What's your opinion on Johnny Depp?

Never really cared for him. He is basically George from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf now

R1 How so?

OP, why in the world would you assume the out of the hundreds of thousands of gays who come here, many of whom work in the industry, none of us would know him?

I would guess that every celebrity on America is known by at least one person here, if not by many. Maybe not as close friends, but for instance, given my job, I know many dozens. And I know a few other people on this site who knows dozens more.

We're not all trolls who live in our mother's basements in Dallas.

R3 Okay, do you or any of your friends know him?

I think he's tremendous!

An entertainer whose career largely depended on his boyish appeal to females, who threw it all away in order to indulge a sadistic urge to publicly torture and humiliate his ex-wife.

[quote]the hundreds of thousands of gays who come here

HA! HAAahahahahahaha

A reasonably talented guy, buoyed along by his good looks & quirkiness, who hit it big when he paired up with Tim Burton. But he's not very intelligent and clearly has no one around him that cares about him enough to get to clean up & straighten up. Will some day show up in the tabs under "whatever happened to.." as a fat toothless old man living in some sub-standard housing with no one to are for him.

If I never heard his name again, it would be fine with me.

I loved him in the 90s. Thought he made really interesting film choices and gave outstanding performances. He was in four of my favorite childhood movies: Edward Scissorhands, Benny and Joon, Ed Wood, and Gilbert Grape.

Once he became a huge Movie Star in the 00s? I lost interest. Good for him for cashing in, but his choices become boring.

He was hawt and a fantastic actor and made interesting films. Until he became a dumpster fire.

OP's post. TLDR

Never understood why he was ever considered a “great actor.” Although I like Donny Brasco a lot; mainly because he and Pacino worked really well together.

Sour pusses, the lot of you. The screen loved him and so did the public. Must have made him half a billion bucks at some point.

He is dumb, dumb, dumb. He should thank his lucky stars every day and stfu!!

Did he really nag Amber for being "old", considering he is so much older? What a fuckdouche.

Ok actor but things went really downhill for him once he starred in the hideous disgusting Tim Burton wonka film. I couldn't shake the image of how grotesque the film was in my head. Then he did the equally awful Tim Burton Alice film. I liked him as an actor prior to those films but I was never enamored with his looks

And not to get to OT but Tim Burton is a destroyer of careers. No actor or actress should work with him from this point on. Whatever talent he had is gone.

I don’t think hanging out with alcoholic misogynistic antisocial asshole Hunter S. Thompson helped him much. He seemed to conflate being a “wild man” “outcast” “rural bad boy” who also being an abusive cruel pick to women.

I feel he is easily impressionable and hanging out with some of the misfits and social outcasts he gravitated towards really led him astray.

He used to be beautiful and made interesting acting choices. Now he's a gross drunk and drug addict who looks like he smells of BO and cigarettes and booze.

Was very attractive and made interesting choices especially in the 90s. But deeply miserable, narcissistic and insecure and threw many people under the bus for his rise to fame. Created a pseudo-intellectual European persona and was condescending about it. Cares a lot about his fame and craves adoration no matter what he says. Amber Heard was a bitch but exposed a lot of his real personality. He's why nobody should meet their idols

Believes he is highly intelligent, cultured, cool and artistic. Delusional and an asshole.

He peaked with Ed Wood. Without Tom Burton he'd likely still be doing TV or b-list movies like Private Resort. John Waters also made very good use of him in Cry-Baby.

Depp thinks he is "the smartest person in the room" when the opposite is true. Besides he is fucking gross looking. I bet he has fungus growing on his balls.

R18 He seemed to have had no personality when young. Just an empty vessel with an intense need to be liked. He talked about how he moved around a lot as a kid and he had difficulty making friends and became reclusive. And his parents splitting being rough on him and his mom worked a lot and was an alcoholic. So he was neglected. He said he used to cut himself and contemplate suicide before finding music as a comfort. That sounds like he has borderline personality disorder and depression. He was a typical hick before becoming close to Tim Burton and Hunter S Thompson, Keith Richards and others. And started affecting this pseudo intelligent hipster persona and embracing the junkie lifestyle. He's eternally a teenager who never resolved his childhood trauma.

I think he craves attention and controversy and he'll never deal with being irrelevant well. I don't feel bad for him because he has the money and resources to get help.

Johnny Depp has always been an oddity/novelty act and has now reached his expiry date. Like Madonna he is desperately trying to hold onto his youth and looks ridiculous. And yes, I don't like what he did to Amber Heard either. I haven't seen one of his bomb movies for a long time and nor do I intend to!

R17 Why is Tim Burton a destroyer of careers?

I look forward to the news he's DEAD TO ME. Honestly.

What sexual photo shoot with Kate Moss?

I get the impression that if he was a young person in the 1960s, he would have been involved with Charles Manson's cult.

He was good in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood.

He's basically Norma Desmond at this point.

Or he's going to wind up being Joe Gillis: face down, but at least it will be in his own pool.

A thrice nominated loser.

Don't kid yourself, Johnny.

Too late.

I don't understand how a man blessed with such a beautiful face would destroy it especially since it was his claim to fame. Most white men with brown hair and brown eyes age beautifully because they have more melanin which protects from sun damage and hides blemishes. Look at Richard Gere, Billy Crudup, Colin Farrell, Josh Hartnett, George Clooney, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Perkins, etc. Johnny would have aged well if he didn't become a drug addict, alcoholic and stopped taking care of his hygiene. It's hard to forget he used to look like this:

He was only 26 in that picture and he looks mature, which is weird because he was also 26/27 in Crybaby but he looked like a real teenager in that movie.

The phrase "I've had sufficient" comes to mind.

Everyone says he has a fake British accent , but I can't hear it. He just sounds like a marble-mouth American.

An over the hill

SKANK

[quote] And yes, I don't like what he did to Amber Heard either.

Amber Turd has entered the chat.

Considerably overrated. Hearing him howl through "Sweeney Todd" was unforgivable.

R38 Sweeney Todd would have been better without the singing.

I don't know anything about his childhood/background. He was abused by his mother? Is that correct?

My impression of him is that he's cobbled together a persona for himself based on Hunter S. Thompson, Keith Richards and Marlon Brando. He probably asks himself, 'What would Hunter do?' in any give situation.

I'm not a fan though I liked him as an actor. But he's squandered his talent, looks and money, so it's hard to feel sorry for him. He got what he deserved with Heard.

R26 = Tim Burton

I'll add a positive note. I've dined out on this story at the good, old DL many times, and here it is again.

Depp, at one time, could manage to be "nice to the little people".

I was close friends and family with locals who both he and Marian Cotillard talked to, and learned from, when they both were researching their roles in "Public Enemies" (an underappreciated movie, imho).

Of course, "What were they like?" was my first question from those who met them.

To a person, they all said that both Depp and Cotillard could not have been nicer; almost disappointing in how down-to-Earth and engaging they were. No movie-star attitude whatsoever. They both had lots of questions for them and really listened and engaged with them.

I could not get over how Cotillard won, for "La Vie En Rose", Best Actress in France on a Saturday night, won her Oscar on a Sunday night, and then, there she was in my little, rural Northern WI town Tuesday night.

That gave me great insight to how driven and career focused "A List" actors are at that level.

Hell, if that were me (and speaking of insight, this is why I'm not driven and famous), I'd have taken a couple of weeks off to stare at my awards, poolside.

Depp is Florida white trash, no more no less.

As noted above, he is the male Norma Desmond at this point.

I'd like to think he is paying now for the part he played in River Phoenix's death.

R43 What does it even mean to be Florida white trash? He was born poor but has achieved a lot. If somebody's born poor, are they automatically considered trash for life, even if they go on to be successful?

When JD began cosplaying Keith Richards I thought, "uh oh , this won't end well." It never does. Many men have tried to be like KR. Most of them are no longer living.