miscegenated???
As far as Spacey is concerned, I personally think he’s one of the best, most versatile, actors around. Same with Sarandon. Although, you’re in very good company in the case of Glen Close, BrandyFine: none other than Ms. Hepburn herself said that she couldn’t stand her. I probably wouldn’t go THAT far…
Your mileage will obviously vary.
Gyrate said, "3) 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.
My questions are:
What type of role was Madonna ever good at? And it has to be an early film for your theory to work.
Demi Moore is talented? Are we from alternate universes? Maybe you’re from the one where she’s smart and has real breasts.
Madonna has great range. She can be boring and cliche, adolescently pretentious, or laughably awful. I watched about thirty seconds of her recent Letterman appearance just to hear her latest attempt at a faux British accent, it did not disappoint. Though she has been famous for as long as I can remember, I still don’t understand why anyone would drop a dollar for any of her stuff.
(* I read your “miscegenated” as “misbegotten”, but I wouldn’t want to put words in your mouth. )
Agreed. That movie was one of the most disappointing I’ve seen in recent years. Its only redeeming grace was Amos’s “Mister Cellophane” song. A bit schmaltzy, but still the best moment of the movie.
Everyone on my list has already been mentioned, but I want to add a vote to the Richard Gere list. Julia Roberts may not be a bad actress, but I will avoid any movie in which she acts.
Madonna was good in Desperately Seeking Susan, playing her then current persona.
I wish I said that! You are tooo funny!
That means you have to watch them all. She’s never acted in anything. She’s just there. With that gigantic mouth of hers.
No, the word stands. Miscegenation is when two different things are mated together, with a connotation of wrongness. Chicago the movie is a mating of Broadway show with cinema, and about as wrong as it’s ever been.
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Erin Brockovich was fairly decent. I’ll concede that most of her other movies are crap, but at least she isn’t J-Ho.
Try as she might, Julia Roberts couldn’t spoil Confessions of a Dangerous Mind for me.
Desperately Seeking Susan and A League of Their Own were the only movies I’ve seen Madonna in that I could tolerate her; in both films she essentially plays herself, and only in secondary roles.
I almost kinda liked Demi Moore in A Few Good Men and Indecent Proposal; in both cases, she had better actors to play against who kept her from ruining the film completely.
DANA CARVEY!!!
DIE YOU TALENTLESS WASTE OF AIR!
Well maybe not die…Thats a little too harsh.
Maybe just a bad case of the clap.
**Danny DeVito
Nicolas Cage
Marisa Tomei
Gary Busey
Robin Williams
Ice T**
4 out of 5 screen appearances by **Eddie Murphy
John Revol**-- I mean, **Travolta
DMX
Joan Cusack
Lisa Bonet
Corey Feldman, Gary Coleman**, every Baldwin brother without exception, every Wayans with the sole exception of Damon, every [singing] Jackson, especially the weird skinny white girl with no tits.
If she’s not near naked or in a two-piece, Halle Berry.
…and, as ever, Don “Must Give Great Head In Auditions” Cheadle.
Meg Ryan…That cutsie wootsie act and simpering smile…gah!
Hugh Grant…" " " " " " " "
Tony Danza
What the hell is USA network thinking?
OH MAN! I keep seeing that ad on Yahoo. I nearly started a Tony Danza LIVES thread!
I mean, my movies weren’t great, but I never tied anyone down and forced them to watch. And I could have, 'cause I’m a big guy, and I’m good with knots!
Wow, I’m surprised at some of the names mentioned. Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, John Travolta and Nicholas Cage are very talented actors, IMO (Cage was fantastic in Adaptation). Cheadle deserves Denzel-type stardom, he’s infinitely more talented and has much greater range than Washington (who’s not a bad actor, but he is terribly overrated–Best Actor Oscar for Training Day?).
Tony Danza is a television actor (oh, dear God, I called Tony Danza an actor!), so he doesn’t count. As I stated in the OP, there are sooo many talentless morons on working on TV (the cast of “Friends”) that we could just continue adding to this thread for years if we were to include them. I am amazed that he even gets TV gigs, though. He must have an agent that adores him and has lots of clout in the TV industry.
And last time I checked, Corey Feldman’s only recent work was reality shows (“The Surreal Life”) and talk shows (Howard Stern and Larry King) and Gary Coleman is a security guard.
That tends to happen. In any thread like this, you usually have to put forth a lot of effort to separate out the nominations that are serious and deserving, and the nominations that were made because the nominator feels like the little insignificant bit of nonconformity makes them a superior person.
Agreed, SPOOFE. For example, while Tony Danza may not be a great actor, I would hardly call him talentless. Ditto for the cast of Friends, several of whom have impeccable comedic timing.
Methinks that some of the criticisms being bandied about are a bit extreme.
You guys aren’t telling me you aactually like Whoopi Goldberg, are ya??
Man, is she ever awful.