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⌈ Secret Post #3880 ⌋

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Comments

What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[(Anonymous)]

How was your opinion changed?

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[kamino_neko]

The Wedding Singer showed that Adam Sandler could be a respectable (if not great) actor...if he could get out of his formula. Most of his following movies have shown he has little to no desire to do so, unfortunately.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[philstar22]

The Wedding Singer is the only romantic comedy I actually like. Adam Sandler in anything else is awful, though.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[kamino_neko]

I didn't hate Pixels, but that was mostly Sandler and Kevin James skirting around their annoying personae, with a serviceable (but far from perfect*) movie running around them.

* The whole Q-Bert/Lady Lisa bit at the end was wrong in at least 3 different ways.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[syncing_feeling]

The whole Q-Bert/Lady Lisa bit

Tempted to Google that but have a feeling I'll regret it! How wrong are we talking here?

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[kamino_neko]

3 levels wrong!

Spoilers:

In Pixels, Earth is attacked by aliens who take the form of 80s video game characters, for reasons that make sense in context, believe it or not. One of the heroes is obsessed with a character named Lady Lisa - a generic female warrior type from the only fictional game used in the movie.

The aliens apparently have a custom of taking or giving soldiers as trophies after battles. One of the ones they send when humans win is Q-Bert, who starts hanging around with the heroes (mainly Sandler and his love-interest's son).

In the final battle, a Pixel Alien based on Lady Lisa appears...the guy with the Lady Lisa obsession convinces her to change sides, but, as she's not a trophy, when the aliens are defeated and leave, she goes with them. Obsessy-guy laments that everybody else has romantic (or at least sexual) fulfillment, when his dream girl just buggered off back to space. (Sandler's character gets the girl, obviously, James's is already married, and Peter Dinklage's does get the Serena Williams/Martha Stewart three-way he wanted.)

So...Q-Bert changes into Lady Lisa and they start making out, and by the epilogue are shown to have married and had babies (li'l baby Q-Berts).

So, we have...1) Literal trophy wife. 2) The destruction of Q-Bert's identity to serve this purpose. 3) Q-Bert apparently entering into a romantic/sexual relationship (as a totally different person) on the spur of the moment with the dude (who hardly interacted with Q-Bert before the final scene) just so he won't be sad. Also, 4) Seriously, dude, she was Q-Bert not 5 seconds ago, don't you want to take a moment to process this before sucking her face? (Sandler's character actually calls that one out in the movie.)

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[syncing_feeling]

One Hour Photo for Robin Williams. I'm sure he'd done serious/dark work before that but it was my first time seeing him in that sort of role and it blew me away.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't he realy good in that? :)

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[syncing_feeling]

Yeah, he did a fantastic job in it! I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it. It deals with some pretty dark stuff but it's mostly psychological rather than graphic. It also relates to another thread posted further down about ideas that future generations won't get; the whole photo development service thing dates it a bit but if you can get past that it's worth it.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[greghousesgf]

he was amazing in that.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[syncing_feeling]

He really was. A lot of actors get typecast and get sort of stuck doing the same role, so I have respect for actors who take the plunge and try something different. Doesn't always work perfectly, but Williams did such a great job.

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[(Anonymous)]

The Truman Show for Jim Carrey

Re: What movie changed your opinion of an actor/actress?

[philstar22]

This. I hate Carrey's comedy. Hate it. But The Truman Show showed me that I could like him in a serious film. He's been good in a couple of other serious roles too.