Sam Neal looked miserable here
He clearly did not want to be there at all
sharehe looked way better than Mark Hamill in Star Wars 8 and 9
shareBut Luke was supposed look weary
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Yeah it was really sad.. I'm sure he read the script and was checked out before cameras rolled.
Dr. Grant was such a good character too. Looked like he was there because it was expected of him.
They didn't do anything with him in this 3 hr turd of a movie. We're talking about a world-renowned paleontologist that was also brave and a genuine hero throughout the series. His lines in this movie were run, scream, biggest land carnivore, you trained raptors, run, look surprised, and scream. Oh and some BS out of place nonsense about coffee for a cheap attempt at humor.
Good lord they had years to make this movie with people who're millionaire writers and this was the best they could do. Middle schoolers could have kicked out something more interesting especially given the source material and an already established character.
He served no purpose. Take him out the movie and nothing would change.
Chris Pratt looked bored and over it, the entire movie. Total phone in for paycheck performance.
I kept waiting for him to yell "boot up the door locks, Ellie! Boot up the door locks!"
shareHe shouldn’t have taken the money then, he read the script and could have refused.
As a professional actor he could have been… a professional.
Not only that but do you really turn down a request from Spielberg? Spielberg is an executive on the franchise and I'm sure he gave Sam a call and requested he return. Sam knows turning down Spielberg could mean missing out on something special down the road.
Remember this is an industry and if you piss people who work in it you will struggle to find work. Interesting work and work that pays the bills is much more difficult to find for non A-list actors.
A good example was Don Bluth turned Spielberg down for American Tale 2 and then a few years later his animation company went belly up. Don himself even admitted if he stayed with Berg things would have probably have been better because Berg was the great at establishing deals, relations, and quality scripts. I bet Don would be running DreamWorks animation now.
That’s the point though, if he looked miserable in the role he should have been a professional and done the best job he could instead of just being there.
shareTrust me there’s only so much he could have done with the script he had to work with in this.
This was 100% a cash grab and everyone knew it and it’s worked out for Universal seeing as it’s almost made a billion dollars worldwide.
Yeah he wasn’t gonna change the lines, the argument was that you could tell that he didn’t want to be there.
If he was a professional he should have given his all, instead of looking miserable which is the whole topic.
Yeah. He's still a legend to me though, he was fantastic in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
You're right though Sam had the power to turn this down if he didn't want to be there, it's not like he was contracted for the Jurassic World films like Pratt and Howard were.
I mean I personally didn't think he looked anymore miserable than Pratt did. I didn't get the vibe he was intentionally performing poorly due to lack of interest. I got more the vibe that the script was absolutely horrible but instead of really hamming it up or trying to adlib which would potentially cost thousands of dollars per take and made work day that much longer for his fellow actors he instead just read the lines as closely as written to keep things smooth.
Remember this is a 200M project and the actors spend hours on set during a work day mostly just waiting around for everything to be set up. Then when they say action and cameras roll they need to get it right the first time so they aren't stuck their for hours longer getting the scene filmed. Notice during bloopers when actors mess up they say sorry sorry everybody.
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