Overrated Actors

Timotheeeeeeeeeee

Mark Wahlberg

Andrew Garfield

Emma Stone

Cate Blanchet!!

Lupita Nyuongo

Dustin Hoffman.

Gena Rowlands.

Warren Beatty.

Jack Lemmon. Ugh. Just awful. So hammy.

Judi “I act with my nostrils” Dench.

Al Pacino. Barking and screaming.

Tom Hanks

💯 re: Gena Rowlands, R6. She has the same energy and odd affect in her '60s TV appearances in shows like [italic]Laramie,[/italic] her "artsy" films directed by her husband, John Cassavetes, down to vehicles like [italic]Something to Talk About.[/italic]

I just don't get the acclaim.

Hoffman, on the other hand, I'll agree to disagree with ya!

Jodie Foster

Let us not forget Richard Dreyfuss.

Claire Danes.

I like Kathy Bates, but her acting is often community-theater level. In some roles she has been awesome. Very good as the mother in that Clint Eastwood movie about the falsely accused bomber (forget the name).

Al Pacino. The man has delivered the same, scene chewing, Italian New York white with a hint of gypsy or Puerto Rican, for the past 20 yrs.

Al Pacino was once brilliant I might add.

The Olsen girl , the non twin

Gena Rowlands is perfection.

Hi, there, Gena!

John Wayne

Pacino destroys the scenery in Glengary Glenn Ross, but it sort of works there simply because it fits with the tone of the movie - where a lot (though not all) of the characters are chewing the scenery and the whole thing is on 10. But even then, Pacino sometimes over does it. "Paaaatel? ...." Spacey was so great putting the knife in Lemon at the end.

You bitches are slipping--can't believe no one said it yet: William Hurt.

Sarah Snook

I love Joan Allen!! Pat Nixon...she was phenomenal!!

Kevin Kline. Oscar & all.

Wil Traval

To me is the men, I don’t get the overacting Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman.

With only a handful of exceptions nearly all of the stars of the Golden Age.

Mandy Patinkin is one of the worst actors of all time

Kevin Spacey. Can't believe he has two Oscars and was never able to convincingly play straight.

Strangely, this thread now has me thinking about all the actors I really do like.

Jack Black

Burton. Never gave a subtle performance in his life. T-rex of scenery chewers but so fucking masculine and angry. Hard to take your eyes off him.

Jeffrey Donovan even though he's strangely hot

Burt Lancaster Joan Crawford

Sam Elliott

Alan Fucking Alda.

Barf.

Amy Adams

R40, that reminds me: Christian Bale.

Alf

OP=Neely O'Hara talking about Anne Welles.

R28, you mean Richard Boone?

Julia Roberts

Leonardo DiCaprio

Marsha Mason was dreadful in The Goodbye Girl. She sounded so fake it was as if her voice was dubbed for the whole movie.

Penelope Cruz

R44 Not quite, but almost-clever attempt

Anne Hathaway

Nicole Kidman

Chalamet. What kind of fucking spell does he have on the higher ups in Hollywood?

Robert Redford

Almost everybody in the peanut gallery seems to think they are an expert on good/bad acting these days.

Fred Savage.

Ethel Merman, Judy Garland,

That epic cunt Joan Fontaine.

Susan Lucci. Even by soap opera standards where overacting generally is acceptable, she is terrible.

Michelle “Y&R” Stafford

Actor/director, the black guy who makes these so called horror flicks let "Get Out" and "Nope" , like seriously, what is all the hype about? IDGI

I can’t believe no one has yet mentioned Meryl Streep. She’s obviously a competent actor but one could make a convincing argument that she’s overrated, as many consider her the greatest female film actor of all time. (And many don’t.)

Laura Linney

Agree with Meryl

Helen Hunt

Dierdre Hall

Melanie Lynsky has only one note: overweight, angry butch woman ready to kill you because you took the last cookie from the office stash.

Jessica Chastain

Zendaya

Florence Pugh

Austin Butler

Adam Driver

I think Timmo is a good actor. It’s his appearance I don’t care for.

Emily Blunt

Michelle Pfeiffer.

Duchess of Sussex

R74 The keyword of the thread is overrated. Cunt.

Any excuse to bring up Meghan snark. 🙄🙄🙄

The thread could be about Mother Theresa and these twats would find a way to bring MM and Harry into it.

"Robert Redford is overrated"

Thespis

R73 you're wrong. If anything MP is underrated.

Jodie Foster.IDGI

R79, she is a critics' darling, isn't she? Speaking from the peanut gallery, I find her pedestrian. Her Countess Olenski in Scorcese's Age of Innocence was flat and uninspired. She was fine in Married to the Mob, pleasant in Frankie and Johnny, and good in other movies, but never as first-rate as she has been touted. She has a likeable off-screen personality that, with her beauty, seems to drive a lot of the praise she gets. Maybe I just need to see her in other pictures, however. Open to recommendations.

Frances McDormand!

R82, that’s blasphemy.

"Blasphemy?" That sort of proves the point. "Overrated" doesn't have to mean "bad".

Marissa Tomei

R85, Eat me.

Maurice Benard of General Hospital and his choppy, sputtering, cue card reading delivery. Should have retired years ago. That 80-year-old mustachioed guy on Y&R does a better job reading his cue cards.

George Clooney and his bobbing head and wide-eyed mugging for the camera.

Julia Roberts and her horse laugh.