Honourable Mention: Dr. Hermann Gottlieb - Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim)
Why They (Almost) Derailed The Movie: Bizarrely Incomprendible Character For the most part,
Pacific Rim delivered on its promise to grant us huge robot versus monsters battles, but there was something about the movie's relentlessly corny tone that made it impossible to love. That's to say, a lot of the main characters were mere cardboard cut outs, spouting dialogue cues that might've felt more at home in
Team America: World Police. And then there's Dr. Hermann Gottlieb, a character that feels heightened to levels that somehow even surpass those inherent to
Pacific Rim's ultimately silly premise. Who thought that possible? Because when this guy, as played by actor Burn Gorman, first appears on screen, doing an impression of an incredibly uptight and bumbling English nerd/science genius, it felt like he'd stepped out of a
League of Gentlemen sketch. Sure, the rest of the movie is imbued with at odds cheesy moments, but Gottlieb felt like he'd been imported from another movie universe entirely.
Rim wasn't derailed completely by him, given that his part wasn't that big, but cutting back to his neurotic shambles time and time again only ever proved to be perplexing.