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[–] 151 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Dave Bautista killed it in that role

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  • [–] 55 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Morton Sapper saw a miracle through those bitty specs.

    Seriously, Bautista is great. That movie is amazing too.

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    [–] 70 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Dudes been nominated for academy awards 3 times, same with golden globes and he won one of those.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder why they always seem to pick round frames. Maybe just because they look nerdier?

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It's like he becomes some kinda super man or something.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I believe this trick cause Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago from Rocky) has a master's degree in chemical engineering

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    But he is qualified to be called "Science Guy", so no harm, no foul, right?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 79 points 4 months ago (20 children)

    Dave Bautista is undoubtedly the only actor with range in this picture.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Stallone had some range at one time.

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    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Vin Diesel was in Saving Private Ryan

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He was a very minor character. Who died very early on too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's not fair towards his performance

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Dude, Rocky is a great movie. And First Blood showed some range, too.

    I love Demolition Man and Daylight for reasons other than range.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Should have added the Hulk with glasses too

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    unlike the rock, who cant act for poop, and he really is difficult to work with when it comes around action and contracts.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I didn't like him in that Fox News short where he played a guy who "can't endorse a candidate this election cycle"

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Clark Kent was on to something

    (Diana Prince gets it, too.)

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Sylvester Stallone is Clark Kent.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Lol Reacher is the most "Mary Sue" (or whatever he male equivalent) character I've ever seen on TV.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've heard Marty Stu to describe that trope for make characters

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think that picture is from Ministry of ungentlemenly warfare.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Oh man, it's gonna be so surprising and contrasting when they get violent.

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    Josh from GMM says "Hi."

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Stallone is really little though.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I can't tell if this is a novelty account or someone with a really unhealthy way of working through their schizophrenia.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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