For me it’s The Rock and Chris Pratt.
Guardians of the Galaxy was great but I just wish he would stop playing starlord in every other role he’s in!
The Rock is definitely overused, but he f****** killed it in the Rundown with Sean William Scott. I love Sean Williams Scott
Will Ferrel, Jack Black… the rock is rapidly getting there. Jada Plinkett Smith.
Gal gadot and Elisabeth Moss for me. Also not a fan of Jason Momoa/Chris Hemsworth type of guys. Anything with them in the lead and I generally nope out. It has to do with the plain, flat, repetitive characters and lack of depth, not the physique (for example I respect dave Bautista evolution).
I struggle with Elizabeth Moss, too. The whole “being in a cult while making a show warning people about cults” thing is wild to me. Only other place I saw her was Mad Men and I found her unlikable. But I hated that whole show, really.
After your and the other commenter’s post I had to go check, I didn’t know she was in Scientology. Wow, that makes it even worse. Personally it is just her facial expression range (that is, a very narrow one), that irrationally makes her unlikable to me. I thought it was a good character representation in the first season of Handmaid’s tale, but then once I realized that it’s how she plays every character, or in every situation…
Elizabeth I’m ok with except I keep wanting to scream “leave the cult!” at the screen. Gal is gorgeous but bland
Gal is a terrible actress.
Like, a whole island full of warrior women had to put on an Israeli accent because she can’t do anything else.
Jason Bateman. Used to be Jeremy Renner and Tim Robbins so I guess it’s an unconscious bias against little guys with too-big faces for their features.
Owen Wilson. Something about him just makes me queasy.
Adam Sandler, with the exception of punch drunk love, maybe. I wanted to like tough cut gems, but I have up or of serving hand cringe
Yo, came here to say Owen Wilson! I can’t stand him. It makes me sad that he’s in all those Wes Anderson movies, because he’s a good director otherwise… :-/
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Julia Stiles. Saw her in Save the Last Dance and some other movie and absolutely could not get on with the movie. It’s like she’s not acting or doesn’t know how to act. She’s kind of like in audition mode the entire time and I just don’t get anything from her face or her actions. I sometimes get the same thing from Keanu but at least I like the movies he’s in. With her I just rage quit 5 min in seeing her. She just ruins it for me. Also yes, also don’t like The Rock. I’m sure we saw the same YouTube vid where the guy bashes on him for not knowing how to act as any other “character”… which when looking back, it’s true. He’s literally the same persona every god damn time.
Came here to say Julia Stiles but you totally beat me to it! I cannot stand any film she is in either. It’s really hard to describe, but your description is spot-on. It’s like an empty husk with makeup has been made to act.
None. I dislike some actors, but so many other people pour part of themselves into these things and influence each other when developing them that it’s impossible for me to not have at least some curiosity.
Ben Stiller
I just can’t. He makes me anxious just seeing him on screen. I so want to watch Meet the Fockers because DeNiro is one of my faves, I just can’t do it.
if it makes you feel better ben stiller just embarasses himself the whole movie
I’d be really curious to hear your thoughts after watching the secret life of Walter Mitty.
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Adam Sandler
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Jennifer Lopez
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“Insert ex-Saturday Night Live actor here”
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Leonardo DiCaprio (I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’ve believed he was a shit actor forever and there’s a reason it took him so long to get an oscar…and it wasn’t because of “snubbing”…he was just routinely shit up until the Revenant.)
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John Travolta
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Jennifer Lawrence (Up until recently, she was literally the female DiCaprio. Everything I said about him applied to her. Unlike DiCaprio, she got far far better rather quickly and my issue with her nowadays is mostly her choice of movies just aren’t my jam.)
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Tom Cruise
Hey now on SNL, bill Hader is awesome especially after Barry. And Phil Hartman
Ha! I was going to pipe up just to mention Bill Hader! He’s apparently quite anxious about improv but he’s also just so good.
Phil Hartman has honestly been gone for so long now I’ve forgotten him. But yeah, you are correct.
As for Bill Hader. He’s the best of a bad bunch, and he’s okay, but being one of the better SNL alums is a very very low bar to cross.
And I mean, yeah…I should definitely clarify that I’m not talking about classic SNL (Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, etc…) That generation made great films after their careers at SNL ended.
Yeah it is a low bar, but check out Barry if you haven’t for sure.
Also enjoyed him in superbad
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Will Smith and Jared Leto for sure (including 2049, which was a disgrace compared to the masterpiece that is the original, despite me loving Arrival, Dune Part I and Sicario).
I also cannot stand anyone meant to appeal only to Americans, like Kevin Hart, Chevy Chase, Queen Latifah and all that stuff. Used to like Tom Hanks in the 1990s, but after that he became part of the latter group for me.
If you are ever going to try again watching a The Rock movie (I don’t mind him at all, although not being calling me to watch a movie), please make it Hercules: that movie genuinely surprised me.
2049 is great. i think he’s a cringey prick but if jared leto’s screen presence can’t kill fight club, american psycho, or requiem for a dream, he definitely can’t kill blade runner.
i know lots of people prefer the original (and of course it’s by far more influential) but you’re the first i’ve seen call it a disgrace.
Charlie Hunnam is not good, has a silly face, and cannot deliver lines.
It’s true he’s been awful since Queer as Folk, but if you’ve heard his normal speaking voice in The Gentlemen it’s kind of understandable that his character accents always sound a bit forced.
I dunno, I enjoyed the hell out of his acting in Sons of Anarchy
Collin Farrel and Kristin Stewart.
They’re just not good actors. They’ve been in a couple good movies, but those movies succeed despite, not because of them.
I disagree heavily with Collin Farrell! He sucks when he’s in a big budget movie but he’s fantastic when he does his little art films.
Check out In Bruges as a great example.
The rule I’ve always gone with is that if the average person knows the movie exists he probably sucks and otherwise he’s fantastic.
Isn’t he in penguin too? I enjoyed that character quite a lot.
Yep I think he’s amazing! One of the best actors in the mega famous division
I always had this impression that Colin Farrell was just a pretty boy with no acting talent. But then I saw him in Banshees of Inisherin and my mind was blown. He was amazing - his performance absolutely gutted me. If you’re willing to give him a try, you should watch that movie.
Absolutely! In Bruges, Banshees of Inisherin, but even older stuff. I am a weirdo and like the 2002 Phone Booth, for example.
Hey klem!
Hey friend! How’s your Friday going?
Pretty good nice and quiet how is it with you?
It’s not my favorite Friday ever - I had to have a colonoscopy this morning 😬 but afterward I had a huge breakfast and a 5 hour nap and I feel like a million bucks now!
Got anything good going on this weekend?
Oh no colonoscopies are never fun! Glad you had a huge breakfast after. I spent the morning running round doing errands and chores but I’m gonna have a boxset afternoon! What about you?
Nice, enjoy! What are you watching?
I’m doing a bunch of housework today and then having my folks over on Sunday for Mother’s Day. It’s absolutely gorgeous out so I might try to get a little gardening in too :)
Since the snow white disaster, rachel zegler.
Also, I can’t really watch til schweiger movies. Or most german “comedy” movies.
Yeah she just comes across as a pretentious little child who knows better than you. And I even agree with her on some things.
I will actively avoid anything of hers in the future.
Adam Sandler
it was the same for me about Sandler until I saw Uncut Gems, finally he showed that he can act.
The reason he’s good in Uncut Gems (and Punch Drunk Love) is that there is something genuinely frightening in how unhinged he seems when he is acting.
He just chooses not to. Not sure that’s any better.
He can act but that movie was beyond stupid. I’m convinced the only reason it did well with critics is exactly what you said - they were surprised he could actually act.
IMO, he has been playing the same over-grown man-child of a character in every movie for 20 years (with exceptions).
Also Happy Madison studios wrote Dana Carvey a blank check to make one of the worst movies ever made and that was the last nail in the coffin for his acting career.
Good grief, another one I was going to mention that’s already covered.
His movies are mostly bad, I think you and I might agree on that.
But the other aspect of it is that a lot of the people I knew who liked his early movies were just really shitty humans. So by association, I think that affected how I saw his movies. Just seemed like a magnet for terrible people and it was hard to separate those two things for me. Not to mention, the movies themselves were objectively somewhere between awful and just not that great, so I didn’t feel like I was missing out much.
Oh, and I got “dragged” to that movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry IN THE THEATER. And that reasserted everything I already knew to be true about Adam Sandler movies.
Nick Cage.
Man’s not a bad actor, but he’s often cast in roles he has no earthly business being in.
Honestly, 7/10 of his castings are way off.
You beat me to it. I like(d) him in his early career, then it got to the point where pretty much everything I saw that had him in it sucked, so if he was in a movie, it was a sign to me to skip it. I have had a bit of a change of heart in some of his latest stuff, I’ll at least consider watching it if there’s a modicum of evidence that there are redeeming qualities to the movie overall.
The other aspect of it is that I used to think he was good looking when he was young, and then sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s he just seemed to turn physically repulsive to me. Part of it is his hair. I think if he ever got a good hair cut or played a part that involved wearing a decent hair piece, it might not be so bad.
Leaving Las Vegas is genuinely devastating and that was his 90s peak.
He does recapture some of that magic in a recent one called Pig but that film benefited from a bait and switch marketing where they implied it would be like John Wick but was actually completely different.
I’ve seen Pig mentioned before as one of the good ones, so maybe I’ll give it a go one night when I have nothing else to lose. My favorite of his recentish movies is Renfield. Probably because I went in with low, low, low expectations and limited research, but it was much better than I was expecting.
