Over rated Actors

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ShaeDee

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There's always someone ready jump on somebody else for bringing up the "eternal debate". More often than not a RDN fan. :p

I have to agree with the Harry Potter crew being overrated. If anything, Grint is the better actor.

Don't get me started on Renee Zellwegger.
 
Who is raved about by the press and public alike but you can't see what the fuss is about?


For me as a start, Jude Law and Orlando Bloom
 
The poor guy only got to make 3 films and in those 3 films he was consistently outstanding.

Anyway, my list would be -

Jude Law
Hugh Grant
Brad Pitt
Nicholas Cage
George Clooney
Angelina Jolie
Nicole Kidman
Renee Zellweger
 
Yeah I have seen it. It was a very good performance, but I have seen a lot better. In fairness to Christian it is not that I dont think he is a good actor, I just dont believe he is as good as he and others thinks he is.
As to the Al and RDN debate. IMO neither is overrated but for me Al is definatley the greatest and I dont know how someone can describe him as a 'one trick pony' he played both Michael Corleone and Tony Montana to absolute perfection and you couldnt get two charachters who were more different if you tried. I would also recomend Scarecrow, to anyone who thinks he can only do one thing. His greatest ever performance though was Dog Day Afternoon, it should have one him the Oscar.
 
Christian Bale, is very overrated by critics and public IMO. I realy cant stand him. He has possibly the best job in the world and he makes it look like such hard work. He takes himself far too seriously.
 
You think, he's overrated? Most critics think he pretty much sucks, don't they? Hard to call that overrated (just overpaid).

Dare I suggest Sean Connery as massively overrated?
 
Clive Owen another actor with a monotone voice and a blank expression. How he got so far in acting is a mystery, he reminRAB me of a refugee from Eastenders. His performance in King Arthur was so bad he made Keira Knightley look good. King Arthur more like Arthur Daley.
 
Most actors are over rated. They do on the set what the director tells them to do. If the director decides to linger on a shot or take a different angle it makes all the difference. The director takes as many shots of each scene till he is satisfied. The actor does little other tahn do what is told and the end result is due to a variety of factors ie camera angles, length of shot, closeup to the face and lighting on set.
 
Not if they are working for Directors like Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Shane Meadows. Were the actors are expected to improvise and in Mike Leighs case create their own charchter and have no script to work from. In which case if you are right the only actors that arent overrated are people like Timothy Spall, Paddy Consindine, Robert Carlyle, Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman, Brenda Blethyn, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis Sally Hawkins, Phil Davies and Daniel Mays.
 
I am proud to say i have never watched a Hugh Grant film :) Just a clip is more than i can stand from that gibbering twit.

Also Zeta Jones is a big no no and Paltow, yes how the hell did she win an oscar?

Also i really really can't stand Danny Dyer, I odn't know why because usually i like the cheeky chappy types but he is just very pretentious, maybe if he did a bit of shakespeare he'd learn something about character acting.

And to that bloke that was in 28 days later and was also Dr Who, ever heard the phrase "less is more" nah i didn't think so.

I could be on this thread all day really especially with Brit actors, there are not many i would pay to watch.
 
You certainly can. I can't understand how he could get parts such as a Russian submarine commander - The Hunt for Red October and a Spanish nobleman - Highlander when he can't talk in anything but his native Scottish accent.

Another one who I think is overrated is Ray Winstone. Ok, maybe he's good doing eastend parts, but, please. Not Henry VIII, and that accent of his in Beouwulf was just laughable.
 
Morgan Freeman- i just hate the way he always plays the same part- i.e. smug righteous know it all

Tom Hanks- he is just so hammy and boring. also, why is it that every new Tom Hanks film comes out about November time, anything to do with a cynical oscar grab?

Philip Seymour Hoffman- everything he does seems to get all the critics wet but i find his whiny loser act very tedous and he is a very unconvincing bad guy.

Ed Norton- he is great in some roles but he tenRAB to get quite a lot of 'edgy' roles which i cant buy him in. he seems a bit too clean cut and 'stage school like' to play a bad guy.

Ewen Bremner- yeah, we all laughed at him as Spud in Trainspotting but he has turned into one of the most irritating actors around by playing the same OTT 'comedy' character in everything.
 
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