I have to admit that I'm not capable of recognizing the so-called "poor acting" without someone telling me it is

People are always talking about how a character is being poorly acted or whatever but I always find them to be decent at least. Obviously there are some seriously and obviously bad acting out there but the confusion arises when we enter the mediocrity area.

So how do you identify poor acting?

if the acting breaks immersion its poor

What about in case of breaking the 4th wall (if done well of course)

its usually used for comedy and poor acting makes comedy even better anyway lol

Usually poor acting manifests itself in the form of clunky, awkward dialogue delivery.

For me personally, it's generally something that is immersion-breaking. Hard to put into words, but those moments when you can tell an actor is counting in their head before saying/doing something, consciously making a facial expression that is just slightly out of place in their attempt to convey something that is out of reach for them, etc. As a general rule of thumb, if I believe the actor as the character, forget that I'm watching someone performing, and in perhaps the best cases start to subconsciously view the actor as the character (for better or worse ), they've done a good job.

I see so it comes down to body language, dialogue delivery, and character-actor separation... so to speak.

Over-doing it and/or under-doing it

When Masc4Masc queens try to act straight and put others down who isn't as straight acting as they are.



OT: A good example of poor acting skills is when the character act as if they just recite their scripts as they memorized it, but great acting is when the actor internalize the character they are playing as and you as the audience can really feel it.

Imo, especially with well-known actors and actresses, it's when I forget who they are and they truly become the new character they are playing. That's why Meryl Streep for instance is so great, whereas JLaw kinda goes back and forth with the same kind of acting. Additionally, she shows barely any depth in her work. Her first movie, "Winters Bone", was actually her most ambitious one to date imho.

You just compare them to Kristen Stewart's acting aka if they show the same facial expressions when they're sad, happy, angry or anything else, they're bad

Kristen Stewart has shown a great progression in her latest movies tho. You haven't seen new movies with her in a while, have you?

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I haven't really talked to ATRL about tv shows/movies much. It's just something I noticed people saying throughout the internet in general.

hmm