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Most unconvincing make-up in movie history?


Sean Connery disguised as a Japanese fisherman in "You Only Live Twice."

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Brando’s in The Teahouse Of The August Moon was worse.

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Agreed
It was awful

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Yes, it was pretty pathetic.

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Guy Pearce's Old Man Weyland in Prometheus made Thomas F. Wilson's Old Man Biff in Back to the Future 2 seem like the perfect Platonic ideal of an old man.

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If we're talking about old man makeup, how about Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane? As the story goes, Orson Welles took so much time perfecting his own makeup (which turned out AMAZING considering he was 24 years old playing 60+ years) that Joseph only had about 2 hours in the makeup trailer. It looked so bad, Joseph ended up covering half his face for the scene. That's why he's wearing those enormous sunglasses and stupid visor on his head.

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The live-action "Grinch", and "Cat in the Hat".

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Milla Jovovich in re 6

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John Wayne
The Conqueror

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Oh i never saw that but ill take your word
I can only imagine...
'Well, ahm gonna get down to that forum and fix those filthy, rough talkin' pleb'cites real good!'

He really should have stuck to soldiers and frontiersman...that was his bread and butter

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I had to look this up:
'Truly, this man was the son of God'

I have to see this now just to witness a Roman drawl that line and blow the whole scene lol😂

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^ we have a winner

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Well, that or Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer but we are NOT going there

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Too late, we're there ;) Nah, I agree it was a very different world, and Al Jolson's performance is nothing but charming. But somehow I feel like this is total troll bait lol

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This is famously bad too

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Remember, MJ, they used that scene in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" to great effect.

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My children nagged me into it. It's more biographical than a "Martial arts movies." Some impressive scenes to be sure. Lee is portrayed as a more congenial person than he reportedly was. It's serviceable.

The scene: he's dating "Linda" and takes her to see "Breakfast at Tiffany's." The scene with Mickey Rooney pops up of him characterizing an oriental in a very disrespectful manner. The entire theater is laughing to beat the band as the scene plays on. Even "Linda" until she sees "Bruce" flat eared. They leave the theater immediately.

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Great scene (Dragon, not Breakfast)! That's what really woke me up. Before that, I was like "what's the big deal?" After that, "Oh. Ohhhhhh. Yea dude not cool"

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Same with me! Even "Linda" was laughing till she looked over and found him grim faced.

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If you watch Titanic in HD you see a lot of things you wouldn't have in theaters. Most notably, there is a very visible glue line at the edge of Billy Zane's wig for the entire film.

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