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Originally Posted by sleepnow
Uhhh yeah I do not agree with you! Maybe you are frustrated with your own personal life and that is why Johnny Depp is annoying you. Come on' dude, you can't act!! Get over yourself. 
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All right, the bolded bit is all that was needed for a civilized response. Perhaps you could also have added, "I personally thought Johnny Depp did great in the part."
Maybe you could even have supplemented that with asking why I personally thought the performance wasn't particularly noteworthy, or by going into your own reasons for finding it to be a great performance. That seems as though it would have been a good way to respond, and would have completely taken away the need for personal attacks directed at someone you don't even know.
As for why I didn't find it noteworthy and why Johnny Depp's performances haven't really clicked with me lately: I don't feel like he's trying anymore. He's doing very similar parts, I don't see that he's connecting with the characters, and he's laying on accents like they're a cheap coat and not like they're an actual bit of his character. It's been feeling artificial to me lately, and it's been feeling lazy. It seems to me as though he's just put it on autopilot and thinks, "I'm Johnny Depp; I don't even have to try anymore."
The reason this is frustrating to me is because I have seen him do good, occasionally even great work in the past. When I see an actor with what I'd believed to be unlimited potential start to coast in and give the same type of performance over and over with seemingly no regard for the character, I naturally begin to feel a bit frustrated.
Maybe it's because, oh, I don't know...maybe it's because I get the majority of my income from acting, directing, writing, and teaching theatre workshops.