What actor/actress do you HATE?

More annoying I guess are the ones that get respect despite being in many a bad film, giving hammy performances. Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins leap to mind.

The worst, worst, worst performer in the world, though, is Robin Williams.

Tom: I actually find it vaguely offensive, even as an EX-actor, that you're comparing them to "session men". Of course the actor should be blamed if a film is shit - even if the film wasn't good from the get go, who told Julia Roberts to take that Runaway Bride part? That's just an example, mind you, nothing to do with her or the film, no of course not...And how many films have so-so scripts if you just read them or you see a play version of them with lesser actors, but you see the film and just get blown away? How many great plays have been put to film only to come out awful because the actors weren't right? So on and so forth...obviously a film is a group effort, but "session men"? Session men are interchangeable, session men are what you get if your drummer is too sick and hungover to lay down a rhythm track. The actors are integral to the film process, and are, to use the music tip, part of the band. Ex: Russell Crowe was clearly Roger Daltrey to Ridley Scott's Pete Townshend in Gladiator. Could you IMAGINE how godawful that movie would've been with someone else? Even better, imagine American Psycho with Leo DiCaprio instead of Christian Bale...it's like comparing Travis to James Brown.

Actors aren't interchangeable, which is why interchangeable paper dolls like Leo or Jennifer Love Hewitt are SO BLOODY ANNOYING.

Re: Hugh Grant: yeah, he's awful. He's so awful that I'd really like to hurt him. He looks like my ex-boyfriend, the way his eyes crinkle up, and that makes me hate him more. But if we're talking about actors who get bloody come on over playing the same role over and over, the King/Queen has to be Julia Roberts.

Julianne Moore - your guarantee of piss-poor, as we rhyme skipping down to the video shop.

Female: Meg Ryan & Julia Roberts - Both born afflicted with Terminal Cutesiness, which leads sufferers to believe that every move they make is adorable and interesting. It isn't.

Male: Ethan Hawke & Matt Damon. Supposed hearthrobs, both of these chuckleheaded shmoes make me question the sanity of anyone who'd tape their pictures on a wall. Not only are both thoroughly ugly, they both have an irritating smugness and lack of ability that screams "Punch Me" every time they grace a screen. Ugh.

Censorship is just one step from facism.

Moderating a message board is not censorship: you have your own page, Phil, and are at perfect liberty to print whatever xenophobic nonsense you like there. This meanwhile is a message board, mostly about music, which is run as an adjunct to my page. It is not Usenet. You aren't the only one to have been "censored", though: I deleted a gay-bashing posting in the Jamie Oliver thread and a snippy exchange between Ethan and John Yonderboy which threatened to derail another thread before it had even started. And I deleted a message I posted when I was drunk, come to think of it. 5 messages in 5000 posts, which isn't bad going: deleting posts is not something I make a habit of.

A couple of days before your posting I said I was going to delete abusive messages when they cropped up on the board. Yours wasn't abusive to specific posters, but it wasn't about specific film stars either and it wasn't saying anything useful. Given the resultant hassle I should probably have just left it there, but there you go, it's good to sort these things out sometimes. I'd be interested to hear (via e-mail preferably) what any other readers think about this.

Hey, is that Mog?

and to keep this post from being completly offtopic,... i can't stand Robin Williams in the sappy movies he's in now COMEDIES he's fine as long as he's fit for the part but i don't see why he feels he has to be an emotional actor he's not very good at it and besides i like him better as a funnyman anyway. and female,... don't even get me started there are so many that i despise it's not even funny,... although i dp kinda feel bad for Kate Winslett i mean she actually wasn't THAT bad in titanic (i hate that movie by the way) but she seems to have gotten kinda a cold shoulder from the public (at least in american anyway i'm not sure about the rest of the world) i guess Leo has tainted more than just his own name.

2. Perhaps this thread has been rather hard on 'session musicians'. Session musicians are, I imagine, talented and hard-working people. Some great records in pop history have, as far as I can recall, involved them.

Examples:

'String Bean Jean' (shame about the lyrics);

'Alison' (good about the lyrics);

'Green Onions' (hey guys - about the lyrics...)

Ethan Hawke & Matt Damon. Supposed hearthrobs, both of these chuckleheaded shmoes make me question the sanity of anyone who'd tape their pictures on a wall. Not only are both thoroughly ugly, they both have an irritating smugness and lack of ability that screams "Punch Me" every time they grace a screen. Ugh.

Sorry Matt Damon, I just really hated Good Will Hunting at the time. You seem like a good dude.

tom hanks is the worst

Toni Collette always awful always plays awful you'd think that this perhaps meant she was just good at playing awful and had been well cast throughout her career as awful but nope just awful awful awful

WTF was Joe E. Brown's appeal?

Ill give Toni Collette a free pass for Muriels Wedding

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Caleb Landry Jones, until I saw him in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which he was great in. otherwise bugs the shit out of me, overacts in relation to his costars, sticks out like a sore thumb. Get Out a good example. even his small role in the new Twin Peaks.

he's horrible to look at. not that I think actors have to be good looking but he looks like a dirty ned that you'd see in Maryhill shopping centre.

Tom Hardy has always sucked and always will suck

Man, Caleb Landry Jones is a good one. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who is both so off-putting and who brings so little to the table.

Michael Rapaport

Feel like this is akin to saying "Nickelback" but whatever: JOSH GAD

Joan Allen used to really bug me, but no so much anymore. Ben Stiller's starting to get on my nerves.

never liked that neckless bastard

ben affleck can get the fuck out. point of no return was the secret life of walter mitty. i never actually watched it, but, fuck you for that ben stiller

there are no bad actors, just bad casting and directing

anyway, juliette lewis

Joan Allen is terrible!

I can't stand Jimmy Stewart, me

Everybody else is totally fine. Even Val Kilmer is pretty cool in my books these days

aw juliette lewis :( love her

Man, Caleb Landry Jones is a good one. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who is both so off-putting and who brings so little to the table.

― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's exactly it! good post. he's been in so much shit lately too. sorta like that domhnall gleeson (who i like, he was even good in mother!)

old lunch nailed it

Can't stand Benedict Cumberbatch ever since I saw his hacky performance in the Imitation Game. Classic mediocre brit that gets a lot of cred in the US just for seeming british in a sterotypically british way.

I also never like DiCaprio in anything. I think he looks like Peter Pan.

Tom Hanks, easily.

he's horrible to look at. not that I think actors have to be good looking but he looks like a dirty ned that you'd see in Maryhill shopping centre.

also the one true answer to this is bradley cooper, who has the cold dead eyes of a killer

Audrey Hepburn.

I would've said Vince Vaughn but he was great in Brawl in Cell Block 99

I used to really hate that insidious Footlights crew of actors/comedians/smug Brit no-marks during the late 80's/90's and still think Branagh/Laurie/Fry are complete cunts. Emma Thompson seems likeable enough these days as a person, even though she seems to have reduced herself to continuity Mary Poppins franchise type stuff as an actor, she is no way as hate-able as the rest of those arsewipes.

Michael Moriarty, terrible actor.

Dozens of British actors.

It's too late now to say it without sounding reactionary, but I've hated Kevin Spacey since American Beauty.

there are no bad actors, just bad casting and directing

sort of agree with this but sort of think acting is rubbish really, part Hitchcock and part Pasolini in my respect for their craft.

there's a bloke who specializes in playing furrow-browed working class blokes in ITV dramas whose name escapes me at the moment but I dislike his shtick.

how I enjoy actors is basically whether I find their shtick watchable or not I guess.

actually most people who specialize in post Jimmy McGovern grim northernisms tend to dismay me

Michael Moriarty, terrible actor.

Disagree, he's great in quite a few Larry Cohen movies.

agreed

my go-to example of good casting of a supposedly "bad" actor (a topic that could fuel a whole other thread) is hayden christensen in shattered glass

probably lots of mediocre to bad actors in Bresson movies who never did much else, but they don't subtract from how fantastic his movies are at all.

there are no bad actors, just bad casting and directing

This is kinda my line these days, or I'd like to think it is, but I think it is still natural to have an actor or two that you HATE

But yeah, we've all seen films that get a great performance out of non-actors or actors that don't normally turn out good performances

oh wait the real answer is this is john hannah

john hannah u cunt i’m calling u out, come to the bins behind govan asda at 4pm tomorrow for an arse-kicking

what if you end up fighting James Nesbitt by mistake?

gtfo he's great in A Touch of Cloth and Spartacus (so basically wherever he gets free license to ham it up) xp

oh god it was staring me in the face Martin Freeman from hell's heart I stab at thee

I really struggle to separate Bradley Cooper and Gerard Butler in my head

I don't hate CLJ the way everyone else seems to. I mean, he appals me, but I found him effective in everything cited so far. I get the hate tho, it's annoying to get the sense that e thinks he's doing all this amazing work with his actory acting when really he just naturally makes people's skin crawl

(Actually the first thing that I saw him in I WAS like "wtf is this guy doing?" but that was that shitty mcdonagh flick and everything in that was terrible)

My fave CLJ moment is his bit in the Florida project because it contains this classic (overdue) exchange:

CLJ: *mumbles*
Defoe: What?

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my go-to example of good casting of a supposedly "bad" actor (a topic that could fuel a whole other thread) is hayden christensen in shattered glass

― Simon H., Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:53 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is super OTM. I'm not sure, based on the work I've seen, that I'd even call Christensen a functional actor, but he's great in Shattered Glass.

Mentioned before but Michael Douglas for me. He gives me this sort of self-righteous creep vibes... makes me want to slap him every time I see him on screen. I can’t watch any movie he’s a lead in.

John Hannah seconded. Also Keira Knightley is terrible.

Also Johnny Depp. I didn’t mind they guy before but in the past 15 years or so he’s become an insufferable twat (maybe he always was but he is too lazy to hide it nowadays). Also it seems that he can’t act without wearing makeup or a wig.

Don't hate him but never thought he was much good tbh.

Depp was good before he got lazy - Ed Wood, Dead Man, etc. Also, acting with prosthetics, makeup etc is still acting!

lol xpost!
he gives an excellent fantasy of Ed Wood (in Ed Wood) and he's absolutely fine in Dead Man.

I wouldn't say I hate him but I never understood how Michael Moriarty kept getting hired for things.

I saw a very brief snippet of Adrien Brody in Peaky Blinders last night and immediately thought, this guy is always terrible.

We're agreed on Adrien Brody at least because I never liked Depp in Ed Wood either.

everybody in perfume/cologne adverts is reliably terrible

all of these people are dumb except for denzel and the rock and vin diesel. which is why i mostly watch chinese movies now. or t.v. shows with more interesting actors in them. i want to live in a charlize-less world.

https://www.fandango.com/famous-actors-and-actresses

what if you end up fighting James Nesbitt by mistake?

i want to live in a charlize-less world.

this is the most offtm take I have ever seen from you skot

i want to live in a charlize-less world

she's also great in Young Adult

she's boring to me. a big nothing. sorry. it's just how i feel. i just think of other actors who could be so much more compelling when i see her and other pretty people like her in movies. its nice that she is producing some good stuff with her money though. i'm sure she's a really nice person.

i liked fury road but not because of her. lots of people could have played that part.

that is true of virtually all parts!

she's also great in /Young Adult/

Young Adult was an unexpectedly pleasant surprise from top to bottom.

i'm not saying she can't act either. she is just like leo or brad pitt to me. she can be in all kinds of big movies and she's fine but not compelling in any way. to me. obviously. they are big and dull to me. they are faces, basically. but unlike the glamour faces of yore, i am not captivated.

"that is true of virtually all parts!"

yeah but if someone is great/captivating/compelling i don't think of all the people who could have done a better job.

Knightley yes Hepburn yes totally

Bruce Willis

I enjoyed the bit in the 12 Monkeys doc where Gilliam trains Willis out of falling back on specific, stock Willis-isms to get a different sort of performance out of him (whether it measures up to "good" is up for debate)

Dax Shephard

i like bruce willis. i can't really watch him in new straight-to-netflix action movies though. they make me sad.

Ditto. I often find myself thinking back to Owen Glieberman's comparison of him to Bogart in his review of The Last Boy Scout.

Tom Hardy has always sucked and always will suck

Agree with this 1000%.

I actually had to GIS Caleb Landry Jones - never seen him in anything as far as I know.

Oh, and on a side note, Mad Max: Fury Road fucking sucked and its inexplicable popularity fills me with rage.

Forest Whitaker. It's not the bungeye, it's the pomposity, the gormless wonder.

Jack Black, an inexcusable lump of humanity that drags any film he's in down to the level of a cesspool, assuming it wasn't already there.

jack black is the jack white of film.

i'm kinda surprised they haven't made an album together yet.

modding was much more aggressive sixteen years ago huh

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Jim Varney. So one-note.

Jack Black, an inexcusable lump of humanity that drags any film he's in down to the level of a cesspool, assuming it wasn't already there.

he looks more like Josh Brolin

Jim Varney. So one-note.

cracking goal against spurs the other day tho

Good lord I love fury road with the white hot passion of ten thousand warboys.

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he looks more like Josh Brolin