Overrated Actors/Actresses

[johnson]

Special thanks to Q for giving me the thread idea.

My picks:
Actor - Brad Pitt
Comment: After 'Moneyball', I thought there was hope; 'World War Z' killed that.
Claim to Fame: Those pretty boy looks; marriage to fellow candidate Angelina Jolie

Actress - Mila Kunis
Comment: Did her best to help kill 'Oz the Great and Powerful', ditto for 'Max Payne'; I won't even mention that recent bomb of a snoozefest she was in.
Claim to Fame: The fact that she was jailbait when hired for 'That 70s Show'; relationship with fellow candidate Ashton Kutcher; Jim Beam commercials

Agree? Disagree? Current or all-time, who are your picks and why?

Keanu Reeves is the worst actor I've ever seen in my life. With the exception of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (!), he has ruined every movie he's been in due to his horrific acting skills.

Sandra Bullock is really bad too. She has improved over the years, I will give her that, but her early stuff was hard to watch.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I've never liked any movie that had that weird fuck, Tom Cruise in it. And the the bastard has the audacity to shut down my home town of Ball Ground, GA for a month to film some movie about a plane crash in Arkansas last year.

And Angelina Jolie gets my vote for overrated actress. Both acting and looks.

 

[cezero]

I love so many movies he's in, but I have to go with Al Pacino.

 

[Chef99]

Keanu Reeves is the worst actor I've ever seen in my life. With the exception of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (!), he has ruined every movie he's been in due to his horrific acting skills.

Truth.

 

[fordman84]

most overrated actor = vince vaughn. Love his movies, but he has one character and I don't think he is acting.
actress = Megan Fox. She literally has nothing but her looks, and those are only occasional. She's a big bag of nothing.

Honorable mentions: Gweneth Paltrow and Sean Penn

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Special thanks to Q for giving me the thread idea.

My picks:
Actor - Brad Pitt
Comment: After 'Moneyball', I thought there was hope; 'World War Z' killed that.
Claim to Fame: Those pretty boy looks; marriage to fellow candidate Angelina Jolie

Actress - Mila Kunis
Comment: Did her best to help kill 'Oz the Great and Powerful', ditto for 'Max Payne'; I won't even mention that recent bomb of a snoozefest she was in.
Claim to Fame: The fact that she was jailbait when hired for 'That 70s Show'; relationship with fellow candidate Ashton Kutcher; Jim Beam commercials

Agree? Disagree? Current or all-time, who are your picks and why?

Very nice picks but idk if Kunis is really over rated just more so undeserving of having looks that can get her roles.

Most people find her pretty bad I think. Pitt is a great choice, he's solid but always mentioned as a top flight guy

 

[Chef99]

most overrated actor = vince vaughn. Love his movies, but he has one character and I don't think he is acting.
actress = Megan Fox. She literally has nothing but her looks, and those are only occasional. She's a big bag of nothing.

Honorable mentions: Gweneth Paltrow and Sean Penn

Dead on about Vince, and I love his movies as well.

All good ones so far, I think. I thought pretty hard about Cruise, but he has done some pretty nice performances.

However, I totally agree with @Chewbaccer that he is a weird fuck.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

most overrated actor = vince vaughn. Love his movies, but he has one character and I don't think he is acting.
actress = Megan Fox. She literally has nothing but her looks, and those are only occasional. She's a big bag of nothing.

Honorable mentions: Gweneth Paltrow and Sean Penn

Gotta say I'm actually the opposite of you with VV.

I think for about a decade(wedding crashers probably) his movies have sucked ass. But his improv rifting he does(yes it's basically every movie) is actually a legit talent. He's also very good in dramas(mostly years, years back).

I've said on this board before, people should see him in stuff like Clay Pidgeons and Return to Paradise

 

[Chef99]

Speaking of Wedding Crashers, I think Owen Wilson is also in that one-character category, but I enjoy his movies as well. Watched Drillbit Taylor (horrible title) the other night and it cracked me up.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Speaking of Wedding Crashers, I think Owen Wilson is also in that one-character category, but I enjoy his movies as well. Watched Drillbit Taylor (horrible title) the other night and it cracked me up.

Yeah Owens movies are usually more enjoyable, but I find Vaughn more talented.

I wish that "crew" stuck together more. They made some gems early on but split off a lot and played it safe with PG13 movies too much.

And they've now basically been irrelevant since Apatow/Rogens comedy crew took over

 

[fordman84]

Speaking of Wedding Crashers, I think Owen Wilson is also in that one-character category, but I enjoy his movies as well. Watched Drillbit Taylor (horrible title) the other night and it cracked me up.

Owen was falling into that, but he can be different types of funny. He isn't always a sarcastic douche like VV is. Maybe his early stuff was better, haven't seen it.

 

[fordman84]

Yeah Owens movies are usually more enjoyable, but I find Vaughn more talented.

I wish that "crew" stuck together more. They made some gems early on but split off a lot and played it safe with PG13 movies too much.

And they've now basically been irrelevant since Apatow/Rogens comedy crew took over

Yeah, Stiller + wilson boys + ferrel + VV was like printing money. But then they all wanted to be the lead guy.

 

[GNG]

Actor - George Clooney

Actress - Melissa McCarthy

 

[fordman84]

Actor - George Clooney

Actress - Melissa McCarthy

Ohh, good one on the female. I like Clooney, he can do alright. I think he gets a bad rap because he just doesn't take every role he could land. He needs to play a legit villain role though.

 

[fordman84]

Oh yeah, almost forgot the two most spare actors...Affleck and Gyllenhall (both gyllenhalls actually)

 

[4thstreet]

Actor- Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Segal(tie)- They can't do the whole movie kicking ass unfortunately,and therein lies the problem.

Actress-Linda Hunt- just never seems to jump out in any lead roles IMO

 

[Chef99]

(both gyllenhalls actually)

That's a bingo. I'd go a little more Maggie just for Dark Knight Rises. Terrible.

 

[darken65]

Will Ferrell. the worst actor making top money.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

Will Ferrell. the worst actor making top money.

Disagree. That would be Adam Sandler.

 

[SDPaddlefish]

Actor: Adam Sandler

Actress:

1) Kristen Stewart
2) Kristen Stewart
3) Kristen Stewart
4) Kat Dennings