Why do people blame actors for terrible acting? Usually, it’s the writer who has poorly written a scene.

It’s hard to be cool when you’re delivering some of the worst dialog ever. It’s like Star Wars fans who blame Anakin or Jar Jar for wrecking what otherwise could have been okay movies. That’s insane. Because first of all, those movies had no redeeming qualities at all anyway, and those characters were awful because the written poorly.

It’s true, some actors have delivered terrible lines and made them almost non-cringeworthy, but those are only situations where the dialog isn’t important.

A good example is Yakuza (the first game), lots of people blame the voice acting, but it was actually pretty good acting, but they were just saying really ridiculous dialog. It worked for me because the game was ridiculous anyway. The fact there were Japanese street punks and yakuza that were talking like they were straight out of the Staten Island in the mid-80s just made it more awesome.

In short, don’t blame the actors as much as the writers (in most cases).

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