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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Koz0

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

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

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!

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.

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

Wolf

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.

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.

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.