Best & Worst of Woody Harrelson

Article by Gabe Zia
So it's Sunday again, and so it's time to once again look at the best and worst of somebody. This weeks film is the highly anticipated third film in the hunger games series, Mockingjay pt. 1. Once again, this film has an all-star cast, with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Doland Sutherland, Julianne Moore, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and of course, Woody Harrelson.

Woody Harrelson is, to say the least, an interesting actor. He's one of those guys who can play both incredibly profound dramatic roles, and ridiculous comedic roles, and he does it seamlessly. So seamlessly that, no matter what role he's in, he seems pretty much perfectly cast. Let me put it this way, very rarely have I looked at a Woody Harrelson performance and thought any other actor should have been cast. That especially goes for his (in my opinion) incredible performance in Zombieland.

With Zombieland, Woody Harrelson took what was a simple zombie comedy, and he made it the iconic and near perfect zombie movie we have now. Woody Harrelson makes every scene in this movie he's in totally awesome, he completely owns the role, he's got great chemistry with Jesse Eisenberg, and most importantly, he gives a really strong performance. He's eccentric, he has a lot of energy, but in a really subtle way, he allows the character to still feel real. The scene where you actually start to learn about his past shows a really powerful performance, and is also kind of heart-breaking.

I'm going to be honest, I had a bit of trouble finding a pick for worst. And although my pick is certainly not a good film by any stretch of the imagination, it's hardly a Woody Harrelson movie, so I'm kind of cheating. My pick for worst is 2012.

This film isn't good. In fact I think it's downright awful. The acting is hammy, the direction is just weird, the plot makes no sense, and neither does the dialogue or the characters. I usually don't bring up plot holes when talking about a film simply because it's like a get out of jail free card, every movie has plot holes, but this is on another level. To put it into perspective, incase you haven't seen the movie, this film has so many plot holes,  and convenient coincidences that just so happen to help the characters, you'd think it was written by Steven Moffat.