Overrated Actors

[Scott]

i dunno,personally,i don't know of very many actors of johnny's stature who could go from portraying raoul duke in fear and loathing to ichabod crane in sleepy hollow to george jung in blow,to a pirate or john wilmot,2nd earl of rochester then to a scissor wielding murderer and now the mad hatter. that's not range? i mean those characters may in fact be out there but they are actually different characters.

 

[Thanatos]

^I just find he portrays mostly extreme 2 dimensional characters lacking in depth which is something that most of those listed(and some that have not been) have in common.

and I agree with TheCheekyCritic about Diane's being the better performance in Inglorious Basterds. Both were good, but I see what you mean that people will be quicker to dismiss Diane's performance just because the character was not as deep as Shosanna.

I also thought that Michael Fassbender as Archie Hicox was praised a bit too much in some reviews I have read. He was great in it, but a lot of people singled him out with Christophe Waltz(who was amazing btw) as the two best performances in the film. I personally don't think Michaels performance was that greater than the others, but I don't think he is overrated as an actor in general at all.

 

[chicca]

clooney pitt jolie kidman!
witherspoon
zellweger
cameron diaz
monica bellucci
scarlett johansson
amy adams
natalie portman
last james bond ( I can't remember his name!)
robert downey jr
and the spiderman actor toby (can't remember the name..)
ben affleck (love his brother casey..)
colin farrel

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

Reese witherspoon - I just don't get her appeal, I find her to be very plain.

I agree. Reese got the role of a lifetime in Walk the Line, a movie that really surprised me positively. She was really, really fantastic as June Carter, and she also did a splendid job as Tracy Flick in Election (1999), but she's been unable to translate her Oscar into new, meaningful work. Aside from the two aforementioned films, her filmography is quite unremarkable. Legally Blonde is such a snoozefest. Blonde jokes and overbearing pink stopped being funny in the 90's.

I also don't understand Nicole Kidman's supposed acting brilliance. I remember seeing Moulin Rouge when I was a kid, and really loved her in it then. I started thinking about the movie again when Australia, the second Luhrmann-Kidman silver screen collaboration, was released last year, for which Kidman was quite notably shunned as being terrible. Up until then, I'd always been under the impression that Kidman was some amazing, legendary actress, though I hadn't seen a movie by her in years (except for Dogville, in which she was actually quite excellent). So I rewatched Moulin Rouge. And I realized just what a penchant she has for overacting. While it might've been appropriate in the musical-esque MR, it doesn't really work the same way in an ordinary drama, does it? Kidman had her moment, she wasted it on botox; her face hardly moves today. Thanks Nicole, but we already have one Richard Gere, and his name is Richard Gere.

 

[Tinetush]

^
Yeah of the two Reese Witherspoon films you mention I've only seen Walk The Line. And she did a fine job there. Though nothing extraordinary. I mean half of Hollywoods leading ladies could have done that..

And yeah Kidman was good in Dogville.. But I do think that the rest of the cast was superior. For instance Patricia Clarkson comes to mind...

 

[diorelle]

I thought Kidman was amazing in The Hours. I also really liked her performances in The Golden Compass, Cold Mountain and the Interpreter. She is overrated to a point though.

Johnny Depp - He hardly ever portrays real people but mostly over the top caricatures which imo is much much easier than having to actually emote.

IA. I don't see why everyone is in love with him. I hated all the Pirates movies.
And IDG the love Reese Witherspoon got for Walk the Line, she wasn't that great.

 

[aycotqone]

George Clooney - I like him but he isn't as great as what some people make him out to be.
Reese Witherspoon, apart from two movies I can think off she isn't that good.
Kate Hudson plays the same annoying character in every movie.
Heath Ledger - I loved him in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain. I'm not trying to be nasty but if he wasn't dead would people still think he's that great?
Cameron Diaz - No purpose to her whatsoever.

 

[loonaka]

Sienna Miller..I don't even think of her as an actress..

 

[Karen0193]

George Clooney - I like him but he isn't as great as what some people make him out to be.
Reese Witherspoon, apart from two movies I can think off she isn't that good.
Kate Hudson plays the same annoying character in every movie.
Heath Ledger - I loved him in The Dark Knight and Brokeback Mountain. I'm not trying to be nasty but if he wasn't dead would people still think he's that great?
Cameron Diaz - No purpose to her whatsoever.

I have to agree, especially with Kate Hudson, she is just incredibly annoying in every movie I've seen her.

 

[tullepen]

have you seen Interview? she beat balls in that.

 

[lonn3k3]

i think sienna is pretty good; she was much better than keira in the edge of love and i also liked her in interview

 

[lonn3k3]

i think evangeline lilly is very overrated in terms of looks; she's not ugly but not beautiful either

 

[tullepen]

I haven't even seen Lost but Evangeline annoys me to no end.and Jessica Biel.

 

[aycotqone]

Kiera Knightly - I don't think she's good, especially when she tries to do an accent.
Jennifer Aniston

 

[Empress Merel]

There are only few actors who are correctly rated. The rest are either overrated, underrated or just absolute mediocore without realising it themselves.

The one actress who pisses me off entirely is Vanessa Hudgens. She's not even talented. She can giggle and laugh all she wants, doesn't make her anywhere near talented.

George Clooney is overrated too. Sure, he is a good actor but not great.

 

[Jenna-maria]

I think Sienna Miller is not overrated....she is underrated!
she was absolutely wodnerful in The Edge Of Love, she did act her butt off!
also Interview was good and she did great job in it.
She is talented, it is just her personal life that makes people see her the way they see at the moment.

 

[xerq]

are you people serious? Sienna Miller is awful. if it wasn't for her whirlwind of a love life she'd be wiping pub tables in camden.

 

[tullepen]

I suggest you see Interview and then come back to this thread. I saw her in As You Like It,although she wasn't superb,she was good and has great stage presence and personality.But nothing like Helen McCrory!

 

[xerq]

i have! she was tolerable at best.

 

[Tennie]

I have to admit I'm not a fan of Sienna's acting, either.