Fixation of hate?

[Guy Profumo]

Inspired by that Martin "Hobbit Cunt" Freeman post over on the other thread

Who are your betes noires, the actrons you personally despise, often for reasons that "you just do", and often haven't really done anything particularly egregious to deserve it.

I'll start.

Julia Roberts

[San Bernardhinault]

Meryl Streep

Tom Hanks (although he's improved dramatically as he's aged, and I actually enjoy his recent performances)

Robert Redford (who has gone in the opposite direction)

[Guy Profumo]

But Tom Hanks is 50%er

Plays a fictitious character? (except in "Big") Hell yes.

Shite. Obnoxious. Pretentious. Overbearing. Unrealistic. Crap.

A dramatic performance based on a real person?

No way. Even if that individual is fictionalised for dramatic effect.

Meryl Streep.

Nah. Just for the most part, "meh"

[Nocturnal Submission]

I don't really do hate, but I find Bruce Willis's attempt to convince me that he's a tough guy hugely irritating.

Featuring for the first time in her life alongside a comment about Bruce Willis, BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, mistress of insincerity and simpering smiles, similarly grinds my gears.

That's about it.

[Guy Profumo]

I don't really do hate, but I find Bruce Willis's attempt to convince me that he's a tough guy hugely irritating.

Featuring for the first time in her life alongside a comment about Bruce Willis, BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, mistress of insincerity and simpering smiles, similarly grinds my gears.

That's about it.

But the broadcasters thread, that's opening up a whole new seam, and I fear we may hit the motherlode here.

[Nocturnal Submission]

But the broadcasters thread, that's opening up a whole new seam, and I fear we may hit the motherlode here.

Ah, sorry. I didn't realise it was just performers and portrayers that we were considering.

[Guy Profumo]

"actron"

I'm old fashioned enough and member of the whyowhyowhy pcgonnemadde brigade to ask why female thespians insist on being called actors.

They are actresses.

Blokes are actors

Actron is the gender-neutral noun, for I have spoken.

So mote it be.

[S. aureus]

Will Ferrell.

[hobbes]

Costner. There's never been a film made that wasn't ruined by his presence. He's the Sting of mid 90s cinema.

[DCI Harry Batt]

I have a mate who really, really, really hated that bloke whose name I can't remember. Hang on. Burt Reynolds. Like massively hated him.

Course he's dead now. Burt Reynolds, that is, not my mate.

[My Name Is Ian]

Adam Sandler has a face that would be substantially improved by having an imprint of the underside of an iron across it.

[G-Man]

Adam Sandler has a face that would be substantially improved by having an imprint of the underside of an iron across it.

He doesn't qualify in terms of for reasons that "you just do", and often haven't really done anything particularly egregious to deserve it. He's done everything in the world to deserve it.

I'd nominate Gerald Butler. Though he is obviously an awful actor and horrible man, so there's reason to my dislike of him.

The same applies to Robert Downey Jr., who is a better actor but comes across as so impossibly smug that I just dislike him to the extent of finding him unwatchable in anything (though I like his earlier film Chances Are).

[elguapo4]

Having a pint with my brother and he thinks your a wise man Guy, at least as far as Julia Roberts is concerned, also Robin Williams and Richard Burton, also Jerry Lewis.

Me it has to be Ricky Gervais, I hate him with a passion, smug unfunny shitehawk.

[Simon G]

I don't really do hate, but I find Bruce Willis's attempt to convince me that he's a tough guy hugely irritating.

Featuring for the first time in her life alongside a comment about Bruce Willis, BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, mistress of insincerity and simpering smiles, similarly grinds my gears.

That's about it.

I'm with you on Kate Silverton by the way NS - having had the bad fortune of having to deal with a motor claim of hers at one time. Even a "Do you know who I am?" came out in one conversation*.

Anyway, Seth Rogen is one I can't stand. I actually now struggle to watch anything with him in.








*she didn't know who I was...

[Gangster Octopus]

Oliver Reed.

[MsD]

My friend (ex-National Theatre) describes herself in the singular as an actress, but generally, in the context of others as an actor, as in "other actors".

"Actor" describes the job, and "actress" is often used in a pejorative way. My mate is quite relaxed about it as she's been in the profession since the 1970s, but prefers "actors" to "actors and actresses" and can see why younger people might prefer "actor".

[jwdd27]

Jodie Foster.

Bill Murray.

Sandra Oh.


Edward and Emilia Fox (but not James and Laurence).

And James Fucking Nesbitt.

[G-Man]

Me it has to be Ricky Gervais, I hate him with a passion, smug unfunny shitehawk.

I watched that 2016 movie on David Brent today, having been a fan of The Office. It was a tour de force of all the reasons to hate Gervais, with redeeming moments. A microcosm of his entire career.

[Guy Profumo]

My friend (ex-National Theatre) describes herself in the singular as an actress, but generally, in the context of others as an actor, as in "other actors".

"Actor" describes the job, and "actress" is often used in a pejorative way. My mate is quite relaxed about it as she's been in the profession since the 1970s, but prefers "actors" to "actors and actresses" and can see why younger people might prefer "actor".

Aye.

I get the point, and actress does sometimes carry baggage.

[Sits]

Jack Black

[Lang Spoon]

Oh yeah, that fuck.

[WOM]

Yup, Jack Black and Sandra Oh for me, too.

[Sits]

Cameron Diaz
Jude Law

In fact, all the stars of the skin-crawling The Holiday apart from Kate Winslet, who I like. But she is dreadfully wasted in that movie.

[ad hoc]

Jodie Foster.

Bill Murray.

Sandra Oh.


Edward and Emilia Fox (but not James and Laurence).

And James Fucking Nesbitt.

Hang on. You *don't* hate Laurence Fox? Surely that's far and away the most illogical and undeserving response on the whole thread

[Sits]

Maybe he does hate LF, but that’s not irrational?