Underrated Actors/Actresses

[sirkickyass]

I thought the same thing so I Google'd the source material and it's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale

The original story takes place on Mars. The plot summary for the new movie looks like it takes place in the possible near-future, on Earth.

You may want to check your facts counselor. I've read the original and he remains generally earthbound. It has a twist ending that can't be topped that is nowhere present in Total Recall as well.

 

[TroutBum]

You may want to check your facts counselor. I've read the original and he remains generally earthbound. It has a twist ending that can't be topped that is nowhere present in Total Recall as well.

This just makes me smile.

 

[YB85]

You may want to check your facts counselor. I've read the original and he remains generally earthbound. It has a twist ending that can't be topped that is nowhere present in Total Recall as well.

Too shay, though I haven't read the original story. As a matter of fact, until I googled it, I didn't even know it existed. The summary that I saw for the new movie reads "As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on." That doesn't look like either the source material or the loosely based Arnold movie, to me at least. I could be wrong since I haven't read it and am simply judging this book by the cover notes.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Bruce Lee
Has anyone else beat 2 people at ping pong using nunchucks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBr0mLxJm6o

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Too shay, though I haven't read the original story. As a matter of fact, until I googled it, I didn't even know it existed. The summary that I saw for the new movie reads "As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on." That doesn't look like either the source material or the loosely based Arnold movie, to me at least. I could be wrong since I haven't read it and am simply judging this book by the cover notes.

* Two shay

 

[sirkickyass]

Too shay, though I haven't read the original story. As a matter of fact, until I googled it, I didn't even know it existed. The summary that I saw for the new movie reads "As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on." That doesn't look like either the source material or the loosely based Arnold movie, to me at least. I could be wrong since I haven't read it and am simply judging this book by the cover notes.

Too hard to tell from that description. Although it's weird that it doesn't have any description of memory implantation as a plot device since that's part of the basic premise of both the short story and Total Recall.

 

[pickledXgrandma]

R o n j e r e m y

 

[AtheistPreacher]

Keanu Reeves.

In many ways I think Keanu had the wrong career. There is a lot of evidence from his early career that he's got a very legitimate comedic instinct (Bill and Ted, Parenthood, etc) and had some roles where he displayed some real range and fragility (i.e. Point Break, My Own Private Idaho, etc).

Instead he got pegged as a big budget star for Speed and later typecast as being "The Matrix guy" and got cast in a bunch of roles where he was asked to continue playing "The Matrix guy" (Constantine, A Scanner Darkly, etc). In some sense I think he's been punished almost for being too good looking. If he was a little uglier I suspect his film offerings might have been a little meatier and less popcorny.

I'm not so sure about that.

I brought up Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasons earlier. Keanu Reeves is in that, playing alongside Close, Malkovich, Pfieffer, and Thurman. Maybe he only looks bad by comparison, but man does he look ridiculous.

What Reeves is good at is acting confused. That's why he was so good in The Matrix... all he had to do was act confused the whole movie: "Huh? What?" About the only range I think he has is different modes of confusion.

Just one man's opinion.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Kicky started to convince me but I think AP's right.

Dracula has been on a couple times recently and holy Jesus is he God awful in it. Call it being miscast. I call it having limited range. Ferrell > Reeves.

 

[AtheistPreacher]

Kicky started to convince me but I think AP's right.

Dracula has been on a couple times recently and holy Jesus is he God awful in it. Call it being miscast. I call it having limited range. Ferrell > Reeves.

Yeah, that's the thing. You can always say someone was "miscast." Reeves certainly was in Dangerous Liasons. I mean, he was trying to portray French aristocracy, and yet he still had that terrible SoCal surfer accent. But at the same time, good actors act... they adapt themselves to the role. But Reeves... not so much. Limited range, indeed.