I can’t stand Ben Stiller. I don’t know if it’s his persona, or his choice of roles, or what, but I can’t take the undertone of angry hatefulness in his comedy. I want him to go pure dramatic with a role as, like, a killer or rapist. I think he’d be terrifying.
Look at who his mother is – the end of every Anne Meara’s sounds as if she thinking about that sharp straight razor she’s got waiting for her to use in the next room, even in comedies.
I’ll dance along with you. Can’t stand him. Creeeeeeeeepy old sonofabitch.
Someone mentioned Steven Seagal, in the context of “actor”. No, no, no, a thousand times no. He is not an actor.
He is a . . . human-like animated object. He looks like, if you poked him with your (gloved, hopefully) finger, your finger would sink in. All the way.
Ick. Ick. Ick.
leaves the thread to toss her cookies
ooo Good one! I forgot him! Add Ben Stiller to my list.
Thank you. I LOL’d.
But it’s still Sarah Jessica “HORSEFACE” Parker.
And as for Jamie Lee Curtis: hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little hermaphrodite!
Mute button?
Yeah, I’ve thought about that. Maybe she’d mostly unrecognizable in the pretty costumes and without the voice.
I based it on the movie “Fracture”, which I saw him sleepwalk through recently. Range of emotion: zero, unless you consider smirking every five minutes to be great acting. Perhaps he’s better in other vehicles.
I’ll also add Ben Stiller. Also, what’s her name that was in that god-awful movie with him. The dyed blond with no talent except the sad attempts at a sexy look. My memory is gone.
David Caruso.
Julia Roberts comes pretty close.
His wife, in Zoolander?
Cameron Diaz?
Jennifer Anniston?
Angelina Jolie. But that’s mostly because I’m convinced that she’s too stupid to have been actually duped by her lawyers when she adopted her first child. Which leaves me believing she knew she was buying a black market baby, from a baby ring. Even while she was spewing public statements in support of both the people she was working with, and for the moratorium on all other international adoptions from that same country. (I think Thailand, but I don’t care enough, now, to actually Google the information.)
To a lesser degree I’m glad that none of these other stars have done any work recently that I really felt I wanted to see, so I could avoid trying to enjoy the film while cringing at the star:
Woody Allen
Tom Cruise
(can’t think of the others on my list, but I’m sure they’re there. Somewhere.)
Sean Astin? Yes! I am not alone! Can’t stand the smug little bastard!
Let’s form a club! Woo-hoo!
Probably topping my list of “actors who will unconditionally make me not see their movies” are Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise. The former because she gets (or did get in the '90s-early 2000’s) an obnoxious amount of media hype for movies that I don’t like in the first place (romantic comedies, mostly), and the latter because…well. You know. He’s…a Friend of Xenu. Plus - my fellow ladies - he’s not THAT good looking, so you can stop drooling over your Jerry Maguire poster now (okay, maybe that just applies to my college roommate…).
Other than that…I’m not a fan of Mel Gibson on principle, but it seems that a lot of people are. Then there are a bunch of actors whom I don’t really dislike, but don’t rock my world, either, despite the press that they get. Typical of this category is Orlando Bloom. He did a decent job in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but fantasy-type elves aren’t supposed to have a lot of emotional range anyway, so I dunno. I wasn’t crazy about him in the Pirates movies at all, though…and I heard that Disney is supposedly developing a Pirates of the Caribbean 4 WITHOUT the Elizabeth and Will characters. Hmmm.
However, I generally give a lot of leeway to movies because there are a tremendous amount of actors that I DO like, including some listed in this thread. However, when the field is expanded to TV actors (and characters), I find myself shying away from several more. One example is Vincent D’Onofrio from Law & Order: CI. His character’s whole schtick of “is he brilliant or is he just nuts?” gets on my nerves. Maybe it would work better in a movie, but not every week.
Angelina Jolie’s first baby was a black market baby? That’s the first I heard of that…
Michael Douglas. I don’t know what it is, I can’t stand him. When he has a kissing scene I feel repulsed and have to look away, which is odd because I’m a guy.
Chris Tucker is remarkably annoying. In the last ten years he’s made three films: all Rush Hour movies. Does he do anything else? Stand-up comedy?
Sarah Jessica Parker.
The only movie she should be in is Seabiscuit. I swear, I become mentally un-stable when I see her face. I don’t want to spur on a controversial discussion here with such an unbridled show of disgust, but seriously, I’m about to call in the cavalry. It would really behoove this woman to stay out of films in the future. I’m not alone, either - a Gallop poll showed that 96 percent of American men, and just as many Arabians, think that she is hideous. I hate to trot out statistics like this, but hay, I have to.
After reading this and what you’ve written in the “Sarah Jessica Parker” thread, I think you need to stop beating a dead horse.
Christine Baransky and Renee Zellwegger.
I don’t hate them; I just can’t stand looking at them.
Kevin Costner is proof positive that an evil force is at work in the world.
The Postman had one of the most astonishing and original concepts of recent times - mailmen (and women and boys and girls) coming to the rescue of civilization!
And that slimy absolutely-not-an-actor-even-by-any-BAD-definition-of-the-word winds up as lead…I don’t have the heart to look it up and see what influence he had on the screenplay.