Norman Reedus i guess? Im a big metal gear fan but I won’t play death stranding.
Norman reedus is gross and looks like the smelly guy with cigarette burns on his fingers and bitten up fingernails. He repulses me, I have nothing but contempt for him. He’s so skeevy looking.
Him being skeevy looking but actually kinda nice is the part of the appeal.
Whaaaat, you don’t wanna play the game with the gross guy you dislike with pissing mechanics that also lets you collect your sweat, piss, and poop and put them into grenades to throw at ghosts?
Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him, like he knows he shouldn’t be doing this for a living but soldiers on regardless. I’ve never bought into a single one of his performances. He always seems like he’s ‘acting’, and never really embodies the characters or reacts ‘in the moment’. It’s all a poor imitation of what he has seen other actors do.
I hate that he became Scorsese’s new De Niro, and so when I hear of a new Scorsese film I get excited and then immediately lose interest knowing that DiCaprio is probably gonna be leading it. Literally every film he has done would have been better with a different actor.
Also Nicolas Cage. I get the memey antifan sort of thing that bolsters his career, but let’s be honest, there’s no hint of talent in the man. He has ruined what might have been great films. Bringing Out the Dead could have been a legit classic if not for his involvement.
I don’t generally have an issue with Leo but the imposter syndrome comment is on point. He does have a vibe and that description sums it up well.
I can’t believe I forgot about Nicolas Cage!
Nice call!
The man does not have a single molecule of acting ability anywhere within his soul.
Yeah but nobody likes him
🤷♂️ guess I’m nobody
Oh jeez I’m sorry dude it’s ok here’s a point up or whatever we call it here. For what it’s worth I remember I did enjoy this one movie where he plays these twin writers or something. And that was double Cage right there
Haha, no worries man. It’s just a light hearted conversation.
I’ll meet you half way and say that even though I enjoy his movies, I don’t think I’d like hanging out with him
I’ve never bought into a single one of his performances. He always seems like he’s ‘acting’, and never really embodies the characters or reacts ‘in the moment’. It’s all a poor imitation of what he has seen other actors do.
Yes! exactly. You just summed up my thinking better than I could.
Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him
Exact opposite feelings here, and I generally have a hard time suspending disbelief. I remember seeing The Basketball Diaries (this was before Titanic) and being blown away by his acting. I’d say this is a rare example of an actor being held back by good looks. A lot of folks have just not wanted to admit that this particular heartthrob has genuine talent. To contrast with, for example, Keanu, or Clooney.
He’s the modern Robert Redford
Apt, never noticed that parallel
Jack Black. I think it was around the time he started up his Jablinksy crap on Youtube. There were tons of “organic posts” on reddit about it and it just didn’t sit right with me. Ever since I can’t stand him.
Big “theatre kid” energy on him.
I also could never stand him. I think I just saw him in to many things basically being Jack Black or something.
There is actually one movie called The Holiday, it’s a RomCom from 2006 which I like very much, and I think he does a good job there.
I hated him in that! Loved him in High Fidelity and after The Holiday, I was very mixed up about him
Will Ferrell
I get this. I was listening to a podcast, Conan O’Brien’s I think, where Will Ferrell came up and they were talking about how he’s typically a pretty straightforward and serious kind of person off camera.
He turns it on for the camera but it’s not who he is in real life. There’s nothing wrong with it per se but it made him seem a lot more disingenuous to me.
I think a lot of comedians are this way, and it makes sense. Most of us have a “work persona” that is not exactly the same as what we would consider our “real” personality.
For a more genuine version Will Ferrell, and just a hell of a story of friendship and overcoming challenges, I heartily recommend the documentary Will & Harper.
That’s the road trip film he did right? I think I have it, just haven’t watched it yet.
Genuinely almost ruined the Barbie movie for me. They could’ve had so many better actors in that role.
I just do not find him humorous.
I’m waiting for women to come out of the woodwork about him, tbh.
Thank you. I can’t stand his humor. Cringe on top of cringe with a side of cringe with nothing to balance out the cringe. Just not my cup of tea.
He’s the guy that can be brilliantly funny about 1% of the time, but that 1% is completely canceled-out by the 99% of other material, which is him just randomly throwing shit at the wall. He’s truly awful and I dread seeing him.
More cowbell. That’s it. The only funny thing he’s ever done. Although the t-shirt did most of the heavy lifting.
Oh yes, he is a very wicked bad actor for the greater good of bad!
I honestly don’t enjoy his sense of humor, he is not too awful in serious roles but still don’t go out of my way to watch. I could say the same for Seth Rogen, his laugh just annoys me to no end.
It’s mostly SNL humour, which imo is not the best as it kind of relies on being self aware that you’re in a comedy. It’s not for everyone so I can see why you think that.
I do like that sense of humor, which is why I don’t like Will Ferrell. He’s always trying to be Chevy Chase but with out the timing r talent at pratfalls
Tom Cruise. Enough said.
He can act. He was good in Legend and great in Interview with a Vampire. Shame he’s a terrible person.
I don’t like Tom Cruise but at this point I don’t even remember why. Is he a shit head?
Scientology
That, and pretty much every movie he’s in these days are just an ego based adrenalin rush designed by and for himself. All the parts he plays just come of as “Tom Cruise half heartedly pretending to be X”.
I really like “The Last Samurai” despite Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise
I feel that’s old enough not to be in the Tom Cruise produced issue area. In the 2000s, he was in War of the worlds, Collateral, The Last Samurai and even showed he still had range in Magnolia, Vanilla Sky and even Tropic Thunder. It wasn’t quite the same as the 90s where he was cast in a huge range of great roles, and it definitely became less common over the 00s.
I’d say from 2010 onwards, he’s stared in 0 films that don’t feel warped to be an advert for his specific style of masculinity. Even if one was good, Edge of Tomorrow, it’s still a Tom Cruise movie.
That and making your wives sign a contract waiver (beyond a prenup) is fucked up.
I feel the opposite. I want to hate him so badly, but he’s a good actor. Like I was absolutely furious about his casting in Interview with a Vampire, then he killed it, was gaunt and vampire as hell. He is not good looking to me and seems a shit person, but my goodness he can act.
Doesn’t he basically always play the same person?
Have you seen him young? I could watch Topgun to get myself off to.
Basically all of them. I can’t think of a celebrity I can tolerate.
I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like Willem Dafoe
Ryan Renoylds.
Gal Godot.
I’m very impressed with Lemmy here for not doing what Reddit would have and naming a long list of attractive women. That being said, if I didn’t feel a moral obligation to boycott Gal Godot, she is so talentless that she hasn’t made anyone else’s list because it’s such a low hanging fruit.
Oh god. Snow-white’s failure is mostly her fault.
That’s like blaming the rat who was on fire for running into a barn filled with shit
I agree. The first Wonder Woman was ok, but she’s so stiff in everything since.
she was stiff in WW too, but it worked because the whole side plot was that she’s never met human beings and doesn’t know how to interact with them. also she’s like a demigod so being devoid of emotions doesn’t look that weird on a character like that. they played to their strengths.
most issues with movies about acting are actually issues about casting. i love Keanu, but he’s also stiff. but that worked perfectly his best roles: johnny mnemonic, constantine and of course neo. even john wick worked mostly because he’s built up for the first half of the movie as a mythical, inhuman force of nature.
so yeah for that particular rendition of wonder woman, great choice: she looks like a demigod; she acts like she’s never seen a human before. perfect.
for anything else, please kill me so i don’t have to suffer through this scene.
Jennifer Coolidge. She plays the same character in everything she’s in, and it’s a character I don’t find funny at all.
Curious. I always thought she was more of a lolcow. Where that’s just how she is and everyone happens to think it’s funny.
Yeah I don’t feel her honestly even seeing herself as an actor per ce. Like she’s typecast because that’s who she is (or at least thats her public persona) and she just rolls with it cause it works in her favour and people love to see it.
Jack Black. Seems like a nice dude, but he’s a an annoying presence in every movie he’s in. His is the definition of a “sweat act”.
He turned his back on his bandmate after said bandmate made a joke about wishing Trump got assassinated, and he condemned palestine for standing up to their oppressors. He’s a shitlib at best
To be fair, the only Palestine comments I’ve seen were from immediately after Oct 7, when that was a fairly reasonable take.
Still though, total sellout. Tenacious D defined my adolescence and it’s really disheartening to watch JB heel turn after tasting that Kung Fu Panda money.
I agree about Palestine, where there was a huge, disheartening cry from America in October - December 2023, when the general attitude was that this was all a terrorist attack, and not the beginning of a genocide. I am definitely wary of celebrities who made pro Israel statements then, but I feel many felt expected to, or were just grossly misinformed.
He does sort of just suck though. I feel the internet’s perception of his soured so fast in the 2020s, from beloved to loathed, and all he did was keep doing what he always does, just with a tiny amount more selling out, which was enough to snowball the hate.
2005 JBles would call 2025 JB a sellout, no question. The man who raged against City Hall for 9 minutes. I always assumed “as long as there’s a record deal we’ll always be friends” was more tongue in cheek.
We’re ahead of the curve on this one. I’ve found him annoying for decades, and now it turns out he’s kinda a shitty person, too. It always annoyed me that he was Reddit’s darling.
I think a lot of people are turning to this opinion.
Joaquin Phoenix.
If you hated him in gladiator, that was the intention.
What if I hate him in everything else too?
I get that. He is good. It probably stems more from that very weird point, where he was doing kind of Andy Kaufman thing.
Rapping and that weird interview on Letterman, where he was giving one word answers to all of his questions.
I am rather susceptible to hating actors because of some role they played. I literally hated Hugh Grant for no other reason than him being an asshole to Bridget Jones. I am now scared to watch Gladiator.
Ben Afflict.
Was very weird how everyone liked that he was chosen as Batman, he was such a bad Batman. He actually gave rich prick vibes.
gave rich prick vibes.
psst. Batman was often portrayed as a rick prick.
Same, never liked the guy either
I think that’s why I enjoyed Gone Girl. I didn’t have to like him and his smugness or whatever worked into the character.
Not defending Affleck here, but isn’t Bruce Wayne a rich prick?
No, he pretends to be but deep down he cares more about justice.
Or at least that’s the version I’m used to from Christian Bale’s Batman and the games.
In the dark knight trilogy, Bruce intentionally lives on the streets for a few years and only goes back to use his money to fight injustice.
The whole point of Batman is a rich guy who has a very strong moral compass cause his parents were murdered. It’s not suppose to be realistic, it’s a fantasy.
People liked Batfleck because he was the closest to comic Batman looks-wise. Tall, physically imposing, square jaw, rugged, etc. He was also the best part of the Snyder movies and that’s a low bar. His version was also an older, disillusioned Bruce/Batman which is why he was more prick-ish.
My hot take is that Christian Bales was the worst thing about that Batman trilogy, and I love Christian bale in most things he’s in.
I most loved how Kevin Conroy’s Batman from the Animated Series portrayed this aspect of the character. Conroy did measurably different voices for Batman and Bruce which made it completely clear that Bruce was the false persona being put on for appearances while Batman was the real voice and personality, and also sold how good Batman was at pretending to be Bruce when needed. Conroy’s Batman isn’t just a ninja genius detective, he’s also a good actor, and to portray that as well as he did Conroy had to be an awesome actor.
Conroy’s Bruce Wayne is as close to his “normal” speaking voice as I’ve ever heard, but he makes it sound like an affect in ways that are hard to describe. He was truly a great one.
I dont recall everyone liking that he was chosen as Batman, in fact as I recall most people were like “Ben Affleck?! That guy from Mallrats and Gigli?”
I like the actor, but definitely did not do well in that role. They went for the big name over appropriate casting and the movie suffered
I mean, the acting wasn’t terrible, but the writing was fucking atrocious. I think Ben could have done a stellar job if it had been literally any other production team behind it.
Keira Knightly, in my opinion she seems fake. I don’t understand how is she praised for her roles.
Even in Pride and Prejudice? I thought she did well as Elizabeth Bennett there.
Especially there. I’ve seen older versions of the movie and read the book, and she was just not believable. For me at least. That is what I expect from an actor, to be believable and let me immerse myself in the story. It does not happen with her.
Miles Teller. Ugly mfer
For the black & white movie days… Barbara Stanwyck. I get that in Double Indemnity she’s supposed to be an evil bitch, but even in movies where she’s supposed to be the one you’re rooting for…she’s terrible. And in one movie I saw with her I didn’t even realise it was her at first and I was still like, ‘This person is terrible.’ and then I realised it was her.
For the modern day - being somebody born in the 80s that grew up in the 90s… Di Caprio. Even when I was a kid I was like, ‘There’s something off with him and I don’t know it is, but there’s something off…’ and everybody else is going on about how amazing he is. Now at least we know that he’s a predatory creep.
