# Lou Diamond Phillips **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823 "2010-12-11T23:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/21 "2010-12-12T03:45:35Z")
> [@Raginghormonal](#): > > My list isn’t too long: > > Woody Allen (I really really dislike him) You and I can never agree on any movie ever ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/22 "2010-12-12T04:28:58Z")
> [@Add99](#): > > I can’t stand Lou Diamond Phillips. I refuse to watch movies containing: > > The 90% horrible list includes: > > \*\* Russell Crowe\*\* > I probably mangled the spelling, but they should get better names anyway. > Who is on your list? [You.are.dead.to.me](http://You.are.dead.to.me). ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/23 "2010-12-12T05:02:04Z")
I recently watched Knight and Day (on DVD that I didn’t pay for), I don’t normally watch Tom Cruise movies but I was so distracted by Cameron Diaz’ face that I forgot to loathe Tom Cruise. She looks like she had cheek implants, lip injections and I don’t know what else but her face looked wrong, artificial. All the gaping plot holes didn’t help the movie either. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/24 "2010-12-12T05:15:16Z")
Well, I don’t much care for Mel Gibson. There was this friend of my sister’s who had a bit of a fetish for him, like to the extent of her entire kitchen being a Mel Gibson shrine, and this was not her only eccentricity: a little hard to explain but her dress sense was sort of 1970’s off-duty air hostess. You know the British lady who always says “Fabulous” in the Trident gum commercials? A bit like that. Despite all this, she was kinda hot and I had an unrequited crush on her for the longest time, but it was doomed from the start because I am in no way ever to be mistaken for Mel Gibson. But I digress. I’m trying to wrap my brain around the idea of the OP absolutely refusing to see films such as _The Conversation, The French Connection, From Russia With Love, Get Carter, Glengarry Glen Ross, Goldfinger, The Man Who Would be King, Master and Commander, Police Story_, and _The Road Warrior_, all because they happen to feature actors on his shit list. The mind boggles. OK, It’d take some convincing to get me to see a film with Ashton Kutcher in it, but I still wouldn’t reject it out of hand, nor would I for any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/25 "2010-12-12T05:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > You know the British lady who always says “Fabulous” in the Trident gum commercials? Sorry, meant to say Orbit, not Trident. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/26 "2010-12-12T06:02:19Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > I do not like Russell Crowe, but I think he’s a decent actor. I _loved_ 3:10 to Yuma when I finally sat down and watched it. Terrific film. Have you seen _Cinderella Man?_ Until this thread, I didn’t realize I was a Russell Crowe admirer. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/27 "2010-12-12T06:11:14Z")
Seth Rogan I don’t boycott Sean Connery movies but IMHO his range sucks ass. I’ve always assumed that people like him because they buy into the James Bond borefest and think he’s “cool” for whatever reason. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/28 "2010-12-12T06:58:10Z")
Not about an actor, but here goes: I will not watch any movie where the trailer has choir chanting accompanying an overhead shot of a battle or action scene. To me it universally signifies either a big-budget crapfest with zero intellectual depth, or a fantasy movie (which I can’t stand) or both. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/29 "2010-12-12T13:59:04Z")
There is only one actor on my list. He is guaranteed to take a bad director, bad premise, and bad script, and make it far, far worse… Jerry O’Connell I do not understand how he ever gets jobs considering the amount of suck he brings to everything he does. And the OP, IMNSHO, is simply is a poseur hater. _(“Look at me. I hate all these things. That makes me cool.”)_ ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/30 "2010-12-12T14:47:52Z")
Regarding LDP-he seems to be a pretty competent actor; his career hasn’t been all that great. I liked him in “La Bamaba”…but maybe he has a bad agent? He probably could do as well as Matt Damon or Affleck-course, he is getting old now. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/31 "2010-12-12T15:30:24Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > You and I can never agree on any movie ever So sorry. I just can’t even look at him. I know I’m missing some good movies because of it though. By the way, I felt that way even before he married the adopted daughter. He has always given me the willies. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/32 "2010-12-12T15:44:58Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Seth Rogan > > \ Good one! To that I’ll add: Jim Carrey Tracy Morgan Steve Carell Ben Stiller Martin Lawrence Will Ferrell (Heck, most SNL alum) No doubt I’ll think of a ton more later. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/33 "2010-12-12T15:59:32Z")
No love for Uwe Boll? 🙂 My dislikes run to Woody Allen - I just don’t like his style of films - and Mel Gibson after he got full of himself and revealed himself as an anti-Semite and anti-English racist. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/34 "2010-12-12T16:33:50Z")
Jim Carrey. For the record, I think Eternal Sunshine is pretentious nonsense that doesn’t redeem anyone. Even if I he would start making good films, though, I feel it’s just too late now. All I see when I watch him is the Gurning Face. I prefer to avoid Tom Hank as well, though not as rigorously. But I had a crush on Loud Diamond Philips when I was a teen and I was in Young Guns… ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/35 "2010-12-12T16:39:20Z")
another vote for Woody Allen. The only explanation I can think of for why he gets so lauded is that people were doing a lot drugs back in the sixties and seventies. Vim Diesel, generally thoguh I thought Pitch Black was a decent film despite Diesel. Nicholas Cage hasn’t done anything watchable for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/36 "2010-12-12T16:41:08Z")
I try to judge movies based on their premise and the track record of the director, not the actors (who are merely props). But that said, there is one “actor” (barely deserving of the word) who will keep me from watching any movie: Tom Cruise. His smug, smirking face always makes me want to slap the shit out of him. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/37 "2010-12-12T16:42:56Z")
Christopher Lambert, the most wooden of actors. I avoid anything with him in it. ---
**Author:** ![Add99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Add99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Add99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/38 "2010-12-12T16:47:46Z")
Oh, I admit my list is not really well thought out. Russell Crowe did Gladiator. Overrated by far. Beautiful Mind. Overrated. Body of Lies. Crap. He is a fine actor. He did a fine job in those movies. But, when I see his name on the credits, given a history of overrated films, it gives me pause. Cameron Diaz is horrible. Even she could not ruin Head Above Water, though. Angelina has never done anything worth watching. I will be the first to admit my list is a bit wonky, but when those names come up on film credits I hesitate. It’s not because the actors by themselves, but because of the films they have associated themselves with. This is why Gene Hackman is on the list. I can’t shake off the Superman fiasco, despite Unforgiven. Those names, to me, come with baggage. That’s what I really meant. ---
**Author:** ![Add99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Add99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Add99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/39 "2010-12-12T17:03:12Z")
Brad Pitt Edward Norton Paul Dano Maybe Leonardo DiCapprio They are on the opposite list. Not always a perfect record, but my interest level goes up if they are involved. Danny DeVito not so much. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823/40 "2010-12-12T17:51:14Z")
> [@These are my own pants](#): > > Vin Diesel, generally though I thought Pitch Black was a decent film despite Diesel. Did you see either [Find Me Guilty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419749/) or [Boiler Room](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181984/)? He actually is a talented actor, something you might not have noticed if you have only seen his action movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-diamond-phillips/563823.md?page=3)