Actors/Actresses You Can't Stand

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I don’t care one way or the other about the folks already mentioned here. The one actor I absolutely loathe is Ranjit Chowdhry — the skinny, abrasive, self-important, annoying twerp from Mississippi Masala, The Perez Family, and Fire (and other such roles that were minor where he played the same character). The exception that proves the rule was his role in Such a Long Journey, where for a change he was not so irritating.

But what shows him up is the contrast with Vijay Raaz in Monsoon Wedding, playing the event planner P. K. Dubey who munched on marigolds and fell in love. At the start of the movie, Vijay Raaz looked exactly like a skinny twerp Ranjit Chowdhry character, but then transformed himself into something much better, an excellent performance that deserves some sort of award.

(I guess you can tell I watch Indian movies more than American ones.)

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Russell Crowe above all others. That man needs to be eliminated from the face of the earth–an the worst thing is I’ll be FORCED to see him in The Far Side of the World because Billy Boyd and Paul Bettany are in it!

Also VERY high on my list are David Schwimmer, Adam Sandler, and whoever the HELL that WOMAN is on Will and Grace… Whoever plays Karen. She can burn for all eternity.

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I cannot stand Michael Caine. I know he’s talented, but ever since I saw Blame it on Rio way back when I’ve despised him. Hannah and Her Sisters reinforced my revulsion. He’s just got a smarmy aura about him. A smaura, if you will. (Donald Sutherland occasionally provokes a similar reaction.)

I haven’t seen her in a while, but Juliette Lewis annoyed the hell outta me. She had a space cadet voice that made her seem like the female counterpart to Keanu Reeves. In the Cape Fear remake, she acts much younger than her character is supposed to be. OTOH, I liked her in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

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Well, obviously Jim Carrey.

Grossly overrated:

Tom Cruise (always the “cocky, young, _________”)
Julia Roberts
Richard Gere

Too easy to hate:

Adam Sandler
Tom Green
Pauly Shore

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As best I can tell I am the first person to mention(shudder) Vanessa Redgrave.

But topping my all time hate list is another actress new to this thread. I can’t believe she hasn’t been mentioned. Jane(The Traitor) Fonda.

Oh, and to those who are wondering who the first Batman was, that’s Michael Keaton, who I thought did a good job in Much Ado About Nothing.

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I could say ‘DITTO’ on almost every one of these entries. My picks:

Sam Waterston - an arrogant butthead who can’t speak unless he’s jiggling his head. He makes the “moving camera” unnecessary. He’s ruined every movie/tv show I’ve seen him in. I can’t explain my dislike of him, but there’s a rubber hose with his name on it.

Jim Carrey - I’ve actually enjoyed some of his stuff (Man in the Moon), but his constant face-contorting is too much for me.

Martin Lawrence - Very similar to Jim Carrey, a one-trick-pony who doesn’t make me laugh. I’m also tired of looking up his nostrils.

Ben Stiller - Is it just me, or does this guy look like a chimpanzee?

Nick Cage - He plays the same character in every movie… a stoned, slow talking loser with his eyes half-shut. The problem is, most of his roles call for something else.

Tom Green - Someone PLEASE explain his career. Why isn’t he bagging groceries at the Safeway?

Drew Barrymore - a no-talent twit who’s not even attractive. I can’t understand why she continues to get movies. I know no one who likes her.

Melanie Griffith - Another idiot whose career is a mystery. Can someone say “casting couch”? She sounds so stupid when she speaks… an instant channel changer.

David Schwimmer - He’ll never play anything but a loser.

Jennifer Aniston - I can’t stand her.

Halle Berry - the most overrated actress in Hollywood. Think she has talent? Go rent Swordfish. Sure she’s great to look at, but that’s not enough.

Cameron Diaz - Overrated actress #2.

Julia Roberts - Too much mouth.

and from the old fart department (i.e. your career is over, stop it!)

Jack Nicholson
Michael Douglas
Mary Tyler Moore
Sean Connery
Woody Allen
Farrah Fawcet
Wow. That’s off the top of my head. And I watch a lot of movies, too.

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Mike Myers. I used to like this guy, and I still like some of the stuff he used to do on Saturday Night Live. But now he’s everywhere doing either a horrible British accent or a horrible Scottish accent. I’ve hated him ever since the second “Austin Powers” movie got so much hype.

“Yeeaaahhhh BABY! YEEAAAHHHH!” Shut the fuck up, Austin. We’re sick of you already.

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Gwenneth Paltrow. I don’t know HER, but of her acting? I can’t stand any of her characters I’ve seen so far. They (she’s) so un-lifelike.

She can’t act, other than being this bored/depressed/possibly on some narcotic “cooler than thou” persona.

And always has this “mealymouthed” look about her. She’s like poached eggs on wonderbread toast, pale and unnappetizing.

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Can’t agree ENOUGH with these two choices.

Woody Allen= PERV!!

Martha Stewart…

As if her whole “homemade potpourri” persona weren’t bad enough, I TRULY began to loathe her when, in answer to a question by a college senior at which Ms. Stewart gave a graduation speech (paraphrased, the senior asked Ms. Stewart how she justified making out as if every woman could and should be super woman, working, making crafts, minding the kids etc, when not everyone had servants etc to do the dirty work like Ms. Stewart herself did) .

Martha’s “understanding” advice? “Get over it”.

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Andie MacDowell
Lara Flynn Boyle
Mary Steenburgen
Calista Flockhart

Ick.

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Yes, I did mean Growing Pains. Thank you, Lilly.

I must say, this is the first time I’ve been taken for male on the SDMB, though. :smiley:

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Barbra Streisand tops my list.

Though for smirking, leering and preening you can’t beat

Michael Douglas
George Clooney &
Kevin Costner

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Martin Lawrence - I hate this guy, didn’t like him in Martin (What’s Up) got on my nerves, I can not see him in movies, because I Loathe that guy.

I tired of Jennifer Lopez, I am tired of the “I’m just a girl from the Bronx”, no if you were you would be working in a grocery store, still in your first marriage and have 2.5 kids already.

I am tired of Creed, I wish these guys would go away, every time I turn on the radio it blares “With Arms Wide Open”, what happened to bands who put out an Album, and then tour for a couple of years, yea get radio play, then drop of the earth for a while, and come back with new stuff in 3-5 years.

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Oh and JLo - How many guys are you going to go through in your lifetime?

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Ok, so it seems to me that I shouldn’t be pissed that some of you hate my favorate actors because it seem every actor is hated by at least ONE person in SDMB. :smiley:

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William Hurt - I don’t get what people see in him. He’s the only actor I’ve ever seen who somehow manages to be wooden AND melodramatic at the same time. When they hire you for a crappy movie like Lost in Space, don’t act like you’re playing freakin’ Hamlet.

Nicholas Cage - Ugh! Made a career out of being weird.

Jim Carey - Sorry man, you are just overdoing it.

Michael Keaton - Has this guy EVER been in a good movie?

Jim Belushi - I don’t think I need to say anything.

Jeff Goldblum - What is this guy ON?

Adam Sandler - I’m convinced he made a deal with the devil. How else could a hack like that ever get a job?

Melanie Griffith - Just plain annoying.

Samuel Jackson - Sorry, man; you just suck.

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Mickey Rourke, for being an IRA terrorist.