# Actors you hate whom you loved in just ONE role? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632 "2005-05-06T01:46:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/41 "2005-05-06T21:29:47Z")
Mark Wahlberg has been terrible in every single thing he’s ever done…except **Boogie Nights**. I’ve hated every Hugh Grant movie…except **Extreme Measures**. I’m not a Ben Kingsley fan really…except for his performance in **Sexy Beast**. Alec Baldwin is not my favorite…but he nailed his scene in **Glengarry Glenross**. A bit off-topic b/c I enjoy most of Rodney Dangerfield’s movies…but he was absolutely fantastic in **Natural Born Killers**. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/42 "2005-05-06T21:49:50Z")
**Barbra Streisand** in absolutely everything… …except **What’s Up Doc**. She was perfect – no one else could have played that part better. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/43 "2005-05-06T21:58:35Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > I think Pitt’s dirty little secret is that he’s really a character actor who got stuck as a leading man because of his looks. He was funny as the mumbling boxer in **Snatch** as well. You’ve nailed it here, I think. His big break came after a character part, the studly young bank robber in _Thelma and Louise_, in which he was fantastic, but he’s always seemed uncomfortable in lead roles. ---
**Author:** ![Roberta\_Plant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roberta\_Plant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roberta_Plant)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/44 "2005-05-06T22:18:05Z")
Michael Douglas in One Night at McCool’s ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/45 "2005-05-07T01:12:56Z")
Jennifer Lopez in **Out of Sight** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/46 "2005-05-07T01:27:59Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I dislike Brad Pitt with a passion, but I thought he was quite good as the obnoxious psycho in _Twelve Monkeys_. _True Romance_. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/47 "2005-05-07T01:40:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Alec Baldwin is not my favorite…but he nailed his scene in Glengarry Glenross. Have you seen **The Cooler**? He’s fantastic in that in the same kind of character role. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/48 "2005-05-07T01:48:58Z")
> [@Agrippina](#): > > … > > Tom Cruise in “Rain Man”. > … This was the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/49 "2005-05-07T02:07:49Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I dislike Brad Pitt with a passion, but I thought he was quite good as the obnoxious psycho in _Twelve Monkeys_. You simply have to see him in _Kalifonia_. An amazing performance. > [@](#): > > Val Kilmer. Normally he’s just annoying, but he made a great Doc Holliday in Tombstone. The bar-room “duel” in which he faces off against a showoff gun-twirling Michael Biehn, and languidly shows him up by mockingly twiddling his cup is a brilliant scene. But he’s been good in a lot of things. He was amazing as Jim Morrison in _The Doors_, and was an excellent comedic actor in his early years ( **Top Secret!** and **Real Genius** ). ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/50 "2005-05-07T02:14:17Z")
**My\_Dog\_Klaus** - For me, it’s **Sandra Bullock** and _Crash_. She’s actually pretty good (although not as good as some of the other actors). She has brutal taste in movies and can’t really act well enough to save them. **Kate Hudson** was decent in _Almost famous_ but brutal in everything else. Thank goodness for nepotism. Regarding **Ben Affleck** , O’Bannion was a pretty decent character in Dazed and Confused. I like other movies in which he’s appeared but not necessarily his performance. I can’t stand **Liv Tyler** but she didn’t ruin _Lord of the Rings_ and was actually prettty decent. I’ve always considered that one movie. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/51 "2005-05-07T02:46:29Z")
Reaves in Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure…thats it, the only roll hes capable of playing is a stoned moron. Nicholas Cage in raising arrizona, the only time I have ever found him even remotly believable not to many others come to mind, of course I hate both of those guys enough to not watch anything they are in if it involves me paying, and it usually involves me not watching the whole thing. Reaves single handedly ruined the matrix series for me. can you say “Whoa, I know Kung-Fu” like a stoned moron while trying to say it like the savior of the human race? I knew you could. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/52 "2005-05-07T03:03:30Z")
Jim Carrey in _The Truman Show_ Lucille Ball in _Yours, Mine and Ours_ Arnold Schwarzenegger in _The Terminator_ (the original) ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/53 "2005-05-07T05:14:05Z")
Alec Baldwin was decent in **The Hunt for Red October** , but I can’t stand him in anything else really. Oh, and Orlando Bloom in **Pirates of the Carribean** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/54 "2005-05-07T06:32:33Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > For the blog owner, it was Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled. Same actor, different movie: _Gods and Monsters_. I don’t hate Brendan Fraser, actually, he just never seems to be that good and I didn’t think he was capable of a performance like that. Wish he’d try it again. Ben Affleck (who I liked in _Shakespeare In Love_, and also _Chasing Amy_) is similar. I’m inclined to like Affleck, but that’s because his other movies are the kind of crap I’d never see in the first place. Jim Carrey in _Eternal Sunshine_ is actually a better example for me. I hate him in everything else. > [@Hodge](#): > > Adam Sandler in _Punch Drunk Love_. […] In contrast, the rest of his filmography appears to consist of one screaming idiot after another. Oh, and stupid voices. His character in that movie is barely different from his stock character; they’re all angry man-children. The difference is that he’s not trying to be funny. Since I don’t think he’s funny anyway, I hardly noticed. But then, I admit I didn’t like the movie. ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/55 "2005-05-07T07:24:44Z")
I hate Kate Bekinsale, that smarmy little twat… But even though I thought underworld was a heap or crap as a movie, she was just cool enough to be a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/56 "2005-05-09T07:46:27Z")
Cathy Zeta-Jones in _Chicago._ She can’t act her way out of a paper bag, but curiously enough she does a good line in Smarmy Bitch who Happens to be Able to Dance Quite Well. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/57 "2005-05-09T15:21:57Z")
I usually hate, hate, hate Marlon Wayons, but I liked him in **Requiem for a Dream.** ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/58 "2005-05-09T15:27:21Z")
Well, mostly the actors have already been covered, but the roles are different: Melanie Griffith - “Nobody’s Fool” Tom Cruise - “Eyes Wide Shut” Richard Gere - “Waiting for Mr. Goodbar” My only original one: Robin Williams - “The Fisher King” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/59 "2005-05-09T15:27:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Sean Penn in _Mystic River_ - I usually can’t _stand_ the guy, but he’s so good in that one movie - sure, he chews scenery, but for once it’s appropriate for his character. He was good in The Translator as well. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632/60 "2005-05-09T15:37:05Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > He was good in The Translator as well. (Nitpic----hell, this isn’t a ‘nitpick!’ It’s the damn TITLE!) “The Interpreter” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-hate-whom-you-loved-in-just-one-role/302632.md?page=4)