Instantly I thought of why I cannot watch Some Like It Hot: Tony Curtis. Cringeworthy performance, utterly unfunny. But it occurred to me that I ought to build a stronger case by going through his filmography and listing some of the other movies he has blighted.
Blank. It’s like a who’s who of films you’ve never heard of.
So: Tony Curtis on the basis of one movie. But I don’t get the impression that many benefitted from his presence.
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Joe Pesci. I thought he had dropped out of the movie business, but nope, he just had to show up in The Irishman.
Maybe it was just Scorsese dragging him out of retirement to annoy us one last time. We can only hope.
Jennifer Tilly: that annoying baby-doll voice that she affects, and her utter lack of acting talent is a non-starter for me.
I agree, I would never seek him out or go see a movie because he’s in it. However, I reluctantly watched Eastbound and Down a few years back and it’s pretty good. They used his standard obnoxious ‘i’m the best one here’ schtick to their advantage and it really worked.
I think just about any actor could have doing a better job acting, but overall, the show wasn’t bad so I can’t complain.
It probably helped that he had a ton of talent surrounding him. Just about every recurring and guest role was by someone better known and more talented than him.
Any of the Baldwin brothers. Their eyes are too squinty, and their mouths just do not move right when they talk. They just creep me out.
Chris Elliott. My wife loves Schitt’s Creek, but Elliott is so nails on a chalkboard to me that I can’t watch it.
He does smell bad. He practically ruined the Lincoln used in his car commercials.
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I ignored Schitt’s Creek for years because I don’t like him. I can handle him in really small doses (ie Scary Movie or HIMYM) but that’s about it. As it turns out Schitt’s Creek is really, really good. The good far, far outweighs anything you don’t like about him.
Michael Richards (‘Kramer’) on Seinfeld. I suffered through his bits on the show. I loathed him, everything about him. I didn’t think he was cute or funny. And talk about smelling bad, those ugly too-short greenish-brown old man pants he wore looked like THEY stunk. Fortunately, he has dropped off the face of the earth AFAIK.
The lifetime achievement award,IMO, goes to Adam Sandler. I just don’t get it. He keeps working and working and working.
ISTM that what a lot of these folks (Vaughn, McBride, Farrell, Chase, Murray, and I’ll add my least favorite - Jonah Hill) bring to their characters is a smug dickishness, which I share an aversion to. Why would I want to spend time with these people? Usually the dramatic arc doesn’t include any comeuppance for their reprehensible ways, so that satisfaction for me as an observer is missing. Instead, we are asked to identify with them and, in a McLuhan-esque sense, celebrate them.
Forgive me but I can’t help but see echos of this type of anti-hero character being celebrated in our entertainment over the last 40 or so years, and our current political world.
Ashton Kutcher. I’ve disliked his persona in everything I’ve seen him in. Except No Strings Attached, a movie which I really enjoy. And it’s not despite Kutcher; I like him in this movie.
I’ve tried to get my wife to watch Schitt’s Creek but she can’t stand Chris Elliott either.
For me, I can’t stand that woman on the show “American Housewife”. Don’t know her name, can’t even be bothered to look it up. Damn she rubs me the wrong way!
I don’t like the women from Ab Fab. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Maybe they are better on other shows. For Ab Fab it seems all they do is appear drunk and it’s not funny.
My ex wife hates Jeff Goldblum but I never asked her why.
I do not like Terrence Howard.
Just something about him. Can’t put my finger on it.
You may not find it funny, but that the characters are drunk all the time is kind of the point.
Ricky Gervais. He’s like an oily, animatronic, talking anus.
A mixture of arrogant ass and cray-cray?
I think Ftg we are soul mates… I have never seen Titanic because I could never see him as a leading man only Gilbert Grape… I did watch one of his movies where he is attacked by a wolf or bear or something and he never talks thru the whole thing.
I cannot watch Christopher Bale either.
Yeah, I agree with this. Bill Murray is the worst of the bunch to me. Ever since he first appeared on SNL I’ve been irritated by his smug dickishness, which seems to be the main trait of most characters he portrays. To be fair, he does sometimes portray a second character, the imbecile who talks out of the side of his mouth, like in Caddyshack, but that character is equally annoying. Murray is the reason I’m one of the apparently vanishingly small group of people who didn’t like Ghostbusters.
Seconded!
Mine is Juliette Lewis, though she’s in several movies that I enjoyed. It’s irrational but I just can’t stand the way her mouth moves when she speaks!