Why? Why are you watching the same movie over and over again, but with a different title every time?
shareFor entertainment.
When I walk through those theater doors, all my troubles and stress go away. My cell phone doesn't ring, chores don't need to be done at home.
And for the record, it's not the same movie as any of his other movies.
Crank is the same movie as The Bank Job?
You've got to be really stupid and/or high to think that.
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So, you, the SMART guy, are you saying to me that Statham is NOT typecast, playing the same KIND of character all the time?? Someone with a gun shooting bad guys, in 90% of his movies?? If this is not typecast, please, tell me what it is. Give me an example of an actor/actress being typecast (do you know what this word mean?), and then tell me why this person you chose is typecast, and Statham is not.
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The only stupid thing I would do here, is trying to communicate with someone who uses words like "dumbass" all the time to people who doesn't know, just because they have a different opinion with him, and they "insulted" their favorite "actor", by saying that he plays the same thing for 10 years now, and he will for the next 20. Which is the general objective opinion of every person who is NOT a Jason Statham fan.
I took a look at your messaging history (I hope you didn't mind). 95% of your messages are for "The Expendables 2". So, if I understood correct, you watch only (ok, mainly, if it makes you happy) gun movies, and you "insult" everyone who has a different opinion with you. Go back to your cave.
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"Gun movies? Try action movies."
Is there an action movie, without guns?? (Ok, except "Alien 3"). So, if what you watch are action movies, which are the gun movies? Or does this term insult you?
Copy/paste to me the part where I insult someone. I only asked of how you Statham fans can watch every movie he does, where practically every movie he does is extremely similar with any other he has done, and any other he will do. And most of you pay to watch them. I really don't understand why someone who has seen 20 Statham movies, will go and see his next one, where the plot will be something like "an ex-agent (who feels guilt because he accidentally killed an innocent woman in his last mission,so he retired) discovers that he's the target of his ex-boss,so he's on the run". And I ask again: why would you (plural) go an pay 12 dollars to see that? Statham (and all these action movie stars) plays in these movies because it's his JOB. It's like every other ordinary person who wakes up every morning, and goes to work for 8 hours. No difference. It's his job, he makes money out of it, so to live his life.
My question is, why people pay their hard earned money to see him making a living.
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Why do you compare Statham with Arnie? Arnie has played:
a) in a western
b) a bad cyborg
c) a good cyborg
d) in comedies
e) a barbarian warrior
f) a commando
g) in sci-fi films
h) in action comedies
i) a Russian cop
j) etc.
As you see, there is a VARIETY, in characters and genres. Where is the variety in Statham's movies? He hasn't played in a comedy (ok, "Snatch", but that was before he became famous), he hasn't played in sci-fi, he hasn't played a cyborg. No. He only plays a "hit-man". He does the job good, no question about it, but, to rephrase my question, why doesn't he try something different for once ("Gnomeo and Juliet" doesn't really count) ?? To prove that he's an actor?? Denzel Washington often plays in action movies (too many, the last decade or so), but they're different with each other, and he plays in OTHER movies too. Why? Because he doesn't want to be "typecast".
And of course, Denzel's action movies are 5 levels higher than Statham's...
Sorry to nitpick but Statham has played in a sci-fi - John Carpenters Ghosts of Mars, and Snatch and Lock Stock are considered "black comedies" but comedies nontheless, and even though they were part of Jason's earlier work, they absolutley do count. Also depending on how you categorize this, but Crank and more importantly Crank 2 can very well be seen as comedies.
Statham has played
a)in sci-fi
b)action comedies
c)a cop
d)a bad cop
e)a hitman
f)ex-SAS
g)a Transporter - which is actually different from a hitman
h)a troubled gambler - Revolver
i)a thief
j)he technically does play a warrior in A Dungeon Siege Tale - which is quite awful
k)a bad guy - Cellular
l)a guy who's neither a cop nor a bad guy, and no military background - never explained in the movie so one can't assume (Death Race)
m)a drug dealer - London
n)etc
So though it is hard to see, but Statham actually does have variety in his movie roles, but we watch his movies because he's entertaining and i'd rather watch 20 Jason Statham movies then really anything else being released.
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I like Jason Statham. He's not the greatest actor in the world nor does he pretend to be, but he is entertaining at what he does. He doesn't take himself too seriously and I think he has a bit of a knack for action-comedy and can deliver a swift one-liner with straight-faced aplomb. He won't be on stage as Hamlet any time soon, but he plays to his strengths and his films are usually good fun.
shareFirst when he played in "Ghosts of Mars", no one really knew him, it was at the very beginning of his career, and he would play in anything.
Second, when I said that Arnie has played in "comedies", I meant actual comedies, with NO guns. Like "Twins", "Junior", "Jingle All The Way", "Kindergarten Cop" (ok, this one has a couple of scenes with guns, but it's a comedy). "Snatch" and "Lock" are not plain comedies, they're gangster comedies. Can you imagine Statham playing in a comedy like "Hangover"? WITHOUT guns?? I sure can't. I'm not saying he wouldn't be good in it, but I can't imagine him, because I've always seen him with a gun in his hand. Like Humphrey Bogart, you can't imagine him playing in a film and NOT smoking.
Third, when I said "hitman", I put it in quotes because I meant it as a type of person, as a category. He may be good, he may be bad, he may be crazy, he may be a thief, but it's always a "hitman" (a professional assassin, if you like). (I could use "shooter", but this term makes me think more like a professional sniper, which Statham has never played, I think, and I wonder how he missed that).
Transporter 1,2,3, Crank 1,2, War, The Expendables 1,2, The Mechanic, Blitz, Killer Elite, Safe... He played a professional killer in all these (and some others I may miss, I haven't seen them all), and he's gonna do it for the next 10 years at least. If this is not typecast, PLEASE, someone tell me, WHAT "typecast" means?? It's the same with Meg Ryan (random example), who once upon a time, she was playing in romantic comedies all the time. Yes, she had a different name every time, she lived in a different city, she had a different job, but she was typecast as the single girl who falls in love with someone (usually Tom Hanks), and she was always cute and funny. TYPE-CAST!! And Meryl Streep? NO, she's not typecast. Why? Because throughout her career, she was only playing DIFFERENT characters, in DIFFERENT periods, in DIFFERENT situations, in DIFFERENT genres,etc. ALL the time, I don't remember her playing the same thing twice. That's NOT typecast! Got the difference?? Even Tom Cruise is NOT typecast, because he's playing something different all the time (the M.I. series excluded). And the list is endless.
Has Statham ever played in a thriller? Has he played in a political spy film (like "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"?). Has he played a stockbroker? A bartender? No. He always plays this guy: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm788050176/tt1656190
Why? Because the "green" is hot, and he doesn't give a damn in trying something else for a difference, because obviously he doesn't consider himself as an actor, but like a guy who they pay him to shoot people in movies. Oh, ok, he talks too.
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Woah woah woah, slow down there pal, YOU cannot pick and choose what a comedy is, a black comedy is still a comedy, there is no way around that, if you brought up certain movies you have to be willing to allow others to bring up movies aswell. Also just because a movie is one of someones first doesn't mean they aren't to be counted either, because guess what I KNEW WHO STATHAM WAS IN GHOSTS OF MARS, and it came after Snatch and Lock Stock. If you are to not count any of Stathams earlier work, then you are not allowed to count Terminator 1 or the Conan films for Arnie. And I can see Statham in a comedy, he could have very easily been in The Hangover or like Jaime Foxx in Horrible Bosses. You can't discredit the man until he's given the chance in that role.
You have apparently never seen the Transporter, War or Blitz then have you, he isn't a professional killer in any of those. He's a delivery driver in the Transporter, a crooked cop in War and a decent cop in Blitz. So you know, being a cop doesn't necessarily make one a professional killer.
I nor anyone here has said he isn't typecast. We have all agreed he's very entertaining and a joy to watch. However, let me ask you this, if you were in great demand for action movies as Statham is now, making the money he's making, would you really want to risk all of that to make some RomCom? or anything like that and turn into another Rock or even Arnie himself. It's funny you fail to mention that after Arnie branched out into comedies then came back to Action, those later movies were atrocious.
Bank Job and Blitz can most deff be considered Thrillers.
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I haven't seen "Blitz", but I have seen "Bank Job", and it's a thriller like "The Smurfs" are a thriller... What are you talking about?? So, if you go to a DVD club, and you go to the thriller section, where they have all these films with psycho killers and stuff, you would find it normal to find "Bank Job" there, next to "Scream"?? Yes, ok, "All The President's Men" is considered a political thriller, but when someone says PLAIN "thriller", he means something like a psycho guy killing people (in most of the cases, there are the metaphysical thrillers too). John Carpenter makes thrillers, Stephen King writes thrillers. "The Shining" is a thriller. Do you consider "The Shining" in the same category like "Bank Job"?? A heist movie?? I can't even believe I'm discussing this.
"I nor anyone here has said he isn't typecast."
Oooohhhh, thaaaaank youuuu!!!
"However, let me ask you this, if you were in great demand for action movies as Statham is now, making the money he's making, would you really want to risk all of that to make some RomCom? or anything like that and turn into another Rock or even Arnie himself."
This is so objective. I'm a person who would consider himself SUPER rich even with 5 million dollars on my bank account. Which is nothing comparing to what Spielberg (for example) has. If something happened (a bankruptcy, whatever) and Spielberg had 5 millions now, he would consider himself not only poor, but "homeless", because he's used to live like a tycoon for the last 30 years. But to normal people, 5 millions is a fortune they never dreamed of.
So, I don't know how much money Statham has, but let's say he has 20 millions (pounds or dollars, whatever). If I had this money, I could spent the rest of my life doing nothing. I wouldn't worry about making more money. I wouldn't be interested to make another 20 millions, unless I was a very charity person, and I would like to give them all to Ethiopia and for the protection of pandas. So, if I was an actor having made this fortune by doing "gun" movies for 10 years, and I was sick of it, and tired of shooting hundreds of times in every movie (including all the takes for each scene), and somebody offered me something DIFFERENT for half the money of my salary (even less), and I liked the screenplay, then yes, I would do that, and not "Transporter 4". But that's just me. Not Jason Statham, who isn't interesting in playing something else. For now, because, like Stallone played in "Oscar" (ok, it wasn't that good, but he did it because he felt like doing it) or in "Copland" (now that was good, and he was good) after 2 decades of a career, I think somebody will offer an interesting chance to Statham sometime.
I'll give you a perfect example. Jim Carrey became VERY famous (if not in America, then to the rest of the world) in 1994 with "The Mask" and "Ace Ventura" (the rest of the world didn't have "In Living Color", so they didn't know him). So, he hit the goldmine, and he carried on playing in "Dumb and Dumber", "Ace Ventura 2", "Liar Liar", "The Cable Guy", which were comedies where he was doing his thing: making funny faces. And in 1998, one of the most acclaimed directors worldwide, offers him the leading role for his new movie, which was a sort of comedy, but a serious one, and with meaning, 100 levels higher of what Carrey was doing so far. It was a risk for everybody, Carrey, Weir, the studio...And he gave his best performance yet, he won the Golden Globe, and the movie was a success. Then a year later, he did the same with "Man on the Moon". Again, the same, Golden Globe, good reviews, etc. And in 2004 he played in "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind", for which the Academy for once more neglected him, and everybody wonders why. Plus, it was a terrific movie.
MEANWHILE, he WAS doing his thing. Making funny faces ("Me, Myself and Irene", "Bruce Almighty",etc.). But he DIDN'T want to do ONLY that. He WANTS to do different things. And he gained the respect of EVERYONE. And he DID even a genuine thriller ("Number 23", didn't work, a failure, but he did it, he moves on).
Like I've said, I consider Statham a guy who always plays the "hitman", and you denied that, and said "no, he doesn't play the hitman, he plays the limo driver, the cop, etc.". And I wondered, how come and they didn't offer him the role for..."Hitman", since, in my HUMBLE opinion, is typecast as a hitman. And I read this:
"Offered the role of Agent 47 in Hitman after Vin Diesel was dropped from the project. Timothy Olyphant eventually took the role."
Wow, so they did consider him to play in "Hitman". I wonder why...
And he has said this:
"You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing Crank (2006) and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done."
And he certainly won't if he keeps going playing with a gun in his hand all the time. Seriously, wouldn't he be great if he played a rugby player (well, he's a little bit old now...), or a football coach? He did something like that once in "Mean Machine". Wasn't he good? Why does he ALWAYS have to have a gun in his hand?
p.s.: For what it's worth, I liked "Crank", it had a very inspired direction, and the scene at the end where he falls and we listen to "Miracles" by Jefferson Starship is awesome.
I haven't seen "Crank 2", but I'm sure it's not as good.
Using Scream or any "slasher" movie as an example of a "Thriller" was not a good choice. You then go on to mention Political Thriller and claim it to be a thriller. Yet you claim a few postings back that a Black Comedy doesn't count as a comedy. You see what's happening here don't you? But, having said that, you have proven my point in using a Political Thriller as an example, it's exactly that, a thriller. See that's the beauty in movies, they all have sub-genre's, and yes, I would consider heist movies like The Bank Job a thriller, it most certainly is not a gun movie and I can't remember, but I don't recall Jason Statham ever using a gun in it once. There are many aspects of a thriller and in Bank Job, it's the notion of being caught.
You sort of dodged the money question, it wasn't asking if you'd be happy and retire and donate your money to charity. It was if you were making the money Statham is, being considered the best modern action hero, why would you risk alienating your audience and jumping to a romantic comedy or something along those lines. More importantly, Statham loves what he's doing with action and quite frankly so do I, which is really all that matters. Are you jumping to Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, Michael Cera, Jon Heder, Owen Wilson, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell or any of their boards making these asinine statements about being versitle and branching out as an actor.
In regards to Jim Carry, much like Arnie, after he branched out into a new genre, then came back to his roots, he's been going downhill since, much like Adam Sandler and the biggest example here is Eddie Murphy. So this problem isn't just with Statham it's with almost everyone in Hollywood. Also about Jim Carry, I loved Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber was funny but overrated and Liar Liar, however, I don't care too much for any of his other work, especially Man on the Moon, Andy Kauffman wasn't deserving of a biopic. But hey you know what I do, avoid his movies entirely now as I do with Eddie Murphy movies. I reckon if you feel so ashamed or whatever you feel towards Statham, you should just avoid his movies from now on.
For your "Hitman" movie reference, have you ever played the Hitman game? You do know that Hitman was a bald, in shape, athletic killer. So if you were in charge of casting and wanted to make money, wouldn't you go after the top 2 bald, athletic, action actors - Vin Diesel and Jason Statham. I know I sure as hell would. I liked Hitman the movie and I love Tim Olyphant as an actor, but I don't think it was a good role for him, I actually would have much rather seen Statham in the role.
I deny he only plays the Hitman because it's just not true. He wasn't a hitman in Snatch, Lock Stock, Revolver, Blitz, Chaos, Transporter 1,2,3, London, Cellular, War, Death Race, Ghosts of Mars, The Bank Job, The Italian Job, The One, A Dungeon Siege Tale.
He has played a Hitman in; The Mechanic, Safe, Killer Elite, Crank 1,2 and I guess we can include The Expendables.
So do you see he actually doesn't always play the hitman and if anything, he's just recently being cast as a Hitman, The Mechanic, Safe, Killer Elite all released in the past year an a half.
I've never seen 13 or Mean Machine so I can't comment on those.
I would recommend you skip Crank 2, its an ok follow up to Crank until the horrible CGI fire near the end.
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"Yet you claim a few postings back that a Black Comedy doesn't count as a comedy."
Did I say that? Where? I can't find it. Copy/paste it for me.
Anyway, what I'm saying now, is that "Hangover" is a comedy. Like "Trading Places" was. Straight comedies. A movie like "Very Bad Things" or "The Trouble With Harry" (probably one of the very first black comedies) are black comedies. They're both comedies. Only the first two are genuine comedies, and the other two are comedies with a dark sense of humor. They're "blackomedies", if that term exists. Yes, black comedy counts like a comedy. What did I say?
Ok, so lets forget about Statham playing in romantic comenties. Ok, that's sounds stupid, it's like Metallica playing with a...symphonic orchestra,or something, but...Wait...Ok,ok, wrong example!! Anyway, but, since he did play in a "serious" film like "The Bank Job" (and he was great), why doesn't he play in something similar again? And he's not 35, he's 45, he's getting older. WHAT does he want, to become, like he's co-star, Stallone, and playing in gun movies (hey, that's what they are!) until his '70s??
"In regards to Jim Carry, much like Arnie, after he branched out into a new genre, then came back to his roots, he's been going downhill since..."
So, what are you saying, that he should play ONLY in "funny faces" comedies?? Dude!! He's 50 years old (unbelievable, huh?)!! He's an actor (at least he tries to be)!! Not a clown!! He never was my favorite actor, but I have so much respect for him for crossing the line. And I do hope to make other pleasant surprises like the ones he did again.
(And why do you call him "Carry"?)
"For your "Hitman" movie reference, have you ever played the Hitman game?"
No, but I've played "God of War", and Vin Diesel would be awesome in a movie adaptation of the game!! (Ok, I'm off topic, but I thought to mention...)
About the "hitman" thing: I didn't mean it with the literal, 100% exact meaning of the term. Like a contract professional hitman. I used the GENERAL meaning of the term. Ok, I rephrase: he plays hitman-like characters all the time. No? Oh,come on, you know what I mean!! EVERYBODY knows what I mean! I was going out the movie theater the other day, and they had a poster of "Safe", and some folks were laughing saying "Jeeeeesus, he plays the hitman AGAIN??? He played it in 3-4 movies last year only!". What would you do, explain to them the whole terminology of the word "hitman"?? You KNOW what they meant!
(But, like you already said, he DID play the hitman 3 times last year only! Thank you very much, at last, we communicate!)
"I would recommend you skip Crank 2"
I would recommend you NOT to skip "13". Statham proves that he can be a serious actor there. And don't start "what do you mean a serious actor, he's not serious in his other movies??", because we'll never finish, and eventually Statham will step in the conversation (hey, he has access in his IMDB board page, doesn't he??), and he's gonna be pissed off with the whole thing here.
p.s.: Hey Jason, I've written a screenplay about a single man living in a middle class suburb somewhere in Manchester, or wherever, and he loses his job in the local factory, and he suddenly discovers he has a 10 years old daughter, and her mother has just died, and...What? No, nobody kills her, it was just a disease or something. Anyway, and he has to take care of his daughter now, and find a new job,and...What? No, no guns mate, and no bad guys chasing your daughter, it's just a heart-melting sentimental family comedy, like the ones Eddie Murphy has been doing lately, and...'Xcuse me??? Ok, sorry mate, I just thought to ask...Jeez, you didn't have to use such language to me...Ok,ok, I'm going to **** myself, sorry! Go on, play to "Crank Reloaded", be my guest!! I won't pay to see that!!
p.s.2: Hey, Gerald Butler played in "300" and "Gamer", AND "The Ugly Truth" AND "P.S. I Love You"! And he's still popular!! (I think!)
p.s.3: And stop swearing at me!! I can't understand your cockney accent, dammit! I need subtitles, dude!! Ok,ok, I'm off your board, jeez, chill out...
"Second, when I said that Arnie has played in "comedies", I meant actual comedies, with NO guns. Like "Twins", "Junior", "Jingle All The Way", "Kindergarten Cop" (ok, this one has a couple of scenes with guns, but it's a comedy). "Snatch" and "Lock" are not plain comedies, they're gangster comedies." - By stating such, you discredit black comedies as comedies, but you go on to then say in your last post: "Yes, black comedy counts like a comedy. What did I say?" You truly are confusing yourself. The fact of the matter is, which I think you finally agree, a black comedy is still a comedy, if the comedic elements weren't thrown into movies then the term wouldn't exist, thus the comedic elements are thrown in for a reason. I think we can finally close the book on this one.
Has it ever occured to you that maybe he isn't getting offers like The Bank Job? Also if Stallone would make more movies like Rambo 4 I'd have no trouble with that, hell Statham could star in it with him.
I was calling Jim Carrey, Jim Carry because I didn't care enough about him to look up how to be correct in spelling his name. You can have respect for him for trying new things, thats fine, I have no problem with it, nor with him doing other stuff, however, he will never be as good as he was in his earlier work, and after he tried new things, he also tried to come back to similar comedies that made him famous but with not as much success. How do you feel about the rumored Dumb and Dumber 2 with Carrey and Daniels if you think Statham should stop making sequels to his more popular work?
I would absolutley explain the actual meaning of the word hitman to someone I overheard misinterpreting what it meant. Don't use the term if it isn't what you mean.
Yea he has only played a hitman recently therefore your original concept was debunked.
"it's just a heart-melting sentimental family comedy, like the ones Eddie Murphy has been doing lately" - Really? So thats what you think Norbit, Meet Dave, Tower Heist and Imgaine That are? The sad fact is Eddie Murphy hasn't made a decent movie since Life. It's a shame to, because when he was Raw he was brilliant, he didn't care what people thought, now he's gone PC and catored to the kids. See that's why Statham is a badass, he makes his movies for Action Fans, he doesn't care what anyone else thinks.
Gerry Butler is not as popular now as you think.
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I'm sorry, but this is really not getting anywhere. And that's why you can't read correct, or you don't understand what you're reading.
I wrote: "Snatch" and "Lock" are not PLAIN comedies, they're gangster comedies.
You wrote: By stating such, you discredit black comedies as comedies.
A GANGSTER comedy, is not necessarily a BLACK comedy. It can be, if it's TOO dark, and TOO bloody, but if it's a LIGHT one, like "Analyse This", it's NOT BLACK. It's a comedy WITH a gangster.
Meanwhile, I wrote:
"Anyway, what I'm saying now, is that "Hangover" is a comedy. Like "Trading Places" was. STRAIGHT comedies. A movie like "Very Bad Things" or "The Trouble With Harry" are BLACK comedies. They're both comedies. ONLY the first two are GENUINE comedies, and the other two are comedies with A DARK SENSE OF HUMOR.
So, to make it easy for you, BLACK COMEDIES ("The Ladykillers") and GENUINE (PLAIN) COMEDIES (a Jerry Lewis one), are BOTH comedies. "Snatch" ISN'T a PLAIN comedy, like the ones with Chevy Chase and Bill Cosby, because it's like "Pulp Fiction", it has gangs, guns, mobsters, it's a gangster comedy. It's a small genre, it belongs to the generic comedy genre, but it's different than black comedies (in most cases), romantic comedies, family comedies, buddy comedies, etc. It's a special kind of comedy, not a PLAIN comedy.
That's the way I see it. If you see it differently, fine, we don't have to quarrel until the end of times.
"Has it ever occured to you that maybe he isn't getting offers like The Bank Job?"
Then he better get a better agent. And yes, when filmmakers see him with a gun in his hand all the time, they don't consider him as their first option for their independent fresh film. Tarantino was barely known when he offered "Pulp Fiction" to Bruce Willis. But all Willis had to do to say "yes", was to like the screenplay. He liked it, he said "yes". Did he think how much money he'll make? No.
"it's just a heart-melting sentimental family comedy, like the ones Eddie Murphy has been doing lately"
"Really? So thats what you think Norbit, Meet Dave, Tower Heist and Imgaine That are?"
Did I say that EVERY film Murphy is doing lately is a family comedy?? I said LIKE the ones he's been doing lately. And when I said LATELY, I didn't mean the last 3 years, but the last decade, which is considered "lately" comparing to a career of 30 years. "Doctor Dolittle (1 and 2)", "Daddy Day Care", "The Haunted Mansion", and yes, "Imagine That", I haven't seen it, but it doesn't look like a political documentary to me, it seems like a FAMILY COMEDY! An what a surprise, the key words for this movie in IMDB are "family" and "comedy"!
"See that's why Statham is a badass, he makes his movies for Action Fans, he doesn't care what anyone else thinks."
I can see that, he hasn't replied to me yet...
"Gerry Butler is not as popular now as you think."
I know. I was being ironic.
You truly are bat *beep* crazy, or maybe English isn't your first language so you're having trouble comprehending?
A "Gangster" Comedy or a "Black" Comedy is still just that a comedy. The comedic elements are thrown in for a reason or do you not understand that, apparently you do not. It can be a "Plain" comedy if you choose to keep bringing that up as an example, but the fact of the matter is, a comedy is still a comedy, it doesn't matter if it's a plain comedy or anything else.
Statham doesn't need a new agent, he's making films he wishes to make, i'm sure he reads his scripts and decides if he wants to do them. If anyone needs a new agent its Nic Cage and Eddie Murphy. You try to be sarcastic and say "Did I say that EVERY film Murphy is doing lately is a family comedy?" Then you YOURSELF do go on to mention the last decade, which would be EVERY film lately. Which if you've actually sat through and watched them you'd realize how dull they are and have nothing on Murphys earlier work.
You truly are confusing yourself. Why come to this board and ask Statham fans a question, and when you get an explanation from them, disregard it, you have your opinion of the man and thats fine, hes not your type of actor. Move on and avoid his movies and you won't have the aneurysms or qualms you do now.
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You are correct Dreamcatcher9000. I find the endless similarities between 'Gnomeo & Juliet', 'The One' and 'The Mechanic' quite tedious.
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!
the one was a sci fi.
share...playing the same KIND of character all the time?? Someone with a gun shooting bad guys, in 90% of his movies??
Sounds no different to Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Dwayne Johnson or numerous others who have made a pretty tidy sum playing the same character over the decades.
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!
The movie was good for me. I wasn't expecting an Oscar nomination or anything.
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Of course "The Bank Job" is his best movie. It was a heist movie set in the '70s, and it was serious. He didn't kill 216 people.
And "13" was pretty good too. He didn't play a "good" guy as he (almost) always does, but an opportunist who all he cares for is the money, and he puts in risk his brother's life for that. Quite the opposite of what he usual plays. And it was his best performance yet.
As for the rest...he's like Van Damme or Steven Seagal. The same thing, over and over again. No?
I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if Statham starred in a romance film or something, he and the film would be absolutely crucified. I think this is a case of Statham knowing what he is good at, and film-makers knowing what he is good at, and so he stars in films where his talents can be used to their potential.
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