Vanessa Redgrave always seems like the same character to me, one that’s a weak actress over-emoting and “chewing the scenery”.
Meryl Streep puzzles me, too. She can seem like a great many different people, but they never seem to be the person she’s playing at the time. She will be in a role where the character is described as glamorous and simply appear snobish. Or one where the character is supposed to be a weak-brained down-and-out commoner, and she comes off like a college professor in a beggar costume.
The girl from American Beauty (not Thorna, the other one that the dad was obsessed with) and Sugar and Spice. She doesn’t strike me as particularly talented, and her eyes scare me.
Gwyneth Paltrow is an obvious choice.
Julia Roberts has no range.
Andie MacDowell - good Lord, why is she a spokesmodel? She’s UUUUUUUGLYYYY!
Sandra Bullock - what the hell’s the big deal about her?
I’ve always had the hots for Winona Ryder, always thought she was a wonder to behold. But I eventually had to realize that she’s been in only one movie I can stand to watch more than five minutes of, and that’s “Heathers”. And yeah, she didn’t do anything remarkable in that or any other role.
I never understood why guys get so impressed with Renée Zellweger. She doesn’t even look like anything. If I passed her on the street I would not even give her a second glance. So she’s blonde? BFD. What’s so all-fired great about being blonde anyway?
Have you seen Dangerous Liaisons? I think she’s incredible in this movie. Actually, I thought she was pretty good in Fatal Attraction, though the rewritten ending undercut everything that was engrossing about this movie. She’s also good in Reversal of Fortune, which is one of my favorite movies.
However, I thought she was repulsive in the live 101 Dalmation movies. I refused to see them; she looked to bizarre.
I second (or is it third?) Julia Roberts. I cannot dredge up any sympathy, empathy, or any pathy for any character she plays. Actually, Gwyneth Paltrow has this effect on me, too. No emotional response from me for any of her characters. It’s not that they’re not good actors; I just can’t connect to them emotionally at all. I can never look at them in character and forget about the Julia/Gwyneth that I just read about in the tabloids.
Angelina Jolie - her lips just scare me. I can’t track anything she’s saying, cause I can’t take my eyes off those freaky lips.
I know that actors are just acting and you shouldn’t try to read any part of the characters they play into what they’re really like.
However.
The first time I ever saw Glenn Close in a movie was The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields, Garp’s mother. I absolutely hated Jenny in the book and Close’s portrayal fit the character so well that I can’t look at Close now without feeling some bit of disgust.
Stupid, I know, but whaddya gonna do?
Sorry, Glenn, you were just to damned good at that role.