This is a wickedly entertaining thread. I have noticed that most of the choices can be placed in five rough categories (which often overlap).
(1) Hollywood Scientologists
Kirstie Alley
Anne Archer
Karen Black
Tom Cruise
Nichole Kidman
Juliette Lewis
Lisa Marie Presley
Priscilla Presley
Kelly Preston
Mimi Rogers
John Travolta
(2) "Saturday Night Live" Alumni
Jim Breuer
Chevy Chase
Jimmy Fallon
Will Ferrell
Al Franken
Janeane Garofalo
Eddie Murphy
Adam Sandler
Rob Schneider
David Spade
…and I include Pauly Shore as an honorary member of this bunch
(3) Untalented and/or Arrogant "Pretty Boys"
Ben Affleck
Alec Baldwin
Orlando Bloom
Tom Cruise
Leonardo DiCaprio
Val Kilmer
Brad Pitt
Keanu Reeves
(4) Radical Liberal Has-Beens
Al Franken
Janeane Garofalo
Sean Penn
Tim Robbins
Susan Sarandon
…and many, many others…
(5) Unaccountably Popular Young Women
Way too many to list here…My top choice:
Gwyneth Paltrow
To be fair, I would like to make the following observations:
Tom Cruise was very effective playing “against type” in Collateral (2004). Now that he has reached middle age, he may confound us by making a graceful transition to character roles.
Bill Murray absolutely deserved the Oscar for *Lost in Translation * (2003). He got screwed big time.
Whatever one can say about Mel Gibson, *The Passion of the Christ * (2004) is definitely a great personal victory for him. I giggle out loud when I think of all the Hollywood suits who passed up the chance to distribute The Passion. They are probably related to the same boneheads at M&M/Mars Candy who blew off Steven Spielberg when he asked them for permission to place their product in E.T. the Extra-Terrestial (1982). What were they thinking?
Neither strike me as particularly arrogant although I assume that’s what you’re listing them as since saying either is untalented is insane. Pitt is a very underrated actor and I honestly believe DiCaprio will be one of this generation’s most well respected actors given his current streak of quality roles and films.
Begging to differ, but I absolutely despise Leonardo DiCaprio. And any actress who thinks a wrinkled forehead and a pout means ACTING; for example, Gwyneth Birdneck and Squinty McScrunchface.
DiCaprio’s career is on its last legs. That has less to do with “acting” than it does with his Proteus Syndrome. His enormous, deformed skull will probably cause him to become an eccentric recluse, unless he starts a second career playing “The Elephant Man” in dinner theaters. Seriously, check out The Man in the Iron Mask. Leo’s head appears to be about the size of an 18 pound turkey. They’ve learned to shoot around it somewhat in his subsequent movies, but there’s only so much cinematography can conceal.
Hey, I happen to like Orlando Bloom! He shore is purdy.
Anyway, I disagree with Bill Murray and the Oscar. I saw Lost in Translation and I did not get all the hype and praise about it. I thought it was mediocre. Bill Murray was being Bill Murray, but a slightly toned down Bill Murray. And all Scarlett Johannsen had going for her were her pouty lips.
As for who’s films I’d like to see fail;
I’ll ditto Adam Sandler, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez (don’t most of her films bomb anyway, so why does she keep getting cast in new films?) and I’ll throw in a Hillary Duff giggle.
Any movie featuring both Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. I don’t mind them seperately, but together…ugh. Same thing goes for the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies.
Most of these people aren’t has-beens. In fact I’m not sure any of them are.
That the film would be very controversial, and they were correct. They didn’t count on a religious audience that usually doesn’t see movies going apeshit in love with the film. The movie was long, not in English, and extremely violent. Hindsight is 20/20.
