Posted on 11/20/2011 10:12:01 PM PST by This Just In
Top Ten Most Overrated Actors/Actresses of All Time by Ben Shapiro
It’s been almost two years since I posted at Big Hollywood regarding the Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time. I’ve had a chance to reflect and think about the crimes I committed in that post. And, to paraphrase Mr. Eko from the greatest TV show of all time, “Lost,” I ask no forgiveness because I have committed no sin … except leaving Spike Lee and Tim Burton off the list, that is.
So, because you all enjoyed that list so much, and because I apparently have a death wish, it’s time for another: The Top 10 Most Overrated Actors/Actresses of All Time.
Unlike last time, I will claim that these are objective facts, not subjective opinions, so that all my critics may have full liberty to attack me (To those same critics who claimed last time that I phrased my opinions in an “objective” manner, this is called being facetious. That means I’m kidding. Also, seriously? That was your criticism?).
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10. Julia Roberts
9. Brad Pitt
8. Will Ferrell
7. Viggo Mortensen
6. Robert DeNiro
5. Zoe Saldana
4. Matt Damon
3. Halle Barry
2. Cameron Diaz
1. Sean Penn
Miss that thread, Perdogg.
My apologies, Admin. Moderator.
I disagree with # 10- Should be Jennifer Lopez instead.
Make that #11, and I must agree with you.
9 out of 10 Hollywood denizens are useless. The last group of people from which you’d want to choose a person with whom you’d be stranded on a desert isle.
:O( so old I don’t know 1/2 of those on the list...ouchy
You’re not missing much.
Number One should be Tom Cruise. I have never seen him play anything except Tom Cruise. He’s exactly the same in every movie. He’s about a versatile as a beach ball, and about as entertaining.
I disagree with putting Jack Nicholson and Hoffman on the list. Nicholson was delightfully disgusting in Witches of Eastwick and Hoffman was the first actor to actually prove to me that acting was a craft in Rainman. He was absolutely brilliant in that role.
Take any ten today . . . ‘actors’ or ‘musicians’
Can’t hold a candle to yesteryear. Good thing for kids today they’ve got other attractions because they sure dont have the movies or music the Baby Boomers could enjoy.
Rainman was the exception to the rule. I have to agree with Shapiro on Nicholson as well. One dimensional acting.
You’re spot on in naming Cruise. There are quite a number of them to place on a list. For instance, I did not list Keanu Reeves, but he’s on everyone’s list.
Other than Zoe Saldana, I agree with your list. I would put Tom Cruise there.
LOL glad to hear that...
Of the films we’ve seen Zaldana in, she plays the same character with the one exception; an accent in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Miss Piggy sucks
Hey.. doncha be talkin’ no stuff on Mizz Piggy.. she’s gonna send her crew to work you over FRiend....tenderize your bacon.
Richard Burton
Bette Davis
Elliot Gould
Woody Allen
Marlene Dietrich
Ali McGraw
Jim Carey
Joan Crawford
Martin Sheen
George Segal
I think Robert Redford is the most overrated actor of all time. He’s a pretty good director, but as an actor? A slab of meat. Complete dullfest. Nuthin’ visible going on in that brain. I can’t imagine how he became such a star.
7. Viggo Mortensen
He was a snooze in LOTR — terribly miscast. I thought he was just a bad actor. But then I realized he’d been miscast in LOTR when I saw him in “A History of Violence.” WOW!! What a performance. Some actors will prevail no matter where you put them ... but some actors need the right vehicle. LOTR was NOT it for him.
There are so many. It’s hard to pick the worst 10.
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