Overrated Actors

[olga.]

meryl streep is a genius. she is the best actress ever. there is no one who can match her.

just watch mamma mia, doubt, sophie's choice and for instance madison county in a line.. and you'll get it

 

[xerq]

i think Daniel Day Lewis is very overrated, as is Cate Blanchette(however the hell you spell her name!) and my Meryl is awfully overrated. regardless they are very good actors.

as for actors that just really suck:
hayden C-shattered glass fooled me into thinking he'd be good.
Megan Fox
Scarlett Johansson
Orlando Bloom
CW actors are just shameful.
Kate Hudson- the talent gene must've skipped her.
Shia Lawhatever- terrible
Amy Adams-being cute isn't acting.
Anne Hathaway- somewhat decent at times but when it goes down to it she's really poor.
Audrey Hepburn-meh
the new Spock
the twilight boys(and girls)- their timing and wooden performances are laughable.
and all the actors that breathe really heavy, like they just ran a mile, to accentuate drama. that's not acting!

 

[Tinetush]

meryl streep is a genius. she is the best actress ever. there is no one who can match her.

just watch mamma mia, doubt, sophie's choice and for instance madison county in a line.. and you'll get it

I've seen all of them except for Doubt (which I do own)... And actually of all her movies my favourite performance of hers was in Adaptation. But I still do not think she is the best... I was a big fan when I was younger, so I'm not saying she is bad either...

 

[Jenna-maria]

I think too that Meryl Streep is one of the most overrated actresses.
she really is not that special.

 

[tullepen]

I just saw Up In the Air-and must ad Vera Farmiga to this list.Come on,she is just so boring!
and I agree on Kate Hudson.she just plays herself over and over again.Goldie was at least oddball enough to get away with it.

 

[papa_levante]

Matthew Broderick.

 

[Birkin]

Chuck Norris

 

[Ochi Chernye]

Kate Hudson- the talent gene must've skipped her.

Agreed.

 

[thiago:)]

Reese Witherspoon.

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

clint eastwood is overrated in every way.

... Then you must not have seen him in Gran Torino.

Leonardo DiCaprio is someone whose overwhelming fan and critical appreciation never ceases to amaze me. Having seen quite a few of his movies by now, he has never -- not once -- struck me as particularly talented or versatile. In every one of his roles, I can't help but see Leonardo DiCaprio in costume rather than an actual character. The credit he got for The Aviator is simply baffling -- all that was memorable of his performance was that slightly high-pitched, whiney undertone that surfaces whenever he's supposedly "angry". Also, I didn't make it through the first 30 minutes of Blood Diamond.

Then there's Heath Ledger. I wouldn't call him a terrible actor, by no means, but he was far from the superior acting phenomenon he has been toted as since his untimely, tragic death. While he was certainly good in The Dark Knight, surely there were more worthy Oscar-nominated performances lined up than his? If I could, I would bet 100 bucks he would not have won that Oscar trophy had he been alive at the time. This kind of posthumous, overbearing appraisal of a mediocre actor who suffered a dramatic death is just pointless and counterproductive to film.

 

[Thanatos]

Definitely Heath Ledger, definitely overrated. Not to be mean/rude but being dead doesn't make your role in Batman 50% better =\

I completely agree with you, he was great in The Dark Knight, but he wasn't special or anything as people make him out to be. There is a girl in my class who thinks he is one of the best actors of all time and that the joker is the best performance ever committed to screen. She gets really intimidating when she talks about how great he is, but its obvious she just fancies him.

I think a lot of actors as well as acting in general are overrated. But in particular:

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.

Audrey Hepburn - I do like her but sometimes I find her irritating and robotic.

James Franco - I actually count him as one of my obsessions but he is just an average actor to me. Plus he seems to want to be a great actor so much, even more so than most actors that he just comes off as a bit of a desperate.

Keira Knightley - She is so lucky she is beautiful because I find her terribly unconvincing sometimes. She was quite good in Atonement and she is getting better like her performance in The Duchess, but she is a long long long way away from being Bette Davis

Others like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Scarlet Johansson etc are all quite overrated and owe their success to their looks imo. But Brad, George and a few others have had a lot of time to learn and grow as actors, so they are by no means bad, but I am convinced anyone can learn to be as good as them.

I know no one really rates Megan Fox to begin with, but I just wanted to say she is a terrible actress.

 

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scarlett johansson. she's hot as **** but a terrible actress.

 

[KhaoticKharma]

Russel Crowe. I will never understand his appeal as an actor, or why he's a heartthrob. To a lesser extent I feel the same way about George Clooney, but I haven't seen Michael Clayton yet so I can't really say for sure.

 

[Tennie]

Anne Hathaway- I find her to be painful to watch.

 

[japoelflaco]

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck

 

[Cinthia]

heath ledger was not mediocre. he was excellent in candy and brokeback mountain.

 

[Birkin]

i think some people here mistakes liking with talent

 

[hopelessly]

I feel like this is just a list of every A-lister actor there is.....

 

[TheCheekyCritic]

heath ledger was not mediocre. he was excellent in candy and brokeback mountain.

I just have to disagree. I haven't seen Candy, but I have seen Brokeback Mountain, and personally, that film is as mediocre as Ang Lee and Heath Ledger are in general. Heath could deliver a good performance, a great performance even (I liked his performance in BM more than I liked the film), but he was also godawful in films such as Casanova and A Knight's Tale, which is something I think people like to forget, and has never been outstanding in any of the films I have seen (though granted, as per my own admission, I haven't seem 'em all). Perhaps he still had that ahead of him, but now we'll never know. Either way, putting him on a pedestal for a performance that really didn't deserve it as opposed to some other, arguably better (or should I say, outstanding ) performances that year is just unnecessary (this speaking of The Dark Knight now.) I could go on about this for days, but whenever I do I'm attacked by my vicious Brokeback Mountain & The Dark Knight fan-buddies.

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.

I also want to some extent bring up Johnny Depp here. Don't get me wrong, I love him, I do, but he really does tend to only appear in these oddball, super-stylized and whacko roles, and sometimes I feel people find that fact alone as something that speaks for his range as an actor, whereas I see it as showing quite the contrary. The man has range, but 64 Tim Burton movies isn't a sign of it.

Finally, I want to mention Mélanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds. Now don't get me wrong, I thought she was really very good in her role, certainly, but when Owen Gleiberman of EW.com called Diane Kruger's SAG nomination a snub of Mélanie's performance, he really pressed the wrong button. Mélanie had a much more dramatic, tragic and compelling role as the vengeful, deeply wronged Shosanna, and she certainly delivered some outstanding moments and generally great acting, but it was Kruger in her much less toted, less heart-rendering and more superficial role that really caught my eye. She was outstanding(!) throughout, and quite surprisingly so. Personally, I applaud the SAG for nominating the right performance over the one that got more publicity.

 

[Cinthia]

lets agree to disagree then. i dont think we agree on anything . i think mélanie laurent is a far superior actress than diane kruger. we just have different taste.