# Actors you don't like anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [August 28, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458 "2022-08-28T03:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/41 "2022-08-29T22:17:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Kevin Whatley have called him out on his nonsense ([Front moreso](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/laurence-fox-rebecca-front-all-lives-matter-twitter-cancelled-b421510.html) and more recently than [Whatley](https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/kevin-whately-hits-back-lewis-7634239)). I’m glad to hear that. I was disappointed in Fox, but I’d have been devastated if it’d been Whatley. Re-watching old Morse episodes, I so enjoy his Lewis’s sly digs at Morse. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/42 "2022-08-30T00:00:53Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I agree about DeNiro lately (I think he’s had more years now as a “bad actor” than he ever had as a “great actor”.) I’ve heard it’s because he takes on interesting roles rather than good roles now. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/43 "2022-08-30T00:07:31Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I’ve heard it’s because he takes on interesting roles rather than good roles now. Is “interesting” another way to say “they drove a dump truck full of money to my house”? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/44 "2022-08-30T11:41:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Also, when he and Pacino had their scene together in _Heat_, I though DeNiro made Pacino look like a parody. In that scene, I agree with you - mainly because Pacino dialed himself _way_ down in order to synch with De Niro’s low-key performance. The rest of the movie, though, belonged to Pacino. He had energy, he had humor, he was fun to watch, whereas De Niro was just… there. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/45 "2022-08-30T15:25:21Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’ll be ending the series just as Fox stars as Hunter Biden in the new Brietbart film _My Son Hunter_, no doubt a shitty movie about the president’s son. It co-stars **Gina Carano** , another twat. Gina Carano’s another one. Her debut in Haywire was fantastic. She had screen presence, and could hold her own against a roster of much more experienced thespians. Was pretty great in Deadpool and that F&F muvie as well. Then the social media anti-vax and transphobic stuff hit and it’s hard to watch her onscreen for me. Carano was an invited guest for the big FanExpo convention here in Toronto this past weekend, but tweeted her regrets last week that she couldn’t come, because she’s refused to get vaxxed for travel. As friends of mine in the fancon scene were saying, she and Kevin Sorbo and Dean Cain and Adam Baldwin should all just hold their own convention somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/46 "2022-08-30T15:32:19Z")
I used to hate Paul Reiser because his character in _Aliens_ betrayed everybody. I’d see him in a show and scream “Watch out, he’s gonna backstab you!” OK, didn’t really hate him, just making my own urban myth. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/47 "2022-08-30T15:44:22Z")
I now avoid Tim Allen at all costs. Enjoyed Tool Time back in the day. His later sitcom, Last Man Standing, appeared to me a vehicle for Allen to ridicule Barack Obama. Found out this was true when I attended one of his stand up shows at a local casino. The first half hour was the old Tim Allen then he started political jabs at the Democratic leadership at the time. My wife and I were among many that walked out when he started ranting about Obama’s citizenship. Allen directed a comment at those leaving, one guy hollered back “At least Obama never got busted for drugs, you loser”. Haven’t watched anything of his, new or old, since. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/48 "2022-08-30T17:12:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Giovanni Ribisi Glad I watched _Sneaky Pete_ before I knew this. > [@Lamoral](#): > > I don’t like it, but I’m capable of compartmentalizing their acting from their politics. Not to pick on you in particular, but why would you want to? There a thousands of choices out there to watch. Cutting out a few people would have zero impact on your viewing. I have limited time to watch tv/movies so I have to miss some things that may be good. Keeping money out of assholes pockets seems a pretty good line to draw. > [@Roger\_That](#): > > I can’t watch Clint Eastwood anymore. I stopped watching Eastwood movies when he stopped making action movies and shifted to the “Give me an Oscar, please, please please” category. To me, he topped out at _Josey Wales_ and it’s been downhill since then. Tom Hanks and Spielberg are in the same category. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/49 "2022-08-30T17:23:56Z")
Eastwood’s last good film was **Unforgiven** , which was arguably one of the best westerns/character studies ever made. I’ve soured on him since then, both on a personal level and as a filmmaker. What anybody saw in “Gran Torino” is beyond me, and I haven’t watched anything of his since that clunker. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/50 "2022-08-30T17:50:16Z")
Andy Dick. Although, he does seem to be having trouble getting work these days, so it’s not all that difficult to avoid seeing him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/51 "2022-08-30T20:41:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > What anybody saw in “Gran Torino” is beyond me I liked it. Pretty good transformation from a racist asshole to someone… slightly more enlightened. (i.e., He didn’t have a totally unbelievable transformation.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/52 "2022-08-30T21:06:39Z")
For me, the movie was an excuse for Eastwood to use racial slurs without taking a lot of heat for it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/53 "2022-08-31T00:19:58Z")
I watched it because I had a Gran Torino. Mine was a '69. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/54 "2022-08-31T01:46:48Z")
Hehe, I had a '75 Ranchero. My father in law had a '70 SCJ. He swears the 66 Comet Caliente with a 390 was faster. But yeah, Eastwood is the guy I can’t watch much anymore. The quality of the scripts he picks is pretty scattershot. Upon reflection, that slide started a looooong tune ago. Have you tried to watch _Every Which Way But Loose_ recently? Woah, that movie is bad in just about every way. Pretty good 70s country music soundtrack, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/55 "2022-08-31T01:58:10Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Yeah, Cruise is a Scientology nut, but so is Travolta, Elizabeth Moss, Giovanni Ribisi, and others. They still make some good footage, and I can set that aside somewhat. As someone else said, Cruise is very in-your-face about it. I did not see the talk show in which he and Brooke Shields both appeared. Brooke was very up front about dealing with post-partum depression and taking medication as needed. Cruise was an ass. (correction: he criticized Shields publicly, but not to her face). Why on earth am I the first person to mention Bill Cosby? ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/56 "2022-08-31T02:02:06Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > _MASH_ (the original movie) was the first time I’d ever seen **Donald Sutherland** , who I really enjoyed. When _Klute_ came out, I wasn’t quite so impressed by him, and since then I’ve never liked him in anything. Sutherland has been in a mixed bag of stuff - some good, some not so good. Have you seen him in: **Ordinary People** **Kelly’s Heroes** **Citizen X** And a very small but amazing role in an obscure movie **Little Murders** ? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/57 "2022-08-31T03:37:36Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > My father in law had a '70 SCJ. You know what that is worth now? 😱 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/58 "2022-08-31T03:51:24Z")
Hehehe, yes, but I almost don’t care. The value of the car isn’t even the point. 🤡 It was a gorgeous beast. Black, the best of all colors, and the prettiest body and front end ever put on a mid sized Ford. Before I ever met my wife, I decided that '70 Ranchero was the best Ranchero. Of course, it was a casualty of the late 70s gas crisis. He sold it because he didn’t think he could keep up with its thirst. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/59 "2022-08-31T03:52:22Z")
I remember hearing a story that Paul Reiser knew he did a good job playing an asshole in _Aliens_ when his _mother_ cheered when his character died. Mentioned here: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/trivia/?ref\_=tt\_trv\_trv](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv) ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458/60 "2022-08-31T03:56:36Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > As friends of mine in the fancon scene were saying, she and Kevin Sorbo and Dean Cain and Adam Baldwin should all just hold their own convention somewhere… You could Rob Schneider and Scott Baio to that list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-dont-like-anymore/970458.md?page=4)