Is there an actor/actress you can't stand that everyone else loves?

[milestogo]

For me its Julia Roberts. She ruins whole movies for me.

[The Blue Flower]

1. John Wayne

Fake tough guy. Stolen valor.

[milestogo]

3. Ick

I'm glad that generation is over.

[red dog 1]

7. John Wayne had a tremendous fear of horses.

My father couldn't stand him because he didn't enlist to fight in WW2.
Wayne was initially classified as 3-A -- Family Deferment, but was later reclassified as 1-A (draft eligible)
Herbert J. Yates, president of Republic Pictures, "intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment." (Wikipedia)

[milestogo]

9. So he was a bone spurs guy way before Trump.

[red dog 1]

14. Well, not really,

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VonShitzInPantz (Cadet Bone Spurs) is a draft-dodging coward.

Film director John Ford served in WW2 as head of the photographic unit for the OSS and made documentaries for the Navy Department.
John Wayne "repeatedly wrote to Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit."
(Wikipedia)

So John Wayne never really tried to avoid the draft and even tried to enlist in John Ford's unit.

[biophile]

60. John Wayne was my first thought- without hesitation

[rsdsharp]

130. The wounded in WW II knew who and what Wayne was:

Historian William Manchester, in a 1987 article in The New York Times Magazine, recalled an encounter with Duke during World War II:

After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there…. Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit…He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!’ He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren’t going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.

The [Springfield] State Journal-Register

[Skittles]

149. wooden

I never got his popularity either

[red dog 1]

2. Ray Romano

Star of the TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond"

I also can't stand the actress who played his mother on the show, Doris Roberts.

[Bluestocking]

4. Jerry Seinfeld

I never thought he was funny.

[red dog 1]

8. Although I loved the TV show "Seinfeld," I never thought he was a funny stand-up comedian.

Welcome to DU!

[wryter2000]

15. His stand up routines at the beginning of the show were always snore-worthy

Just not funny at all.

[red dog 1]

28. I agree.

[unblock]

58. That part was generally his own material. The rest of the show was largely larry david

They actually have pretty similar material. I find the difference is that Seinfeld looks at ordinary, banal moments of everyday life and says wow, isn't that funny; whereas david takes those situations and makes them more outrageous.

That extra bite often makes all the difference.

[LoisB]

36. Agree.

[brush]

87. And Michael N-word Richards. I've never watched that show since Richard's racist rant.

Add Adam Sandler and Mickey Rooney.

[Johonny]

5. Adam Sandler

He does that one character in every movie and boy does did that act get old.

Oddly, enjoy him on SNL, but his movies are such low effort stinkers.

[milestogo]

6. Lots of comedians are funny in small doses - so they are good at skits

but just too much for a movie.

[red dog 1]

10. Me too, with one exception,

I loved "Don't Mess with the Zohan" and have re-watched it many times.

[we can do it]

12. GMTA

[Dave Bowman]

55. Same, haven't watched one of his movies in ages.

[NoRethugFriends]

56. His newer serious rules are excellent

[Laffy Kat]

117. Same here.

And I feel bad about it because he is supposed to be such a nice person. Although he's rich as God, he lives modestly and I admire that. I simply can't stand watching his movies.

[we can do it]

11. Adam Sandler

[wryter2000]

13. Jack Nicholson

He doesn't act. He mugs for the camera, and somehow, people think he's great.

[Callie1979]

19. I 2nd that!

[MIButterfly]

30. OMG! I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

I mean, there are some roles I really liked
him in. I don't think anybody else on earth could've played RP McMurphy as well as he did and I liked him in "Terms of Endearment" to name a couple. But "As Good as it Gets"? All he did was make faces and that was Oscar-worthy?

[Walleye]

16. Sally Field

[Basso8vb]

17. The Rock

[Keepthesoulalive]

18. Melissa McCarthy

[leftieNanner]

77. Except...

Her turns as Sean Spicer on SNL. Makes me crack up every time!

[Keepthesoulalive]

83. That was probably her best roll

She actually showed a small bit of range.

[Upthevibe]

123. Keepthesoulalive.....

She was great in a little known movie called, Can You Ever Forgive Me. She was even nominated for an Oscar.

[Keepthesoulalive]

129. Thank you

[AllaN01Bear]

20. jackie gleason. lucy ball.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Sally Field, At One Time

I found her acting much more subtle & on-point as she got older.
But, she always seemed forced & overemotive.
The movie Absence of Malice is a case in point. The movie was good despite her, not because of her, even with the rest of that stellar cast.
A few of her most recent movies were far better, but it took a long time.
Also, Jim Carrey. I find him extraordinarily unfunny.

[milestogo]

23. I take it you never saw The Flying Nun or Gidget.

It took her a long time to work her way out of those stereotypes.
I liked her back then, but I didn't know any better.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Sure I Did

But, those shows weren't meant for young boys so I neither liked nor disliked them.
It was the stuff she did as an adult that I didn't like.
She won 2 academy awards and I don't get it. He acting was tortured in Norma Rae, so I never understood that win.
Obviously, I'm in a tiny minority but I don't get why.

[kozar]

57. Jim Carrey i agree

Im watching absence of malice, now. Will respond

[kozar]

64. Young Sally, was still,

A nice looking woman, who, was, working at her profession.
My fave actor is Sean Connery, my least fave is Jim Carrey.
Actress , that like, if I see a movie with Sirgourny Weaver in, im watching

Koz0

[RainCaster]

22. Nicole Kiddman

She is the most boring person I've ever seen on the silver screen.

[MIButterfly]

31. I thought she was pretty good in "To Die For."

Other than that, I can take her or leave her.

[kozar]

68. Agree

Because she married Tom Cruise, who is ,imo, the worst actor, ever.
She is a beautiful Woman, give me one film, that doesn't have his name on it

She was never an actress, she was trophy wife , to one of the worst actors, ever
Tom Cruise

[Skittles]

146. I am completely distracted by her platic surgery

there's just something very unnatural in her, er, "expressions"

[doc03]

24. Adam Sandler

[Mister Ed]

25. When Leo DiCaprio was young, I found his screen presence inexplicably annoying.

I haven't had that problem with him in his later roles, though.

[milestogo]

137. He's a workhorse.

I can't believe how many movies he has made. Lots of different kinds of roles. And I think he has gotten better as time goes on.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Sandra Bullock.

She's like nails on a blackboard.

[darkstar]

40. Seconded!

Gross vibe for me.

[Ritabert]

29. Adam Sandler and Steve Carell

[Rizen]

32. Adam Sandler.

[Rizen]

33. Wow, a lot of other people hate Adam Sandler too!

*looks at thread*

[bamagal62]

34. Sigourney Weaver

[LoisB]

35. John Wayne, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Elvis Presley.

[Paladin]

37. Will Ferrell.

I used to tolerate him, but ever since he started doing all those obnoxious PayPal ads on TV---you know, the ads they run about 150 times a day---I'm done with him.

[lark]

62. I never liked him going back to SNL days and still don't.

Not funny and obnoxious about it as well!

[VMA131Marine]

103. You didn't like the cowbell skit!!!!

[samnsara]

115. give that man MORE cowbell!!

[Sneederbunk]

38. Lassie

[2MuchNoise]

41. LOL

[ZZenith]

128. I'd watch Lassie all day long before I ever sat through another minute of Flipper.

That dolphin simply CANNOT ACT.

[Diamond_Dog]

39. Adam Sandler and John Wayne, off the top of my head.

[Luciferous]

42. Jeff Goldblum. He creeps me out.

[milestogo]

95. He's a hunk of fly.

[Luciferous]

97. 🤮

[Upthevibe]

124. Luciferous..........

Jeff Goldblum TOTALLY creeps me out too.....

[Luciferous]

131. Thank you! Good to know I'm not the

only one.

[UTUSN]

43. Nic CAGE, Bill MURRAY, (will add on)

[Wiz Imp]

44. Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, Tim Allen, Tom Selleck

Chuck Norris, Dean Cain, Dennis Quaid, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Craig T. Nelson, among others

I'd say Rob Schneider but I don't know anyone who likes him.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

84. Yes - all Republicans, I think.

[Wiz Imp]

86. Clint Eastwood made a few decent movies, and Tim Allen was fine in the Toy Story movies (where we didn't have to look at

him). Other than that, I've never seen any of the rest of this list in anything I could stand. When any one of them appear on my TV screen, I can't change the channel fast enough.

[Ritabert]

106. Clint Eastwood was good in "Play Misty For Me" and "Dirty Harry"

[Ritabert]

110. Mel Gibson was good in a few early movies

"The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Road Warrior". After that I don't think I ever saw him in anything particularly after he went around the bend.

[Wolf Frankula]

45. Richard Gere

"Let's throw Richard Gere into a sewer."

Wolf

[Easterncedar]

108. Except for Chicago

I was really surprised at how good he was in that. Otherwise never saw the appeal.

[milestogo]

141. I love him

but its ok if you don't.

[LudwigPastorius]

46. Kirk Douglas

I don't know that he was "loved", but he worked plenty and made a lot of money.

I just think he was a crap actor, an asshole, and an alleged rapist. His actions during the McCarthy era don't do much to mitigate my opinion.

[Upthevibe]

125. LudwigPastorius........

I've heard/read from several different sources that he raped Natalie Wood. I don't like to get into Hollywood gossip but I really think that's true.

[chowmama]

47. Helen Hunt

It isn't her fault, but she's been taught to have a 'comedy voice' in sitcoms. Too bright, too high-pitched, signaling that this is Funny. Mad About You affects me like nails on a chalkboard. Nobody talks like that.

I've heard her do Shakespeare, so I know she has a real voice. It's very good. But that's not what's on at O Dark Thirty, when I want to sleep and DH needs to watch a little TV first. Sometimes I wait to come up to bed and just sleep in the recliner downstairs, just to avoid it.

[dhol82]

102. I saw her do Twelfth Night in New York and she was awful!

Couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. Looked like a kid in high school doing her first play.
Kyra Sedgwick played Viola and was truly superb.

[vanamonde]

48. Jim Carrey, followed closely by

Kurt Russell, Bill Murray, Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer

[milestogo]

65. KURT RUSSELL?!!!

Never mind, you're entitled to your opinion.

[Emile]

49. Godzilla

[MIGuy]

50. Tom Cruise

He is always the same dull smart-ass. Jack Reacher, he is not. Mission Impossible was a great concept: the crew, the elaborate ruse. Tom's MI is just stunts.

[3catwoman3]

120. He is a one trick pony.

[Brainstormy]

51. Matthew McConaughey

Makes me want to barf.

[Ilsa]

53. He refuses to overcome his accent in everything.

His voice grates on me.

[lamp_shade]

63. I second that.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

69. I third it

"How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days," rom-com crap. Blech!

[live love laugh]

52. Clooney

[bif]

54. Amy Schumer, Eugene Levy

I just don't get why everyone thinks they're funny.

[Pisces]

76. Amy Schumer for sure!

[Botany]

59. David Schwimmer and Adam Sandler.

Maybe it is the roles they play but I can live without them.

Ever since it turned out that Woody Allen was having sex with the young woman
who was in his family’s unit was “his daughter” he became dead to me. Btw I also believe
used to be a big fan too.

[lark]

61. Will Farrell - not funny!

I don't like him, but my husband really can't stand him for some reason?

[Mad_Dem_X]

66. Julia Roberts for me, too.

The best part of Steel Magnolias was

**SPOILER**








when her character died.

[milestogo]

67. The first movie I saw her in was Mystic Pizza

The movie critics pronounced her "America's sweetheart".

You know who else was in Mystic Pizza? Lili Taylor, who is 100 times the actress Julia Roberts is.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

70. Agree

Also you could park a bus in her mouth.

[LudwigPastorius]

132. Scary!

[MIButterfly]

71. Meg Ryan.

To me, a little bit of cute and perky goes a long, long way and she's been that in almost every single movie she's been in. Same cute and perky character over and over and over. Blah!
😫

[ArnoldLayne]

72. John Wayne

[efhmc]

73. Went through the list and cannot find one I can love.

[Morbius]

74. Robin Williams.

I know it's politically incorrect to say so, and I am certainly not happy he's dead, but I am no fan of Robin Williams. He was enjoyable in several movies but he was in many movies. Like the absolutely unsufferable Mrs. Doubtfire. Not funny, embarrassing even.

[Easterncedar]

111. Try The Fisher King

Great underrated film, IMO. Williams was heartbreaking.

[skypilot]

139. Didn't think I would make it...

...through The Fisher King but I hung in there and ultimately it was Mercedes Reuhl as Jeff Bridges's girlfriend who really won me over. Have watched the movie a couple more times since the 90s, mostly for her.

[LisaM]

134. Agree. Mrs. Doubtfire was awful. Like a worse version of Tootsie.

I liked RW in "The. Birdcage" but he generally got on my nerves, repetitive and predictable.

[Emile]

75. John Wayne

[RandySF]

78. Will Smith

[bucolic_frolic]

79. Dozens of them

[Sibelius Fan]

80. Jesse Eisenberg.

[crimycarny]

81. Adam Sandler

I have never understood the popularity of Adam Sandler. I don't mean from a personal perspective, he might be a super nice guy, just the humor I find more like bathroom humor. As funny as making fart noises by putting your hand under your armpit.

[Tetrachloride]

82. A lot of Monday morning quarterbacking in this thread. And mixing Apples with Oranges.

Actors do what they can with the script and the directions of the director and of the owners of the movie.

An actor is often different than themselves. That's what they are often paid for. That is, some are type cast and some go against their image.

Finally, let who is without sin cast the first stone.

[Permanut]

85. Gonna have to go with Nicolas Cage..

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Won the Oscar for playing a drunk in Leaving Las Vegas..

That was bad enough but he beat Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus.

I was really bummed about that because I worked as an extra on Mr. Holland's Opus.

[brush]

88. John Wayne. He was a magat before the term was even coined.

[SalamanderSleeps]

89. Pretty much every actor in this thread I consider as just a schmoe trying to make their way in the world.

Steven Seagal, on the other hand, has a "no-talent-asshole" category all to himself.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

90. Jennifer Lopez. She is too much.....

[milestogo]

96. And all she does is act like Jennifer Lopez.

[3catwoman3]

118. Major attention junkie.

And she always has to make sure we know she has breasts. Yes, Jennifer, we've seen them many times. Too many.

[Easterncedar]

91. Ian Holm

[Music Man]

92. Jim Carrey

I don't think he's that funny.

[3catwoman3]

119. He's a one trick pony, just like Tom Cruise.

[Upthevibe]

122. Music Man ...........

I've never been into Jim Carrey's comedy at all. Having said that, I think he was excellent in dramatic roles like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[Music Man]

133. Come to think of it, I liked him in "Man on the Moon"

The Andy Kaufman biopic.

[Polybius]

93. Seth Rogan and his bff (best friend forever) Jonah Hill

I find them irritating.

[Totally Tunsie]

94. Sofia Vergara

What exactly does she doooooooooooo?

And she and her son together just skeeve me out. Leave the guy alone!

[Tree Lady]

98. Angelina Jolie

can't stand her. My hubby feels like you do about Julia Roberts.

[milestogo]

100. Yeah I don't care for her either.

[Ritabert]

107. I just saw her in an old movie "The Bone Collector"

....and she was good. Beyond that I don't think I've ever seen her in anything.

[Easterncedar]

109. Jolie was great as Maria Callas

I really believed her performance

[Torchlight]

99. Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise.

I don't pretend to know anything about them as people (and plan to keep it that way), but as actors, they really annoy the hell outta me. At this point, I'll simply avoid any new movie if one or the other is in it.

[Ritabert]

113. Keanu was good in "Point Break" and "Speed"

Beyond that I haven't seen him in anything.

[lapfog_1]

101. Rob Schneider

possibly almost universally hated actor to ever "star" in any movie

[somethingshiny]

104. Generally agree about Romano and Sandler

But I've seen both in unexpected roles where they were surprisingly good.
Romano in a series called Men of a Certain Age, and Sandler in a movie called Reign Over Me. Both dramatic roles, and well done, IMO.

[VMA131Marine]

105. Jon Voight

No wonder Angelina Jolie can’t stand him

[Harker]

112. Walter Matthau.

Okay, I can occasionally stand him. A little.

[VGNonly]

142. He was great as Whiplash Willie

in The Fortune Cookie, won Best Supporting Actor for the role.

[Harker]

145. I missed it.

Saw a copy of "Hopscotch" at the local thrift store today.

[samnsara]

114. bill murray

not that i cant stand him but too many of his movies have big huge disappoints.... Groundhog Day and Ghost busters are the only exceptions

[greatauntoftriplets]

116. Michelle Williams.

[debm55]

121. Lucy

[kimbutgar]

126. Sylvester Stallone

Never liked him nor watched any of the Rocky movies. He is boring and has minimal acting skills.

[displacedvermoter]

127. Hugh Grant

[LisaM]

135. Billy Crystal.

He plays one role.

[Borogove]

136. Gwyneth Paltrow

[TommieMommy]

138. Will Farrell, Mel Gibson and Mathew McConaughey

[skypilot]

140. Nicole Kidman

Her face seems to pop up on every other title I see when I'm scrolling through movies and shows on my streaming channels and years ago for quite a while it seemed I was being bombarded with trailers for movies she was in. I just don't think she's that great or interesting an actress to be getting cast in as much stuff as she gets cast in. Not a bad actress, just a very overexposed one. Enough!

[VGNonly]

143. Billy Bob Thornton

[milestogo]

144. I guess people either love him or hate him.

I love him.

[Skittles]

147. I will watch anything he is in

he is outstanding

[Skittles]

148. Jennifer Lopez

very annoying