Maybe Will Smith actually tried to read Baudrillard to get a grip on some basic concepts behind the movie. However, english translations of Baudrillard are fucking awful and borderline unreadable (common issue with scary french philosophers for some reason) so he gave up. Also - fuck Will Smith. Denzel should’ve starred in The Enemy of the State.
Would you believe that Denzel had made the call?
He slapped a man on national television because he made a joke about his wife. That wasn’t even a mean joke, it was just in somewhat bad taste. (He was also laughing at the joke until he saw his wife roll her eyes at it)
He is quite dumb
She’s basically his boss tbh. It does not seem like a healthy relationship
I’m so glad he skips movies he would have ruined
Strongly agree. As an actor Will Smith always brings some sass to movies. I feel like he would’ve ruined a few scenes. Especially him teasing Agent Smith unnecessarily.
I don’t get people sometimes. Here’s a hollywood elite who thinks they have the ability to physically assault another person (and so fucking brazenly in front of the whole world) and never be held responsible. Fuck Will Smith and anything he profits from including recognition of past performances. Comments in here are acting like a bunch of wannabe-nostalgia-cucks who don’t care as long as the individual did a silly little dance and entertained them some. Dude needs serious rehabilitation and a reality check which will never come to him because people would rather talk about his performances instead of the actual person.
All the way, my brother! Fuck Will Smith and his whole fucking family.
Also, yes. He dumb.
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
Yeah but, what if you could star in this instead?
A cool thing about being tone deaf is that I can’t tell who voices who.
A sad thing is I can’t tell hot water vs cold water being poured. Finding out people could do that seemed like a super power to me.
I usually just wait for a subtle hints of steam building up inside the boiler. To be clear, i think shark tale is really not bad, at all. But it’s weird. I have a dvd of this movie
How is this different from regular deafness?
The problem is that there’s no such thing as “regular” deafness (same for blindness). It’s a spectrum with several different types.
You can be deaf but still capable of hearing, and you can be blind and still be capable of seeing. Although in a diminished capacity.
In the case of being tone deaf, you struggle to differentiate different pitches.
I can hear, I just hear things more monotone.
I can tell accents and volume levels apart though. Tonal languages are very difficult.
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.
2 things:
- I just recently learned that the “monsters” in I Am Legend were not zombies, they were vampires and they were supposed to be fully sentient… The movie adaptation missed the mark so much it is basically a completely different and unrecognizable story from the book.
- why is there a tag or something next to your name that says “Bot”? Is that supposed to be there? Is that something buggy happening in the front end I am using?
They even had an ending in the movie that was closer to the original , but they cut it/changed it because it didn’t test well.
I’d guess that was because it was an ending that followed the original storyline and didn’t make sense without the rest of the movie also following the original storyline.
spoiler
It turns out (or is apparent in general) that the “zombies” are sentient/sapient and to them he’s the monster in the dark(or daylight as is the case here), from their point of view he’s basically been abducting people for experimentation and killing anyone who comes looking for their abducted family.
The zombie/vampire guy at the end is just looking for his partner to rescue her, once he has her, he leaves.
The Bot thing is because the system has decided that VPN use indicates automated account creation. I am not and its annoying but this nothing I can do anything about
You don’t see an option in your user settings?
You are right I just noticed I changed it by unchecking the option. Thank you.
I try to point it out to everyone I see who is marked as a bot who seems human because you can also enable an option to filter all self marked bots out.
If i had a nickel for every book to movie adaptation that completely missed the mark, well id have two nickels.
Not blaming him, I think he is a very enjoyable actor. Maybe not top tier, but I see why hes A list.
Can’t watch him in anything since he hit Chris Rock. It ruined his characters in nearly every thing he was ever in.
Ah yes, great book. The film is fun but completely fails to adapt the point of the book.
I don’t really know anything about how he raised his kids or any of that jazz, but his daughter makes some pretty rad music.
That’s cool. His son is a lunatic.
Is the Left 4 Dead mod that replaces the safe room wall writings with his tweets still maintained?
Is the movie you’re thinking of “I Am Legend”
He also turned down Django Unchained. Will Smith is just shit at picking roles.
Thank God. He would have ruined it.
Will can’t help but be himself in a movie. Instead of… You know… “Act”.
I don’t want the alternate Django Unchained where Will Smith starts rappin and getting jiggy with it.
Why does Will Smith in Django Unchained make me think of Wow Wow.
he’s also extremely dedicated to maintaining his brand. turning down Django Unchained does feel like a HUGE wiff to me though. Django is basically Deadshot if Deadshot lived in the Antebellum South (presumably after the California gold rush since he spends some time in Colorado). maybe Tarantino films can’t ever fit the Will Smith toxic positivity brand?
I mean, he’s picked plenty of bangers.
Sometimes there’s scheduling conflicts. Sometimes a director casts a wide net, knowing he’s going to get a bunch of rejections. Sometimes you get roped into a project as a favor or a quid pro quo (Vin Disel coming back for a cameo in FF: Tokyo Drift to get Chronicles of Riddick made, only to end up making nine more movies and counting) and it changes your career.
I honestly can’t think of the last will smith movie I enjoyed
Gemini was kind of entertaining, but I wouldn’t go as far as calling it “good”.
Too bad because he played in th 12 monkeys army and that was a good one despite of the tricky scenario.
Smith’s agent should’ve just handed him an eXistenZ DVD and told him that Inception was basically that but dumber.
Will Smith in Inception feels a lot like Focus to me
maybe he just didnt get the point of the story or something. I dont think you can act well if you cant get into the character
In general, will smith has always been an action type of guy in his roles, but to do that he always needed to have clear motivations. I guess a nested dream in a dream isn’t functional for this type of actor.
Well, and the fact that back then these movies were almost a gamble you know, like now we treat them as cult classics, but than they were absolutely new and nobody know what they were about.
I’m sure Keano was the right choice there. I could see him handling the Matrix if he walked into it in bewilderment like the original Men in Black movie. He’d be fine up until somewhere around the Oracle. I think when things started coming together, and he needed to start commanding his own destiny, the suspension of disbelief would have dropped.
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.
I honestly think he’s kind of a child or childish.
Becoming rich and famous at a young age is probably terrible for one’s development.
He became a successful recording artist at 18, became a TV star at 22, and had a wildly successful run in both music and acting throughout his entire 20’s and early 30’s.
He never had a normal life, and it probably baked in a lot of things that one would normally outgrow by the age of 25 or 30.
I’ve heard it said that the age you get rich at is the age you stop developing.
I can look forward to a life of developing. Like a lot :c
props that he did something about it, but he should have at least tried to act like he was a badass
Wow, I didn’t realize the alpha-bros had found Lemmy!
The correct response to a comedian telling a joke at your partner’s expense is to smile awkwardly and do nothing in the moment. What Will did was so out of bounds it was sad and pathetic.
I don’t appreciate your name-calling. Please check your toxicity at the door.
That’s fucking rich! The douche who thinks public assault is A-okay can’t handle a little name-calling when it’s directed at him. Get bent you ginormous twat-waffle.
That song is Miami, and I agree he’s a child but tobacco is definitely disgusting and he’s smart for skipping it.
Skipping it is fine, but skip singing about it then :) The kid part is wanting to look like he’s into cigars.
https://genius.com/Will-smith-miami-lyrics Miami does not mention a cigar.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/willsmith/gettinjiggywitit.html
Here with this handsome kid, ciga-cigar Right from Cuba-Cuba, I just bite it It's for the look, I don't light it“Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” does
Will Smith would have been disastrous in The Matrix and now I want to see it
I was thinking, thank god he turned it down.
Inception, on the other hand - I can’t recall any of the characters, so I don’t know which role he was considering. It’s a perfect Will Smith movie.
If memory serves me right the protagonist in Inception was confused a lot and Wil can pull off confused.
If memory serves me right the protagonist in Inception was confused a lot
Dicarpio’s character wasn’t confused, you may be thinking of Elliot Page’s character, but I wouldn’t count that character as the main protagonist.
They were probably thinking of Cillian Murphy’s character
I barely remember it. I was pretty high at the time.
Imagine the tie-in music video he would have done.
uh-huh yeah ha ha woo uh huh am I dreaming or is this real, sleep all day, gotta get that feel ha ha yeah oh uh the city is spinning, but ya see ha ha I ain’t dipping. gotta get the reception, ha ha yeah woo it’s an inception!
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Agreed, but I also firmly believe there is another universe in which we could believably type “Keanu Reeves would have been disastrous in The Matrix”
It would have been a very different movie. So, maybe people couldn’t picture Keanu in that forgettable action comedy called The Matrix. But, Keanu did show he could do comedy. His first big movie was Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He’d also done Parenthood. In addition, he’d shown he could do action movies / thrillers with a bit of comedy when he did Speed, and fairly serious action movies with Point Break.
Will Smith has done plenty of action movies, but all of them are at least somewhat comedic. He’s shown he can do serious roles too, like Happyness, 7 Pounds, etc. But, I don’t think you’d hire him for a science fiction action movie without having him do some comedy. I’m sure Will Smith could do a straight dramatic science fiction action movie with no comedy, but AFAIK he’s never done it.
IMO Keanu is a much more limited actor than Will Smith. But, The Matrix played to his strengths.
I’m sure Will Smith could do a straight dramatic science fiction action movie with no comedy, but AFAIK he’s never done it.
I Am Legend is probably the closest.
It has been a while since I saw it, but you’re right. I mostly remember it as drama, not comedy.
well , excuse me for the AI haters out there. But we gotta do this.
Seedance, c’mon boy, DO IT!!!
Will Smith as NEO in the Matrix.
EDIT: I found one, a year old but it checks out
You get that we wanted dialogue right? We can all imagine Will Smith in a leather jacket with slow motion bullets moving around him.
Every time someone who is pro AI tries to advocate for it it always comes off as their brain having turned to porridge. You get we can see that image in our minds, we don’t need it visualised for us at the expense of half an olympic swimming pool worth of water and at least six trees.
AI BROS, DO YOUR THING!
It’s just an infinite number of Will Smiths eating an infinite amount of spaghetti.
I still appreciate that he actually acted out the AI clips of him eating spaghetti
Edit: found it on Instagram and I could watch the clip in a private tab successfully, didn’t see any better hosts on a quick search though
Once Matrix got super popular Will slapped himself.
