Top 10 best & Top 10 worst Actors

[InsaneBlaze23]

Simple question, who is your top 10 actors(actresses), and top 10 worst or overrated?

After reading some of the movie threads, I just thought this would be interest to know who people like and who people don't like.

For me:
Top 10 best
1.Johnny Depp
2.Will Smith
3.Anthony Hopkins
4.Mila Jovovich
5.Antonio Banderas
6.Vin Diesel
7.Samuel Jackson
8.Natalie Portman
9.Hugh Jackman/Kiefer Sutherland(it's kinda even between these 2)
10.Hallie Berry

Top 10 Worst/overrated:

1.Nicolas Cage
2.Justin Timberlake
3.Paul Rudd
4.John Cena
5.Dwayne Johnson
6.Channing Tatum
7.Sam Worthington
8.Giovanni Ribisi
9.Ron Perlman
10.Charlie Sheen

[The Experience]

10 Best (no order)

1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman
2. James Woods
3. Ed Norton
4. Jeff Bridges
5. Daniel Day Lewis
6. Gary Oldman
7. Kevin Spacey
8. Tim Roth
9. Kiefer Sutherland
10. Jeff Daniels

10 Worst (no order)

1. Chris Evans
2. Nick Cage
3. Steven Segal
4. John Cena
5. Channing Tatum
6. Dolph Lundgeren
7. Sylvester Stallone
8. Anna Paquin


Can't think of anymore as I don't really watch a lot of movies with bad acting.

[Garywolf001]

Just 10? really? wow, I'll try to keep it to 10,

1, Harrison Ford
2, Gary Oldman
3, Ian McKellen
4, Morgan Freeman
5, Christopher Lee
6, Tom Hanks
7, James Earl Jones
8, Susan Sarandon
9, Jennifer Connelly
10, Samuel L Jackson

Honorable mentions/got bumped

Don Cheadle (IR2 brought him down)
Charlize Theron
Johnny Depp
Dustin Hoffman
Robert De Niro
Mel Gibson
Bill Murray
Robin Williams
Eddie Murphy
Dennis Quaid
Gene Hackman
Judy Garland
Helena Bonham Carter
Nicolas Cage
Kate Winslet
Michael Caine
Kevin Costner
Brad Pitt
Will Smith
Bruce Willis
Hugh Jackman
Vin Diesel

Top 10 Worst/overrated:

Billy Bob Thornton
Russell Crowe
Jack Nicholson
Jeff Bridges
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Cruise
Kirsten Dunst
Tommy Lee Jones
Edward Norton
Leonardo DiCaprio
Sean Penn

[BluenOrnge4Life]

Top 10 Worst/overrated:

Billy Bob Thornton
Russell Crowe
Jack Nicholson
Jeff Bridges
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Cruise
Kirsten Dunst
Tommy Lee Jones
Edward Norton
Leonardo DiCaprio
Sean Penn

LOL you've got to be kidding me with some of the guys on this list? Some of these guys are amazing actors..

Leonardio Dicaprio, Edward Norton, and Russell Crowe to name a few. Vin Diesel is a better actor than these guys? How? And I don't actually think he's a bad actor at all, but just how many roles has he even done outside of the Fast & Furious series? A Man Apart is the one tough role that I thought he acted real well.

[The Experience]

Just 10? really? wow, I'll try to keep it to 10,

1, Harrison Ford
2, Gary Oldman
3, Ian McKellen
4, Morgan Freeman
5, Christopher Lee
6, Tom Hanks
7, James Earl Jones
8, Susan Sarandon
9, Jennifer Connelly
10, Samuel L Jackson

Honorable mentions/got bumped

Don Cheadle (IR2 brought him down)
Charlize Theron
Johnny Depp
Dustin Hoffman
Robert De Niro
Mel Gibson
Bill Murray
Robin Williams
Eddie Murphy
Dennis Quaid
Gene Hackman
Judy Garland
Helena Bonham Carter
Nicolas Cage
Kate Winslet
Michael Caine
Kevin Costner
Brad Pitt
Will Smith
Bruce Willis
Hugh Jackman
Vin Diesel

Top 10 Worst/overrated:

Billy Bob Thornton
Russell Crowe
Jack Nicholson
Jeff Bridges
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Cruise
Kirsten Dunst
Tommy Lee Jones
Edward Norton
Leonardo DiCaprio
Sean Penn

Most of the people you listed for best are great actors. But so are most on your worst...

[Garywolf001]

LOL you've got to be kidding me with some of the guys on this list? Some of these guys are amazing actors..

Leonardio Dicaprio, Edward Norton, and Russell Crowe to name a few. Vin Diesel is a better actor than these guys? How? And I don't actually think he's a bad actor at all, but just how many roles has he even done outside of the Fast & Furious series? A Man Apart is the one tough role that I thought he acted real well.

Most of the people you listed for best are great actors. But so are most on your worst...

I wouldn't cast Leonardio Dicaprio or Edward Norton to Host Reading Rainbow, Ed Norton in fight club was as believable as Traci Lords being A Princess of Mars, Leonardo has the acting skills of one of the two Coreys, I like Russell Crowe but an Actor he is not, his roles have fit his personality only. If he has a breakout role that doesn't suck like "A Beutiful Mind" I'll change my mind on him.

You don't list a crappy actor as being overrated, you list the ones that got undeserved acclaim.

[BluenOrnge4Life]

I wouldn't cast Leonardio Dicaprio or Edward Norton to Host Reading Rainbow, Ed Norton in fight club was as believable as Traci Lords being A Princess of Mars, Leonardo has the acting skills of one of the two Coreys, I like Russell Crowe but an Actor he is not, his roles have fit his personality only. If he has a breakout role that doesn't suck like "A Beutiful Mind" I'll change my mind on him.

And what Leondardio movies have you seen, Titanic?

Leonardo Dicraprio has done some of the best acting jobs of the past 10 years with movies such as Shutter Island, Blood Diamond, The Departed, and Inception.

[Garywolf001]

And what Leondardio movies have you seen, Titanic? Leonardo Dicraprio has done some of the best acting jobs of the past 10 years with movies such as Shutter Island, Blood Diamond, and Inception.

The Aviator
The Quick and the Dead
Romeo + Juliet
The Man in the Iron Mask
Gangs of New York

All movies he absolutely sucked in, The Man in the Iron Mask, Gangs of New York, and The Quick and the Dead were movies I did like, but he brought them down. He's like an anorexic William Shatner.

Anyway, my opinion, my list

[BluenOrnge4Life]

The Aviator
The Quick and the Dead
Romeo + Juliet
The Man in the Iron Mask
Gangs of New York

All movies he absolutely sucked in, The Man in the Iron Mask, Gangs of New York, and The Quick and the Dead were movies I did like, but he brought them down. He's like an anorexic William Shatner.

Anyway, my opinion, my list

All old movies. That's like watching the first few years of Steve Young's career, then not watching the rest, and saying he didn't even deserve to be in the NFL.

Just my opinion of your opinion.

[InsaneBlaze23]

Maybe I should have said any number of actors.lol

Even I have more people I wanna name, most of which Gary already named in his top actors.

I agree with you Garywolf on your worst/overrated list. Leo is on the border of being good and overrated.

[Garywolf001]

All old movies. That's like watching the first few years of Steve Young's career, then not watching the rest, and saying he didn't even deserve to be in the NFL.

Just my opinion of your opinion.

The difference is he got to make those later movies because of acclaim he didn't deserve from "The Basketball Diaries", a movie all he did special was cry like a girl, he didn't write it or direct, just the literal poster boy.
By your reasoning Brandon Fraser should be my #1 guy because of "School Ties", I should ignore "Monkeybone" and "Dudley Do Right" and canonize him for "The Mummy" series.

[Garywolf001]

Maybe I should have said any number of actors.lol

Even I have more people I wanna name, most of which Gary already named in his top actors.

I agree with you Garywolf on your worst/overrated list. Leo is on the border of being good and overrated.

Thank You, I just see Leo as lucky to be in some very well written material, not as the reason the movie did well.

As far as the list in whole, those are just the ones that came to my head Susan Sarandon got a big jump for being a "Slut" Thats a movie referance not a insult LOL!

Dam I can't believe I forgot Tim Curry

[The Experience]

I wouldn't cast Leonardio Dicaprio or Edward Norton to Host Reading Rainbow, Ed Norton in fight club was as believable as Traci Lords being A Princess of Mars, Leonardo has the acting skills of one of the two Coreys, I like Russell Crowe but an Actor he is not, his roles have fit his personality only. If he has a breakout role that doesn't suck like "A Beutiful Mind" I'll change my mind on him.

You don't list a crappy actor as being overrated, you list the ones that got undeserved acclaim.

Dicaprio in Shutter Island was a great performance.

Did you see Primal Fear or American History X? Norton is an amazing Actor.

Not a fan of Crowe but he is a good actor.

[Bernie24]

I love Billy Bob Thorton

That's an awful worst ten list you have

Its really bad

[InsaneBlaze23]

Just 10? really? wow, I'll try to keep it to 10,

Top 10 Worst/overrated:

Billy Bob Thornton
Russell Crowe
Jack Nicholson
Jeff Bridges
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Cruise
Kirsten Dunst
Tommy Lee Jones
Edward Norton
Leonardo DiCaprio
Sean Penn

Out of you're worst/overrated list, I think Billy Bob is a trash actor.
Russell Crowe is a over actor, and so is Jack Nicholson.

The only people on this list that I'd say is good or at least on the boarder of being either good or bad is Mark Walhberg, and maybe, maybe Ed Norton.