Dave Bautista killed it in that role
Morton Sapper saw a miracle through those bitty specs.
Seriously, Bautista is great. That movie is amazing too.
What’s the movie?
Blade Runner 2049.
I thought this was from Knock at the Cabin, which he also wore glasses in.
It makes me think about how actors who we consider unremarkable might be hiding amazing performances if placed in the right role with great direction.
Bautista and Cena have genuinely shocked me with their range and depth. Both have demonstrated the ability to showcase dramatic performances and (the harder one) comedic chops.
Ricky Stanicky was the best comedy since 2010.
I’ve seen a few interviews with Cena and I could listen to him talk about acting and comedy all day. Man really knows his craft.
After seeing him in that role, he seems so underutilized in other movies.
Dave Bautista is undoubtedly the only actor with range in this picture.
Arnold has a pretty broad range, just lacking the depth.
you don’t think Alan Ritchson has range?
I’m not sure of my own opinion on it, tbh. but I was introduced to him as Thad, so seeing him later on in serious roles was a head turner
Whys thad in the cookie race?
I’m assuming the people who think that have only been introduced to him in reacher and a few action movies since then.
I first saw him in Smallville and thought he was equally as stiff then.
But he definitely nailed Reacher.
Watch a single episode of Blue Mountain State and see what you think about him having no range.
I’m so used to him being Thad that it’s quite surprising to see him in something that’s not a comedy at this point
Stallone had some range at one time.
Dude, Rocky is a great movie. And First Blood showed some range, too.
I love Demolition Man and Daylight for reasons other than range.
You can be a great actor and have no range, it just means you’re typecast. Some people fall into it over time, some start that way.
Try Cop Land. Not your typical Stallone pic.
I remember seeing this and thinking “wow, he can actually act.” And it’s inconceivable that someone like the Rock or Vin Diesel would do a movie like that.
Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan
That was early in his career. When Stallone made Cop Land he was a guy who (despite some recent missteps) could get movies made. He chose the role to show his acting ability. Once Vin Diesel had that kind of juice he put riders into his contracts about whether or not his character could lose a fight.
He was a very minor character. Who died very early on too.
That’s not fair towards his performance
It’s absolutely fair because it is absolutely true. Those are simply facts. His entire performance was basically one scene which I thought came off a teeny bit of ham fisted but not bad. He simply was not in the movie all that much. To say otherwise is simply inaccurate.
Funnily he’s also the only one where the glasses look good.
Aww, I think Arnold looks cute here
I’m sorry. The first three? I believe it - especially Ritchson. But I don’t care what he looks like, there is zero chance I’m going to buy a “smart” Stallone
Dudes been nominated for academy awards 3 times, same with golden globes and he won one of those.
None of which has to do with being smart.
I like him as an actor, but I wouldn’t find him playing a “smart” character very convincing. Him as a scientist would be great for a comedy movie though.
I’m not saying it makes a person smart, but he did write (and I think produced) Rocky. So not just an actor.
Like I said, not convincing but great for comedic effect.
He’s also fluent in a few languages.
He’s got Clark Kent look going on there. Something the other characters would buy, but everyone in the audience knows it’s a disguise.
I also wouldn’t buy a smart Dolph Lundgren despite all his academic achievements.
Stallone smart reads as wall street smart, which as we all know is as much smart as it is a combination of lucky and cheating.
Came here to see if someone said that already.
Sly looked hella good in those glasses tho, which is I think all that counts.
I’m more annoyed that 3 of these people are 6+ feet tall and one is almost legally disabled he’s so short.
Why does that annoy you?
It’s a meme?
The version of this that I especially loathe is when they write the character like he’s crushed by insecurities but gets instantly hot and confident once he takes the glasses off.
It’s like he becomes some kinda super man or something.
Fantastic show btw, I wish more people knew the origin of that gif
Both seasons are fantastic, shame we never got a third.
Man, Clark Kent and his stupid “disguise” can F right off.
Girls are the same wear glasses and a Geek. Take them off and instant hotty.
Don’t forget to let the hair down too!
Is “not another teen movie” dead as a reference?
I wonder why they always seem to pick round frames. Maybe just because they look nerdier?
I’m guessing to contrast with the big angular jawline
It’s nerdier, but not so nerdy that you’d think they’re a total wimp. For that you need squareish lenses with thick plastic frames
No one is thinking a six foot plus 250 pounds of muscle is weak.
IMO Bautista is on the underrated side. He can be hilarious, unhinged, dumb muscle, and serious AF. TBF he’s really picked some roles with good writing and direction which helps a lot.
unlike the rock, who cant act for poop, and he really is difficult to work with when it comes around action and contracts.
Nah the rock can actually act, he’s just usually taking the same type of big dumb roles. He was great in Ballers, and in that movie with Marky Mark. I’ve heard great things about him in the smashing machine too.
He just plays the same character in most movies, but he never a “bad” actor. What do you think he is bad in?
I didn’t like him in that Fox News short where he played a guy who “can’t endorse a candidate this election cycle”
I’m confused. Why does he need to endorse an election candidate? He’s an actor/wrestler, not a politician.
It’s not as though he’s any smarter or more informed than the average person is in that regard.
He doesn’t, but by going on Fox News and refusing to endorse “a candidate” he implicitly endorsed Trump. Johnson had previously voted for Obama twice and endorsed Biden in 2020
I believe this trick cause Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago from Rocky) has a master’s degree in chemical engineering
But he is qualified to be called “Science Guy”, so no harm, no foul, right?
I have a hard time thinking of someone with the same degree as me (BSME) as a science guy. I know I’m no science guy. I would think a science guy would have a graduate level degree of some kind. Something that involves research to acquire. I’d watch the shit out of Dolph Lundgren the Science Guy, though.
You make a valid enough point. My threshold for “Science Guy” is pretty low; I’m a humanities grad.
Should have added the Hulk with glasses too
That is the most absurd one. Hulk can fix every cut by a monster blade, every hit by a nuclear bomb but can’t fix the eyes?
Lol Reacher is the most “Mary Sue” (or whatever he male equivalent) character I’ve ever seen on TV.
“Gary Stu” is a pretty common substitution. And I agree, but the show is still fun. 🤷♂️
I’ve heard Marty Stu to describe that trope for make characters
No no. You see, a male character is awesome and badass and alpha male while the female version is just a Mary Sue and woke and forced diversity and blah blah blah.
Well you see they grew up watching Arnold and Stallon. So that is OK.
Eh. He’s only good at things that can be solved with violence or stoicism, hurts himself and others by being emotionally unavailable and poorly socialized, and is constantly running from his past figuratively and literally. It’s basically the same archetype as the hardboiled detectives from a century ago.
I think that picture is from Ministry of ungentlemenly warfare.
It is, and he plays a character with exceedingly limited range in that movie lol
I really enjoyed his attempt at a Dutch accent
I actually unfamiliar with that trope
A self-insert (by the author) character who is unreasonably good at everything they attempt.
Thank you for my new knowledge.
Clark Kent was on to something
(Diana Prince gets it, too.)
Sylvester Stallone is Clark Kent.
Oh man, it’s gonna be so surprising and contrasting when they get violent.
Im glad to see all these Bautista comments. I lived him as Drax (Dax? DAAAAX?). I remember seeing him do something else silly that I enjoyed, but Ill have to check out his more serious stuff.
Stallone is tiny lol
The ‘big’ guys in older movies all look small compared to the current ones that all look like the rock in pain and gain.
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