bradley cooper, for your consideration
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bradley cooper, for your consideration
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Easily Amy Adams (outside of a few hits)
Jennifer Aniston (great actress, very few risks, plays almost the same personality/character type, most of the time). I respect her hustle.
Sarah Jessica Parker (love SATC, but she’s not a risk taker and she’s “Carrie” in every single role).
Jennifer Lopez (same character, different script).
Stephen Segal (no elaboration).
Dwayne Johnson always plays himself.
Vin Diesel
Will Farrel (aside from a couple of standouts). He was typecast and I’m not sure it’s fair. Stranger Than Fiction was very touching.
Ice Cube (lol)
Gal Gadot is a soggy work in progress, we’ll see, not holding my breath.
Honorable mention to Pam Andersen, coming from behind and blowing us away these past few years! Hell yeah girl!
From comments (thank you):
Kevin Hart
Will Smith
Please don’t kill me. Angelina Jolie. Not saying she’s not a talented actress and there are no good films, but there’s not really many great films.
Burnt is a great film. Because of Cooper.
The rest are not.
Chris Pratt: we get it, you want money.
Halle Berry
Jessica Chastain — she’s talented, seems like a nice person, but except for ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ ‘Interstellar,’ and ‘The Martian,’ most of her movies are pretty mediocre.
Bradley Cooper only makes the A-list in the eyes of the folks who actually keep score of who’s on which list
Will Tippin is my pick as well
Charlize Theron. Absolutely magnetic on screen, but she has so many duds.
Ryan Reynolds and now we get Ryan Reynolds commercials too ugh
Adam Driver
Yeah but he was in Wet Hot so it evens out alright
Pedro Pascal. Newer A list though so it just makes sense. His TV resume is so very good while his film not as much. Although that might change next year with the two Oscar baity movies. But for now it’s a lotta bunch of “how did this get made” and “eh”.
Edward Norton has a weirdly shallow bench
Im a big fan of Famke Janssen. But she made many weird choices, not the indie movies but the wacky ones like Christian romance Redeeming Love, Japanese anime to live action Knights of the Zodiac and that movie with Bruce Willis and Momoa which must be a money laundering scheme dressed as a movie.
Is Anna Kendrick A-list? Certainly underwhelming.
Pls Bradley cooper has a great filmography for his caliber .He went on chasing Oscar and making Oscar baiting movies
JENNIFER LOPEZ.
Dwayne Johnson.
Surprised by some of the names on here lol. Lot of them have 3-4 iconic films which to me is way beyond underwhelming.
Jennifer Aniston
OP! You missed He’s just not that into you. Truly the most underwhelming. Probably his best work. But he was playing a whiny man-baby cheater, sooooo…
Do you mean underwhelming as is in we find the films underwhelming or underwhelming as in they performed poorly?
Ryan Reynolds for sure
I think it’ll be easier to ask who doesn’t. Most of the actors today are underwhelming.
I totally agree. But A Star is Born WRECKED me… can’t watch it ever again. Not sure how much of that was him or Gaga though
* Not sure if he’s A-list, but Adrien Brody. I think his two Oscar roles are phenomenal, and most everything else he’s done is okay at best. (His Wes Anderson stuff doesn’t really count, because those movies are generally good because of Anderson’s vision, not necessarily the cast…)
* Keanu Reeves. I know its an obvious answer, but when he is good, he is *so* good, which makes his duds that much more frustrating, imo
This is gonna piss people off, but Adrian Brody, there’s a reason a guy who’s never really done that many good movies was able to steal thin red line out from under him.
George Clooney. Oceans Eleven and Gravity are his two big ones and they’re hardly masterpieces
Don’t kill me for this but Meryl Streep
Not even silver lining playbook???
LOL I love that you used 12-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper as your example, and of the five performances you selected in the slideshow, he received acting nominations for 4 of them.
For the talent she has I would say Naomi Watts. She deserves better roles in better movies and shows like her friend Nicole Kidman.