The Scott Caan Effect
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graculusToday's post is on the subject of actors I cannot stand. Yes, those folks whose involvement in a project makes me actively run in the opposite direction no matter how much the whole project might otherwise push my buttons like a rat in a Skinner box.
Having talked a little with someone (I think it may have been![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xandutch but I would not swear to it...) about this at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
connotations, I am now officially calling it The Scott Caan Effect. For me where UK-only shows are concerned it can also be the Keeley Hawes Effect as she also has the same impact on me and prevented me from watching more than about five minutes of Ashes To Ashes (though some might say that was a blessed relief!).
Yes, this particular psychological effect is powerful and strikes without warning. Just when you're thinking you might get into a ridiculous remake of a 1960's show, despite how much folks have told you that you ought and the autonomic response that provokes, the Effect strikes and you're gagging and reaching for the remote. It may be even stronger, to the point where mere photos of the cast make you vomit a little in your mouth because of the insane shortness and the bizarre hair.
Of course, for others the Scott Caan Effect is merely the stuff of legend and there will be pointing and mocking, however I suspect that each one of us has a 'Scott Caan' to whom we instinctively react this way, otherwise we're just in denial. So, good flist, if it's not the eponymous short-arse himself (and I'm not at all bitter that the man in question apparently beat out Michael Shanks for the role mostly on the basis of his surname rather than his acting ability...), who is your Scott Caan?
Having talked a little with someone (I think it may have been
xandutch but I would not swear to it...) about this at connotations, I am now officially calling it The Scott Caan Effect. For me where UK-only shows are concerned it can also be the Keeley Hawes Effect as she also has the same impact on me and prevented me from watching more than about five minutes of Ashes To Ashes (though some might say that was a blessed relief!). Yes, this particular psychological effect is powerful and strikes without warning. Just when you're thinking you might get into a ridiculous remake of a 1960's show, despite how much folks have told you that you ought and the autonomic response that provokes, the Effect strikes and you're gagging and reaching for the remote. It may be even stronger, to the point where mere photos of the cast make you vomit a little in your mouth because of the insane shortness and the bizarre hair.
Of course, for others the Scott Caan Effect is merely the stuff of legend and there will be pointing and mocking, however I suspect that each one of us has a 'Scott Caan' to whom we instinctively react this way, otherwise we're just in denial. So, good flist, if it's not the eponymous short-arse himself (and I'm not at all bitter that the man in question apparently beat out Michael Shanks for the role mostly on the basis of his surname rather than his acting ability...), who is your Scott Caan?
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Date: 2011-10-30 07:59 pm (UTC)Leonardo DiCaprio is one of my most-loathed and always has been. Sylvester Stallone and Mickey Rourke used to be must-avoids, but I find myself liking Rourke a bit more lately; he seems less obnoxious now he's older.
Sean Penn, Tom Cruise...wow, I had no idea there were so many.
Alicia Silverstone and Renee Zellwegger also put me off. And the Olsen twins; I don't think I've willingly watched anything they've done.
Edited to add Jonathan Rhys Thingy, who played, um...Henry the Eighth? I think? And also Russell Brand, because I will run screaming from stuff he's in.
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Date: 2011-10-30 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-30 09:08 pm (UTC)But yes, a lot of kids films aimed at girls and the dreaded chick flicks and rom-coms are just so terrible I wouldn't watch them no matter who was in them. And most of Stallone's films aren't my thing at all.