Jason Bateman. Used to be Jeremy Renner and Tim Robbins so I guess it’s an unconscious bias against little guys with too-big faces for their features.
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Julia Stiles. Saw her in Save the Last Dance and some other movie and absolutely could not get on with the movie. It's like she's not acting or doesn't know how to act. She's kind of like in audition mode the entire time and I just don't get anything from her face or her actions. I sometimes get the same thing from Keanu but at least I like the movies he's in. With her I just rage quit 5 min in seeing her. She just ruins it for me. Also yes, also don't like The Rock. I'm sure we saw the same YouTube vid where the guy bashes on him for not knowing how to act as any other "character"... which when looking back, it's true. He's literally the same persona every god damn time.
Came here to say Julia Stiles but you totally beat me to it! I cannot stand any film she is in either. It's really hard to describe, but your description is spot-on. It's like an empty husk with makeup has been made to act.
Ben Stiller
I just can’t. He makes me anxious just seeing him on screen. I so want to watch Meet the Fockers because DeNiro is one of my faves, I just can’t do it.
if it makes you feel better ben stiller just embarasses himself the whole movie
None. I dislike some actors, but so many other people pour part of themselves into these things and influence each other when developing them that it's impossible for me to not have at least some curiosity.
Will Smith and Jared Leto for sure (including 2049, which was a disgrace compared to the masterpiece that is the original, despite me loving Arrival, Dune Part I and Sicario).
I also cannot stand anyone meant to appeal only to Americans, like Kevin Hart, Chevy Chase, Queen Latifah and all that stuff. Used to like Tom Hanks in the 1990s, but after that he became part of the latter group for me.
If you are ever going to try again watching a The Rock movie (I don't mind him at all, although not being calling me to watch a movie), please make it Hercules: that movie genuinely surprised me.
Since the snow white disaster, rachel zegler.
Also, I can't really watch til schweiger movies. Or most german "comedy" movies.
Yeah she just comes across as a pretentious little child who knows better than you. And I even agree with her on some things.
I will actively avoid anything of hers in the future.
Charlie Hunnam is not good, has a silly face, and cannot deliver lines.
It’s true he’s been awful since Queer as Folk, but if you’ve heard his normal speaking voice in The Gentlemen it’s kind of understandable that his character accents always sound a bit forced.
I dunno, I enjoyed the hell out of his acting in Sons of Anarchy
I think that's honestly why I think he's fun. His king Arthur movie is a hardcore guilty pleasure as someone who enjoys the actual king Arthur myths...
Why the fuck did they try to make him a superhero???
It's just blind stupid fun but they don't have an ego attached like the rocks movies do
Oof a lot of ppl like him
Collin Farrel and Kristin Stewart.
They're just not good actors. They've been in a couple good movies, but those movies succeed despite, not because of them.
I disagree heavily with Collin Farrell! He sucks when he's in a big budget movie but he's fantastic when he does his little art films.
Check out In Bruges as a great example.
The rule I've always gone with is that if the average person knows the movie exists he probably sucks and otherwise he's fantastic.
I always had this impression that Colin Farrell was just a pretty boy with no acting talent. But then I saw him in Banshees of Inisherin and my mind was blown. He was amazing - his performance absolutely gutted me. If you're willing to give him a try, you should watch that movie.
Til Schweiger and Kristen Stewart, they each know exactly one facial expression.
Adam Sandler
Good grief, another one I was going to mention that's already covered.
His movies are mostly bad, I think you and I might agree on that.
But the other aspect of it is that a lot of the people I knew who liked his early movies were just really shitty humans. So by association, I think that affected how I saw his movies. Just seemed like a magnet for terrible people and it was hard to separate those two things for me. Not to mention, the movies themselves were objectively somewhere between awful and just not that great, so I didn't feel like I was missing out much.
Oh, and I got "dragged" to that movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry IN THE THEATER. And that reasserted everything I already knew to be true about Adam Sandler movies.
it was the same for me about Sandler until I saw Uncut Gems, finally he showed that he can act.
Haven't seen that one. Might check it out.
The reason he's good in Uncut Gems (and Punch Drunk Love) is that there is something genuinely frightening in how unhinged he seems when he is acting.
He can act but that movie was beyond stupid. I'm convinced the only reason it did well with critics is exactly what you said - they were surprised he could actually act.
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