Huge Stars You Don't Like?

Elizabeth Taylor. Other than A Place in the Sun, I don't get excited over any of her films.

For the males, not really anyone. Gene Kelly, is probably my least favorite. Because I don't like musicals. I did like him in Inherit the Wind.

Marlon Brando

Tom Hanks

Sean Penn

Julia Roberts

Jennifer Lawrence

Katherine Hepburn

I don't dislike Cary Grant but I don't see what the big fuss is about him-he rarely made any movie that I really care to see.

Bette Davis

Elizabeth Taylor

James Cagney

Nice post. With Stewart, I will concede that I liked the Frank Capra "It's a Wonderful Life" very much. It is so sentimental and so very effective in its sweetness. I can easily admit the end of the movie makes me cry. And it's the only performance of James Stewart's that I like.

There's just something about Meryl Streep that i kinda don't like. I remember her saying in an older interview with Gene Siskel (1995), that when she was at Yale, she was invariably cast for the female lead in all of the theater productions. She did admit to being a little bit greedy. (That comment almost - not quite - fell under the radar.) I think she probably is greedy, with getting all the good parts as well as getting all that senseless praise from the masses. Praising Streep for every single thing she does is the default go to. It's some kind of a phenomenon. (Not her, but the idol worship) She knows how to play an audience, that's for sure. (I wonder if she ever feels a kind of contempt for her fans? I'm not saying she does, but if she did, I would not be surprised.) I will say I think she's a very intelligent woman. Very intelligent and shrewd and calculating and cunning and observant and ultra ambitious. And reserved. Boy, is Streep reserved. .Yep, she's got all that in spades. During the same interview with Gene Siskel, Streep told of the college drama professor who told her she didn't truly give of herself, that she was cold (YES!) and that she couldn't cry convincingly. That last part made me laugh. And I agree with everything he said. It was especially validating to come across the "cold" comment because you never hear ANYBODY ever say that about her. Put another way, Streep seems like she'd have German in her blood. Before she's an actress, Meryl Streep is a taskmaster.

Tom Hanks said he had no talent. I don't think he thinks that at all. That seems disingenuous to me. Like Streep, Hanks is a player. This in itself is not necessarily a criticism. He's ambitious. Okay, fine. He wouldn't have had the success he's had without ambition. But the back to back Oscar wins for "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump" were cringeworthy. In this first, he was lifeless and dull. In the second, I just wanted to slap his face.

I don't think I actively dislike any actors or actresses but there are plenty im luke warm on. 

I don't, for example, find the Rock all that magnetic as a lead. Like, when i see a Rock movie is coming out my thought it 'meh'. I think it's a byproduct of the Fast and Furious movies. 

Matthew McConaughey 

I wouldn't say I dislike them, but I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise or Harrison Ford. I've mentioned this here before, but I now own 763 movies (brag), none of which star Cruise or Ford. I'm not a big Rock guy either but I own one of his movies, Baywatch (2017).

Nicholas Cage

Julia Roberts

I dislike her in almost every comedy she is in. Ironically her most tolerable comedic performance is in Ghostbusters imo, which is the worst movie she has starred in.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). I don't even mind her Oscar nomination for this movie. She is also gives a more dramatic performance in St. Vincent, which is a comedy/drama.

Her Bridesmaids nomination is one of the worst Oscar nomination ever though.