Overrated Actresses/Actors

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Wow you lose on so many of these but one I have a huge issue with Adam Sandler = Great (Saturday Night Live, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Waterboy, Wedding Singer, Bulletproof, Anger Management, The Longest Yard) - All great flicks

Forgot about Anger Management. Love the scene with the Iverson fan.

 

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Sean Connery
Jim Carrey
Nicolas Cage
Kurt Russell
Goldie Hawn
Meg Ryan
George Clooney
Tom Cruise
Ben Stiller

I agree with most of those, but couldn't disagree more with Sean Connery.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Also, Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy, excellent.

 

[GVC]

I dont know if Cage is rated that highly, but every movie he is in is terrible (besides Faceoff, great movie).

Adaptation and Raising Arizona are fantastic.

 

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Rob Schneider

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Rob Schneider

Didn't know he was even rated.

 

[Cope]

Didn't know he was even rated.

Good point LOL

 

[Boondocksaint27]

Cameron Diaz definately. Never bought the hype around her. Orlando Bloom seems to play the same whiny little pretty boy in every movie. I don't understand how Shia Lebouf gets himself roles in prominent action movies. Loved Micheal Cera in Arrested Development, but now he seems to join Ellen Page in leading the charge for hipster movies.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Loved Micheal Cera in Arrested Development, but now he seems to join Ellen Page in leading the charge for hipster movies.

Nice work. Is there a less-versatile prominent actor out there than Cera? Even Ellen Page makes him look bad.

The only difference I see between Cera and Jon Heder is the adaptability of their respective type-cast characters and that Heder's ceiling of success will not be topped by any individual success of Cera's.

 

[Boondocksaint27]

Nice work. Is there a less-versatile prominent actor out there than Cera? Even Ellen Page makes him look bad.

The only difference I see between Cera and Jon Heder is the adaptability of their respective type-cast characters and that Heder's ceiling of success will not be topped by any individual success of Cera's.

Agreed. There's nothing wrong with being typecast, but that doesn't mean "play every character the exact same way all the time". Example: Ron Perlman. Every movie he's typecast as "Hulking badass" but he didn't play Hellboy the same way he played the Russian in Enemy at the Gates.

 

[gregbroncs]

Kevin Kostner. Though he has done some movies I like. I think he is terrible. Never brings anything to a role, he has a boring personna and does nothing outside of that personna.

 

[sirkickyass]

While we're on the subject of The Dark Knight.....

Maggie Gyllenhall - I just don't see it.

Not attractive and not a particularly good actress or memorable in any of her roles.

Secretary. One of the weirdest and most difficult to pull off romances in recent years. Gyllenhall and Spader nail it.

Johny Depp

Total co-sign. My personal least favorite actor.

Ellen Page.

We get it, you're an edgy motor mouth that's supposed to sound really intelligent. In every role. And you can't play a character that isn't that role. Inception is the best role you've ever played and you did little more than act bewildered in it.

Whip It.

Who ever plays Edward. That sparkling son of a bitch.

Too easy. More controversial pick is an actress that I think sucks but occasionally gets mentioned as credible for her non-Twilight roles: Kristen Stewart

Will Farrell.

I suspect you really just don't like "Will Farrell movies." There is some evidence that he's actually compelling in his non-traditional films. Ex. Stranger Than Fiction

Adaptation and Raising Arizona are fantastic.

I am a Cage defender as well. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is recent and a totally great performance.