Acting

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.

I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.

  slow day at work, trim?

No, I was listening to one of those grantland pop culture podcasts yesterday at the gym with them going on and on about acting performances and oscars and crap and was thinking about it then.  Stevesie posted that thing about stonestreet so I thought of it again today.

you need to watch more Ben Affleck flicks. start with paycheck, daredevil and then if you haven't had enough, gigli. hes generally a bad actor, imo, but if you get him in a role that's very similar to who he actually is (a guy from Boston) he can do pretty well. see: the town

[Tobias]

he was the bomb in phantoms

[mocat]

tonya have you not seen Extract? jfc

[Trim]

what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip?  omg trim

That's based on the role.

the other guy probably would've been adequate, tho

Probably, if they were both adequate enough to get to the final audition.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

he was the bomb in phantoms

  was waiting for that

[Trim]

Ben Affleck is very bad at different roles and he is not type cast.

I think Affleck's been adequate in any movie I can recall him being in.

  slow day at work, trim?

No, I was listening to one of those grantland pop culture podcasts yesterday at the gym with them going on and on about acting performances and oscars and crap and was thinking about it then.  Stevesie posted that thing about stonestreet so I thought of it again today.

you need to watch more Ben Affleck flicks. start with paycheck, daredevil and then if you haven't had enough, gigli. hes generally a bad actor, imo, but if you get him in a role that's very similar to who he actually is (a guy from Boston) he can do pretty well. see: the town

I've seen almost all the clerks movies and daredevil.

[Trim]

Just looked it up and I've seen The Town. 

[puniraptor]

i think maybe its kind of like how 2 lawyers can present the same case with the same evidence and one is successful and the other isnt            ?

That's the thing - that situation or something fairly close can occur and it's clear to see why/how one did better than the other.  Actors don't get put in near-identical roles to be able to see who makes for a better result.

what about when two different actors try out for the same part, and the casting director has to pick one? just a coin flip?  omg trim

That's based on the role.

maybe you can look at consecutive batmans. It should be pretty clear for you to see that george clooney was a better batman than val kilmer.

[Asteriskhead]

eff ETHAN HAWKE

[TownieCat]

You  know who's really good at playing similar characters yet still making them completely different? Tom Hanks.

Huge Hanks fan here... He's the BITB.

[mocat]

eff ETHAN HAWKE

i was actually going to bring that up too. does Denzel owe Ethan some gratitude for making Denzel look so good by working next to an absolutely garbage and unwatchable actor (don't bring up all the Linklater movies stevesie or whoever else jerks those off)

[Dr Rick Daris]

seems to me like a hamburger is a hamburger so i'm not quite sure how anybody could screw it up.

[TownieCat]

Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.

Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.

It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Way different cases. Denzel has the same ticks in all of his movies, from Malcolm X to Remember the Titans to Training Day. Everytime he hears something he doesn't like, he turns his head quickly to the side while scoffing. Seriously, he does it as every character he's ever played. And he always gets really still when he gets mad, and stares at you. Leo plays similar characters while still making them so different from one another. He doesn't have the same ticks, and they just seem like completely different people. I feel like if you picked up Coach Boone and made him into a personal security guard that lost his family, he'd be Creasy Bear.

Denzel takes it to the extreme with the ticks, mannerisms, etc., but it seems that Leo has played the same two or three types of characters in all of his movies.

It also bothers me that he's never attempted to do a comedy. I understand that it's a completely different type of acting, but great actors like Hanks, DeNiro, Cranston, or even McConaughey have managed to do it.

Have you not seen 2 Guns!?!

[Dr Rick Daris]

whatever your well is, i can't tell the difference anyway.

[Dr Rick Daris]

whatever your house is, i can't tell the difference anyway.

[Dr Rick Daris]

oh i don't care. bud light i guess?

[OK_Cat]

sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.

Same goes for the music industry.

[pissclams]

whenever i see a thread that trim starts i just assume that GPC trim is playing a prank on us here at goEMAW

[OK_Cat]

sometimes people will start talking about how great someone is and then more people will say it because it's what everybody else is saying, and then before you know it the actor is winning awards because he's a "buzz name" or whatever.

Same goes for the music industry.

yes.  maybe worse in music, because then there are dozens of copycat acts to try and catch on to the buzz.  like all of these lame folky sounding bands.

[yoEMAW]

I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.

God rest his soul.

[Asteriskhead]

I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker kroger brand ryan dunn is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.

God rest his soul.

[Trim]

I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.

God rest his soul.

He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.

[Asteriskhead]

I hate to single anyone out here, especially the deceased, but Paul Walker is the only "movie star" that has consistently struck me as being a terrible actor. Just totally unconvincing.

God rest his soul.

He convinced the world he could drive really fast and not die in the movies.

no, no he didn't.