Whoever his agent is needs to take a vacation. I really think Rogan’s career could go the way of Colin Farrell’s, who was also way over exposed, and has almost vanished from movies.
He now has 50/50 coming out with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and I couldn’t be more meh about it.
Here’s his starring roles in full-length films:
2007
Knocked Up
Superbad
2008
Pineapple Express
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2009
Observe and Report
Funny People
2011
The Green Hornet
Paul (Voice)
50/50
Take This Waltz
Doesn’t seem to be too much, about 2-3 a year. He didn’t make anything big in 2010, Green Hornet was back in January, Paul was just a voice, and Take This Waltz lloks like a small indie movie.
Not so exposed that you can spell his name right.
Seth Rogen.
I personally don’t find him entertaining, so naturally to me he is overexposed. If I liked him, I’d be happy with his level of activity.
In this day, 2 a year (or more) is a lot. A hell of a lot. Actually, damn near double what most actors do.
Oops. :smack:
Yeah, I don’t think so. Looking through popular actors on Wikipedia over the recent decade, and I would say generally anywhere between 1 to 3 a year is about normal.
1 and 3 is a big spread. 1 a year would seem normal. 2 a year is, well, double that. Get the picture?
So name names, who else does starring roles in films twice a year? I’m not talking walk on parts, either.
Well, my standard for “big name actors” is Ocean’s Eleven so:
George Clooney
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
2005 Syriana
2006 The Good German Film Jake Geismar
2007 Michael Clayton
2007 Ocean’s Thirteen
2008 Leatherheads
2008 Burn After Reading
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009 Up in the Air
2010 The American
2011 The Ides of March
2011 The Descendants
1.85 movies per year.
2007 Ocean’s Thirteen
2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2008 Burn After Reading
2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009 Inglourious Basterds
2010 Megamind
2011 The Tree of Life
2011 Moneyball
2012 Cogan’s Trade
2012 World War Z
1.66 movies per year
2005 The Brothers Grimm
2006 The Good Shepherd
2006 The Departed
2007 Ocean’s Thirteen
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum
2009 The Informant!
2009 Invictus
2010 Green Zone
2010 Hereafter
2011 The Adjustment Bureau
2011 Contagion
2011 We Bought a Zoo
1.7 movies per year
Yeah, Rogen is doing slightly more, but comedies don’t take nearly as long to film as the kind of movies these guys make. But I think saying he’s overexposed by doing a whole extra movie a year is a bit much.
[ul][li]Johnny Depp starring roles in 2011[/ul][/li]Jack & Jill
The Rum Diary
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Rango
[ul][li]Matt Damon starring roles in 2011[/ul][/li]We Bought A Zoo
Contagion
The Adjustment Bureau
[ul][li]Jude Law starring roles in 2011[/ul][/li]Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Hugo
Contagion
There were even more smaller roles. And those were just the first three actor pages I went to on Wikipedia. And I only used 2011: I could find even more examples of a bunch of past years where actors had a shitload of movies. A bunch of films per year for a famous actor during their prime isn’t anything strange.
I saw two movies in theaters with Colin Farrell this week. He doesn’t seem to have vanished very well.
I like that Matt Damon always ends up being the standard “name an actor” actor.
But the difference is that Rogen isn’t naturally funny and doesn’t really play an interestingly different character from film to film (Clooney, Pitt, and Damon are interesting enough onscreen that they can make it work). His success is a total mystery to me.
Probably because Matt Damon is fucking awesome.
The fact that Rogen is appearing in a bunch of films seems to contradict that.
Damn, I am wrong on so many levels (and even got his name wrong).
Sigh, sometimes you take the stupid shovel square to the face.
Look at Natalie Portman. She had five movies released within a six month period:
Black Swan - December 3, 2010
No Strings Attached - January 21, 2011
Your Highness - April 8, 2011
Thor - May 6, 2011
The Other Woman - May 17, 2011
His agent, whoever he or she is, sold their soul to the devil. It’s the only logical conclusion.
For the record, Damon and Portman seem way over exposed.
Maybe that is part of it, in that his character really is pretty much the same time and again.
People feel they can relate to Rogen’s characters. This is all there is to it. It’s not that they’re particularly interesting, deep, or funny, but that they seem “real.”
If you look at even the previews of that bunch of films, no, it doesn’t. He appears to play the same, boring nebbish IN EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.