Ted Danson. I liked him as Sam Malone on Cheers and watched him for years. Anything else he’s done over the years I dislike. I don’t care for him acting at all.
John Travolta. I was never into his Vinnie Barbarino character or his Saturday Night Fever phase. The only thing I liked him in was Pulp Fiction. Everything after that was abysmal.
It’s not a matter of my hating him in everything else, but I don’t think that Timothy Bottoms was very interesting except The Last Picture Show, a great film. This was the second movie that he was in. He was O.K. in the first movie he was in, Johnny Got His Gun, and the fifth movie he was in, The Paper Chase. The rest of his career has been in obscure films and T.V. shows which I mostly haven’t seen. Later in his career someone noticed that he looked like George W. Bush, so he played him a couple of times. Most of my favorite films have little to do with a favorite actor being in them. It’s just that the lead (and sometimes the other actors) are exactly right for that role. For instance, I can’t imagine that Roddy Piper was particularly good in his other films, but he was so well cast in They Live that it’s a great film.
Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, and I suppose, in a similar vein, Everything Must Go. Any of his other movies you would have to pay me to get me to see them again.
I’ve seen Ted Danson in relatively few things, actually (Cheers, the 3 Men and a Baby franchise, Made in America), but I haven’t really cared for his persona in anything in except The Good Place.
Yep. Watching him do comedy feels like watching someone have a manic breakdown. But I loved him in the Truman Show and he was pretty good in Eternal Sunshine. And now he’s an anti-Vaxxer with some other very odd beliefs, which also puts me off him.