For me: Aaron Paul. He just gets on my tit end. I just cannot warm to him or his work. Weird innit?
You?
DiCaprio.
Segal.
Annoys the hell out if me.
Jim Carrey. I can feel my blood pressure rising the second he appears on any screen within view. Utterly unfunny and intensely irritating.
The guy who plays Steve McDonald in Corrie. And I don't even watch Corrie.
I think it stems from a picture of him in the local paper years ago sat on the bonnet of his slightly tatty looking Ferrari.
Lawrence Fox of late.
Colin Farrel.
Ben Stiller, I won’t watch anything with him in.
Lawrence Fox of late
That is entirely rational.
All of the above.
Denzel Washington. I know he’s a good actor but for no reason I have something against him.
none though I do have rational reasons to dislike some.
Elijah Wood because of The Lord of the Rings. By the end of those films I wished the whiny little **** had thrown himself into the fires of Mordor.
How come no-ones said Adam Sandler? Oh, irrational dislike...
DiCaprio
He's been on a mostly downward trend since 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'
Sandler & Cage mostly.
John Travolta
Jim Carrey
Not just me then! Never understood why he/his films were popular.
Tom Hanks. Can’t watch anything with him in it. Just about manage Private Ryan and the Toy things, but thats it.
DiCaprio.
+1
And I disliked Kevin Spacey way before it was cool (and he was outed as a sex pest).
Also Johnny Depp, found him very difficult to watch for years. Mainly 'cos he was usually in turgid Tim Burton films.
All of the above and the person who does the ee ad.
Tom Hanks. Can’t watch anything with him in it. Just about manage Private Ryan and the Toy things, but thats it.
It's not that I find him unwatchable, just that he's exactly the bloody same in every film.
Juliet Stephenson. Wakefield/MMR drama and Truly Madly DPly hopping scene give rational grounds but these are additional.
Jack Hugeman 🙄
the person who does the ee ad.
Kevin Bacon from the classic movie Tremors.
Al Pacino
Denzel Washington. I know he’s a good actor but for no reason I have something against him.
😲✋
Tom Cruise, cheesy wee bastard.
Kelsey Grammer as he's pro trump.
Hugh Grant
Keanu Reeves
Nicholas Cage
But I suppose the first one isn't all that irrational.... 😏 😁
Another vote for Tom Hanks playing Tom Hanks in a Tom Hanks film. I don’t like Will Smith for the same reason.
Pacino and De Niro in their twilight years. The former just yells a lot and the latter seems to have completely given up
Jude Law, I'm sure he's a perfectly normal reasonable bloke but I don't enjoy anything he's in, unless the other actors do a good performance despite him being there
Idris Elba - over acts when he's breathing.
And Tom Hanks
Nicholas Cage. Actors get presented as big stars and we lap it up, however once you realise how utterly shit he is every scene just becomes absolutely hilarious.
Jim Carey took the fame and money for making funny faces and doing voices in his first few films (can't say I blame him either), which I hated, but I think he's actually a pretty good actor when being serious.
Disliking Tom Cruise isn't irrational, being a major reason for a cult existing and taking advantage of people makes him a bastard.
I also dislike Jim Carrey.
He makes me want to throw heavy things at a perfect good TV.
Daniel Mays. Can’t get past the squidge.
Oh yeah, a total cringefest. Cannot stand and have never warmed to him either.
Yeah so pull some funny faces and launch a career.
Tom Hanks
It's almost like he's trying to be the new James Stewart.
Disliking Tom Cruise isn’t irrational, being a major reason for a cult existing and taking advantage of people makes him a bastard.
It's irrational for me, given I've absolutely no interest in gullible yanks being defrauded.
I don't dislike Tom hanks but I do find him a bit unengaging, considering his fame and popularity.
Jude law I find myself enjoying some of his work despite myself, he can do good acting when he wants to.
Jim Carrey is redeemed by The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Juliet Stevenson +1
Woody Allen!
Tom Hanks
+1 for Idris Elba. Also the little guy in line of doody.
Will Ferrell.
Seth Rogen - just don’t get why he’s supposed to be funny.
Idris Elba
Denzel Washington
Gerard Butler
Adam Sandler
Not so much an irrational dislike as I just think they are crap
Sue Johnston. Can’t bear the woman.
Iron Man bloke
Pacino and De Niro in their twilight years. The former just yells a lot and the latter seems to have completely given up
Generally, I think you're right, but I enjoyed their performances in The Irishman.
Steve Coogan
I found his Paul and Pauline Calf characters mildly amusing in the 90's
Alan Partridge just annoys me, needs to be shot!
Keanu Reeves
The man is a saint, and I find it difficult to believe that anyone could dislike him given just 5 minutes reading about how he conducts himself both personally and professionally.
The most irrational on the thread. Well done.
R Gervais.
I really didn't like early DiCaprio but he has warmed to me since then.
Tom Cruise, he's just Tom Cruise in every film, how he was cast as Jack Reacher I don't know.
The large Aussie actress gets on my wick end too.
I think the only time I've enjoyed a Ben Stiller film is Zoolander.
Trevor Eve.
Smarmy, smug overreacting twerp.
Keith Allen. Dunno, he's a believable actor in thing's I've seen him in but I just get a feeling about him based on nothing at all.
George Clooney
Hugh Grant
I've disliked Daniel Craig in absolutely everything I've seen him in, with the notable exception of Logan Lucky.
Agree on the Keanu Reeves thing. More actors should take a leaf from his book. The man is great.
Well at least the Keanu thing is consistent with the thread title. More than half of the other contributions are entirely rational.
This might be a contentious one: Simon Pegg.
Just re-watched Spaced which was magnificent and which he was very good in, but in everything after Shaun of the Dead he's come over a bit smug, to me. And he always plays the same character.
See also: Martin Freeman.
See also: Martin Freeman.
Absolutely.
Yup I'm with ElShamilo.
Downey Jr is my least favourite!
Mainly because after he came out of rehab he seemed more of an a'hole than when he went in!
Irrational:- David Tennant in Broadchurch, just hated the wee twerp.
Rational:- Harrison Ford ever since I noticed how he always casts himself with much younger female leads, dirty bastard.
Seagal
How dare you he's a brilliant comedy actor
Robin Williams - why is anyone laughing?
Just as interesting here to see the names that aren't coming up!
Simon Pegg +1. Since he started hanging out with Scientologists and not ripping the piss out of them.
Trevor Eve.
Reminds me - Bill Nighy
Russell Crowe. Can't believe he hasn't been mentioned.
I just laugh throughout his movies, so they're all ruined too.
Loved it when Mark Lawson took him down in the subtlest way possible when talking about his Robin Hood accent.
Ryan Gosling is close for me, but I managed to actually ignore it for Blade Runner 2047 and love the movie regardless.
Matthew Horne from that Gavin and Stacey thing
The man is a saint, and I find it difficult to believe that anyone could dislike him given just 5 minutes reading about how he conducts himself both personally and professionally.
Read the thread title!
Carey, Pacino (same one every film he does)
Matthew Mcconaghey, too far up his own arse
Segal
Cillian Murphy. I just can't watch a film if he's in it and I have no idea why
Sean Penn. You can never forget that he is an ACT-OR, and he's ACTING, and you just remember that he won an Oscar and wonder why the film industry is so irredeemably broken. Urgh.
Sean Penn. You can never forget that he is an ACT-OR, and he’s ACTING, and you just remember that he won an Oscar and wonder why the film industry is so irredeemably broken. Urgh.
See also Joaquin Phoenix.
While we are at it Daniel Day Lewis, yeah I get it, you are brilliant, you basically got an oscar for every part you ever played but maybe chill out and do a superhero film or something, you big worthy, luvvie bastard.
maybe chill out and do a superhero film or something,
Good call - occasionally look like you're enjoying yourself!
See also Joaquin Phoenix.
Feel sorry for you - you're missing some of the best films of recent times if you can't watch Joaquin.
Irrationally (Cos, like, that's what the thread was asking... ) Bryan Cranston.
Stopped me from watching Breaking Bad for years. Just mananged it during lockdown, for want of something long-winded to watch.
Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson in the entirely constructed role of 'Boris (Man of the People)'?
He is as much an actor as anyone who treads the boards or acts in a film.
Ryan Gosling is close for me,
I don't actively dislike him, but he's a bit too much of a blank canvas IYKWIM.
Matthew Horne from that Gavin and Stacey thing
I was gonna say James Corden, but then remembered the thread title.
Christian Bale...though I feel that might be a rational dislike
Another for Hugh Grant, or pretty much anybody in the Love Actually/Notting Hill/Bridget Jones era of British films.
I'm sure there are some good actors in there, but these films won't be their finest moments
Hugh Grant has been much better playing villains in recent years, rather than his classic posh fop routine.
Fantastic turn in The Gentlemen recently.