Bill Paxton is great with “Everyman” roles, though, even his weird ones in The Dark Backwards and Frailty. William H. Macy is a better actor but of the same “Everyman” type.
I liked how he played a human and not a characticture in Footloose.
Jeff Daniels. That he would further consider himself qualified to teach acting just adds to his ugh factor.
This thread has now devolved, as all such threads inevitably do, into yet another “actors you hate” thread.
Ben Affleck.
I just don’t get it.
Not in my case, at least. I took the OP to mean Depp = “talented, good looking, charming actor who has, either by bad luck or conscious career choices, skirted mainstream megastardom.” I put Will Ferrell up as the opposite of that: “weird looking guy, stiff in serious roles, puerile in comedies, who nonetheless is a marquee star.”
If I just wanted to name actors I hated, Ferrell wouldn’t even be in the Top 10. Hell, he wouldn’t even be the top Ferrell. 
Thank you! I was beginning to wonder if any one else on the planet noticed that this guy cannot act. In almost everything I’ve seen him in, I get the impression that he is reading. I don’t guess he’s what you’d call “weird looking”, but ye gods, what poor acting!
Well, when he’s playing kind of a low-key, regular Joe type guy (e.g. Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves), I think he’s great. As an action hero (e.g. Prince of Thieves, Waterworld), he’s a total waste.
I’d argue that most of the people mentioned here are talented (even in a limited sense) or are in too different a category acting-wise (only comedy, character actor, etc.) to truly be an anti-Depp.
My choice is Matthew Modine, who has never been more than adequate in anything he’s ever been in, with nominal acting chops, zero charisma, bland “good” looks, and a career that has remained relatively active for decades (plus he & Depp are only a few years apart in age).
Keanu Reeves has been Ted “Theodore” Logan in every film he has ever been in and yet he gets top billing. Even in Dangerous Liasons, Parenthood, and I Love You to Death he was Ted. In the Matrix (a movie I like) he was Ted all growed up. His performance was stiff, but so was the character, so it was a good match. It was the only movie I liked that he starred in.
Nicole Kidman. Zero chops, invests nothing in character and losing her looks.
and Bill Paxton!
I’ll nominate Jon Lovitz. You probably know him as “that guy.”
Modine is actually really really good in the obscure, low-budget caper/drama If…Dog…Rabbit. I bought the VHS for 2 dollars because the title seemed interesting, then it sat on the shelf for more than 2 years. When I finally watched it I was really surprised by how good the movie was.
I think the thing we all have to keep in mind about actors like Modine, Bill Paxton, Kevin Costner, and the like - “bland” handsome leads lacking in charisma and excitement - is that there really are people like this in life, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing that there are actors out there who can portray them. Whether or not you want to watch a whole movie with one of these kind of guys as the lead, well, that’s up to you.
Vince Vaughn. Every movie he’s been in would have been improved by having another “commedian” in the role.
Get ya answer heah…
I saw the thread title and immediately thought “Bill Paxton.”
I make no claim to have seen everything he’s been in. Just a couple of movies that he sucked all the life from.
Not a bad-looking guy, just charmless and wooden.
Argent Towers posted re Scott Glenn; I remember him as being alright in The Right Stuff, but I haven’t seen him in anything else.
Man, for me he is charismatic and is a very good actor. Plus - he was Crawford in Silence of the Lambs, and had significant roles in these well known movies; The Shipping News (2001) Training Day (2001)
Vertical Limit (2000) The Virgin Suicides (1999) Absolute Power (1997) Carla’s Song (1996)
Courage Under Fire (1996) Backdraft (1991) The Hunt for Red October (1990) Miss Firecracker (1989)
I dont wish to rag a fellow Squeeze fan, but he’s fairly prolific in successful movies!
MiM
Surely you can’t mean Swingers too! I think of Vaughn as the new Bill Murray type – not nearly as funny as Murray in his comic prime, but definitely the new “likeable, dry, sardonic everyman and natural leader of any group of wacky misfits.”
Never saw it. For some reason I kept confusing it with The Last Days of Disco and therefore thought I’d seen it when the video store still had it.