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What actor/actress sets your teeth on edge, and why is it Jared Leto?


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 3:39 pm
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Is Lawrence Fox too obvious?

Is what Miranda Hart does count as acting? If yes, her.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 3:45 pm
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I hated Jonny Depp waaaaay before it was cool.


 
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Ricky Gervais


 
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David Tennant, don’t know why.


 
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And Ricky gervais.


 
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Barbara Windsor.

I like Ricky Gervais, me.


 
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james corden.


 
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I think generally Ricky Gervais is an alright bloke, the issue is I don't find him remotely funny. The office for me was dreadful, to near reality and basically sad. And ever since, his stand up etc, has just left me cold.


 
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I think generally Ricky Gervais is an alright bloke, the issue is I don’t find him remotely funny. The office for me was dreadful, to near reality and basically sad. And ever since, his stand up etc, has just left me cold.

Try After Life and then make a decision. It is also sad but also funny and uplifting. Rather good.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 3:59 pm
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Steve Martin.


 
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Steve Martin.

Even in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?

:O


 
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Tom Hardy - please stop mumbling

Tom Hiddleston - Just stop


 
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David Tenant is kind of annoying as a Dr Who but he's brilliant in Jessica Jones.

For me it's Nicholas Cage, he absolutely ruins any scene he's in.


 
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The office for me was dreadful, to near reality and basically sad.

Yes, this was the point - wasn't a comedy, it was a heartbreaking work of pathos that I found pretty moving.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:05 pm
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Ooo, I forgot James Corden.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:10 pm
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Sandra Bullock
Keira Knightley
Ryan Gosling (Even though he was in Bladerunner 2049)

I don't know why, I'm sure they're lovely people in real life.


 
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Kelsey Grammer


 
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Melissa McCarthy

Emily Blunt


 
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Tom Hardy
James Corden


 
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Keira Knightley, mainly the sleeve biting thing she does


 
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Bindun before I think, however the correct answer is Jim I can pull a funny face Carrey.


 
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David Tenant is kind of annoying as a Dr Who but he’s brilliant in Jessica Jones

You're right there, he's the best thing in JJ. I was wondering why season 2 was such a drag and then he returned as a ghost and I realised what was missing.

For me it’s Nicholas Cage, he absolutely ruins any scene he’s in.

Wrong


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:14 pm
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Adam Sandler. Though I did enjoy uncut gems. Great casting as I don't think the audience were supposed to have much sympathy for his infuriating character.


 
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Christian Bale
NWSF


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:21 pm
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I don't hate Jared Leto as an actor but I saw his band once and aaaargh.

I don't know his name but there's a guy on the theatre circuit that annoyed me in a performance of On The Waterfront because of how he said Jamesons, and also because of how he impersonated a pigeon, and now every time he pops up I want to storm the stage and kill him.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:28 pm
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Charlie Hunnam for me. cannot watch him.

also agree with David Tennant!

and Corden obvs...


 
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Yes, this was the point – wasn’t a comedy, it was a heartbreaking work of pathos that I found pretty moving.

Ok, in which case, yes great acting, but it was still unwatchable for me.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:34 pm
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I just wish Harrison Ford would **** off the wizened old fool.

Glad to see I'm not the only David Tennant detester on the block.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:37 pm
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Also add my name to Adam Sandler and Rickey Gervais. Comedy is subjective I know, but neither of these two have ever raised a smile


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:37 pm
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I think generally Ricky Gervais is an alright bloke,

He was a bit of a knob as a teenager according to my brother (yes that’s a direct quote) who knew him in his first couple of years at UCL, but then so are a lot of people who become admirable as adults.

The person who I really can’t watch is that bloke on casualty- Derek Thompson? In my opinion he is more wooden than our front door.


 
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Acting is often a lot harder than it looks,unless they are just being lazy or deliberately stupid,then I cut them a lot of slack ...yours,an Ex-drama Queen 🤣😂😉


 
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Theo James.

He was in the Inbetweeners Movie, he played the part of cocky prick so well that I can't see past it now. I'm sure he's a nice person IRL and he's gone on to have a great career, but nope, sorry Theo your face will always have me reaching for the remote.

Craig Fairbrass.

Usually plays the same East End ****ster, usually in those terrible 'rise of the foot solder' films that weirdos like to pull themselves around watching.

Tyler Perry

Took over from the sublime Morgan Freeman in one of the Alex Cross films, was shit, everything I've seen in him since has been shit.

Colin Farrell

I don't know why, I just don't like him.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:48 pm
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Liam Neeson


 
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Oh, if we're going just for TV famouses.

Tim Minchin, smug know-it-all prick so stuck up his own arse he's become he's collapsing on on himself like a dying star.

Repulsive


 
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He was in the Inbetweeners Movie,

ah, that reminds me.... greg davies too. liked him initially in the inbetweeners, but since then he seems to have done a 'corden' and thinks hes funnier than he actually is.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:56 pm
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Bindun before I think, however the correct answer is Jim I can pull a funny face Carrey.

Eh, Truman show and eternal sunshine beg to differ.

When he tries to be funny I have no interest but they got range.

I really don't think Ricky Gervais is fair. He's not a jokes actor but afterlife is great and the office he plays his character unbelievably well.

Kelsey Grammar is a good shout. Has he ever done anything decent?

How about Sean Connery. He' shit in everything I have seen. And he was a wife beating shit in real life.

And Gwyneth paltrow obviously.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 4:57 pm
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Eddie Redmayne. Very slappable face.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 5:01 pm
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Nicolas Cage almost redeemed himself in Kick-Ass...almost but not quite


 
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Richard E Grant - just ghastly. There's a bottomless reservoir of properly wooden actors too, but he's either the world's most appalling luvvie or he's spent his life acting one. I don't quite know which would be worse.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 5:20 pm
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Ewan Bloody McGregor


 
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Tom Hanks
can just about manage Saving Private Ryan, but nothing else.


 
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Richard E Grant – just ghastly. There’s a bottomless reservoir of properly wooden actors too, but he’s either the world’s most appalling luvvie or he’s spent his life acting one. I don’t quite know which would be worse.

Withnail and I is great?


 
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Withnail and I is great?

Yep, it's good, but Richard E Grant is still a horrific luvvie and just grates on me. Being in one ace film doesn't make up for the rest of his career. Sorry.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 5:35 pm
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Scarlet Johansson, she has clearly been to the "look like you are smelling a fart" school of acting, and that is the only facial expression she has.

I think the reason marvel held off on having a black widow film for so long is because she doesn't have the charisma or acting ability to carry a film, and the end product proved it, she was acted of the screen by anyone and everyone she shared a scene with.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 6:23 pm
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I can't believe we're on the second page and no one has mentioned Orlando Bloom.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 6:47 pm
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Acting is often a lot harder than it looks,unless they are just being lazy or deliberately stupid,then I cut them a lot of slack

Theres a crucial difference between making it look easy and making it look like you think its easy 🙂

I think a distinction between Gervais and Sandler is  - even if you don't like Gervais's work its fair to say he works hard at what he does - you might like his performance or you might not but he brings interesting new stuff to the screen. Sandler by contrast is fundamentally lazy, and arguably a bit of a swindler. His movies, generally, are the least they can possibly be, plus a bunch of lucrative cameos for his pals.

Half in the bag put more effort, imagination and humour into pointing out every cheap, lazy, pocket-lining shortcut he made in one movie than he puts into any of his movies. He rips off his financiers, crews and audiences by putting as little of the budget (your ticket money) on the screen as possible and as much as he can into his and his friends pockets.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 6:52 pm
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Will ****ing Smith
Chris Pine (?) the one with the square head from the Star Trek films

He rips off his financiers, crews and audiences by putting as little of the budget (your ticket money) on the screen as possible and as much as he can into his and his friends pockets.

Isn’t that just the business model for making movies? I’d like to hate Sandler but he just seems like a nice chap having fun. Plus he gave us Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer.


 
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Ray Winstone , Nicholas Cage obviously and Adam Sandler who doesn't know the difference between stupid and funny .


 
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all the gavin and stacey cast. ****ing shyte.


 
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David Tennant, don’t know why.

Yup, and I feel bad for it too, even bloody loved Staged! I’m very confused….


 
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John Wayne


 
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C'mon, nobody has said Hugh Grant yet!


 
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Danny Dyer.


 
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To those saying

james corden

I urge you to watch this.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-one-man-two-guvnors

Totally amazing and transformed my view of him.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 8:18 pm
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Minnie ****ing Driver


 
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+ 1 on Scarlett Johansson - also Sarah Jessica Parker


 
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Tom Hanks
can just about manage Saving Private Ryan, but nothing else.

Is the correct answer. Exactly the bloody same performance in every film he's ever been in.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 8:34 pm
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Sean Connery

Ewan McGregor

Hugh Grant


 
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The new James bond guy.. The one with the silly look.. Can't remember his name.. He looks like special needs. Daniel Craig! He just looks too awkward.

It's like a cheap version of mission impossible... And I'm not even a tom cruise fan.


 
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Ewan Bloody McGregor

Get in the sea.. He's a brilliant actor.


 
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Tom Hanks
can just about manage Saving Private Ryan, but nothing else.

The film where he's crashing a plane into to the Hudson River was brilliant I thought. Very dramatic and thought provoking.


 
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sean bean ( mr wooden acting one tone)
gervais
corden
cage
val kilmer


 
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The film where he’s crashing a plane into to the Hudson River was brilliant I thought. Very dramatic and thought provoking.

Fascinating. Obviously not a film I'll ever watch.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 9:22 pm
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Nicholas Cage.

I don’t have the words to describe how bad he is. He makes Jim Carrey………..

Nope, can’t find the words.


 
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Jack Black, I think he’s a t1t.


 
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sean bean ( mr wooden acting one tone)

I’d urge you to watch Time on iplayer. He and Stephen Graham are amazing in it. It’ll confirm, incase you weren’t sure, that prison seems like a really bad place to be.


 
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I’d urge you to watch Time on iplayer. He and Stephen Graham are amazing in it. It’ll confirm, incase you weren’t sure, that prison seems like a really bad place to be.

I grant you that he is very good at playing a Yorkshireman


 
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Is Lawrence Fox too obvious?

Is what Miranda Hart does count as acting? If yes, her.

I watched White Lines on Netflix the other day and thought Lozza Fox was alright as the guru figure.

Whatever, Come at me


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 10:20 pm
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For me it’s Nicholas Cage, he absolutely ruins any scene he’s in.

Wrong.

Nicolas Cage movies are either brilliant or terrible, he's never mediocre.

Tom Hanks is consistently mediocre. He's a safe bet, any film with him in it will be safe comfort food but it will never be brilliant like Nicolas Cage at his best. Thing is, any competent actor could be drafted in to replace Tom Hanks and it wouldn't make any difference, he's just utterly forgettable. Kinda like the Billy Joel of movies.


 
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Jim Carrey... it's like watching some scrape their fingernails down a blackboard whilst simultaneously grinding their teeth. Don't know why.


 
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Charlie Hunnam for me. cannot watch him.

I watched The Gentleman and only vaguely knew of Charlie Hunman from the 5 minutes of SOA I'd watched before deciding it was soap opera nonsense and turning it off. Anyway, watching The Gentleman and I thought "My god his attempt at a Geordie accent is terrible"

I was genuinely flabbergasted to discover he was an actual Geordie


 
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Ray Winstone

How he gets roles is beyond me. if he was rolled out as the token cockney geezer I could maybe understand.

Witnessing him as a Boston Irish American gangster in The Departed was hilarious.

"This is America. If you can't make money 'ere you're a faaaaaaaakin douchebag"

I watched Black Widow recently with no idea he was in it. When he popped up as the Russian bad guy I spent the rest of the film pissing myself at his "Russian" accent.

At least Sean Connery never bothered his arse even remotely attempting a Spanish/Russian/Irish accent


 
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Nic Cage is amazing. He’ll take any job no matter how mental and act his arse off. I watched Willy’s Wonderland the other week. It’s basically about sixty minutes of Cage silently doing some cleaning interspersed with violence against possessed robotic animal characters.


 
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At least Sean Connery never bothered his arse even remotely attempting a Spanish/Russian/Irish accent

The Untouchables? Admittedly difficult to tell, but I think he was attempting an Irish accent, until he gave up half way through.


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 11:45 pm
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I don't like Tom Cruise. Creepy little git.

Don't hate Ricky Gervais - but i remember when he had a regular slot on the 11 O'clock Show in the late 90s (along with Ali G) and he was absolutely awful. At the time I think he was the entertainment manager at University of London Union where I was spending a fair amount of time. Shortly after The Office started and he was a million times better in that.

Similarly, i first saw Matt Lucas as a warm-up act for Blur on the first night of their seaside tour - he was abysmal. Didn't get a laugh. Then he popped up as George Doors and then Little Britain.

Corden was brilliant as a kid acting in Allan Bennett's History Boys ... but i can see why people don't like him now.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 3:33 am
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Tim Minchin, smug know-it-all prick so stuck up his own arse he’s become he’s collapsing on on himself like a dying star.

What's he acted in? His live show takes the piss out of his massive sense of entitlement when he was in Hollywood, he's more of a comic musician these days.

And Owen Wilson (though his latest film looks like he may actually be acting in the trailer just to confound things).


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 8:10 am
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I don’t like Tom Cruise. Creepy little git.

He's really good at playing a specific kind of character, he has done some great movies. I thought his role in Magnolia was outstanding. The character was utterly repulsive and then just melted down when he was exposed - Cruise played that perfectly. He's not a guy I would want to hang out with in real life but he's done some great movies.


 
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Oh yeah, Tim Minchin. Sooooo smug.


 
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