I recently saw the excellent Rocky for the first time in years. I had forgotten how bloody annoying Burgess Meredith is as Mickey. Stop yelling.
Others?
Keanu Reeves in Devil’s Advocate.
Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing
Leonardo DiCaprio in Man in the Iron Mask.
Julia Roberts in Ocean’s Eleven
Tom Cruise in Magnolia
Brat Pitt in Fightclub
Kevin Costner in a meat grinder.
Meg Tilly in Valmont.
Jennifer Tilly in Bound.
Minne Driver in An Ideal Husband (I don’t necessarily hate her all the time, but I thought she was terrible in that)
Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Her performance can be summed up in two lines…
“Is it raining? I hadn’t really noticed.”
Aaarrgghh!
Diane Keaton in The Godfather parts 1 & 2.
Godfather 3 never happened in my world.
Ryan Philippe in Gosford Park
Keanu Reeves in A Walk in the Clouds
Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in “A Few Good Men”
Julia Roberts nearly ruined Ocean’s 11…fortunately I will forgive nearly anything for George and Brad…
Julia Roberts in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind…sense a trend developing?
I was also going to mention Andie McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. I hated her and her character.
Liv Tyler in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Man, she sucks.
I wish…mmmm.
Russel Crowe in Master and Commander.
I’ll put up with much to look at my boats.
Glenn Close in The World According to Garp.
Of course, this means she did her job well since I hated Jenny Fields in the book, too.
Gotta agree with Keanu Reeves in Much Ado. What was the casting director thinking? There are plenty of yummy actors who both look good and are capable of doing Shakespeare. Why the guy from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?
Heather Graham in From Hell also drove me nuts. That was a painfully bad performance.