The Most Overrated Actor/Actress

[heatmeiser]

The wire aside, I think Idris Elba is bad

Loved him in The Wire and was genuinely surprised to find out he was English.

By yeah, in everything else he does that awful, forced, drawn out speech style that I can't really describe well (I can do a great impression of it though). Gordon Ramsey speaks in a similar way if that helps. Pretty wank.

Lot of people manic actors who aren't in the slightest but rates as actors too.

I'd say Nicolas Cage but he's pretty much a joke anyway, so hardly overrated.

 

[degsy]

John Wayne & Clint Eastwood.
They played the same roll every movie.

That's not the same as being a bad actor...it could be said that both were very good at playing Wayne & Eastwood
Nobody else could play them

 

[Piijt]

That's not the same as being a bad actor...it could be said that both were very good at playing Wayne & Eastwood
Nobody else could play them

True but were they actually acting or just being themselves

 

[degsy]

True but were they actually acting or just being themselves

If they were getting paid then they were acting at being Wayne & Eastwood

 

[RalphDring]

Gandhi, he made one great film and then you never saw him again.

 

[Walken]

True but were they actually acting or just being themselves

I doubt draft dodger Wayne was capable of being as tough as his characters to be fair, so it's definitely acting

 

[Cels]

Michael Caine has pretty much played the same character for decades, but I do like him.

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[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Gandhi, he made one great film and then you never saw him again.

Bit like the invisible man........

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Matt Damon. Absolute bellend.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Shia LaBeouf... Annoying weirdo.

 

[Daytripper]

DiCaprio

I thought he was promising when he was younger, in films like This Boys Life especially he was excellent.

in the past he’s been compared to the likes of Brando, DeNiro or been touted as one who takes over their legacy but I don’t see it as he’s gotten older. He lacks the presence and charisma of those two imo.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t think he’s terrible by any means, just not a big fan.

I’m not feeling the Ortega hype either.

 

[Rita_Poon]

DiCaprio

I thought he was promising when he was younger, in films like This Boys Life especially he was excellent.

in the past he’s been compared to the likes of Brando, DeNiro or been touted as one who takes over their legacy but I don’t see it as he’s gotten older. He lacks the presence and charisma of those two imo.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t think he’s terrible by any means, just not a big fan.

I’m not feeling the Ortega hype either.

Wasn't Norton the successor to De Niro? Hence 'The Score'? And the hype surroundeth?

A lot seems to have fallen Di Caprio's way, it aint coppola levels of entitlement, but still.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Also a shame we never got to see what River Phoenix would have gone onto.

 

[Daytripper]

Wasn't Norton the successor to De Niro? Hence 'The Score'? And the hype surroundeth?

A lot seems to have fallen Di Caprio's way, it aint coppola levels of entitlement, but still.

I think you are right , I remember media comparing him to Brando tho , I don’t see it personally although Martin Scorsese has praised him constantly and he knows far more about filmmaking than I ever could. I thought he overacted a bit in The Departed as well.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I think you are right , I remember media comparing him to Brando tho , I don’t see it personally although Martin Scorsese has praised him constantly and he knows far more about filmmaking than I ever could. I thought he overacted a bit in The Departed as well.

I thought 'gangs of new york' and 'shutter island' were dreadful. Like someone sat and wrote a load of nonsense specific to combine a stellar cast before any ideas for em were thought through.
Di Caprio is suffering from over saturation exposure. Needs a few choice low budget off the rails type stories, in fact a couple of comedies would be great. See if his timing holds up.