I’m going to quote myself on this one and show you just how bad of an actor US audiences will provide ratings / ticket sales for. Check out the guy’s IMDb page. He’s been working as an actor for nearly a quarter of a century. And not in just garbage either. He had a central role in Cop Land in which he “acted” against De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Stallone, and Ray Liotta.
From this thread:
ETA: Damn, that clip was pulled, but I can link to anything else in his career, so here’s this:
Can’t be bothered looking through all his movies to find the names, but the one where he was a chef and was enamoured of a Latin American ( I think ) lady, and the one where he was a golfer wasn’t too bad.
You seem to be misreading my post. Steve Martin and Adam Sandler are very good actors. Unfortunately, they make films in which their characters are very annoying.
I think it must be a cultural thing. I love Atkinson in almost anything, but I guess he’s an aquired taste.
See my last reply. Gervais is a genius- just see the one in “The Office” where he does THAT dance. I guess a British sense of humour is required.
Don’t be too hard on Thai films. I’ve seen some really excellent ones, and the Ong Bak fims are are as good as anything Bruce did.
Actually, I was responding to the title, and the question posed in post 2 and the response given in post 15. I realize you changed the meaning of what you were asking earlier, but since it was already brought up, I tossed my two pennies into the pile. Sorry for not quoting posts to make it clearer what I was responding to.
There’s no accounting for taste, I guess.
Your post was completely vague about what you meant, check the title you didn’t say awful characters, you said awful actors.
Then why aren’t Adam Sandler and the others also acquired tastes?
You seem to be misreading your own post. If Rowan Atkinson or Ricky Gervaise don’t play annoying characters, then nobody does.
Seriously, you’re flip-flopping back and forth. Gervaise’s characters are okay, because he’a a genius, but Steve Martin’s characters are annoying, because… what? Because he’s American?
I give this thread a D-.
Yup. Let the rest of the world make their own god damn movies and you’ll see plenty of awful shit from them too.
I didn’t realize that Monty Python was an American company and that Absolutely Fabulous was an American TV show.
Seriously every time one of these threads comes up I’m sure all the non-Americans reading this are laughing their asses off at this bizarre variation on American exceptionalism.
Not that it’s limited strictly too this board.
A few months ago, I was talking to a friend of mine enamored of Dowton Abbey who kept going on and on about how superior British TV was who said:
“People in Britain don’t watch crap like Big Brother.”
It took every ounce of willpower not to fall out of my chair laughing.
Why must it be an American thing? Why must it be a cultural thing? Do you write those sentences because you think posts need to have a minimum number of words? What can you tell us about culture or America that would support your (pretty vague) point?
FYI - The Voice and Big Brother - two of the more successful shows to be foisted on the States in recent years, were first conceived and produced in Europe (The Netherlands, to be exact). BB especially was ground breaking in terms of reality TV - and it was all brought to you by Europeans.
I thought Big Brother originally came from the UK.
Spanglish and Happy Gilmore, respectively.
Why does the rest of the world spend so much money to watch this crap, then? Have you seen the international gross receipts of American movies? It’s obscene. If you’re not an American, then you only have your fellow countryfolk to blame.
Granted, a lot of what comes out of Hollywood is crap. But from what I’ve seen, the rest of the world doesn’t do much better.*
*on average
I always say nothing gets made in Hollywood that a 12-year-old shoe shine boy in Singapore couldn’t understand.
you should stop saying that then, since you obviously know nothing about Singapore.
OK.