Overrated Actors/Actresses

[beardown07]

12 Monkeys and Fight Club are two of my favorite movies, soooo...

 

[beardown07]

The only movie I can even stomach Affleck in, is Dogma.

 

[bocomo007]

I don't think Don Cheadles gets enough credit. I like that guy as well. Found a new appreciation for him after watching "Talk to Me." Good movie, excellent soundtrack. Well, the music in the movie was outstanding, the actual soundtrack on cd is ok.

yep

Don Cheadle is good

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Have you seen Snatch, Fight Club, Interview with a Vampire, 12 Monkeys, Babel, etc etc etc...

You don't think that is good acting?

 

[JDM]

Ok fine, each to their own, but Ben Affleck?? Really?

Liam Neeson over everyone else but Pacino on that list?

 

[beardown07]

Snatch was great

 

[beardown07]

Liam Neeson over everyone else but Pacino on that list?

Taken 2, was pretty good?

 

[JDM]

Taken 2, was pretty good?

Lol taken was a good movie, but they had to make a lot of plot holes to make taken 2 doable. It was bad. I don't blame him for bad movies if they pay him necesarily, but dicaprio and Morgan freeman, at a bare minimum are far better, and putting him on the level of Depp, Nicholson, DeNiro, etc is laughable to me.

 

[bigred472]

Have you watched many of his movies?

Platoon
Donnie Brasco
Blow
From Hell
Secret Window
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Finding Neverland
Public Enemy

All great movies that he doesn't play a character like he does in Pirates. He has an amazing range as an actor. As big as anyone.

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Nick of Time is another Depp movie that showed some of his acting chops

 

[jdwills126]

I think a lot of these guys cash it in and just make movies for the sake of a paycheck! Nothing wrong with that hell I would be churning out dogs for a fat pay day too! But I can't see that translating to great acting.

Depp did some really good work...not so much today.

Affleck living off good will hunting

Pitt good decision of World War Z

And my all-time favorite bad actor....Nicholas Cage! Man I love the movies...Con Air, National Treasure, The Rock, and damn near everything else he has done! Fun movies to watch but I doubt he makes anyone forget Marlon Brando in the Godfather.

 

[sooner78wakeboard]

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I'm gonna throw Denzel on the overrated list. Is he playing a criminal, cop or father figure in his next role? Pretty much the same mannerisms and demeanor in every role. Decent actor, I like his movies, but he always seems to be mentioned among the greats and I just don't see it.

Pitt, Hanks are my 1A/1B. Ed Norton is great. Al Pacino was great and then somewhere in the mid 80s turned into a yelling, 1 dimensional mess. He's been terrible for the past 20 years or so.

 

[sooner78wakeboard]

How about the entire cast of Twilight?

 

[beardown07]

Agree with Denzel....only teenies overate the twilight cast tho....Everyone over the age of 11 knows they all suck.

 

[jdwills126]

Entire Cast of Twilight....Epic choice!

I can't put Denzel on the list. The guy has donated to military burn victims and his portrayal of Lincoln Rhymes was great. Now Wesley Snipes thats another broke actor.

 

[GreenNickle]

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[4down20]

Jim Carrey!

You stopped being funny after Ace Ventura!

Johnny Depp is a close second...playing odd ball characters maybe entertaining but so is Si from Duck Dynasty that does't make you a great actor just an odd ball.

Woah, hold the phone.

He gets my respect because he pulls off a great Hunter S Thompson.

 

[NickVT10]

He was brilliant/on acid in 12 monkeys.

Pitt was amazing in 12 monkeys. That was just a great movie all around too.



A few I think are over rated.

Jamie Fox
Ben Stiller
Ben Affleck (If you white, you ben affleck)
Jason Biggs (if he was ever actually considered good by anyone)
Dane Cook
Kristen Stewart

 

[4down20]

I'm gonna throw Denzel on the overrated list. Is he playing a criminal, cop or father figure in his next role? Pretty much the same mannerisms and demeanor in every role. Decent actor, I like his movies, but he always seems to be mentioned among the greats and I just don't see it.

Pitt, Hanks are my 1A/1B. Ed Norton is great. Al Pacino was great and then somewhere in the mid 80s turned into a yelling, 1 dimensional mess. He's been terrible for the past 20 years or so.

I meet Denzel once. I didn't recognize him and blew him off because I didn't believe it was him. I found out shortly after it was him.

I still didn't/don't care.

 

[ladyrockess]

The only movie I can even stomach Affleck in, is Dogma.

I love that movie! Did you notice Affleck's cameo in Clerks II?

How about the entire cast of Twilight?

...they count as actors?!


Also, I liked Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet, but to be fair he is playing a young, arrogant so-and-so. Must've been pretty easy.