Not intended to just be a negative list of mediocrity but.
I do not like Shirley Henderson as an actress. I think she has talent, i am sure she a perfectly nice human being.
I don't know whether its a type cast thing or her delivery. But she creeps me out. If something is good and she pops up I struggle to continue watching. I just get stuck reflecting how creepy I find her performance.
Tom Cruise tops my list. I didn't realised quite how much till the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
might i be the first to say James Corden?
Robert Pattinson - don't see the appeal. Just seems.. insipid.
Tom Hanks. He seems like a really nice person, he's not a terrible actor, but he's just mediocre. Whenever I see his name on a billboard, I know it's going to be some lame shit.
Robin Williams was mostly annoying and made some really shit movies.
Katie Sackoff is just irritating.
Tom Cruise tops my list.
In the right part, he's brilliant. He doesn't always choose good parts.
Maybe i should called the thread "good actors you struggle to watch"
I don't mind either of them personally, although i haven't seen a modern Tom Cruise film i may well be creeped out more these days.
The olympic thing was fully weird though.
Oh aye.
Stephen Graham.
Again don't think he's a bad actor but i am very over his "on the tipping point" delivery of everything.
Adolescence was spoilt by his presence.
I don't get Ricky Gervais. He doesn't seem to act, as much as play the same exact part in everything I've seen him in. He's even the same when he does stand-up.
Have you watched afterlife nbt?
Might change your mind a bit. Or not.
This is a broad church all opinions welcome
Kit Harrington. You might as well just get a plank of wood and paint a sour face on it.
Ricky Gervais worked for me in The Office and Extras but he's clearly not an actor. I tried Afterlife and gave up after about 10 minutes.
Pedro Pascal. The worst part of The Mandalorian was when he took his helmet off.
Hmm.
I dunno about Pedro.
Last of Us
Narcos
Mandolorian was pretty rubbish full stop so convinced he was the problem there 🤣
Easy - Tom Hanks. Just puts me off any film. Dunno what it is, just can't stand him.
Wahey, a thread I can really get into!
Sean Penn. At no point in a single Sean Penn film do you stop thinking "oh, it's Sean Penn. Doing his acting thing. Dear god when will he be off the screen again".
Kiera Knightley. I apologise as it sounds mean, but she just can't act. "Kiera, we'd like you to look determined. OK, slightly jutted jaw and showing your teeth, that'll do. Now we'd like you to act scared. OK, showing your teeth and slightly jutted jaw, good. Now can you show us alluring. Great, smile and teeth, lovely". Black Doves was not bad, but she was pretty terrible in it.
Tom Cruise I want to dislike, but honestly, in Top Gun Maverick, the last but one Mission Impossible etc, it's just impossible to do so. You know what you're getting and he just does it.
I don't get Ricky Gervais. He doesn't seem to act, as much as play the same exact part in everything I've seen him in
Theres two kinds of screen actor really- There are 'Transformative' actors who project a character, look, mannerism on screen other than then own - someone like Gary Oldman maybe, who'll transform his voice, shape, movements into someone or something else and make that created character seem real. And then there are 'personality' actors. Personality actors look and sound like themselves in everything they do - what they portray is the situation they are in. So Tommy Lee Jones pretty much always looks and sounds like Tommy Lee Jones - his skill is in making the circumstances around him seem real.
I suppose the thing to keep in mind with comedians - is thats an act. So Gervais's acting looks and sounds a lot like his standup becuase they're both performances. (Thats not a defence of his acting - I really quite like the Office and Extras but I think they'd both be better still if he wasn't in them. He writes good shows and put good casts together but the cast are all a lot better than he is and it seems odd that he's at the centre of their performances)
Anyway - the actor for me is David Tennant. And for me it's not his acting so much as his look - he often just seems over-crafted visually. I imagine him receiving a new script and flipping through the first few pages just to find out what his hair is going to look like
I think i will call time on this thread. Nicko74 absolutely nailed it with Sean Penn.
Adam Sandler.
As soon as you see a film described as "Comedy starring Adam Sandler..." you know it's going to be total shit.
Agree about the actors who look and sound the same no matter what they're doing.
Nicholas Lyndhurst. Can't bring myself to watch the new Frasier, simply because he's in it. I don't hate him but he's the absolute last actor I'd ever want to see in that show.
Lesley Manville. Just insufferable. She must remind me of someone.
Shia LaBeouf. Annoying.
Pretty much any actor who's been in EastEnders and then popped up elsewhere. Except Don Gilet. Thought he was quite good in Death in Paradise.
Theres two kinds of screen actor really
You're describing character actors versus stars. The elite can pull off both. George Clooney is a character actor trapped in a star's body.
Kate Dickie.
Ruined (for me) the otherwise excellent Dept Q on t’Netflix and pretty much everything else she’s ever been in.
Was just thinking that I don’t think there is any actor that I really can’t stand when
Kate Dickie.
The visual representation of nails down a chalkboard as soon as she’s on screen. Not because of how she looks, rather that I can’t understand how she’s had a single TV/movie acting role
Kate Dickie.
Ruined (for me) the otherwise excellent Dept Q on t’Netflix and pretty much everything else she’s ever been in.
Oh, interesting. I certainly didn't love her character, but I found it intriguing - like I couldn't get a handle on her motivations, whether she's a good guy, bad guy, etc. Which I conceded was probably good acting
Kate Dickie.
Ruined (for me) the otherwise excellent Dept Q on t’Netflix and pretty much everything else she’s ever been in.
This.
So much this
As a Scotsman, most on screen Scottish actors make me feel a bit weird, but she is truly abysmal. How she ever gets past an audition is beyond me. Every line delivered as though she's reading it for the first time ever from a teleprompter that's so far away she's struggling to read and process the words in her head.
Kate Dickie.
Ruined (for me) the otherwise excellent Dept Q on t’Netflix and pretty much everything else she’s ever been in.
Fun ily enough it was dept Q that triggered this thread.
I hadn't really twigged she was in it because Shirley was also in it.
Tom Hanks. He seems like a really nice person, he's not a terrible actor, but he's just mediocre. Whenever I see his name on a billboard, I know it's going to be some lame shit.
I was just going to say the same. He's the ultimate in beigeness. The film equivelent of listening to a Coldplay song on Radio 2
Struggling to think of many I dislike just for their acting, though there are plenty I'd classify as hugely overrated.
Except the blonde woman quiz master in those piss awful Gala bingo ads that sponsor The Chase. She's popped up in another couple of ads also playing an annoying cow. Of all the things to get typecast as....
+1 for David Tennant, not sure what it is about him just find him hugely annoying.
Harrison Ford, once you realise how many times he casts himself with much younger female partners it all begins to feel a bit yucky 🤮
Nicholas Cage
He's the opposite of Tom Hanks - never mediocre. When he gets it right, he's brilliant, When he gets it wrong, he's unwatchable. If I have to choose between a random Tom Hanks movie and a random Nic Cage movie, it'll be Nic Cage every time. Good chance it'll be awful, but it won't be forgettable.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/04/nicolas-cage-over-the-top
Jared Leto.
Ryan Reynolds.
Jim Carey.
Elliot Page.
Angelina Jolie.
Vince Vaughn.
There's way more, but that's all I can think of for now.
Most I will still watch whatever they're in, apart from Leto.
Hate is a strong word, there's plenty I don't really like...
Laurence Fox - on so many levels
But then sometimes hate seems appropriate. I spent an evening in The Groucho Club with him about 20 years ago. Was a **** then too.
keira knightley. don't know what it is about her but I find her presence in a film annoying. I think it might be the way she always seems to like biting her sleeves for some reason.
+1 for David Tennant, not sure what it is about him just find him hugely annoying.
I wasn't keen on David Tennant. Then I watched Inside Man. It's quite different from most of the other parts I've seen him in and changed my mind a bit.
Daniel Day-Lewis massively overrated actor.
Jim Carey. But that's far more to do with not liking the sort of film's that are likely to cast him.
My opinion is only valid for the first 20 minutes of films though, as I'm rarely awake for the rest.
Nicholas Lyndhurst. Can't bring myself to watch the new Frasier, simply because he's in it. I don't hate him but he's the absolute last actor I'd ever want to see in that show.
Kelsey Grammer would be pretty high up the list actually. Not funny and a weird false gravitas.
Nicholas Lyndhurst. Can't bring myself to watch the new Frasier, simply because he's in it. I don't hate him but he's the absolute last actor I'd ever want to see in that show.
Kelsey Grammer would be pretty high up the list actually. Not funny and a weird false gravitas.
I'll see you Sean Penn and raise you Joaquin Phoenix. Just relentless over the top "look at me acting". It might be that he mainly play villains as he annoyed my far less in "Her". But i honestly felt like I needed a shower after "The Joker" he made my skin crawl. But maybe that was the point? In that case he is brilliant.
Coming late to this most have been said but luckily Steven Seagal is still unsaid. I have no idea what he's for. Should have changed his name to seagull to be more interesting.
