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Stars who you used to like but now can't stand

posted 5 years ago by sslssg (32996)
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I think Johnny Depp would be on top of this list for not just me. I think it was around the time of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that he really started to irk me, and it just kept getting worse. I used to really like him, and not just because he was "cute", I thought he was a great actor.

Madonna is another one. I don't think I'd listened to any of her new music after Music. I don't think she was ever a great singer, but she was very entertaining. I listened to one of her new songs the other day and I realized that she just irritates me now. Even seeing a picture of her is annoying. I don't know if I think she's trying to hard or what? But I can still listen almost anything before 2000 and still really like it.

John Malkovich. I used to find him interesting, even when he was doing cheesy roles like in Con Air. I don't know why I now find him irritating, but I do.

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 5 years ago

Johnny Depp is a victim of over exposure tbh, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise ruined him.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

The problem with Pirates is that people want them to be adventurous with SOME comedy, but instead they made most of them with too much comedy. If comedy isn't VERY funny, it gets tiring.

Hollywood keeps turning adventure movies into comedies, look at most Marvel films, and it's annoying. They've been doing it since the 70s.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

I got sick of Depp after Lone Ranger which could have been good but was truly terrible. It's not him but the roles he takes. There isn't enough quality.

Madonna was always a quasi-gay whorish Italian douchebag. That can work when young and good looking but when you lose your looks you just seem ugly.

Malkovich can't act. I like him at times a lot but he always plays the same kind of mildly disturbed intelligent guy who is a few steps away from suicide. It can be good at times but also very tiring in some roles.

Brad Pitt. Initially I thought he was a horribly wooden actor but then warmed up to him. Now, I think he's a horribly wooden actor. He's only good when he plays crazy people. Fight club and 12 Monkeys are the only films he was good in and acted.

I think that's interesting.

David Letterman: His early show used to be hilarious. Then, he got this idea that he's an "interviewer" and really he's very poor at it as it seems he doesn't know much about issues or care.

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 5 years ago

Brad Pitt. Initially I thought he was a horribly wooden actor but then warmed up to him. Now, I think he's a horribly wooden actor. He's only good when he plays crazy people. Fight club and 12 Monkeys are the only films he was good in and acted.

I heard this from someone and it makes sense to me. Brad Pitt isn't near as charismatic when he's playing the straight leading man, like in World War Z, but put him in a supporting role, playing a quirky character and his talent as an actor increases ten fold.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

I especially hate when he's in roles where he's given "deep" or poetically well written dialogue. He literally sounds like he just woke up and is reading something.

I assume that although he can look serious he doesn't understand seriousness as a person. I am shocked that he plays wild and crazy people excellently though. One could assume he's a pretty boy who never had a bad day in his life and so has no content of character. But, he is good at it.

I'd like to know why.

He could be in a lot of fun movies.

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 5 years ago

Haha love your perspective here. And yeah he's got a bit of mush-mouth too, doesn't he?
Anyway...doesn't understand seriousness...that's interesting stuff. Shallow, you mean? Kind of?

David Letterman...I got the impression that he'd become a little embittered later on in his career as a talk show host. I was a huge fan...still am, I suppose, but he seemed to get a little darker somehow. Broodier maybe...less patient.

I've always thought the man was an actual genius, and was maybe bored as hell after doing the same gig for so long. Never really noticed him becoming more of an interviewer, but then didn't watch his show much its last couple years on air.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

The Letterman show used to be weird and hilarious with much of the show being about fake comedy characters and weird little moments throughout AND an interview that he was usually sarcastic about.

Larry Bud Melman, the guy under the stairs, etc were very creative.

In the last few years of the show he would try to get political and it sounded like he knew nothing. He was also doing the "all conservative issues are stupid" thing, which is boring in the media. I'm not even conservative and I'm tired of it.

He now has an interview only show on Netflix which I have never watched because I know it won't be funny.

I stopped watching him a bit in the 90s because he came off at so cranky and sarcastic it was difficult to take. I think that's his character and he burned out on being miserable, over having a successful TV show, and now he's not funny. He reminds me a bit of Anthony Bourdain who killed himself under similar conditions.

It's a guy who's irritability seems funny but is real, so not funny.

[–] kspkap (13396) 5 years ago

Just about all of them! I wish they would keep their mouths shut about their political leanings. I “seen” de Niro this week and wanted to throw something at the tv!🤬

[–] sslssg (32996) 5 years ago

You are evil.

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And I mean that with utmost respect!

[–] kspkap (13396) 5 years ago

👹 👺😂 Just knew you would catch it!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Bruce Willis and Jimmy Nail. A couple of grumpy bellends.

[–] sslssg (32996) 5 years ago

Totally agree on Bruce Willis.

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 5 years ago

You know what I think about Madonna? Just thought of this...you know how she used to sell sex back in the day? Its what she was all about...shaking her boobs in the camera, look at how hot I am, you see these boobies you can't touch? Omg so hawt, what about my arched buttocks here? Too bad you can't mush your face in there, huh? Not in a million years, you prepubescent dork, goddamn look how hot I am!!

I grew up on sexual fantasies about Madonna, and after watching it dozens of times, her video for "Open Your Heart" did more for my understanding of female anatomy than the "health" class I took in junior high.
But how long has it been since you've heard a good Madonna song? And she's gotten much older...which is fine except she still seems to be wearing that "you know you want me" look.

A little presumptuous, isn't it? Mrs "Omg I'm so hawt, you can never have me" lady. Well I don't want you anymore, so how do you like that, huh? Screw you gramma, maybe see if Moby is single, I'm masturbating to Taylor Swift now.

Yeah I don't know...just a theory. Some adolescent feelings there, maybe. She was synonymous with sex and still seems to be playing the same angle. It seems like, anyway.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

That's the pathway for most hot, arrogant, and obnoxious women as they age.

They eventually become a joke and are starved for attention with no one that really loves them much.

I told a female friend of mine that years ago and see it coming true.

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 5 years ago

Huh that's interesting...I guess I just don't have enough life experience to have seen that much, but yeah I definitely get that sense from Madonna. And it makes sense. Being Queen hotstuff for most of your life and then its gone? That's got to be one hell of a tough transition. Granted, its hard to have much sympathy, but I'm sure it takes a bit of a toll on the ol' psyche.

[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 5 years ago

I've seen it in daily life many times.

Female douchebags and teases don't transition well into old age.

[–] TandyMan (10955) 5 years ago

George Clooney.

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Depp and Schwarzenegger.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

Robert DeNiro. The guy is now a flaming Libtard asshole!

David Letterman, a bitter old man, and a flaming Libtard!

Tom Cruise and John Travolta, since they're members of Scientology, which is a very evil cult. And there are many other celebrities who are also members. They're all idiots.

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