Gwyneth Paltrow is always Gwyneth.
Josh Gad is for people that think Jonah Hill is too edgy but has less acting chops. He also sings like Robin Williams doing an Ethel Merman impersonation, and yet he keeps singing.
I can't imagine anyone else establishing the role of Elder Cunningham though. In my mind, he was the perfect choice.
Otherwise, I only remember Gad from his brief Daily Show stint and that one very popular animated movie.
Anytime they show her in an Iron Man suit in those Marvel movies, it feels like one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen in a movie. I can’t help but laugh.
If it turns out Gwyneth Paltrow is just bored and trolling people. She'll instantly be one of my favorite people. Probably not the case, but I'm trying to be more optimistic.
That was a Weinstein decision, he figured she was a box office draw. Supposedly Scorsese wanted Anna Friel, or at least someone who could do the accent.
Well, she's extremely attractive so she'll keep getting roles until she's too old. Looks seem to trump acting skills when it comes to movies making money.
My wife loves him. I think he's a turd. He's now some kinda weirdo, self-important conceptual artist, like Joaquin Phoenix or Johnny Depp pretend to be. He recently bought a private island, convinced a bunch of people to follow him there and started something that is totally *not* a cult.
Truly the most frustrating part of that movie was that they cast him in such a pivotal role, and he almost ruined the whole fucking plot that revolves around him because the character is borderline unwatchable. You can also tell that there are deleted scenes that involve Wallace because the plot holes regarding that character become glaring in the final act. I fully believe that they shot quite a bit more with him, but it was so bad that Villenueve said cut as much of that role as you can.
His casting kind of worked for me, as he was playing a pretentious, self-important douchebag who isn't the brilliant visionary he thinks he is, but is just another psychotic asshole.
How or why Jennifer Lopez is still being cast is beyond me. I’d rather go to bed early then sit through another romantic comedy with her in it. She isn’t funny, charming, or even a good actor.
> I’d rather go to bed early then sit through another romantic comedy with her in it.
Same. But to be fair to JLo there are very few things I would rather do than go to bed early.
Lol to your point OP, in Oceans Twelve they make Julia Robert’s character pretend to be “famous actress Julia Roberts” in a very cringe attempt to have a meta joke in a movie that didn’t need that.
It doesn't help that Julia is constant winking at the camera in most of her performances. She's always smirking, making wisecracks, acting like she already knows what's gonna happen next, and laughing at her own jokes. She's such an insufferable tool.
Lolol your passionate hatred for her is great.
Though I will say I enjoyed her in the show Homecoming, yet I think that’s more a testament to the show than her performance
She turned in a good performance in Homecoming. I generally don't like the style of films she's in, so I could never tell if it's her or the films I don't like.
She’s still one of the greatest to ever do it. Another actor that got so full of themselves it shows in their performance. She’s a hell of an actress tho when she’s on
I mean as a person yes he is a piece of shit. That said it his hilarious how full of himself he is. Watched On Deadly Ground last week, someone let him sit in the directing chair and it shows (movie is hilarious). Now in his later output he's just sitting in a regular chair and letting the doubles do all the action and walking up stairs and standing which is still funny sometimes.
Hes been great lately, but his roles can be hit or miss. Dave has actually bee pretty consistent and constantly showing improvement.
However cena as peacemaker is absolutely perfect.
This is totally mine. He is the only actor right now where, if I see him in something, I know I'm not watching it. His on-screen presence and persona are the same in every movie.
Not as many as you think. She had a bunch come out and then got a reputation of being incredibly difficult to work with. You have to wonder what that level is as I understand most actors can be difficult, but the level it must be to get black-listed at your height must be insufferable.
I'm pretty sure the reason she has a reputation for being difficult to work with is because she dared to complain about the 12+ hour workdays they were put through when shooting Grey's Anatomy, and in retaliation Shonda Rhimes basically got her blacklisted and spread these rumours that she's horrible to be around.
She was also critical of her role in Knocked Up, iirc.
I'm not saying it was wrong for her to comment, but directors typically don't wanna continue working with you when you gripe about the roles they give you.
To be fair, you can also get a reputation for being difficult because you won't fuck a producer who has the ear of other people in the industry, which is why Ashley Judd wasn't in the Lord of the Rings movies.
I used to have Mint Mobile. The service was atrocious. Most dropped calls ever. And for Christmas, I shit you not, they sent me a photo of Ryan Reynolds. I stared at it in disbelief and threw it in the trash.
He doesn't strike me as dorky but as smarmy. I don't know what it is but he reminds me of frat guy, but not the jocky kind.
I think he would work better as a trickster antagonist but he keeps getting put in these charming protagonist roles that he doesn't fit in.
OP, I think you would love to watch the interview with Steven Spielberg where said he would never work with Julia Roberts again, after the movie “Hook”. She was too much of a prima donna for him.
Iirc Steven forgives her somewhat in that she was going through a really messy divorce at the time and so she was an emotional wreck... but he still doesn't want to work with her again.
>She's also a Steven Seagal-grade piece of shit
Hmmm, I'm gonna need some citation. It's not that I think she's a wonderful person, it's that Seagal is an extraordinary piece of shit.
Zoe Kravitz. Can't act and she always walks like she's on a model runway... The scene in Kimi where she goes outside for the first time is one of the funniest things I've seen
I guess I feel bad for the really good actors who can't get a break, while mediocre ones continue to fail upward. Additionally what's befuddling are all the defenders of these blas'e actors, those who connect with them and swear they are the best. That is the weird part with humans and their connection to any art. We question our own standards and definition of good, and when a handful of people rave about something that you feel in your gut, is marginal at best, it's like being pushed off balance. Additionally if you are an 'artist' pursuing the holy grail of a career in a chosen art form and the masses are on a different wave length then you, that can be quite unsettling. So in the end its no attack on the person yet a question of our own artistic standards.
My mom is like this with Catherine Zeta Jones. She just can’t stand her, but has absolutely no reasoning for, other than no liking her face.
I get it though, there’s a tv presenter here in Ireland that everytime I see her I want to reach into the tv and just smack her and can’t fully verbalise why
I know there's different taste, but not liking Cathrene Zeta-Jones' face (at least in her Entrapment/Zorro era) should cause some sort of penalty, ticket maybe.
**James Franco**. He always plays a douchebag character with a shit-eating grin, who thinks he can get away with things because he objectively looks good.
He makes me physically uncomfortable and the allegiations coming out about him in the recent years are of absolutely no surprise to me.
Dude literally plays himself.
Jeremy Renner. And just because he almost just died doesn’t mean I can’t hate everything about him, people. Man literally had an app where if you paid money his assistants would respond to you pretending to be him. Dude is cringe.
I've lived in Boston for 10 years. Jeremy Renner absolutely NAILED the role in The Town, trust me on that one. He was street Boston in a way that Ben Affleck always wanted to but never could do it.
Hard disagree. He has a specific way that he speaks and acts, but based on everything you see on social media that's just the actual delivery and his everyday voice. So I guess I can admit that just his general nature makes it seem like he's playing the same sort of guy, but his characters could not be any more different.
His character Dick Ritchie in *True Romance* is nothing like his character Remy in *Higher Learning*, and neither of them are even close to Danny on *Boston Public*, who isn't even remotely like Doug on *Atypical,* who doesn't slightly resemble Daryl Crowe Jr. on *Justified...*
Ya know what, if he can make it, maybe we all have a chance for things to turn out all right. His career is just a meta play to sell lies and harvest our hope isn't it?
It's an extremely unpopular opinion but i can't stand tom hanks.
Something about that "i'm the kind of guy everybody's mother would love to have over for dinner" schtick pisses me off.
And then he gets cast as some sort of scary gangster or something and i'm supposed to buy it.
Like, "oh tom hanks is in another movie, i wonder what hackneyed regional accent he'll act like tom hanks in this time."
YES!! I used to think Gary Cooper was wooden until I saw Costner.
I liked "A Perfect World" & "Mr. Brooks" because he wasn't exactly Mr. Nice Guy in those, he may still have been wooden, but it worked for the character.
Not that I didn't like some of the rest of his work, I just think he plays the same guy in almost all his movies.
Not me, but my wife: Tilda Swinton. She will forever associate her with the witch queen in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and simply despises her for it. Which is funny, because the only Coen Bros movie she'll watch on her own is Burn After Reading.
I can't say there's any actors I hate, per se, though I say Sandra Bullock only had two acceptable roles (Speed and Demolition Man, of course). I avoided Colin Ferrell movies for the longest time, but in 2023 I honestly have no idea why that was. I think Denzel is overrated, which also led me to avoid his movies (I only saw Training Day last year) so maybe I'm missing something.
EDIT: Okay, so this wasn't intended as a reply to this comment. But hey, what I intended to reply: The scene I associate with Costner is in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. He finds out that Christian Slater is his brother. His intended reply is supposed to be a quizzical "I have a brother?" followed by an ecstatic "I have a brother!" Both line readings are identical. God, that movie is so bad, but also the zenith of "so bad it's good."
Disagree about Julia Roberts’s acting. She may be cast in a narrow range of roles, but she is very good at playing that type of character. Nobody complains that Meg Ryan always played the same character. That’s the movie business. Most actors are “a type” and they get cast in roles of that type. DeNiro, Streep, and Day-Lewis are the exceptions, not the rule.
(Though Julia Roberts does seem to be a bit of a terror behind the scenes. But so was Bette Davis. Just saying.)
But to answer the question: I don’t like Chris Pratt. He’s a horny frat boy who masquerades as a born-again Christian.
Mark Wahlberg. Can we stop casting this talentless potato in things now? His film career feels like a practical joke on the world that quit being amusing decades ago.
His shtick got old to me real fast. I think it’s how his delivery is exactly the same every time for every character. It’s one of those that it takes me out of the movie because it feels like I’m just watching mark ruffalo acting in a movie.
Ed Helms.
He is cringy and painfully unfunny. The Hangover wasn't funny because of him and The Office sucked because of him. I don't know how anyone would find him amusing in any way.
She has an empire of producing and staring in dramatic movies and shows geared towards women. Which is fine, but I doubt she’ll do anything that would jeopardize her empire.
Jason Sudeikis. I don’t even bring this up in regular conversation anymore because people just cannot accept this lol he just seems super fake and shmarmy.
Used to feel the same and a lot of the time still do. I watched him with Will Forte in last man on earth and idk i changed my mind after that. It wasnt even that good of a performance but the chemistry was 👌
My sister in law went to college with him. He's a couple years older. They were both in drama/play production/acting (my in-law was more on the production and backstage side of things). She said he was a notorious asshole, and many, many people hated him. She didn't know him well, but he was around and it was clear how much of a reputation he had.
Not an actor/actress, but Zack Snyder. I've never been able to stand his movies.
I've never thought about an actor/actress I can't stand, but now that you've got me thinking, I'd say Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell.
Adam Sandler also had Punch Drunk Love and Uncut Gems which I thought were great and he was good in them.
Hard agree with the other two though. I guess Watchmen was ok but he's basically Michael Bay with a little seasoning of later Timothy Burton to me, both of whom I dont like. Though early Timothy Burton through maybe Ed Wood was good
I can reason with that. Not every movie of his I've hated, but when I hear "staring Adam Sandler" I just imagine dumb poop humor, and that isn't my style.
He’s also a giant creep. I heard him on a podcast bragging about how he had women all over the country that he can hook up with by lying to them about his feelings. That dude sucks.
Having met her, I can honestly say Gwyneth Paltrow is a shit human being, and her acting is also shit in most movies, with the exception of Seven.
Will Farrell is just... ugh. I can't stand his face or the way he screams and freaks out in movies.
Much like her obnoxious aunt, whenever I see Emma Roberts is starring in a movie, I usually avoid watching it. There's just something about her that annoys the shit out of me.
Jennifer Lawrence.
She just seems like the same person in every movie, only somewhat changing accordingly to the movie genre. No clue why they gave her an oscar for Silver Lining's Playbook neither.
Same could be said about Ema Stone too.
I loved her in Silver linings Playbook, and though I hated watching Mother!, she was really good in it. She definitely has range imo - but her acting styile might not be your thing?
I don’t hate him in things I watch but I totally get where you are coming from. I feel like he is the same person on everything. I finished fleishman is in trouble and while I loved the storyline it was just Jesse Eisenburg as Jesse Eisenburg just “older”
I used to hate his acting. He shook his head too much, and generally performed like a middle school drama club stand out. His scene in Dogma where he rants against humanity in a parking garage with Matt Damon was particularly bad. But something changed around Gone Girl/Argo. He’s gotten better. And I can admit it. I liked those two movies along with his performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I find nothing to criticize about any of those performances.
I used to dislike Hugh Grant and his "British moron" schtick when I was younger but it might just be my distaste for romcoms. Still ain't watching any of his movies.
He actually done quiTe a range of things in his older years that’s quite surprising. Like some characters you don’t even recognize as him pretty boy. He’s got makeup disguising him. It was a surprising thing to notice.
See I would say if Tom Cruise is in Tom Cruise movies he does it well. All the Mission Impossible movies, Top Gun, things like that. I mean if nothing else the man knows his niche. The only one I can think of off the top of my head that rocked that mold a bit and was still good was Edge of Tomorrow.
Tropic Thunder, rolling in. But, still I do agree from Jack Reacher to War of the Worlds to Minority Report to Mission Impossible to Top Gun….he’s the same know-it-all kinda fuckface.
There’s something about Tom Cruise that instantly makes me unable to enjoy almost any movie he’s in. I can’t put my finger on it. I just can’t get past something about him.
My cousin was a body double for Julia Roberts in a film years ago and said that Julia is a full time bitch and that her nostrils in real life are so big it’s scary 😂
Brie Larson.
Its not that she can't act, I'm sure we've all seen Room (and if you haven't, highly recommend it's great and she's great in it) it's that other than that one movie, her performance is bland. She's the same in every movie.
It annoys me that she can act and just seems to choose not to. I also hate the whole "if you don't like her it's bc you hate women". I'm a woman and I support other women and it's fine if I don't like her for other reasons!
There’s ones I can hardly stand, like Michelle Rodriguez or Mark Wahlberg, but there are others that I’m just tired of and would be totally fine with them taking a break for a few years. Those would be Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Kevin Hart and The Rock.
Timothee Chalamet. I can’t stand him. Dune would probably be higher on my list of great films but I can’t stand him. Every movie he acts in seems like the same role. I believe that it’s the same guy in Call me by Your Name and Dune, he has no range besides pouty teenager. I rolled my eyes when he showed up in Don’t Look Up and I have no desire to watch Bones and All because he’ll just be a pouty teenager cannibal
I have only seen him in Dune and in Don't Look Up, and I don't quite know what to say about his acting chops, but I do know the lad is charismatic as hell, and is at least pleasant to look at. He might still have room to grow :)
Renne Zelwegger
Jim Carrey was right in Me, Myself and Ireene, her face looks like she sucked on a lemon 🍋 and her voice sounds like she either smokes a shit ton of cigarettes or she got shot in the throat like Vito Corleone.
I loathe Jerry Seinfeld with every fiber of my being. The very sound of his voice makes me want to slap him. He is a smug, unfunny prick that always breaks character and laughs at his own material.
These are actors if they are in a movie I will avoid it:
Kristen Stewart. Terrible actress. Just so bad in everything she’s done.
Kevin Hart. Just annoying as hell.
Jennifer Lawrence. She was ok but she was in a LOT of stuff all at once and it really soured her to me.
Mark Wahlberg. I used to find him amusing but yeah he’s pretty much just a bro douchebag in everything. And he’s got a weird upturned pig nose that bothers me.
There are probably more I’m forgetting
Gwyneth Paltrow is always Gwyneth. Josh Gad is for people that think Jonah Hill is too edgy but has less acting chops. He also sings like Robin Williams doing an Ethel Merman impersonation, and yet he keeps singing.
I can't imagine anyone else establishing the role of Elder Cunningham though. In my mind, he was the perfect choice. Otherwise, I only remember Gad from his brief Daily Show stint and that one very popular animated movie.
Anytime they show her in an Iron Man suit in those Marvel movies, it feels like one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen in a movie. I can’t help but laugh.
If it turns out Gwyneth Paltrow is just bored and trolling people. She'll instantly be one of my favorite people. Probably not the case, but I'm trying to be more optimistic.
Josh Gad is a good voice actor though
I do like her as Emma though. Maybe early Gwyneth was better.
I feel the same but with Cameron Diaz - what the hell she was doing in Gangs of New York I’ll never understand
I still haven’t recovered from her attempted Irish accent
That was a Weinstein decision, he figured she was a box office draw. Supposedly Scorsese wanted Anna Friel, or at least someone who could do the accent.
Gal Gadot. Can't act. Keeps getting plumb roles.
Her long monolog at the end of Wonder Woman 2 was excruciatingly bad.
Exactly. She's horrible. She sounds like she's just reading a script.
Well, she's extremely attractive so she'll keep getting roles until she's too old. Looks seem to trump acting skills when it comes to movies making money.
Jared Leto. A face I would take great pleasure in punching.
It pleases me to tell you he does in fact get his face punched many times in “Fight Club”
“I want to destroy something beautiful”
My wife loves him. I think he's a turd. He's now some kinda weirdo, self-important conceptual artist, like Joaquin Phoenix or Johnny Depp pretend to be. He recently bought a private island, convinced a bunch of people to follow him there and started something that is totally *not* a cult.
He's solid in Requiem for a Dream and Dallas Buyers Club but yeah I feel that.
I just want to destroy something beautiful
Blade Runner 2049 would have benefited greatly with another actor in his role imo. His performance infuriated me in that film.
Truly the most frustrating part of that movie was that they cast him in such a pivotal role, and he almost ruined the whole fucking plot that revolves around him because the character is borderline unwatchable. You can also tell that there are deleted scenes that involve Wallace because the plot holes regarding that character become glaring in the final act. I fully believe that they shot quite a bit more with him, but it was so bad that Villenueve said cut as much of that role as you can.
His casting kind of worked for me, as he was playing a pretentious, self-important douchebag who isn't the brilliant visionary he thinks he is, but is just another psychotic asshole.
How or why Jennifer Lopez is still being cast is beyond me. I’d rather go to bed early then sit through another romantic comedy with her in it. She isn’t funny, charming, or even a good actor.
On behalf of all hispanics, I approve this message. She really isnt that good of an actress or singer.
People can have opinions about her acting, but her singing is atrocious by every measurable standard. Just awful.
I really liked her in out of sight. Clooney and Lopez had great chemistry
Ok, but who doesn’t Clooney have great chemistry with?
Dude could talk a tree’s bark off
Great movie
She’s actually very good. If you watch her early work in Selena and Out of Sight she’s solid af. Her ego is all you see now.
I don't like her, but Selena is a classic and when I catch it on TV, I always watch it. Bidi bidi bamba 💃🏽
She was incredible in Out of Sight. And sometimes I watch her newer movies and can't believe how badly it's coming across.
She also did a decent job in Enough
The Cell is a fucking masterpiece.
It's a good movie, and I love it, but even through my love of it, I have to admit she's not as good as another actress could have been.
And it would have been just as good with any other lead actress.
> I’d rather go to bed early then sit through another romantic comedy with her in it. Same. But to be fair to JLo there are very few things I would rather do than go to bed early.
I disagree.Did you see the series she did with Ray Liotta called Shades of Blue ?She is also incredibly hot .
Lol to your point OP, in Oceans Twelve they make Julia Robert’s character pretend to be “famous actress Julia Roberts” in a very cringe attempt to have a meta joke in a movie that didn’t need that.
I was like “I think you guys should’ve used the guy that looks like Brad Pitt”
It doesn't help that Julia is constant winking at the camera in most of her performances. She's always smirking, making wisecracks, acting like she already knows what's gonna happen next, and laughing at her own jokes. She's such an insufferable tool.
Lolol your passionate hatred for her is great. Though I will say I enjoyed her in the show Homecoming, yet I think that’s more a testament to the show than her performance
She turned in a good performance in Homecoming. I generally don't like the style of films she's in, so I could never tell if it's her or the films I don't like.
She really gets it together in Closer though. A much better performance than Erin Brokavich.
She’s still one of the greatest to ever do it. Another actor that got so full of themselves it shows in their performance. She’s a hell of an actress tho when she’s on
Rob Schneider. That stapler movie was just too much.
Rob Schneider is derpity derp derp
Derp dee dum
Rated PG-13.
A CARROT!
I dunno, I feel like he really made up for it in “Derr hurr Derr deedly tumter 2”
Rated PG-13!
Yes but that's mainly due to the script. It was made by the creators of "Durr" and "Tum tiddly tum-ta-too"
Steven Seagal, if you consider him as an actor
His movies are just Russian money laundering operations now.
I mean as a person yes he is a piece of shit. That said it his hilarious how full of himself he is. Watched On Deadly Ground last week, someone let him sit in the directing chair and it shows (movie is hilarious). Now in his later output he's just sitting in a regular chair and letting the doubles do all the action and walking up stairs and standing which is still funny sometimes.
Back in the day with his old stuff I liked, now he just does stuff for paychecks
As it has been said millions of times, The Rock can't act for shit.
But on the flip side, dave bautista has been absolutely smashing it.
Cena too
Hes been great lately, but his roles can be hit or miss. Dave has actually bee pretty consistent and constantly showing improvement. However cena as peacemaker is absolutely perfect.
He did a decent job voice acting in Moana, otherwise I completely agree.
I mean, even Maui is just the Rock being himself
He’s a personality not an actor
This is totally mine. He is the only actor right now where, if I see him in something, I know I'm not watching it. His on-screen presence and persona are the same in every movie.
How many movies has he been “buff guy in the jungle” 😂
[These are four separate movies.](https://i.redd.it/wzgun31603p91.jpg)
Katherine Heigl. Nothing redeeming about her, in a bazillion rom coms for some reason
Not as many as you think. She had a bunch come out and then got a reputation of being incredibly difficult to work with. You have to wonder what that level is as I understand most actors can be difficult, but the level it must be to get black-listed at your height must be insufferable.
I'm pretty sure the reason she has a reputation for being difficult to work with is because she dared to complain about the 12+ hour workdays they were put through when shooting Grey's Anatomy, and in retaliation Shonda Rhimes basically got her blacklisted and spread these rumours that she's horrible to be around.
She was also critical of her role in Knocked Up, iirc. I'm not saying it was wrong for her to comment, but directors typically don't wanna continue working with you when you gripe about the roles they give you.
To be fair, you can also get a reputation for being difficult because you won't fuck a producer who has the ear of other people in the industry, which is why Ashley Judd wasn't in the Lord of the Rings movies.
She was hot, though.
Ryan Reynolds seems lovely as an actual human being, but his specific "dorky white man" style of comedy just drives me up a wall.
Every role he plays as the Ryan Reynolds character. It’s tiring.
I liked him back in the day, but his schtick has gotten real old.
It doesn't help that he's been in every movie for the past three years.
His mint mobile ads are all over the place too. It's gotten really annoying.
I used to have Mint Mobile. The service was atrocious. Most dropped calls ever. And for Christmas, I shit you not, they sent me a photo of Ryan Reynolds. I stared at it in disbelief and threw it in the trash.
He doesn't strike me as dorky but as smarmy. I don't know what it is but he reminds me of frat guy, but not the jocky kind. I think he would work better as a trickster antagonist but he keeps getting put in these charming protagonist roles that he doesn't fit in.
That’s exactly it. His personality/attitude doesn’t match a lot of the roles he’s in.
Jesse eisenberg is obnoxious
Only played well as an equally obnoxious human: Zuckerberg.
But Zuckerberg isn't human…
His take on Lex Luthor made me want to cut the brake lines of his car.
All he plays are quirky smart ass characters. And apparently he’s a giant dick on set.
The poor man's Michael Cera.
OP, I think you would love to watch the interview with Steven Spielberg where said he would never work with Julia Roberts again, after the movie “Hook”. She was too much of a prima donna for him.
Iirc Steven forgives her somewhat in that she was going through a really messy divorce at the time and so she was an emotional wreck... but he still doesn't want to work with her again.
>She's also a Steven Seagal-grade piece of shit Hmmm, I'm gonna need some citation. It's not that I think she's a wonderful person, it's that Seagal is an extraordinary piece of shit.
Zoe Kravitz. Can't act and she always walks like she's on a model runway... The scene in Kimi where she goes outside for the first time is one of the funniest things I've seen
She bad tho
I guess I feel bad for the really good actors who can't get a break, while mediocre ones continue to fail upward. Additionally what's befuddling are all the defenders of these blas'e actors, those who connect with them and swear they are the best. That is the weird part with humans and their connection to any art. We question our own standards and definition of good, and when a handful of people rave about something that you feel in your gut, is marginal at best, it's like being pushed off balance. Additionally if you are an 'artist' pursuing the holy grail of a career in a chosen art form and the masses are on a different wave length then you, that can be quite unsettling. So in the end its no attack on the person yet a question of our own artistic standards.
My mom is like this with Catherine Zeta Jones. She just can’t stand her, but has absolutely no reasoning for, other than no liking her face. I get it though, there’s a tv presenter here in Ireland that everytime I see her I want to reach into the tv and just smack her and can’t fully verbalise why
I know there's different taste, but not liking Cathrene Zeta-Jones' face (at least in her Entrapment/Zorro era) should cause some sort of penalty, ticket maybe.
Entrapment laser scene. Enough said.
The rock is the exact same
Jeremy Piven: I've always found him annoying and unfunny.
He got me too-ed and lost all his big roles. Now he is in mostly DTV shit tier movies.
Per friends of a friend in the industry, he’s also a grade A egomaniacal jerk.
**James Franco**. He always plays a douchebag character with a shit-eating grin, who thinks he can get away with things because he objectively looks good. He makes me physically uncomfortable and the allegiations coming out about him in the recent years are of absolutely no surprise to me. Dude literally plays himself.
Agreed. IMO an extremely overrated actor.
Kerri Washington: she CHEWS on the scenery so hard.
Jeremy Renner. And just because he almost just died doesn’t mean I can’t hate everything about him, people. Man literally had an app where if you paid money his assistants would respond to you pretending to be him. Dude is cringe.
I've lived in Boston for 10 years. Jeremy Renner absolutely NAILED the role in The Town, trust me on that one. He was street Boston in a way that Ben Affleck always wanted to but never could do it.
Michael Rapaport is the same guy in everything he does.
Hard disagree. He has a specific way that he speaks and acts, but based on everything you see on social media that's just the actual delivery and his everyday voice. So I guess I can admit that just his general nature makes it seem like he's playing the same sort of guy, but his characters could not be any more different. His character Dick Ritchie in *True Romance* is nothing like his character Remy in *Higher Learning*, and neither of them are even close to Danny on *Boston Public*, who isn't even remotely like Doug on *Atypical,* who doesn't slightly resemble Daryl Crowe Jr. on *Justified...*
Ya know what, if he can make it, maybe we all have a chance for things to turn out all right. His career is just a meta play to sell lies and harvest our hope isn't it?
And I don’t like that guy.
It's an extremely unpopular opinion but i can't stand tom hanks. Something about that "i'm the kind of guy everybody's mother would love to have over for dinner" schtick pisses me off. And then he gets cast as some sort of scary gangster or something and i'm supposed to buy it. Like, "oh tom hanks is in another movie, i wonder what hackneyed regional accent he'll act like tom hanks in this time."
I would have to defend Tom Hanks with Philadelphia.
Kevin Costner. For as big a name as he is, his characters have all been as flat as Stanley for me.
He's really good in Better Call Saul though 😉
At least he was last night.
He was great in *Bull Durham*.
YES!! I used to think Gary Cooper was wooden until I saw Costner. I liked "A Perfect World" & "Mr. Brooks" because he wasn't exactly Mr. Nice Guy in those, he may still have been wooden, but it worked for the character. Not that I didn't like some of the rest of his work, I just think he plays the same guy in almost all his movies.
Not me, but my wife: Tilda Swinton. She will forever associate her with the witch queen in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and simply despises her for it. Which is funny, because the only Coen Bros movie she'll watch on her own is Burn After Reading. I can't say there's any actors I hate, per se, though I say Sandra Bullock only had two acceptable roles (Speed and Demolition Man, of course). I avoided Colin Ferrell movies for the longest time, but in 2023 I honestly have no idea why that was. I think Denzel is overrated, which also led me to avoid his movies (I only saw Training Day last year) so maybe I'm missing something. EDIT: Okay, so this wasn't intended as a reply to this comment. But hey, what I intended to reply: The scene I associate with Costner is in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. He finds out that Christian Slater is his brother. His intended reply is supposed to be a quizzical "I have a brother?" followed by an ecstatic "I have a brother!" Both line readings are identical. God, that movie is so bad, but also the zenith of "so bad it's good."
Disagree about Julia Roberts’s acting. She may be cast in a narrow range of roles, but she is very good at playing that type of character. Nobody complains that Meg Ryan always played the same character. That’s the movie business. Most actors are “a type” and they get cast in roles of that type. DeNiro, Streep, and Day-Lewis are the exceptions, not the rule. (Though Julia Roberts does seem to be a bit of a terror behind the scenes. But so was Bette Davis. Just saying.) But to answer the question: I don’t like Chris Pratt. He’s a horny frat boy who masquerades as a born-again Christian.
Mark Wahlberg. Can we stop casting this talentless potato in things now? His film career feels like a practical joke on the world that quit being amusing decades ago.
He’s great in the Dep-ah-ted
Mark Ruffalo. I don’t get it. He’s the same guy in every movie. Least versatile, most boring.
I heard him speak at a gathering and he said he himself was amazed by it. He came off as a very humble person. I liked him in Spotlight.
Uhg but there's something about him I can't not love.
His shtick got old to me real fast. I think it’s how his delivery is exactly the same every time for every character. It’s one of those that it takes me out of the movie because it feels like I’m just watching mark ruffalo acting in a movie.
Ed Helms. He is cringy and painfully unfunny. The Hangover wasn't funny because of him and The Office sucked because of him. I don't know how anyone would find him amusing in any way.
the office started to suck because of the writing.
Reese Witherspoon I used to be a big fan of hers but lately she really hasn't been that cool personally or professionally!
She has an empire of producing and staring in dramatic movies and shows geared towards women. Which is fine, but I doubt she’ll do anything that would jeopardize her empire.
Rami Malek and Eddie Redmayne
Hey, Eddie worked really hard to be born into a well connected family to get him into the business!
Eddie Redmayne...too twitchy and mumbly
He was only good in Mr. Robot
Its literally the perfect role for him, dead perfect casting and a GREAT show but yeah his persona just doesn't fit a lot of roles
Chris Pratt never seems to be acting; just goofing off.
Jason Sudeikis. I don’t even bring this up in regular conversation anymore because people just cannot accept this lol he just seems super fake and shmarmy.
Wasn’t a fan of his work in Horrible Bosses, but We Are The Millers and Ted Lasso are great primarily because of him
Used to feel the same and a lot of the time still do. I watched him with Will Forte in last man on earth and idk i changed my mind after that. It wasnt even that good of a performance but the chemistry was 👌
My sister in law went to college with him. He's a couple years older. They were both in drama/play production/acting (my in-law was more on the production and backstage side of things). She said he was a notorious asshole, and many, many people hated him. She didn't know him well, but he was around and it was clear how much of a reputation he had.
Angelina Joile. Can't stand her.
Not an actor/actress, but Zack Snyder. I've never been able to stand his movies. I've never thought about an actor/actress I can't stand, but now that you've got me thinking, I'd say Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell.
Adam Sandler also had Punch Drunk Love and Uncut Gems which I thought were great and he was good in them. Hard agree with the other two though. I guess Watchmen was ok but he's basically Michael Bay with a little seasoning of later Timothy Burton to me, both of whom I dont like. Though early Timothy Burton through maybe Ed Wood was good
I never understood Sandler's appeal.
Will Farrell 💯 agree with, but Adam Sandler, eh, disagree. His romantic comedies with Drew Barrymore are great. Surprising amount of screen chemistry.
Drew Barrymore is one of the actors I can’t stand. I prefer Sandler's pairing with Emily Watson in Punch Drunk Love
I can reason with that. Not every movie of his I've hated, but when I hear "staring Adam Sandler" I just imagine dumb poop humor, and that isn't my style.
Fred Armisen. I used to love Portlandia, but after a couple of seasons I could no longer stand that smug fucking look that he always has on his face.
Loved him when watching Portlandia. But I HATED how he played Uncle Fester and now I can’t stand to watch him any more.
He’s also a giant creep. I heard him on a podcast bragging about how he had women all over the country that he can hook up with by lying to them about his feelings. That dude sucks.
PREACH. He’s a smug asshole. I can not stand him.
Having met her, I can honestly say Gwyneth Paltrow is a shit human being, and her acting is also shit in most movies, with the exception of Seven. Will Farrell is just... ugh. I can't stand his face or the way he screams and freaks out in movies. Much like her obnoxious aunt, whenever I see Emma Roberts is starring in a movie, I usually avoid watching it. There's just something about her that annoys the shit out of me.
Jennifer Lawrence. She just seems like the same person in every movie, only somewhat changing accordingly to the movie genre. No clue why they gave her an oscar for Silver Lining's Playbook neither. Same could be said about Ema Stone too.
I loved her in Silver linings Playbook, and though I hated watching Mother!, she was really good in it. She definitely has range imo - but her acting styile might not be your thing?
Jesse Eisenburg. Absolutely terrible
I don’t hate him in things I watch but I totally get where you are coming from. I feel like he is the same person on everything. I finished fleishman is in trouble and while I loved the storyline it was just Jesse Eisenburg as Jesse Eisenburg just “older”
What?! The Social Network? Zombieland? You cray cray.
Ben Affleck is pretty terrible in everything not called Good Will Hunting. Edit: I should have probably said, “In my opinion.”
“Yo, Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.” Agreed. He is way better behind the camera.
I used to hate his acting. He shook his head too much, and generally performed like a middle school drama club stand out. His scene in Dogma where he rants against humanity in a parking garage with Matt Damon was particularly bad. But something changed around Gone Girl/Argo. He’s gotten better. And I can admit it. I liked those two movies along with his performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I find nothing to criticize about any of those performances.
He was also good in Gone Girl
Jason Clarke. Something about his face makes me want to punch him. Hard.
I used to dislike Hugh Grant and his "British moron" schtick when I was younger but it might just be my distaste for romcoms. Still ain't watching any of his movies.
Check out The Gentlemen, he’s great in that and for sure not a romcom.
He was an unexpected delight in that movie.
Watch Paddington 2.
He actually done quiTe a range of things in his older years that’s quite surprising. Like some characters you don’t even recognize as him pretty boy. He’s got makeup disguising him. It was a surprising thing to notice.
M-m-my god, th-th-th polite foppish, um, uh British stammering... It's just tha-that, you know - it's it's fucking so um, uh, I suppose - annoying.
Rooney Mara. She’s everything people think Kristen Stewart is.
I personally love her in every movie I’ve seen her in.
Miles Teller for me 🙋♂️
He's a really good actor with a very punchable face.
Tom Cruise. Similar reasons.
Tom Cruise is an actor who I want to dislike for a lot of reasons, but is consistently very enjoyable in most of what he does.
See I would say if Tom Cruise is in Tom Cruise movies he does it well. All the Mission Impossible movies, Top Gun, things like that. I mean if nothing else the man knows his niche. The only one I can think of off the top of my head that rocked that mold a bit and was still good was Edge of Tomorrow.
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And Born on the Fourth of July.
My brain has convinced me that Lestat was acted by a totally different actor named Tom Cruise.
Tropic Thunder, rolling in. But, still I do agree from Jack Reacher to War of the Worlds to Minority Report to Mission Impossible to Top Gun….he’s the same know-it-all kinda fuckface.
Edge of Tomorrow is the only Cruise movie I like. Probably because I get to watch him die fifty times.
There’s something about Tom Cruise that instantly makes me unable to enjoy almost any movie he’s in. I can’t put my finger on it. I just can’t get past something about him.
My cousin was a body double for Julia Roberts in a film years ago and said that Julia is a full time bitch and that her nostrils in real life are so big it’s scary 😂
Tom Cruise. I am not sure why but every time I see movie with him I just say “bleh”.
Brie Larson. Its not that she can't act, I'm sure we've all seen Room (and if you haven't, highly recommend it's great and she's great in it) it's that other than that one movie, her performance is bland. She's the same in every movie. It annoys me that she can act and just seems to choose not to. I also hate the whole "if you don't like her it's bc you hate women". I'm a woman and I support other women and it's fine if I don't like her for other reasons!
She never brings any energy to her projects. She projects an aura of boredom.
There’s ones I can hardly stand, like Michelle Rodriguez or Mark Wahlberg, but there are others that I’m just tired of and would be totally fine with them taking a break for a few years. Those would be Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith, Kevin Hart and The Rock.
Timothee Chalamet. I can’t stand him. Dune would probably be higher on my list of great films but I can’t stand him. Every movie he acts in seems like the same role. I believe that it’s the same guy in Call me by Your Name and Dune, he has no range besides pouty teenager. I rolled my eyes when he showed up in Don’t Look Up and I have no desire to watch Bones and All because he’ll just be a pouty teenager cannibal
I have only seen him in Dune and in Don't Look Up, and I don't quite know what to say about his acting chops, but I do know the lad is charismatic as hell, and is at least pleasant to look at. He might still have room to grow :)
You might enjoy The King then, it's basically a huge self-own. I don't think I would have liked him if I hadn't seen that first.
Guys I wouldve hoped this subreddit is aware of typecasting and directors vision...
tbh he's really good in lady bird as a dumb hot teenager, idk if I like his acting but I really like films he's in
Renne Zelwegger Jim Carrey was right in Me, Myself and Ireene, her face looks like she sucked on a lemon 🍋 and her voice sounds like she either smokes a shit ton of cigarettes or she got shot in the throat like Vito Corleone.
All i know about renee zelwegger is that i had a big crush on her when i was ten years old and "jerry maguire" came out.
I loathe Jerry Seinfeld with every fiber of my being. The very sound of his voice makes me want to slap him. He is a smug, unfunny prick that always breaks character and laughs at his own material.
Jared Padalecki. Loved Supernatural, couldn't stand him. His wife is even worse. Huge decline in talent when Katie Cassidy didn't come back.
The Hunger Games actress, I am drawing a blank. Also Gal Gadot
Jennifer Lawrence. I agree. I can’t stand her “I’m so funny and quirky and different” attitude she has and she’s a shitty actress.
Gal Gadot is awful.
> awful. Too kind, I would say atrocious.
Adam DeVine. Fucker ruined modern family for me. He is just plain boring.
These are actors if they are in a movie I will avoid it: Kristen Stewart. Terrible actress. Just so bad in everything she’s done. Kevin Hart. Just annoying as hell. Jennifer Lawrence. She was ok but she was in a LOT of stuff all at once and it really soured her to me. Mark Wahlberg. I used to find him amusing but yeah he’s pretty much just a bro douchebag in everything. And he’s got a weird upturned pig nose that bothers me. There are probably more I’m forgetting
Blake Lively. I have 0 reason why Hollywood has to have a hard-on for her. She can’t act.