I’m really happy with how many of us agree Leonardo DiCaprio is garbage-time. He doesn’t act, he’s just kind of there and is cut-out-cardboard in every movie, which sucks for me because I like a lot of movies he’s in all while wishing his character was anyone but him. Inception is a great movie, as is Gangs of New York (him up against Daniel Day Lewis really shines a light on how little he’s bringing to the table). He’s basically the same person in every film but in a different costume.
No one’s said it yet but tied with him is Johnny Depp. At least for the last 15 years or so. He’s flat and gross and tries to compensate by putting on more necklaces and bracelets. He’s kind of like Leo as he’s been just whatever he is in every movie for a long time without much variation. I might have liked him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but not since. Also why is he always kind of gross and shiny and looks like he just needs to be wiped off?
A couple of Donalds: Pleasance and Sutherland. Pleasance, in everything I’ve seen, looks like he’s just there to get a paycheck.
Sutherland, I’ve read, changes his lines a lot from the script. Joss Whedon commented that it drove him crazy when making the Buffy movie. It makes whatever movie he’s in that much more off-kilter and incoherent.
I generally avoid movies starring Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, and Cher, not because I have anything against them but because they generally appear in types of movies that aren’t to my taste.
And Jason Schwartzman is cousins with…Nicolas Cage.
I guess they both inherited the same punchable face and the same one-note acting.
I love both of them, but they really do just play themselves in everything. I love Wes Anderson’s movies but Jason Schwartzman is really just always playing Jason Schwartzman.
I dislike Leonardo DiCaprio for shallow reasons: he was feline pretty in Titanic, but over the years he has bloated up and now has a pig face. With all the features crammed into the center.
(This here colors my thoughts, too…IRL he may or may not be gay in the closet, but his endless series of model-bimbo-‘girlfriends’ who are traded in for new models every 2-3 years… .ok. whatever. He can afford it… But it smacks to me of some awful hidden issues, classic case of propelling around a pair of big tits as camouflage around for a couple of years . ( lookit what I got, I am tha man!!!) , dumping her, finding another swimsuit model.) Nothing so boring or irritating to me as a ‘laydeeeze man’. So unseemly, fooling no one. (Jake Gyllenhall, same, though I LIKE him a whole lot more than LdC.)
I loved Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore, but I’ll agree that most of his roles are fairly similar. He’s at his best in Bored to Death, where he plays a nebbish pretending to be a detective.
I think Depp is talented, but he also has only so many tricks in his bag of quirky character traits. Just about every movie I’ve seen him in in the past few years, he reminds me - a lot or a little - of some other character he’s played.
( . Are you, perhaps, 12? Wondering who that ‘Humphrey Bogart’ is they’re always talking about? :D:D:D .) ‘Some Like It Hot’. ‘Houdini’ with his wife, Janet Leigh . (parents of Jamie Lee Curtis.). ‘Sweet Smell of Success’. ‘Spartacus’. ‘The Defiant Ones.’… Great movies, and he made a whole lot more, including some really hilarious stinkers just for the money, as they all end up doing. ‘The Black Shield of Falconworth’, an early effort, wearing baby blue tights and elucidating, ‘Yondah lies da castle of my faddah, the Caliph’… . One Tony Curtis IMO is worth a dozen of the nameless faceless generic nothings that pass for actors today.
I agree that he has a punchable face, and I fully expected him to ruin Fantastic Beasts, but I actually enjoyed both movies, which makes 2 I don’t think he’s ruined.
I also find Benedict Cumberbatch and Damian Lewis punchable also.
“They” is him. He created, wrote, and ran the show. Other shows he created, wrote and starred in include Vice Principals (with Walton Goggins) and The Righteous Gemstones (with John Goodman.)
I don’t love his shows, but I do respect his talent in creating them. Credit where it’s due, it’s pretty much all him and Jody Hill, his writing partner. Hill directs the episodes, but as I understand it McBride is the showrunner.
EDIT: Think of the classic Danny McBride character as Stephen Colbert’s character on The Colbert Report. It’s a deliberately obnoxious, over-the-top caricature.
. Are you, perhaps, 12? Wondering who that ‘Humphrey Bogart’ is they’re always talking about? :D:D:D .) ‘Some Like It Hot’. ‘Houdini’ with his wife, Janet Leigh . (parents of Jamie Lee Curtis.). ‘Sweet Smell of Success’. ‘Spartacus’. ‘The Defiant Ones.’… Great movies, and he made a whole lot more, including some really hilarious stinkers just for the money, as they all end up doing. ‘The Black Shield of Falconworth’, an early effort, wearing baby blue tights and elucidating, ‘Yondah lies da castle of my faddah, the Caliph’… . One Tony Curtis IMO is worth a dozen of the nameless faceless generic nothings that pass for actors today.