• lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Hot take : Jack Black is devoid of talent and people should just stop talking about him

    Well I'm not sure it's that hot here but it certainly is on the mainstream internet

    • Gorb [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Tenacious D was genuinely good and the little skits they did were funny at the time. He's just been riding that fame for a very long time. Tbh I'm glad he's just a shitlib unlike Gervais who made only 1 good thing and then dive bombed into being an insufferable twat

        • Gorb [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          I take it he's always been that smarmy self obsessed athiest weirdo who thinks he's above everyone else? Like the one true enlightened one.

          The office really was an anomaly. The podcast with karl pilkington also but the humour entirely came from karl in that anyway and Gervais just served as a laugh track.

            • Gorb [they/them]
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              2 months ago

              Karl is a naturally very funny guy but the bullying was painful. Much preferred when he got his own show tormenting him for laughs wasn't enjoyable to watch

    • Blep [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I mean talentless hack would make a good harry dubois it's basically method acting

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Young Jake Black was good I just feel now in the era of continual media making and consumption he is now self insert "omg Jake Black!!!" instead of willing or being offered to actually play a character which is horrifyingly depressing. In fact Jake Black and Mamoa are examples of actors being reduced into their names the way capitalist media commonly reduces the arts down into the most easily consumable and marketable pieces like slop sold to readily hungry pigs

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      2 months ago

      eghhh, he's run his course but he had a few good movies where he acted well, and he can play some fun music. I wouldn't say talentless. He's just on a very cash-grabbing run as the gaming movie guy.

      • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        he's very one note, and isn't really an actor but more just plays himself. Once that got old after a couple movies, his career should have ended

    • bortsampson [he/him, any]
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      2 months ago

      He was good as a voice actor in the Metalocalpse movie. Not a fan of him in much else. I can't speak to his talent because he just rubs me the wrong way and it wouldn't be fair.

    • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      He was really good as a supporting character actor in the x files lol

      But this was so long ago he's effectively a different person

    • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      what are you talking about it's really hard to make a little trumpet with your hands and go diddley-diddley-dooooo

  • hypercracker
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    2 months ago

    as is well known, it is impossible to grow facial hair or use hairpieces to replicate them. so we can only use actors for this role who are currently sporting mutton chops

    also lol at using a man with a gigantic jaw made of titanium to portray Kim, whose main caricature feature is a small jaw.

    • inlandempire@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      Also I don't think Jack Black has the acting ability to play Harry, and he's not a good face for such a movie because of the genre people are used to see him act in

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  • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    daniel dae kim as kim is borderline racist or something because they have nothing in common besides being korean/fantasy korean-new worlder, and having "kim" in their name. it would be like casting harry styles as tequila sunset

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    15 days ago

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    15 days ago

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  • heggs_bayer [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Casting aside, how would a game where at least half of the dialog takes place in the protagonist's mind even work as a movie?

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      15 days ago

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          • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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            2 months ago

            half the movie is cross fades and narration. the 2nd 50% of the plot happens in like 5 minutes. it's bad lmao

          • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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            2 months ago

            it's a bafflingly dull and badly paced movie filled with narration and cross-fades. Everyone I've ever tried to watch it with has fallen asleep

              • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]
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                2 months ago

                Lynch wasn’t mad he couldn’t finish it. He said it was the worst experience of his life and he would never do anything like it again. He wanted off the project as soon as possible.

                He spent more time on torturing a hairless cat and a minor lieutenant of the Atreides than he spent on the entirety of the Fremen people and Chani’s character. The new films are so much better it’s not even funny.

    • Blep [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Just have them talk over the movie itd be like the movie form of an episode of psychosis

      • icerunner_origin@startrek.website
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        2 months ago

        Give each person in the theatre a set of headphones that will overlay a randomised track with different in-head personas talking for each person watching. A slightly different experience every time.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Jack Black can't play a drunk marxist cop when he's always cast as the utopian anarchist who is suspiciously only surrounded by other white people.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Jack Black is a man with next to no principles beyond making a check. Who better to play somebody in a tabula rasa state.