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Top Ten Most Overrated Actors/Actresses of All Time
Big Hollywood ^ | 11/20/11 | Ben Shapiro

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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Here are my choices in no particular order, and using my own criteria. Namely, actors and actresses by popularity and by the number of films:

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

1 posted on 11/20/2011 10:12:04 PM PST by This Just In
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2 posted on 11/20/2011 10:14:11 PM PST by Perdogg
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Miss that thread, Perdogg.

My apologies, Admin. Moderator.


3 posted on 11/20/2011 10:16:22 PM PST by This Just In
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I disagree with # 10- Should be Jennifer Lopez instead.


4 posted on 11/20/2011 10:17:26 PM PST by matthew fuller (I stand with Leroy!)
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Make that #11, and I must agree with you.


5 posted on 11/20/2011 10:18:55 PM PST by This Just In
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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.


6 posted on 11/20/2011 10:21:41 PM PST by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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:O( so old I don’t know 1/2 of those on the list...ouchy


7 posted on 11/20/2011 10:23:52 PM PST by goat granny
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You’re not missing much.


8 posted on 11/20/2011 10:27:35 PM PST by This Just In
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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.


9 posted on 11/20/2011 10:29:45 PM PST by Ronin (If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
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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.


10 posted on 11/20/2011 10:30:09 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
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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.


11 posted on 11/20/2011 10:34:20 PM PST by This Just In
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Other than Zoe Saldana, I agree with your list. I would put Tom Cruise there.


12 posted on 11/20/2011 10:42:15 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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LOL glad to hear that...


13 posted on 11/20/2011 10:47:03 PM PST by goat granny
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Of the films we’ve seen Zaldana in, she plays the same character with the one exception; an accent in Pirates of the Caribbean.


14 posted on 11/20/2011 10:51:30 PM PST by This Just In
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Miss Piggy sucks


15 posted on 11/20/2011 10:56:41 PM PST by woofie (It takes three villages and a forest of woodland creatures to raise a child in Obamaville)
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Hey.. doncha be talkin’ no stuff on Mizz Piggy.. she’s gonna send her crew to work you over FRiend....tenderize your bacon.


16 posted on 11/20/2011 11:00:45 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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Richard Burton
Bette Davis
Elliot Gould
Woody Allen
Marlene Dietrich
Ali McGraw
Jim Carey
Joan Crawford
Martin Sheen
George Segal


17 posted on 11/20/2011 11:01:01 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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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.


18 posted on 11/20/2011 11:03:25 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (Fuel up the Cain Train! Donate today! - - - https://www.hermancain.com/donate)
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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.


19 posted on 11/20/2011 11:06:00 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (Fuel up the Cain Train! Donate today! - - - https://www.hermancain.com/donate)
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There are so many. It’s hard to pick the worst 10.


20 posted on 11/20/2011 11:09:23 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
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