Worst ever appearance of a musician in a film?

Change of Habit is not a terrible movie, and Elvis gives a perfectly respectable performance.

Or are we just listing musicians in movies now?

 

Change of Habit may actually be Elvis' best acting in a film.

 

Dr. Elvis. Sounds legit.





There's always this...

 

I was going to say Nat King Cole as W.C. Handy in "St. Louis Blues," but I'm afraid this ->

can't be topped.

 

Nope, Flaming Star

Specifically, the "renunciation" scene (" 'The Woman?' Ain't she got a name, like white people?")

 

Another performance I didn't have any big problems with

Watch Roy Orbison in this, then get back to me



Poster FWIW designed by Frank Frazetta

 

I love "Two Lane Blacktop" for it's minimalist, brooding, existential aesthetic.
But even I have to admit that Dennis Wilson and James Taylor are basically talking trees.

 

Thanks, pdenny, but...
I'm honestly don't think I could sit through 100 minutes of a movie where Gene Simmons plays 3rd banana to
the likes of John Stamos and Vanity.

 

Meatloaf in "Roadie".....

 

of all the musicians I've seen in movies I really can't find a worst. but, some were most definitely mediocre.

 

hey! Gene with semi normal hair!

 

Not a 'bad' performance, per se; but sort of a weird one for it's time...from "Beach Party" (1963)
Check out singer Frankie Avalon at around o:51....he's smoking some sort of cigarette,
but he passes it like a joint to his pal Deadhead (so that's how he got his name!)
I mean, nobody passes a tobacco cigarette, what else could it be?

 

yes, I liked the remake better.

 

maybeso, but they were cool to see in the movie back then.

 

This...... ...though I think it's kinda cool at the same time...

 

Bob Dylan in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

 

All those hip hop artists who think they can be actors too! Where do I even begin?!

 

WORST: Yoko Ono in Sweet Toronto



BEST: Marianne Faithfull in Girl on a Motorcycle



extended to TV shows, Tupac on A Different World

 

Toss up between just about everyone who appeared in Tommy

 

It's off topic but - hard as it may be, it would be very easy to do it better than was done in that version. The actors were not the problem. I don't remember (a) Sting being that bad. That still picture doesn't help though.

I don't remember the Bee Gees or any of the other musicians being all that good as actors in Sgt Peppers. It that case it was the actors and the script as I remember (a).

(a) I am NOT going to re-watch either of these to refresh my decades old memory.

 

Guns N' Roses in The Dead Pool.

 

A movie Kate Smith did in 1933 "Hello, Everybody" is supposedly not very good. At the time it was the most expensive movie musical.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024103/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_7

 

I had a feeling that role would get mentioned. Freejack was an odd one, but I thought it worked well enough to watch a couple of times. Jagger wasn't the worst part of that film, and he did OK with a potentially nothing role. Plus, for all you German rock fans, it had Scorpions playing over the end credits.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Robert Zimmerman in Hearts Of Fire.