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!
Kevin Hart
Ryan Reynolds (other than Deadpool)
Will Smith, after that slapping Chris Rock nonsense
Oh and (am Asian and tried to give her a chance but) Akwafina makes me cringe
Honorable mention: Adam Sandler makes me very wary. I get that he likes making movies with friends, but goddang his lows are low. Although recently I thought Uncut Gems was good
Awkwafina is good in the new black mirror.
I +1 that Will Smith sentiment.
I feel like a hypocrite somewhat, since I’m aware of other actors who did far worse things and yet I’m not as put off in a similar manner. I guess it’s easier to separate the art from the artist in some people more than others…
He was great in action/comedy big blockbuster flicks but that Oscar slap made him super insecure and uncool. Like he lost his swag. Will Smith doesn’t sell that he’s That Guy anymore
Holy shit idk how I forgot to mention Kevin Hart!
Uncut Gems was a damn masterpiece, pure stress and anxiety from start to finish. He deserved an Oscar nom for that at the least.
Agree with the Awkwafina sentiment, I think for me it’s that she got famous for her music/comedy (not sure which had the most impact in her career) then slipped into acting like Kevin Hart and other comedians tend to do.
Not that it shouldn’t be done, but I feel like she hasn’t really proven herself on screen. Also, the Awkwafina moniker is a bit detrimental if being taken seriously on stage is her goal.
Amber Heard, Will Ferrell, Rodney Dangerfield, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Poor guy can’t get no respect
Maybe he could have tried being funny.
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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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I don’t switch anything off faster than when Danny McBride shows up
Two things I can stand him in: tropic thunder and this is the end.
For me, it was American Ultra. Couldn’t get past the first 10 minutes.
I used to think he was just a crass asshole but after watching and then loving Righteous Gemstones, he grew on me. Gemstones is such a crazy, hilarious, and satisfying show and the fact that he created/showran it changed my mind about 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.
Tom Hanks. I’m not sure why, as he seems like a perfectly nice person, and even a good actor. But I just find him incredibly irritating for some reason.
I don’t know the man but somehow Tom Hanks gives me the “very freaky but very good at hiding it” vibes. 🤷
Yes, exactly! There’s a darkness there. Probably.
Tom Cruise
This. I’m sure Mission Impossible series are entertaining action movies, but I really can’t stand looking at his smug face.
I’m a huge fan of the original Mission Impossible TV series from the 60’s and 70’s. I’ve watched the entire series a few times now. I can’t stand what Cruise did to the franchise, especially since he basically plays the same thrill seeking character in all his recent movies.
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 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.
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.
Charlie Hunnam is not good, has a silly face, and cannot deliver lines.
Oof a lot of ppl like him
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
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.
Will Ferrell. He gives me the creeps and he isn’t funny.
Kevin Hart- doesn’t act, plays himself but doesn’t lean into that like Ryan Reynolds does. Will Smith- more of the above in recent years Jonah Hill- something inside me screams asshole every time I look at him Tom Cruise- he can take his propaganda elsewhere.
Shia LeBeouf, though he’s mostly gone away at this point.
He’s following you, about 30 feet back.
Actual cannibal, Shia LeBeouf…
Well, now I need to watch it again.
He’s awesome in Fury, as everyone is in that movie
That movie changed my mind on Jon Bernthal, he was so good in it. I had only seen him in the first season of Walking Dead and thought he was pretty bad. I think most of that was just the show though, the dialogue was terrible.
That was a surprise, usually hate him
Henry Cavill. I’ve got nothing against him, I just can’t stand his face.
I CANT STAND THAT I DONT GET TO TOUCH HIS FACE
I have that face thing with Patrick Swayze and Meryl Streep. And the girl from Dirty Dancing. I am working on getting over Jennifer Lawrence’s face. All these people are surely somewhat good actors but there is something about their faces that I cannot stand and it makes it impossible for me to focus on the plot. I just made it through Silver Linings Playbook today, finally, it was hard but I am glad I managed, Lawrence did a good job and I forgot about her face for almost 30% of the time. One day I will manage to watch more than 15 minutes of Dirty Dancing.
Is it the jaw/chin? How about Kurt Russell, Bruce Campbell, Jay Leno, Wings Hauser, Richard Kiel or Robert Z’Dar?
Fuck cavill wolverine i want devito
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.
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.
@notgivingmynametoamachine Come on. “Valley Girl” was a classic 😎 Fer sure Fer sure.
