Andie McDowell has no noticeable talent, and she’s not good-looking enough to make up for it, so that’s a true mystery right there.
This is a whoosh, right?
All in all, IMO, Tom Arnold hasn’t been all that bad in the roles I’ve seen him in as the sidekick in “True Lies”, and as the daddy in “The Stupids”.
Chevy Chase
Goldie Hawn
Martin Lawrence
Tom Cruise
I agree with you, Algorithm. Changing U.S. Robot to U.S. Robotic is utterly stupid. Maybe we’ll get lucky and Harlan Ellison will take on some of the idiots involved with this.
Holy cow, that IMDB link is a bummer.
RE: Tom Arnold—He actually gave quite a good performance a few years back in the most recent incarnation of The Outer Limits, playing a father who is displaced by an android who winds up running things in the household. I was amazed by how good he was in it.
All behold the twin suckiness of Rob Schneider (in no less than three movies coming out in 2004) and Chris Kattan (two movies in 2004)!
Why, God, why?
Tom Arnold was pretty good as the froot-loop leader of a right-wing fundie organization in Touch as well. Granted, he was playing a hyperactive loudmouth, but still, he was good.
And I gotta admit I just have a soft spot for the guy. He gives me the impression that most of his over-the-topness(?) is an act and he’s trying to see how far he can push it. I think he’s hilarious on Letterman.
And I love the fact that he wrote a book called “How I Lost Six Pounds in Five Years.”
For Rob Schneider, though, I have no soft spot.
Yeah, pretty much anyone who’s been a cast member of SNL in the past decade or so sucks hard in movies. Martin Lawrence is crap too.
Who’s looking at her face? 
I think that Nicolas Cage is pretentious and arrrogant, and he’s an awful actor! he was perfect in Raising Arizona and I have friends who thought he was good in Moonstruck, and maybe Valley Girl, but everything else I can think of at this moment he’s starred in is crap. And he won an Oscar, and he still working. He’s probably working right this minute! And he married Michael Jackson’s ex-wife, that takes the cake right there.
I watched Pluto Nash this morning and I can’t see Eddie Murphy ever being in a film again.
Mike Myers.
After reading all the reviews from The Cat in the Hat, I am quite sure he will never work in California again.
Oh, and Alec Baldwin will be assassinated.
If I have to watch Holly Hunter talking out of the corner of her mouth one more time, I’m gonna do something ugly.
The problem as I see it is this:
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Certain actors are in fashion at a particular time, regardless of their actual overall acting ability, and thus get lots of work for a year (or maybe a few) and then never work again. The most obvious examples of this are Steve Gutenberg (Stonecutters notwithstanding :)) and anyone from SNL. How long will it take Hollywood to get sick of Will Ferrell?
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Certain actors demonstrated a great deal of talent early in their careers, but the talent was forced out of their heads by their rapidly expanding egos. See: Kevin Costner, Leo di Caprio, Alec Baldwin, and (yes) Barbra Streisand.
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Certain actors work well in character parts or in very specific roles, and are mistakenly given greater prominence and other roles because they were good at one type of role. See: Keanu Reeves, Ashton Kutcher, Tobey Maguire, and (above all) Madonna.
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Certain actors are quite talented but desperately need either a director who can keep a tight leash on them to prevent overacting or a more balanced ensemble cast to keep them from grandstanding. See: Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, and Robin Williams.
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Certain actors just change over time, losing the qualities that made them popular to begin with, and haven’t adjusted. See: Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy.
Have I missed any categories?
Well, I wouldn’t want to do that - not while I still have breath to scream it out loud. Chicago is a fucking awful movie, probably the worst ever to win the Oscar for Best Picture - including Titanic, which at least had some nice FX and a dead DiCaprio. I would rather tread barefoot in dogshit than watch that miscegenated tripe again.
Back on topic for this thread, Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger are both grotesquely overrated.
Drew Barrymore. That poor girl can’t act.
And she does that weird talk out of the side of her mouth thing, too. For some reason, that’s really irritating to watch.
Kevin Kline, Uma Thurman, Heather Graham, Glenn Close
Glenn Close? You’re saying Glenn Close can’t act? You serious?
Welcome to the boards.
For the one person I can’t figure out how he ever got so much as a walk-on part, let alone a lead…
Joe O’Connell
This man makes Keanu Reeves and Kevin Costner look good in comparison.
Thanks, Cholo. It’s hard to separate with Close. It may be in part that I hate her so much, but because I do I never enjoy her acting or see her as bringing anything positive to a film. On the other hand I loathe Sarandon just as much but I do find her to be talented and I enjoy her movies quite a bit, so - yeah I guess I’m serious about Close. (If it matters, there are quite a few people named so far that I like a lot as well.)
I would have said Kevin Spacey too, except he was hysterical in The Ref. Other than that he seems to have only one “serious” look and expression, and that one is beyond tiresome after you’ve seen it a couple times.