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Top 5 Most Overrated Actors Working Today

Mar 10, 2006 01:34

( Get your slings and arrows ready, cause I'm bringing it... )

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wildlyoscillate March 10 2006, 14:03:19 UTC

A big fat "I totally agree" to all, especially Depp. I'd now like to make my own, semi-associated list: Top One Overrated Directors. Here goes:

1. Tim Burton

There.

theskooch March 10 2006, 18:43:15 UTC

Make it a Top Two & put Oliver Stone on it.

andythesaint March 10 2006, 19:19:11 UTC

Woody Allen?

theskooch March 10 2006, 19:20:16 UTC

Well shit.. now someone should just make a list.

1.... 2... 3 NOT IT!

andythesaint March 11 2006, 05:45:32 UTC

Wes Anderson.

Betcha don't want me to make that list now, do ya?

theskooch March 11 2006, 21:31:59 UTC

No no, make it all you like, that's cool. Life Aquatic kinda tarnishes Anderson's credits in a way, & Bottle Rocket was an above average movie, but certainly not for everyone. To an outsider or Johnny Multiplex, I can see how watching a Wes Anderson film could feel very condescending. They don't have those knee-slapping moments & broad generalizations.

andythesaint March 12 2006, 03:49:18 UTC

This, briefly, is why Wes Anderson is overrated: he is more interested in his style of passively framing his characters as if they were cardboard cut outs than he is in developing them as three-dimensional human beings. I've heard that Gene Hackman completely resisted Anderson on this during Tenenbaums, and got away with it because he's Gene-freaking-Hackman. And thus, Tenenbaums is Anderson's best film (the only one I truly like). Because the star was able to work around Anderson's shortcomings as a director.

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