The only role you liked them in

ScarJo in Jojo Rabbit

Stallone in the original Rocky

Donald Trump in Home Alone 2

8 seconds and one line - all the screen time he ever deserved.

Chevy Chase in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Madonna in DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

Jerry Lewis, King of Comedy.

Gwyneth Paltrow in THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY

Great choices R6,R7

I’ve made great strides excising wackjob Tom Cruise from my film-watching routine. But one movie I still return to, despite him, is Edge of Tomorrow.

Maybe it’s Emily Blunt. Maybe it’s Maybeline? Sure as hell isn’t the Scientology

Betty White will always be Sue Ann Nivens to me. Loved, loved, loved her. Could never stay interested in anything else, and yes, that includes Golden Girls. Please forgive me, DL.

Reese Witherspoon in Freeway. Hate all of her other stuff.

Richard Dreyfuss in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills."

Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin

Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS.

Roseanne in the original first seasons of Roseanne.

Nothing comes to mind.

Darren Criss -- Assassination of Gianni Versace

Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich

Laura Linney in Ozark

Jim Carrey ....... Doing Time On Maple Drive

Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars. I find her too classy in everything else. Like she's just a beautiful and noble woman suffering tastefully. Yawn.

Not a big fan of Claire Danes, so watching her get beat up by Thai lady prison guards was fun in Brokedown Palace.

Lindsay Lohan as the young music fan in Chapter 27. She was quite appealing.

Tom Cruise In Collateral

He was awesome in that. Otherwise, he gets on my nerves.

R22 you didn’t like The Parent Trap?

Hilary Swank in The Black Dahlia

Bill Murray in Groundhog Day

Gwyneth Paltrow when she was beheaded in Se7en

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

Sam Worthington in Terminator 4.

(All good choices above, btw.)

Sam Worthington in Terminator 4.

(All good choices above, btw.)

R24 I've never seen parent trap

Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore.

Hated Tom Cruise til Jerry Maguire.

Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot -- it's been 30 years of autofellatio from him ever since.

Babs in "The Owl and the Pussycat"

R31 See the original with Hayley Mills. You can skip the remake.

Russell Crowe in Michael Mann’s “The Insider”. Easily the best, most nuanced performance of his meat-headed career.

Sandra Bullock in Crash. She very convincingly plays "bitch". And I'm serious. I loved her in that, but have never cared for her in anything else.

Nanette Fabray in ODAT .

Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder.

It was three-quarters of the way through the film before I even realized that it was him.

Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind

Close, Malkovich, Pfeiffer - Dangerous Liaisons

Cher - Mask

Portman, Aiello - Leon/The Professional

Penelope Cruz - Non Ti Muovere

Pacino - You Don't Know Jack

R27 Hello, spoiler alert!

Another vote for Tom Cruise In "Collateral," although he's also great in "Magnolia."

Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams."

Alan Rickman in Closetland. Didn’t like him in anything else. Well, I guess he was OK in Sense & Sensibility.

Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors. Haven’t liked her in anything else.

Haing S Ngor - The Killing Fields

Billy Crudup - Almost Famous

Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma

Goldie Hawn's daughter in Almost Famous

Jennifer Anniston in "Cake".

Tom Cruise was great in "Collateral". I also enjoyed his performance in "Rain Man". The dance scene with Dustin Hoffman was hilarious.

Eddie Murphy in "Dreamgirls"

Judge Reinhold in "Ruthless People l"

Nicholas Cage in Snake Eyes

Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man

Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill

Burt Reynolds in At Long Last Love

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop

Shelley Duvall in Popeye

Bette Davis in Now, Voyager

Jon Lovitz in Small Time Crooks

Cher in Silkwood

and as was mentioned earlier, Bill Murray in Groundhog Day

Leonardo di Caprio in Catch Me If You Can.

Mark Whalberg in Boogie Nights. Robert Downey Jr in Zodiac. Jennifer Lopez in The Cell.

Johnny Depp in [italic] What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

R54, good one.

Jennifer Lopez in [italic]Out of Sight[/italic]

Mark Wahlberg in [italic]the Departed[/italic]

Sylvester Stallone - -[italic]Copland[/italic]

R57. I swear when that came out my first thought was Stallone as Aaron Copland? That’s unusual casting!

OP- I TOTALLY agree I've always said the ONLY movie I ever like Julia Roberts in was Mystic Pizza.

I’ve only only seen a few Julia Roberts movies, and I enjoyed Mystic Pizza, too. I also liked her in Sleeping With the Enemy.

Tom Cruise in Rock of Ages. It's such a lightweight movie, but he has a really great singing voice and he felt more alive than I'd seen him in years. I think he might be a song and dance man at heart.

Larraine Newman was always one of my least favorite SNL performers. I can't think of many skits she made memorable, but she's hilarious as this insane southern woman trying to steal John Ritter in one of those Problem Child sequels. I caught it on TV a few years ago and found myself really loving her in it.

Jack Black, Bernie

ScarJo in Manny and Lo

Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny

[quote]Madonna in DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

You didn't like Madonna in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN?!

Tom Hanks, "Bridge of Spies."

Scarjo, Girl With a Pearl Earring

Melanie Griffith, Pacific Hrights

Interesting how many Tom Cruise roles have been mentioned. I’ve actually liked him in several roles.

Back to our regularly scheduled program.

Mz. Lopez in The Cell

Kristen Stewart in Adventureland

Charleton Heston in Planet Of The Apes 1968

Leonardo in Gilbert Grape

Crowe in LA Confidential

Cruise in Collateral

Kidman in To Die For

Witherspoon in Election

Diaz in In Her Shoes

Roberts in Erin Brockovich

Reeves in The Matrix

Hemsworth as Thor

Melanie Griffith in Night Moves

I liked Meryl Streep as the blob in "The Blob" (1958) but I feel she's been playing the same character ever since.

Meryl Streep in Dawson's 500 Load Weekend.

Leelee Sobieski in "As Good as it gets" -- really held her own opposite Jack Nicholson!

Tom Cruise in “Interview with the Vampire”.

Another vote for Cruise in "Interview with the Vampire". And adding one for Bradley Cooper in the latest remake of "A Star is Born".

Christian Slater in Untamed Heart.

Christian Slater in KUFFS

Christian Slater in nothing

Nicole Kidman "The Others"

Ms Lopez in "Out of Sight"

Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

R34, Daniel Day-Lewis was good in A Room with a View and My Beautiful Laudrette.

Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way But Loose

Debra Winger in Black Widow

Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou

John Wayne in The Shootist

Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine

Julia Roberts in August Osage County.

Ben Affleck in Gone Girl. Most other actors would have made the character too much of a sympathetic victim. His naturally smarmy, overgrown frat boy persona worked for once.

Since you brought him up, R88, I'll go Ben Affleck in "Hollywoodland" playing Superman actor George Reeves. I thought he was fantastic and I have never thought that about him before or since.

Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls. I liked a few of his comedies in the early days but in Dreamgirls he showed something very different. I'd have given him the Oscar in Supporting Actor that year.

Sean Penn, in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck. (well sort of in Valley Girl, as well).

Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon."

Ben Platt in the first Pitch Perfect.

Mira Sorvino in "Mighty Aphrodite."

R94 You have obviously missed out on Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion, check it out it is stellar.

I did miss "Romy and Michelle...", R95, and I will take your advice. Always appreciate being pointed in a worthwhile direction, movie-wise.

Cheers.

With the exception of Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback," the cast of "Friends" in anything but "Friends."

Jim Carrey in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

[quote]With the exception of Lisa Kudrow in "The Comeback," the cast of "Friends" in anything but "Friends."

Pfft Courtney Cox is iconic in the SCREAM series!

Lucy in Mame.

Theda Bara in Cleopatra

[quote]I'll go (with) Ben Affleck in "Hollywoodland" playing Superman actor George Reeves.

R89 Also the only movie I liked with Adrian Brody.

Keanu in The River's Edge

Eddie Murphy - Mr. Church

Leelee Sobieski in A Soldier's Daughter. Otherwise, I can't stand her face.

Helen Hunt in that two part Bionic Woman arc.

Sally Field - Places In The Heart

All of these are pretty obvious. But the one that only liked Melanie Griffith in Pacific Heights? Not Working Girl. Not Something Wild. Pacific Heights has to be one of her worst performances.

All of these are pretty obvious. But the one that only liked Melanie Griffith in Pacific Heights? Not Working Girl. Not Something Wild. Pacific Heights has to be one of her worst performances.

Annette Bening in "The Grifters". Amazing there, predictably mannered in everything else I've seen.

G in Albert Nobbs.

John Belushi in The Blues Brothers

Nicolas Cage in MOONSTRUCK.

Michael Douglas in Wonderboys

Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love.

James Woods - The Onion Field Gwyneth Paltrow - The Talented Mr. Ripley Julia Roberts - August Osage County

Mariah Carey in PRECIOUS.

Vince Vaughan in FREAKY

r105, isn't it also Helen Hunt's face?

Vince Vaughn in Swingers

Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks

Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights.

Gwyneth Paltrow in The View From the Top.

Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption

Susan Sarandon in Thelma and Louise

John Cusack in Bullets Over Broadway.

Irene Cara in Certain Fury.

Tom Cruise in Rain Man.

Shirley Temple in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College.

ONJ in Xanadu.

Robin Tunney- The Craft

Merly Streep in "A Cry in the Dark"

Julia Roberts Finds Life and Her Holes Get Better With Age:

Bruce Willis in Death Becomes Her. He's funny in that.

Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People

THREAD CLOSED

Sam Rockwell in Iron Man 2.

He was a truly shitty Bob Fosse.

Ryan Gosling in The Believer, Half Nelson... why doesn’t he do nude roles, delicious indies, play gay? He is really really boring now.

Ray Liotta: in Goodfellows

Are you British, R137? It's Goodfellas.

i think Sam Rockwell is good in any role he plays.

Annette Bening in "The Grifters."

Sam Rockwell instantly puts me off any project. I know he's a perfectly decent actor, but I find him repulsive for some reason.

Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman..

Nick Cage in Raising Arizona

Jodie Foster, Freaky Friday

i fell in love with Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl. Fell out of love with him thereafter. Although he did miserable a solid turn in Leaving Las Vegas.

Aw, R141, I really like Sam Rockwell. I'll watch him in just about anything. What is it that puts you off?

Nicole Kidman in Birth. Such a strange and haunting film.

R97, I like Matt LeBlanc in Episodes. And Ross, nee David Schwimmer, has taken a few interesting bit roles. Aniston was good in Cake.

The only ones you don't really see doing anything interesting are Cox and Chandler fell off the face of the earth.

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in "Out of Sight"

Leo in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

Adam Sandler "Uncut Gems"

Elliot Gould "B&C&T&A"

Tom Hanks "Big"

Bradley Cooper in "A Star is Born"

Richard Dreyfuss in "Jaws".

R110 Check Bening out in The Face of Love, my pick.

LeeLee Sobieski in Never Been Kissed

LeeLee Sobieski In Eyes Wide Shut

LeeLee Sobieski in The Glass House

LeeLee Sobieski. Here on Earth

R146, I couldn't tell you. He just creeps me out.

Naomi Watts as a mother of an emotionally disturbed son in Luce. She usually puts me to sleep but her energy worked here.

r150 are you kidding us? bradley cooper is the worst actor and i can't really figure out why he is so popular?! he is the same personality in every movie he is in.

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Happiness”

Rachel Lee Cooke. She’s all that

Winona Ryder in The Crucible.

Nicholas Cage in Wild At Heart

Christian Bale in AMERICAN PSYCHO. Splendid as the sexy (but not really) murderous psychopath. Bale destroys just about every other movie he's in for me, including the DARK KNIGHT franchise. Cannot stand him.

Rosamund Pike in GONE GIRL. Splendid as the sexy (but not really) murderous psychopath. Pike is completely uninteresting to me elsewhere; her latest turn in I CARE A LOT feels like a low-rent, less artful version of her GONE GIRL character. Meh.

See a pattern here?

I agree about Bale in American Psycho. He has a really dark vibe underneath his standard handsomeness, which made him perfect for Patrick Bateman.

Brad Pitt in Tree of Life

Keira Knightley in Colette

Julia Roberts in PRETTY WOMAN.

r42 Pfeiffer and Pacino have been in some good stuff, I would say they are two of my favorites. Funny how we all see things differently.

I have never seen American Psycho. And i don't want to. it sounds really dark and disgusting.

Christian Bale in Little Women. He is so charming and likable in this part. Now he only chooses dark roles. Big mistake.

Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys" (although the film is a bloated version of an excellent French short called La Jetée - "The Jumper"). Pitt walked off with the film and blew Bruce Willis out of the water (which isn't that hard, admittedly).

Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls”. I don’t hate her as an artist but she is no actress. That role worked because she had to stand and look pretty.

Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder, I think being the son of the man behind Greaser's Palace and Putney Swope made him perfect for the role.

I really hated him in Zodiac, it's such a good movie and his mumbling egotistical performance really distracted from everything else.

Whoopi Goldberg in Soapdish.

La Lopez in Selena

Prince Harry as fun-loving, raunchy bachelor prince.

Kim Novak in “Middle of the Night”

It’s really Frederick March’s movie, with a Paddy Chayefsky script.

But she’s actually good in it.

Tyler Perry in "Gone Girl"

Ryan O'Neal in "Barry Lyndon" (his wooden acting is actually good for the role).

Chris Evans and Scarjo in The Nanny Diaries

John Wayne in "Stagecoach"

The cast of [italic]Friends[/italic] in nothing, and even before that wretched show premiered I saw them in various shows and movies and they sucked in all of them. The blackest thing about that show is the cultural black hole it has created that has engulfed our culture and discouraged anything truly creative or innovative from coming out of either Hollywood or Broadway.

I only liked JLo in the fantastic Out of Sight. She and Clooney were never better.

G in Sweet Dreams as Patsy Cline.

I'd forgotten about Rex Harrison in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It was on cable last night. That and The Yellow Rolls Royce are the only two films I enjoyed with him. Overall I liked the film My Fair Lady but thought he was miscast for being too old for the role.

Jennifer Aniston was awful in [italic]Cake[/italic] just like she is awful in everything she does. It's ludicrous how she rented a whole hotel room for a whole Oscar nomination party when she didn't get one! I guess Oscar isn't THAT white!

GOOP in Contagion.

For pretty much the same reason as R27...

[quote]Nothing comes to mind. —M

Me neither.

Johnny Depp in Cry Baby

Harrison Ford, as Han Solo.

He is either smug, unlikeable, wooden or dull in every one of the other dozen movies I’ve seen him in (yes, including INDIANA JONES). I’m not sure he can actually act, just that he was able to pull off Han for some weird cosmic reason.

[quote] Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys" (although the film is a bloated version of an excellent French short called La Jetée - "The Jumper").

R172 there was a later tv adaption of 12 MONKEYS, with a different feel. The acting in it was pretty decent—the lead, Aaron Stanford, brings interesting dimensions.