# Matthew McConaughey is a terrible actor! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859 "2018-11-01T20:27:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DB\_Coopa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DB\_Coopa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DB_Coopa)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/1 "2018-11-01T20:27:03Z")
Is is just me or does anyone else think he’s just an annoying mumbling wreck of an actor? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/2 "2018-11-01T20:46:00Z")
> [@DB\_Coopa](#): > > Is is just me or does anyone else think he’s just an annoying mumbling wreck of an actor? Did you get around to seeing _Sahara_? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/3 "2018-11-01T20:54:14Z")
I don’t think he really acts. He’s one of those actors who is an amplified version of himself on screen, like Samuel L Jackson (angry black man about to give you a piece of his mind) or Jesse Ventura (belittling blowhard). If you match him with the right role, he’s great. Don’t ask him to do anything else though. Such actors can still make good contributions to movies as Jack Nicholson shows. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/4 "2018-11-01T20:56:10Z")
He’s okay in comedies. But I could never take him seriously in a drama. Contact would have been THE best movie ever made had they not cast him in it. (They should have left out the last 30 seconds of the movie as well, but I suppose I’m nitpicking). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/5 "2018-11-01T21:05:42Z")
I thought he was great in _True Detective_ and _Mud_. ---
**Author:** ![DB\_Coopa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DB\_Coopa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DB_Coopa)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/6 "2018-11-01T21:15:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did you get around to seeing _Sahara_? 😃 I’ll add it to my to watch list! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DB\_Coopa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DB\_Coopa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DB_Coopa)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/7 "2018-11-01T22:34:46Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I thought he was great in _True Detective_ and _Mud_. The problem I had with True Detective is that Woody Harrelson was in it as well. He’s nearly as bad as McConaughey for me, in that same slimy mumbling not very convincing in any role kinda way. He nearly ruined No Country For Old Men, thankfully Chigurh put a stop to that! ---
**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:** [November 1, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/8 "2018-11-01T22:41:45Z")
I thought Harrelson was terrific in _No Country For Old Men._ I also thought MM was very good in _True Detective_ and _Mud_. Also, _Dallas Buyer’s Club_, and even _Interstellar._ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/9 "2018-11-01T22:54:01Z")
And Dazed and Confused. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/10 "2018-11-01T23:03:25Z")
At least he’s better than Owen Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/11 "2018-11-01T23:06:06Z")
Lincoln Lawyer. I like him. And Woody. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/12 "2018-11-01T23:29:28Z")
He is a terrible actor and annoying as hell. Something about his acting grates on me. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/13 "2018-11-02T00:40:22Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > I don’t think he really acts. He’s one of those actors who is an amplified version of himself on screen, like Samuel L Jackson (angry black man about to give you a piece of his mind) or Jesse Ventura (belittling blowhard). If you match him with the right role, he’s great. Don’t ask him to do anything else though. Such actors can still make good contributions to movies as Jack Nicholson shows. Samuel L Jackson has accepted his typecast nature. But if you watch his films from before he became “Samuel L Jackson”, it’s clear that he can act very well as other characters. Cites: A Time to Kill The Long Kiss Goodnight ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/14 "2018-11-02T01:15:22Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > _Dallas Buyer’s Club_ This. He often \*does \* play the same character in most of his movies but _Dallas Buyer’s Club_ shows the man can truly act. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/15 "2018-11-02T04:27:27Z")
Dude’s busy, he doesn’t have a lot of time to work on his acting chops. What’s he doing? Well, according to an urban legend that I just heard about in my head, if you go into the bathroom at midnight, turn the lights off, and say “Allright, allright, allright”, Matthew McConaughey appears and hands you a blunt. He’s not getting the work that Bloody Mary does, so he’s still acting to keep the bills paid, but he’s got a bright future as an anthropomorphic personification. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/16 "2018-11-02T04:31:10Z")
I thought he was good in Mud, but haven’t seen too many of his other movies to fairly judge. Sam Jackson def has legit acting chops when he is allowed to showcase them, but he annoys the shit out of me because he usually isn’t and he is inevitably in every movie I see, hate those CapitalOne commercials too! ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/17 "2018-11-02T10:25:14Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > …He often \*does \* play the same character in most of his movies but _Dallas Buyer’s Club_ shows the man can truly act. Agreed. He’s not playing his usual persona in that one. He’s also good in _Bernie_ playing a good-old-boy sheriff in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/18 "2018-11-02T11:59:04Z")
> [@DB\_Coopa](#): > > Is is just me or does anyone else think he’s just an annoying mumbling wreck of an actor? Are you [Stewie Griffin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUsRAKMzKIk)? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/19 "2018-11-02T12:34:24Z")
I like McConaughey, except for that insane period where Hollywood thought he was perfect rom-com lead material. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859/20 "2018-11-02T12:35:14Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Agreed. He’s not playing his usual persona in that one. He starts off playing his usual persona and the psychological quest of the movie is him undergoing a hero’s journey out of his good ol’ boy shadow/lesser self. Like Bruce Willis getting over himself in Die Hard or Arnold Schwarzenegger getting over his need to be at the top in Predator. Evidently, they’re all capable of going back to their respective persona on and off the screen once their best movie is done filming. > [@MrDibble](#): > > I like McConaughey, except for that insane period where Hollywood thought he was perfect rom-com lead material. Wasn’t he? They seem to have done well and it’s not like most rom-com aim to be anything else than audiovisual Harlequin romances. They’re emotional/flirty/courtship porn for women and he must have fit pretty well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/matthew-mcconaughey-is-a-terrible-actor/823859.md?page=2)