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.
Came here to say Julia Stiles but you totally beat me to it! I cannot stand any film she is in either. It’s really hard to describe, but your description is spot-on. It’s like an empty husk with makeup has been made to act.
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.
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?
No, the people you mentioned are fine. I think it is something with the nose-chin-cheek combo that I find appalling.
For Jennifer Lawrence it’s a separate thing, we have many similar features (like fat cheeks and hooded eyes) and it creeps me out too much and I get insecure watching her. I keep thinking how weird I must look and reevaluate my makeup the whole time, it’s too stressful.
I also have a thing where I can’t stop thinking of rooster anuses whenever I see Kevin Bacon (his mouth).
I want to emphasize that none of this is meant in a mean spirited way and those people are beautiful the way they are. It’s my brain that makes these associations and I very much disapprove of them.
No reason to be ashamed. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that’s a good thing. But it also means that you can never please everyone. You are happiest when you accept yourself as you are. And never compare you with Hollywood.
My text reads like fortune cookie advice, but it is meant honestly. Have a nice day.
Fuck cavill wolverine i want devito
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.
Yep I think he’s amazing! One of the best actors in the mega famous division
Isn’t he in penguin too? I enjoyed that character quite a lot.
You’re right! I fully forgot about penguin!
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.
Hey klem!
Hey friend! How’s your Friday going?
Pretty good nice and quiet how is it with you?
It’s not my favorite Friday ever - I had to have a colonoscopy this morning 😬 but afterward I had a huge breakfast and a 5 hour nap and I feel like a million bucks now!
Got anything good going on this weekend?
Oh no colonoscopies are never fun! Glad you had a huge breakfast after. I spent the morning running round doing errands and chores but I’m gonna have a boxset afternoon! What about you?
Nice, enjoy! What are you watching?
I’m doing a bunch of housework today and then having my folks over on Sunday for Mother’s Day. It’s absolutely gorgeous out so I might try to get a little gardening in too :)
Absolutely! In Bruges, Banshees of Inisherin, but even older stuff. I am a weirdo and like the 2002 Phone Booth, for example.
Chris Pratt, Jack Black. Melissa McCarthy used to be on the list, but not anymore.
Surprisingly, Kevin Spacey isn’t on there. The man is disgusting, but I really like his work.
What changed with Melissa McCarthy?
I loved her in Spy and Only Murders in the Building but I haven’t seen anything she’s been in for AWHILE otherwise
I can’t stand comedy movies like Spy, or Identity Theft. That’s what made me not like her. Exposure to her roles outside of that typecast changed my opinion. Like Only Murders. I also thought she made a very good Ursula.
Spy was a movie that felt like it was making fun of her other roles in a way that made me enjoy it. The subversive aspect was good. I fully understand why it wouldn’t appeal to someone else though since it literally is the same character she’s played in a ton of other stuff.
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.
He needs to start subverting peoples expectations of him. Do a horror film and be the murderer or be a shitty corporate CEO or something.
Jonah hill
Jon Hamm might have bodies hidden somewhere. That guy sets off so many red flags for me, but is beloved by everyone. I’m telling you, I’m pretty sure he might be evil.
I think just that the boring kind where you divorce your partner after becoming successful
Will Ferrell. He gives me the creeps and he isn’t funny.
He plays an immature man-child in almost every single role. I didn’t find it funny the first time and I haven’t found it funny the 50th.
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”.
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
It’s true he’s been awful since Queer as Folk, but if you’ve heard his normal speaking voice in The Gentlemen it’s kind of understandable that his character accents always sound a bit forced.
Shia LeBeouf, though he’s mostly gone away at this point.
He’s following you, about 30 feet back.
Normal Tuesday night.
Actual cannibal, Shia LeBeouf…
Well, now I need to watch it again.
JUST DO IT
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.
The walking dead is ridiculously awful. Theres always a show like that out though. Yellowstone was pretty recent. Greys anatomy. Right now I think 911 qualifies. Horrible writing but somehow crazy popular.
Amber Heard, Will Ferrell, Rodney Dangerfield, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Poor guy can’t get no respect
Maybe he could have tried being funny.
Adam Sandler
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.
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.
Not a specific performer, but I avoid the It Girl stuff like the plague.
Sydney Sweeney, Jenna Ortega, Selina Gomez, those types where they’re going to be super hot products for a few years while they’re young and then they fall off once they age out of prime fuckability. I find it super disturbing, it’s like a sword is hovering over them.
