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.
Thomas middleditch, the dude makes my skin crawl. Silicon valley is the only thing I’ve been able to watch with him, but when he’s just on talk shows or being himself i have to skip past. Skeevy is the word that comes to mind.
I’m surprised no one has said Fran Drescher
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!”
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.
Tom Cruise, no explanation needed
Sean Penn, Adam Driver and this fart:
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.
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.
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.
Anya Taylor Joy. Her acting skills include shocked gasps and looking indignant. But something about her face/eye structure just makes her look alien.
Then they put her in Furiosa and gave her that stupid makeup that just accentuates the odd bone structure and now I can’t unsee it.
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.
Owen Wilson. He has one tone and always looks spaced out.
Nathan Fillion
Campy actor from campy shows that people made their personalities for lack of better alternatives.
Vin Diesel. Nothing against the guy personally, but his whole dumb guy thing just irks me.