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FANTASTILICIOUS FUN FOR FILM FANS 089: your top 10's of 2020 and most anticipated films of 2021?

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I guess mine would be Coruscant:

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  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Naboo
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Cloud City
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Jurassic Park/World...provided the fences remain intact.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Dreamland (Inception).
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Hill Valley present day. ;)
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  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
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    The Nexus from ST Generations.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Hill Valley present day. ;)
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    Good one, mate!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    </b>Does Bruce Willis have a lot of range as an actor?</font>
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    He did back in the 80's and 90's but I think he's bored and burnt out now.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    No, but he is friggin awesome and as long as he keeps destroying bad guys, I will watch his movies!
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    Willis is not an "actor" he's a "movie star", there's a distinction, lets get that straight.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    OHMSS69 wrote: »
    Willis is not an "actor" he's a "movie star", there's a distinction, lets get that straight.

    Yes.

    My agreement on that is not a negative comment, though, and anyway, he can be very entertaining at times (or could be, at least... haven't seen anything recent).

    As for the actual question... a lot of range? Not that I have seen.

  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    I don't know as he's ever had a whole lot of range. Cop here, soldier there, occasionally something else, but most of the time, cop or soldier.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    You guys *have* to see Blind Date. Bruce is just great in it.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Range? Hahahhaha! And all the way to the bank, Bruce. :)
    I really like Bruce Willis - at least, I definitely enjoyed him quite a lot until the last few years' efforts. He is a movie star, his charm and wit, etc. But range as an actor? No. And he frankly hasn't needed that.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Yes he has range but should show that more in a diversity in his movies and less by pay check.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Murdock wrote: »
    He did back in the 80's and 90's but I think he's bored and burnt out now.
    That´s exactly how he appears to me. Like Shimshon, he lost his power when he cut his hair.

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    My appreciation for Bruce Willis as an actor started with Death Becomes Her,
    grew with The Sixth Sense, and was thoroughly cemented with Sin City..

    Yes, the man has range. It is just that in most films he is asked to be Bruce Willis, not act.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    My appreciation for Bruce Willis as an actor started with Death Becomes Her,
    grew with The Sixth Sense, and was thoroughly cemented with Sin City..

    Yes, the man has range. It is just that in most films he is asked to be Bruce Willis, not act.

    There has to be a reason for being asked and for agreeing, though. Comes basically to the movie star vs actor thing. John Wayne was basically the same in all movies, he was a star in the traditional sense as well ... doesn't mean he was bad. (Nowadays everyone gets called a "star" if they are a little bit known, but that's a different thing.) Character actors do different characters, stars are stars - which is not necessarily the same thing as being themselves, but doing their thing, what their star persona is.


  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    Tuulia wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    My appreciation for Bruce Willis as an actor started with Death Becomes Her,
    grew with The Sixth Sense, and was thoroughly cemented with Sin City..

    Yes, the man has range. It is just that in most films he is asked to be Bruce Willis, not act.

    There has to be a reason for being asked and for agreeing, though. Comes basically to the movie star vs actor thing. John Wayne was basically the same in all movies, he was a star in the traditional sense as well ... doesn't mean he was bad. (Nowadays everyone gets called a "star" if they are a little bit known, but that's a different thing.) Character actors do different characters, stars are stars - which is not necessarily the same thing as being themselves, but doing their thing, what their star persona is.

    For the sense of nitpicking, and judging by a few interviews and talk show appearances I´ve seen, which showed him to be pretty different from his movies, I´d say too he´s more asked to do his thing than to be Bruce Willis.
    And considering films like 12 Monkeys, Death becomes her, or Breakfast for Champions, not to forget Moonlighting, it is obvious that there at least was a certain range.

  • TuuliaTuulia
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    boldfinger wrote: »
    Tuulia wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    My appreciation for Bruce Willis as an actor started with Death Becomes Her,
    grew with The Sixth Sense, and was thoroughly cemented with Sin City..

    Yes, the man has range. It is just that in most films he is asked to be Bruce Willis, not act.

    There has to be a reason for being asked and for agreeing, though. Comes basically to the movie star vs actor thing. John Wayne was basically the same in all movies, he was a star in the traditional sense as well ... doesn't mean he was bad. (Nowadays everyone gets called a "star" if they are a little bit known, but that's a different thing.) Character actors do different characters, stars are stars - which is not necessarily the same thing as being themselves, but doing their thing, what their star persona is.

    For the sense of nitpicking, and judging by a few interviews and talk show appearances I´ve seen, which showed him to be pretty different from his movies, I´d say too he´s more asked to do his thing than to be Bruce Willis.
    And considering films like 12 Monkeys, Death becomes her, or Breakfast for Champions, not to forget Moonlighting, it is obvious that there at least was a certain range.

    Yes. And yes.
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Yes he has range but should show that more in a diversity in his movies and less by pay check.

    Like Nicolas Cage. I have seen more movies with Bruce Willis in various gernes: Humor, Drama, Action, Animated, Thriller and Sci-Fi movies.
  • TuuliaTuulia
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Yes he has range but should show that more in a diversity in his movies and less by pay check.

    Good points about diversity and pay check. The first should be more important than the latter.

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    I like Bruce Willis a lot! The thing is he is type cast as Bruce Willis! :))
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    He had a hilarious cameo at the end of "The Player." :))
  • patbpatb
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    I have a very long running discussion/argument with a good friend concerning who is the better actor? Willis or Ford? When I point to Moonlighting, he points to Working Girl. When I point to Die Hard, he points to Clear and Present Danger. BUT I have two aces he cant match. Bruce was great in a QT movie and he was great (and underrated) in Sixth Sense. He has a sensitivity and rapor with the boy that I just cant imagine Ford having.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Watch Witness @patb, I think there's quite a good rapport between Ford and the young Lucas Hass.

    Personally I don't think Willis has A LOT of range as an actor - eventhough he can sometimes be good in the likes of The Sixth Sense and 12 Monkeys.

    Nonetheless he does tend to play the same type of character in most of his films. When he's not the tough guy he's either the stereotypically quiet, brooding bloke who doesn't say a lot or the all American smart-arse comedian. That's really it.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited April 2015 Posts: 15,716
    Willis is one of the actors I'll always enjoy watching in any film he appears in, no matter how bad, same as Nicolas Cage and John Cusack.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Willis has always reminded me of a younger, more thuggish, American version of Roger Moore.

    Both very good looking, extremely charismatic, humorous, good natured actors. Their natural charm just oozes from the screen in anything they do. However, their looks and charisma sometimes prevent them from being taken seriously perhaps..

    Having said that, like Moore, I don't think Willis is known necessarily for his range, and also like Moore, I think he's best when he gets to use that easy charm and humour of his on screen, like in Moonlighting and Die Hard.
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