Ouch. Jimmy PLAYED smarmy brilliantly – NORTH BY NORTHWEST; THE VERDICT. But he did other stuff good, too. Here’s a short list of what you’re missing out on, and these are just his movies that I’ve personally seen.
THE SEVENTH VEIL (1945) crippled musician who terrorizes his young girl pupil
ODD MAN OUT (1947) IRA organizer
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1952) Rupert
JULIUS CAESAR (1953) Brutus
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) Captain Nemo
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) Suburban family man who becomes addicted to an experimental prescription drug, develops Fascist personality and delusions of godhood, and ends up trying to murder his wife and son. Bizarre Nicolas Ray movie. See it!!!
I also think he’s great in NORTH BY NORTHWEST no THE VERDICT. Smarmy roles don’t bother me.
I have to grudgingly respect Leachman because she began her movie career with a small but key role in Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir KISS ME DEADLY, which is one of my favorite movies ever.
The entire cast of Married with Children, for agreeing to appear in that stupid show. I have forgiven the father, who has redeemed himself somewhat in Modern Family.
All my other hating is rational and thus beyond the scope of this thread.
I hate Glen Ford. He gives off a creepy, child molester vibe to me. Maybe that originated in the film 4:10 to Yuma, because he was a manipulative, almost Hannibal Lechter kind of character.
I also hate Joan Crawford. She was supposed to be this wonderful dramatic actress, but she just reminds me of an insincere cobra. I’m completely in the Bette Davis camp when it comes to dramatic actress of the 30s (and 40s and 50s, for that matter).
I’ve had a crush on James Mason since I was a young girl. I even used to do an impression of him that cracked my mom up. I will agree with Ukulele Ike - he was the best at playing smarmy - as proven by The Tooth.
I would KILL to be able to do a good James Mason impression. I had a friend years ago who did a perfect Jimmy Stewart, and I would kill be to able to that, too. “This is James Stewart robbing a convenience store! This is James Stewart getting a blow job!”
Note that AZ doesn’t do DST. It was the 3:10 to Yuma.
My dad strongly believed that Henry Fonda was a communist. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to adopt his belief, so I dislike some of Fonda’s films as a result. THAT’S irrational.
I guess it is totally irrational. I find her untalented even though I’ve barely seen her in more than two things. And I find her odd looking, which is definitely irrational. She just bugs me. She looks…smug. Totally irrational and unfounded.
Juliette Lewis, with her enormous forehead. She was the turd in the punchbowl in one of my otherwise favorite movies Gilbert Grape, wtf did Johnny Depp see in her?? She looks like a shrunken wooden doll left out in the rain, and her acting stinks. Christina Ricci, DITTO! Winona Ryder completes the trifecta. I just hate their faces, voices, and acting.
I have a list, I have a little list…going over it, though, there is no irrational reasons for my hatred, because there are perfectly GOOD rational reasons.
Oh, for men: William H. Macy and John C. Reilly. They may be fine people and good actors, but I think they are so ugly it’s hard to look at them.
Oliver Sacks is whom I loathe. I went to a talk by him in which a young intelligent undergraduate introduced him (he was an invited speaker) and he quipped, “Now I know I’ve seen it all… a Russian Jew named Mary”. I mean, seriously.
He then proceeded to put up some of the most yellowed wrinkly transparencies known to man. His either having every freaking imaginable mental disorder (faceblindness, etc.) or knowing some obscure NYC resident who conveniently does is just too much to take. Plus his belief that his childhood and adolescent curiosity was somehow greater than everybody elses.
I really can’t stand the man and I had to stop listening to Radiolab (and nearly all of NPR) due to there obsession with “His Quirkiness”. Oh and he’s a poor author and an even worse scientist. I think Dr. Oz is a saint of truth compared to dr. sucks.
Jonah Hill - Maybe not irrational but just not my taste. His propensity for dick-ish characters has to say something about him personally. But a lot of it isn’t his fault, it’s more of a “Why does he have a career?” thing. People keep hiring him. Those are the people I dislike.
Lena Dunham - What can be said about her that hasn’t already been said?
