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Dave Bautista is undoubtedly the only actor with range in this picture.
you don’t think Alan Ritchson has range?
I’m not sure of my own opinion on it, tbh. but I was introduced to him as Thad, so seeing him later on in serious roles was a head turner
Funnily he’s also the only one where the glasses look good.
Aww, I think Arnold looks cute here
Arnold has a pretty broad range, just lacking the depth.
Stallone had some range at one time.
Dude, Rocky is a great movie. And First Blood showed some range, too.
I love Demolition Man and Daylight for reasons other than range.
You can be a great actor and have no range, it just means you’re typecast. Some people fall into it over time, some start that way.
I remember seeing this and thinking “wow, he can actually act.” And it’s inconceivable that someone like the Rock or Vin Diesel would do a movie like that.
Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan
That was early in his career. When Stallone made Cop Land he was a guy who (despite some recent missteps) could get movies made. He chose the role to show his acting ability. Once Vin Diesel had that kind of juice he put riders into his contracts about whether or not his character could lose a fight.
The version of this that I especially loathe is when they write the character like he’s crushed by insecurities but gets instantly hot and confident once he takes the glasses off.
Girls are the same wear glasses and a Geek. Take them off and instant hotty.
It’s like he becomes some kinda super man or something.
Man, Clark Kent and his stupid “disguise” can F right off.
Dave Bautista killed it in that role
Bautista and Cena have genuinely shocked me with their range and depth. Both have demonstrated the ability to showcase dramatic performances and (the harder one) comedic chops.
Ricky Stanicky was the best comedy since 2010.
After seeing him in that role, he seems so underutilized in other movies.
Morton Sapper saw a miracle through those bitty specs.
Seriously, Bautista is great. That movie is amazing too.
What’s the movie?
Blade Runner 2049.
I thought this was from Knock at the Cabin, which he also wore glasses in.
It makes me think about how actors who we consider unremarkable might be hiding amazing performances if placed in the right role with great direction.
I’m sorry. The first three? I believe it - especially Ritchson. But I don’t care what he looks like, there is zero chance I’m going to buy a “smart” Stallone
Right? He doesn’t even know about the three seashells
I also wouldn’t buy a smart Dolph Lundgren despite all his academic achievements.
Dudes been nominated for academy awards 3 times, same with golden globes and he won one of those.
None of which has to do with being smart.
I like him as an actor, but I wouldn’t find him playing a “smart” character very convincing. Him as a scientist would be great for a comedy movie though.
I’m not saying it makes a person smart, but he did write (and I think produced) Rocky. So not just an actor.
Like I said, not convincing but great for comedic effect.
He’s also fluent in a few languages.
He’s got Clark Kent look going on there. Something the other characters would buy, but everyone in the audience knows it’s a disguise.
Stallone smart reads as wall street smart, which as we all know is as much smart as it is a combination of lucky and cheating.
Came here to see if someone said that already.
I’m more annoyed that 3 of these people are 6+ feet tall and one is almost legally disabled he’s so short.
Why does that annoy you?
It’s a meme?
Lol Reacher is the most “Mary Sue” (or whatever he male equivalent) character I’ve ever seen on TV.
“Gary Stu” is a pretty common substitution. And I agree, but the show is still fun. 🤷♂️
Eh. He’s only good at things that can be solved with violence or stoicism, hurts himself and others by being emotionally unavailable and poorly socialized, and is constantly running from his past figuratively and literally. It’s basically the same archetype as the hardboiled detectives from a century ago.
I’ve heard Marty Stu to describe that trope for make characters
No no. You see, a male character is awesome and badass and alpha male while the female version is just a Mary Sue and woke and forced diversity and blah blah blah.
Well you see they grew up watching Arnold and Stallon. So that is OK.
I think that picture is from Ministry of ungentlemenly warfare.
It is, and he plays a character with exceedingly limited range in that movie lol
I really enjoyed his attempt at a Dutch accent
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I actually unfamiliar with that trope
A self-insert (by the author) character who is unreasonably good at everything they attempt.
Thank you for my new knowledge.
I believe this trick cause Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago from Rocky) has a master’s degree in chemical engineering
But he is qualified to be called “Science Guy”, so no harm, no foul, right?
I have a hard time thinking of someone with the same degree as me (BSME) as a science guy. I know I’m no science guy. I would think a science guy would have a graduate level degree of some kind. Something that involves research to acquire. I’d watch the shit out of Dolph Lundgren the Science Guy, though.
You make a valid enough point. My threshold for “Science Guy” is pretty low; I’m a humanities grad.
Should have added the Hulk with glasses too
I wonder why they always seem to pick round frames. Maybe just because they look nerdier?
I’m guessing to contrast with the big angular jawline
It’s nerdier, but not so nerdy that you’d think they’re a total wimp. For that you need squareish lenses with thick plastic frames
No one is thinking a six foot plus 250 pounds of muscle is weak.
Stallone is tiny lol
The ‘big’ guys in older movies all look small compared to the current ones that all look like the rock in pain and gain.
Clark Kent was on to something
(Diana Prince gets it, too.)
I’m fast and smart and dumb and real slow-like in the brain department. I didn’t know what my book was about until three years after I wrote it. It dawned on me that the whole thing is an homage to Of Mice and Men one day when I was picking up groceries. I am an oblivious savant, that’s how I identify. I also identify as a Mormon Occultist. Praise the lord and hail Satan!
I can’t tell if this is a novelty account or someone with a really unhealthy way of working through their schizophrenia.
Stop thinking in duality. It’s both and neither.
I am a performance artist playing an autobiographical character to market my educational art project aiming to teach philosophy, spirituality, and mental health skills to help people heal n self-actualize while healing and self-actualizing in the process. Part of this involves learning to shrug more and more and more. I say insane things and this attracts attention to my work and I express myself as a schizoaffective n autistic person with PTSD.
Stallone is really little though.
Is that Oscar or Tango & Cash?
