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For example, I don't like Will Ferrell in his typical roles. Oh they just drive me batty.

But. I do love Stranger Than Fiction. It's such a cozy movie.

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Adam Sandler. I personally feel that his humour is aimed at school children - making silly faces and silly voices and basically making fun of the disabled or neuroatypical - but it's marketed to adults.

But I like 50 First Dates. He's mostly not a shouting toddler in that.

[–] yamaonan@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I thought Sandler in Uncut Gems was pretty good. It's a serious role, that made me rethink all of the campy comedies he's done.

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[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fuck (and I cannot emphasize this enough) fuck Timothy Chalamet. He is always so wooden. He can't act for shit. Hes just a very pretty nepo baby.

Also, can we count film makers? I hate Christopher Nolan. Every movie he makes is such a torturous slog. They are all metaphors for their own creation, and everyone of them is too concerned with the machinery, like hes pretentiously drawing attention to it. "GET IT? IM MAKING A MOVIE? IM A FUCKING GENIUS!"

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tenet frustrated me. You could tell that there was a good movie there but the sound mixing was horrible and the execution was lacking.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

While I agree with you, I have heard two things that I think are important to know.

  1. The early pirated versions were especially horrible, as the audio was mixed for the big screen.

  2. Intentionally muddying the dialogue is a well known movie technique. Often used in scenes or situations where the actual spoken words aren't important. For example, I remember seeing an old movie once where this guy is dumping his GF down by the docks, and most of his words are inaudible due to fog horns from ships, and his (ex)GF covers her ears. Where Nolan failed was that in that fog horn example it's obvious that it's intentional. In Tenet, on the other hand, the masqing audio is usually part of the soundtrack, so it just sounds like an awful mix. Tenet made me adjust volume constantly because I felt I was missing something. I liked the movie, though. Except that scene didn't even closely resemble Oslo airport.

I also wish Nolans movies did not have such an insanely wide dynamic audio range. First you're listening to actual important dialog, then your windows shatter from the sound of movie gunshots.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

I saw it as an AMC A-List subscriber diring COVID twice as the only person in the theater. I sat in the best seat in a place that had redone theor soubd system 1 year before and it was rough.

Im not sure there are better circumstances to view it in for the average person.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tom Cruise, no explanation needed

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

Tom Cruise is weird for me because I hate the man but he's a good actor and a great action star and sells pretty much every role he's in.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I'm surprised no one has said Fran Drescher

[–] Kcap@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gonna take it in a slightly different direction and pivot the question to music. And in that case, Red Hot Chili Peppers, it's time to stop. I get it, it was cool and unique. But now, it all sounds the same, and you headline every festival ever and I can't enjoy the same 5 songs being crammed down my throat for the next 5 decades to come still. Please stop. I know you "can't stop", but please, please, stop.

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Danny McBride. I can grit my teeth if he's playing a small role, 30 Minutes or Less was pushing the limit, but he so often plays the same insufferable, arrogant asshole and he plays it too well.

Thomas middleditch, the dude makes my skin crawl. Silicon valley is the only thing I've been able to watch with him, but when he's just on talk shows or being himself i have to skip past. Skeevy is the word that comes to mind.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sean Penn, Adam Driver and this fart:

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Leo DiCaprio. No exceptions. The movies he's been in that I've enjoyed were enjoyed despite him and not because of him.

His entire approach to a character is to put on an over-the-top accent and call it a day. I've never had the sense that any of his characters were the actual character and weren't just "Leo with an accent". I'll be fair and say that he has improved in recent years, with movies like The Revenant being tolerable.

But holy shit, how his career went anywhere when people saw his "acting" in Titanic and especially Romeo and Juliet, is mind-boggling to me.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape"... of course he's very young... good stuff.

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[–] StocktonCrushed@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Anya Taylor Joy. Her acting skills include shocked gasps and looking indignant. But something about her face/eye structure just makes her look alien.

Then they put her in Furiosa and gave her that stupid makeup that just accentuates the odd bone structure and now I can't unsee it.

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