Independence Day is my favourite movie with Will Smith, my second favourite is the one where he is fighting Zombies can't recall the name. He was for a good long while the most bankable actor of colour in Hollywood ahead of Danzel and Morgan Freeman. TENET would have been a different movie with him alongside Robert Pattinson. The sad thing is how he raised his children to become part of the publicity machine instead of seeking out academic excellence. He fed them directly into the maw of the media machine where the last name and nepotism rule the roost. Sad really I am sure some of that can be laid at the feet of his practice of scientology.
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So what? He's still doing fine. Was he supposed to be in every blockbuster ever made?
He also won an Oscar. Keanu didn't. I don't think that doing Matrix or Inception would have a big impact on his career.
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I wonder if someone explained to him The Matrix is a transgender allegory.
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IDK he might be, he certainly is a dick. but also you don't usually get to read the whole script (definitely not the final script) before choosing to accept a role, they may only get a scene, maybe just an elevator pitch etc.
For a moment I got him and Matt Smith confused and wondered why he would have has anything to do with Inception.
Edit: came out in 2010, so scratch that thought. For a moment I had a mental collapse and thought it came out late 90s.
Matt Smith as neo would be amazing
- You hear that mr Anderson? The sound of inevitability.
- My name is the Doctor!
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But he took Wild Wild West, Hancock, and I Am Legend. Okay.
Hancock was fantastic, fuck the ending being coherent it's an action comedy
It’s not just the very ending, unless you mean the entire 2nd half… it just felt like there were two entirely different movies made, and they took the first half of one and haphazardly grafted it on to the second half of the other. The tonal whiplash alone was crazy.
I feel like that sort of movie mismatched has happened a lot over the years. I figure that producer meddling or overfitting to test-screening reactions is typically the cause.
“It’s [current year] blazing saddles.”
“It’s Martian manhunter but demon in a bottle”
“It’s Dracula, but from Dracula’s perspective.”
They’re interesting premises and easily understood. I can’t knock smith for choosing them. You never know what’ll end up on the editor’s floor. There might have been a better cut somewhere in there
I honestly think he's kind of a child or childish. I had always suspected it from some odd bits and pieces in lyrics gushing over the Cuban cigar in Jiggy, then feeling the need to point out that he won't light it, it's just for the look. I love that the rumor mill thought Nas wrote the lyrics in whole. The slap kinda sinched it, It looked like a grade schooler defending their girlfriend.
I mean, props that he did something about it, but he should have at least tried to act like he was a badass. He's a fucking actor for god sakes.
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Well, hindsight is 20/20, but he also doesn't have the best history of choosing hits. Maybe it's his manager? Maybe he's dumb.
He's definitely an asshole, though.
If they'd casted Smith as Neo than they wouldn't have casted Fishbourne as Morpheous
I think he would've been great in Inception though
If memory serves, the wachowskis said Lawrence understood the reference/source material far better than the other actors, he'd still be Morpheus
Studio pressure is a mother fucker
Challenging ideas
really?