Actors who absolutely ruin TV shows and movies

Timothee Chalamet. Ruined both Dunes.

Ted McGinley used to hold this title, but he's hilarious in Shrinking.

I think Ted McGinley added to "Married with Children"; but agreed he is no longer the title bearer. He is the secret weapon of "Shrinking".

Didn’t Eric Balfour literally get sucked by a vampire on the first episode of Buffy?

Balfour is hot, but kryptonite is his middle name when it comes to killing television shows.

Barbara Barrie!!!

Mark Feuerstein.

Damn this got lined out fast as a mofo.

Chris Pratt and The Rock are instant no-go for me.

Jared Leto. If I know he’s in the movie I avoid it like the plague.

Amy Schumer 🤮

Joey King. I have nothing against her, and I feel bad, but it's her mouth.

I can tolerate Olivia Wilde in Tron Legacy

Psychovamp. Term from rehab.

Nicholas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married. Terrible/ridiculous performance.

r15 Kathleen Turner said he basically ruined the experience for her, and maybe she assumed the whole movie because of his acting so weird / making up that voice, etc. She was surprised the movie ended up being a hit.

R16 I didn't know that. I don't understand why Coppola (the director, that is) let him do it that way. How could he let his own movie be messed with like that? Very good movie otherwise.

Shia LaBeouf - ruins everything

Balfour has a great body, but his weird face makes it look like he suffers from acromegaly.

Mel Gibson ruins everything he's in for me. Hate that mofo

From the old days - Michael Wilding always bored me to tears. Robert Cummings always made think "Why didn't they find a better actor for this role?"

Vicki Lawrence

Sandra Dee

Stockard Channing

There was this plus-size actress, white, with brown hair. Back in the 1970s and '80s. No idea what her name was. She appeared on sitcoms, usually as a guest actress. Her acting was "stagey", she was so annoying.

Tim-O-Tay Chevrolet, Goop, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Jared Leto, The Rock, J-Ho, Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake, Bad Bunny (enough of him), Travis Kelce (I'm pretty sure once he gets married he'll be pushed to the exhaustion as an "actor").

How old would she have been r24?

James Corden ruins EVERYTHING.

R26 I'm thinking in her 30s and 40s. Now that I think about it, maybe she was on All in the Family a couple of times, but I'm not sure.

R26 Peggy Rea. I just found her, looking at AITF stuff. Played Cousin Bertha. She was on The Waltons, also.

I see here she also played Neely O'Hara's vocal coach in Valley of the Dolls.

R25 Got to admit Ashton Kutcher usually made me laugh on That '70s Show.

Yes, I was forced to watch the Cats movie by a friend who thought it would be fun. As we were drinking off our grief at a local wine bar, even the pre-gay twink bartender (he sheepishly admitted to naked hot tubbing with buddies but clearly hadn't met the cock he wanted to suck yet) scorned James Corden.

Zachary Levi

Nicole Kidman for me. I’ve never seen anything because she’s in it but rather in spite of her appearing.

I can't watch Kidman in anything anymore. Her face is so waxy and unnatural-looking

Could never stand Ryan Reynolds.

Matt Damon. Almost single handedly ruined Oppenheimer. Every scene took you out of the movie.

I remember Pauline Kael, in her capsule reviews in the New Yorker for old movies, once called Don Ameche "the human cipher." She couldn't stand him in anything. Not sure how she felt about him when he was older and made a comeback.

Toni Collette and her resting retard face. I was so glad when she got attacked by an owl and bludgeoned to death in The Staircase.

I liked Olivia Wilde on House.

John Krasinski. I can't even look at him.

Olivia Wilde good in Tron Legacy but she was basically playing a retarded person.

Good one r29! I remember her from many shows, most notably The Waltons. And it's who I thought you meant but didn't have a name for.

Vince Vaughn

Peggy Rea was AWFUL. In addition to the other roles mentioned, didn't she show up on the Dukes of Hazzard as Boss Hogg's wife?

Rea might have been a great person in real life but I groaned every time she appeared on the screen.

Lea Michele

r45, good one

I was a long time hater of Vince Vaughn but he was very good in True Detective s02, r43. He was able to say that ridiculously hard-boiled dialogue and make it sound natural. He's also very physically imposing.

I think I just despised Vince Vaughn comedies. I still hate Owen Wilson, Jack Black and all those other 2000s comedy a-holes.

Debra Messing - seriously hate her

Any of those actresses with little-girl voices that seem so put-on. Go do cartoons for preschoolers.

My time spectrum goes from Barbara Sharma on RHODA to that irksome little blonde rat on Big Bang Theory.

And Bernadette Peters is NOT included. She's great.

McLean Stevenson

Lake Bell (or is it Amanda Peet?).

The obnoxious Warner Bros. tough guy of the 1930s and 1940s like Cagney, John Garfield, Dane Clark. I found them unsexy and they usually treated women badly.

Chris Elliot. Combine a minimum of talent with his smug confidence that he is God’s gift to comedy. He did make fast forwarding justifiable in Schitt‘s Creek.

Michael Richards in "Seinfeld." His character and his overblown performance ruined the show for me.

R2 I’ve only ever seen him in 2 projects: this and Married with Children. In both roles, I suspect he is playing a caricature of himself. Whatever the reality, he’s damn effective in both roles. He is hilarious on Shrining like you said.

Anne H.

I know, I know. She’s pretty. But enough of the super tight closeups and performative expressions.

Ted Knight on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. He always seemed to have wandered in from a different, and far inferior, sitcom. His acting never seemed to mesh with anyone else's, and his character was a bore.

R42 R44 Thanks for the replies. I could never understand how she kept getting cast (and she seemed to be cast in show after show). Wikipedia says she was on I Love Lucy, but I don't remember the episode. This was kind of funny, though:

[quote] Before she became an actress, Rea left UCLA to attend business school. She landed a job as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s. Later, she was an assistant to writer-musician Kay Thompson until Thompson dropped her in April 1948. Some of the points of discord apparently included Rea's insistence on staying at the Algonquin Hotel (rather than Essex House, where Thompson was staying), and disappearing, on at least one occasion, on the eve of their New York opening to see Born Yesterday on Broadway without telling Thompson. Although Thompson had severed ties with Rea, the younger woman kept in touch with other members of Thompson's family, including Thompson's mother, brother, and younger sister, with whom she enjoyed cordial relations. Rea quickly landed on her feet with a supporting role in the National Road Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (as Eunice Hubbell, 1948–1949) starring Anthony Quinn.

She was a secretary to Arthur Freed.

Peggy Rea was great on Grace Under Fire. I don't remember her on anything else.

Patti LuPone

Nathan Lane

I thought Peggy Rea was great on Step by Step. Maybe she got better as she got older.

Madonna. She's a movie killer. And she ruins every movie she's in.

I've been rewatching Monsters Menendez and I have to skip the scenes where Nathan Lane speak for more than three seconds. He's very grating in some roles.

Nick Nolte with his whispering alcoholic voice.

John Cusack makes too many mouth noises especially when he whispers his lines.

Both drive me crazy.

Saint Gary Sinise, the greatest acting humanitarian who ever lived 🤮. Coasting for 30 years off perhaps the most overrated movie of all time, Forrest Hump. Can’t stand his tiny head and that perpetual grin on his fucking face. Thankfully he hasn’t had much of a career and I hardly see him.

I’m not sure if he’s ruined anything, I just can’t stand the guy. 🤷‍♂️

[quote] I remember Pauline Kael, in her capsule reviews in the New Yorker for old movies, once called Don Ameche "the human cipher." She couldn't stand him in anything. Not sure how she felt about him when he was older and made a comeback.

She also couldn't stand Kathryn Grayson (whom she called "the singing valentine") in anything.

Zendaya

[quote]I have to skip the scenes where Nathan Lane speak for more than three seconds. He's very grating in some roles.

He's equally grating in life.

I don't think Peggy Rea got better as she got older. I guess it's just a matter of taste. She seemed to get added to every other TV show at some point, it was maddening.

Cedric the Entertainer

R72 Worst name in the history of entertainment.

Elizabeth Moss. The bulging eyes, the face contortions plus sciontologist. Ugh.

Not to mention the greasy skin

Paul Rudd

Greg Kinnear

Both dull as dog water.

George Clooney

So smarmy you want to slap him.

Scott Baio and his New Yawk accent.

Jamie Lee Curtis. You almost see the pussy pubes on her lips, tongue and around her mouth in every role.

R79 - has anyone noticed that ever since her forced Oscar win, she tilts her head back as if to literally look down her nose while talking? Just pull up any recent interview. She is so far up her own ass these days, even a still photo is like a train wreck.

ERIC BALFOUR?!

r77 ia Poo Shoes.

I have never liked Hillary Duff in anything since I was a kid and she was on Lizzy McGuire. She is flat in almost everything she does. The one exception is the show Younger which is pretty funny. She does a good job of playing the manipulative, thirsty coworker.

Any time Lin-Manuel Miranda shows up (usually as himself as a guest). He always comes off a little too self impressed, and his smugness is a turn off.

R84, that is how he comes off all the time. Like he smelled his own farts and then made a production out of it. I think that was called Hamilton?

R74, the irony of her being cast on The Handmaid's Tale is just too much.

R37, Damon was so bad that I almost forgot he was in the movie until I saw your post.

[quote] Jared Leto. If I know he’s in the movie I avoid it like the plague.

I am just waiting for this dbag to be outed as a sex offender of some kind. His "acting" is just a bunch of pretentiousness.

William Hurt. Soryy, I just didn't like him.

Nor his former wife, Mary Beth.

The Lin-Manuel Miranda haters are so dense they missed the point of this thread entirely and are critiquing his talk show appearances.

I like Eric Balfour.

Will Ferrell

Kathryn Hahn. I liked Carrie Preston til she got her own show. She's too quirky in large doses and now I can't watch her.

Amanda Peet. Never a natural moment.

Also Adam Sandler when he plays comedic assholes. His sweet/schlubby characters like in The Waterboy or Punch Drunk Love are fine. For my sins, I sat through Just Go With It. He was utterly hateful.

Sarah Jessica Parker.

David Spade.

Nicholas Galitzine-way overrated-I can’t understand him half the time-he sold himself out for the almighty dollar

Jack Cassidy cheapened everything he appeared in.

Carol Lawrence bothered me.

I'd say Jerry Lewis, but I liked some of the movie with Dean Martin.

Jack Cassidy always seemed FLAMING to me, didn't buy him in straight roles

That's not nice considering how he died.

I think Kathryn Hahn is a brilliant actress.

I saw her in an underrated movie called Private Life and she was incredibly good.

Jeremy Piven.

Eric McCormack

Pamelyn Ferdin.

Ice T. If he shows up, I’m out.

What has he done since Hamilton in 2015 (10 years) R91 except self promote all his awards and smugness? In the Heights movie, Bomb! Mary Poppins 2 Bomb. I just want to punch his face every time I see him out and about in NYC. He's very punchable.

By the way I thought Hamilton was big yawn. I saw it at the Public and have friends in the production. Yes you can tar and feather me for being an apostate I don't care.

Lin-Marie has a new biography coming out.

R92 So does the mid-90s