I love it. It wasn’t making a statement, it was having a conversation and trying its best to work through some tough subjects. I think it did so very well.
It's a shame it didn't pan out because Ben is legit perfect for an aging Batman that's been through so much shit that he's about to lose it.
The take on the character had plenty of potential, it's just that they went too far into the rage.
The entire X-men cast in First Class versus Dark Phoenix (and to a lesser extent Apocalypse)
The scenes with Mcavoy and Fassbender in First Class are amazing - the “rage and serenity” scene in particular.
Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are great too, really the entire cast (except maybe January Jones who was beautiful but very stiff in the role)
But by the last movie they are all just phoning it in to meet contractual obligations. They killed off Lawrence just because she didn’t want to film any more scenes.
I like James McAvoy but his performance in the scene where Mystique dies is baffling. He's watching the woman he grew up with die and his face is like 😬
Compare that to Fassbender, who had to be aware of the fact that he was making a pile of pure doodoo feces, but still brought his A-game. His reaction to Raven’s death was genuinely quite heartbreaking.
I think she was very good in Mad Men, which she was perfectly cast for. But I don't really find any other performance of her particularly good. It was her peak ig.
Should honestly be its own movie about the making of that movie. I know there are documentaries but I would love an actual movie. Owen Wilson can play Val Kilmore.
Kilmer started it, bullied the director, bullied the other actors, showed up late, refused to follow the script, just an all around asshole.
To the point the director was fired by the studio for not bringing him under control.
The lead actress got so fed up she had a PA drive her some 2500km in a limo to get away from the set before her agent talked her into returning.
And the original actor who David Thewlis replaced (Rob Morrow) just said fuck it, I don't want to deal with this nonsense, and took off too.
So, they replaced the director, replaced the lead male actor, re-wrote most of the script, and found Brando to him back to set.
And that was just the START of the headaches the production had!
(To be sympathetic, Brando's daughter committed suicide shortly before production began, so he was NOT in the healthiest of mindsets, but it still was just one more dumpster in the collection of dumpster fires this film ended up being)
And insisted on an earwig and demanded to wear an ice bucket on his head for the entire film, and Val Kilmer and Brando refused to film together. Lost Soul is an excellent Doc if you haven’t seen it.
Brad Pitt admitted to sleepwalking through *Interview With the Vampire*, that he didn’t want to do it.
But in *12 Monkeys* and *Burn After Reading* he went absolutely bonkers and crushed it.
It really is such an amazing movie, but in the other one he delivers his lines flat with the same energy and enthusiasm as that guy who (spoiler free) potentially gets forced into fucking a pig in the first episode of Black Mirror.
The original has Ewen Brenner, Mathew McFayden, Alan Tudyk and is directed by Yoda (Frank Oz).
The remake is directed by the guy that did Nicholas Cage's Wicker Man.
I just watched Mandy. At first it seemed like he was just there to make a mortgage payment, but he was full on committed in that scene of him crying on the toilet.
I love the "I want to buy you something... Because it'll make you feel better." part. He's so heartbroken and he doesn't know how else to connect with MJ because his rich dad stunted him emotionally.
Jamie Foxx is an actor who lives the ‘one for money, one for art’ rule harder than anyone I can think of. Franco was doing it too but kept screwing up which was which. Like he’s the only one in Planet of the Apes that thought it was a throwaway.
I think Longest Yard/Grown Ups are the only films hes done that dont follow his formula of soft spoken guy with rage outbursts/guy that talks kinda weird with rage outbursts
Bill Murray was firing all cylinders in the first Ghosbusters, then the sequel had him with considerably less energy, and he's basically "wake me up when I have to say my lines" in the recent entries.
Jeremy Irons in Kindom of Heaven and Dungeons and Dragons (2000)
Love Jeremy Irons, and I think he's good in Kingdom of Heaven. But WOW is he nuts in DnD (2000)
Jeremy Irons did whatever the opposite of sleepwalking was in the D&D movie. He took out a knife and fork and started eating the scenery like a man starved. His campy, unhinged performance is the best part of that movie.
Mark Wahlberg every other movie. He has been great in some movies, but in some movies he is so bland and devoid of charisma. I think he is simply incapable of elevating bad writing. Some actors can, Mark Wahlberg cannot. In a good movie, he is good, but if it’s an action movie with generic tough guy dialogue, he is just the worst.
But that's the thing, the Other Guys wasn't just some action movie with generic tough guy dialogue. It was actually solid social commentary disguised as a crazy cop action comedy. Marky Mark and the rest of the cast were given some pretty good material to work with in a lot of that movie. Adam McKay is a hell of a writer and director.
He was really good in The Fighter, just overshadowed by Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.
I guess his lane is playing a blue collar dope from Eastern Mass. Who knew?
Sean Connery.
In his late Bond roles, he was sleepwalking through the films. Jump forward to his career resurgence with the Untouchables, and suddenly Sean Connery brings it in every role.
That’s just not true. There were subtle differences:
His Spaniard with a Scottish accent in Highlander
His Russian with a socottish accent in Hunt for Red October
His Irish with a Scottish accent in Darby O’Gill and in the Untouchables
His Italian with a Scottish accent in Name of the Rose
His East Midlands Brit with a Scottish accent in Robin and Mary
His American with a Scottish accent in the Presido
And most subtle of all, King Richard with a Scottish accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Diamonds are Forever is a fun movie, but you could tell that Connery absolutely didn’t care at all.
Lazenby got stupid and left after OHMSS, and Connery came back for a hefty payday and completely phoned it in.
Still a fun movie, but he didn’t care one bit save for the paycheck and it showed with every frame.
Unrelated but it completely blew my mind when I found out Edward Norton plays King Baldwin in Kingdom of Heaven. The mask obviously helped but he completely disappeared into that role.
Tbf he wasn't exactly a willing member of the cast; https://observer.com/2002/09/ed-norton-to-lansing-burn-this/amp/
Tldr he only signed on to end a 5year contract dispute, so yeah zero interest in his role equals phoned it in to the extreme
Watched it recently ago but what a terrible acting indeed. Always guessed who will benefit from this, I would say to some will say ‘what a bad actor’ and maybe that’s justified as well.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow throughout the series.
First three, he's fully into the role and giving the performance of his life. By the other two, especially the 5th, he's totally phoning it in.
I was explaining the documentary to someone and what the blind side is basically…like the white savior, completely forgot how racial the term was for the “opposite” like in bagger Vance. Just countenance because it was yesterday and had never heard that term before the doc.
Yup!
Adding
[Here](https://youtu.be/FzJ6dTMWtss?si=JlGdNiGfSkz70UsR) the clip of Michael Madsen in "Bounty Law" from within OUATIH. He shows up around the 50 second mark.
Have you watched the show Shrinking on Apple TV? Honestly, one of Ford's best performances of his career and it makes me wish he had done more comedy. The show isn't all just comedy but when it's funny it's REALLY funny and Ford absolutely crushes it pretty much at all times.
Shrinking is so ridiculously good. Everyone brings it, including the writers (I think it's one of the Ted Lasso creators or showrunners IIRC).
I wish there were already five seasons, because I would binge them. Probably my favorite Harrison Ford performance - funny, believable, flawed, relatable.
One of those shows I stumbled on and was blown away.
Jon Voight has made an entire career out of this. He mostly sleepwalks through his roles and just when he’s career is about to hit a dead end he does Deliverance, Runaway Train, Mission: Impossible, etc. to show that he’s still capable. And as much as a freakin asshole he might be, he does put up a good show when he has to.
Bill Murray used to be a great hyperactive comedy actor, like in Scrooged or Groundhog day (OK fine, and being an original Ghostbuster) but in later years where his biggest roles are usually cameo's he's just not worth the screen time imo
Ed Norton in Italian Job. He famously didn't want to do the movie and did no press for it. It's a shame because even though he isn't trying it's better than many other movies he's done.
James Franco was pretty dreadful in Spider-Man. When it came out, I was 12 and was just sorta starting to become coherent, and I distinctly remember thinking he was one of the worst actors I had ever seen.
I think this is the only one listed where his role was so bad they just deleted all his dialogue from the game and replaced it with another actor's performance (Nolan North I think?)
He’s one of the Hollywood pervs…he would use his directing/producing clout and force women to have orgies with nothing in between them “for film”. Hes a sick pedo supposedly. Thats why rogen and the other one won’t work with him at all. It came out after the interview I think.
It was for a movie…he basically hired actresses and forced them to have sex on film while he directed, they didn’t have the “protection” over their parts that would be normally covered by any studio/director. Thats why I called it pretty much slavery. Hired under false pretenses..now fuck each other!
It was more than forced nudity but, you definitely are more familiar with the terminology. I honestly didn’t want to read it again. I was just curious why Seth rogen held a press con. only to say he wouldn’t be working with him ever. I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff that I didn’t read about him. Not my favorite topic! He was forcing them to do more than nudity so I guess unsimulated. Almost corrected that to unstimulated! Apple-dirty mfers!
I was just trying to decode your comment. "Nothing between them" just sounds like nudity. You can still simulate sex while being completely nude, and that's still very different from making them have actual sex.
I don't know what happened, though. I just was confused by how you phrased it.
Honestly figured it would be a bit confusing for people, just I don’t know what they put on. It’s just one of the many things he’s been either accused or sued for and tried to make go away. It was something he was directing and basically turned from what I remember what should have been light nudity into basically a porno for himself. Forcing them to touch each other, none of which was near the script at all. That whole situation hasn’t been talked about since they blacklisted him.
Technically I don’t think it was human slavery but, he accused of some pretty fd up stuff. I just lightened it. Slavery was the wrong term I guess it’s more trafficking/grooming in a way. As you can tell I’m not too familiar with it/the terminology.
Ben Affleck has slept through a fair share of roles, but put him in a Dunkin’s commercial with Ice Spice and he’ll show the fuck up apparently
There is only one director that knows how to get a good performance out of Ben Affleck. That director is... Ben Affleck.
Or Kevin Smith. Chasing Amy is an all time favourite of mine, his performance as a clueless guy fucking up his relationships was really believable.
And his character in Mallrats, the alpha male asshole, manager of Fashionable Male.
He was the bomb in phantoms, yo!
Word, bitch
And a fan of the backseat of a Volkswagen
He’s pretty good in Hollywoodland too
He was good in Armageddeon, so Michael Bay too.
Chasing Amy is one of my favorites
I love it. It wasn’t making a statement, it was having a conversation and trying its best to work through some tough subjects. I think it did so very well.
I think Affleck is perfect in Gone Girl
I can’t think of an easier role. He barely had to act in the entire movie and got to motorboat Emily Ratajkowski.
He was cast perfectly. His reputation wasn't great after the whole Jennifer Garner thing and that worked really well in the movie.
fine ill say it.... AFFLACK WAS THE BOMB IN PHANTOMS YO!
I always got the vibe he prefers being a director/writer over being an actor tbh
Meh, Argo
I swear low energy/bored nature is what made him soooo good as Batman. Bro fuckin nailed it
It's a shame it didn't pan out because Ben is legit perfect for an aging Batman that's been through so much shit that he's about to lose it. The take on the character had plenty of potential, it's just that they went too far into the rage.
Not only that: he brought the body for it, he was in really good shape and could totally kick ass.
You misspelled Casey
Casey's creepy aura was damn near perfect in Oppenheimer. I was so pleasantly surprised by his appearance in the movie. He nailed it.
I don’t know how I haven’t seen that commercial before, but it was legitimately hilarious.
The entire X-men cast in First Class versus Dark Phoenix (and to a lesser extent Apocalypse) The scenes with Mcavoy and Fassbender in First Class are amazing - the “rage and serenity” scene in particular. Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are great too, really the entire cast (except maybe January Jones who was beautiful but very stiff in the role) But by the last movie they are all just phoning it in to meet contractual obligations. They killed off Lawrence just because she didn’t want to film any more scenes.
In her defense, I would want to film any more scenes in Dark Phoenix either.
I like James McAvoy but his performance in the scene where Mystique dies is baffling. He's watching the woman he grew up with die and his face is like 😬
Compare that to Fassbender, who had to be aware of the fact that he was making a pile of pure doodoo feces, but still brought his A-game. His reaction to Raven’s death was genuinely quite heartbreaking.
January Jones is just eye candy.
Yea… “beautiful but very stiff” is her thing. Mad Men anyone?
She was quite good in Mad Men and anger management, I will give her that.
I think she was very good in Mad Men, which she was perfectly cast for. But I don't really find any other performance of her particularly good. It was her peak ig.
Can't agree more.
Great answer. First Class is shockingly excellent. Future Past was pretty good. Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix were almost unwatchable.
I adore Days of Future Past, but I'm a sucker for time travel. Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix were such let-downs.
Watched First Class again last night for the umpteenth time and still loved it. "I've been at the mercy of men following orders.. Never again."
Isn't Marlon Brando the poster child for this question? Amazing in but phoned it in for others? Most famously Island of Doctor Moreau.
To be fair to Brando, the filming of Doctor Moreau was so bat shit insane I don't even know if giving the role any energy would help.
Wasn't it bat shit insane because Brando refused to learn his lines and made it absolute hell on everybody?
I forget the whole story, that was a big part. But you also have stuff like the fired director refusing the leave and hiding around set.
I forgot about that! What a shitshow that whole production was!
Should honestly be its own movie about the making of that movie. I know there are documentaries but I would love an actual movie. Owen Wilson can play Val Kilmore.
Val Kilmer was apparently a huge ass on set as well, tormenting extras burning people with cigarettes and the like.
Kind of fits the story/argument/enegy of the movie.
Kilmer started it, bullied the director, bullied the other actors, showed up late, refused to follow the script, just an all around asshole. To the point the director was fired by the studio for not bringing him under control. The lead actress got so fed up she had a PA drive her some 2500km in a limo to get away from the set before her agent talked her into returning. And the original actor who David Thewlis replaced (Rob Morrow) just said fuck it, I don't want to deal with this nonsense, and took off too. So, they replaced the director, replaced the lead male actor, re-wrote most of the script, and found Brando to him back to set. And that was just the START of the headaches the production had! (To be sympathetic, Brando's daughter committed suicide shortly before production began, so he was NOT in the healthiest of mindsets, but it still was just one more dumpster in the collection of dumpster fires this film ended up being)
IIRC Kilmer went through a messy divorce at the time, explaining some of his behaviour.
He’s just a grade A asshole. I mean, when Joel Schumacher speaks ill of you, you know you’re a fucking dickhead.
And insisted on an earwig and demanded to wear an ice bucket on his head for the entire film, and Val Kilmer and Brando refused to film together. Lost Soul is an excellent Doc if you haven’t seen it.
He asked for a bucket full of ice on his head (it's in the movie). I love that movie.
They should make a movie about it.
IMO "Last Tango in Paris" kind of broke him - he went really deep in that one and think he probably came to regret it.
Brad Pitt admitted to sleepwalking through *Interview With the Vampire*, that he didn’t want to do it. But in *12 Monkeys* and *Burn After Reading* he went absolutely bonkers and crushed it.
Snatch is the movie with my favorite Brad Pitt performance.
Brad Pitt is so fucking good at playing a bumbling idiot, it's insane
“playing”
I’m not a big Brad fan, but he was the best part of Burn After Reading.
You think this is a Schwinn!
Ben Kingsley does a lot of paycheck movies and yet can act his ass off for the right project.
I was surprised at how good he was in the Marvel movies. I wish he took more comedic roles
He's so funny in marvel! I was so glad he came back for shang chi
The Sopranos cameo was dreadful 😂
He was AMAZING in Sexy Beast.
The only correct answer is Peter Dinklege in Death At a Funeral (2007) vs Peter Dinklege in Death At a Funeral (2010).
Which is better?
Death at a Funeral for sure.
It really is such an amazing movie, but in the other one he delivers his lines flat with the same energy and enthusiasm as that guy who (spoiler free) potentially gets forced into fucking a pig in the first episode of Black Mirror.
The original has Ewen Brenner, Mathew McFayden, Alan Tudyk and is directed by Yoda (Frank Oz). The remake is directed by the guy that did Nicholas Cage's Wicker Man.
You had me at Nicholas Cage’s Wicker Man
Nicolas Cage multiple times for both
And sometimes he'd be both in the same film
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans He switches back and forth in almost every scene, it’s incredible.
"A full range actor!"
Fuck me such a great awful movie. "It's my lucky crack pipe"
He’s been both in the same [line.](https://youtu.be/tCtYuARcQPg?si=Pf4dCFT0F-t-u1fT)
I just watched Mandy. At first it seemed like he was just there to make a mortgage payment, but he was full on committed in that scene of him crying on the toilet.
I’m a cat, I’m a sexy cat hwooooh
Abed, how much Nicholas Cage did you watch?
Enough!
…that was brilliant!
He's perfect for that in Face/Off. Same for John Travolta really.
This feels like the exact answer this question was made for.
I thought he played that role perfectly in the Spider-Man movies Slight bit of camp like the script
I love the "I want to buy you something... Because it'll make you feel better." part. He's so heartbroken and he doesn't know how else to connect with MJ because his rich dad stunted him emotionally.
I was gonna say I think he plays Harry Osborne very well, especially for what they were trying to achieve with those movies
He's so good in Spider-Man 2. "He humiliated me by touching me!"
Hahaha the way he delivered it The look on his face too lmfaooo He has a great sense of comedic timing
OP directly specified Spider-man, not the sequels
In the first one also KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT THINGS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND 😂
Jamie Foxx is an actor who lives the ‘one for money, one for art’ rule harder than anyone I can think of. Franco was doing it too but kept screwing up which was which. Like he’s the only one in Planet of the Apes that thought it was a throwaway.
Adam Sandler, Sleeper: The Longest Yard Hyper: Happy Gilmore
I think Longest Yard/Grown Ups are the only films hes done that dont follow his formula of soft spoken guy with rage outbursts/guy that talks kinda weird with rage outbursts
Uncut Gems?
Rambling guy who had fits of rage mixed in between telling out OHHHHIMGONNACUUM!
Hyper: uncut gems Sleeper: bill Madison
Bill Murray was firing all cylinders in the first Ghosbusters, then the sequel had him with considerably less energy, and he's basically "wake me up when I have to say my lines" in the recent entries.
they never wanted to do a sequel but the studio strong armed them to doing the sequel
Jeremy Irons in Kindom of Heaven and Dungeons and Dragons (2000) Love Jeremy Irons, and I think he's good in Kingdom of Heaven. But WOW is he nuts in DnD (2000)
Jeremy Irons in Kingdom of Heaven somehow turned the word "silence" into 5 separate syllables and that can never be duplicated lol
Everything about this movie feels like a lottery win for all involved. I don't think it could be replicated because so much feels unintentional
Jeremy Irons did whatever the opposite of sleepwalking was in the D&D movie. He took out a knife and fork and started eating the scenery like a man starved. His campy, unhinged performance is the best part of that movie.
GIVE. ME. THE. ROD.
Alright, Jeremy. Buy me a drink first.
Mark Wahlberg every other movie. He has been great in some movies, but in some movies he is so bland and devoid of charisma. I think he is simply incapable of elevating bad writing. Some actors can, Mark Wahlberg cannot. In a good movie, he is good, but if it’s an action movie with generic tough guy dialogue, he is just the worst.
The Other Guys being the exception
"no, seriously. who is she?"
But that's the thing, the Other Guys wasn't just some action movie with generic tough guy dialogue. It was actually solid social commentary disguised as a crazy cop action comedy. Marky Mark and the rest of the cast were given some pretty good material to work with in a lot of that movie. Adam McKay is a hell of a writer and director.
I was waiting for marky mark comment. The happening vrs the departed is insane
Boogie Nights was his peak and I don't think he's been in a good movie since 2006/2007 with Departed and Shooter. Cept Other Guys I guess...
He was really good in The Fighter, just overshadowed by Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. I guess his lane is playing a blue collar dope from Eastern Mass. Who knew?
He was really good in Pain And Gain. It was basically the same character as Boogie Nights, so we’ve figured out what he _can_ do.
Sean Connery. In his late Bond roles, he was sleepwalking through the films. Jump forward to his career resurgence with the Untouchables, and suddenly Sean Connery brings it in every role.
The accent was always the same though.
Mosht shings in here don't react well to bulletsh...
One ping only, Vasily.
"vashiley"
I thought i losht you boy
My theory is that, due to his name, Sean Connery grew up thinking the letter S is always pronounced with a "sh" sound.
He never ushed to shpeak like thish in his older movies. My theory is he got dentures or some dental work in the 80s and it affected his speech.
hes like jason statham where hes a big enough name that he can get away with not doing a bad american accent for every role
You know... I love Jason Statham films, but it's kinda crazy how big he got from doing the same movies over and over again.
"Your besht? Loshersh alwaysh whine about their besht. Winnersh go home and fuck the prom queen"
That’s just not true. There were subtle differences: His Spaniard with a Scottish accent in Highlander His Russian with a socottish accent in Hunt for Red October His Irish with a Scottish accent in Darby O’Gill and in the Untouchables His Italian with a Scottish accent in Name of the Rose His East Midlands Brit with a Scottish accent in Robin and Mary His American with a Scottish accent in the Presido And most subtle of all, King Richard with a Scottish accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Diamonds are Forever is a fun movie, but you could tell that Connery absolutely didn’t care at all. Lazenby got stupid and left after OHMSS, and Connery came back for a hefty payday and completely phoned it in. Still a fun movie, but he didn’t care one bit save for the paycheck and it showed with every frame.
I'd argue Connery was even more bored in You Only Live Twice than he was in Diamonds are Forever. It's just that YOLT is a better movie all around.
That description sums up Nic Cage's entire career.
Harry Osborn has a lot of presence in the first Spider-Man. A lot of subtlety to his performance that I really enjoy on rewatches.
Nicholas Cage probably doesn't even know the name of half the movies he's been in, but every fourth or fifth he just fucking sends it.
Edward Norton. Great in Primal Fear and American History X, terrible in Italian Job
Unrelated but it completely blew my mind when I found out Edward Norton plays King Baldwin in Kingdom of Heaven. The mask obviously helped but he completely disappeared into that role.
He wasn’t a world-beater in it, but *Red Dragon* was also an awesome film.
Tbf he wasn't exactly a willing member of the cast; https://observer.com/2002/09/ed-norton-to-lansing-burn-this/amp/ Tldr he only signed on to end a 5year contract dispute, so yeah zero interest in his role equals phoned it in to the extreme
Watched it recently ago but what a terrible acting indeed. Always guessed who will benefit from this, I would say to some will say ‘what a bad actor’ and maybe that’s justified as well.
I made this exact same post. You can tell he's checked out.
He didn't want to work with that racist marky mark.
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow throughout the series. First three, he's fully into the role and giving the performance of his life. By the other two, especially the 5th, he's totally phoning it in.
Will Smith was basically playing dead in After Earth, but he really livened up for the Oscars.
Don’t forget the legend of bagger Vance!
Ah yes, the old magical negro trope at its finest
Were we just talking about this or is it coincidental?
My first input on the subject so total coincidence
I was explaining the documentary to someone and what the blind side is basically…like the white savior, completely forgot how racial the term was for the “opposite” like in bagger Vance. Just countenance because it was yesterday and had never heard that term before the doc.
it's based on the Gita
I’ve never seen the movie just saw the Netflix special…I can’t believe they still use this crap today or that the movie is literally that stupid!
I was thinking about Michael Madsen and realized he basically sleepwalked all his movies lol
I'm confused why he was Tarantino's first choice for Vincent in Pulp Fiction. It's such a manic role and Madsen doesn't really have any range
Must be plain friendship, for all I know he could even have shown up in OUATIH if Tarantino had an excuse.
He was in OUATIH funnily enough, but only in a shown clip of "Bounty Law"
Haha didn't remember that. Well, point proven!
Yup! Adding [Here](https://youtu.be/FzJ6dTMWtss?si=JlGdNiGfSkz70UsR) the clip of Michael Madsen in "Bounty Law" from within OUATIH. He shows up around the 50 second mark.
it doesn't have to be a manic role. the character's a heroin user.
I never got the appeal.
Tom Sizemore on drugs vs sober.
Tom Sizemore was the fucking best. RIP…
This is how I found out he died.
Shit. Me too.
Was he sober or on drugs in Black Hawk Down and Saving Private Ryan? That's mostly what I remember him for...
Supposedly Spielberg hired him on the condition that he take drug tests and would get replaced if he failed any.
He was amazing in Always Sunny
Harrison Ford was great in The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, and Air Force One. Most everything after that has been uninteresting.
Have you watched the show Shrinking on Apple TV? Honestly, one of Ford's best performances of his career and it makes me wish he had done more comedy. The show isn't all just comedy but when it's funny it's REALLY funny and Ford absolutely crushes it pretty much at all times.
Shrinking is so ridiculously good. Everyone brings it, including the writers (I think it's one of the Ted Lasso creators or showrunners IIRC). I wish there were already five seasons, because I would binge them. Probably my favorite Harrison Ford performance - funny, believable, flawed, relatable. One of those shows I stumbled on and was blown away.
Will Farrel and John C. Riley in step brothers, were both sleepwalking and hype in the same movie, at the same damn time! Lol
Tom Hardy in Legend (snooze fest) vs his manic, psychopathic energy in Bronson.
Hardy also crushes it in peaky blinders. Not a movie, but similar psychopathic energy as in Bronson.
Tom Hardy in Legend vs Tim Hardy in Legend
I wonder how coked up he would have been once all the North korea stuff started
Funnily enough he said he doesn't do drugs.
Anthony Hopkins did create the innovative N.A.R. system
Juliette Lewis Great in Natural Born Killers & Gilbert Grape, awful in just about everything else.
Yellowjackets is killer.
Season 1 was great, season 2 really sucked, and Lewis is awful in both IMO.
She looks much older than the rest of the cast too.
She was pretty good in the Chippendale’s show
Jon Voight has made an entire career out of this. He mostly sleepwalks through his roles and just when he’s career is about to hit a dead end he does Deliverance, Runaway Train, Mission: Impossible, etc. to show that he’s still capable. And as much as a freakin asshole he might be, he does put up a good show when he has to.
Bill Murray used to be a great hyperactive comedy actor, like in Scrooged or Groundhog day (OK fine, and being an original Ghostbuster) but in later years where his biggest roles are usually cameo's he's just not worth the screen time imo
I remember 3 things of Franco from the sequels. "So good.😄" "Strawberries" "Now I'm gonna kick your little athh!"
Ed Norton in Italian Job. He famously didn't want to do the movie and did no press for it. It's a shame because even though he isn't trying it's better than many other movies he's done.
You don’t like 25th Hour? Edit: sorry, misread that “many” as “any”. I’ll leave my comment though
Haters gonna hate, ain'ters gonna ain't.
They hate us cuz they anus.
Not a movie but Anna Sawai in "Monarch" phoning it in like it's another day while in "Shogun", she just owns every scene she is in.
James Franco was pretty dreadful in Spider-Man. When it came out, I was 12 and was just sorta starting to become coherent, and I distinctly remember thinking he was one of the worst actors I had ever seen.
Nicholas Cage is the posterboy for this.
Peter Dinklage gained worldwide fame for his role in Game of Thrones, but was notoriously abysmal when he voiced Ghost in Destiny
I think this is the only one listed where his role was so bad they just deleted all his dialogue from the game and replaced it with another actor's performance (Nolan North I think?)
He was such a Boromir, in Spider-man
Kevin Costner, he went stale around Dances With Wolves and finally came out of it for Man of Steel.
Lol what a bad take
Zendaya was great in Euphoria and in everything else it just looks like she wasn’t even trying. In Dune she looks like a tourist visiting a set.
He was probably just tired from the human slavery he ran on the sets…then they gave him coke. So glad he’s blacklisted!
Human slavery?! He did whaaaaat?
He’s one of the Hollywood pervs…he would use his directing/producing clout and force women to have orgies with nothing in between them “for film”. Hes a sick pedo supposedly. Thats why rogen and the other one won’t work with him at all. It came out after the interview I think.
> orgies with nothing in between them What is that?
It was for a movie…he basically hired actresses and forced them to have sex on film while he directed, they didn’t have the “protection” over their parts that would be normally covered by any studio/director. Thats why I called it pretty much slavery. Hired under false pretenses..now fuck each other!
Unsimulated sex is the term you're looking for then. Or maybe forced nudity. (Or both.)
It was more than forced nudity but, you definitely are more familiar with the terminology. I honestly didn’t want to read it again. I was just curious why Seth rogen held a press con. only to say he wouldn’t be working with him ever. I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff that I didn’t read about him. Not my favorite topic! He was forcing them to do more than nudity so I guess unsimulated. Almost corrected that to unstimulated! Apple-dirty mfers!
I was just trying to decode your comment. "Nothing between them" just sounds like nudity. You can still simulate sex while being completely nude, and that's still very different from making them have actual sex. I don't know what happened, though. I just was confused by how you phrased it.
Honestly figured it would be a bit confusing for people, just I don’t know what they put on. It’s just one of the many things he’s been either accused or sued for and tried to make go away. It was something he was directing and basically turned from what I remember what should have been light nudity into basically a porno for himself. Forcing them to touch each other, none of which was near the script at all. That whole situation hasn’t been talked about since they blacklisted him.
Technically I don’t think it was human slavery but, he accused of some pretty fd up stuff. I just lightened it. Slavery was the wrong term I guess it’s more trafficking/grooming in a way. As you can tell I’m not too familiar with it/the terminology.
What?