I can’t help but get my hate on for Marcia Gay Harden. I don’t know what it is about her, but typically, I’d like to punch her in nads (because I’m sure she has some). However, I think she absolutely nailed the shrill, zealotty shrew screaming about how to prevent the apocalypse in The Mist. Doesn’t mean I want to watch her ever again though.
Have you seen Galaxy Quest? He should have been nominated for an Academy Award for his acting in that.
Never cared much for Anthony Quayle but in 1979 he played Falstaff in a BBC Shakespeare Television project of Henry IV parts I and II and was quite good in it.
Kirsten Dunst cannot act her way out of a wet paper bag, but she did a great job in her role as a Midwestern hairdresser trying to ‘get actualized’ in the second season of Fargo.
Doubly excellent because she in no way resembled the character’s description in the novella–she was sort of attractive (for a harridan). But yeah, the actress gets under my skin.
Check him out in The Big Short.
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love. Perfectly cast for the quirky lead role, but he dials back the Sandler shenanigans, while still maintaining some of that oddness.
Richard Gere in Primal Fear. Normally, I can’t stand the guy- he has this cocky, greasy vibe that I can’t stand but it worked perfectly for this movie, especially since all the attributes I don’t like about him end up contributing to his comeuppance at the end of the movie.
Been listed, but those who said Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey should check out ‘Punch-Drunk Love’, ‘Reign Over Me’, ‘Man on the Moon’, and my favorite movie of all time; ‘Eternal Sunshine’.
Just noticed those works haven’t been listed.
I’ll add another Tom Cruise role: Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia. Since his character just has to be hateable/punchable through 98% of the movie, it works great for me - I can’t stand that guy.
It was interesting to hear someone with such a strong dislike of her - I think of MGH as Verna in Miller’s Crossing, and I like that performance. So I went to her IMDB page; **turns out that I have never seen any of her other movies. **Including some pretty big ones.
This x100.
Also Leaving Los Vegas. Besides those 2 movies, I wish death upon him.
Nicolas Cage in National Treasure.
She was good in Melancholia as well.
And he’s good in Knowing. And in Bad Lieutenant.
And Wild at Heart.
Nicolas Cage in ‘Adaptation’ too
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Yeah, can’t stand the guy but I’ve hardly seen a movie of his where I didn’t find him compelling.
I’ve only enjoyed Adam Sandler in Hotel Transylvania.
I was going to name him for Phenomenon. His portrayal of a simple guy trying to cope with something strange happening to him at the same time that he is trying to court a hard-to-get girl was really good.
I think it’s funny how so many here are saying they can’t stand Nic Cage, but naming all these movies he was great in. And I agree, I think he was excellent in many of them, but the thing about Nic Cage is that, when you look at his whole career, he seems to have only taken the very best and the very worst scripts that have come across his desk.
This is a good one, too.