Honestly, talk about a charisma vacuum. There's just nothing to him. And it didn't help that he slipped in and out of his Australian accent.
shareNah, he was awesome in it.
sharethat why Sams a leading man now...............oh right. he isnt...
shareSo if you’re not a leading man, that means you’re a bad actor? Your logic is flawed and, once again, you need to calm down.
shareNo the logic is if he was a bad leading man in avatar, which is what the OP said and you said he was good. and he was pushed on us as a leading man in other films (almost all of which failed), then why isnt he still a leading man?
notice how you just changed it to "bad actor" in general. you know you are wrong. hence why you changed the argument. nice try kid :) life must be hard for you lacking such basic mental faculties.
I actually think Sam is. GREAT actor when he isnt a leading man.
care to try again? maybe admit you were wrong and changed the subject. it'll onlyy sting the ego for a second but you will grow!
Calm down.
shareYou've met the latest troll. I wouldn't bother.
share"he knows more about character development,s tory telling and filmmaking than me! he's a troll!"
aww typical Jesus boy. anyone smarter than them on a topic is "arrogant"
Typical moron. Talking out of your ass.
shareyes a moron who actually took film studies and knows more than you. this seems to be your modus operandi.
Ooooh! I'm SO impressed. Go back to hating movies.
shareyes I actually analyzed the problem with avatars character development so I "hate movies"
snowflake its okay. you can like the movie still. I like all sorts of trash. but im not delusional enough to defend them as good or great just because I like them.
let me guess you never went to university for anything. anyone who knows more than you in any topic is just "arrogant".
a classic anti intellectual revelling in their ignorance. soo sad. imagine that. you can get a PHD in film but anyone who knows bit more than you on the topic "hates films" and is "arrogant"
fragile little muffin awww
You know the great thing about being delusional is the deluded don't know they're deluded. You clearly have a NEED to be right which is probably because you don't have many (if any) friends and that has made you very angry because no one sees how superior you are, so you resort to being a keyboard warrior (wanna be bully). Hopefully you'll grow up at some point. You need to realize you're perpetuating your own unhappiness.
Now please, have your most coveted, last word.
yes we know you have nothing to ever add. you got attention though. you can get some temporary joy in your sad life now
shareHe isn't even a character actor. He would be great in NCIS Australia.
Hollywood pushed him as the next big thing, along with many other people that can nod "yes" but couldn't do the job.
What did Cameron see in DiCaprio?
shareA megastar? I don't like DiCaprio but i'm not deluded either, he's clearly got star appeal and has sustained his popularity over the years. Worthington just has nothing going for him.
shareHe's certainly a star, but I don't know that he's sustained what he once was.
sharewhat are you talking about. its hit after hit after hit after hit
-titanic 97
-gangs of New York 2002
-catch me if you can 2002
-the aviator 2004
-the departed 2006
-blood diamond 2006
-inception 2010
-django 2012
-wolf of wall street 2013
-the revenant 2015
-once upon a time in Hollywood 2019
Yeah, he is the most consistent actor in Hollywood for quality films.
shareThe massive teenage girl fanbase that helped Titanic make so much money.
shareDiCaprio's amazing back catalogue proving he could pull anything off and his teen fanbase.
His first appearance on Growing Pains as a kid trumps any performance Worthington has done in his career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cW43BCkw4&ab_channel=warnerarchive
We all wanted to know what River Phoenix would become and DiCaprio is the closest we could get.
He probably saved a lot of money hiring a nobody right
shareHere you can get the reason from the man himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yExegrnr4&t=800s
he was good in sabotage with schwarzenegger. but not in this.
shareHe stated straight up that he didn't really want a star to distract from the film. I think he was right to do so. If the actor had any charisma, if he was a Matt Damon, it would have become a Matt Damon film, and we would have all bitched that it needed more Matt Damon screen time, not blue people, and it would have overshadowed the whole thing. The star of the this movie, and the sequels moving forward, is state of the art VFX.
shareHis career progression was certainly a curious one. He did a lot of low key TV for most of his career, then suddenly he gets 3 major movies in as many years around 2009/2010...Avatar, Terminator and Clash of the Titans.
I personally think someone somewhere liked him and predicted he would be big. But I don't think he had it. No charisma, no star quality. I liked ths movies. Even Terminator Salvation. But he just didn't register.
That's probably the most sensible reason for casting Sam that I've read. Watching it tonight and it would be distracting had a more charismatic actor had the role.
shareHe wanted to put a stupid grunt at the center of his film, and he got an actor who could play a stupid grunt convincingly.
And yes, the actor had to play the character as genuinely stupid, someone who would not realize he was setting up his new blue pals for cultural destruction, because he didn't realize much. If that meant the audiences didn't like the character or identify with him, that was the writer's fault and not the actor's.
LOL what a copout excuse. His lack of charisma and being an interesting screen presence in literally everything he does is not the writer's fault, it's on him.
shareNo, I really don't blame Worthington for the really big problem with the film, which was that the hero was such a fucking idiot that I always wanted to slap him upside the head rather than root for him.
I'm not saying that Worthington was great, or anything beyond competent, but it wasn't his idea to make the leading character in this huge tentpole movie a slappable moron. Not even a great actor could have saved that script.