Most Hated Actor and Actress

I have actors I don’t think highly of, but none that I absolutely hate. Time and time again actors prove me wrong, I almost never write anyone off completely.

Martin Lawrence. His white-hating shtick got old in ’95.

Sandra Bullock

Hate is a strong word, but I really dislike Michael Cera.

jeremy irons

Hates a strong word, I will just say that certain actors just don’t hold my attention. Jerry Lewis was one of them, now it’s Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey although I have heard some good things about the Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, which I plan to see.

Russell Crowe
DiCaprio
Tom Hanks
Kevin Spacey
Hugh Jackman
Christian Bale
Viggo Mortensen
Colin Farrell
Clive Owen
Daniel Craig
Matt Damon
Robert Pattinson
Shrek
Orlando Bloom
Josh Hartnett

I can’t stand:
Tom Cruise
Jim Carrey (except some films)
Anne Hathaway
and especially Jake Gyllenhaal

At the risk of repeating myself (see page 2 or 3 of this thread:

Dear All: Could we do MORE than just LIST the names of performers we don’t like? Wouldn’t it be better for purposes of discussion to at least TRY to explain WHY we “hate” a particular actor or actress?

For example, does he/she overact? Underact? Have a persona that grates? Have a voice (like Sandy Dennis’s) that grates? Takes on too many easy roles just for the money? Etc. Etc.

As Josef von Sternberg once said to a room full of inquisitive people at UCLA Film School: “Can’t we have an INTELLIGENT discussion?”

@ Frank
I find von Sternberg’s comment oddly comforting….

Russell Brand

nicolas cage.

HE KNOWS WHY!

@ Frank – I listed my reasons in my previous post. I also forgot Ed Burns.

@R. Citizen: Indeed you did, and damn good and thorough reasons they were. Bravo!

My complaint is about those who just provide a list of actors’ names with no further explanation. What’s the point of having an opinion if you can’t or won’t explain it?

Scarlett Johannson – I can’t believe how much crap I get for not adoring her. It’s not my fault she’s practically been playing the same character again and again and again in the same way since she started acting in films. Since when is pursing your lips, looking hurt and having admittedly rather fine breasts enough to make you Woody Allen’s muse AND everyone’s darling? Oh, wait…
Tom Hanks. He ruined “Forrest Gump” for me, which I otherwise could have really liked.

Sarah Palin, now performing weekly in a staged “reality tv” show.

Steve Carell
Julia Roberts
Sandra Bullock
Kristen Stewart
Kirsten Dunst
Jessica Alba
Ellen Page
Jennifer Aniston

Ashton Kutcher
The Rock
Clive Owen
Adam Sandler
Tom Cruise
Eddie Murphy
Will Smith
Hugh Grant
Vin Diesel
Ben Affleck

Michael Parks- He actually almost ruined Twin Peaks for me. He has no dimension and is boring, and seems bored. Why should I care about a character the actor doesn’t care about? He plays every character the same.

Vincent Gallo- I’m so not interested in this guy at all, I’ve seen better acting from stage props. He wants to show this intensity in his work, but he can’t pull it off. It’s like he’s trying hard to be Pacino and Walken wrapped in one and he comes off as actor trying to act like other actors. He’s not original, he’s a cliche in all aspects.

Tom Cruise always seemed like a shell to me. He may have stuff going on inside but it is all muddled.
He apparently is a killer businessman, but he has no finesse as an actor. He is almost like a male Demi Moore, another of my least favorite performers. They view it all as a challenge, but not a creative one. Almost like acting was some kind of test of wills.

Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tom Bergeron
Tom Selleck

Alex Pettyfer. Fuck that guy! I just wanna punch him everytime I see him!

I’ll just list least favorite actor and actress. I don’t hate all their stuff, just them in about everything.

Julia Roberts
Adam Sandler

Christian Bale. I avoid being critical of actors, but after watching him as the lead in five or six different films, I really think he’s average, at best. Granted, he can lend some intensity to the role, and I can see him doing well in some very specific parts (namely sociopatic villain), but otherwise he’s just bland. Everytime he has to express empathy of any kind you can see the tremendous effort he puts into it.

Angelina Jolie

Vincent Cassel
François Cluzet
Sergi Lopez
Emmanuel Mouret
Lambert Wilson
Marion Cotillard
Mélanie Laurent
Judith Godrèche
Kristin Scott-Thomas
Diane Kruger

Viggo Mortensen
Russel Crowe
Colin Farrell
Tom Cruise
Johnny Depp
Christian Bale
Cameron Diaz
Eva Mendes
Jessica Alba

I forgot to give reasons of why I don’t like them.

The actors I listed above are mostly sold to us like products more than like actors, as if they wanted us to buy actor shares and see if the stock is going up or down…

I can’t feel the pain in them, they’re kinda spoiled.

Being an actor is being able to show the pain you have inside of you, you can’t have this pain if you’ve been spoiled with lots of money and good happy positive roles all your life (it’s an ego thing).
Some of these actors will try or have tried to show a dark side in a film here and there, but it’s always a phony action to try to polish their image.

An actor isn’t that. Think about Marcello Mastroianni for example, a man whose personnality and depth hasn’t been matched yet.

Or as Spielberg put it in Inside the Actor’s studio, “acting is not being afraid of being made a fool of and having the courage to have people laugh at you and still want to do it. And acting to me is about courage.”

And all these guys are out of this definition (with my understanding of it, and with my understanding of what courage means.)

It’s not taking a risk as an actor to be Robin Hood in a Ridley Scott movie or to be a good guy in a film with gunfights.

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Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez

Why do they get paid millions to act is beyond me.

Ellen Page.
Reason: I get why guys like Sandler and Carrey made a lot of lists, but I think that, with only a few exceptions, neither of them act in a lot of films in which they try too terribly hard to be taken seriously. I highly doubt Adam Sandler ever hoped anyone would really ponder whether conditioner truly is better than shampoo, or Jim Carrey ever thought “All Righty then” would become a meaningful phrase used to support countless dissertations. Still, like I said, I completely understand why they are both mentioned numerous times in this specific forum. But because I do believe that they (again, for the most part) never saw themselves as the Olivier’s of the ‘90s, and because most audiences and critics didn’t pretend that either, I don’t feel particular disdain for them. Ellen Page is different. She has become a critical darling. I just don’t get it. I hated her in Juno, almost as much as I hated the film, yet not quite as much as I hated the soundtrack, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt since I really disliked the film so much. But every Ellen Page interview I see, and now every time I watch a film featuring her, I cringe. I just think she received hype for all the wrong reasons, and rather than critics admitting this fact, they will just continue to act as though she is fabulous.
And she reminds me a lot of one of those people who would actually like the Juno soundtrack. That’s probably the biggest reason I don’t like her.

Ellen Page.
Reason: I get why guys like Sandler and Carrey made a lot of lists, but I think that, with only a few exceptions, neither of them act in a lot of films in which they try too terribly hard to be taken seriously. I highly doubt Adam Sandler ever hoped anyone would really ponder whether conditioner truly is better than shampoo, or Jim Carrey ever thought “All Righty then” would become a meaningful phrase used to support countless dissertations. Still, like I said, I completely understand why they are both mentioned numerous times in this specific forum. But because I do believe that they (again, for the most part) never saw themselves as the Oliviers of the ‘90s, and because most audiences and critics didn’t pretend that either, I don’t feel particular disdain for them. Ellen Page is different. She has become a critical darling. I just don’t get it. I hated her in Juno, almost as much as I hated the film, yet not quite as much as I hated the soundtrack, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt since I really disliked the film so much. But every Ellen Page interview I see, and now every time I watch a film featuring her, I cringe. I just think she received hype for all the wrong reasons, and rather than critics admitting this fact, they will just continue to act as though she is fabulous.
And she reminds me a lot of one of those people who would actually like the Juno soundtrack. That’s probably the biggest reason I don’t like her.