the spitting image of Tuc Pac. Can't speak about the movie never seen it. But Demetrius can make a good look celebrity look alike
The movie wasn't that good. They tried to pack so much in the movie and it felt like Demetrius was acting in a high school production of Tupac's life. Even people close to Pac said that there were many inaccuracies depicted in the movie
"The problem with I Saw The Light is that it fails to do justice to Williams' endlessly complex personality."
I'm going to go ahead and bet the people who made this video know next to nothing about Hank Williams.
Navi as Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Searching For Neverland I know a Lifetime TV movie hardly counts but I've seen It multiple times and this Interpretation of the late King Of Pop was strange and offputing
Yeah, also if they are doing bad performances of the King of Pop it is hard not not mention Joseph Fiennes playing him in an unaired TV episode.
I knew that "I Saw the Light" was going to be a dud when they completely skipped over Hank's relationship with Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne.
You forgot Remi Malek in that HORRIBLE Queen "boiopic". He was terrible. He was obviously in over his head and the writing/directing was trite and insulting to the real life character. At best the whole movie was an after school special...a generic cautionary tale of stardom...cheap and false in regards to who Freddy Mercury actually was. I did not understand how Remi received so much admiration for his performance. It was like a watching a kid playing pretend in his dad's old clothing.
Agreed. The movie was trash that many inexplicably loved. Or pretended to.
I already don't get your first point. What did she do wrong? You just didn't like her? Why?
I'm not watching the rest.
you have Alexsnder in there, a movie which is mostly historical correct and CF performance was quite okay. but you did not include Mel Gibson with Braveheart. A movie where not even the title is correct, coz Braveheart was the name for Robert the Bruce and not William Wallace.
Yes Alexander the Great is actually one of the most factual biopics. I think with Braveheart they put it in everyone of lists like these maybe they just wanted to give it a break. Love Braveheart
@@solidsnake3962 The break is not earned! 😀
and yeah.... I like the movie too, but as a historian I run amok. 🙂
I never saw Hiddleston as Hank Williams but from that thunmbnail he'd be a great pick to play Phil Ochs.
Why is the depiction of Alexander's sexuality OTT? Because he was gay? Maybe be a bit less homophobic? There was barely any of that onscreen.
Cuba Gooding junior was the worst choice to play OJ.
This is a good list, but the worst performance was you butchering the pronunciation of “Inisherin” haha. It’s pronounced “In-Ish-Sharon”
I though Demetrius did great as Tupac, the only thing he seemed to lack was the intensity. But how can you say it was bad but give no explanations?
I’m really surprised Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson didn’t get to spot. This felt like a list reverse engineered for that to be at number 1. Nina was a good choice too though
That movie was never released so I'm really surprised that you know enough about it to think it should be on the list, since you never saw it.
@@deeebeee1758 The leaked footage is pretty terrible, but true, it wasn't officially released but it's also 10 performances that got it horribly wrong; so I thought such a performance by a white actor that completely shelved the film would be up there
Flex Alexander as MJ was a poor choice as well
All of the car puns were giving me heartburn…. 🤦
Five fucking Iconics in 11 minutes!!
find me 10 that DIDN'T and I'd be impressed. Not one. Ten.
This video is horribly vague. You basically say they didn't do it too well, but with zero specifics or examples.
I’m not the only one who’s noticing that this video is more ragging on actors than anything else, right? Even though they don’t write the scripts, direct the acting, adapt/edit the film….. this guy is literally just ragging on actors
100% disagree of Colin Farrell in Alexander. The character is depicted accurately, and the film (the Final Cut version) is also, mostly historically accurate.
After seeing the clips from the Tupac Shakur movie, it hit me that Mr. Shipp Jr. resembles both Tupac Shakur and Cynthia Erivo in drag. Maybe when Wicked is finished filming, we can get a do-over.
I would nominate Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in "Black Mass". He just wasn't right for the part, and the dyed-white hair and blue contact lenses were ridiculously distracting.
Mishap is subjective.
I imagine the coconut crabs were delighted.
every petrolhead should disown that awful Lambo biopic
dishonorable mentions:
Johnny Flynn - Stardust
US Presidents which were portrayed in The Butler
John Travolta - Gotti
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama!!!
Amelia Earhart is the most famous aviator of all time? So Lindbergh and the Wright brothers are jokes to you?
That made-for-TV movie about The Beach Boys was atrocious. It made Brian look like a wimp and portrayed Dennis as the band's hero and protector. I loved Denny, but come on!
Bohemian Rhapsody should be number 1 cuz it's literally almost all fiction.....that being said Rami Malek was great as Freddie.
I thought Swank was quite good as Amelia Earhart.( Decent movie as well, Imo anyway👍)
Agreed completely.
Who would have thought a black person in blackface ends up as number one.
Demetrius Shipp Jr. was not bad as Tupac IMO. The movie wasn't that good though.
I haven't seen any of these and it's just as well. They're all about people I have no interest in or have had better films made about them.
Buddy Holly didn’t play a Telecaster like Busey did
I saw the lamborghini movie last week! It was a letdown, low budget thing...still interesting but not up to the "ford vs Ferrari" standard...seemed like a made for tv movie...I tought that Lamborghini would put money for it to be as entertaining as the ferrari movie but nope...And i enjoyed "I saw the light", as i am a big fan of Hank William, good movie!
Semi-topical, Agent Elvis was a lot of fun and McConaughy did a good job, but it was pretty uncomfortable how revisionist it was… like not that we were expecting accuracy, but changes like “Elvis wasn’t pro-war propaganda actually” or “Elvis also thought Nixon was a d-bag actually” was… icky.
6:06 I dont get it
Kutcher did a descent job, pardon the pun. Pun on the last name Jobs
The recent Hulu streamer Pistol should be on this list
The only good Sex Pistols movie IMHO was Great Rock n Roll Swindle
Cuba Gooding Jr in Radio, a stereotypical cartoonish caricature of a person with a learning disability. The film also packs in 20 years worth of events into a biopic that covers only a few months in real time. Hilariously bad.
I saw jobs I don’t remember not liking it, it was okay, I think it depends on the biopic person too because the Elton John rocket man and the movie about queen don’t interest me, it’s a genre where you have to be interested in the actual person or company
Wait, what? Hank Williams DIED at just 29? And they got TOM HIDDLESTON to portray his life up until that point? I mean, not being funny, but in what universe does he pass for even 29 years old, never mind younger than that?
True, but Hank if you look at his pictures might guess anywhere from 25 to 45 if you did not know. I wouldn't say he was an old 29 per se, but he looked similar to a lot of folk of varying ages.
Hank did NOT look young. He was in chronic pain, had medical issues, and thats before drinking
Tom doesn't look 29, but neither did Hank, so 🤷🏼♀️
Is this about the acting? The historical accuracy? These are vague criticisms. Not a lot of insight here.
Sat through the entirety of J. Edgar, and Leonardo Di Caprio never did put on ladies underwear. Very disappointed 😞
Hey, Naomi Watts was good as Diana
As an actor, only as an actor, I don't care for Ashton Kutcher. I've started watching things with him in it and can't get through it. Its just my opinion.
Script by ChatGPT? Hope you get paid well for reading this crap out loud.
How dare you besmirch the Grillo name! (my last name, also)
It sounded like you went Manchurian Candidate when you called DiCaprio "one of the finest and most naturally gifted performers of his generation."
DiCaprio is fairly talented. But his performance in Titanic makes me laugh. He looks like a boy trying to be a leading man and he was no where near being able to pull it off.
@@Nicksonian "He looks like a boy trying to be a leading man"-Every DiCaprio performance post Titanic. I've never gotten the hype about him.
How about Margot Robbie as Tonia Harding, she looks so old and it's ridiculous how she tryes so hard to look like a teenager.
I would add Ana de Armas to the list for Blonde, she made Marilyn Monroe so unlikable 😑
Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire (1989). I love him as an actor but he played this over-the-top personality…way too over-the-top.
I know you're British but who the hell is Two Pack? The irony of your pronunciation on a vid about getting it horribly wrong is horribly wrong.
Great Balls of Fire: Absolutely awful.
It was the story that Jerry Lee Lewis wanted to be told about himself.
Is this just a lost of bad movies? The title made me think it would talk about, you know, the ways in which the depictions got the person wrong, but this is just a list of "bad bio movies".
Would Frank Grilli work as John Gotti?
Nah mate
They don't look even remotely alike. Gotti was a portly gray haired little pyscho
Travolta looks more like him but is a garbage actor. Grillo would be good as like Albert Anastasia the Mad Hatter or someone along those lines
The Freddie Mercury biopic simplistic trash, with that baggy-eyed actor whose name I can't recall. Also, Seth Rogan as Steve Wozniak? Crap.
Kristen Stewart was absolutely terrible as Diana.
Try to get someone to give you an alternative to 'Iconic'.To think you talk of lazy writing!