My WAG is that the secret to his success is being the pot connection for the cast and crew of every movie he’s involved in. I remember seeing him on the Daily Show once and he genuinely upset (I think) Jon by mentioning on air that they’d smoked pot together back stage before the show.
This is one of the most asinine criticisms of actors. Acting is their job. It’s their CAREER. It’s what they do. It’s how they learn their craft. It’s how they earn money. It’s how they make contacts. It’s their chosen profession.
Why should any actor fortunate enough to be able to work steadily NOT take a role because some random guy on the Internet who actually doesn’t have to go see anything they do thinks they’re overexposed? Don’t like Seth Rogan? Simple solution. Don’t go see his movies. Problem solved. Seth gets to work and make money and work with people he likes, and you get to not see him.
How would you like it if someone told you they didn’t like seeing you, so don’t do your job?
See, really, come on. Farrell has been working steadily in many movies, some of them absolute gems like In Bruges, A Home at the End of the World, The New World (Terrence Malick), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s last movie), Ondine, a small but very key role in Crazy Heart (Jeff Brides won the Oscar for that movie). As Simplicio pointed out, Farrell has TWO movies in theaters at the moment: Fright Night, and Horrible Bosses.
Actors can’t win with some people. If they do smaller, independent movies they’ve disappeared and they’re considered has-beens by people who don’t go see smaller independent movies. If they do bigger movies they’re overexposed.
You should stay away if you dislike Rogan so much, but I saw it and my personal opinion is that it’s a wonderful movie, very funny and moving and emotional, but not grim or sappy at all. JGL is the main character of course, and he’s always great. I’d see him in anything. Rogan is the sometimes obnoxious friend who turns out to have a surprising side to him. I liked him.
Wow, I didn’t mean for my OP to work you up so much. Wait, you’re not Rogen, are you?
It should be borne in mind that when a movie is released is not under the control of an actor and in fact may bear very little resemblance to the actor’s work schedule. A movie’s release could come a year or two after the actor last stood before a camera acting in it.
In my view, what I think reads as “overexposure” in Rogen’s case is the jump from supporting to starring roles. Personally, I think he works much better onscreen in smaller doses rather than as the lead, so I think of him as overexposed in general when in fact I’m just tired of looking at him in whatever particular movie I’m seeing.
Excellent point.
Exactly. I just looked up the filming dates of those Portman movies and they’re all over the place.
Black Swan - December 3, 2010 (filmed in Late 2009)
No Strings Attached - January 21, 2011 (filmed in Summer 2010)
Your Highness - April 8, 2011 (filmed in Summer 2009)
Thor - May 6, 2011 (filmed in Spring 2010)
The Other Woman - May 17, 2011 (filmed in 2008)
I think he’s a little over-exposed only in so far as I expect he might burn out his fan base and end up not being desirable anymore. I do like some of his work, but I feel much this way about him. I liked his role in 40 Year Old Virgin because seeing glympses of that sort of character is more entertaining, but when he gets more screen time, the dull character and lack of acting skill sticks out more. I feel even more strongly about this with someone like Will Ferrell who I thought was funny in supporting roles but abysmally boring intolerable in a starring role.
Regardless, I think he appeals to a lot of people because of the smoking thing, but also because he’s moderately funny and, at best, average in appearance, probably even a little uglier than average. Really, it’s no surprise when Brad Pitt or George Clooney lands the babe and does all kinds of amazing things, but that’s what we expect from Hollywood. When an average guy who does the sort of stuff that a lot of people do on film, I think a lot more people will relate to it even if his range and talent is poor.
True. But the issue were discussing is the “exposure” of the actor. Realistically, that means release dates not production dates.
Which, again, has nothing to do with the actor or his/her agent. After filming ends, what happens to the movie is out of Rogen’s or Portman’s hands. And in the case of The Other Woman, it was solely released in theaters after sitting around for three years to capitalize on her Oscar nomination.
Yes, actually. I am.
Shhh, don’t tell my husband.
Completely agreed.
Well, arguably, it has nothing to do with anybody. The Green Hornet was released by Columbia, Paul was released by Universal, and Take This Waltz was released by Astral Media. All of these companies only released a single Seth Rogen movie. How can you say any of them over-exposed Rogen?
If you’re going to discuss the issue of how many movies Seth Rogen has made, I figure you have to put a large share of the responsibility on Rogen himself.
Agreed. A one note actor who just isn’t funny. Even the movies that he has been in that I’ve liked, I’ve liked in *spite *of, not *because *of, his involvement.
Now I just won’t bother to see a movie if he is in it.
I say good for him. If I had half the luck he’s had, you better believe I’d milk it all I could until my 15 minutes were up. And honestly, I don’t find him that annoying. He seems to be the guy who was at the right place at the right time who knew the right people. And all of his stuff I have seen I’ve enjoyed FWIW.