Ryan Reynolds. Man got married on a plantation and no one seems to care, plus he plays the same character in everything he’s in.
Oh my god, yes. He was fine using that schtick in one movie, but it’s every goddamn film he’s in…
dint know that about, hes even more cringed when he collabed with rob machlenny to buy a soccer team.(both are cringe)
This was my hometown’s team. It’s super strange having it put on the map, where basically everybody knows this story, and before then nothing at all.
It’s absolutely just a random investment in a potentially very lucrative industry. 21st century football is massively swayed by who can spend the most money, especially below the very top level where the money becomes too ridiculous. Wrexham had the oldest active ground in the UK and the ground itself is particularly goodnfkr the level of play. Wrexham had dropped from 3rd division to like 5th, near 6th when he bought it (I think). But Wrexham as a city isn’t small, it’s the largest population centre in North Wales, and before it gained city status in 2022, was a larger town than many of the cities near it. All it really needed to do well was investment, where it had the facilities to be tenfold more successful if anybody actually paid for it, it’s the same for probably a dozen other teams across the UK.
But the investment worked of course, and the team has done amazingly well since then. But don’t consider this anything but an investment where two celebrities used their image to aid it’s success.
He’s actually done a lot of movies playing against type that I enjoyed. But,to be fair, he’s paid millions of dollars to be Ryan Reynolds
Man got married on a plantation
Aren’t former plantations now just pretty places to take wedding shots? When I worked picking grapes, the winery was ALWAYS hosting weddings.
Getting married at a historic plantation in the South is like getting married at a former concentration camp. It’s spitting on the graves of those who were tortured there.
Any picture in the USA is a spit in the face of the native Americans.
At least on Detective Pikachu he tried doing something different, but was told “no, we dont want acting, we want Ryan Reynolds”, so it might be more of a typecasting problem.
He is very involved in the branding that results in his typecasting, so I have no pitty for it.
For the black & white movie days… Barbara Stanwyck. I get that in Double Indemnity she’s supposed to be an evil bitch, but even in movies where she’s supposed to be the one you’re rooting for…she’s terrible. And in one movie I saw with her I didn’t even realise it was her at first and I was still like, ‘This person is terrible.’ and then I realised it was her.
For the modern day - being somebody born in the 80s that grew up in the 90s… Di Caprio. Even when I was a kid I was like, ‘There’s something off with him and I don’t know it is, but there’s something off…’ and everybody else is going on about how amazing he is. Now at least we know that he’s a predatory creep.
Jennifer Coolidge. She plays the same character in everything she’s in, and it’s a character I don’t find funny at all.
Curious. I always thought she was more of a lolcow. Where that’s just how she is and everyone happens to think it’s funny.
Yeah I don’t feel her honestly even seeing herself as an actor per ce. Like she’s typecast because that’s who she is (or at least thats her public persona) and she just rolls with it cause it works in her favour and people love to see it.
Casey Affleck
Will Ferrell
I get this. I was listening to a podcast, Conan O’Brien’s I think, where Will Ferrell came up and they were talking about how he’s typically a pretty straightforward and serious kind of person off camera.
He turns it on for the camera but it’s not who he is in real life. There’s nothing wrong with it per se but it made him seem a lot more disingenuous to me.
I think a lot of comedians are this way, and it makes sense. Most of us have a “work persona” that is not exactly the same as what we would consider our “real” personality.
For a more genuine version Will Ferrell, and just a hell of a story of friendship and overcoming challenges, I heartily recommend the documentary Will & Harper.
That’s the road trip film he did right? I think I have it, just haven’t watched it yet.
Genuinely almost ruined the Barbie movie for me. They could’ve had so many better actors in that role.
I just do not find him humorous.
Oh yes, he is a very wicked bad actor for the greater good of bad!
I honestly don’t enjoy his sense of humor, he is not too awful in serious roles but still don’t go out of my way to watch. I could say the same for Seth Rogen, his laugh just annoys me to no end.
It’s mostly SNL humour, which imo is not the best as it kind of relies on being self aware that you’re in a comedy. It’s not for everyone so I can see why you think that.
I do like that sense of humor, which is why I don’t like Will Ferrell. He’s always trying to be Chevy Chase but with out the timing r talent at pratfalls
I’m waiting for women to come out of the woodwork about him, tbh.
Thank you. I can’t stand his humor. Cringe on top of cringe with a side of cringe with nothing to balance out the cringe. Just not my cup of tea.
He’s the guy that can be brilliantly funny about 1% of the time, but that 1% is completely canceled-out by the 99% of other material, which is him just randomly throwing shit at the wall. He’s truly awful and I dread seeing him.
More cowbell. That’s it. The only funny thing he’s ever done. Although the t-shirt did most of the heavy lifting.
Joaquin Phoenix.
If you hated him in gladiator, that was the intention.
I get that. He is good. It probably stems more from that very weird point, where he was doing kind of Andy Kaufman thing.
Rapping and that weird interview on Letterman, where he was giving one word answers to all of his questions.
What if I hate him in everything else too?
I am rather susceptible to hating actors because of some role they played. I literally hated Hugh Grant for no other reason than him being an asshole to Bridget Jones. I am now scared to watch Gladiator.
I don’t know if people like him or not but I find all of John Ham’s performances to be really similar. Even when playing a villain in Baby Driver he sucked, no one believes this milquetoast man who’s delivering a completely flat performance is some bad ass tough guy, granted all the “villains” except spacey were absolutely terrible and cliche in an otherwise fun and good movie.
He’s just really boring, really flat, he’s never made me feel or think anything he’s always “John Ham” regardless of the role he’s in
I don’t necessarily buy him as a serious actor. Mad Men was so well written that I think almost anyone could have been an effective Don Draper. My opinion is that he pulled off about 90% of that role based on his looks. (I think it worked overall because there were so many very talented actors surrounding him.)
That said, I love him as a comedic actor. His SNL appearances are delightful, and I’m always pleasantly surprised when he shows up in comedy shows and films.
Miles Teller. Ugly mfer
Jason Momoa. Can’t act, plays every character the same, and can’t seem to keep himself from smirking in every moment of screentime.
Also Paul Dano. Someone else mentioned Leo’s “imposter syndrome” and I would apply that to Dano also. I can’t tell if he’s acting too much or not enough, but he always feels out of place.
Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise
I get Tom Cruise but given Bruce Willis’ mental decline I’m willing to overlook the last decade or two of his career.
Yeah, I meant his work, not so much him as a person (which I know nothing about).
Young Bruce Willis was hilarious and nuanced. Hudson Hawk, Death Becomes Her, 12 Monkeys, the Jackal, and of course Moonlighting. He was willing to do wacky and silly and serious, and created memorable characters. He deserves to be remembered for that. The recent cash grabs should be ignored when considering his body of work. Pretty much everything since the Sin City sequel.
His acting was superb in Oceans Twelve!
(He played “Bruce Willis as himself”.)
He basically was just working to provide for his family before his mental difficulties caught up with him, as I understand it.
Yeah, iirc he got the diagnosis and just told his agent to say yes to literally everything he could do.
Ben Afflict.
Was very weird how everyone liked that he was chosen as Batman, he was such a bad Batman. He actually gave rich prick vibes.
Not defending Affleck here, but isn’t Bruce Wayne a rich prick?
No, he pretends to be but deep down he cares more about justice.
Or at least that’s the version I’m used to from Christian Bale’s Batman and the games.
In the dark knight trilogy, Bruce intentionally lives on the streets for a few years and only goes back to use his money to fight injustice.
The whole point of Batman is a rich guy who has a very strong moral compass cause his parents were murdered. It’s not suppose to be realistic, it’s a fantasy.
People liked Batfleck because he was the closest to comic Batman looks-wise. Tall, physically imposing, square jaw, rugged, etc. He was also the best part of the Snyder movies and that’s a low bar. His version was also an older, disillusioned Bruce/Batman which is why he was more prick-ish.
My hot take is that Christian Bales was the worst thing about that Batman trilogy, and I love Christian bale in most things he’s in.
I most loved how Kevin Conroy’s Batman from the Animated Series portrayed this aspect of the character. Conroy did measurably different voices for Batman and Bruce which made it completely clear that Bruce was the false persona being put on for appearances while Batman was the real voice and personality, and also sold how good Batman was at pretending to be Bruce when needed. Conroy’s Batman isn’t just a ninja genius detective, he’s also a good actor, and to portray that as well as he did Conroy had to be an awesome actor.
Conroy’s Bruce Wayne is as close to his “normal” speaking voice as I’ve ever heard, but he makes it sound like an affect in ways that are hard to describe. He was truly a great one.
Same, never liked the guy either
I think that’s why I enjoyed Gone Girl. I didn’t have to like him and his smugness or whatever worked into the character.
I like the actor, but definitely did not do well in that role. They went for the big name over appropriate casting and the movie suffered
I mean, the acting wasn’t terrible, but the writing was fucking atrocious. I think Ben could have done a stellar job if it had been literally any other production team behind it.
I dont recall everyone liking that he was chosen as Batman, in fact as I recall most people were like “Ben Affleck?! That guy from Mallrats and Gigli?”
gave rich prick vibes.
psst. Batman was often portrayed as a rick prick.
Ryan Renoylds.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Always hated him. Always called him a bad actor whose idea of acting amounts to throwing on a fake accent and literally nothing else to build his characters; no mannerisms, no method, no changing his body or his face. He’s just Leonardo DiCaprio with an accent every…single…time.
Before The Revenant, when everyone was complaining about him being “snubbed” by the oscars, I always thought “no…he is legitimately fucking terrible…especially when he was younger” (ie. Romeo and Juliet, Titanic, Gangs of New York years). And I thought I was taking crazy pills since everyone else seemed to adore him because of Titanic.
Tom Cruise. Enough said.
I don’t like Tom Cruise but at this point I don’t even remember why. Is he a shit head?
Scientology
That, and pretty much every movie he’s in these days are just an ego based adrenalin rush designed by and for himself. All the parts he plays just come of as “Tom Cruise half heartedly pretending to be X”.
I really like “The Last Samurai” despite Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise
I feel that’s old enough not to be in the Tom Cruise produced issue area. In the 2000s, he was in War of the worlds, Collateral, The Last Samurai and even showed he still had range in Magnolia, Vanilla Sky and even Tropic Thunder. It wasn’t quite the same as the 90s where he was cast in a huge range of great roles, and it definitely became less common over the 00s.
I’d say from 2010 onwards, he’s stared in 0 films that don’t feel warped to be an advert for his specific style of masculinity. Even if one was good, Edge of Tomorrow, it’s still a Tom Cruise movie.
That and making your wives sign a contract waiver (beyond a prenup) is fucked up.
I feel the opposite. I want to hate him so badly, but he’s a good actor. Like I was absolutely furious about his casting in Interview with a Vampire, then he killed it, was gaunt and vampire as hell. He is not good looking to me and seems a shit person, but my goodness he can act.
Doesn’t he basically always play the same person?
Have you seen him young? I could watch Topgun to get myself off to.
He can act. He was good in Legend and great in Interview with a Vampire. Shame he’s a terrible person.
Cringe comedy actors like Ferrell. Just saying or doing stupid cringeworthy shit that really isn’t funny to make a situation more uncomfortable and unbelievable.
Will Ferrell, Steve Carrel and Ben Stiller are the 3 horsemen of the comedy apocalypse
I agree with this comment in general, but don’t think Ferrell is a good example. Or really, maybe he is a good example, but the way his movies are shot isn’t a good example.
In Ferrell movies, the gag is that the actor says or does something outrageously dumb, and then the other actors largely go along with it, either pumping up the idea, or being coerced by it, or stomping it down in a hilariously insulting fashion. If there is ever a moment of awkward silence, it lingers for a second before the scene ends. Arrested Development is another example of this being done well. It’s a farce - the actions are so bizarre and outlandish that we can’t possibly imagine ourselves doing it, so we are absolved of sympathy for the cartoonish actor and enjoy seeing them fumble their way through the scene.
But there is a new wave of “cringe comedy” that seems to not understand what a farce is. A character will do something just beyond the limit of what we could imagine ourselves doing, so we can still identify with the character. Then the other characters react in the way people would react in real life - with stern condemnation or cold shouldering. And the scene goes on and on and on. It is terrible.
