There are a number of actors that I think do a great job and for some reason I just don’t like anyway.
For instance: I think Edward Norton is usually pretty good in anything he is in - but I just don’t want to see him.
Leonardo DiCaprio has done some fine performance - but I’d rather not see a movie with him in it.
I really enjoyed Batman Begins and thought Christian Bale did a great job, and in fact can’t say I’ve ever seen him do a poor job, but I just don’t like him.
Donald Sutherland. Well, lately he’s grown on me, but used to be I’d deliberately avoid anything he was in. (Possibly because of Ordinary People.) Any of the Baldwin or Bridges brothers.
Mr. Sutherland’s accents suck. I love him as an actor, but lately the accents that he does are starting to grate on me. Specifically, the German accent that he did in Beerfest and now has carried over to Dirty Sexy Money.
Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don’t care how good he is - whenever the camera is on him, the smug just drips off the screen.
Leo is one of mine. I can watch him in Gilbert Grape–anything else is a no go.
My husband despises Chloe Sevigny. He has made up a faux drinking game for her–each time she does anything bitchy (including bitchy looks), take a drink. Watching Big Love could kill a person.
My mother has an inexplicable loathing of Clare Danes. I would be mystified, except I feel the same about Adrian Brody. Nothing wrong with them, they seem to do good work (I actually enjoyed *Dummy *regardless), just for some reason they put us, respectively, off.
Adrien Brody, check. He’s an able performer, but The Scratchy-Mumbly Method-Actor Voice and the Big Soulful Eyes (and Nose) Look make him a walking, talking, thinking person’s cliché.
Kiefer Sutherland, whose 24 gig has helped him retreat comfortably into the persona of beefy-faced whitey-righty super-everyman.
John Malkovich, who obviously feels clamminess goes hand in hand with sensitivity.
Viggo Mortensen, a living reminder of how close the Vikings came to savaging civilization.
I appreciate the skill displayed by Jim Carey, but with the exception of the Truman Show can’t stand al he movies he chooses to be part of.
I agree. For me, whenever he played the antagonist in The Italian Job, it forever labeled him as a villain to me. I had even seen some of his work before and was starting to warm up to him as an actor, but the whole Italian Job character ruined it for me.
Another for me is Gary Sinise. I can definitely recognize his talent as an actor, but there’s just something about him that gets me.
FWIW, according to IMDb trivia, he played that entire role under contractual obligation and hated every minute of it, so that might have bled through a little bit on to the screen.
I completely agree - I also hate the breathy, wet way his voice sounds.
I like him, but I’ve noticed he also has strikingly small hands. Perhaps he’s descended from carnies?
Brad Pitt. He’s a fabulous actor but I just. Can’t. Stand. Him. I see him and I want to throw things at the screen. There’s just something about him on the screen that pisses me off and I can’t bring myself to enjoy any role he’s in.
Another thread that confirms my theory that rational thinking in life never progresses past the first few years of school, so everything becomes a popularity contest just like who you picked in “your team” in the schoolyard - actors you like/dislike, musical acts you like/dislike. politicians you support/vote against.
Another vote for Adrien Brody. I wish I could explain why, I can’t.
Kevin Spacey. He bugs the bejesus out of me. He gives off a superior vibe.
Tommy Lee Jones. His folksy delivery and smirky face gets to me to the point where I can’t enjoy the movie because I’m distracted by him.
Diane Keaton - When the scene calls for any type of excitable emotion, she gets hysterical and shrieks.
Renee Zellweger because of her scrunchy face.
Likes and dislikes are part of the human experience. Foods, cities, cars, clothes, styles, music, etc… all of these things can (and should, really) inspire opinions. Why is it suddenly wrong to have a reaction to a person?
People have characteristics that can draw us to them or repel us. This somehow means that we’ve all been stuck in grade school mentality? I don’t know you at all, but I swear that being picked last for kickball doesn’t define you as a person. Let it go.
She even sucks dick, bitchy.
It suited that asshole, Vincent Gallo, however. Typecasting.
That’s one of the reasons I like reading these threads. Every time I start to think that maybe I’m being too difficult and hard on the world or that maybe I have a wrong attitude in my thinking about other people, all I have to do is read these threads and rediscover that I’m really a good person who doesn’t have very many irrational dislikes of other people.
Tom Cruise - he has done some good films (Lions to Lambs wasn’t one of them!) but he is just such an annoying closet-queen, Scientologist wacko that I just want to whack him upside the head when I listen to him in interviews.
Luckily, Richard Dreyfus has disappeared from the scene as he too somehow seems to be a nasty person who is quite full of himself, although he was good in Jaws and Close Encounters.
I feel as if I ought to like Martin Short. But I don’t. Something about him annoys me, even when he’s doing things that I might find very amusing if he were someone else. Maybe Martin Short should be disappeared, and Dana Carvey or Rick Moranis can take over for him. Oh, no, wait a minute… I feel the same way about Dana Carvey and Rick Moranis. Bob Balaban, too.