Actors that just rub you the wrong way

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He’s dead, but Richard Crenna was one of the all time ‘smirky’ actors.

Dan Akroyd: This guy has just gotten more and more pathetic. A hint, Dan: ‘acting’ means ‘not looking like you’re trying to act’. One of the firsts in a long line of failed SNL transitions.

Alec Baldwin: Those pursed lips make me want to lick them and stick him to a wall somewhere.

Any of the current/recent SNL crew. They’re all one-trick ponies.

Goldie Hawn: Now, this is sad, cuz “I used to love her, but it’s all over now”. She needs to try to act her age; “Banger Sisters” was embarrassingly rotten.

Madeline Stowe: Who let her loose in the colagen factory? She ruined her face to the point where her expression is completely…well…expressionless. You want to look away from that horror of a mouth, but you continue to stare in stunned silence. See comment about Baldwin.

I must compliment two actors who got the hell out of acting and into directing, thus avoiding being pilloried on this thread: Ron Howard and Penny Marshall. Good god…how can you go downhill from Opie and LaVerne?

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Juliette Lewis. I’ve never been able to stand her. Her voice makes me cringe and I have to sit on my hands to keep from throwing something at the screen whenever she rears her doped up funky lookin’ mug on it.

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Ben Affleck after Good Will Hunting. I thought he was showing a lot of promise when I saw that movie, but then he went out and starred in Armaggedon, Pearl Harbor and Gigli.

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Concerning the Nepotism Factor:

Christian Slater is the son of Mary Jo Slater, a prominent casting director in Hollywood.

I loathe every member of the Wayans family except for Damon, who is genuinely funny and entertaining. Kim, Marlon, and Shawn are pathetic and only ever got work in the first place because of Keenen, who jokingly blames it on his mom. Keenen even admitted in a TV interview once that he gave Shawn a job as the DJ on In Living Color (remember SW1) when Shawn had never DJ’ed before and couldn’t even work a turntable.

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Ryan Phillipe – He didn’t ruin the brilliant Gosford Park because he was the only completely unlikable character in it. (to me anyway)

Tara Reid

Demi Moore – I have skipped many a movie because of her. I find her to be very irritating. But again, when she’s cast as a villain, I’m ok.

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Almost forgot about Demi Moore. Can’t stand her, either. Don’t know why.

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I have a friend who insists that Hartnett looks like a convict.

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He did go with an underaged Shoshona before dumping her for a married woman. He seems to have calmed down with marriage and fatherhood, but if something a la Woody came up in the future, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.

For all you who can’t stand Melanie, Keanu and Juliette, there’s a marvelous parody on the Forbidden Hollywood CD you should listen to:

We shouldn’t be in pictures. We shouldn’t even try.
You talk like you’re a baby. You talk as flat as a braindead guy.
My mother was Tippi Hedren and in her film debut
The birdies picked her head in. Now I’m a bird brain too.

With a little less luck you and me would be stuck
Making porno films for free. But good luck depends sleeping with the right friends.
Hey! I studied Shakespeare and he said he liked me.

When we keep making pictures, the public makes a fuss.
We shouldn’t be in pictures, but don’t blame us.

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Josh Hartnett looks like a shrunken head to me, or an escapee from a Charles Band/Full Moon film.

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Needs to be more Kevin Costner nominations here…

Open Range:

Kevin: I’m a big cowboy with a past.

Robert: I’m a great actor forced to say crappy ass lines that this pretentious egotistical talentless jerk wrote.

“sticks in my craw” anyone?

Let’s see… I agree on Affleck- I liked him in Good Will Hunting and Dogma- seems he does best when he has Damon there. Everything else makes him look like a Ken doll with a big butt brunette Barbie. (I’d say J-Lo annoyed me too, but I haven’t made my self watch her in anything yet) I can’t stand Julia Roberts, and think Meg Ryan hasn’t been funny since Innerspace.

Robin Williams is the same joke worn out over and over, same with Carey. Both are good enough actors when someone else is holding the reins.

Ryan Philipe didn’t ruin Gosford Park because he got to play himself- cute face, no talent actor boy. That was a good joke- just about everyone saw right through him from the beginnning.

People I thought would annoy me but I have seen in decent parts since I thought they sucked.

Rick Schroeder has some geniunely good moments in Lonesome Dove.

Another big one is John Ritter in Sling Blade…big surprise there.

I’m thankful Sophia Coppola never got another part (in anything that counts at least)- Talk about putting the final nail in a disappointing sequel.

And John Boy (Waltons)- that is one annoying actor.

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I’m jumping on the bandwagon with:

Tom Cruise, I too can’t believe the grinning idiot made it to page 2 without mention.

Pauly Shore, say no more.

Kevin Costner, I’ve seen statues with a better range of facial expressions.

Nicole Kidman, she was good in her first (?) film, Dead Calm, but yecch since then. That movie also featured Billy Zane, and I remember thinking back then that he was headed for stardom. Shows what I know.

And I must defend:

Jeremy Irons. I might not enjoy looking at him, but I do think he is a talented actor.

Nicolas Cage. Some of his early stuff was good: Birdy, Moonstruck, Raising Arizona and Vampire’s Kiss (just for the cockroach eating scene).

Robin Williams. Again, the earlier stuff was better: Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, The Fisher King and Awakenings.
He has made some really mush dreck in the last several years, I agree.

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And does anyone but me want to bitch-slap Penelope Cruz?

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Annnnnnnnnd a surprise second place from a hidden-in-the-crowd Carly Simon, with *Richard Gere dancing in to place!

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Any and all $cientologists: Cruise, Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman, Anne Archer, Kirstie Alley, Isaac Hayes, Priscilla Presley, just on general principle. I’ve got no time for clams.

Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri: I hated them on SNL, I’ve hated them in everything they’ve done since. These women are two of the most egregious one-note, shrill, no talent boobs to ever come to popularity via a major network television show.

Every time he opens his mouth, I hate George Clooney a little more. Same with Catherine Zeta-Jones. Their new picture together is something I’m ging to fall over myself NOT to see.

Barbra Streisand, and in the guilt by association pile, James Brolin.

The simply annoying, please go away, oy, who told you that you were talented crowd: Bennifer Loffleck, Matt Damon, Richard Gere, Gary Busey, anyone in American Wedding (except Eugene Levy), Tobey Maguire, Nick Nolte, Kathryn Erbe (the second fiddle female partner on Law & Order: CI), Pamela Anderson, the Charlie’s Angels chicks, Calista (please let your career be over) Flockhart, Rosie O’Donnell and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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Okay, so he’s known more for his singing, but he did do some pretty high-profile films,

Frank Sinatra!

(Gag, cough, barf, splutter and a few howls of outrage thrown in for good measure!)

I know it’s probably a sin to be glad someone’s dead, but I’ll make an exception for him. (shudder!)

I also can’t stand Gary Shandling, Seinfeld and Jason Alexander

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Wow, lots of good ones so far.

I hate:

Drew Barrymore
Penelope Cruz
Sandra Bullock
Matthew McConaughey
Stephen Baldwin (but who doesn’t)
Tara Reid (drunken slut - she’s not even pretty)
Freddie Prinz Jr.
Renee Zellweger (why won’t she realize that she looks good “fat”?)
Diane Keaton (she just really sucks)
Kate Hudson
Cameron Diaz
Calista Flockhart
Jennifer Love Hewitt (with whom my boyfriend would have an affair, if forced - but I hated her before I knew that)
I have to say that I don’t know how anyone could dislike Bill Cosby. The Cosby Show is one of my favorites, and he’s just so friendly and likeable - makes me wish I could have him for a second dad or something.

I was also on the I-hate-Nicholas-Cage bandwagon until I saw Adaptation. He’s really great.

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Sofia Coppola has channeled her energies into directing and has done some nice work (The Virgin Suicides and another one that eludes me now).

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I’ll second whoever said Sarah Jessica Parker.

I also can’t stand all the muscle men: Diesel, Arnold, The Rock, etc.

Joey Lauren Adams needs to go far far away.

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Well, Tom Cruise got off to a slow start on this thread, but it’s good to see him walking away with the popularity vote.

In fact, as the coincidence gods would have it, I recently started a page on my movie website, called “Why I Hate Tom Cruise (and why YOU should, too!)”. You can see it in all it’s glory here:

http://tnmc.homestead.com/TomCruise.html

The only good thing he ever did in a movie was to kick the shit out of Wilford Brimly in “The Firm”…Timmy

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The entire Baldwin family annoys the shit out of me. They all seem interchangable, as do the characters they play.

I can’t stand Adam Sandler ever since he started doing movies. His only saving grace on SNL was that he didn’t have enough time to get really annoying before the scene ended.

Jim Carey is intolerable when he’s doing Jim Carey movies, otherwise he’s a fine actor.

John Travolta is just plain scary, he did well in Pulp Fiction but otherwise his movies are just ass.

Barbara Striesdand should be eaten alive by fire ants.

I’m sure there are more who are truely awful that I’m forgetting about just because I’ve actually seen them in a movie, or remember seeing them in one.