Fake tough guy. Stolen valor.

I'm glad that generation is over.

My father couldn't stand him because he didn't enlist to fight in WW2.
Wayne was initially classified as 3-A -- Family Deferment, but was later reclassified as 1-A (draft eligible)
Herbert J. Yates, president of Republic Pictures, "intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment." (Wikipedia)

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VonShitzInPantz (Cadet Bone Spurs) is a draft-dodging coward.

Film director John Ford served in WW2 as head of the photographic unit for the OSS and made documentaries for the Navy Department.
John Wayne "repeatedly wrote to Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit."
(Wikipedia)

So John Wayne never really tried to avoid the draft and even tried to enlist in John Ford's unit.

Historian William Manchester, in a 1987 article in The New York Times Magazine, recalled an encounter with Duke during World War II:

After my evacuation from Okinawa, I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Wayne humiliated in person at Aiea Heights Naval Hospital in Hawaii. Only the most gravely wounded, the litter cases, were sent there…. Each evening Navy corpsmen would carry litters down to the hospital theater so the men could watch a movie. One night they had a surprise for us. Before the film the curtains parted and out stepped John Wayne, wearing a cowboy outfit…He grinned his aw-shucks grin, passed a hand over his face and said, ‘Hi ya, guys!’ He was greeted by a stony silence. Then somebody booed. Suddenly everyone was booing. This man was a symbol of the fake machismo we had come to hate, and we weren’t going to listen to him. He tried and tried to make himself heard, but we drowned him out, and eventually he quit and left.

The [Springfield] State Journal-Register

I never got his popularity either

Star of the TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond"

I also can't stand the actress who played his mother on the show, Doris Roberts.

I never thought he was funny.

Welcome to DU!

Just not funny at all.

They actually have pretty similar material. I find the difference is that Seinfeld looks at ordinary, banal moments of everyday life and says wow, isn't that funny; whereas david takes those situations and makes them more outrageous.

That extra bite often makes all the difference.

Add Adam Sandler and Mickey Rooney.

He does that one character in every movie and boy does did that act get old.

Oddly, enjoy him on SNL, but his movies are such low effort stinkers.

but just too much for a movie.

I loved "Don't Mess with the Zohan" and have re-watched it many times.

And I feel bad about it because he is supposed to be such a nice person. Although he's rich as God, he lives modestly and I admire that. I simply can't stand watching his movies.

He doesn't act. He mugs for the camera, and somehow, people think he's great.

I mean, there are some roles I really liked
him in. I don't think anybody else on earth could've played RP McMurphy as well as he did and I liked him in "Terms of Endearment" to name a couple. But "As Good as it Gets"? All he did was make faces and that was Oscar-worthy?

Her turns as Sean Spicer on SNL. Makes me crack up every time!

She actually showed a small bit of range.

She was great in a little known movie called, Can You Ever Forgive Me. She was even nominated for an Oscar.

I found her acting much more subtle & on-point as she got older.
But, she always seemed forced & overemotive.
The movie Absence of Malice is a case in point. The movie was good despite her, not because of her, even with the rest of that stellar cast.
A few of her most recent movies were far better, but it took a long time.
Also, Jim Carrey. I find him extraordinarily unfunny.

It took her a long time to work her way out of those stereotypes.
I liked her back then, but I didn't know any better.

But, those shows weren't meant for young boys so I neither liked nor disliked them.
It was the stuff she did as an adult that I didn't like.
She won 2 academy awards and I don't get it. He acting was tortured in Norma Rae, so I never understood that win.
Obviously, I'm in a tiny minority but I don't get why.

Im watching absence of malice, now. Will respond

A nice looking woman, who, was, working at her profession.
My fave actor is Sean Connery, my least fave is Jim Carrey.
Actress , that like, if I see a movie with Sirgourny Weaver in, im watching

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She is the most boring person I've ever seen on the silver screen.

Other than that, I can take her or leave her.

Because she married Tom Cruise, who is ,imo, the worst actor, ever.
She is a beautiful Woman, give me one film, that doesn't have his name on it

She was never an actress, she was trophy wife , to one of the worst actors, ever
Tom Cruise

there's just something very unnatural in her, er, "expressions"

I haven't had that problem with him in his later roles, though.

I can't believe how many movies he has made. Lots of different kinds of roles. And I think he has gotten better as time goes on.

She's like nails on a blackboard.

Gross vibe for me.

*looks at thread*

I used to tolerate him, but ever since he started doing all those obnoxious PayPal ads on TV---you know, the ads they run about 150 times a day---I'm done with him.

Not funny and obnoxious about it as well!

That dolphin simply CANNOT ACT.

Jeff Goldblum TOTALLY creeps me out too.....

only one.

Chuck Norris, Dean Cain, Dennis Quaid, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Craig T. Nelson, among others

I'd say Rob Schneider but I don't know anyone who likes him.

him). Other than that, I've never seen any of the rest of this list in anything I could stand. When any one of them appear on my TV screen, I can't change the channel fast enough.

"The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Road Warrior". After that I don't think I ever saw him in anything particularly after he went around the bend.

"Let's throw Richard Gere into a sewer."

Wolf

I was really surprised at how good he was in that. Otherwise never saw the appeal.

but its ok if you don't.

I don't know that he was "loved", but he worked plenty and made a lot of money.

I just think he was a crap actor, an asshole, and an alleged rapist. His actions during the McCarthy era don't do much to mitigate my opinion.

I've heard/read from several different sources that he raped Natalie Wood. I don't like to get into Hollywood gossip but I really think that's true.

It isn't her fault, but she's been taught to have a 'comedy voice' in sitcoms. Too bright, too high-pitched, signaling that this is Funny. Mad About You affects me like nails on a chalkboard. Nobody talks like that.

I've heard her do Shakespeare, so I know she has a real voice. It's very good. But that's not what's on at O Dark Thirty, when I want to sleep and DH needs to watch a little TV first. Sometimes I wait to come up to bed and just sleep in the recliner downstairs, just to avoid it.

Couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. Looked like a kid in high school doing her first play.
Kyra Sedgwick played Viola and was truly superb.

Kurt Russell, Bill Murray, Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer

Never mind, you're entitled to your opinion.

He is always the same dull smart-ass. Jack Reacher, he is not. Mission Impossible was a great concept: the crew, the elaborate ruse. Tom's MI is just stunts.

Makes me want to barf.

His voice grates on me.

"How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days," rom-com crap. Blech!

I just don't get why everyone thinks they're funny.

Maybe it is the roles they play but I can live without them.

Ever since it turned out that Woody Allen was having sex with the young woman
who was in his family’s unit was “his daughter” he became dead to me. Btw I also believe
used to be a big fan too.

I don't like him, but my husband really can't stand him for some reason?

The best part of Steel Magnolias was

**SPOILER**








when her character died.

The movie critics pronounced her "America's sweetheart".

You know who else was in Mystic Pizza? Lili Taylor, who is 100 times the actress Julia Roberts is.

Also you could park a bus in her mouth.

To me, a little bit of cute and perky goes a long, long way and she's been that in almost every single movie she's been in. Same cute and perky character over and over and over. Blah!
😫

I know it's politically incorrect to say so, and I am certainly not happy he's dead, but I am no fan of Robin Williams. He was enjoyable in several movies but he was in many movies. Like the absolutely unsufferable Mrs. Doubtfire. Not funny, embarrassing even.

Great underrated film, IMO. Williams was heartbreaking.

...through The Fisher King but I hung in there and ultimately it was Mercedes Reuhl as Jeff Bridges's girlfriend who really won me over. Have watched the movie a couple more times since the 90s, mostly for her.

I liked RW in "The. Birdcage" but he generally got on my nerves, repetitive and predictable.

I have never understood the popularity of Adam Sandler. I don't mean from a personal perspective, he might be a super nice guy, just the humor I find more like bathroom humor. As funny as making fart noises by putting your hand under your armpit.

Actors do what they can with the script and the directions of the director and of the owners of the movie.

An actor is often different than themselves. That's what they are often paid for. That is, some are type cast and some go against their image.

Finally, let who is without sin cast the first stone.

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Won the Oscar for playing a drunk in Leaving Las Vegas..

That was bad enough but he beat Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus.

I was really bummed about that because I worked as an extra on Mr. Holland's Opus.

Steven Seagal, on the other hand, has a "no-talent-asshole" category all to himself.

And she always has to make sure we know she has breasts. Yes, Jennifer, we've seen them many times. Too many.

I don't think he's that funny.

I've never been into Jim Carrey's comedy at all. Having said that, I think he was excellent in dramatic roles like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The Andy Kaufman biopic.

I find them irritating.

What exactly does she doooooooooooo?

And she and her son together just skeeve me out. Leave the guy alone!

can't stand her. My hubby feels like you do about Julia Roberts.

....and she was good. Beyond that I don't think I've ever seen her in anything.

I really believed her performance

I don't pretend to know anything about them as people (and plan to keep it that way), but as actors, they really annoy the hell outta me. At this point, I'll simply avoid any new movie if one or the other is in it.

Beyond that I haven't seen him in anything.

possibly almost universally hated actor to ever "star" in any movie

But I've seen both in unexpected roles where they were surprisingly good.
Romano in a series called Men of a Certain Age, and Sandler in a movie called Reign Over Me. Both dramatic roles, and well done, IMO.