Name an actor or actress that everyone seems to like but you.

[Writer]

Here's mine:


Julia Roberts is great at playing herself in every movie she appears in. She's the Walmart of top-paid movie actresses.

And I do not think she is attractive.

You? :P

[Orrex]

1. I once saw her smile during an interview

The corners of her gaping mouth met at the back of her neck, and the top of her head fell off.

That was when she was doing press for the film version of Mr. Ed, wherein she played the title role sans makeup.

[AlCzervik]

2. i don't like her either

i also don't like Jennifer Aniston.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I've never been fond of Sandra Bullock

I think it's her voice. It just grates on me. :shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

Agreed.

She's always the same, and I can picture her memorizing the script every time she says a line.

[wildhorses]

4. nicholas cage

:wtf: i just don't get it :shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

61. whoops -- replied to wrong post. sorry.

[Sequoia]

129. His only good movie was "Raising Arizona"

and maybe "Valley Girl" but that movie is so dated. Him playing a tough guy is laughable.

[Nicole]

5. Angelina Jolie

Can't stand her. :P

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. I think she is foul..

I'm sure she would think the same of me. Ick...Ick... Gross.

[youthere]

25. I'm with you...

She's just a bad actress.

[Duppers]

97. uh?

She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Academy Award.

[youthere]

124. Okay..

I THINK she's a bad actress. I don't give a damn about what "the Academy" thinks..I think she sucks.

[BlueIris]

30. Yeah. Not a fan. nt

[kwassa]

37. Love her.

[treestar]

6. Never liked Glen Close or Meryl Streep

Don't like Tom Hanks.

[jobycom]

18. Congrats. You named the only one I agree with so far. Glen Close. nt

[Duppers]

98. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks are THE best!

nt.

[Bryan]

7. Ed Norton

I think he's less an actor than a tabula rasa: not handsome nor ugly nor striking, undistinctive in voice and manner, such a standard-issue white man than people project the qualities of whatever role he's playing onto him, so even the feeblest effort on his part can be widely viewed as a great performance (Then again, for the sake of argument, maybe his craft is so deceptively pure and subtle as to be utterly unobtrusive, and I'm just not on his wavelength).

[XemaSab]

57. Blasphemy!

:grr:

Oh, well, more for me! :D

Have you seen American History X?

[Lost-in-FL]

78. He is yumm...

I do think Brad Pitt is overated.

[Chan790]

118. A thought...well, my thought.

maybe his craft is so deceptively pure and subtle as to be utterly unobtrusive, and I'm just not on his wavelength

Bingo. Actually part of the talent is that he's so blank that he can do anything, any role or emotion...and can change between them in striking ways. I think this was part of his success in Fight Club (I don't know that too many actors could do the "...oh, shit. I'm Tyler. Oh f^ck, I'm crazy" thing believably.) and why he was the only bright spot in Primal Fear, an otherwise terrible movie. Seriously, if you want to get it...watch Primal Fear. The last 20 minutes or so in contrast to the beginning of the film sold me that he was going to be successful. Also, that Richard Gere cannot act.

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. Heather Graham

She has expressionless, scary anime eyes.

[youthere]

28. PLUS she's a lousy actress.

[philosophie_en_rose]

71. Speaking of lousy actresses, I can't stand Beyonce Knowles.

She is not talented.

And she also has blank Heather Graham eyes.

[Broken_Hero]

9. Ditto, Julia Roberts...never cared for her much, nt

[Miss Marmelstein]

10. I agree about Julia Roberts....

Drew Barrymore plays the same part in every movie.

Angelina Jolie....what's to like?

Demi Moore....not much talent there.

I'm not a fan of George Clooney, either!

I could go on.....but I won't.

[mitchum]

85. But does anyone other than 90s magazine editors and other members...

of the scribbling class like Demi Moore?
It just always seemed that her career was nothing but a relentless campaign of self promotion and manufactured hype. Who was her adoring public?
I imagine that in her more lucid moments, Courtney Love, must have asked herself, "I get crucified for this, but she gets a pass???!!!"

[kedrys]

11. Clive Owens

He's not that good-looking, and he's not that good.

That, or I don't get it, which is a distinct possibility as well... :P

[jobycom]

17. Did you see Croupier?

[kedrys]

66. I did not

...worth a look, huh? I'll bite.

I reserve the right to not change my mind, of course, but I'll bite.

[jobycom]

87. Can't swear you'll like it, but I think he was better in that than any of

the American films I've seen him in. Plus, the film was just better in general, if you like scripts better than American melodrama and fx.

[xmas74]

69. I have pornographic fantasies

about Clive Owen. He's just my type-I don't know why.

But I definitely respect your opinion.

[HuffleClaw]

12. ditto.

and selma 'long neck*' hayek too. (imdb used to have a photo of her up that make her look like a giraffe, hence the 'long neck' label)

[Goblinmonger]

142. Heretic

Blasphemer.
Burn in hell.


Come one, I'll take that long neck any day

[Robeson]

13. Tom Cruise....

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[dropkickpa]

54. even before he went batshit crazy

I hated him, and intensely disliked just about every chracter he ever played.

[Dulcinea]

58. Agreed.

He hasn't been in anything worth seeing since "Rain Man," & Dustin Hoffman stole that picture. Oh, Tom was OK in "Risky Business."

Sexy? Cute? Ugh. I don't like boys who are prettier than I am!

[Sequoia]

128. He never spun my wheels and when I finally saw

him in Risky Business I just about threw up. What a horrid, horrid movie. So repulsive.

[devilgrrl]

135. He so sucks ass.

The king of over-acting

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. Brad Pitt

I inadvertently started a flame war here about Brad Pitt this past summer. I just don't get the attraction. :shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. I know of nobody in my circle of friends and family who likes her.

I guess it depends on the area of the country one is in.

[SKKY]

16. Zeta Jones...

...to this day, I still don't understand what people see in her. I didn't even think the butt between the
lasers things was that great.

[Lost-in-FL]

75. ...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Frank Cannon]

20. I thought was the only guy in the world NOT enamored by Julia Roberts

Thank God there are others out there.

I just don't fuckin' get it. I've been shaking my head in disbelief ever since I saw Steel Magnolias.

[blondeatlast]

41. Speaking of Steel Mags; the "insulin shock" scene was HORRIBLE.

I have never known a diabetic (and I've known literally hundreds and am one myself) that is that dramatic, hence the danger of them, they often go unrecognized.

It was wretchedly painful for me to watch. Ugh.

[Frank Cannon]

64. Agreed

I don't think I've ever seen a convincing asthma attack on screen, either, for that matter. Again, this is something that often goes unrecognized until it's too late, and isn't usually accompanied by screen histrionics that would put Rod Steiger to shame.

[Kutjara]

21. OK, I'm going to get totally roasted here, but...

...I can't stand Scarlett Johansson. Everyone's constantly raving about how she's the most deliciously sexy and beautiful saucepot to come down the pike since Aphrodite, yet to me she looks a blond chipmunk. Just tonight, one of the "news" channels was going on about how Playboy has named her "most incredible sexpot in the Universe" or something, and the newsmodel was bloviating about her "elusive allure." For me, it's very fucking elusive. Elusive to the point of absence.

Oh, and I think she's a fairly crap actress. Looking stupid and vulnerable only goes so far.

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. Thank you! No flames here

All I ever hear about is how nice her boobs are. :eyes: I can't stand her.

[Connie_Corleone]

47. LOL! I was going to name her too!

I'm still trying to figure out what makes her any different from the other young, blond actresses out there already.

I just don't get it. I see nothing extraodinary about her acting or her looks. She's just another bland actress.

[Phillycat]

51. Her eyes are off-center - she looks like a Picasso painting

But she has a slammin' body.

[sarge43]

53. Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep

Both are from the "Look at Me; I'm Acting, Damnit!" School of Performing Arts.

[cedahlia]

63. Completely overrated!

She's on my list of actors who, if they are in a movie, I will probably never watch it. I find her to be a pretty bad actress who's just riding along on her looks (which I don't understand, but apparently someone important decided she's "hot.") It's a shame, because there's actually a lot of great, talented actors out there who don't get much attention because the press is to busy fawning over the likes of Scarlet, Angelina, etc. Blaaaaah.

[Frank Cannon]

65. No flames from me, unless they're to cook you a burger

To me, Scarlett Johansson bears too disturbing a resemblance to Richard "John-Boy Walton" Thomas.

[Lost-in-FL]

77. I think she looks weird

She looks average but other times she looks very sexy. Anyone seen "Matchpoint"? She looked incredibly sexy in that movie but I think it was the role cause she isn't that pretty.

[Evoman]

107. You will like this pic then

[Kutjara]

108. Ah yes, the dreaded...

...questionmark in a little red box. One of my all time favorites. :)

[GalleryGod]

110. Consider yourself a bit torched

I like her work.

[devilgrrl]

136. No flaming here. There's someone who takes themself WAAAAAAY too seriously.

I don't get her either.

[VenusRising]

22. Reece Witherspoon

One of my best friends was in call-backs for Man in the Moon. Reece was just there auditioning as an extra and she got the part instead of my friend. But I really did not care for her Legally Blonde stuff. So, I really dislike her out of loyalty to my friend. :)

[liberal hypnotist]

23. Ben Stiller

He's like strange.

[stuntcat]

39. .

.

[stuntcat]

42. not to Hate but,

:puke:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Owen Wilson.

He just bugs me, and he's funny-looking.

[Kutjara]

27. He just seems so insufferably smug all the time.

I don't think he was born with his nose like that, if you know what I mean.

[nickinSTL]

95. ugh, I can't stand Owen Wilson's VOICE

it's so damn nasal and whiny...I won't watch any movie with him in it.

[Duppers]

99. his nose!

he needs surgery!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. Five of mine

-Adam Sandler: OK I liked him in 50 First Dates but I think he's exceedingly overrated as an actor
-Ben Stiller and Will Ferell: Both hugely overrated
-Rob Schneider -See above
-Barbara Streisand: I love her politics and I love her passion for her politics and thank her for all the great things she's done for the progressive cause but I've never cared much for either her acting or her singing

I liked Julia Roberts in her earlier movies but nothing that she's been in over the past ten years has appealed to me or has been that good overall IMO. She got a huge black mark next to her name from me when she failed to thank Erin Brockovich in her Oscar acceptance speech after winning for her role in Erin Brockovich. I know that it must be an overwhelming feeling to win an Oscar and you can forget things in the spur of the moment and I know she had lots of other people to thank as well. But you would have thought that she could have at least remembered to thank the woman whose actions inspired the movie for which she was winning a Best Actress award for the first time in her career.

[stuntcat]

40. Sandler

there's nothing funny about him, he belongs in horror movies if anything :puke:

[Rambis]

139. Agreed

When anyone (mostly adolescent boys or men who act like them) mention his movies I just say nope never saw any of them. I do not think he is funny at all period end of story, I don't get it.
Thank you

[Duppers]

100. you've listed mine!

thanks.

[GalleryGod]

111. Streisand? Acting? Hmmmm. Singing? What !?

Welcome to the minority on this icon.
At 12 I saw her in Funny Girl on Broadway.

IMHO, of course; Well..that's why Sardi's has menus.

[Allenberg]

29. Jim Carrey

[youthere]

31. Kevin Costner, Nicholas Cage, and Bill Paxton...

Every movie, every role..they all three "ACT" exactly the same.

[Sequoia]

130. Bill Paxton is creepy.

[BlueIris]

32. James Gandolfini.

I just...don't think he's that great. An opinion I've revised while watching "The Sopranos" again on A&E.

[City Lights]

33. Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Anniston.

Can't stand either of them.

[MissMillie]

34. Uma Thurman

I don't know what it is about her, I just find her looks to be very creepy.

[meegbear]

35. Meg Ryan ...

oh look, there she is, starring in another movie about a young, beautiful woman who can't get a date. :banghead:

[Duppers]

101. as someone above said, Blasphemy!

I LOVE HER.

[Karenca]

36. Renee Zellweger

Ewwwwwwwww.:puke:

[xmas74]

72. I'll second that one.

Something about that smug smile makes me want to smack it off her face.

She completely ruined all that was Colin Firth for me in Bridget Jones. (I like Colin but I couldn't get over watching her onscreen.)

[Karenca]

88. I, too, want to smack her face off. Badly.

Strange, 'cause I'm really a nice person.

[xmas74]

143. There's something about her expressions

and the way she carries herself-something that reminds me of the snottiest of the snottiest head cheerleaders in high school.

I punched the head cheerleader at my high school. Shows what I think of them.

(BTW-I was a cheerleader for a bit. The punching and sneaking cigs got me kicked off the squad.)

[Duppers]

102. gasp!

what's wrong with you people?

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen & Luke Wilson

Don't know why. I just cannot figure out how any of them found a following.

[nytemare]

70. Vince Vaughn was the one I was going to name

He usually plays a good guy in the movies, but I get this underlying vibe that he is just an asshole. His personality rubs me the wrong way.

[Lost-in-FL]

80. Vince Vaughn

What happened there? How he made it to the big screen? I would think he is annoying.

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. Julia Roberts, definitely

Not a good actress, not that good looking, seems like a bitch. Just my opinion.

[Darth_Kitten]

45. Don't get me started............Kate Winslet.

Never liked her. Thought she ruined Sense and Sensibility.

She strikes me as phony even though she doesn't want to be seen as such. Yaps on and on about not wanting to be judged about her weight, yet every picture I see of her she's dolled up looking skinny. Hates having to do nude scenes, but continues to do them.

Apparently when she was 15 her parents let her shack up with a guy twice her age. (not her fault, but her parents allowed it)

I think she is years older than she alleges.

[Liberalynn]

46. MCDOOFY 1 AND 2

Patrick Dempsey in most people's book McDreamy, in my personal book McDorky

and Eric Dane, in some people's book McSteamy, in my personal book McSkanky!

[Connie_Corleone]

48. She was mentioned upthread, but it's worth repeating.

Scarlett Johanssen (sp?)

Don't understand all the fawning over her. Full lips and full breasts. Big deal. And her acting is forgettable at best.

[Darth_Kitten]

49. Lots of full lips and full breasts in the world.

Now that it's been mentioned, Scarlett Johanssen is not any different from every blonde starlet being pushed on people as the next big thing. :)

[Left Is Write]

91. Sure she is. She's not built like a 12-year-old boy with grapefruit halves glued to the chest.

:P

I don't really have any feelings one way or another for her, except I hated the episode of SNL she hosted.

[bigwillq]

50. Tom Hanks

:puke:

[Phillycat]

52. Me too. I've never liked him, except in Big.

Also Melanie Griffith. I loathe her.

[July]

115. Oh, yeah, I'll join you on the Melanie Griffith diss.

Absolutely everything about her annoys me.

[XemaSab]

55. Jennifer Anniston

:scared:

[Auggie]

56. Will Ferrell

So overrated

[Left Is Write]

92. I like Will Ferrell well enough, but I thought my husband and I were the only people who hated...

Anchorman.

Couldn't even watch it all the way through.

[Burma Jones]

59. Agree with Julia Roberts, she creeps me out

Leonardo DiCaprio too.

[smoogatz]

60. Brad Pitt.

Nothing there except the face; on the screen he's pretty much a blank space. Makes you long for the days of male actors who had at least one functioning testicle and a bit of "everyman" appeal. I'm thinking Bogart, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and more contemporary guys like DeNiro and Duvall. I do like Clooney, he seems much more alive onscreen than mooks like Pitt and DiCaprio, who is also detestable.

[CBHagman]

67. Great quote, smoogatz!

"Makes you long for the days of male actors who had at least one functioning testicle and a bit of 'everyman' appeal." :rofl:

"I'm thinking Bogart, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and more contemporary guys like DeNiro and Duvall."

I like to say that some of today's pretty actors and actresses don't look as though they're on solid food yet (Maybe they aren't, which would explain the weight thingie).

What's interesting to consider is that Ronald Colman and Claude Rains, who would probably be written off by some of today's audiences as too effete, survived actual warfare (as in World War I). Today's made-up pretty boys look pretty weak by comparison.

[JackBeck]

62. Will Smith.

[xmas74]

68. Gwyneth Paltrow.

I always tell my friends that the best part of the movie Seven was when her head was Fed-x'd in a box.

[dropkickpa]

79. The only movie I liked her in

was Royal Tenenbaums, and her character was an emotionless something, so it's not like she really even had to act.

[xmas74]

81. She ws ok in that

but that's about it.

She's just a waste of space, IMO.

[mitchum]

73. Johnny Depp

he just tries a wee bit too hard to be oh so quirky and offbeat

[momophile]

74. he just seems overrated to me

I agree.

he doesn't do anything for me.

[mitchum]

83. Exactly...

seems like a nice enough guy, but I've just never been impressed by any of his performances

[gbate]

109. I don't get him, either.

[NewJeffCT]

76. Nicole Kidman

Not a bad actress, but I just never found her that watchable - and I don't mean that from an attractiveness standpoint. Though, I do find her rather bland looking.

[SeattleGirl]

89. She gets my vote too. I don't know exactly why, but she strikes

me as an Ice Queen, a very snobby Ice Queen. I find nothing appealing about that, or her, at all.

[GalleryGod]

112. She certainly deserved her Oscar,though.

First rate in The Hours

[idgiehkt]

94. yes

She is the girl who was very popular in high school and didn't develop much beyond that because she never had to. Blah.

[Lost-in-FL]

82. David Schwimmer

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Richard Steele]

84. You beat me to it right out of the gate- Julia Roberts.

Not particulary talented or interesting in any way.

I think the only reason most people think she's great
is because they've heard that everyone thinks she's great.

She's a PR creation.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

86. Matthew McConaughey.

Oh, I'm sorry, you said "actor."

[idgiehkt]

90. that completely creeped me out

Because that is exactly the same thing I say about her all the time. She plays herself. So does Meg Ryan. Yes, they are cute in a Herbie the Love Bug kind of way. But that isn't acting. No, she just has a lot of teeth. And when she smiles your mind is subconsciously counting all those big white teeth, just like Farrah Fawcett.

[Left Is Write]

93. Meg Ryan is less "cute" these days than she is "surreal."

[idgiehkt]

96. I've seen the pics

she's had some bad work done.
I was talking about most of her roles. She has a monopoly on quirk; kind of a Diane Keaton without the intelligence. But to me it's the same character in every part, except the boxing one, which she had the work done for, but I didn't see it.

[deadparrot]

103. Dakota Fanning.

I don't get the hype. But then again, I don't get the hype about most child actors. :shrug:

[SoCalDemGrrl]

104. Does BEYONCE count? Cuz I can't STAND her!!!!

[GRLMGC]

105. She's really overexposed

I'm tired of her.

[idgiehkt]

106. and undereducated

I really cringe when I listen to her talk. She really needs some people around her to give her a little bit of poise.

[pippin]

113. Gwyneth Paltry . . .er . . . Paltrow

Blah, blonde and totally talentless but somehow exhalted.

[GalleryGod]

114. How attractive ! A Midnight Hater Thread .

Glad I was too busy sleeping last night.

Having close friends & family members in the movie business and various Broadway theater productions...I know this:
"If acting were easy, everybody would do it".

The OP sets the premise, indeed...."BUT YOU":rofl: :shrug: :rofl:

[pokerfan]

116. Leonardo DiCaprio

He just annoys me. I enjoyed Titanic in spite of him.

He's just kinda, not manly. Another thread asked where are the Bob Mitchums and Bogarts these days?

Maybe the new James Bond dude who managed to inject some life into that series.

[judaspriestess]

117. Scarlett Johanson

Jennifer Aniston & Reese Witherspoon :puke:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

144. I can't stand Scarlett Johanson.

I think she's ugly and she can't act. I don't know where they got this girl. I can't even stand the sight of her.
Duckie

[terrya]

119. Will Smith

Meh.

[Zavulon]

120. Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Gary Sinise (NT)

[riverdale]

121. I am liking 98% of the actors you all hate

But the ones I think are overrated are Harrison Ford and Robert DeNiro. H Ford is the worst actor ever, can't even make a facial expression. DeNiro can't act worth a shit either. They both have been in some good movies.

[deutsey]

122. Has Julia stopped playing women who die young or pretend they're dead?

I've never been impressed with her.

[GenDem]

123. Not fond of Jennifer Lopez

If she's in a movie I usually avoid it. I really don't know what it is.:shrug:

[ceile]

125. Leonardo Dicaprio, Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise

Gywneth Paltrow makes me grind my teeth.

[Marnieworld]

126. That was mine

She's the best case to prove that pacts with the Devil do exist.

[Sequoia]

127. Justin Timberlake.

[China_cat]

131. Sarah Brown

New girl on Cold Case. Stopped watching it because of her.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

132. You are so right, Julia.. She's adorable, and I love her

personally - but when she won for Erin Brocovitch Yikes - unbelievable.

[Rockit]

133. Angelina Jolie!

I don't get it.

[Midlodemocrat]

134. Melanie Griffith. Ick. Ick. Ick.

[devilgrrl]

137. Fucking Gweneth Paltrow

:nuke:

[bikebloke]

138. Julia Roberts

She always reminded me of a Terry Gilliam creation. Every time she smiles, I expect the top of her head to flip back.

Angelina Jolie
Jennifer Annisten
Adam Sandler
Jim Carey
Tom Cruise since the beginning

And after posting this, I expect all of them to snub me on Oscar night. No matter how many statues I pick up.

[huskerlaw]

140. I can't stand Julia Roberts

At. All.

She can't act, she's not that cute...and she won an Oscar for a horrible movie in which her acting performance was Tre Shite.

And don't get me started on how much $$ she makes per picture. Fucking travesty.

[silvermachine]

141. You summed it up for me...

...I cannot stand her. Overrated and overpaid.