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!
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.
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
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.
Charlie Hunnam is not good, has a silly face, and cannot deliver lines.
I dunno, I enjoyed the hell out of his acting in Sons of Anarchy
I think that’s honestly why I think he’s fun. His king Arthur movie is a hardcore guilty pleasure as someone who enjoys the actual king Arthur myths…
Why the fuck did they try to make him a superhero???
It’s just blind stupid fun but they don’t have an ego attached like the rocks movies do
Oof a lot of ppl like him
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.
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.
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.
Til Schweiger and Kristen Stewart, they each know exactly one facial expression.
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 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.
He just chooses not to. Not sure that’s any better.
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.
His acting is hammy, but he does that on purpose. His philosophy on acting is the method thing is good but it isn’t an artistic performance. He puts his personality on the character.
@notgivingmynametoamachine Come on. “Valley Girl” was a classic 😎 Fer sure Fer sure.
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.
I’m surprised to see no Chris Pratt (or CP, as he likes to be called) in this thread.
But Chris Pratt for me.
Ooof he does know what cp stands for right
I absolutely loved him in Parks and Rec. He was always my favourite character. But that’s probably because he was just playing himself.
Everything I’ve seen him in after parks and rec has been bad, and I agree he is not a good actor.
Full agree. He was amazing in Parks and Rec!
He’s doing ads for some religion based mobile app. He even sucks in those.
Chris Pratt is one of my big ones… Can’t stand the guy
Leonardo DiCaprio. I can never believe he is the character I always see an actor trying to portrait a character. Like with other actores I can believe I am seeing something that happened. With DiCaprio I’m always aware that I’m watching an actor doing a performance.
I don’t know if that makes a lot of sense. But it’s one of the few “good” actor that makes me feel this way.
Agreed, but I still love Inception.
He did an incredible job in Django Unchained, but other than that I would agree with you. I don’t believe it is his fault though, more a result of how he is always cast.
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
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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… :-/
Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer. I hope none of you have ever heard of them. They are just bad at acting and the movies where one of them is the director are just horrible… and still they are in sooo many german movies.
I enjoy them, they’re easy to watch, I don’t need much
Tom Cruise I just don’t like anything about him
Will Smith, because he’s annoyed me in every role after Prince of Bel Air
Hate the person, love the actor. He’s made loads of good movies, so I can’t complain
I’m not a fan of Tom Cruise either, but I love Edge of Tomorrow. That might be my only exception
I am no fan of Tom Cruise, but his performance in Tropic Thunder is a god damned masterpeice
I enjoyed watching Tom Cruise die over and over and over and over and over.
I’m just here to watch the bird people fuck
Minority report was pretty damn solid too. Knght and day wasn’t bad for guilty pleasure
I liked Tom a lot in Collateral. Such a great movie.
That and Magnolia.
I don’t have a problem with Tom Cruise as an actor, but ever since my daughter pointed it out, I can’t help staring at his tooth.
If you stare too deeply into the tooth, the tooth stares back into you.
Toofs
Nope. Toof. Singular.
He has a front tooth. Where most of the rest of us have two upper front teeth, co-captains of the mouth, he has one right there in the middle.
Wait until you watch Legend and see his teeth before he had work done.
My one co captain tooth is in front of another despite years of braces :( slowly leading to a central tooth and worries that I’ll have to get the misplaced one removed
