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I've never seen Fresh Prince. The only Will Smith films I've seen are Made in America and the first Men in Black; I liked them both.
Best Will Smith Movies:
Six Degrees of Separation
Bad Boys
Enemy of the State
Han
Hitch?
I don't know. It gets thin quickly.
I'll e it up with my TD montage.
I've never seen Fresh Prince. The only Will Smith films I've seen are Made in America and the first Men in Black; I liked them both.
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LOL. What the are you even talking about? I'm pretty sure I've stuck to tame discussions about a couple of actors today. You'll know when I'm up your bizznatch.Man..cantthinkofanything....you all ova my today....go head mane...deep throat that ...i like when you ho's use a lot of spit...and play with the spit like a stringed cheesy pizza...
All Men in Black movies were badass stuffs imho, funny and entertaining as .
I am Legend was alright but Denzel >>>>>>>>>>>>> Will smith.
Some people say Denzel doesn't have much range and keeps playing the same character but taht has classics on top of classics.
Doesn't have range. You could say the same about DeNiro. His characters are all similar in many ways. Even in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. But he's a great actor and adds enough nuances to each so it's not redundant. And like Denzel, cranks out classics.
I liked him in Fresh Prince, MIB, Enemy of State and Han
The rest is though
Will Smith ing sucks. His "charisma" is just him laughing inappropriately and making ty jokes during tense scenes. Dumb people like things like that, hence his success
Honestly comparing those two is just incredibly insulting to De Niro imo. Not sure how he "doesn't have range", he's played a wide variety of characters in his career. Same for Denzel, but not sure that the latter really cranks out classics...other than Training Day, Malcolm X and maybe American Gangster, what classics are there?
Crimson Tide, Courage Under Fire, He Got Game, Glory, The Hurricane, Man on Fire.
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Exactly.
How is it insulting? Name DeNiros wide variety of characters that he's done well. He's bad when he gets too far from what he is. Even his comedy from Fockers is basically his tough guy routine.
And in your same post you mention "same for Denzel". You're all over the place Ebert.
Yeah DeNiro is best at movies like Goodfellas, The Godfather part II, Heat, etc.
Will Smith has some spark and a, for lack of a better word, zany personality. But he plays essentially the same character in every film.
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I must be the only one who likes I Am Legend here.
He has range. Just gotten lazy after putting in work.
In the 80s and 90s he did a bunch of lawyer-ish and cop type movies that were pretty solid.
Also did you not see Training Day?
My comment, "doesn't have range" was repeating the poster above that. My point was that neither Denzel or DeNiro change up their base character much. Training Day is a top 10 movie imo. Yeah...I think I saw most of those good movies he was in. And he's a solid very likable and believable actor. Like DeNiro. Most great actors become great by doing roles that fit them. Which both those guys do. Some great actors take on a larger variety or roles. Not many can pull it off. It's hard for me to come up with many. I guess Dustin Hoffman would be a good example of one.
And to think Will Smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because he would not have been the lead.
Hmm fair enough. Though the inclusion of Man on Fire puzzles me.
Plenty good movies, just don't strike me as classics that will stick with me years after watching, like De Niro's work in Godfather 2, Goodfellas, Heat, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Deer Hunter, Cape Fear, Untouchables, King of Comedy, etc
I was saying that Denzel and De Niro both play a variety of characters...just that Denzel is not really in the same league as De Niro.
People just see De Niro as the "gangster guy" and Denzel as the "angry black man" because their most well-known movies lean toward those archetypes, not because they never try to act outside of those character types.
And how the are the characters in Raging Bull and Taxi Driver similar?
It was terribly self serving, Strange. The SX were sub standard & there was a certain pomposity to the entire proceedings as well.
They both remind me of that guy from Meet the Fockers.
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