Unpopular Entertainment Opinions • Page 49

I still can't stand Lawrence because of what an absolute horrible person she is and I know the two should be somewhat separate, but I can't ignore it when she comes on and I think "this is someone girls look up to? She has an acting career?" with some of the outrageous shit she has said.

 

Idk what they have to do with each other aside from being in big franchises but wasn't Emma also named in the Panama papers which makes her seem not great to me espesh cause like Hey feminism is ur big platform so pay ur taxes sis. But rich people gonna rich I guess.

 

Jennifer Lawrence has been in movies from a lot of awful directors, so it is hard to gauge. Greats like Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep have been horrendous in bad films and someone like Adam Sandler can be great directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

 

Emma Watson was great in The Bling Ring, I guess my hot take is I don't think any actor is bad , everyone just has different strengths

 

I think most films made from 2000 - 2007 appear to be as dated at 90s films.

 

Hot/potentially snobby take: most actors are not as bad as people think they are, because a lot of people don’t really understand acting

 

That is a bit snobby and pretentious lol. But I'm also not a cinema buff. I rarely notice bad acting so I feel like it has to be pretty bad before I'm like wtf is happening here. I do think a lot of bad acting can also be the direction or writing because you can only do so much. Like the star wars prequels had good actors iirc but like how much can u actually salvage going off about hating sand

 

Not paying your taxes and saying offensive stuff about trans people are two entirely different types of bad. J Law says awful stuff that's just not acceptable from someone a lot of people look up to.

 

there's definitely little things like they just casually say the f word and other homophobic jokes in Bring It On

 

Ooof I forgot about that series...

 

Comedy is definitely one of the genres that feel the most dated. I would say post-2009 is when they started feeling modern.

 

I mean yeah I agree neither are ok. Emma is cheating the public and often ppl in poverty out of funds and j law says awful ignorant things that harm people. Neither are gunning for humanitarian awards from my persepctive

 

I just remember defending Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Channing Tatum endlessly around 2006-11 because basically everyone I encountered would shit on them infinitely as if they were the epitome of bad acting and... they're not. they're actually all super good.

I think Jared Leto is a bad actor, but it's not as noticeably "bad" acting as a lot of people's favorite punching bags because what he does relies so much on body transformation and mimicry that a lot people think it's good even when he's giving one of the most hollow, empty performances I've ever seen (and is then given an Oscar for it)

 

I think a lot of the time people say certain actors and actresses are bad, they are mistaking terrible dialogue and character writing for bad acting. Bad dialogue is still going to be bad even though someone is doing a great job with the role they are given.

 

This. I agree. I feel like Adam Driver is a popular actor now that deserves his recognition.

 

Anne Hathaway too

 

I think this can be true to a point until you see a trend like with Vin Diesel who has the acting capabilities of a kumquat.

 

Vin Diesel is fantastic in his student short film.

 

Jared Leto is as bad of an actor as he is a person. Not an unpopular opinion though I don’t think.

Totally agree about people mistaking bad acting for a bad film. There are people who ruin beautiful scripts and there are others who are so truly talented that they can scrape together something meaningful in a trainwreck. Most actors fall somewhere in the middle.

 

The problem with him is that he usually (at least in the films I've seen him in) plays characters that are not intended to showcase great acting abilities and he has become comfortable in those roles. I would need to see him in something other than his usual summer blockbusters.

 

I’ve known Channing Tatum was great since She’s The Man, he just kept getting cast in bad romance movies, he really shines in comedies

 

my unpopular opinion: Friends is a bad show

 

I feel like that's coming around to be pretty popular. Friends will always be big and iconic but there's tons of detractors these days. From the think pieces and constant edgy comments anyway (not yours above just like in general lol. People always act like they're dropping a bomb and then a bunch of others are like oh yeah me too it aged badly/isn't funny/is problematic)

 

Yep. It still holds a special place in my heart because I associate it with a group of friends of mine during a few years of constant watching and referencing, but every time I go back I find some new thing that doesn’t sit well.

 

The only old comedy show I can still watch is That 70s Show