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So are so many actors basically playing themselves (because the public actually expects that!) pretending to play a role, in any nation or language.
Actually, he’s one of the things I’m getting most sick of in the MCU. That, and actresses with no range other a angry constipation look on their faces: Scarlett Johansson, Brie Larson, Tessa Thompson, just to name a few. Plus SEVERAL of the actor’s opinions, and acting like spoiled brats: Anthony Mackie. While the MCU shouldn’t go away, it desperately needs to take a break. This year sadly proved it. Maybe the delays with their next movies will help them refocus their stories and ideas.
Another thing I’m sick of in recent years of Hollywood are crews claiming that their prequel/sequel is going to be like The Godfather Part 2 or Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. That’s one thing I’m getting sick of with continuation movies: apparently, those are the only two good continuation movies. Dear Hollywood, there are other great sequels that aren’t those two. Also, stop making so many sequels! I literally wrote a thesis for my associate’s degree on this subject. I know, I’m a hypocrite, with my love of James Bond. This thesis originally was a stand up comedy routine.
Supposedly his behavior improved when Tom Wilkinson arrived on set to shoot his scenes...
I haven't been a fan of his for a long time, after hearing of his poor behavior on this set...
What irritates me is that sequels don't really live up to the expectations. If they can back up their claim about ESB or The Godfather, then by all means claim it.
Wouldn't that be something?! Too often, sequels have potential but are reduced to a formulaic regurgitation of their predecessors. The worst case of this that I have seen in recent times was Jurassic World (and its two terribly unimaginative sequels). Let's just do Jurassic Park... again. People complained about The Lost World? A careful re-evaluation of Spielberg's sequel is much needed now that we have suffered the copy/paste job that is JW. And yet, the film was presented to me as being to JP what Aliens was to Alien, and what T2 was to TT. What? Both Aliens and T2 accepted the challenge of doing something else entirely, of breaking expectations and shocking viewers with completely new concepts and ideas, with new layers of originality, neither reducing the original to the "smaller" version of the same story nor clinging to it like an infant to its mother. JW, by contrast, repeats JP while casting a large shadow over it at the same time in terms of scope.
I'm in my early 30s, and I feel similar. Bond can still get me excited, (I hope EON moves forward from the family soap opera drama/art house movie feel), but I don't know how much I can trust some of the people in charge of certain departments, more and more. For superheroes, I can still get excited about Batman and Superman, but I'm getting sick of seeing the Joker, the Penguin, Lex Luthor and General Zod being used over and over again. The overuse of certain villains has inspired me to create my own screenplays. Same with Bond. The MCU is just too damn big and predictable now. We went from characters we grew to love, to characters we are told to like. And lately the MCU is failing in many departments. Enough with the low kid humor about stupid things. This is why lately I've been reading and writing. I enjoy them, they give me more freedom than movies have been lately. So no @CrabKey you are not alone, and it's not completely a age thing.