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Did Michael Cera hurt the Box Office for this great script?

posted 13 years ago by Those_Are_My_Balloons
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This is a phenomenal script and features phenomenal actors. I am wondering if Michael Cera, however, weighed things down. He has been in too many movies since 2007 and I wonder if people were already tired of him by the time this came out. I know that I delayed seeing it because of him. I like him, don't get me wrong, and he's a good actor but he is in WAY too many films and furthermore films where he plays roughly the same character (himself).

Just wondering if the B.O. would have been better with a different male lead.

[–] TwoThousandOneMark 9 years ago

I actually thing Cera helped mainstream it. Remember he was getting a few headlining parts around that time.

...top 50 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056413299/

[–] ekpookwong93 8 years ago

The movie was a potential summer blockbuster built around a plot which starts when the protagonist cheats on his nice girlfriend.

Along with it's niche aspects that factor alone was going to make it a difficult sell for a wider audience and the fact is it needed a lead that would do 2 things: one who would ground the picture given how stylized it was and one who big audiences would get behind and like despite the character's douchiness.

Cera, by 2010, was simply not that guy.