# Actors that just rub you the wrong way **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935 "2003-08-27T07:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/21 "2003-08-27T14:20:57Z")
Bill Cosby. His “mugging” and self-aggrandizement annoy the hell out of me. Oh yeah and he’s a racist. (Tawana Brawley, anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/22 "2003-08-27T14:58:06Z")
I forgot Billy Bob Thorton - Weirdo and Creepy. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/23 "2003-08-27T15:10:23Z")
Adam Sandler, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez. Annoying, annoying and fucking annoying. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/24 "2003-08-27T15:10:59Z")
calm kiwi- if you hate Edward Woodward, you’ll love THE WICKER MAN. Just stay with it (or FF if you must) to the end. BUT YOU MUST WATCH EVERY CHRISTOPHER LEE SCENE!!! Now someone is going to say “Christopher Lee” and then I must kill. ---
**Author:** ![toque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@toque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toque)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/25 "2003-08-27T15:24:50Z")
I will not, WILL NOT, watch any movie with Matthew McConaughey (sp?) in it. He makes me want to torch orphanages. If Orson Welles came back from the dead to direct a movie, and used him as an extra, I would not watch it. And a second vote for Julia Roberts. Though _Confessions of a Dangerous Mind_ softened me a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/26 "2003-08-27T15:25:09Z")
I can NOT stand: Julia Roberts Sandra Bullock and Cameron Diaz Nothing they do can make me like their style of acting or their persona of being a “movie star” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/27 "2003-08-27T16:12:47Z")
Julia Roberts and I know this is not going to be popular… Christopher Walken. Apparently people find him “scary” but the poor man just looks wooden and sickly to me. Find him a place to lie down! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/28 "2003-08-27T16:14:46Z")
also Clint Eastwood! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/29 "2003-08-27T16:33:12Z")
David Spade: unfunny and whiny Dana Carvey: never was funny, is still not funny, can’t act Gary Busey: complete asshole; has done _nothing_ of merit since Buddy Holly Adam Sandler: see comments on Dana Carvey Julia Roberts: Why is this person relentlessly referred to as ‘beautiful’? She should be running at Santa Anita. Jeremy Irons: how did this guy ever get into show business? William Hurt: It hurts to watch him. How does staring moodily into space qualify as ‘acting’? Any of the McCulkin brats. Melanie Griffith: okay when she keeps her mouth shut Jennifer Tilly: omg, omg, omg; her presence in films is a complete mystery to me ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/30 "2003-08-27T16:37:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chefguy \* > \*\*William Hurt: It hurts to watch him. How does staring moodily into space qualify as ‘acting’? > \*\* Amen to that - he must have compromising photos of movie execs because he constantly gets work. To make matters worse he keeps getting cast into movies that I had been looking forward to and winds up ruining them for me … Lost in Space and Dune miniseries to name a few!! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/31 "2003-08-27T16:52:53Z")
Barbra Streisand: Bitch, get thee away from me. Christian Slater: All that ego from one good movie? Ethan Hawke: Makes my boot itch. I’d like to punt him over a hedge. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/32 "2003-08-27T16:53:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chefguy \* > \*\* > Julia Roberts: Why is this person relentlessly referred to as ‘beautiful’? She should be running at Santa Anita. > \*\* Anddd, coming along the front stretch, it’s Water Boy, Julia Roberts, andd Sonofman… (On a serious note, Christopher Walken has some power, but he lost it when he, in the late 1980’s or so, started to appear in every film that would give him $50 and a burrito. In addition, I don’t like child actors as a group.) …It’s at the wire…they’re coming…and it’s Julia Roberts, with Santa Fe in second, Calistoga, Water Boy, and, bringing up the rear, Sonofman. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/33 "2003-08-27T16:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by toque \* > \*\*I will not, WILL NOT, watch any movie with Matthew McConaughey (sp?) in it. He makes me want to torch orphanages. If Orson Welles came back from the dead to direct a movie, and used him as an extra, I would not watch it. > > And a second vote for Julia Roberts. Though _Confessions of a Dangerous Mind_ softened me a little bit. \*\* Oh no! I think **toque** is reading my mind!! Those are the two I would nominate in a heartbeat. Especially Matthew McConaughey. His smug, smarmy little smirk makes me want to get violent! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/34 "2003-08-27T17:01:01Z")
**Dung Beetle** it appears we should go to the movies together 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DeskMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DeskMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeskMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/35 "2003-08-27T17:15:03Z")
**Elliot Gould** completely skeeves me out. I don’t know why, but he makes me uneasy. Uncomfortable, even. I can’t stand to look at him or to hear his voice. My mom is the same way about **Mickey Rooney**. Both of us can’t help but let out a loud “Uuuuuuggghghhh!!” of disgust when we see our respective skeezers. I would like to put **Jim Carey** and **Robin Williams** into a burlap sack together and toss them into the ocean rather than to ever have to catch another glimps of either one. The red-faced guy from _Twister_ who has since become the critics’ darling, whatsisname? **Philip Seymour Hoffman**. blech. I hate that guy. He actually angers me. I’ll take another sack for **Winona Ryder** and **Christina Ricci** , please. Only this time, I’m heading for a volcanoe. I’m sure there will be room in there for **Heather Graham** as well. Oh, and the highly interchangable **Bill Paxton** and **Bill Pullman**. It just annoys me that no matter how many movies they are in, I will never be able to tell them apart. Two pieces of blank cardboard. I think a roll of Bounty paper towels could out-act them. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/36 "2003-08-27T17:28:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BwanaBob \* > \*\*Amen to that - William Hurt must have compromising photos of movie execs because he constantly gets work. To make matters worse he keeps getting cast into movies that I had been looking forward to and winds up ruining them for me … > > Lost in Space and Dune miniseries to name a few!! \*\* Sorry for the self quote but — AHHHHH! I just found out that this son-of-a-bitch is starring in the next M. Night Shyamalan film “The Woods”. Somebody do something! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/37 "2003-08-27T17:36:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Dung Beetle it appears we should go to the movies together OK, but I’ve got a feeling I’m not in your neighborhood! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/38 "2003-08-27T17:38:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Dung Beetle it appears we should go to the movies together OK, but I’ve got a feeling I’m not in your neighborhood! ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/39 "2003-08-27T17:44:27Z")
Charles Groden - Is he a comedian who can’t act or an actor who isn’t funny? And DeskMonkey…I though Bill Paxton WAS Bill Pullman ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/40 "2003-08-27T18:30:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*Anddd, coming along the front stretch, it’s Water Boy, Julia Roberts, andd Sonofman… > > …It’s at the wire…they’re coming…and it’s Julia Roberts, with Santa Fe in second, Calistoga, Water Boy, and, bringing up the rear, Sonofman. \*\* …but wait, what’s _this_?! Oh my god, out of nowhere, it’s **Sarah Jessica Parker** , whinnying her way to victory! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935.md?page=3)