In recent films Adam Sandler seems to play the part of a really cool guy with a hot girlfriend and a nice house and whose friends all fawn over him.
I agree that he usually plays the cheeky cool guy with a bad attitude who has to learn a lesson and ends up getting the hot girl. His one role that was different was in Reign Over me. I actually cried watching his performance. I think it was because he usually plays the same role, seeing him do something different and portray heartache with such contriviction really got to me.
Lol what?!:D he's played fat women, old men/women, an elderly asian man and a camp white workout instructor!! He may not have dramatic range but credit where credits due!
Yes. Eddie Murphy has a talented for making them all seem the same! Most of the characters in the Norbit film where a rip off of the Klumps. In fact, I thought they were the Klumps until I read the reviews.
The only film I can honestly say he played the part a lot differently from the rest of his film (and I do mean the rest) is Interview with A Vampire.
Pretty hard to be an all american action hero type when you look like death warmed up, lol.
It's funny because when I think of Cruise, I think of his early films like T.A.P.S. (appears as a military trainee who goes berserk), Risky Business (a cocky spoiled-brat teenager, who becomes a successful pimp and gets to shag a hot woman in slow motion on a train), Endless Love (a callous friend/advisor) and The Outsiders (a gap-toothed street fighter).
I thought he would go far. He did succeed, but not in a direction I expected. I expected him to become a decent character actor, not a film star.
I still can't associate the early Cruise with the later Cruise (circa Top Gun and onwards). It's as if there are two actors who happen to share the name. Now and then, the old him shows up. Such as Magnolia and Collateral. Not often enough, though.
Danny Trejo always plays a Mexican you wouldn't f*** with in pretty much every film he's made (this includes the 5 films he's just made in the time it took me to type this).
His films are usually pretty entertaining, but I sometimes forget which one is which, but he just plays the same character all the time.
Honourable mention to Michael Caine.
I think for all intents and purposes Jason is like our modern day Arnie
He's not an 'actor' he's a film star. He knows what the people like, and he gets paid handsomely for it (somewhere in the $15 - $20 mil range)
''You can't have a sushi restaurant and then put cheese on toast on the menu, because they'd go, 'why did you do that? We came here to eat sushi.'
''The dilemma is that you have to do something that people want to see.''
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I know Will Smith as the cop/man playing the hero really works. He just needs to leave his son out of his films.
Yes. Eddie Murphy has a talented for making them all seem the same! Most of the characters in the Norbit film where a rip off of the Klumps. In fact, I thought they were the Klumps until I read the reviews.
That was easily Tom Cruise's best role.
It's funny because when I think of Cruise, I think of his early films like T.A.P.S. (appears as a military trainee who goes berserk), Risky Business (a cocky spoiled-brat teenager, who becomes a successful pimp and gets to shag a hot woman in slow motion on a train), Endless Love (a callous friend/advisor) and The Outsiders (a gap-toothed street fighter).
I thought he would go far. He did succeed, but not in a direction I expected. I expected him to become a decent character actor, not a film star.
I still can't associate the early Cruise with the later Cruise (circa Top Gun and onwards). It's as if there are two actors who happen to share the name. Now and then, the old him shows up. Such as Magnolia and Collateral. Not often enough, though.
... and Cate Blanchett.
That made me laugh! I'd say her as well.
He's not an 'actor' he's a film star. He knows what the people like, and he gets paid handsomely for it (somewhere in the $15 - $20 mil range)
Not even close.
Jean Claude Van Damme (always action)
Steven Seagal (always action)
Tom Cruise (always action)
Frat Pack (comedy)
Steve Martin (comedy)
Eddie Murphy (comedy)
Jim Carey (comedy)
Keira Knightley (Always some danzel in distress)
Rachel McAdams (Always romantic films)
Jennifer Aniston (Always the woman with a guy problem)