# Actors/resses that makes you NOT want to see a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 23, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077 "2024-08-23T01:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/81 "2024-08-23T21:58:27Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Cameron Diaz, I actually do like her but for some reason I can’t unsee a red inflammation around her mouth area. I know it is not really there, but my brain just sees it. This must be a joke. You’re mocking silly reasons to dislike an actor, right? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/82 "2024-08-23T22:16:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What’s next- Jimmy Stewart? Morgan Freeman? Betty White? Meryl Streep She’s arguably the greatest actress of her generation. Doesn’t mean I have to like her to acknowledge that fact. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/83 "2024-08-23T22:38:20Z")
No matter what role she’s playing, all I can see is Meryl Streep pretending to be someone else. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/84 "2024-08-23T23:19:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > This must be a joke. You’re mocking silly reasons to dislike an actor, right? No, I really like her! I have no idea why I see that. My brain is telling me that makeup is hiding acne. I just looked her up and it says she struggles with adult acne. I may have seen a tabloid shot of her with a breakout but I don’t recall it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/85 "2024-08-23T23:28:36Z")
Eddie Redmayne. I’m not a violent man, but there’s just something about his face that makes me want to punch him. (I also think that he’s one of those actors who always seems like he’s trying too hard). ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/86 "2024-08-23T23:32:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What’s next- Jimmy Stewart? Terrible actor, that insipid stutter. Good pilot, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/87 "2024-08-23T23:46:02Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > What’s next- Jimmy Stewart? > > Terrible actor, that insipid stutter. I’m now picturing a behind-the-scenes clip of him delivering a long and enthusiastic impromptu speech that’s as rapid as it is smooth — until he gets called to the set, and has to put a lot of effort into earning his latest paycheck by _acting_ like a stuttering stammerer. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/88 "2024-08-24T00:12:47Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m now picturing a behind-the-scenes clip of him delivering a long and enthusiastic impromptu speech that’s as rapid as it is smooth — until he gets called to the set, and has to put a lot of effort into earning his latest paycheck by _acting_ like a stuttering stammerer. John Oliver on Jimmy Stewart: “He was a bad actor,” Oliver said before taking a swipe at Old Hollywood. “They were all pretty bad back then, but he was especially bad.” > **[John Oliver Calls Jimmy Stewart a 'Bad Actor' in Segment on Filibuster Reform...](https://www.thewrap.com/john-oliver-calls-jimmy-stewart-a-bad-actor-in-segment-on-filibuster-reform-video/)** > > "They were all pretty bad back then, but he was especially bad," "Last Week Tonight" host said of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/89 "2024-08-24T01:03:06Z")
Speaking of punchable faces. That guy is unlistenable. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/90 "2024-08-24T01:11:05Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Carrey was perfect in _The Truman Show,_ and put in a solid performance in _The Majestic_. I think his best role was in _The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind._ I avoided that movie for ages just because of him. But I ended up loving it once I saw it. Tom Cruise for me. He’s a hack actor with two expressions (mostly, a look of constipation), and he’s high up in scientology trying to intice poor suckers into the cult scam. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/91 "2024-08-24T01:48:01Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Yep. And Matt Damon. Mostly it’s their looks. I guess many women go for that blunt thick-faced type but I find it really ugly. Mark Hamill also has that face. > [@DCnDC](#): > > Julia Roberts. I’ve always found her quite unattractive and she just doesn’t make movies I want to see. I disagree with most in this thread, but these are the most disagreeable. I watch plenty of actors I don’t find “attractive”, but that doesn’t make them bad actors. I never knew attractiveness was a gatekeep to drama club. Where would you rank Paul Giamatti and Steve Buscemi in the looks department? And no disrespect to those two! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/92 "2024-08-24T01:58:08Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Where would you rank Paul Giamatti and Steve Buscemi in the looks department? And no disrespect to those two! Paul Giamatti and Steve Buscemi are never cast in roles in which their attractiveness is a plot point. She was literally the title character in a movie called “Pretty Woman.” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/93 "2024-08-24T02:07:46Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > She was literally the title character in a movie called “Pretty Woman.” So you’d like her if she weren’t portraying a purported good-looking woman? I should add, I don’t enjoy many of her performances myself. She comes off to me as too full of herself. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/94 "2024-08-24T02:24:53Z")
For starters: Woody Allen Rowan Atkinson Chevy Chase Dane Clark Louis de Funès Whoopi Goldberg Ethel Merman Pat O’Brien Martha Raye Ginger Rogers Sylvester Stallone Jimmy Stewart Lino Ventura John Wayne ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/95 "2024-08-24T02:46:38Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Leonardo DiCaprio makes me wanna barf. Not barf, but definitely want to avoid. Fortunately my husband agrees with me. However, we did have to suffer through him with Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. Also no interest in seeing a movie with Tom Cruise or Will Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/96 "2024-08-24T03:07:29Z")
There are a number of actors I don’t think much of, and some that I will watch even though they won’t ever get an award. But the one I despise, will absolutely NOT watch if she’s in a film, is Jane Fonda. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/97 "2024-08-24T04:41:12Z")
I detest Woody Allen. I’ve sat through a couple of his movies, and have no wish to see any more. I also intensely dislike Diane Keaton, simply because she sunk so low as to bang Woody Allen. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/98 "2024-08-24T05:02:40Z")
Vin Diesel, anyone? How about Randolf Scott? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/99 "2024-08-24T05:07:48Z")
**Definitely** Meryl Streep. “Look at me and my accent!” Tom Hanks. I have disliked him since his **Bosom Buddies** days. And if you want an actress with an annoying voice, look at Emily Procter. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077/100 "2024-08-24T05:14:07Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > That’s exactly why I won’t watch it. > > I like Jim Carrey when someone has a leash on him and a firm grip. I liked The Mask and Liar, Liar. > > **But I hate people acting stupid for comedy** Ditto. Most of Jim Carrey’s films are that, although he was good in _The Truman Show_. I’ll usually avoid his films. But your post reminded of someone who acted stupid for comedy in the 1980s. Dudley Moore. SOOO annoying! > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > I’ll raise my hand for Robin Williams. Yes, I know he’s considered one of the greats, but his acting has always rubbed me the wrong way. To use a phrase made famous by _Family Guy_, he seems to “insist upon himself”. He’s not overtly preachy, **but none the less he comes across to me as being holier than thou in everything I’ve seen him in** , even when he plays a villain like the time he was a guest star on _Law & Order SVU_. > > As far as the others you mention, I enjoy watching the rest of those actors, with the exception of Will Smith in _Men In Black_, although that’s due to the movie, not his acting. Curious, have you seen him in _Good Will Hunting_? If so, your thoughts about him there? > [@Alessan](#): > > Eddie Redmayne. I’m not a violent man, but there’s just something about his face that makes me want to punch him. > > (I also think that he’s one of those actors who always seems like he’s trying too hard). Yeah, now that you mention it his face is definitely hittable. So, no mention of this guy yet? He’s one I definitely avoid. Matt Dillon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-resses-that-makes-you-not-want-to-see-a-movie/1006077.md?page=6)