# Actors You Used to Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307 "2007-09-06T22:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miscue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Miscue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miscue)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/21 "2007-09-07T16:04:21Z")
Greg Kinnear in Mystery Men. Something about someone not taking themselves too seriously makes me like them more. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/22 "2007-09-07T17:03:27Z")
When I was a kid, I didn’t like Humphrey Bogart at all. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/23 "2007-09-07T17:42:51Z")
I used to strongly dislike like Brad Pitt, thinking he was just another pretty-boy actor. Then I saw **Fight Club** and **Snatch** , and I realized that he is a really good, compelling actor. Now I enjoy him a lot in everything I see him in. I’m not sure what the turning point was for me with **Matt Damon** , but I also like him more than I expected to (enough to think he should totally play James T. Kirk in the Star Trek prequel). I can also tolerate **Adam Sandler** because of **The Wedding Singer** and **50 First Dates**. I know a lot of people don’t like the latter movie, but I don’t care, I think it’s cute. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/24 "2007-09-07T18:09:10Z")
The ego and bravado that was shown by Captain Kirk and T.J. Hooker had me disliking **William Shatner**. Since then his guest appearances and his role on Boston Legal have changed my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/25 "2007-09-07T22:47:43Z")
Will Ferrell. _Stranger than Fiction_ is a surprisingly good movie, and Ferrell manages to play a likable and interesting character. From now on I won’t immediately dismiss a movie because he’s in it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/26 "2007-09-07T23:30:38Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] [ I still don’t LIKE\*\* Bill Murray\*\*, and I hated _Lost in Translation_, (no, “hate” is too strong a word. I was rabidly indifferent about _Lost in Translation_) but even so that movie changed the way I view him as an actor. He \*can \*act for sure. I just still don’t like him. [/QUOTE] [Dr. Peter Venkman] This chick is toast! [/Dr. PV) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/27 "2007-09-08T01:26:11Z")
Adam Sandler until **Punch-Drunk Love**. Jim Carrey until **The Truman Show**. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/28 "2007-09-08T16:10:25Z")
I hated hated hated Will Farrel. And then I realized that he was the voice of Bob on The Oblongs…and all of a sudden I really really liked him. My husband claims to hate Drew Barrymore, but I’ll catch him watching 50 First Dates, or admiring her in Donnie Darko, or laughing at her character in The Family Guy…he’s coming around. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/29 "2007-09-08T16:22:16Z")
I avoided _The Butterfly Effect_ because of Ashton Kutcher. After seeing it, I don’t mind him at all. As for Bill Murray, I am a HUGE _Ghostbusters_ fan and loved him as Venkman and thought he was great in _Scrooged_ and \*What About Bob?, \* but I’m not a fan of him as a person. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/30 "2007-09-08T16:46:25Z")
I too didn’t care for Len DiCaprio until “The Aviator”. But he blew me away there with that one. I always considered Wally Beery a hack until “The Champ”. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/31 "2007-09-08T17:57:32Z")
[QUOTE=Little Bird] I hated hated hated Will Farrel. And then I realized that he was the voice of Bob on The Oblongs…and all of a sudden I really really liked him. My husband claims to hate Drew Barrymore, but I’ll catch him watching 50 First Dates, or admiring her in Donnie Darko, or laughing at her character in The Family Guy…he’s coming around. [/QUOTE] I was unimpressed with Drew Barrymore until I saw her playing an adult in Donnie Darko. Now I think she has more acting skills than the average person in fornt of the camera. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/32 "2007-09-08T17:57:32Z")
I didn’t exactly dislike Brad Pitt, but I didn’t think much of him as an actor until I saw **Kalifornia**. He did an amazing job in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307/33 "2007-09-08T18:20:43Z")
[QUOTE=Iggins] Nic Cage has grown on me. I used to hate that whiny, nasally, ugly bastard. Now I can tolerate him. [/QUOTE] I have gone the other way on Cage. Liked him in _Raising Arizona_ and _Moonstruck_, then got tired of him in everything after that. [QUOTE=WhyNot] Jim Carey in Liar, Liar almost got me, but I wrote it off as an aberrant tolerable role. Not until The Truman Show was I assured that he actually can do more than rubberface his way through a role. [/QUOTE] I am the same way; love his dramatic roles, hate his comedies. I liked him in [_The Majestic_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268995/maindetails) for the same reason. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-used-to-hate/418307.md?page=1)