And who could forget Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser? Each on their own is a major irritant. Together, they reach a critical mass of annoyance that sends me diving for the remote.
The only time I liked Reiser is when I got to see the look of terror in his eyes as the Alien prepared to eviscerate him. Somebody needs to lay an egg in Helen Hunt, and I’d gladly watch that death scene.
I also recommend this movie…if you have insomnia.
Sweet Zombie Jesus, people, how could this thread get this far without mentioning Vin “I suck the life out of a movie a quarter mile at a time” Diesel?
I know we’re supposed to be fighting ignorance, but in this case ignorance IS actually bliss.
Perhaps this isn’t quite what the original poster had in mind, but I find it quite amazing that Susan Lucci has been continuously employed for over 30 years (!) in the same acting role (Erica Kane blah blah etc. etc. on “All My Children”). Even by the standards of soap opera acting, Lucci is at best wooden and unconvincing. At worst, she chews the scenery like she was in a pie-eating contest. She has played a shrill, one-note character who has never shown the slightest trace of evolution in three decades. She was justly refused a “best actress” emmy for almost 20 years, until the PTB tired of seeing her torrent-of-tears after so many losses, year after year. Why she wasn’t fired and recast the first week she was on the show is a mystery.
Ok, let me preface this by saying it was a great movie, AND, he is a great director, but… Quentin Tarantino as an actor? And “From Dusk till Dawn” was literaly the only movie I ever walked out of.
My personal list would include
John Wayne - god, I hated those bloody westerns
Jim Carrey - yuck!
Mike Myers - I hated Austin Powers
The captain in Voyager - her voice just made me cringe [i forget her name]
Tom Cruise - who plays the same note over and over
Stephen Segal - fat guy who always comes out on top
John Wayne is still getting work!?
He was in that beer comercial not that long ago. 
In partial defense of her, part of the problem is the writers don’t let the character evolve.
Now if we are going to bring soap actors into this, then I will mention a new actress on One Life to Live. I don’t know her name but she plays a character named Kathryn and her acting is so bad she makes all the other soap actors look like freaking Olivier’s and Dame Judy’s. Talk about wooden, her face doesn’t even move when she talks, let alone tries to emote. Even though Soaps don’t exactly have a reputation for the highest quality of acting it’s really hard to believe that anyone would cast this woman in anything.
But if we are going to talk mainstream actors, I will agree with Jennifer Tilly and Melanie Griffith. Tilly’s voice also makes me physically ill.
I vote for Heather Graham. I thought that she had the vacuous look of a young burned out porn star down perfect in Boogie Nights. Then I saw her in Austin Powers and realized that it wasn’t an act, there really isn’t anything in that pretty head of hers. Look into her eyes and you can see the gone fishin sign. IIRC I heard Cher’s son Elijah Blue Allman on Stern’s show once and he admitted to an affair with her and also confirmed she was as dumb as a bag of hammers. It shows.
Maybe we need something like a John Wayne/Sly Stallone/Fran Drescher Award (for people who are the best in the world at that one-note performance they do, and shouldn’t overexpose that one note, or try anything else.
(FWIW, that one note that Fran Drescher hits still gives me a boner).
I think he’s a great actor… as long as he doesn’t say anything. As soon as he opens his mouth, it’s all out the window.
Damn near, I gotta tell ya. The man is seriously yummy.
Andy Dick. Has anyone ever laughed at him? Me, my family, and my friends have seen him on tv on quite a few shows and on quite a few movies, and I can’t recall anyone ever laughing at him. The man isn’t funny, and he can’t act.
oh, and Ashton Kutcher.
Heather Graham wasn’t bad in ‘From Hell’. I wouldn’t have called her great, but her acting seemed fine to me. (Of course I didn’t like the character much, but that’s a seperate issue).
I like Keanu Reeves.
Please don’t hate me.
If we’re including the soaps, then Deidre Hall gets my vote.
Forbidden Hollywood nominated Keanu, Melanie and Juliette (of course, it was a while ago):
We shouldn’t be in pictures
We shouldn’t even try.
You talk like you’re a baby.
You talk as flat as a brain dead guy.
My mom was Tippi Headren
And in her film debut
The birdies pecked her head in.
Now I’m a bird brain too.
Why has Jennifer Tilly never appeared in “Playboy”? She could justify her existence by showing off her great rack.
Did you see a sign out in front of this thread that says “Dead Nigger Storage”, Anyanka?
IOW, you’re judging Tarantino’s acting on the basis of the wrong film. He’s not brilliant, but he’s adequate and he’s better than a fair number of people who make their living by acting.