On the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence can’t actually give a bad performance.
I feel the same about Ben Stiller. At least Adam Sandler has some acting skill. Stiller is simply terrible.
Jennifer Lawrence would have been even worse. A major part of the character was that she saw herself as nothing and entirely plain. Can you see Jennifer Lawrence doing that?
Is this where you’ve been these past 7 years?
gaffa, I’ve never seen a single one of those movies, so that’s not it. And as a matter of fact, I did like her as Joan Jett. But that still doesn’t mean she can act or has more than one stupefied facial expression. I always thought, too, that her anger at everything and everyone was justified because living in a fishbowl must suck. Now? I think she’s just stuck on herself and, due to that, can’t grow in her craft. Maybe in fifty years.
I liked him in Love and Human Remains. Of course I liked Brad Pitt in **Johnny Suede **and he is hardly an actor either. The part happened to be just right for him, kind of like Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted.
Though not for everyone his first few movies were funny to many and made a lot of money. Unfortunately everything he’s made since is total crap but somehow some of them still make money.
It doesn’t? In The Runaways she was playing a real person with a well-known persona, and did a credible job of it. That is a pretty good definition of “acting”.
I pay zero attention to the fishbowl. The only things I know about any actor is what they do in a film or the trailer for a film. So Kirsten Stewart could have either cured cancer or shot a man for snoring too loud and I would be blissfully unaware of it. So I’m capable of judging her work on it’s own merits
I saw several of the Twilight films (though I never bothered seeing the final two) but then my wife and I see a LOT of films, and are as likely to see art or indie films as Hollywood ones, and she has as good a chance of doing respectable work as anyone else, especially if she seeks work in art or indie films.
An actor has to have a reliably shitty body of work for me to write them off. Like Rebecca Pidgeon. We know the person she is fellating - David Mamet.
But from what I know of surly Joan Jett’s attitude, Stewart was basically “playing herself.” So again, although I used to be in her corner up to that point, everything since has convinced me that she’s very flat, one-note abs with zero range. How you can go through a film like Snow White and the Huntsman and look just bored is beyond me. I’m hoping she might do better in the Kerouac movie though. We’ll see.
I brought up her behavior in real life because it totally mirrors how she “acts” in her profession. And again, I had said that as a previous defender of her antics both in real life and on the screen. But once the bloom is off the rose, then I have to take the results as they are. I think she sucks and you don’t, but figured you’d want to know that it wasn’t because she’d been in love with a sparkly vampire. Which, contrary to the hypothesis, I’d never seen. 
Not having anything to advance the OP, my contribution: Richard Lewis.
For a while, he was a really popular guest. I just found him annoying
Fellate, fell-ate, He fell into the deli meat he ate.
I don’t know if Stiller is fellating them (I hope not), but when your parents are Ann Meara and Jerry Stiller that’s a lot of pull to have behind you.
You’re right. OK, I have to cut Dylan McDermott some slack.
Wanted to like Gibson, but after all that Dharma/Greg and all the CM, he’s STILL stiffer than a Vampire’s Day-walker Henchman. Maybe they put bolts in his neck on Halloween and hang tinsel from him in December… I just don’t know.
The list of actors I could ask this question about is quite extensive. Mostly I attribute this to being an old fart. I’m always looking at ads on tv and in print of a “celebrity” pitching a product or cause and find myself saying “Who the fork is that?”