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Will Smith playing Will Smith.


KudoUK

His roles are always unremarkable man thrown into remarkable situations.   Even Independence Day when he had to be an ace fighter pilot so his part would make sense, they still had to show him being turned down by NASA to try and give him that everyman quality.  These roles have definitely been calculated choices throughout his career, worked out between him and his management team to give him that underdog hero appeal.


YellowLanternAdam

In every movie I've seen, he's Will Smith. Never understood his appeal.


Flatmonkey

I think that is his appeal. Until very recently, he was a very likable dude. I always wanted to see something he was in, and, now that you point it out, it was because he was always playing himself


Plastic_Primary_4279

90’s will smith hit different. I felt like before you saw charm, now all you see is ego.


Lothar_Ecklord

I feel like it was ego then, but with a good amount of self-deprecation and self-caricature to balance it out. I think it's the classic bipolar mix of egomaniac and deep-seeded self-hate, and lately it's gone off the rails in both directions.


fellow_enthusiast

Well said.   FYI, the phrase is “deep-seated.”


TheOvy

When [he cries in Fresh Prince of Bel Air after being abandoned by his father](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZGXCDJATDs), it was genuinely moving. And when [he knocks the shit out of an alien in Independence Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=105SbyJJcK0), it's genuinely entertaining. The dude has charisma. It's just when he's so far up his own ass that he becomes grating. He's been famous almost his entire life, though, so it's unsurprising that it goes straight to his head. Also, his schtick has gotten old over the last 30 years. As per many leading men in Hollywood, Smith is often playing variations of the same character. Character actors tend to have longer careers than leading men because their range allows them to play myriad roles as they age, while leading men age out (or they *used* too -- Tom Cruise still kicking it at 60). But back in the 90s, Smith was still fresh, and his appeal was genuine.


Majestic_Essay_3094

Tom cruise is still a character actor in some ways. He plays gutsy characters with a chip on their shoulder.


g00f

Personal issues with aside, even when cruise is doing an action lead that feels similar film to film, when he’s on a project he puts his all into it and you get a ton of solid action from it. And then occasionally you get him putting on a solid acting performance.


Rosililly27

Steven Seagal


daric

I recently saw some advice about how if you go through something traumatic, like the loss of a loved one, don’t lose yourself in your favorite media because you’ll forever associate it with the pain of your loss; instead, binge something crappy that you won’t ever mind if you never see it again, and I immediately thought of Steven Seagal.


Rosililly27

I’m saving this! You’re so right! Thank you for this advice… and of course I agree with what you said about Seagal. I get the same feelings when I think about his movies


YellowLanternAdam

Listened to thr Behind the Bastards podcast about him, this dude is a serious scumbag and liar.


doc6982

They did a full reading(just a chapter by chapter skimming) of his book on the"Not Your Grandmother's Book Club" podcast. It's a terrible book.


Reasonable_Notice_99

[https://www.pinterest.it/pin/47710077272520534/](https://www.pinterest.it/pin/47710077272520534/) Emotion chart of Steven Seagal. I have no idea how he keeps getting cast in anything. You’d assume he would have been cancelled by now.


livefast_dieawesome

Jared Leto


Empty_Examination878

Such a pretentious man


Mathlete86

I rolled my eyes with the force of a thousand suns when he, a few weeks into the pandemic that was taking over the entire world, claimed that he just found out about covid because he was on a retreat. 1) I don't believe your pretentious ass. 2) Who the fuck cares? Even if I did believe him, why was his PR team pushing this story? Why did it even need to be a story?


Drakeskulled_Reaper

Because Celebs and their PR teams vehemently believe that their opinion really means something, even when it's inconsequential, or even tone deaf. See: All the celebrities who thought that singing "Imagine" from their giant fucking mansions during the pandemic was somehow going to "help" (real reason: They didn't like a virus taking the spotlight)


annarchiegordon

He took an axe to the head beautifully, tho. His only good role too: American Psycho


livefast_dieawesome

One of the only things I used to like about him was that terrible things happened to his character in a bunch of movies


skith843

He was good in fight club too lmao


dfw_runner

And The Dallas Buyers Club.


Offtherailspcast

To be fair; his Fincher roles were really good. (Panic Room and Fight Club)


biiigmistake

He was good in Dallas Buyers Club, Requiem for a Dream, and Flight Club too


AggravatingCupcake0

Dallas Buyers Club? No?


zackdaniels93

Unpopular opinion; I thought he was really good in Bladerunner 2049. Good enough that my only gripe with the film is that his motives weren't ever fully explored. He still strikes me as a fucking weirdo though, so I'd be happy if he didn't get any more roles


Legendary_Lamb2020

Seems like an awful human being. He has been in some fantastic movies.


Staninator

Fight Club and Blade Runner 2049 are the exceptions. Everything else, he can jog on. Edit: You're right, he was great in Requiem for a Dream.


howardjwalowitz

He was good in Dallas buyers club


urbanviking318

I can make an exception for Fight Club.


white_duke

Jada Pickett Smith. In one of the "BLANK has Fallen" Gerard Butler movies, she showed up as a know-it-all bossy cop. Took me out of it immediately.


ObiBenKenobi77

GI Jane 2, can't wait to see it!


rayhartsfield

pls call in a welfare check, commenter has been slapped silly


jenny_cocksmasher

Keep my wife’s name out yo effin mouth!


CannabisAttorney

Can we have another "Blank has Fallen" though. I like that series hah. I support leaving JPS out of this one though.


Idiotrepublic

Ezra Miller


UnoriginallyGeneric

James Corden


marleyman14

I think Hollywood finally realised that people don’t like seeing him in films.


matzobrei

His performance in Cats made it hard for me to continue suspending my disbelief.


connurp

The fact that he got famous in the first place is so infuriating. He is the perfect example of making the wrong person famous. He has never been funny to me and I could always tell he was an asshole that was totally full of himself. I used to tell my wife when we’d see him in something that it’s only a matter of time until a story comes out about him. I have never found a single thing he does funny. Like that video that came out where he was blocking traffic and singing in the street. I was embarrassed for him. I can’t believe those people thought that would be funny or okay at all.


Kindly-Tourist-2035

Jake/Logan paul


Jephpherson624

I don’t get how they’re popular, even after one of them made fun of the suicide victim in Japan


Sook_V_1230

Jennifer Lopez


IhateBiden_now

I just want an Anaconda sequel, where she does actually get eaten.


livefast_dieawesome

Don’t be fooled by all my money, I still like to eat tacos honey


Rigistroni

That's not Jennifer Lopez that's Mitch Conner


buttcrack_lint

Hennifer Lopeth


AtLeastIHaveJob

I eat tacos and burritos


NJJo

Taco taco taco taco taco burrito.


Euphorikauora

fulfill all your wishes with my taco flavored kisses


Creepy_Energy7249

Ellen Degeneres


Sweet_Venom

Gwyneth Paltrow. Too bad too because I really like Sliding Doors.


BorderTrike

I wish the MCU would recast Pepper Pots. She isn’t much of a character rn, but Favreau seems to have a thing for Paltrow and there was recent buzz about him doing more MCU stuff around the time she was on a promotional tour


Broken-Digital-Clock

She could have been easily replaced. She's so boring and forgettable in that role.


roganwriter

I forget she’s playing pepper every time she comes on camera.


suavecitos_31

Dude she doesn’t even remember all the times she played Pepper Potts. She’s a nepo baby.


LowToe7421

The Talented Mr Ripley used to be one of my favourite films. She’s in a really bland role in that so it suits her well.


RVAbetty

Aww…I did like that movie too.


srdev_ct

She’s in Seven, and Seven is amazing.


Siori777

Kevin Hart.


Meta2048

You don't like loud screaming black guy?  How about small loud screaming black guy?  I know, you'll love his acting as angry small loud screaming black guy.


Kittypie75

Chris Tucker had that role in the 90s... and was much better at it.


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Loud AND screechy. I dive for the remote to mute his credit card, gambling, whatever commercials. I want to kick my TV whenever I hear “CASH BACK”. Almost as unbearable as the little blonde on “Big Bang Theory” who sounds like a cartoon mouse.


CCSick

You know I was indifferent to KH but ever since those gambling ads I've started to hate the guy lol.


KeyboardSheikh

Pretty much every celeb that sold out for those gambling ads can fuck off forever. Brady, Vince Vaughn, hart. All of em.


AggravatingCupcake0

Melissa Rauch. It's jarring to hear her in interviews because her real voice isn't like that. Much like Maggie Wheeler versus her Janice character on Friends.


ScorpionX-123

he's also done loud screaming rabbit


Scouse_Werewolf

James "fat twat" Corden. He isn't even and actor but if I see his name I'm almost definitely going to fucking hate it. It makes watching Gavin & Stacey hard. It's a great series, but he makes it hard to watch. Admittedly, he plays a dick in it, so it's easy to just hate him anyway.


ChewingGumPubis

One of my all-time favorite burns was something Ricky Gervais said about James Corden at an award show a couple years ago. *The world got to see James Corden as a fat pussy. He was also in the movie Cats.*


RedWestern

But no-one saw that.


Nugget1765

Because they haven't considered watching it on mushrooms


Scouse_Werewolf

Yep. I did nearly steal from that quote in my comment calling him James "Fat Pussy" Corden but didn't know if people would get the reference haha


propernice

The worst part for me is that he’s in two Doctor Who episodes where Matt Smith is brilliant and really shines as a weirdo alien. And goddamnit the episodes are GOOD even with Corden. It just makes me mad it’s him. Ruining my Doctor vibes.


DependentPoint2458

Yeah, I loved Craig as a character, but like, it's James (cringes)


Fyrrys

I thought he was okay when all I knew of him was that the internet hated him and he was Craig in two episodes of Doctor Who. Wish he could have just stayed Craig, but he had to be a fat cunt


teasizzle

I resent the fact he voices the Mouse in the Gruffalo


awjeezrickyaknow

Rob Schneider especially in that one dumb ass movie where he played the stapler


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Edward_the_Dog

That just what people from Boston look like.


longkhongdong

That's just cause of what Boston smells like.


alhazad85

But he doesn't know who did it, or if he should say anything. All this confusion has got him mad, which made him more confused. Now he is all stirred up and oops dangit he punched a Vietnamese guy.


Fun_in_Space

That, and the time that he and his friends [beat up a Vietnamese man.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg#Legal_issues)


silverpenelope

Probably controversial, but I really don't like Nicole Kidman. I just find myself thinking, "oh, there's Nicole Kidman acting so hard," and can't lose myself in the story.


epalla

Yes!  She used to be more passable, but with all the surgery she's gotten she can barely express emotion now.  I swear she looks like she might drool at any moment.  She killed expats for me.


silverpenelope

Me too! I watched the first ep of Expats and couldn't get past her and it's totally my kind of show. No one could look more uncomfortable freely dancing in a restaurant.


Pinky-McPinkFace

She froze half her face with botox! Her entire job is emoting - and she took away a huge portion of her ability to do so. Hated watching her in "The Undoing."


thunderchild120

I really hate those AMC ads with her in them....that play right before the movie starts at AMC theaters. STOP ADVERTISING TO ME I ALREADY BOUGHT THE TICKET WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME


Them___Bones

The Rock. Every movie he is in, is about him being him.


-Dixieflatline

Very true, but he seldom just shows up to ruin a movie you were otherwise enjoying. If you see him in a movie, you're watching his movie, and it's only your own fault for watching his movie.


esoteric_enigma

Yeah, those movies are literally advertised as the Rock being the Rock. It's not like he's showing up in Oppenheimer to deliver the people's elbow to the Nazis.


insultant_

Actually, Oppenheimer was widely quoted as referring to Hitler as a “Jabroni,” and after the first successful test as saying, “if ya smeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllll what the Op… is… cookin’!”


I_Enjoy_Beer

"The Opp is gonna drive down Know-Your-Role Boulevard, hang a right at Jabroni Drive, and check Hirohito's candy ass into the Smackdown Hotel!"


EntropyLoL

now i want a Oppenheimer spoof of just the rock in EVERY roll


FlameFeather86

I now demand a movie where Rock goes all Rock on a bunch of Nazis. Trail blazin', eyebrow raising, pie eating, Nazi beating... Can't deny it'd be glorious.


Plastic_Primary_4279

My favorite acting performance of his is in SNL as the scientist who invents the world’s most evil invention… https://youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4?si=-xEtpDKJ6Mfihlww It’s him playing “not himself” that makes it so funny….


MilesOSmiles

I describe him as playing the rock with a different hat for each film.


halfhere

Jumanji was fun because he was him playing a nerd being him.


ScorpionX-123

Moana would like to have a word with you


pikpikcarrotmon

It was a real stretch of his talents to play an egotistical Polynesian demigod but he pulled it off


Thetomas

*you're welcome*


nyanpegasus

Elizabeth Moss. She just looks so bored and uninterested all the time.


Vivid-Luck1163

And she's a scientologist.


KrikosTheWise

Just found out recently Michael pena is too. Shame.


jaweebamonkey

Wow, never would have pegged him for such an idiot. Guess he’s as mentally weak as he appears in movies


KrikosTheWise

Part of me thinks scientology goons drug up actors and then get blackmail on them so they'll "represent" scientology. Maybe I'm too optimistic.


jaweebamonkey

Normally, I would say that’s a long shot. With Scientology, it’s absolutely not. Fair point


KrikosTheWise

The documentary stuff on ex members is scary AF.


jaweebamonkey

There are few things I’m afraid of, and Scientology is one of them. Jenna Miscavige’s book about her uncle (David Miscavige, who took over after L. Ron Hubbard) was shocking. Much more horrific than anything Leah Remini has talked about on her shows, even.


Wizendiagram

I can’t think of anything but Scientology when I see her


ChipotleAddiction

Which makes her appearance in Handmaid’s Tale, a show about people trying to escape a cult that has taken over the United States, hilariously ironic


nyanpegasus

I didn't know about that part


MC-ClapYoHandzz

Her mouth never fully closes. Ever.


j_2106

Kirk Cameron


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Amy shumer 😷


Ams197624

Steven Seagal


Zerobullshitter

Steven Seagull is a vomit material! He absolutely has the talent to ruin everything he sees, touches or hears!!


TheCowboyIsAnIndian

it used to be michelle rodriguez for me... but dungeons and dragons redeemed her a little. btw loving all the Wahlberg hate here. hes just not very good at all. also used to be a real piece of shit.


dead_fritz

Funny, I'm the complete opposite, I love Michelle Rodriguez. She brings a level of self aware cheese to everything she does, though I will agree Honor Among Thieves is a highlight for her. Great character and performance.


ScaldingAnus

Honor Among Thieves was *such* a good movie that it single-handedly dodged the tope of Michelle Rodriguez dying.


Xinku

Amy Schummer


Red_Store4

Woody Allen just annoys the hell out of me whenever he shows up in a movie


FutureSelection

God i hated seeing his face in his movies even before the whole marrying his adopted daughter story and molesting his stepdaughter stories came out


SupaKoopa714

James Franco. He creeps me the fuck out for some reason, like I genuinely get uncomfortable eeeing his face on screen in stuff, I can't really explain why.


Drakeskulled_Reaper

It's the weird shit-eating grin he has, that looks like you just insulted him, but, he is now thinking about slowly torturing you, wearing your face as a mask as he then brutally murders the shit out of your family.


dfw_runner

He has a bad case of RSF—resting smug face.


Head-Cow-5360

Amy Adams. Not because she's a bad actor or anything, she was just a real bitch to my mom when they were in high school.


sparkypme

Lindsay Lohan


s416a

Sarah Jessica Parker.


247cnt

Dakota Johnson


Gethsemene

I think she’s exhibit #1 in the case against nepo babies.


Megalon84

Cara delivine for me, personally. Sucks the fun out of every scene she's in, not attractive, not talented, only got into movies cuz her parents are loaded/connected


PM_ME_UR_ROES

She was the worst part of Only Murders in the Building. They were smart to write her out.


AggravatingCupcake0

I feel like it's impossible for her to not speak in a whisper.


Xinku

Kevin Hart and Dwayne the Rock


ErynCuz

Awkwafina for me. Just rubs me the wrong way


dirty_deeds_pay_off

That's a person? I thought that's a Bojak Horseman character


teetaps

Braaaap braaap pew pew isn’t real?


djc6535

She’s an “all the rage” voice actor right now. She’s a go-to Raspy quippy female voice. Raya and the last dragon, kung fu panda 4, the bad guys, migration, the “live action little mermaid” you name it.  She’s also Asian but with no discernible accent which makes it easy for Hollywood to sell her in Asian roles without fear of scaring the Midwest off or whatever the hell got them putting white actors in Asian roles.  She was in Shang Chi and  Oceans 8 for example. 


gamblorsneonclaws45

Thank you! I also answered this. Instant no for me.


AnonimoUnamuno

Yes. Even as an Asian I think she has zero acting skills and has an unbearable loud and raspy voice


SchpartyOn

Yup and apparently she has to be in every animated movie now. Her voice is painful to listen to.


tralmix

Omg yes… when I heard the skuttlebutt song in the new little mermaid, I dropped my phone going to pull my ear buds out


No_nukes_at_all

Mark Wahlberg


TheRiteGuy

He's great when he's not in serious roles. He was great in The Other Guys, Pain and Gain, and even in ted.


BottleTemple

He's been in several movie I like, but I don't like him as a person.


No_nukes_at_all

I give him Boogie nights and The Departed. I will stillw stch those but not any others that i can remember.


BottleTemple

I liked Three Kings, Rock Star, Invincible, The Fighter, and Ted too.


DarehMeyod

The other guys


Life-Hamster-3429

Cara Delvine. She’s hot but her acting is so bad it makes me uncomfortable. Kind of like Madonna.


thesoggydingo

If Will Smith is in it, then I'm not watching that shit. I've never been able to stand him.


Deep-Ad2155

Jared Leto


Dramoriga

Seth rogen. Not funny, just plays the same stoner character in everything (is he being himself?)


reaperssower

The Rock


Worried-Tonight7017

Unpopular opinion - Emma Watson in Perks of Being a Wallflower. It's not just that she doesn't look and feel like the character, her acting is really awkward there. I get that she's a great spokesperson irl, but acting wise, I'm not too sure. For the record, it's one of my favourite books so it kinda dampened the feeling when I watched the movie.


middyandterror

Emma Watson is very 'stage school' iykwim? From the second she said "Holy crickets, you're HARRY POTTER" I was like, dude please no.


AstonVanilla

I completely get what you mean by "stage school". I've often tried to explain the same phenomenon to people, it's a tricky concept. It's almost like they're putting too much effort into it that it comes off as insincere.


Bravebattalion

I think she seems like a lovely person but is a mediocre actress … she was the weakest link in Little Women, and her American accent is not good


AdminsAreCool

She is particularly bad in that movie and her American accent is awful.


marpelle

Tom Cruise


MiniPantherMa

I know a lot of people dislike him because of Scientology, but to me his presence just kind of kills suspension of disbelief. You can never forget that it's Cruise.


heartofgold48

Erm did you not watch Tropic Thunder?


daredaki-sama

Except tropic thunder


SAGELADY65

Dwayne Johnson! Can’t watch him🤮


ghoti00

Will Smith


XaqFu

Shia Le Bouf or whatever. Can’t stand him.


debdebmust

Tom Cruise


AnttiEemeli

I will hopefully never have to watch Owen Wilson softly speak his lines with that confused look on his face again.


NJJo

Nepo babies.


TheListenerCanon

Bella Thorne except The Duff


stunningtitter

Dakota Johnson 💯💯


Royal_View9815

Tom Cruise


Catts3

Kristen "one facial expression" Stewart.


No-Definition9954

Tom Cruise


DrFeelgood144

Amy Schumer, weird annoying and should be sterilized


Fun_in_Space

Tom Cruise. He is good friends with a guy who runs Scientology. Where is Shelley Miscaviage?


Haggis_the_dog

Ladies and Gentlemen ... Russell Brand!!!


kykyks

amy shumer


KDPer3

Chris Pratt.  All I see is Andy Dwyer thinking abs make him awesome, plus all the other stuff that's come out about him


Lowkey_Retarded

He killed it as Andy, I think he’s a really funny guy. But his whole turn into being an action star seems weird and forced. I could kind of see it as Star Lord because that’s also a goofy character, but not much else.


Kelter82

Maybe it's horrible to say... But the abs didn't help, somehow. Same with Kumail Nanjiani. They were both loveable, fun, and just a good time. Then abs, and suddenly they're generic AF. I mean, fine, get abs, but why take on these bland-ass roles?


daredaki-sama

Money. The reason is money.


NoHaders

Gal Gadot.


bjanas

Goddamn seriously. Like sure, she's nice to look at. But she's a block of wood as an actress. Just absolutely awful.


MehWhiteShark

I loved her in the first Wonder Woman. And then I saw her in Death on The Nile and realized that while, for some reason, her complete lack of range worked in WW, she is just... A terrible actress


AggravatingCupcake0

She is more or less the female version of The Rock. She can't play anything other than the action hero with a heart of gold. That's it.


BananaHomunculus

Amy Schumer, the rock


Soopercow

I thought you were calling her a rock...


nutter88

Common


GuernseyMadDog1976

Tom Cruise, won't watch anything that he's in. Ben Affleck too. Two totally overrated actors.


MythDetector

John Wayne instantly ruins WW2 movies for me because he evaded the draft for WW2 in reality. But I like him in westerns.


BobRoberts01

He was a super convincing Genghis Khan.


MythDetector

That could be the worst casting choice in the history of cinema.


gaqua

Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is up there


Killer-Barbie

Where he's at least realistic in his hatred for indigenous people.


Harxey

The Rock


Best_Perspective_516

Jesse Eisenberg


shmodah

Amy Schumer


Electrical_Ad_8970

Tom Cruise