I couldn't find any movies to watch on Roku or Prime or Netflix, you get the picture so I browsed through my own movie library. I have some that I've never watched and Pride and Glory was my choice with Colin Powell and Edward Norton, a cop movie better a dirty cop movie. I like both of these actors and wanted to see how they fared in this movie and to my surprise I didn't like Colin Farrell playing the bad cop. His character was so ruthless that it reminded me of Denzel Washington's character in The Training Day and I didn't like his character either.
Duel In The Sun 1946 Gregory Peck played a mean, unscrupulous bad guy so convincingly a lady said to him in a forum many decades later she was very upset with him being so mean. I admit he was truely a no-good that you disliked from the beginning to the end.
Funny this should come up because I saw a commercial for All In The Family last night, and it reminded me of how so many people hated Carroll O'Conner because of the Archie Bunker character he played, truly thinking that O'Conner was a bigot. @Steven Stanick's comment about the otherwise scrupulous Gregory Peck reminded me of Andy Griffith's first movie "A Face in the Crowd", filmed in 1957 (three years before The Andy Griffith Show first aired.) Griffith played a charismatic drifter who got "discovered" and quickly rose to fame, throwing friends under the bus as his ego inflates while his fame increases. He was a very duplicitous unlikable person...the complete opposite of Sheriff Taylor.
I feel that way about Joe Pesci. I love him as a bumbling crook like in Lethal Weapon and The Landlord. I HATE it when he plays an awful, awful, awful person, as in Goodfellas.
I tend not to watch stuff that includes bad acting, regardless of the character portrayed. There are some things I watch that contain actors who can't act but are icons. John Wayne being the most prominent. He couldn't act, but usually portrayed characters that people liked.
I'm like my favorite comedian, Lewis Grizzard. Northern actors playing a southerner. Although Jackie Gleason did ok in Smoky and the Bandit.
One of the problems with being an actor is the danger of becoming typecast. Some actors are permanently associated with a particular character. It has to be said that some people don't actually act at all, they just play themselves.
I have often thought that about Tom Hanks. I usually enjoy his movies but he is always "Tom Hanks" for the most part.
Yeh, that's what I was thinking when I commented about Carroll O'Conner/Archie Bunker. Lots of actors fell victim to their own single-character popularity. People are stupid.