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Actors who stop you from watching something good because they're in it

S☼I said:
Robin Williams. (Apart from One Hour Photo which I watched accidentally and found him to be quite convincing.) But I never could stand his 100 mph wacky fucker persona. See also Jim Carrey (aside from "Man on the moon" and "The Truman Show")
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This except no caveats.
 
Manter said:
Tom hanks. I have tried to watch films with him in them and I just have to turn off. I find him utterly unwatchable.
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I have this too!! Can't stand him. And so far where I have watched a film with him in it I would have been completely justified in not watching it!
To me when Hanks is acting he just appears to be Hanks with a funny voice, or Hanks in a wig, or Hanks in a costume. I just can't see him as the character he plays!
Even Jim Carey isn't as bad as I like two films he's been in.
 
Virtual Blue said:
Stephen Fry - funny on panel shows, shit on film.
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'Gosford Park' is a good film in a Downton Abbey sort of way and it's trucking along quite nicely when Stephen Fry appears as the police inspector and just hasn't got a clue.

One of my favourite films is 'Plenty' (Plenty (1985) - IMDb) with Meryl Streep playing the beautiful role of a one-time resistance fighter unable to handle the boredom of suburban living once the war is over. And then Tracey Ullman appears! And if that wasn't bad enough, then up pops Sting....:eek::hmm::(:(
 
I can only name one film that has drawn but a slight nod of appreciation toward Liam Neeson - The Grey. He is awful.
Tom Hanks has gone that way too, I used to like his films. I can't even believe that I like 'Joe Versus The Volcano' when it has MEG RYAN playing 3 people! I'd avoid any film she was in, yet that film I like :rolleyes:.
 
slightlytouched said:
I can only name one film that has drawn but a slight nod of appreciation toward Liam Neeson - The Grey. He is awful.
Tom Hanks has gone that way too, I used to like his films. I can't even believe that I like 'Joe Versus The Volcano' when it has MEG RYAN playing 3 people! I'd avoid any film she was in, yet that film I like :rolleyes:.
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Liam Neeson is not awful!
 
I hate Liam Neeson, if I see he's in a film it's big putter off. I wouldn't rule out watching one with him in, but it would need to be highly praised. Also Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I know this isn't the point of this thread but. . . I can't watch programmes I have made or am in and I can't watch programmes made by people I know or star people I know.
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Me too. Fortunately I have never been in a film or know anyone who has, so it hasn't had any impact on my viewing yet.
 
Idaho said:
Me too. Fortunately I have never been in a film or know anyone who has, so it hasn't had any impact on my viewing yet.
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I have accidentally caught some friends on telly, it always makes the magic box so much more unmagical, just with people you know it.

On one end of the spectrum I'm going to miss one of those star wars spin offs, but on the other end I never get to see shit like come dine with me and the apprentice.
 
Sirena said:
'Gosford Park' is a good film in a Downton Abbey sort of way and it's trucking along quite nicely when Stephen Fry appears as the police inspector and just hasn't got a clue.
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I agree about Fry in it - it's as if he's been told what the film's about and the tone it's aiming for and he's just thought, "No, I'll do it like this", which given how many famous and talented actors he's playing against is pretty arrogant.

Don't agree about the film and Downton Abbey though. Obviously same script-writer and broadly similar setting, but the whole politics of the film is completely different. It's pretty caustic about the class hierarchies, as you'd expect from Robert Altman, whereas Downton mostly just burbles along propping them up.
 
Ah.. Now you mention it. I did see a friend on TV. He was talking with authority about some actor. But I couldn't take it seriously as he was someone we didn't take seriously when he was waffling in the pub.
 
Idaho said:
Ah.. Now you mention it. I did see a friend on TV. He was talking with authority about some actor. But I couldn't take it seriously as he was someone we didn't take seriously when he was waffling in the pub.
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I think this has the making of a great pitch for a TV show - After Dark style late hours topical discussion show, but instead of actual experts, just a collection of pub bores and saloon bar fantasists, with on-screen labels like:

'BULLSHIT STEVE'
Once held record for fastest journey between junctions 12 and 18 of the M25 (anti-clockwise)

KIERON 'PUTTING THE FEAR ON' WOODWARD
Single-handedly took on the whole of Combat 18 at their secret lair using only his fists and a homemade flamethrower

'DANGEROUS' DAVE HUMPHREYS
Former Chief of Staff, Free Wales Army

ANDREW 'MITTY' SMITH
Used to be in the SAS (But Can't Talk About It)
 
.....I had the utter misfortune....

( self-inflicted which made it even more of a mental toe-stub )

...to sit through most of a film called Goon starring Seann ( sic ) William Scott and another utter and total cunt called Jay Baruchel playing his "funny" side-kick of whose future cinematic appearances I made a mental note to make some effort to avoid...

....the credits then revealed they'd compounded the offence by actually writing the steaming turd aswell ....

...so I'll have both of those please Bob...
 
There's only one thing worse than a Guy Ritchie film, it's a Guy Ritchie film with Madonna in it.
 
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