[Dormant, please move to !television@lemm.ee] Movies and TV Shows

...in The Wire and Luther.

He was an amazing straight man.

Nahh both of those were crap. Taking original characters and portraying them with worn out stereotype tropes.

Knuckles simply does not sound nor act right. Looking at it now, reportedly his original plan for the character was far worse. He's just not that good of an actor. Elba was good in The Wire and Luther, but his other roles are primarily trading on the popularity from those.

Edit: More to the point about the way Knuckles acts, he's been Flanderised, diluted down into worn out dumb strong guy character tropes and then amplified. I really don't like that. /Edit

But then, given that we're in a thread excited about Keanu Reeves taking a role, I'm probably preaching to the wrong crowd. Reeves is an amazing person and a great action movie star, but action movies don't exactly require much acting, either. He gets a pass though because he's such an awesome dude. Elba's a bit of a sell out.

You had so many words to say and you got almost some of them right!