Least Favorite Actor

rm' · 5th June 2001, 02:12

We had a fav one, so it's time to turn the tables.

John Travolta
Julia Roberts
Pauly Shore
Fran Drescher
Every male porn actor

s1138 · 5th June 2001, 02:14

me

5th June 2001, 02:19

Leonardo DiCraprio

rm' · 5th June 2001, 02:20

Quote:

Originally posted by s1138
me

I'm not to sure I want to know what you've acted in...

Curi0us_George · 5th June 2001, 02:37

I don't really have any least favorite actors. Most of the famous actors aren't that bad; they've simply been in a few D-grade movies. Of course, porn is a different story.

Xerxes · 5th June 2001, 02:45

Bob Sagat and Carrot Top are the absolute worst

Nicholas Cage (His idea of dramatic acting is whining)
Pauly Shore (His stoner shtick was old after one movie)
David Shwimmer (another whiny actor guy)

[LMF]ZeroKool · 5th June 2001, 02:52

Leonardo DiCaprio(Dammit, I can't spell his name right!!)
s1138
And all the Actor in any Block Blaster Flop (Dammit,I fail my spelling test!!

)

griffinn · 5th June 2001, 02:58

Gerard Depardieu

5th June 2001, 03:12

Keanu Reeves ( I don't care if he starred in the matrix)
any ********, any disney movie actor or actress, and that tom green guy. eww.

John M · 5th June 2001, 03:42

dicaprio, sagat, mel gibson (cuzza that what women want thing. shaa. everyone knows they want me.)

Anacific · 5th June 2001, 04:17

[*]ADAM SANDLER - I don't know why people like his movies. He's acts like he's retarded (and he is one)[*]Rob Schneider - ditto[*]LEONARDO DI CAPRIO - blehhhh[*]Julia Roberts - no comment[*]Arnold Schwarzenegger - He's not an actor, just a pile of muscles

[*]Helen Hunt - hehehe, don't kill me RM i'm just joking

[*]Mike Myers - no comment[*]Brendan Fraser - ...

rm' · 5th June 2001, 04:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Anacific
[*]Helen Hunt - hehehe, don't kill me RM i'm just joking

:-/

Mel Gibson is good. I'm better

.

bonj · 5th June 2001, 04:43

Any actor who feels the need to whisper their lines so quietly that nobody can hear them over the environmental music, just to sound dramatic or serious. Like the star of the 13th floor. Good story, good camerawork, good writing, but the damn whispering ruined it for me

SNYder · 5th June 2001, 06:12

Quote:

Originally posted by bonj
Any actor who feels the need to whisper their lines so quietly that nobody can hear them over the environmental music, just to sound dramatic or serious. Like the star of the 13th floor. Good story, good camerawork, good writing, but the damn whispering ruined it for me

That movie was cool.

My answer back to those who have mentioned people who are good:

John Travolta: I think he's actually pretty good.
Mike Myers: He's excellent. If you disagree, I'll send you to the lions pit.
Julia Roberts: She's good. :shrugs:
Arnold Schwarzenegger: He makes funny prank calls. (search for "Arnold prank call" on napter. funny shit.) =P

I can't think of any actors I dislike right now. Mabey later.

JackW · 5th June 2001, 08:10

I wouldn't rank Nicolas Cage as a bad actor - admittedly, he has a relatively limited repertoire, but he's pulled off some superb roles - Bringing Out The Dead and Wild At Heart spring to mind immediately.

Similarly, the trick with Schwarzenegger is giving him parts that play to his strengths - the original Terminator, for example, ranks as one of my top five sci-fi films of all time.

So, as for my nomination, I'd have to be particularly unimaginative and go with Keanu Reeves and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Reeves' wooden acting can be painful to watch - The Matrix avoided this trap by not focussing on acting to any great extent - don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this film, but it's predomoninantly about visuals over character. Speed also worked, but again the action was the main star. The only instance of successful Reeves acting is the delicious irony of his casting in Much Ado About Nothing - Brannagh's use of a two-dimensional, stiff actor to portray Shakespeare's two-dimensional, stiff villain.

As for Leonardo DiCaprio, he's a drip. Don't even try to get me justify that in less subjective terms. And the thought of him with a part in Scorsese's Gangs Of New York terrifies me. Incidentally, DiCaprio initially wanted the role of Bateman in American Psycho... that doesn't even bear thinking about.

Jack.

philtheodebuzzard · 5th June 2001, 09:47

Dolph Lungren - just for that ridiculas film where he was afraid of the colour white, what a tw*t
(But it was cool when Jean Claude pushed him into the combine-harvester)

Xerxes · 5th June 2001, 11:20

Actually Leo is not THAT bad... he gets cast in these roles now where he's this pretty boy attracting teenage girl tickets, but he has shown acting talent-

In "The Man in the Iron Mask" he was able to carry off 2 different roles

and in possibly his best movie "Who's eating gibert grape" -he plays a person with down's syndrome- and very convincingly ....

i just don't know exactly how to interpret the meaning of your best acting role playing as a retard though...

Bizznatch · 5th June 2001, 11:25

Pauly shore
Barabra Streisand
Keanu Reeves
Rosanne Barr
Brendan Fraser

ElChevelle · 5th June 2001, 12:35

EVERYONE who starred in The English Patient.

Just for making me waste my time and money on that excuse for a nap.

Rocker · 5th June 2001, 12:46

Some of the worst actors i think are:
leonardo DeCrapio (oops)
leonardo DeCrapio
and leonardo DeCrapio

Adam Sandler in happy gilmore and bulletproof was cool but most of his other movies sucked

Keanu Reeves gets picked for movies well. Movies that he is in are actually well a few of his movies are very well made.

eg
The Matrix

Brendan Fraiser is an awsome actor
what the hell is wrong with you Bizznatch he's a funnyman

Mike Myers has to be the worst actor of all time his movies shit me up the wall.

anyway its just my opinion

weedsatan · 5th June 2001, 13:05

Leonardo DiCaprio
John Travolta
Adam Sandler

Barbara Streisand
Euh...
None that horrible to be in the same list as here..
sorry...

Bilbo Baggins · 5th June 2001, 13:13

Arnold Swarzenneger

rm' · 6th June 2001, 03:45

Quote:

Originally posted by SNYder
[B]John Travolta: I think he's actually pretty good.
Julia Roberts: She's good. :shrugs:

John Travolta is a one dimensional case study in typecasting. All his attempts to portray a good evildoer always miserably fail. Witness Gibson's role in Oayback for comparison.

Julia Roberts is also pretty one dimensional... she can't really play strong characters very well (in Erin Brokovich, instead of being a strong, independant woman, she came across as the biggest, loudest, sluttiest bitch in America). Plus, she's too floppy to be really beautiful. Face it; image counts.

Anacific · 6th June 2001, 04:01

Quote:

Originally posted by Radioactive Man
John Travolta

I like most of his movies [Pulp Fiction, Face Off, etc...]
Swordfish should be pretty good too

Namelessv1 · 6th June 2001, 04:38

Actor:
Leonardo Dicaprio

Actress:
Barbara Streisand

Twilightseer · 6th June 2001, 09:16

Keanu Reeves and Mel Gibson.
The Matrix and Payback were some of the worst turkeys I ever had the misfortune of seeing

Bizznatch · 6th June 2001, 09:33

Ok OK, here's an explanation

The Matrix: great movie, Keanu Reeves should never have acted in it.

The Replacements: See Matrix

everything else that had Reeves in it sucked, especially Sweet Novermber.

Brendan Fraser: Lets see, Encino Man sucked, Monkeybone was cool but he sucked in it, Bedazzled sucked.

Adam Sandler: good actor, should've stayed on SNL though.

Roberts: good actress, BAD movies

and to add to my list, EVERYONE who was casted in what is my least favorite movie of all time, let alone this year: Best In Show (shouldve beeen renamed to Worst in show)

bonj · 6th June 2001, 17:43

Quote:

Originally posted by Xerxes
i just don't know exactly how to interpret the meaning of your best acting role playing as a retard though...

Didn't Tom Hanks win a best actor academy award for his role as Forrest Gump?

rm' · 6th June 2001, 21:53

And Dustin Hoffman for The Rainman. And I'm not sure, but John Malkovich may have been nominated for Shine.

gremmlin · 9th June 2001, 21:38

Whoever played the little girl in Mrs. Doubtfire. What an annoying voice.

ElChevelle · 9th June 2001, 21:51

That kid in Problem Child!
I wanted to take a baseball bat and squash his head like a grapefruit

Xerxes · 9th June 2001, 21:54

Quote:

Originally posted by Bizznatch
Ok OK, here's an explanation

everything else that had Reeves in it sucked, especially Sweet November.

...let alone this year: Best In Show

oh GOD my sister forced me to see Sweet Novemeber - and it was SO horrible. Of all his movies, I think that movie shows Keanu's complete incompetance as an actor. (And yes I am also accounting for "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure")

Like at the end of the sex scene, where at the end with no emotion or innotation (as usual) he says "Oh... baby... that... was... good" ... what a HACK that guy is!

Although I did like best in show- you have to remember that the movie wasn't scripted- it was improvised. I think it was a actually pretty good film. (Expeccially good was the announcer of the dog show

)

Xerxes · 9th June 2001, 21:55

Quote:

Originally posted by ElChevelle
That kid in Problem Child!
I wanted to take a baseball bat and squash his head like a grapefruit

Chevelle = Evil Galagher

ElChevelle · 9th June 2001, 22:01

Xerxes · 9th June 2001, 22:30

5th June 2001, 02:45	#6
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,687	Bob Sagat and Carrot Top are the absolute worst Nicholas Cage (His idea of dramatic acting is whining) Pauly Shore (His stoner shtick was old after one movie) David Shwimmer (another whiny actor guy) Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of their Country

5th June 2001, 02:52	#7
[LMF]ZeroKool Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Kulim,Kedah,Malaysia,Earth Posts: 553	Leonardo DiCaprio(Dammit, I can't spell his name right!!) s1138 And all the Actor in any Block Blaster Flop (Dammit,I fail my spelling test!! ) KLJS the Fated One! 31787478 Buffy stole my soul.Inatlantis has it.

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5th June 2001, 02:12	#1
rm' Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 11,361	We had a fav one, so it's time to turn the tables. John Travolta Julia Roberts Pauly Shore Fran Drescher Every male porn actor

5th June 2001, 02:14	#2
s1138 Alumni? Join Date: May 2000 Location: joja Posts: 6,936	me

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WolfieD Guest Posts: n/a	Leonardo DiCraprio

5th June 2001, 02:37	#5
Curi0us_George Forum King Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Oxford, MS Posts: -1 Posts: 5,179	I don't really have any least favorite actors. Most of the famous actors aren't that bad; they've simply been in a few D-grade movies. Of course, porn is a different story.

5th June 2001, 03:12	#9
pajama-boy Guest Posts: n/a	Keanu Reeves ( I don't care if he starred in the matrix) any ********, any disney movie actor or actress, and that tom green guy. eww.

5th June 2001, 04:43	#13
bonj Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: HEH!!!! :D Posts: 920	Any actor who feels the need to whisper their lines so quietly that nobody can hear them over the environmental music, just to sound dramatic or serious. Like the star of the 13th floor. Good story, good camerawork, good writing, but the damn whispering ruined it for me heh?

5th June 2001, 08:10	#15
JackW Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Posts: 143	I wouldn't rank Nicolas Cage as a bad actor - admittedly, he has a relatively limited repertoire, but he's pulled off some superb roles - Bringing Out The Dead and Wild At Heart spring to mind immediately. Similarly, the trick with Schwarzenegger is giving him parts that play to his strengths - the original Terminator, for example, ranks as one of my top five sci-fi films of all time. So, as for my nomination, I'd have to be particularly unimaginative and go with Keanu Reeves and Leonardo DiCaprio. Reeves' wooden acting can be painful to watch - The Matrix avoided this trap by not focussing on acting to any great extent - don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this film, but it's predomoninantly about visuals over character. Speed also worked, but again the action was the main star. The only instance of successful Reeves acting is the delicious irony of his casting in Much Ado About Nothing - Brannagh's use of a two-dimensional, stiff actor to portray Shakespeare's two-dimensional, stiff villain. As for Leonardo DiCaprio, he's a drip. Don't even try to get me justify that in less subjective terms. And the thought of him with a part in Scorsese's Gangs Of New York terrifies me. Incidentally, DiCaprio initially wanted the role of Bateman in American Psycho... that doesn't even bear thinking about. Jack. "What kind of a two-bit operation are they running out of this treehouse, Cooper?"

5th June 2001, 09:47	#16
philtheodebuzzard Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 80	Dolph Lungren - just for that ridiculas film where he was afraid of the colour white, what a tw*t (But it was cool when Jean Claude pushed him into the combine-harvester)

5th June 2001, 11:20	#17
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,687	Actually Leo is not THAT bad... he gets cast in these roles now where he's this pretty boy attracting teenage girl tickets, but he has shown acting talent- In "The Man in the Iron Mask" he was able to carry off 2 different roles and in possibly his best movie "Who's eating gibert grape" -he plays a person with down's syndrome- and very convincingly .... i just don't know exactly how to interpret the meaning of your best acting role playing as a retard though... Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of their Country

5th June 2001, 11:25	#18
Bizznatch Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 4,173	Pauly shore Barabra Streisand Keanu Reeves Rosanne Barr Brendan Fraser

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ElChevelle Moderator Alumni Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: the MANCANNON! Posts: 22,436	EVERYONE who starred in The English Patient. Just for making me waste my time and money on that excuse for a nap.

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Rocker Hiding in plain sight (mod) Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 9,910	Some of the worst actors i think are: leonardo DeCrapio (oops) leonardo DeCrapio and leonardo DeCrapio Adam Sandler in happy gilmore and bulletproof was cool but most of his other movies sucked Keanu Reeves gets picked for movies well. Movies that he is in are actually well a few of his movies are very well made. eg The Matrix Brendan Fraiser is an awsome actor what the hell is wrong with you Bizznatch he's a funnyman Mike Myers has to be the worst actor of all time his movies shit me up the wall. anyway its just my opinion

5th June 2001, 13:05	#21
weedsatan Forum King Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Under the Ground Posts: 2,303	Leonardo DiCaprio John Travolta Adam Sandler Barbara Streisand Euh... None that horrible to be in the same list as here.. sorry... "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." -R. D. Lang

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Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,229	Arnold Swarzenneger

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Twilightseer Frenchoderator Join Date: May 2000 Location: Lavabo, fond du couloir, 3è porte à droite Posts: 6,309	Keanu Reeves and Mel Gibson. The Matrix and Payback were some of the worst turkeys I ever had the misfortune of seeing

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Bizznatch Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 4,173	Ok OK, here's an explanation The Matrix: great movie, Keanu Reeves should never have acted in it. The Replacements: See Matrix everything else that had Reeves in it sucked, especially Sweet Novermber. Brendan Fraser: Lets see, Encino Man sucked, Monkeybone was cool but he sucked in it, Bedazzled sucked. Adam Sandler: good actor, should've stayed on SNL though. Roberts: good actress, BAD movies and to add to my list, EVERYONE who was casted in what is my least favorite movie of all time, let alone this year: Best In Show (shouldve beeen renamed to Worst in show)

6th June 2001, 21:53	#29
rm' Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 11,361	And Dustin Hoffman for The Rainman. And I'm not sure, but John Malkovich may have been nominated for Shine.

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ElChevelle Moderator Alumni Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: the MANCANNON! Posts: 22,436	That kid in Problem Child! I wanted to take a baseball bat and squash his head like a grapefruit

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