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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.
It’s like he becomes some kinda super man or something.
Man, Clark Kent and his stupid “disguise” can F right off.
Fantastic show btw, I wish more people knew the origin of that gif
Both seasons are fantastic, shame we never got a third.
Girls are the same wear glasses and a Geek. Take them off and instant hotty.
Is “not another teen movie” dead as a reference?
Don’t forget to let the hair down too!
IMO Bautista is on the underrated side. He can be hilarious, unhinged, dumb muscle, and serious AF. TBF he’s really picked some roles with good writing and direction which helps a lot.
unlike the rock, who cant act for poop, and he really is difficult to work with when it comes around action and contracts.
Nah the rock can actually act, he’s just usually taking the same type of big dumb roles. He was great in Ballers, and in that movie with Marky Mark. I’ve heard great things about him in the smashing machine too.
He just plays the same character in most movies, but he never a “bad” actor. What do you think he is bad in?
I didn’t like him in that Fox News short where he played a guy who “can’t endorse a candidate this election cycle”
I’m confused. Why does he need to endorse an election candidate? He’s an actor/wrestler, not a politician.
It’s not as though he’s any smarter or more informed than the average person is in that regard.
He doesn’t, but by going on Fox News and refusing to endorse “a candidate” he implicitly endorsed Trump. Johnson had previously voted for Obama twice and endorsed Biden in 2020
Lol Reacher is the most “Mary Sue” (or whatever he male equivalent) character I’ve ever seen on TV.
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 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
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 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.
“Gary Stu” is a pretty common substitution. And I agree, but the show is still fun. 🤷♂️
Dave Bautista is undoubtedly the only actor with range in this picture.
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.
Try Cop Land. Not your typical Stallone pic.
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
He was a very minor character. Who died very early on too.
That’s not fair towards his performance
It’s absolutely fair because it is absolutely true. Those are simply facts. His entire performance was basically one scene which I thought came off a teeny bit of ham fisted but not bad. He simply was not in the movie all that much. To say otherwise is simply inaccurate.
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.
Arnold has a pretty broad range, just lacking the depth.
Funnily he’s also the only one where the glasses look good.
Aww, I think Arnold looks cute here
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
Whys thad in the cookie race?
I’m assuming the people who think that have only been introduced to him in reacher and a few action movies since then.
I first saw him in Smallville and thought he was equally as stiff then.
But he definitely nailed Reacher.
Clark Kent was on to something
(Diana Prince gets it, too.)
Stallone is really little though.
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
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?
I also wouldn’t buy a smart Dolph Lundgren despite all his academic achievements.
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.
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.
Right? He doesn’t even know about the three seashells
Came here to see if someone said that already.
Dudes been nominated for academy awards 3 times, same with golden globes and he won one of those.
He’s also fluent in a few languages.
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.
Like I said, not convincing but great for comedic effect.
I’m not saying it makes a person smart, but he did write (and I think produced) Rocky. So not just an actor.
Sylvester Stallone is Clark Kent.
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.
Oh man, it’s gonna be so surprising and contrasting when they get violent.
Im glad to see all these Bautista comments. I lived him as Drax (Dax? DAAAAX?). I remember seeing him do something else silly that I enjoyed, but Ill have to check out his more serious stuff.
I wonder why they always seem to pick round frames. Maybe just because they look nerdier?
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.
I’m guessing to contrast with the big angular jawline
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.
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.
🤮
Why’d you post the smiley giving Shrek a blowjob?
Josh from GMM says “Hi.”
