For example, I don’t like Will Ferrell in his typical roles. Oh they just drive me batty.
But. I do love Stranger Than Fiction. It’s such a cozy movie.
Adam Sandler. I personally feel that his humour is aimed at school children - making silly faces and silly voices and basically making fun of the disabled or neuroatypical - but it’s marketed to adults.
But I like 50 First Dates. He’s mostly not a shouting toddler in that.
I thought Sandler in Uncut Gems was pretty good. It’s a serious role, that made me rethink all of the campy comedies he’s done.
“50 first dates” is such an anomoly. That’s the first Adam Sandler film I ever saw and it was years before I realized why i was getting side-eyed saying I liked his movies. Click was ok too, clearly more for his usual audience though.
Danny McBride. I can grit my teeth if he’s playing a small role, 30 Minutes or Less was pushing the limit, but he so often plays the same insufferable, arrogant asshole and he plays it too well.
Tom Cruise, no explanation needed
Tom Cruise is weird for me because I hate the man but he’s a good actor and a great action star and sells pretty much every role he’s in.
Fuck (and I cannot emphasize this enough) fuck Timothy Chalamet. He is always so wooden. He can’t act for shit. Hes just a very pretty nepo baby.
Also, can we count film makers? I hate Christopher Nolan. Every movie he makes is such a torturous slog. They are all metaphors for their own creation, and everyone of them is too concerned with the machinery, like hes pretentiously drawing attention to it. “GET IT? IM MAKING A MOVIE? IM A FUCKING GENIUS!”
Tenet frustrated me. You could tell that there was a good movie there but the sound mixing was horrible and the execution was lacking.
While I agree with you, I have heard two things that I think are important to know.
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The early pirated versions were especially horrible, as the audio was mixed for the big screen.
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Intentionally muddying the dialogue is a well known movie technique. Often used in scenes or situations where the actual spoken words aren’t important. For example, I remember seeing an old movie once where this guy is dumping his GF down by the docks, and most of his words are inaudible due to fog horns from ships, and his (ex)GF covers her ears. Where Nolan failed was that in that fog horn example it’s obvious that it’s intentional. In Tenet, on the other hand, the masqing audio is usually part of the soundtrack, so it just sounds like an awful mix. Tenet made me adjust volume constantly because I felt I was missing something. I liked the movie, though. Except that scene didn’t even closely resemble Oslo airport.
I also wish Nolans movies did not have such an insanely wide dynamic audio range. First you’re listening to actual important dialog, then your windows shatter from the sound of movie gunshots.
I saw it as an AMC A-List subscriber diring COVID twice as the only person in the theater. I sat in the best seat in a place that had redone theor soubd system 1 year before and it was rough.
Im not sure there are better circumstances to view it in for the average person.
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I remember the 2021 film. The whole thing was in black and white apart from when the character saw actors or something because the film industry or acting industry brings light to the world or some pretentious point. Like just let me watch my historical film in colour
I agree on both. Chalamet is a dickhead. Word was he was a one man Chlamydia vector at NYU.
And I don’t get the Nolan worship either. His movies are okay, but not one of them is in my Top 10, probably not even in my Top 20. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of them more than once. I just never found them compelling enough to want to see it a second time.
Jessie eisenberg. He only plays jessie Eisenberg. I hate his whiny delivery. The “Now you see me” movies were awful, and he ruined Lex Luthor.
I can’t think of anything he’s been in that I’ve thought was good.
(Nicholas hoult as LL looks great though)
Zombieland
Social Network
Though both those were good despite him
Id forgotten about zombieland. I now have an exception for the purposes of the original post, thank you! I’d avoided the social network because i also can’t stand mark zuck :)
Gonna take it in a slightly different direction and pivot the question to music. And in that case, Red Hot Chili Peppers, it’s time to stop. I get it, it was cool and unique. But now, it all sounds the same, and you headline every festival ever and I can’t enjoy the same 5 songs being crammed down my throat for the next 5 decades to come still. Please stop. I know you “can’t stop”, but please, please, stop.
Flea dancing around on stage naked at 20? Okay, edgy and hilarious. Doing it at 60+? Talk about a real Uncle Rico
What about the Red Hot Chili Pipers
Owen Wilson. He has one tone and always looks spaced out.
Wow.
My wife laothes Tom Cruise. Hard stop. No exceptions. I don’t have any problems with him as an actor, the Scientology insanity is a whole other matter.
…maybe one exception: I was able to talk her into seeing Edge of Tomorrow by telling her that he dies 26 times on-screen and countless times off-screen.
Have her watch Tropic Thunder and dont mention his cameo. Its his best work.
…maybe one exception: I was able to talk her into seeing Edge of Tomorrow by telling her that he dies 26 times on-screen and countless times off-screen.
I apologise if this seems inappropriate, but I kinda like your wife now. And you for putting that argument up in the first place.
Not at all inappropriate to me! Cheers
I came here to say Will Ferrell with the same exception, then read your post.
Stranger Than Fiction shows Will Ferrell is perfectly capable of being a good actor playing interesting roles, but chooses to just play low effort trash.
I feel the same way about Adam Sandler except for Punch Drunk Love. the right role makes a big difference.
I think Punch Drunk Love was his best serious role, but I also remember liking Reign Over Me and Spanglish. His more recent Uncut Gems was pretty good too.
It might not be for everyone, but he’s also really perfect for Elf. My daughter and I have tried to recast it in the past for fun and who’s better for that role!? I actually think Paul Rudd would be another who could maybe pull it off, maybe.
Leo DiCaprio. No exceptions. The movies he’s been in that I’ve enjoyed were enjoyed despite him and not because of him.
His entire approach to a character is to put on an over-the-top accent and call it a day. I’ve never had the sense that any of his characters were the actual character and weren’t just “Leo with an accent”. I’ll be fair and say that he has improved in recent years, with movies like The Revenant being tolerable.
But holy shit, how his career went anywhere when people saw his “acting” in Titanic and especially Romeo and Juliet, is mind-boggling to me.
Have you seen The Basketball Diaries?
This is the film he did that everyone should judge him by.
It was definitely the film that made me respect him as an actor.
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”… of course he’s very young… good stuff.
Didn’t like inception or shutter island?
Not as much as I would have liked them with someone else in the lead role. Especially Shutter Island. It’s one of my favourite books and Dicaprio ruined it with his usual overly affected New York accent straight out of SNL.
“he’s hot” there ya go
Vin Diesel. Nothing against the guy personally, but his whole dumb guy thing just irks me.
better than rock, lol, rock was such camera whore.(all those complaints against him during 2F2F.
Those complaint were the start of the Rock’s non-wrestling acting career. Nowadays he sundowns series that execs are convinced they can still make money on, taking up a lead role and ruining any chance of another decent sequel.
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She admitted she avoids mirror because her eyes are too far apart.
She really does look like an alien with that huge eye gap.
Sean Penn, Adam Driver and this fart:
Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine.
He’s OK in other stuff but it’s not my bag unless it’s the fucking mask 👌
John C Riley is an uncomfortable mess in everything he’s in and I cannot stand it. The exception is everything he’s in, which is delightfully uncomfortable.
Chicago is my favorite of his
