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!
Mel Gibson.
I renamed my cat because of this guy. I don’t really like to change animals names from what it was at the shelter in case they’re used to it, and I have a cat named Mel, who I suspect was named for him because there was another nearby cat in the shelter he came from named “Gibson”.
So I’ve renamed him after Mel Brooks.
Its common for shelters to name the pets themselves, as they don’t always come with one. They might have just been going down common famous names with no real intent behind it. My cat was originally named Miami, and her brothers and sisters all had american city names too.
I just can’t believe he asked Winona Ryder if she was an “oven dodger.” Wtf
I’m sad that I like a film of him, ‘We were soldiers’.
But I like the film because my dad took me to the cinema to see it, not because of the film itself.
Childhood’s trauma stuff and shits, that’s how it is and too bad it’s a Mel Gibson movie 🤷🏻♂️
This is the first one I agree with. Everybody else, they’ve had good ones, and they’ve had bad ones, but their name alone doesn’t ruin anything for me.
I’ve heard there’s some weird stuff around Leto, so that might be worth avoiding him, but I never really paid attention, and I don’t think about that guy at all.
Boss Level looked interesting. When I found out he was in it…nope.
Absolutely. Take your bigoted self and go away Mel.
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
I’m not a fan of Tom Cruise either, but I love Edge of Tomorrow. That might be my only exception
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
I am no fan of Tom Cruise, but his performance in Tropic Thunder is a god damned masterpeice
Take a step back, and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!
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
Be glad Will Smith turned down being Neo in The Matrix… To do Wild Wild West!
Hate the person, love the actor. He’s made loads of good movies, so I can’t complain
Jared Leto
Oh another Tron movie! Oh it’s Jared Leto…
My exact thoughts. Sigh.
NiN doing the soundtrack though. Tempting
I think he nailed the character in Bladerunner 2049, but maybe it suited him so it worked.
All credit goes to the director, as Denis gets top notch performances from every single person in his films.
It probably helped that he had a relatively minor role in it too. The face of his faction of characters in the film was Luv
Saw him in real life once… he yelled “shut your mouths” to his fans chanting for him to come outside. His whole appearance that day and how he treated those around him has forever made me dislike him.
For the most part I’d agree. But he was honestly pretty good in Dallas Buyers Club. Most everything else I can think of is shit.
What about American Psycho, I thought he was fine in that?
Indeed. Forgot about that one.
I mean there’s a list of actors that have ruined their shows for me:
- Danny Masterson
- Bill Cosby
- Kevin Spacey
- James Franco
- Kevin Sorbo
- Tom Cruise
So it’s not really what you asked because these are ones that I used to love and no longer do.
For the dumbest reasons, I can’t enjoy Gal Gadot. Her acting is repellent to me for some reason. Yes, she’s absolutely gorgeous but the acting ain’t great. I also didn’t enjoy Heather Graham’s acting but then I watched her in Scrubs and the role was just perfect. I hated The Rock’s acting as well, but my ex had a crush on him so we watched so many of his movies. Almost all of them shite.
Gadot being pro genocide is a good reason not to support her
I had an internal laugh to myself in the Wonder Woman movie when the Amazons had an Israeli accent. I guess it was easier to train everyone else to mimic her accent than it was for her to not let it slip.
Kevin Spacey has been great or straight up magnificent consistently, lol, is it the moral aspect that disturbs you? I firmly believe (and evidence keeps piling up!) that most Hollywood actresses were couch casted, many boys were touched and the cycle repeats. The entire entertainment industry is compromised and has been for years (check out who taught Diddy his tricks). Nvm the “Hollywood accounting” too, money laundering and all of that.
Basically, if you’re enjoying American media, odds are it was made by someone who’s gonna go straight to Hell, no “Go” no 200 bucks, and bigger odds than whoever is making money out of your purchase/rental is going to an even lower circle, lol. Just pirate it and you take away your contribution to amorality, right?
A lot of actors are terrible people but Kevin Spacey specifically seems to play it up irl for some reason?
After he got booted for the whole thing he started making videos on his YouTube channel telling the world that he would come for them and that they would regret hurting him while in character as a villain from projects he’s worked in in the past.
He’s the only actor I know of that knows exactly why people don’t want to see him and continues to play into that specifically for some reason…
His accusers started dying shortly after he uploaded those videos. Enough so, that the rest dropped their lawsuits.
Kevin Sorbo
A yes, that is an actor. A bad faith actor!
Which Rock movies aren’t shite? I recall enjoying the Rundown, but that was also well before reaching the current saturation point
Moana
lol dude, I watched Baywatch, San Andreas, Rampage, SkyScraper, Jumanji and Central Intelligence from what I remember with my ex. I swear to God those movies get blurred in my mind due to his “samey” character/acting.
I think some of the movies you could argue that aren’t shite of the Rock’s are Rundown, Jumanji, Moana, and maybe some of the Fast and Furious movies. Although, I never really watched those (I’ve only see the first) but other people seem to enjoy them.
What’s the deal with Sorbo?
Oh, he went right-wing religious. I think he was a Jan 6th denier/supporter saying it was antifa. His views on atheists was weird. Like, when he did the Gods Not Dead movie and he was playing an “atheist” he was like, I had to get into the mind of an atheist and be the most despicable person or something.
He’s been a bit looney on Twitter for a while now.
Although I haven’t checked in for a while. I haven’t checked since awkward Hitler took over.
Although I haven’t checked in for a while. I haven’t checked since awkward Hitler took over.
He’s not gotten any better. I think Lucy Lawless might have once again had to call him “peanut”.
Oh he is on Twitter. Gotcha.
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.
It did so well because it was incredibly accurate. Its fantastically written too, which has nothing to do with Sandler.
He just chooses not to. Not sure that’s any better.
Haven’t seen that one. Might check it out.
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.
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.
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.
Jonah hill isn’t a shitty person for not wanting to be referred to as the fat comedian. People only saw him in his personal life in shitty interviews and thats why people think hes an asshole.
Check out the Edgar wright interview, they were very aware of it even when superbad was just coming out. FYI that interview is a bit.
I will definitely take a look at that! Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that this was because of weight. He just ends up coming off as very snooty in a lot of his serious roles to me. He gives villain vibes in those roles, genuinely never watched an interview of him personally tbh.
Apologies I was referring more to popular opinion than your specific opinion. I can’t think of a movie that fits the word snooty though, do you have an example? I could maybe see that from the movie “Don’t worry, he won’t get far on foot”.
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.
2049 is not bad because of (only) Leto.
He was actually good in Requiem.
You can tell my generation has mostly aged out of social media because no one has said Pauly Shore.
What’s wrong with Pauly Shore?
What’s right with Pauly Shore? And please state your age.
Aw man, I already regret asking. Asking about an actor that you only know from 90’s movies is a rookie mistake
He aggressively hit on my sister once
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
Seriously with Will Smith. How am I supposed to see him in some emotional role with depth when all I see is a fragile man who can’t manage his own ego.
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
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.
Uncut Gems was a damn masterpiece, pure stress and anxiety from start to finish. He deserved an Oscar nom for that at the least.
Holy shit idk how I forgot to mention Kevin Hart!
Awkwafina is good in the new black mirror.
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.
Will Ferrel, Jack Black… the rock is rapidly getting there. Jada Plinkett Smith.
Glen Powell.
It’s like he was designed by a committee to make the most generic movie star white man imaginable.
He makes me want to buy a rape alarm, and I’m a man.
I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised at all if he was revealed to not actually exist, and is in fact 100% CGI.
I’m surprised to see no Chris Pratt (or CP, as he likes to be called) in this thread.
But Chris Pratt for me.
Chris Pratt is one of my big ones… Can’t stand the guy
He’s doing ads for some religion based mobile app. He even sucks in those.
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!
Ooof he does know what cp stands for right
I know what it means, but isn’t there a more accurate term (and acronym) that’s being used more now?
Looked it up: CSAM - child sexual abuse material.
Legally yes, but common lexicon persists
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
waow
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… :-/
The Owen Wilson co-written ones are the best by miles. I will fight over this.
Jude Law. He creeps me out so much I can’t watch him. He’s been in the news for domestic abuse which doesn’t surprise me… I shudder watching him
