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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Samuel L Jackson. No range, just playing Jules from Pulp Fiction for the last 30 years. He's just boring now.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited November 2023 Posts: 9,020
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Samuel L Jackson. No range, just playing Jules from Pulp Fiction for the last 30 years. He's just boring now.

    So are so many actors basically playing themselves (because the public actually expects that!) pretending to play a role, in any nation or language.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,608
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Samuel L Jackson. No range, just playing Jules from Pulp Fiction for the last 30 years. He's just boring now.

    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.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    A friend of mine was a producer on The Samaritan and Jackson didn't come off looking good at all (stories that he had his boys-crew on set with him, demanded they each receive a per diem, verbally demeaned and belittled the director, treated the crew like garbage...).

    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...
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,106
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Samuel L Jackson. No range, just playing Jules from Pulp Fiction for the last 30 years. He's just boring now.

    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.

    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.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    Ludovico wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Samuel L Jackson. No range, just playing Jules from Pulp Fiction for the last 30 years. He's just boring now.

    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.

    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.
  • CrabKeyCrabKey
    Posts: 1,971
    I'll preface my comment by saying it's probably an age thing with me. For some time I haven't found films to be especially entertaining. I used to be an avid film goer, seeing numerous films per year, but that hasn't been the case for a long time now. I have no interest in seeing video games brought to the screen, or the latest Marvel or DC film, or yet another installment of F&F. I recognize I am not the target audience for these kinds of films. Films have become bigger and more extravagant. Much feels over familiar and done to death.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,608
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I'll preface my comment by saying it's probably an age thing with me. For some time I haven't found films to be especially entertaining. I used to be an avid film goer, seeing numerous films per year, but that hasn't been the case for a long time now. I have no interest in seeing video games brought to the screen, or the latest Marvel or DC film, or yet another installment of F&F. I recognize I am not the target audience for these kinds of films. Films have become bigger and more extravagant. Much feels over familiar and done to death.

    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.
  • CrabKeyCrabKey
    Posts: 1,971
    @MaxCasino I still look forward to Bond. But I do worry that the films are becoming a bit too big, too spectacular, maybe a little too slick, and a bit impersonal. There's a feel to the old films that has never been captured by the newer films. As much as I like Craig's Bond, I never feel I am meeting an old friend on film as I do with Connery and even Moore, the Bond I've been most critical of.
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