Overrated Actors/ Underrated Actors

Some that are Underrated (In my opinion)

Stephen Graham
Vince Vaughn
Mena Suvari
Miles Teller
Sigourney Weaver
Shia Labeouf
Jamie Lee Curtis
Bob Odenkirk
Sacha Baron Cohen
Dev Patel

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Daniel Craig is underrated imo, though I'm not the biggest fan of his as 007, he's damn brilliant in other stuff.

Underrated: So very many not born in the United States.

This is really a complicated question that likely needs some complicated answers. I'll do my best here:

Highly rated and yet still somewhat UNDERRATED: Russel Crowe. <----The performance in A Beautiful Mind still does not get enough acclaim, and him being robbed at the oscars was a just a crime. To be able to pull that role off and not "see" Russel Crowe but John Nash was astounding to me.

TOTALLY OVERRATED, but can make a good movie: Kevin Costner. The guy has such a cardboard expression for nearly all of his emotions, it's pathetic to me. My golden retriever can summon more expressions on demand.

MOSTLY OVERRATED, and no one agrees with me: Meryl Streep. And because no one agrees with me, I'm not getting into it.

CRAZY HIGHLY RATED JUSTIFIABLY: Jack Lemon. All the proof I need: Final scene in Glenngary Glenn Ross (a film otherwise dreadful to me).....He managed to pull off showing a guy in terror at not being able to maintain the right responses to cover his obvious mistake of giving away that he knew that Kevin Spacey was making things up.

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Rules:

When women have a poet, they want a cowboy.
When they have a cowboy, they want a poet.
They'll say "I don't care if he's a poet or cowboy, so long as he's a nice guy. But oh, I'm so attracted to that bad guy over there."

Understand this last part, and you'll get them all.

Isn't that simply Survivorship Bias?

Basically, the ones in movies good enough to make it out of their countries and make it to the United States are likely to have lesser known very good actors in them.

You will probably be marooned on a island with this one. In the history of Hollywood, there have been very few like her, maybe none. Although I think Betty Davis is quite match. I am not saying decade, or generation etc. I am saying history.

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As I said.

So glad you mentioned this...I thought Jack Lemmon was AMAZING in Glengarry Gen Ross

I'll confess I haven't seen a lot of his work, butt one John Wayne performance looked like another to me, with the possible exception of The Shootist

I agree that Don Cheadle is seriously underrated, the guy should have a couple of Oscars by now.

She definitely stole Ellen Burstyn's Oscar in 2000...the only Oscar worthy performance I've seen from Julia Roberts was in August: Osage County

*TOTALLY* overrated.

But wide mouths are awesome on women.

I read the post you folks quoted and said to myself "Man, when did I say that??"

Way back in 2004!

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Over : Elisabeth Moss, Colin Firth

Under : Cillian Murphy, Gastone Moschin

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I know this post is from 2004, but he was excellent in Gone Girl. He manages to make his character a pretty huge jerk yet still easy to root for at the same time if that makes sense.

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I LOVED Death to Smoochy but Edward Norton stole that film from Willams

Totally agree regarding Cheadle...if I had a list of most underrated actors, Cheadle would be in the top 3.

Everybody I know everywhere rates Don Cheadle very highly.

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