Which actors do you hate so bad ...

In no particular order of suckage....cause they all do IMO.

Bill Paxton
Nicolas Cage
Brad Pitt
Tom Cruise


Overacting is the same as no-acting as far as I'm concerned. And all those guys above reek if it.
 
off topic, but I attended a democratic county convention a couple of years ago. They had a guest speaker, Heather Tom.

I wanted to meet her, thank her for her speech, and yes in person, wow!, she was gorgeous. I didn't expect her to be that attractive.
 
My stomach still turns every time I see that picture of Hanoi Jane in the gunner's seat.

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Just one - Jane Fonda. I find it extremely difficult to forgive her for her actions in Hanoi during the war - she sold our POWs down the river. We used to have a term we used for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war" - it was called treason.

It's hard to tell if that post is pegging the needle in the red zone of being funny or being pathetic.

Only the most ignorant and ill-informed would consider Fonda fodder for the noose.
 
Jack Black

What a filmography of crap:

Gulliver's Travels
Year One
Tropic Thunder (saved only by Downey, Jr)
Be Kind Rewind
Tenacious D
Nacho Libre
The Holiday (as a love interest of C Diaz and K Winslet. now that's believable....)
King Kong ( a clown in an adventure film)
School of Rock

the only good thing I've seen him in is High Fidelity, and that was more due to Cusack.


"Son... short, fat, and dumpy is no way to go thru life."
 
I also liked Paxton (with Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe) in Frailty, which Paxton also directed.

Also, we can't have a discussion about Paxton's roles without mentioning Chet in Weird Science.
 
Yeah, Jack Black is horrible, and I even kinda like him. Or I want to.

Paxton in A Simple Plan was very good. The director of that movie spoke with the Coen bros. on how to film in snow and cold weather.
 
Good call waazel on Timberlake and Clooney.

Timberlake was nothing to me as an entertainer; I'd been totally oblivious to anything about him other than his name, his popularity with famous women and the wardrobe malfunction. He's done some very funny work on SNL and was very good in Social Network.

Clooney as an actor was merely a mannerism (look down, then look up to deliver line) and a handsome face early in his career. After ER, he worked hard at his craft and made some great decisions.

John Cusack and Mathew Brodderick leave me cold. Other than Say Anything, Cusack's movies have not much interested me. I know there will be disagreement regarding Grifters and maybe Grosse Point Blank, but those are just middling movies to me. Sometimes material (Glory) can make up for these guys' lack of presence.

I like Bill Paxton. His quotes from Aliens alone make him minorly immortal. "Game over, man."
 
I could take or leave Cusack but I like a lot of the movies he's been in:

Identity
Being John Malkevich
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Road to Wellville
Bullets Over Broadway
The Grifters
Pushing Tin
 
Re Bill Paxton in "Aliens": he adlibbed that line ("Game over, man...game over!"). classic.

Re Timberlake: SNL skits come and SNL skits go, but Timberlake will always be remembered for "Dick-In-the-Box." greatness.
 
Whoa, back 'em on down there, huskerdu.

I stand by my statement that the only group who wishes to see Fonda executed are ignorant and ill-informed. Does that mean I agree with what Fonda did? No. Does that mean I don't think Fonda should have been punished in some way? No.

It means I don't think Fonda should have been put to death for it.

You evidently do and that is your prerogative. You also seem to be saying that the book you quoted also supports the death penalty for Fonda. I'll take a look at it and see if it says what you are claiming.

Some people find execution to be a solution that cures many ills. I am not one of them.
 
Perham,

Here's an excerpt from the law regarding treason -

United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states "whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

The death penalty is apparently specifically permitted for treason. If you'd like to counter that she should have been put in the cooler for five years, that would have been an acceptable punishment under the law.

But since neither of those alternatives was pursued, she walked away. My remaining alternative is to continue to hold her in total contempt.

And I hope you can find a copy of Jim Stockdale's book - you would find it a very enlightening read. By the way, Stockdale was one of three Americans awarded the Medal of Honor for conduct as a POW - the other two were Col. Bud Day and Lance Sijan (posthumously).

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Streisand.

And while I am not going to say Jane Fonda should have been executed, I dang sure would not have put up much of a struggle to save her sorry *** either.
 
OK, maybe hung would be too much for Hanoi Jane. I'd settle for doing the same thing to her as the NVA did to our soldiers – tie her hands behind her back, then a rope to her hands, then pull her off her feet until her shoulder muscles tear apart.
 
Well, this thread has taken a nasty turn.

Jane Fonda is a merely competent actress and a political idiot who is usually just a reflection of the man she is with. I saw the film she and Tom Hayden shot in Viet Nam. I saw it in the 1970s. My reaction was more of embarrassment for she and Hayden than betrayal as an American. They were stooges.

I don't think politics influences my reaction to actors much. Occasionally public behavior can have an impact. Woody Allen's "Manhattan" will never look the same to me, but he has still made some wonderful films. I've haven't seen many of his later works.
 
Does Kathy Griffin count? She's more of a comic than an actor; however, I throw up a little in my mouth each time I accidentally come across her on TV. I have no idea how or why people find her funny.
 
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