Actors/Actresses that you've lost all respect for.

Dman001

It was only recently I heard that audio clip of Christian Bale losing his head with that Technician guy on the set of Terminator Salvation and TBH I lost all respect for him and I would be reluctant to see anymore of his films. There was no need for him to be so ignorant about the situation and so arrogant.

Anyway, any other actors/actresses you've lost respect for.

AndyKiely

Eddie Murphy, used to love that man. Then along came Dr Dolittle and some strange obsession with doing crappy kids movies, Remember Pluto Nash wish I couldn't!!!

Gary ITR

Stephen Baldwin. The Usual Suspects is one of my favourite movies and to see him making an arse of himself on reality TV

Karl Hungus

Al Pacino, and to a lesser extent, Robert DeNiro.

What happened to these guys?

The Pontiac

Wasn't it Alec Baldwin that left that very aggressive message on his daughter's phone calling her all sorts?

bonerm

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Al Pacino, and to a lesser extent, Robert DeNiro.

What happened to these guys?

Pacino may have dropped the ball but DeNiro has made smart career choices and has reinvented himself several times over the past 3 decades. I think some fanboys would only be happy if he was still playing Travis Bickle into his 60's.

Hank_Jones

Nicole Kidman, not that I ever had any respect for her to begin with, but, hey.

Pacino as well, he is like a parody of himself now, it's quite strange.

''LOOK AT MY SHOUT ALL OF MY LINES, I WON AN OSCAR, YOU KNOW!''

For me Harrison Ford is another one, he used to be the king, now he is just an old man clinging on to forgotten youth.

bonerm

Hank_Jones wrote: »

For me Harrison Ford is another one, he used to be the king, now he is just an old man clinging on to forgotten youth.

And making $20million a movie doing it. Besides, I don't know what else you expect from him? Ford is a movie*star* he is not some classical actor who can gravitate towards playing elderly characters in the final stretch of his career.

Would you rather see Ford starring in something like About Schmidt for example?

DirkVoodoo

AndyKiely wrote: »

Eddie Murphy, used to love that man. Then along came Dr Dolittle and some strange obsession with doing crappy kids movies, Remember Pluto Nash wish I couldn't!!!

+1

Dennis Quaid, John Travolta, and Nicolas Cage. Top of the list, for both personal reasons and professional choices would have to be Mel Gibson.

krudler

I dont really care what movie stars do in their own time,its not their job to be super nice people all the time,they're as human as the rest of us, take Tom Cruise, scientology maybe a loony cult, but he's still one of my favourite actors, ditto Mel Gibson. As for career choices, well everyones due a few turkeys now and then, Eddie Murphy just needs to stop making kids movies and get back working with a talented director. De Niro hasnt made a really great movie since Heat, but hes still one of the best actors in history. Would you lose all respect for your favourite musician because they made a bad album? The Beatles, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, all have complete crap on their cv's, but it doesnt mean i cant enjoy their stuff that i do like, same with actors.

But since we're pointing fingers, Chevy Chase, easily the most talented of the SNL crowd, but ruined his own career by making flops and being an arrogant, unhirable twat

Dman001

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

+1

Dennis Quaid, John Travolta, and Nicolas Cage. Top of the list, for both personal reasons and professional choices would have to be Mel Gibson.

Nick Cage was in some great movies but recently he is doing nothing but kids/teen movies.

Dman001

krudler wrote: »

I dont really care what movie stars do in their own time,its not their job to be super nice people all the time,they're as human as the rest of us, take Tom Cruise, scientology maybe a loony cult, but he's still one of my favourite actors, ditto Mel Gibson. As for career choices, well everyones due a few turkeys now and then, Eddie Murphy just needs to stop making kids movies and get back working with a talented director. De Niro hasnt made a really great movie since Heat, but hes still one of the best actors in history. Would you lose all respect for your favourite musician because they made a bad album? The Beatles, Johnny Cash, David Bowie, all have complete crap on their cv's, but it doesnt mean i cant enjoy their stuff that i do like, same with actors.

But since we're pointing fingers, Chevy Chase, easily the most talented of the SNL crowd, but ruined his own career by making flops and being an arrogant, unhirable twat

I havent really lost respect for anyone doing a bad movie. But when they like a douche to your average Joe Soap, thats when I lose respect for them.

Karl Hungus

bonerm wrote: »

Pacino may have dropped the ball but DeNiro has made smart career choices and has reinvented himself several times over the past 3 decades. I think some fanboys would only be happy if he was still playing Travis Bickle into his 60's.

Oh come on, DeNiro has made some absolutely terrible films over the last decade or so. Between awful kids movies like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Shark Tale, rubbish horrors like Godsend and Hide and Seek, and fairly naff comedies like Analyze That, he's had a very checkered resume as of late. I don't expect him to keep playing the same character, that would be equally as bad as the kind of roles he's been playing lately, but the fact is, most of the films he's done since Ronin have been mediocre at best, downright horrible at worst. Now I don't mean to go too hard on the guy, I even enjoyed The Score quite a bit, and Stardust was an absolutely terrific romp, but by god he's made some absolutely awful films as of late.

He may have reinvented himself, but I don't know if a buddy action/comedy with Eddie Murphy is exactly a great career choice, and it was certainly wasn't a good film.

krudler wrote: »

De Niro hasnt made a really great movie since Heat, but hes still one of the best actors in history.

There's absolutely no denying what he's accomplished, he's been in simply some of the greatest films of all time. But there's a difference between having a few turkeys, and your entire career taking a nosedive.

bonerm

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Oh come on, DeNiro has made some absolutely terrible films over the last decade or so. Between awful kids movies like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Shark Tale, rubbish horrors like Godsend and Hide and Seek, and fairly naff comedies like Analyze That, he's had a very checkered resume as of late. I don't expect him to keep playing the same character, that would be equally as bad as the kind of roles he's been playing lately, but the fact is, most of the films he's done since Ronin have been mediocre at best, downright horrible at worst. Now I don't mean to go too hard on the guy, I even enjoyed The Score quite a bit, and Stardust was an absolutely terrific romp, but by god he's made some absolutely awful films as of late.

He may have reinvented himself, but I don't know if a buddy action/comedy with Eddie Murphy is exactly a great career choice, and it was certainly wasn't a good film.

That's what's being an movie actor is all about you're going to have 10 stinkers for every hit .... if you're lucky. Just cos he had a streak between about 1973-80 where he was knocking everything out of the park doesn't mean that he (or anyone) could keep that up forever. You should be celebrating stuff like Stardust instead of worrying about the other crap either side of it.

I remember a great scene in that film Le Mepris where they talked about how in France if an artist makes even one great piece of work they are celebrated for it for the rest of their lives no matter what they do subsequently. The character lamented that the same was not true in his own country.

Hank_Jones

bonerm wrote: »

And making $20million a movie doing it. Besides, I don't know what else you expect from him? Ford is a movie*star* he is not some classical actor who can gravitate towards playing elderly characters in the final stretch of his career.

Would you rather see Ford starring in something like Forget Schmidt for example?

I wouldn't mind seeing him actually take some chances. He may be a ''movie star'', but first and foremost, he is an actor.

I suppose after the amount of time he has spent playing characters that are very similar to himself he doesn't know how to do anything else.

fitz0

Nick Cage - Wicker Man is unforgivable as a horror (quite good as a comedy though)

Tom Cruise - Pretty obvious

Tom Hanks - Anyone involved in any sort of adaption of a Dan Brown novel deserves to be euthanized. The mullet doesn't help his case.


Surprisingly, Samuel L Jackson has only gone up in my opinion despite his slew of awful films. The Spirit for example.

Stercus Accidit

The scientologists, hyper simplified way of looking at it, but I have lost and cannot regain respect for these people.

fryup

Cuba Gooding Junior, ever since he won the oscar for jerry maguire his career has nose dived

Hank_Jones

fitz0 wrote: »

Tom Hanks - Anyone involved in any sort of adaption of a Dan Brown novel deserves to be euthanized. The mullet doesn't help his case.

Wouldn't say that I've lost respect for Tom Hanks, the guy is a fantastic actor.
Especially since I have not seen either of the Dan Brown movies, that's probably a big factor.

Daith

Michael Cera: Loved him in Arrested Development but come on try a different role now!

fitz0

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

The scientologists, hyper simplified way of looking at it, but I have lost and cannot regain respect for these people.

You had respect for those particular crazies?

krudler

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

The scientologists, hyper simplified way of looking at it, but I have lost and cannot regain respect for these people.

Scientolgist beliefs are no more crazy than anything in any of the other religions to be fair, Christians have a talking snake and virgin birth, scientologists have an alien warlord, nuclear war and Thetans, the new religions really have to knock the craziness out of the park from the beginning to measure up to the tried and tested nonsense of the big 3 dont they:D

krudler

fitz0 wrote: »

You had respect for those particular crazies?

Nancy Cartwright is a scientologist, you gonna stop watching The Simpsons? (she's the voice of Bart) If I found out Harrison Ford believes that dancing around in his underwear smearing himself in peanut butter is gonna bring him everlasting life it wouldnt stop me from loving the Indiana Jones movies, everyone to their own no matter what their personal beliefs are

bonerm

krudler wrote: »

Nancy Cartwright is a scientologist, you gonna stop watching The Simpsons?

Well I'm going to stop watching the Simpsons because it's been a steaming pile of poo since 1997.

krudler

bonerm wrote: »

Well I'm going to stop watching the Simpsons because it's been a steaming pile of poo since 1997.

Thats a much better reason:) It was, repeat was, the greatest tv show ever, but the last 8 years or so have just been godawful, i can still watch stuff from the first 8 seasons and still find it funny even though I've seen it a million times, but the new eps barely raise a snigger from me

Dman001

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Wouldn't say that I've lost respect for Tom Hanks, the guy is a fantastic actor.
Especially since I have not seen either of the Dan Brown movies, that's probably a big factor.

Agree. I didnt see any of the Dan Brown films but even if I did it wouldn't make me lose any respect for him. A superb actor.

missingtime

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Oh come on, DeNiro has made some absolutely terrible films over the last decade or so. Between awful kids movies like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Shark Tale, rubbish horrors like Godsend and Hide and Seek, and fairly naff comedies like Analyze That, he's had a very checkered resume as of late. I don't expect him to keep playing the same character, that would be equally as bad as the kind of roles he's been playing lately, but the fact is, most of the films he's done since Ronin have been mediocre at best, downright horrible at worst. Now I don't mean to go too hard on the guy, I even enjoyed The Score quite a bit, and Stardust was an absolutely terrific romp, but by god he's made some absolutely awful films as of late.
.

Oh no no no. Such an awful movie. It was all so obvious.

Cannot think of any actors off the top of my head. Shia Le Bouf springs to mind but then again I never really had a whole pile of respect for him in the first place. The tit.

Scarlett Johansen maybe. She tends to star in almighty rubbish but she recently got rave reviews for her first stage performance. Holding her own alongside Liev Schreiber so she obviously has talent.

Karl Hungus

bonerm wrote: »

That's what's being an movie actor is all about you're going to have 10 stinkers for every hit .... if you're lucky. Just cos he had a streak between about 1973-80 where he was knocking everything out of the park doesn't mean that he (or anyone) could keep that up forever. You should be celebrating stuff like Stardust instead of worrying about the other crap either side of it.

But generally I am celebrating stuff like Stardust, and I don't dwell on the bad films he's made, but the question was posed about actor I've lost respect for and DeNiro and Pacino are my 2 cent. Do I expect either of them to keep up the standard of their performances over the years? No, I don't, but that doesn't keep me from losing a bit of respect each time either of them star in a film where they just ride their tough guy reputation and put no effort into acting, like Righteous Kill, which was just DeNiro and Pacino on autopilot.

It's the same with Edward Norton, I was amazed by him when I first saw him in films like Primal Fear, American History X and Fight Club, but he's an actor who often just phones in performances, like in Red Dragon, and I've just lost respect for him since then. He's still got quite a few excellent performances under his belt, but I just don't see him as the same caliber of actor I once did.

Stercus Accidit

fitz0 wrote: »

You had respect for those particular crazies?

No I meant actors who ended up joining them, think cruise and travolta.

qwertplaywert

One that comes to mind is Val Kilmer, sad how his career has went the last few years[prob. due to his rumored massive on set ego, and phoning in preformances often]. A shame, as he certainly still has the talent, as Spartan, The Saltan Sea, Kiss Kiss,Bang Bang and Felon have proved in the last decade.

irishh_bob

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I wouldn't mind seeing him actually take some chances. He may be a ''movie star'', but first and foremost, he is an actor.

I suppose after the amount of time he has spent playing characters that are very similar to himself he doesn't know how to do anything else.

harrison ford is a poor actor who fortunatley for him got handed awesome parts in legendary movies

fitz0

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

No I meant actors who ended up joining them, think cruise and travolta.

AH! Agreed. I haven't watched King of Queens since I found out the woman in it is one of them. Not that I watched it particularly often to begin with.

ziedth

It must be said first, great idea for a thread OP.

Its a tough decsion cause usually when I have it in for someone there is no hope for them and visa versa.

Actor: I will go with will farrell, I loved him over the last decade but for some unknown reason he leaves me cold now.

Actress: easy, halle berry. I used to think she was a decent enough actress now anytime I see her I cringe.

IvySlayer

I used to like Gerard Butler. But now he's in everything that comes up. Same with Samuel L Jackson.

I like selective actors. Daniel Day Lewis for example.

Bog

John Cusack.

Maybe he's needed to pay the bills in the past few years, but I remember when his name billed in a film used to mean a decent alternative indie flick. Now, after 2012, a few dodgy rom coms and sub par Stephen King adapted muck, I'd rather watch a film starring his brother sister.

Gulliver

Tobey Maguire - never actually respected him, but I feel he ruined Spiderman in the third film after such a good start. Peter Parker had no progression as a character through the films. I know the blame is partly the director's, but Tobey could have built it up.

krudler

Ziedth. wrote: »

It must be said first, great idea for a thread OP.

Its a tough decsion cause usually when I have it in for someone there is no hope for them and visa versa.

Actor: I will go with will farrell, I loved him over the last decade but for some unknown reason he leaves me cold now.

Actress: easy, halle berry. I used to think she was a decent enough actress now anytime I see her I cringe.

We should all be thankful that Catwoman killed her career, the most undeserved oscar winner of all time, I cant think of a single decent performance she's ever had

Giselle

Nicholas Cage and Al Pacino.

Both have fallen a long way down in my estimation, but especially Pacino because I've always expected so much from him.

I watched the Godfather part 2 recently again, and its just amazing how the mans talent has departed him since then. Hoo-hah.(I HATE Scent Of A Woman).

Pride Fighter

Burt Reynolds, Charlie Sheen, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone.

Dublindude69

I lost respect for Chris Klein when he did Street Fighter: The LEgend Of Chun Li.

bonerm

Dublindude69 wrote: »

I lost respect for Chris Klein when he did Street Fighter: The LEgend Of Chun Li.

I know! And his work was such top quality up to that point. I thought we had another Olivier in the making until then.

JP Liz V1

I would say Joaquin Phoenix - he left acting for a rap career :rolleyes: its a shame considering he is easily on the best actors of his generation and i just hope he sees sense and returns to acting

Update

Apparently Miley Cyrus is helping him now

TonyD79

Van Diesal. I dont think he was ever a great actor but he has been in some terrible movies lately. Think he does bring something to films which are good and have a strong cast supporting him ie Boiler room

norrie rugger

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Sylvester Stallone.

Copland is great.
Rambo 2008 was a hark back to the good ould days of action flicks
and Rocky Balboa was a great ending to the series.

Add into this the jizz fest that "The Expendables" is lining up to be and this man's star is shining brightly, in my eyes

He has left "Stop or my Mom Will Shoot" far behind him

Sean Quagmire

Vince Vaughan - I used to really enjoy his style of acting but now I realise he's not acting, he's the same mumbling sarcastic character in every one of his movies. It was painful to watch him in couples retreat, which is garbage anyway.
He even squeezed in his trademark line

its phenominal

pickarooney

I've kind of lost patience with Cusack and Norton.

TherapyBoy

Dman001 wrote: »

It was only recently I heard that audio clip of Christian Bale losing his head with that Technician guy on the set of Terminator Salvation and TBH I lost all respect for him and I would be reluctant to see anymore of his films. There was no need for him to be so ignorant about the situation and so arrogant.

Anyway, any other actors/actresses you've lost respect for.

Christian Bale went up in my estimation after I heard this clip, not because he abused the guy, but because I thought it showed his dedication & focus to the film, that he was so annoyed at someone interrupting the shot. I also heard he apologised to the chap he abused afterwards.
I can't watch films with Nicole Kidman or Nic Cage in them, I can't really think of anyone else. =]

TonyD79

I heard from someone working on the movie that the guy was being totally unprofessional and Bale was spot on in freaking out. Whoever this guy is he has a reputation for it.

Tom Sizemore is pretty much the ultimate example..one of my favourite actors growing up,such a talented guy who pissed his whole career away through various addictions.



Shooting Sizemore on Vh1 really was a fantastic piece of television,but pretty much put the final nail in the coffin.


Here's the trailer for the series,in case You haven't seen it

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1gqog_shooting-sizemore_people

TonyD79

TonyD79 wrote: »

I heard from someone working on the movie that the guy was being totally unprofessional and Bale was spot on in freaking out. Whoever this guy is he has a reputation for it.

A friend of mine working on the set told me that Bale was far from the nicest person to work with. While he may be a professional he was a bit of a nutter on set and there were a few instances in which he freaked out. Listening to McG on the leaked clip and you get the impression that he was used to an angry Bale.

Still having met Bale, I have to say that he was a true gent.

norrie rugger

Russell Crowe.

I still like his work but as a person I get the impression that he is a bully boy, who throws his size and influence around (and apparently mobile phones also)

I really would hope that I am wrong here, as he does do some great work