For me it’s The Rock and Chris Pratt.

Guardians of the Galaxy was great but I just wish he would stop playing starlord in every other role he’s in!

  • @Alaik@lemmy.zip
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    Will Ferrel, Jack Black… the rock is rapidly getting there. Jada Plinkett Smith.

  • @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    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.

  • @thatradomguy@lemmy.world
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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.

    • @dajoho@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

  • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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    510 hours ago

    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.

  • @biofaust@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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.

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    514 hours ago

    Since the snow white disaster, rachel zegler.

    Also, I can’t really watch til schweiger movies. Or most german “comedy” movies.

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      29 hours ago

      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.

    • @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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      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.

    • Maven (famous)OP
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      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

    • @GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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      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.

    • omxxi
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      315 hours ago

      it was the same for me about Sandler until I saw Uncut Gems, finally he showed that he can act.

  • @jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

    • @klemptor@startrek.website
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      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.

      • @sudneo@lemm.ee
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        Absolutely! In Bruges, Banshees of Inisherin, but even older stuff. I am a weirdo and like the 2002 Phone Booth, for example.

  • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m surprised to see no Chris Pratt (or CP, as he likes to be called) in this thread.

    But Chris Pratt for me.

    • @beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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      His acting is hammy, but he does that on purpose. His philosophy on acting is the method thing is good but it isn’t an artistic performance. He puts his personality on the character.

    • @GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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      You beat me to it. I like(d) him in his early career, then it got to the point where pretty much everything I saw that had him in it sucked, so if he was in a movie, it was a sign to me to skip it. I have had a bit of a change of heart in some of his latest stuff, I’ll at least consider watching it if there’s a modicum of evidence that there are redeeming qualities to the movie overall.

      The other aspect of it is that I used to think he was good looking when he was young, and then sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s he just seemed to turn physically repulsive to me. Part of it is his hair. I think if he ever got a good hair cut or played a part that involved wearing a decent hair piece, it might not be so bad.

      • @steeznson@lemmy.world
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        Leaving Las Vegas is genuinely devastating and that was his 90s peak.

        He does recapture some of that magic in a recent one called Pig but that film benefited from a bait and switch marketing where they implied it would be like John Wick but was actually completely different.

        • @GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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          310 hours ago

          I’ve seen Pig mentioned before as one of the good ones, so maybe I’ll give it a go one night when I have nothing else to lose. My favorite of his recentish movies is Renfield. Probably because I went in with low, low, low expectations and limited research, but it was much better than I was expecting.

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    Leonardo DiCaprio. I can never believe he is the character I always see an actor trying to portrait a character. Like with other actores I can believe I am seeing something that happened. With DiCaprio I’m always aware that I’m watching an actor doing a performance.

    I don’t know if that makes a lot of sense. But it’s one of the few “good” actor that makes me feel this way.

  • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    Owen Wilson. Something about him just makes me queasy.

    Adam Sandler, with the exception of punch drunk love, maybe. I wanted to like tough cut gems, but I have up or of serving hand cringe