The following are people who’ve made impressions on me (not necessarily good ones), and next to them I’ve listed the movie that gave me such a lasting impression. Note that said movie may not be all that great, just that they were turning points that either made me want to watch them in the future, or not at all.
Actors I don’t have a problem with enjoy watching:
Adrien Brody (King Kong)
Alan Rickman (just about everything, though I first saw him in Dogma)
Anthony Hopkins (Fracture)
Bill Nighy (Notes On A Scandal)
David Thewlis (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Edward Norton (The Illusionist)
Gary Oldman (The Fifth Element)
Ian Mcshane (Death Race)
James Marsden (Enchanted)
Jeremy Irons (The Lion King. I’m serious.)
Jesse James (The Butterfly Effect)
Johnny Depp (just about everything, Edward Scissorhands)
Joseph Jordon Levitt (The Lookout)
Jude Law (Sleuth)
Kelvin Smith (Dogma)
Michael Caine (Sleuth)
Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages)
Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man)
Ryan Gosling (Fracture)
Ryan Phillippe (Chaos)
Tom Hanks (Cast Away)
Tony Leung (Red Cliff)
Actresses I enjoy watching:
Cate Blanchett (Notes On A Scandal)
Hiliary Swank (Insomnia)
Joan Allen (The Bourne Supremacy)
Judi Dench (Notes On A Scandal)
Julia Stiles (10 Things I Hate About You)
Kate Winslet (Titanic)
Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element)
Rachel Mcadams (Red Eye)
Rachel Weisz (The Mummy)
Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe)
Actors I don’t have a problem with even though they have the tendency to appear in less desirable pieces:
Ananda Everingham (Me… Myself)
Anne Hathaway (Get Smart)
Brad Pitt (a tie between the Ocean movies and Burn After Reading)
Brendan Fraser (The Mummy)
Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element)
Chris Tucker (Rush Hour)
Cillian Murphy (Red Eye)
Colin Farrell (tie between Phone Booth and In Bruges)
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix)
James Franco (Pineapple Express)
James McAvoy (Penelope)
Jamie Bell (King Kong)
Jason Statham (Chaos)
Keria Knightley (Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl)
Mark Wahberg (The Departed)
Matt Damon (tie between The Bourne Identity and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Seriously, this man should have won an Oscar for the second one.)
Michael Pitt (Funny Games U.S.)
Naomi Watts (King Kong)
Owen Wilson (Shanghai Noon)
Shia LaBeouf (Transformers)
Simon Pegg (Run, Fatboy, Run)
Steve Carell (Get Smart)
Toby Maguire (tie between Spider-Man and Pleasantville)
Tony Jaa (Ong Bak)
Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers)
Actors I used to like:
Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, before he noticeably started lusting for Oscars)
Edward Furlong (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, before he got all drugged up.)
Movies I wouldn’t watch even if you paid me if I knew the following actors were in them:
Steve Martin (Cheaper By The Dozen)
Adam Sandler (You Don’t Mess With The Zohan)
