Who's the most over rated actor....

[Bode]

Tom Hanks is definately over-rated. His 2 oscar roles were just 2 characters hollywood felt like empathizing with that year, not great acting ! Good roles yeah ! Now Harvey Keitel is an actor !!! To me he becomes the character, he fits in comfortably in any role in his films.

[mulanie]

Worst actors???

KATIE HOLMES: I wish she stopped friggin flapping about, she canny act for shite.

MEG RYAN: A waste of $15 million, spend it on africa, more entertaining.

SELMA BLAIR: Please someone put her out of her misery.

JAMES VAN DER BEEK: I once wasted a couple hours of my life watching varsity blues at a friends house. Total poop.

Any other teen star, they suck

[redundant student 1]

As Vertino said;

There's a huge difference between an "actor" and a Hollywood "movie star".

Everyone who have said ---- ---- is an overated actor are in fact talking about **STARS** either movie or tv.

Matthew Perry (Chandler - Friends) is a classic example of a star, considering he plays the same bloody character in evrything hes been in. Luckily for him the character is successful.

This all stems from the division between films and movies.

Jack.

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[jones]

i don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, but my top choices for overrated actors would be:

john malkovich

denzel washington

angelina jolie

okay, i haven't seen miss jolie in enough things to really make that statement stick, so i'll admit it's more a gut reaction than anything else. i'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

but washington and malkovich exemplify the adjective overrated. both are minor talents at best, who usually end up playing facets of the same character. i'm not saying they have no business on screen, but it seems generally assumed that these two guys can do no wrong. they certainly haven't done enough to deserve that kind of reputation.

take care

---jones

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[narayan]

Adam Sandler and co don't act in the first place they do funny faces! But one guy who does act and is so over rated is Edward Norton, everyone calls him the most under rated actor, but he is not great - that stutter thing he does, no matter what character he plays he plays himself pretending to be some one else (hope that makes sense to you)! People like Robert Downey jr(ok he's in prision) act, or denzel Washington but not those made up movie stars!
Miker do you actually care what kind of person tom Hanks is?

[redundant student 1]

this isnt actually rs1 but i think gums is a twat as adam sandle doesn't make faces but uses anger and violence and he's bloody hilarious.
kay

[marti-c]

What about Nicholas Cage....I mean bringing out the dead was reasonable but it was scorsese that made it reasonable. But ever other film cage has been in has been the same lifeless expression on his mug.

[Matt J Heaton]

Cage is pretty good.

But speaking of lifeless faces, Charlie Sheen must have the most expressionless face of all.
He rarely smiles, and when he does it never reaches the eyes. His face never changes.

I think some people are just naming actors who they don't like, regardless of how good their acting is.

[stop_thief]

Ahh, I agree, I agree...
when you look at someone with predetermined dislike, of course your opinion on their talent is going to be jilted.


I think almost everyone of the actors named
were "good", (whatever that means), in atleast one of their films. They may not be GREAT, they may not understand the human condition as thouroughly as the great masters, but for the specific piece, they effectively and convinvingly put across the message they were trying to convey. Trying scores points for me.

Oh, and for the record, Adam Sandler doesn't try. He's a corporate pawn. Poop on you for ever defending this BUSINESS man.

[Sinatra_Theorist]

you know i actually thought tom cruise was pretty good in magnolia, kind of brave to considering his female fan base.

And Majella, you give an honourable mention to kevin costner as though he's an over rated actor, but surely he is one of the most despised people in the movies today. I for one think that the guy has jut had a few bad flicks. I even liked waterworld for the most part if only it hadn't gone off the rails at the end. Sure the postman was shite and he's not exactly in his prime but give the guy a chance, his roles in say the untouchables, jfk, tin cup and a perfect world i thought were pretty damn good. but i guess that's just me.


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