I hate Steven Seigal

Dart · Mon 17/05/2004 11:44:45

I don't know who this Steven Segal is, but I do now I hate the following "actors"/"actresses":

- JULIA ROBERTS
- Adam Sandler
- Hillary Duff
- Jennifer Lopez
- Ben Affleck
- Lindsay Lohan
- Julia Stiles
- Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
- That little girl from "Uptown Girls"

Oh, there's more, but I can't quite remember the rest. Perhaps I'll update this at a later date.

veryweirdguy · Mon 17/05/2004 11:50:59

See, that's a pretty good list. I'd have to agree with it for the most part.

The problem with all the people you've mentioned is that they've not been picked for their acting ability - they've just been 'well marketed', if you will. They are the hip young kids, & kids feels as if then can 'relate' to them somehow, when this, of course, is a load of bull.

The Olsen twins especially annoy me - "Look at us! We look the same! We make sarcastic cynical tweenager comments & can make millions from puuting our name on crap! If we endorsed vodka, you know you'd drink it!"

TheYak · Mon 17/05/2004 12:01:21

I have to agree with most of Dart's choices as well. I only disagree with Ben Affleck somewhat. I hate him in most movies but like him in interviews - he seems brighter and more personable (maybe just less 1-dimensional) than his acting capability portrays.

LordHart · Mon 17/05/2004 12:12:07

Miez, what about Highlander and Fortress... those two movies absolutely rocked. Most of his other movies suck ass, but those were great.

Miez · Mon 17/05/2004 12:38:00

Quote from: Os Ã Å¡ltimo QuÃ£o Queijo ^_^ on Mon 17/05/2004 12:12:07
Miez, what about Highlander and Fortress... those two movies absolutely rocked. Most of his other movies suck ass, but those were great.

Granted, Highlander is way cool, and fortress is ok. But compared to the vast pile of movie doodoo that he's made, these two films dwindle into nothingness.

Punch · Mon 17/05/2004 14:00:53

Seagal's not actually that bad a martial artist. He's 6th or 7th Dan in Aikido, which is pretty damned good. He ran a Dojo in Japan for a while. That's fairly impressive. I study Aikido. If you're good at it, you really can kick some serious arse. Unfortunately I'm not very good yet. In theory, Aikido blends with the attack and then basically turns it back onto the attacker, so if you were uber good at it you shouldn't ever be hit. The chances of you being that good are almost nil, but it's a nice theory.

Not that I'm trying to defend Segal's movies or person at all, just that his martial arts, taken on their own, are actually quite good. They just don't lend themselves to the movies very well, because they're not flashy and, in general, don't really seem like they should work. They actually do, though. Honest. I've seen it.

His movies are generally very bad. I hired a box set of his just last week, actually, because I was interested in seeing how Aikido translated to the movies. We had one DVD in, took it out half way through because it sucked and put another one in while a friend was out of the room. He didn't actually notice that the movie had changed. Hurrah. And Seagal always sounds like he needs a throat lozenger.

As for celebrities that I really can't stand... Steve Irwin and Russel Coight. At least Irwin was original, and (to start with) genuinely stupid. Coight just runs around like a knob trying to imitate Irwin's success and expects us to laugh.

- Punch

LGM · Mon 17/05/2004 14:14:45

I'd give you more credit for teh hatred, Terran, if you spelled his name right.. lol.

Yes.. I hate Seagal too. I haven't seen any of his movies,Ã,Â but from everything I've heard, and that Mountain Dew commercial, he can't act. Although that MD commercial is r0x0r.

But Dart!! How can you say you hate teh Sandler? Have you seen Punch-Drunk Love yet??

I have to say that I hate Paul Walker too. He can't act at all. Just watch him in Timeline, and you'll get my point. I also hate anyone who was in House of the Dead...

But how bought the ones I love?

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies (Check out The Million Dollar Hotel), Milla Jovovich, Tom Hanks.. The list could go on.

Oh, and Eric, somehow I knew you listened to Mindless Self Indulgence. They're great-sounding, but oft deranged so I don't listen to them much.

Layabout · Mon 17/05/2004 14:15:35

Um, Punch, Russell Coight is INTENDED to be an impersonation of the Steve Irwin's. It is actually Glenn 'uncle arthur' Robbins. If you didn't realise that, you are too young.

Barcik · Mon 17/05/2004 14:23:32

Quote from: LilGryphMaster on Mon 17/05/2004 14:14:45
But Dart!! How can you say you hate teh Sandler? Have you seen Punch-Drunk Love yet??

Have you seen any other Sandler movie?

Nacho · Mon 17/05/2004 14:37:20

About martial arts... I think Aikido is the most "effective" one, and it really works as we see in Steven's films... the problem with their films is that many times we just look for entertainment, and in that case, I would rather preffer an "old fashioned" karate movie, like Jackie Chan's ones...

The choreagraphies Jackie does are the best I can remember, IMO, so good that the commenting the rest of the movies is just trivial for me (If you ask me, BTW, I don't like all the rest of his films

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DGMacphee · Mon 17/05/2004 14:39:11

For every PDL Sandlar does, he does ten 'Billy Madisons'.

Punch · Mon 17/05/2004 14:39:59

Pirate Jack: I realised that he was meant to be taking the piss. He still annoys me, though. I didn't really mean to say 'imitate Irwin's success'. More just 'imitate Irwin'. But I didn't say that. So... yeah. My fault.

And I guess I'm too young, at my tender age of 19, 'cause I don't really know who Glenn Robbins is. I do know that I've seen him before on stuff, though.

- Punch

Edit: He's on The Panel. Now I kind of know who he is. For some reason I never really placed him.

Migs · Mon 17/05/2004 14:48:45

I used to not like Tom Cruise that much, until I saw The Last Samurai.Ã,Â I bought that the instant it came out on DVD.

LordHart · Mon 17/05/2004 16:03:12

Actually, the Russell Coight character is just a blatant ripoff of Wallaby Jack (though Coight sucks more). Which by the way was also another product of the D-Generation crew...

DGMacphee · Mon 17/05/2004 17:42:05

Quote from: Os Ã Å¡ltimo QuÃ£o Queijo ^_^ on Mon 17/05/2004 16:03:12
Actually, the Russell Coight character is just a blatant ripoff of Wallaby Jack (though Coight sucks more). Which by the way was also another product of the D-Generation crew...

And to show an example for non-Aussies of what we're talking about:

http://www.sylpher.com/DGMacphee/Photoshop/WJ.wmv

ElaineMc · Mon 17/05/2004 18:25:22

Check out Jabootu - for all your Steven Seagal mockery needs.

The Patriot! http://jabootu.com/patriot.htm
On Deadly Ground! http://jabootu.com/ondeadlyground.htm
Half Past Dead! http://www.jabootu.com/hpd.htm

All hail Jabootu, "the muse of Bad Movie creativity"!

Robert Eric · Mon 17/05/2004 20:24:05

You people exhibit a lot of anger and hatred.

evenwolf · Mon 17/05/2004 23:14:37

Yufster, you hate Jack Palance? Was the creepy old guy in Batman and City Slickers? That's good old Palance.

I despise Kirsten Dunst.

Meowster · Mon 17/05/2004 23:50:53

Jack Nicholson.

I can't wait until Steve Irwin gets his head bitten off.

I hate J-Loo

LordHart · Tue 18/05/2004 00:12:45

I hate the fact that Steve Irwin never started talking like he does now until he became big in America. He was actually partially tolerable when his show used to be just on aussie tv during the mid 90's... $:-\$