Overrated Actors/ Underrated Actors

Make sure you've seen both Godfather films and Dog Day Afternoon before deciding that Pacino is underrated. Totally agree with you about Duvall though...that guy should have about five or six Oscars.

Totally disagree regarding Ben Affleck...i don't think he's underrated but I definitely don't think he's overrated.

Loved One Hour Photo.

Olivier can be brilliant in the right role...I think he was robbed of a second Oscar for Marathon Man....on the other hand, his performance in The Jazz Singer was laughably bad.

I think it's more that she doesnt fit the hollyweed mould of star looks. damnit I dont want to see a cookie cutout of beauty every time I watch a movie. I think she's absolutely stunning. that idiocy seems to be changing at the moment, though, with movie goers flocking to see actresses like Rebel Wilson and Amy (lastname currently escapes me) who I also think are stunning.

OT but Rebel Wilson is currently on our home screens a lot at the moment for her defamation suit win against the big wig trash mag sewer rats. She's freaking smart, well educated, and just damnn well gorgeous.Good on her. Fight the good fight if you're seeing this, Rebel!!! Go you good thing. Amy is as well and I've never paid much attention before.Another smart, eloquent, beautiful woman. I will be keeping an eye out for her in future.

Not sure if he’s already been mentioned but Will Smith. He’s resume has slowly turned to mush. I liked his earlier films like men in black and bad boys 1 and 2. After that there’s nothing memorable for me. Overrated.

Death Becomes Her was brilliant...your reasoning here is pretty flimsy and the same woman in a different setting comment tells me that you've only seen a small portion of her resume.

Meryl Streep films I've seen. Julia, The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, Silkwood, Out of Africa, She-Devil, Postcards from the Edge, Defending Your Life, Death Becomes Her, The Bridges of Madison County , Adaptation, The Hours, A Prairie Home Companion.

Four of the films I may have seen, but didn't count them, didn't count her voice over work.

OK, you've seen a decent cross section of her work so I can't see how you can possibly think she plays the same character in every film.

I think he is overrated. He is a good looking screenwriter/director. That's it. He doesn't have the charisma of a movie star. His face is expressionless and all the batman fanboys calling him the best batman ever is just doing so because they had to live with his movies in the present. I am glad that he doest work with great directors or they dont pick him. I think he didnt deserve best director nomination for argo. Just because he is big and has face kind of resembling batman doesnt make him an ideal choice for batman. Moreover his hairpiece is dceu movies is awful. Thats not his real hair as batman , its a wig.

Have not seen Argo, but the onscreen work of his that impressed me were Changing Lanes, Hollywoodland, and The Accountant.

Well, about Ben Affleck
as a director he's brilliant

as an actor I think he's lousy, OK maybe not lousy just an average or I better say below average


Speaking of underrated I think Ethan Hawke is definitely one of them and deserves to be in bigger movies

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I think Stephen Graham is underrated. Superb in everything that I have seen him in. Only thing that he struggles with is accents. This is probably due to the fact that his own accent is so strong.

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UNDERRATED

Kevin Bacon
John Cusack
Keifer Sutherland
Jim Carrey
Tim Blake Nelson

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Would it be okay to say Brad Pitt is underrated? His main pull is his raw good looks. But he is a fine actor.


Geoffrey Rush also comes to mind.

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Someone I think was underrated is Dorothy McGuire. She was an amazingly talented and dedicated professional and from what I've gathered an exceptional human being. A lovely person both on stage/screen and off. Some of my favourite performances include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Enchanted Cottage (1945) and The Spiral Staircase (1946). If one word could describe Dorothy I think the word would be: Actress.

Nice choice. Dorothy McGuire was so good in so many movies. It's nice to see someone appreciate her.

BTW, nice Top 10 movies on your profile

Cheers. Likewise.

Anyone who thinks Cameron Diaz can't act needs to watch In Her Shoes

I respect De Niro as an actor, but his only performance that I've seen that I would call epic greatness is in Cape Fear (as I recall), he has other good performances (Mean Streets might be my 2nd fave, he was pretty good in Raging Bull (edit: he also did a good job of becoming his character in The Godfather Part II), but I've seen him in other stuff and tbh, some of his performances are somewhat forgettable to me. He wouldn't make my Top 20-25.

He does seem to be equalled with Pacino, but while I love Pacino as an actor, I can't say the same for De Niro.