# Movie Actors You Can't Stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218 "2007-09-06T06:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/61 "2007-09-06T23:38:47Z")
The Bruce Willis patented smirk turns my stomach. I did think he was good in The Sixth Sense, but he had toned down the smirk for that role. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/62 "2007-09-07T00:11:19Z")
I usually don’t go out of the way to diss actors; my friend seems to hate about half of Hollywood (part of that is politics-related, while I can enjoy a Mel movie without worrying about him being a racist rightwing asshat). But, aside from the B comedy movie crowd everyone loves to hate (Stiller, Ferrell, and Sandler et al.), one does make me almost ill: Kirsten Dunst. From her horribly mannered and stiff mannequin-like “acting” style to the fact the she just doesn’t have the looks of an A list actress, when her big moony face shows up on screen I reach for my barf bag. That I can still enjoy the Spiderman movies is probably a testament to Tobey Maguire’s acting ability more than anything else. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/63 "2007-09-07T00:22:12Z")
I have always thought Kirsten Dunst was absolutely gorgeous. I’m always baffled by people who put down her looks - but I guess it really is all a matter of taste. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/64 "2007-09-07T00:24:31Z")
I want to like George Clooney, every time I see him on a talk show he’s funny and quirky and I think I’d like to hang out with that guy. But whenever he does a movie he has to do that thing where he looks down and then looks up again with just his eyes, he usually cocks his head a little. I think that he thinks it makes him look cute but it’s annoying. I cannot stand Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tom Cruise. Juliette Lewis would make me want to stab knitting needles into my ears so I don’t have to listen to her. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/65 "2007-09-07T00:34:04Z")
David Caruso-Damn!, I hate that guy. Julia Roberts- Agree with Shawn1767, it’s that obnoxious laugh! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/66 "2007-09-07T01:02:32Z")
Nobody has mentioned Christine Baranski??? I always want to reach out and fix her face, or at least cover it with something. And yeah, I forgot to mention Sylvester Stallone. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/67 "2007-09-07T01:36:57Z")
[QUOTE=longhair75] adam sandler [/QUOTE] Amen - There is not a less talented actor on the planet than Adam Sandler. Also, Pauly Shore. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/68 "2007-09-07T01:39:43Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] None for me, but my wife hates Teri Garr. In fact, I was watching the ST episode she was on, when she was very young, and my wife started in on how obnoxious the character was. I didn’t even remember it was her until the end of the episode. [/QUOTE] But she was SO hot in Young Frankenstein 😃 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/69 "2007-09-07T02:31:30Z")
Matt Dillon. Not for acting; he just gives off that “you’d hate me if you met me in real life” vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Eggerhaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Eggerhaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggerhaus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/70 "2007-09-07T03:33:45Z")
Harrison Ford. Couldn’t act his way out of a paper sack if his life depended on it…he’s so one-dimensional he plays the same character in every film. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/71 "2007-09-07T06:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=PharmBoy] Also, Pauly Shore. [/QUOTE] The stipulation was “actors”. I think you’ve crossed the line. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/72 "2007-09-07T09:58:44Z")
Thank you God, for this 37th opportunity to diss the anti-actor that is: Nicole Kidman!!! and Bill Paxton 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/73 "2007-09-07T17:26:48Z")
So many shitty actors to choose from, and I think all of mine are on this list: Kevin Costner has all the range of a piece of cardbaord, and half the personality Jim Carrey. Shudder. Keanu Reeves. See Kevin Costner. (And no, _The Matrix_ didn’t improve my opinion of him. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/74 "2007-09-07T17:35:28Z")
Hugh Grant…what a fuckdustingwanksponge this twat is, deserves a very hard slapping, often. Nicolas Cage…another ass wiping turd burglar who has about as much talent as a colonic irrigation Julia Roberts…shut your mouth fergawdsake woman, you sound like a mule having an orgasm ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/75 "2007-09-07T21:57:40Z")
There is something very disturbing about Woody Harrelson that sets off my serial killer radar every time I see him. If a SWAT team were to find half a dozen severed heads in his fridge tomorrow, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. Julia Roberts turns my stomach, too. I have yet to hear _anything_ from her or about her that doesn’t make her out to be an absolutely repulsive human being. Ditto Michael Crichton, although he doesn’t act. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/76 "2007-09-07T22:10:52Z")
Geoffrey Rush. “Look, Mum! I’m Acting!” The same bloody over-the-top ham in every movie he’s in: he’s doubly annoying when he deliberately plays an over-the-top character like Captain Barbosa or Casanova Frankenstein to indulgently send himself up, _because he’s still exactly the bloody same_. Plus he looks like he sticks lollies up his bum and then hangs around school playgrounds to give them to small children. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/77 "2007-09-08T13:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] I feel like I’m coming out here, and expect to be flamed immediately, but here goes: **Al Pacino**. I hate him. He hasn’t “acted” since the 70’s. He just does his same stupid shtick for every movie and people just lap it up. He stinks. re Pacino: Same only louder. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/78 "2007-09-08T13:40:53Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] [QUOTE=Ghanima] I feel like I’m coming out here, and expect to be flamed immediately, but here goes: **Al Pacino**. I hate him. He hasn’t “acted” since the 70’s. He just does his same stupid shtick for every movie and people just lap it up. He stinks. [/quote] re Pacino: Same only louder. [/QUOTE] Agreed, with some films. But _Glengarry Glen Ross_? Really? ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/79 "2007-09-08T16:16:09Z")
Peter Gallagher - can’t stand looking at him, listening to him, anything. Kills anything he is in. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218/80 "2007-09-08T17:14:56Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] Peter Gallagher - can’t stand looking at him, listening to him, anything. Kills anything he is in. [/QUOTE] I agree. However, in _American Beauty_ he and Annette Benning (Who I like) managed to make the equally dislikeable **Kevin Spacey** ’s character a sympathetic one. Well, almost. I can’t stand either of those guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-actors-you-cant-stand/418218.md?page=5)