Highest Q rating
PAVELB1
I just saw in a thread something called 'Q' rating to establish an
actor or actress' Likeability.
What modern actors or actresses in your opinion have the highest Q
rating these days.
My list:
Tom Hanks
Ewen Mcgregor
George Clooney (until recently, I'll bet it's taken a nosedive now)
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck (until recently, I feel very Ben Oversaturated lately)
steve
On 6-Apr-2003, smacked up and reeling, PAV...@EARTHLINK.NET (PAVELB1)
blindly formulated the following incoherence:
> What modern actors or actresses in your opinion have the highest Q
> rating these days.
The late John Candy was the most lovable guy on earth.
I've always found Drew Barrymore to be adorable.
Gael García (Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien) is quite affable.
steve
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Joe Gillis
>I just saw in a thread something called 'Q' rating to establish an
>actor or actress' Likeability.
>
>What modern actors or actresses in your opinion have the highest Q
>rating these days.
>
>My list:
>
>Tom Hanks
>Ewen Mcgregor
Who?
>George Clooney (until recently, I'll bet it's taken a nosedive now)
>Matt Damon
I don't think of either of these two as especially likeable.
>Ben Affleck (until recently, I feel very Ben Oversaturated lately)
>
You're kidding right? When was he ever likeable?
IIRC, Q ratings are used mostly for TV. They measure "likeability", not
popularity.
Some of the results might surprise you. In the mid-80s Bill Cosby finished
first. Second was Nancy McKeon (of The Facts Of Life).
5-10 years ago The Olsen Twins finished first.
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David
>> What modern actors or actresses in your opinion have the highest Q
>> rating these days.
>
>The late John Candy was the most lovable guy on earth.
Everybody got pleasure from Candy, regardless of the mediocrity of his
movies. Candy heads my list of supremely & universally likeable
contemporary stars.
PAVELB1
Well, I'm obviously misinterpreting what Q rating really means...I
thought it was some kind of cross in the public consciousness between
Likeability and Bankability.
Tom Hanks is Bank, Bank, Bank
George Clooney used to be very likeable til he starting mouthing off.
Matt Damon IMO is likeable and a good actor IMO
Ben Affleck for the most part is Bank, but like I said im sick of
seeing him...and he's coming out with two or three new movies witl
Jennifer Lopez...so ugh is all I have to say about that.
Ewen Mcgregor is very likeable.
Mpoconnor7
>popularity.
I have a Book of Lists book which had the highest and lowest Q ratings for a
particular year for various show business celebs, and Roger Ebert had the
lowest Q rating.
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
"The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion to
the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
Endy9
Actors:
Tom Hanks
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Matthew Brodderick
Michael J. Fox
Denzel Washington
Bruce Willis
Michael Keeton
Harrison Ford
Liam Neeson
Mel Gibson
Arnold
Sly Stallone
Anthony Edwards
Robin Williams
Actresses:
Meg Ryan
Sandra Bullock
Renee Zeilweiger
Whitney Houston
Queen Latifa
Sally Field
Brett Butler
Zeese Whitherspoon
Natalie Portman
People who have thrived despite lower Q ratings:
Actors:
Brad Pitt
Tom Cruise
George Clooney
Val Kilmer
Ed Norton
Daniel Day Lewis
Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino
Alan Rickman
Actresses:
Nicole Kidman
Catherine Zeta Jones
Meryl Streep
Rosanne Barr
Julianne Moore
Nev Campbell
Susan Sarandon
Love Hewitt
Christina Rici
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ShadZ
>
> Well, I'm obviously misinterpreting what Q rating really means...I
> thought it was some kind of cross in the public consciousness between
> Likeability and Bankability.
IIRC, the Q ratiing was (and still is) established by polling. Two
questions are asked:
1. Are you familiar with [celebrity's name]?
2 (only asked if they answered "yes" to 1.) Do you like/ have a positive
opinion about [celebrity's name]?
The Q rating is some kind of weighted combination of the two results. So
people with high Q ratings were both famous and liked by the general public.
The company that does Q ratings doesn't do every celebrity. They only
rate someone when they are paid to do so (usually by a movie studio or
advertisers looking for endorsers). A few years IBM paid to have chess-playing
computer Deep Blue rated (it did surprisingly well, about the same rating as
Carmen Electra).
Also, Q ratings aren't public (unlike Neilson or Arbotron ratings). The belong
only to the company that paid for them. However, usually they leak out...
or are released..
ShadZ
MJF
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> My guess for highest current Q ratings.
>
> Brett Butler
HUH?
Tranquility Base
>> Brett Butler
>
>HUH?
Well, he *was* one of the better leadoff hitters of the 80's..
Mpoconnor7
>Actors:
>
>Tom Hanks
>Ben Affleck
>Matt Damon
>Matthew Brodderick
>Michael J. Fox
>Denzel Washington
>Bruce Willis
>Michael Keeton
>Harrison Ford
>Liam Neeson
>Mel Gibson
>Arnold
>Sly Stallone
>Anthony Edwards
>Robin Williams
>
I would guess that among male actors, Hanks stands head and shoulders above the
rest in Q rating
>
>Actresses:
>Meg Ryan
>Sandra Bullock
>Renee Zeilweiger
>Whitney Houston
>Queen Latifa
>Sally Field
>Brett Butler
>Zeese Whitherspoon
>Natalie Portman
>
I would guess Reese Witherspoon is probably quite high, along with Renee
Zeilweiger, and would think that Catherine Zeta Jones and Julia Roberts would
be way up on the list also.
>
>People who have thrived despite lower Q ratings:
>
>Actors:
>Brad Pitt
>Tom Cruise
>George Clooney
>Val Kilmer
>Ed Norton
>Daniel Day Lewis
>Dustin Hoffman
>Al Pacino
>Alan Rickman
I would guess Tom Cruise to have one of the two or three highest Q ratings
among current male film actors, along with Hanks and maybe either Clint
Eastwood or Sean Connery.
>
>
>Actresses:
>Nicole Kidman
>Catherine Zeta Jones
>Meryl Streep
>Rosanne Barr
>Julianne Moore
>Nev Campbell
>Susan Sarandon
>Love Hewitt
>Christina Rici
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
W. Lydecker
PAVELB1
<kas...@uselessspamaccess1.net> wrote:
>Tom Hanks probably sits on top of the Q rating pile, but I would add
>Bruce Willis. He always comes across as cool and fun and very likeable.
>
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Until this war thing that is.....taking sides may be the right thing
to do...but its gonna alienate *some* people. Ask George Clooney.
Tom Hanks=Likeable-Oscar considered film-$100 million+ Box Office.
Tom Cruise=Somewhat Likeable-$100 million+
Mel Gibson is pretty much money in the bank too.
Joe Gillis
> I fancy Renee Zellweger; she's a bit of all right!
>
You'd like to Q her?
Ryan E.
Though the world has turned many times for them, I'm sure Eastwood,
Hackman, De Niro, and Pacino would still rank well against the
youngins'.
MJF
"Joe Gillis" <cinema...@aol.comedy> wrote in message
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> >
> > I fancy Renee Zellweger; she's a bit of all right!
> >
>
> You'd like to Q her?
>
>
>
MJF
Ollie W. Holmes
dead, has the highest Q rating?
James Stewart (male)
Marilyn Monroe (female)
Nix out Elvis, Kate Hepburn, etc., as they have their detractors as
well as admirers. Deeper question: Whom would you vote for president?
"A HO in every bed, a roast beef in every oven" would be my campaign
line.
PAVELB1
Holmes) wrote:
Monroe would have one of the lowest what with her high profile
marriages and her affairs with The Kennedys....not to mention that she
wasn't a terribly good actress.
how...@brazee.net
On 8-Apr-2003, ollie_w...@yahoo.com (Ollie W. Holmes) wrote:
> James Stewart (male)
>
> Marilyn Monroe (female)
>
> Nix out Elvis, Kate Hepburn, etc., as they have their detractors as
> well as admirers
So does Marilyn. But does having detractors lower your Q rating much? If
the people who like you like you very very much - does that overcome the
people who dislike you? At least enough to put you over the more
indifferent stars?
John Harkness
Well, historically, Monroe's problems at the box office were keyed to
the fact that women, by and large, didn't like her.
John Harkness
Nick Macpherson
I'm guessing the actress who'd get the highest Q rating is Audrey Hepburn, but
then there's people like my parents who still think she stole My Fair Lady from
Julie Andrews.
PAVELB1
wrote:
Again we have an actress who makes me swoon on screen, but her
offscreen life was full of controversy that may have not gone over
well with Mr and Mrs Joe Public. If it was 1960 and I wanted someone
to do a commercial for me, I'd definitly go with Julie Andrews over
Audrey Hepburn.
Mpoconnor7
>
>Everybody got pleasure from Candy, regardless of the mediocrity of his
>movies. Candy heads my list of supremely & universally likeable
>contemporary stars.
>
Who else would you consider to be universally likeable? I would guess a guy
like Tom Hanks, for example, would not be because there are a lot of people who
don't care for him based primarily on some of his movie roles (Forrest Gump).
Same for Julia Roberts, whose likeability, it seems to me, is sometimes just an
act.
Paul Newman strikes me as a guy who is very universally likeable. I've never
met a person who didn't love Paul Newman.
David
>>Everybody got pleasure from Candy, regardless of the mediocrity of his
>>movies. Candy heads my list of supremely & universally likeable
>>contemporary stars.
>
>Who else would you consider to be universally likeable? I would guess a guy
>like Tom Hanks, for example, would not be because there are a lot of people who
>don't care for him based primarily on some of his movie roles (Forrest Gump).
>Same for Julia Roberts, whose likeability, it seems to me, is sometimes just an
>act.
>Paul Newman strikes me as a guy who is very universally likeable. I've never
>met a person who didn't love Paul Newman.
Newman, yes. It's hard to say because you hear naysayers -- sometimes
large contingents of them -- squawk about some of the more obvious
examples of likeability, like Lucille Ball.
Actors like Jack Nicholson & Debra Winger probably rate very high;
they're some of the names that you & your friends mention in
conversation at work even if you're not talking about specific movies.
They have some quality that makes us talk about them irrespective of
their current work.
Heynony
> Monroe's problems at the box office were keyed to
> the fact that women, by and large, didn't like her.
Bi women liked Marilyn fine; it was the large ones who couldn't stand
her.