It worked gread in Arizona Junior, but otherwise, I agree, Maiira.
Dominique Swain and Heather Graham. Big fans of both of them, and I’ll actually watch a movie because they’re in it. But they qualify because every film they do just sucks ass. I mean dreadfully awful. And I tend to like the plot descriptions, so I can’t fault their script reading.
It’s just so disappointing. I like both of them, and then I’ll see they’re in a film that sounds interesting and I get psyched. And then it turns out ot be a total piece of shit. Gets me every time.
I can’t comprehend those of you who avoid movies because of a specific actor. To me that’s just crazy. I like movies, so I’d never avoid one for such a petty reason.
Thought of another–Scarlet Johannssen. I don’t understand how she’s so popular. She’s got the same blank face in every movie. And it’s not like she’s SO fabulously good looking that she can just stand there and look cute. I often wonder if the character she was playing in Ghost World might have been more interesting if someone else had been cast as her role. And I can’t help thinking that about most of what I’ve seen her in.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Tom Hanks
Kevin Bacon. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Nicolas Cage for me, too. John Travolta, Bruce Willis, and Jack Nicholson, as well. I want to see an actor who disappears into their character, not the character who disappears into the actor. Juliette Lewis annoys me because she tries way too hard.
And again. Is she leading the category now?
In both Michael Collins and Charlie Wilson’s War, she never becomes her character–she’s always JULIA ROBERTS, in big type across the top. Also, the actual importance of her character is inflated in each case–adding each woman to events where she was not present–for the apparent (only) purpose of having more screen time for JULIA ROBERTS.
Still, I found Michael Collins to be moderately good, and certainly worth seeing for anyone with a particular interest in Irish history. It’s nowhere near as good as The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
Same here, I saw War of the Worlds despite my feelings TC would make it suck and it sucked. Little Miss Screamy McScreamslalot didn’t help and I usually like that kid. I definitely would have left her to be Alien food.
I hate, hate, hate James Gandolfini and I can’t explain why. I hear his voice and I want to punch him in the face. Had no interest in seeing the Wild Things movie because of that.
delete. Wasn’t finished.
I won’t watch any movies with these people in them, even if the movie’s premise seems promising.
Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
Jim Carrey
Leonardo DiCaprio
Whoopi Goldberg
Will Ferrell also tends to drag movies down, but if he just has a bit part, that usually doesn’t manage to destroy a whole movie for me.
EXACTLY my thoughts too.
And my amended list:
Whoopi Goldberg
Shirley MacLaine
John Wayne
Meg Ryan
Melanie Griffith
Al Pacino
Tom Cruise
Julia Roberts
Can not STAND any of them.
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Chris Tucker is why I don’t rewatch The Fifth Element. Oh, wait, that’s not what you mean.
Nor I. Read a review once of City of Angels in which the reviewer said he looked like a bloodhound eyeballing a ham sandwich.
Juliette Lewis - scrawny, ugly, ill-formed. She TOTALLY spoils ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ - she looks like a wooden doll left out in the rain and acts like she’s differently abled, and I don’t have a clue as to what cutie Johnny Depp saw in her ‘duh’ character.
Uh…Seth Rogan. Vince Vaughn. Will Ferrell…any faintly repulsive fat frat-boy types usually irk me. Is paying $10 to see THOSE faces up on the big screen worth it?
Going back in time…Judy Garland, Icon. Those gumdrop eyeballs, those quivering O-shaped lips, that breathless trembling voice irritate me. Can’t watch her.
Woody Harrelson - I’ve probably seen 99% of his movies, but always with that, “him again?” icky face.
Jonah Hill - Dear Hollywood, please stop, OK?
Shelley Duvall. I haven’t been able to stand her since The Shining. ANYBODY else would probably have been able to play the role better.
Count me in on Nicholas Cage, too.
Others in no particular order: Anne Heche, Steven Seagal, Stallone.
Shia Labeouf. Hate that little pecker. My heart sank when I heard he was in the most recent Indiana Jones movie. (Granted, that movie didn’t need him for it suck ass.) And now I’m pissed to find out he’s going to be in the new Wall Street movie. So much so, that I may avoid it all together.
Julia Roberts, with her distractingly large number of teeth.
Tom Cruise - I’m ashamed to admit that I thought he was cute back in the 80s, but his later crazyness and lack of acting abilities has made me hate all of his movies, including a retroactive hate back to movies I used to like.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, I’m not sure why, she just bugs me.
The newest addition to this list is shaping up to be Sam Worthington. He wasn’t even on my radar until recently, but he’s starting to really bug me, with his constant squinty look and his terrible accent work. Also, in the few interviews I’ve seen with him he seems dumb as a bag of hammers.
Eric Segal…especially his thining mullet hairdo that looks like a rat chewed on it.
Second (third? fourth?) Tom Cruise…what a constipated, humorless, studio packaged, anal, persnikity,
butt plug he brings to the silver screen.
Seth Rogan.
Will Ferrell.
Chris Rock
Martin Lawrance
Chris Tucker
Jim Carrey
Leonardo DiCaprio
Almost any SNL alum, but there are notable exceptions.
This.
Hollywood needs to do a better job of finding new talent for their blockbusters, instead of just expecting a movie to be a blockbuster because it stars Jack Nicholson.
I’d much rather go see a new movie where I don’t recognize any of the lead actors than go see that new Jack Nicholson movie, whatever it’s called.
Add to the list all of the annoying man-child shticks such as Will Farrel and Martin Lawrence.