hes too lazy to act in anything else. he just wants to be a movie star. bautista and cena is trying to become an actor. apparently DWAYNE behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.
Less than a year ago, he starred in a Safdie-directed, A24-produced biopic which earned him a couple of acting award noms, including a Golden Globe. Granted, it was the biggest flop of his career (so far), but from what I understand his acting chops were not the movie's problem.
How do we even tell between actors that only get casted for one type of role, actors who only apply for one type of role, and actors who just can't play anything else well?
I think Adam Sandler is a good example of an actor who CAN play more than one role (Uncut Gems as an example) but mostly only does movies that are all the same role.
Sandler does whatever he likes and has turned moviemaking into a system to finance people in need and even though i think his movies are dogshit i respect the hell outta him for that
I read an interview where he was talking about giving all his friends jobs and getting paid to travel and make movies with them and it made me like him as a person quite a bit.
Still not a fan of his movies but I can't fault his logic.
He's also known for hiring people so they can keep their SAG insurance (especially a key grip or similar who was dying of cancer) and ...well, read up on the jack and jill escape theory
Tom cruise for example, he isn't any superhero at all but he always wants to play that role (and probably always wanted ever since he was that kid who was always much smaller than the others).
And he absolutely CAN act! As soon as you hide his "Tom Cruise"-ness behind enough makeup or preferably a mask he can let loose of his "must be that specific cool guy"-syndrome and becomes a decent actor.
But when it's his own face, he has 3 expressions and MUST be that specific cool guy.
This is why I'm hesitant to say Adam Baldwin. He's always the same basic character, but I think there are enough subtle differences between them to not count.
No, he was a different guy in "the big year" and also different in that movie where he's a funeral home director or something? He was southern? Based on a true story I think?
He was already kind of heading that way before Deadpool. I rewatched Buried and he was still doing that, just with less references so he didn't sound like Gex.
he was in wolverine the 2009 one as wade. hes pretty much the same thing as in deadpool just slighty less loudmouth. he did play that wierd schizophrenic character in the one movie that nobody remembers.
He did a weird indie film called "The Nines" he can turn the chops on when he wants to. I find it hard to criticise those people because "Hey, want to earn millions of dollars doing this the easy way? Or you can go do some passion projects to prove a point and make less." Is a damn awkward spot to be in.
Im sure we all like to think we would take the route of Sandler doing Uncut Gems, I love to think that was him just telling his haters to go fuck themselves. "Just because I dont, doesnt mean I cant"
nobody mentioned, but Chris pratt, originally he was being casted in EVERYTHING. after parks and recs he has no range, hes just a sad moody pos irl too, supporting a alt-right church, and his sudden switch to evangelicalism. anne farris in an interview said he changed to a gymbo the moment he got buff for marvel/JP movies.
Oh, he absolutely has range! But, he's like a guitar, it's great and has all sorts of range but it's never going to be a piano.
Like, in Fargo I see him as Buscemi with nervousness lower authority high. As Donny, nervousness high, authority low. In Russia, nervousness high, authority high.
Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems and Will Farrell in Everything Must Go+Stranger Than Fiction were different performances than their usual and really well acted.
Kevin James... I don't think I've yet to see him in any different role
Don’t forget the propensity for violence before/during/after said sexual misadventures and doing it all while goth coded. She’s made of a career of characters you can “fix” but also want to ruin your life.
A two-part French remake of The Three Musketeers that came out a couple of years ago. Never got a wide release in the States but if you’re a fan of the story and period pieces it’s one of the best interpretations IMO.
I don’t recall any smoking. Not nearly as crazy violent as 300 (are we fighting, fucking, or both) and not nearly as crazy ex-gf who spent the last few hundred years plotting her revenge as she was in Dark Shadows. I’d put it squarely in an average outing with Eva- capable woman stuck in a period/system that doesn’t actually appreciate her capability even if it can’t deny it, she’s aware she’s smart and attractive and uses that to her advantage as she can, but she’s also more broken inside than she lets on.
This has made me realize it would be hilarious to watch her invert her typical characters and be the small town girl who moved the the big city where she got overworked and broken hearted only to come home for a Hallmark Christmas and find she always had what she needed waiting for her in a flannel clad handyman with a beat-up pick-up truck and slice of pie at the diner. The twist ending is that she’s actually nuts and this was all a ruse to burn her town to the ground.
Fining out Joe Pesci plays Joe Pesci in real life because he was originally a tough guy, not the usual NY Juliard alumni, made his movies pretty annoying for me. Highlight: him hosting SNL and threatening to smack Sinead O'Connor for her anti-pope statement made that obvious
Sucks that it's too late to stop quoting My Cousin Vinny
SEEMS PEOPLE who went to "mit version of music and theather" sure love to be boastful about going there. glenn is another juliard alumini, but i think he only fits in as an ISAIP comedy actor, and almost anything else he doesnt have range outside of that.(i remember mac is the one whos been wierdly promoting his juilard education as if it makes him a good actor). i think the school made him too rigid.
Glenn was good in Blackberry but it wasnt a million miles from home.
Tbh I love IASIP but with the exception of Charlie Day they all seem a bit egotistical and one note.
Charlie is a good VA and seems down to earth for the most part. Mac has a high opinion of himself and Gleen seems like he cant get past not being bigger. Kaitlyn is samey across things, IASIP, The Mick and High Potential.
The show is huge, they should be proud but I get the impression they love the success, hate having to keep doing it but know there isnt much more for them.
It sucks IASIP is groundbreaking but they are overly hollywood now for the show to be as good. Looking forward to thebnew season, hope to be proved wrong.
yea charlie is the best actor outside of them, besides danny devito. kinda like how supernatural went on too long, and jensen is trying to seperate himself from the "DEAN", thats why he had all this drama with jared, misha. hollywood might not be interested in thier "type of looks, despite thier large amounts of plastic surgeries and botox" plus the type of comedy they do probably rubs the "traditional hollywood peeps" the wrong way. isaip was big early pre-12, but after 13 it kinda became cringey, as they got older and cant relate anymore to younger age groups.
The cast looks bad for sure Mac has become a try hard, changing his name apeing Ryan Reynolds. Glenn is strange looking though some of that is makeup and filming style of the show. Kaitlyn is weird, they all say she is the besr actress but I cant see her in a serious role, a romantic role, a horrer. Literally nothing except one of the guys girl.
Charlie should have gone farther, the movie knocked him hard when he should have kept pushing.
He specifically requests to be a bad guy and to lose in the end because of his experience with crime and prison in his youth and wanting to be an example of crime not winning.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Instead of grizzled badass he’s the kindly janitor that still gets brutally murdered by Michael. He’s still playing a version of Danny Trejo, the director just reframed how the audience viewed him.
I'm not sure if it's himself but John Spencer had an oddly specific career type cast as "guy who is smarter than the people around him and is totally exasperated with having to deal with their nonsense."
From WarGames to The Rock to The West Wing, he's that guy. So consistent.
I recently learned that they made an official youtube channel where they plan to keep a rotating 10 full episodes of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood up at all times.
Untrue. Mister Rogers, Daniel Tiger, Henrietta Pussycat, X the Owl, King Friday XIII, and Lady Elaine Fairchild were all pretty distinct characters from one another.
ISAIP cast, besides danny devito. they can never get out of being that isaip characther, hence thier ability to branch out of that show is nill, yes they did have other shows but they do anything remarkable different from what they did with isaip. mac saying glenn is from juilhart doesnt make him a good actor.
gal gadot, terrible acttress, i suspect shes only where she is at because they need to have IDF/zionist cheerleader in hollywood.
I don't know, i mean he does have range, but i don't think I've over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.
I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can't unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can't seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can't hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a 'this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character'.
Good or bad, i don't think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.
I get what you're saying, there's an enigmatic quality about his characters, but watch some of his older movies then watch him as Austin Power's father - he can play different, he's just played a similar character a lot.
Please watch Children of Men. There are many reasons to watch (it's one of my fav movies), but Caine's portrayal of Jasper is memorable, and completely different to anything else I've seen him do.
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boletus@sh.itjust.works · 91 pts · 76d
Jeff Goldblum
M137@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 76d
This is one of the few that's correct but also completely fine, IMO.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 76d
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 72 pts · 76d
The Rock
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 76d
hes too lazy to act in anything else. he just wants to be a movie star. bautista and cena is trying to become an actor. apparently DWAYNE behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 76d
I honestly really enjoy cena in the stuff he’s in
AngryRobot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 76d
Peacemaker had no right to be as good as it was.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 75d
Cena's been surprisingly skilled. From psych to peacemaker he's been bringing it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 75d
one of his first roles was in psych, he played the part. but he probably got better since then.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 76d
yeah what I have seen has been fun.
logos@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d
He was great in Pluribus
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Everyone sleeping on Vacation Friends. A fun movie
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
His hands are hilariously huge. I watched that forest firefighter movie he was in and laughed every time he used a cellphone.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 76d
"I dislike that you enjoy someone else's work" - Somebody else on Lemmy
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
... who's contract? You just mentioned 3 people.
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
Less than a year ago, he starred in a Safdie-directed, A24-produced biopic which earned him a couple of acting award noms, including a Golden Globe. Granted, it was the biggest flop of his career (so far), but from what I understand his acting chops were not the movie's problem.
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 76d
Counterexample:
Pain & Gain
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 76d
I feel like he was himself but dumber in that movie lol
Anivia@feddit.org · 2 pts · 75d
Yeah, but he took steroids in that movie, and The Rock says he is natty 🤡
Delphia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
I have a love hate relationship with that movie for an interesting reason (IMO). There is not a sympathetic or likeable character in the whole thing.
The only person who isnt actively dislikeable is Ed Harris and he barely qualifies as a character.
mech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 74d
I liked Rebel Wilson's character.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 76d
Sean Connery is not an actor, he's a movie star.
Yesh, I am a British shecret agent. Bond, Jamesh Bond.
Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain. my name is Ramiush. Marco Ramiush.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 36 pts · 76d
I mustache you a question but I'm shaving it for later
Taleya@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 76d
I'm not shpanish i'm egyptian
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 76d
Don't forget Zardoc!
Maiq@piefed.social · 4 pts · 76d
One of my favorite fan theory's is that Sean was 007 left to rot by MI6 in The Rock.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
Jamesh Bond sounds like a bollywood version. Would watch
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 53 pts · 76d
How do we even tell between actors that only get casted for one type of role, actors who only apply for one type of role, and actors who just can't play anything else well?
Maven@lemmy.zip · 47 pts · 76d
Thats kinda hard to say tbh...
I think Adam Sandler is a good example of an actor who CAN play more than one role (Uncut Gems as an example) but mostly only does movies that are all the same role.
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe · 22 pts · 76d
Yeah, that's the other-side-of-the-coin of your question but much more interesting. For instance, there's a list of examples on the wiki page for typecast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting#Playing_against_type
Taleya@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 75d
Sandler does whatever he likes and has turned moviemaking into a system to finance people in need and even though i think his movies are dogshit i respect the hell outta him for that
nomy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 75d
I read an interview where he was talking about giving all his friends jobs and getting paid to travel and make movies with them and it made me like him as a person quite a bit.
Still not a fan of his movies but I can't fault his logic.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 75d
He's also known for hiring people so they can keep their SAG insurance (especially a key grip or similar who was dying of cancer) and ...well, read up on the jack and jill escape theory
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d
Everyone pisses on Sandler, but he's got range and variety in his roles. Studios pay him to be silly so he can take chances on other roles.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 15 pts · 76d
When you see them as themselves, then you know.
Tom cruise for example, he isn't any superhero at all but he always wants to play that role (and probably always wanted ever since he was that kid who was always much smaller than the others).
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
But Tom Cruise does have some range as well.
Les Grossman (BEST MOMENTS) - Tropic Thunder
nomy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 75d
People hate on him but he hasn't been an A-list celebrity since he was 18 because he's talentless.
Not even a fan of his but he's got some chops when he can use it.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 75d
And he absolutely CAN act! As soon as you hide his "Tom Cruise"-ness behind enough makeup or preferably a mask he can let loose of his "must be that specific cool guy"-syndrome and becomes a decent actor.
But when it's his own face, he has 3 expressions and MUST be that specific cool guy.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 76d
cast
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 76d
This is why I'm hesitant to say Adam Baldwin. He's always the same basic character, but I think there are enough subtle differences between them to not count.
SkaraBrae@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 76d
Jack Black.
Killer57@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 76d
I didn't know, he did a really good job as playing a teenage girl in Jumanji.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 17 pts · 75d
And as a nervous high school student in Northern Exposure. Or in high fidelity.
I think his problem is that overwhelmingly people cast him because they want the bombastic hairball. It's not lack of skill, it's typecasting
bless@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 75d
Jack Black is a teenage girl IRL
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
No, he was a different guy in "the big year" and also different in that movie where he's a funeral home director or something? He was southern? Based on a true story I think?
Creepo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d
Also a gunsmith in the jackal.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 76d
Owen "Wow" Wilson
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 76d
First one who came to my mind. Not sure Luke Wilson is very much better.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Against type in the big year imo
a_person@piefed.social · 40 pts · 76d
The rock "the rock" the rock johnson
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d
But you must admit that he's hilarious at it.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 76d
His whole deal was pretty funny for a few weeks in the early 2000s.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 75d
He used to do this eyebrow thing that killed it back in the second week of March, 2001.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 75d
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?!
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 74d
Not even a little
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 38 pts · 76d
Christopher Walken. The exception would be maybe Sleepy Hollow, but only because he didn't have any lines.
Epp@lemmus.org · 37 pts · 76d
Watch Severance. He's a very different Christopher Walken.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Thats the same Christopher Walken as in Catch Me if you Can. Maybe Seven Psychopaths?
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 76d
Watch "Deer Hunter". Young Christopher Walken will blow you away.
skibidi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
He did a good job with the (admittedly small) part of the emperor in Dune.
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 36 pts · 76d
Ryan Reynolds. There were some other movies but once he was in Deadpool, I feel like his whole personality was sarcastic mean funny guy
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 75d
He was him even back in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.
amgine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d
And waiting
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 75d
He was already kind of heading that way before Deadpool. I rewatched Buried and he was still doing that, just with less references so he didn't sound like Gex.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 75d
he was in wolverine the 2009 one as wade. hes pretty much the same thing as in deadpool just slighty less loudmouth. he did play that wierd schizophrenic character in the one movie that nobody remembers.
defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 75d
The Voices. And that movie is fantastic.
Senal@programming.dev · 1 pts · 75d
It is, but he's still him, just with more mental health issues.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 75d
Waiting (2005) was him as himself as a waiter
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d
Van Wilder?
Delphia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d
He did a weird indie film called "The Nines" he can turn the chops on when he wants to. I find it hard to criticise those people because "Hey, want to earn millions of dollars doing this the easy way? Or you can go do some passion projects to prove a point and make less." Is a damn awkward spot to be in.
Im sure we all like to think we would take the route of Sandler doing Uncut Gems, I love to think that was him just telling his haters to go fuck themselves. "Just because I dont, doesnt mean I cant"
Epp@lemmus.org · 35 pts · 76d
Seth Rogan. Worst Donkey Kong possible.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
hyukhyuhkyuhk
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 74d
Is it? I mean who even would be a good donkey kong?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 30 pts · 75d
nobody mentioned, but Chris pratt, originally he was being casted in EVERYTHING. after parks and recs he has no range, hes just a sad moody pos irl too, supporting a alt-right church, and his sudden switch to evangelicalism. anne farris in an interview said he changed to a gymbo the moment he got buff for marvel/JP movies.
la508@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 75d
The past participle of "cast" is "cast".
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 74d
Whomstedestesteries'
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 30 pts · 76d
Has Steve Buscemi ever not been Steve Buscemi? Even as a hitman, he's Steve Buscemi.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 56 pts · 76d
Watch The Death of Stalin and then Fargo and then The Big Lebowski. Dude has range.
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 76d
Fargo was the hitman role I was thinking of!
Oh, he absolutely has range! But, he's like a guitar, it's great and has all sorts of range but it's never going to be a piano.
Like, in Fargo I see him as Buscemi with nervousness lower authority high. As Donny, nervousness high, authority low. In Russia, nervousness high, authority high.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 3 pts · 75d
ya know, just kinda funny lookin’
Miller@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 76d
What about actors who can't play themselves like Peter Sellers.
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 76d
I see your Peter Sellers and I raise with Gary Oldman.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d
I feel like nowadays Jackson Lamb is probably pretty close
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 73d
I love that show because of him. If greasy competence had a patron saint, it would be Lamb. If he could be arsed to take the job.
The writers on Slow Horses aren't too shabby either, but the delivery, man. Remember the "call this number" scene? I was in stitches.
darth_grunkus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8bHEdPmazU&t=53s
Miller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
I think Sellers said that Chauncey Gardiner was the closest he ever came to being himself.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 76d
Ryan Reynolds.
Foreigner@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 76d
Jennifer Coolidge, and I love her for it.
BandanaBug@piefed.social · 25 pts · 76d
Will Ferrell. Adam Sandler. Kevin James.
Elextra@literature.cafe · 26 pts · 76d
Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems and Will Farrell in Everything Must Go+Stranger Than Fiction were different performances than their usual and really well acted.
Kevin James... I don't think I've yet to see him in any different role
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Nope. Definitely absolutely nope. Maybe.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Dont really like WF but he has branched and has chops
Elextra@literature.cafe · 21 pts · 76d
Kevin Hart.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d
He's not an actor. He just wanders onto movie sets and they record him being himself.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 20 pts · 76d
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 75d
Go watch Maggie.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 75d
I scrolled through the entire thread down and back up, it's a bit of a shock that John Wayne was not mentioned even once... until now.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 75d
"Howdy, partner, I'm Genghis Khan."
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d
I think that’s because he’s essentially irrelevant in pop culture these days
kip@piefed.zip · 17 pts · 76d
Eva Green's range includes smoking fags or not and getting up to sexual misadventures or not
Ricky Gervais is only ever Ricky Gervais
chunes@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 75d
Yeah I'm okay with this
kip@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 75d
of course. it works
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 75d
Don’t forget the propensity for violence before/during/after said sexual misadventures and doing it all while goth coded. She’s made of a career of characters you can “fix” but also want to ruin your life.
amgine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 75d
TIL I need to watch more movies Eva Green has been in
kip@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 75d
i'd start with womb (2010) if i were you
kip@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 75d
the first two are 300 and dark shadows but don't recognise the third. penny dreadful maybe?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 75d
A two-part French remake of The Three Musketeers that came out a couple of years ago. Never got a wide release in the States but if you’re a fan of the story and period pieces it’s one of the best interpretations IMO.
kip@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 75d
cheers. if i'm a fan of cigarettes and smut what's the expected return?
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 75d
I don’t recall any smoking. Not nearly as crazy violent as 300 (are we fighting, fucking, or both) and not nearly as crazy ex-gf who spent the last few hundred years plotting her revenge as she was in Dark Shadows. I’d put it squarely in an average outing with Eva- capable woman stuck in a period/system that doesn’t actually appreciate her capability even if it can’t deny it, she’s aware she’s smart and attractive and uses that to her advantage as she can, but she’s also more broken inside than she lets on.
This has made me realize it would be hilarious to watch her invert her typical characters and be the small town girl who moved the the big city where she got overworked and broken hearted only to come home for a Hallmark Christmas and find she always had what she needed waiting for her in a flannel clad handyman with a beat-up pick-up truck and slice of pie at the diner. The twist ending is that she’s actually nuts and this was all a ruse to burn her town to the ground.
kip@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 74d
i sincerely hope this is read by someone who can grant you your wish
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 74d
Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas II: Home for the Holidays
It’s not like he’s do anything better, or anything other than sequels these days.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 74d
Was there a sequel to 300 I'm not aware of or do I just not remember that movie at all?
kip@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 74d
yeah i was just being lazy it's 300: rise of an empire from 2014
Crashumbc@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 76d
Tom Cruise
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 75d
Tropic Thunder is an exception
msage@programming.dev · 2 pts · 75d
What a show that was. Even the dance at the end... too funny.
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 75d
Steven Seagal
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 75d
OP's question was about actors though
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d
He's become a walrus with a ponytail
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 75d
I'm pretty sure he's sometimes a cop now too. I heard of someone getting pulled over by him a while back.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 75d
For the most part, Jason Momoa
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 75d
that is true, he was the same person in SGA atlantis, in aquaman(atlantis), dune, and GOT. he was more entertaining when he started out in SGA.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d
He did do something different for the minecraft movie though.
TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 76d
Richard Ayoade, his entire role in IT crowd was just him being him in whatever scenario he's in.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 76d
Not true, he didn't use his real voice in that role
ripcord@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 76d
His real voice is actually a deep, Barry White-like baritone
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 75d
Its boring too
PoscoBumbleroot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 76d
Michael Cera
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d
Fining out Joe Pesci plays Joe Pesci in real life because he was originally a tough guy, not the usual NY Juliard alumni, made his movies pretty annoying for me. Highlight: him hosting SNL and threatening to smack Sinead O'Connor for her anti-pope statement made that obvious
Sucks that it's too late to stop quoting My Cousin Vinny
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
He seems like a try hard to me, someone who couldnt be - so just pretends
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 75d
SEEMS PEOPLE who went to "mit version of music and theather" sure love to be boastful about going there. glenn is another juliard alumini, but i think he only fits in as an ISAIP comedy actor, and almost anything else he doesnt have range outside of that.(i remember mac is the one whos been wierdly promoting his juilard education as if it makes him a good actor). i think the school made him too rigid.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d
Glenn was good in Blackberry but it wasnt a million miles from home.
Tbh I love IASIP but with the exception of Charlie Day they all seem a bit egotistical and one note.
Charlie is a good VA and seems down to earth for the most part. Mac has a high opinion of himself and Gleen seems like he cant get past not being bigger. Kaitlyn is samey across things, IASIP, The Mick and High Potential.
The show is huge, they should be proud but I get the impression they love the success, hate having to keep doing it but know there isnt much more for them.
It sucks IASIP is groundbreaking but they are overly hollywood now for the show to be as good. Looking forward to thebnew season, hope to be proved wrong.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 74d
yea charlie is the best actor outside of them, besides danny devito. kinda like how supernatural went on too long, and jensen is trying to seperate himself from the "DEAN", thats why he had all this drama with jared, misha. hollywood might not be interested in thier "type of looks, despite thier large amounts of plastic surgeries and botox" plus the type of comedy they do probably rubs the "traditional hollywood peeps" the wrong way. isaip was big early pre-12, but after 13 it kinda became cringey, as they got older and cant relate anymore to younger age groups.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d
The cast looks bad for sure Mac has become a try hard, changing his name apeing Ryan Reynolds. Glenn is strange looking though some of that is makeup and filming style of the show. Kaitlyn is weird, they all say she is the besr actress but I cant see her in a serious role, a romantic role, a horrer. Literally nothing except one of the guys girl.
Charlie should have gone farther, the movie knocked him hard when he should have kept pushing.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d
Keanu.
The Roc
Kevin bacon
Nick cage.
Ted Dansen.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d
The Roc shouldn't be on your list. The Roc has massive range. Mostly due to their enormous wings.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 75d
The Roc sounds terrifying.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 75d
Nic cage is versatile, he is just unique. I actually think he is in a lane similar to hugo weaving or willem dafoe.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 75d
i think some on those list are decent or good at least in that role, but some people who are stuck in thier role seems to be terrible too.
flubba86@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d
Aziz Ansari
thlibos@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 75d
Samuel L. Jackson is the first name to pop into my head upon reading the thread title.
Cherry@piefed.social · 11 pts · 76d
Jason Statham, Gwneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 76d
Tom Cruise
nodiratime@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d
Disagree.
E.g. Eyes wide shut vs Minority report?
Delphia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d
I hate that I love his work.
Name another A lister that regularly takes high concept standalone Sci-Fi roles and crushes them.
mrmule@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 75d
Danny Trejo
Zron@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 75d
Isn’t that intentional though?
He specifically requests to be a bad guy and to lose in the end because of his experience with crime and prison in his youth and wanting to be an example of crime not winning.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 75d
Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Instead of grizzled badass he’s the kindly janitor that still gets brutally murdered by Michael. He’s still playing a version of Danny Trejo, the director just reframed how the audience viewed him.
mrmule@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 75d
Spy Kids
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 76d
John Malkovich, unless you're John Cusack.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 76d
I'm not sure if it's himself but John Spencer had an oddly specific career type cast as "guy who is smarter than the people around him and is totally exasperated with having to deal with their nonsense."
From WarGames to The Rock to The West Wing, he's that guy. So consistent.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 76d
Jennifer Lopez.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d
Fred Rogers.
chunes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 75d
I recently learned that they made an official youtube channel where they plan to keep a rotating 10 full episodes of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood up at all times.
https://www.youtube.com/@MisterRogersNeighborhood/videos
Right now it still has the very first episode up. Interesting to see how little the 'formula' has changed over the years.
JackTea@piefed.world · 3 pts · 76d
Agreed! He should have kept to the genre he was most famous for: action movies from Cannon films
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d
Untrue. Mister Rogers, Daniel Tiger, Henrietta Pussycat, X the Owl, King Friday XIII, and Lady Elaine Fairchild were all pretty distinct characters from one another.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 76d
Marc Alaimo, because he is every bit as creepy as his character Gul Dukat.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 75d
I get he had to buy into dukat "being the hero" to portray that in his works but it's been nearly three decades, dude drank the koolaid
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 6 pts · 76d
Lightning McQueen
;-)
Kaesekalup@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 75d
Johnny Sins
Fleeing_snail@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 75d
Will Smith
Delphia@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 75d
Nah, Will does have range. Theres alot of reasons he is terrible but thats not one of them.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
Timothy Dalton, but he’s T Dalt, so spread it on.
pocopene@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 75d
Robert de Niro
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 76d
I'm not sure Jack Nicholson can only play themselves but he does seem to get cast as the unhinged character quite a lot.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 76d
ISAIP cast, besides danny devito. they can never get out of being that isaip characther, hence thier ability to branch out of that show is nill, yes they did have other shows but they do anything remarkable different from what they did with isaip. mac saying glenn is from juilhart doesnt make him a good actor.
gal gadot, terrible acttress, i suspect shes only where she is at because they need to have IDF/zionist cheerleader in hollywood.
Summzashi@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 76d
Its Sunny always in Philadelphia
Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 76d
Nah. Charlie Day can bring it
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d
this woman from new girl. Ryan Reynolds
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
Zoey Deschanel was different to herself (or her manic pixie dream girl character at least) in Elf.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 4 pts · 76d
David Duchovny.
John Wayne.
Keanu Reeves.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 76d
I was all the great robot actors. Actingbot 0.8! Thesb-O-mat! David Duchovny!
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 76d
John Wayne was a Nazi - MDC
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 76d
disagree about keanu reeves. have you seen a scanner darkly?
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 75d
I feel like The Conqueror (1956) is infamous for being a movie where Wayne does not play a character like himself.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 76d
Nicholas cage
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 76d
Idk. Watch The Weather Man, Lord of War and Spider-Noir, all wildly different performances. I'm no stan but Nic has range.
Edit: Although I do agree he hasn't historically used it. I think related to money trouble and having to do a lot of ridiculous mostly trash movies.
Maiq@piefed.social · 16 pts · 76d
Raising Arizona is another good example.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d
Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation. He's just absolute shit as a "cool guy". He's great at being a dork playing a cool guy.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 4 pts · 76d
Moonstruck worked, strangely. It’s a movie that’s more like a theatre production.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d
DankDingleberry@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d
absolutely not. this guy has range as hell
saltesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d
I was about to say that ironically.
Truth is you couldn't be further from it. But it's a little magical to pretend and hope that, yes, Nick Cage is irl all of that.
dnick@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 60d
I don't know, i mean he does have range, but i don't think I've over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.
I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can't unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can't seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can't hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a 'this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character'.
Good or bad, i don't think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 2 pts · 75d
You NEED to watch "Pig"
It's great, but it's also the least Nic Cage role being played perfectly by Nic Cage.
MSBBritain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?
Evotech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d
Kevin hart
Onyxonblack@piefed.social · 3 pts · 76d
Keanu Reeves
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 75d
H Jon Benjamin
sqauffle@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 76d
George Clooney
lando55@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 76d
Never watched Syriana?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Maven@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 76d
ITT Technical Institute? The place where you can learn anything and be successful for cheap no scam??
46_and_2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d
87Six@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 76d
jimerson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
Gary Busey
rabber@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 75d
Pedro pascal
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 76d
Lemming421@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 76d
I’m sorry but that’s absolutely not true
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
Even in "Meet Joe Black"?
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 76d
Dafuq.
Go watch thor and then westworld
Naich@piefed.world · -8 pts · 76d
I can't believe no one has said Michael Caine yet.
Summzashi@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 76d
Nobody has said it yet because that's absolute nonsense.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 76d
I get what you're saying, there's an enigmatic quality about his characters, but watch some of his older movies then watch him as Austin Power's father - he can play different, he's just played a similar character a lot.
Ixoid@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 75d
Please watch Children of Men. There are many reasons to watch (it's one of my fav movies), but Caine's portrayal of Jasper is memorable, and completely different to anything else I've seen him do.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 75d
Cider house rules, kingsmen, dirty rotten scoundrels. That is your homework.
If you think he is the same man in all three....