Off subject, since Michael Caine did his best with the script in "Jaws: The Revenge", but I always found his quote about the film hilarious, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"
The Simpsons had an episode where Michael Caine is filling out an application form and asking if he had to list that movie. Maybe he should have added, 'Or The Swarm, The Island...'
Harrison Ford hasn't looked enthusiastic playing any role in the last twenty years, I'd argue. He just seems done with Hollywood but needs to pay the bills.
Sorry bro. You lost me at Scrooged. I realize that Richard Donner and Bill had problems on set, but Bill Murray kills that role. I was a little kid at the movies and the ending of the movie, when Bill is talking to the audience, is something I’ve never experienced again. Just magic. It’s a must watch during the Holidays, and everyone I’ve showed this movie to, that’s never seen it, has a great time.
Well this isn't a list of people who hated the movie role and phoned in their performance. Some of them hated the movie role and still managed good performances.
@@peterkottke2570 That's the thing, though. Murray did NOT phone in his performance. He looked like he was yelling at everybody and had no humanity in him, but that was exactly what the part called for. You see the humanity in the character after he wakes up the next day from the ghosts visiting him. Makes it a much more believable change.
"You lost me because I'm ascribing something completely different than the premise of the video onto what you say and explain how much I love the movie!" is not the ironclad argument you think it is
Scrooged? I mean that was the character... a cold heartless sycophantic boss. Everything you say is just proof of he nailed it. I watched that movie many times and I think you turned it off before the end, honestly. It's the reversal to the over-the-top happy Bill Murray that we all knew at the end that really makes it sink in as a retelling of the classic story.
Unless the actors themselves have actually said something, I find a few of these to be baseless. Murray in Scrooged was perfect. That is how the character is supposed to be. Bridges in RIPD looked like he was having fun with the character not that he hated it. He did ham it up which added to the comedy while Reynolds actually played it straight. This list even acknowledges the possibility with January Jones in X'men that it could simply be an acting choice. Something that could be said for a few other roles mentioned.
I mean... the video says Murray himself confirmed the on set disagreements. And Murray is famously extremely difficult to work with, and by "extremely difficult to work with" I mean he's an a-hole
That's just how January Jones acts. It worked in Mad Men because her character is supposed to be cold and repressed. But it doesn't work in other situations. There's a reason she's done nothing of note since Mad Men.
Much like Sparanos, or Breaking bad, no one really cared about Don's family life. It was his work family people liked, not the wife & kids complaining about all the luxury it gave them.
I mean, Emma Frost is supposed to be cold, aloof, regal and a bit of bish. That's like her whole characterization. She doesn't need to say much because she has no moral argument against reading anyones mind at any time. While a person might think she's staring at you vacously, she's actually familiarizing herself with your deepest, darkest secrets to use and manipulate you. January Jones nailed it
@@clnblk7773 I think January doesn't come across as smart enough to be Emma. Betty on Mad Men was also cold and aloof but it was also a major part of her character that she was very immature and child like and that's what January excelled and conveying and why she doesn't work as Emma for me.
@saltydog7038 That's kind of part of her persona too though, like the scantily clad thing is a distraction and manipulation, I think it's also so that people and specifically men only think of her as a sexpot and not someone who could seriously ruin their day
I thought Norton crushed it in Italion Job. The way the character was written Norton's "I couldn't care less" attitude delivering the lines came off perfectly. Gave me the impression that the character was a psycopath and felt everyone else was beneath him. I think that was a great villian. The way he cuts off Wahlberg's "how could you speech" with a "You can stop with all that cause I just don't give a sh**. I played my cards and you played yours and you lost"
Amen! He's not *supposed* to be likeable, or have some kind of wink to the camera that he's not so bad. If he's not a perfect shit to begin with, the ultimate transformation has no weight. It's weird that he mostly played the same role twice between "Scrooged" and "Groundhog Day," both being holiday-based movies, just to make it weirder!
'Fans were thrilled when Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Mystique'? Not this one. Rebecca Romijn was far better as Mystique. Granted, the recasting was to go with an appropriately younger cast considering the next four were prequels, but it looked like they went purely with a big name, rather than someone who actually wanted the role and would willingly go through the necessary makeup process to do it.
to be fair, when she was cast, she didn't know she'd have a reaction to the makeup. she should have been okay with backing out and letting someone else take the role tho. it's too important to who Mystique is
@@brokenfoxx The real issue is Fox wanting to cash in on her sudden fame. After Days of Future Past, she wanted out and they should have written her the heck out. Instead they try to shoehorn in a villain, who they literally spent the entire last movie setting up her turn away, into a leader of the X-Men, because money. It made for two terrible movies after.
IIRC, Chris Hemsworth's wife played the scene with the kiss because Chris felt uncomfortable kissing someone who WASN'T her. It wasn’t because Portman didn’t want to do it.
On the topic of x men actors who hated their roles, Oscar Isaac said it was excruciating filming Apocalypse because of his awful costume, and you can sort of tell from his bored performance how much he doesn't want to be there. Its been said before but he really should have been CGI like Josh Brolins Thanos, and we would have gotten a better film and performance as a result
Apocalypse is one of the few instances where practical effects made the movie worse. True. His performance was bad and it just looked weird and distracting. Either CGI it or they should have had him turn into Isaacs as a human for the bulk of the movie.
there was no logic behind casting jones for the part, other than her appearance. her acting skills are nonexistent. she has one facial expression (even kristen stewart delivers more nuanced and layered performances)
McAdams would have put a bit of fun into it at least. I always loved Emma Frost as a kid and was def bummed with what we got. she's not the only weakness in the film (some of the first class themselves are iffy) but probably the most standout
@@DamienHurts She was very good looking and obviously agreed to do it as someone specifically there to be really good looking. I think a better actress nowadays would not want to do such a part. I do think it was more the movie than her. She was very sexualized in that movie.
Not so much that he hated it. He intentionally hammed it up. I can't find the interview anymore, but he said, "I was playing a character named August de Wynter who wanted to take over the world by controlling the weather. Of course I played it 'over the top'." I think he picked that up from Michael Ironside who did the same with Highlander II and just decided to have fun with it.
Regarding Edward Norton, they made a mistake in that court case. They should have just sued him for breach of contract and made him pay cash to end the relationship. His lawyer was on the right track cause why would you want apathy in your movie? Nah, let him go for his $10 million paycheck for a role he wants and then sign it over to the studio as damages!
I'm willing to put the Emma Frost thing down to poor creative choices more than anything. I can kind of see what they were aiming for with a 'cold, emotionless' characterisation and things like the skimpy attire were nothing more than them being comic-accurate, but fundamentally they missed the mark (as is done in many adaptations) by taking an OP villain from the comics and relegating them to henchman status. Anyway, ones you could have added to that list were Whoopi Goldberg in that dinosaur flick (whatever it was called), or Marlon Brando in any one of a number of his later films. If I had to pick one, I'd say The Score if only because of how badly his phoned-in performance clashed against an on-fire pairing of Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton. Finally, there's Peter Fonda in Ghost Rider where he clearly had less enthusiasm for this than the many other times where he was dropped into a role to play to his 'biker outlaw' typecast. Again jarring because he was playing against Nicholas Cage, who never underacts any role, regardless of how bad it is.
Jenifer Lawrence has gone on record complaining about Hunger Games and Passengers as well. I'm pretty sure she just hates acting, or hates fans I really don't think she should be famous at this point.
Jennifer Lawrence wasn't a big fan of being a superhero? You know, you figure a UA-cam channel like this would have remembered that Jennifer literally said in an interview that she's the first female hero, pretty clearly saying Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley and others didn't exist until she was in Hollywood
Let's be fair. Most everyone in Ender's Game is sleepwalking through it. And Dakota is NOT a good actress. I haven't seen her in anything that doesn't look like a high school level performance. And that's not even counting Madam Web.
Scrooged is done perfectly. He's SUPPOSED TO BE miserable. He's literally playing Scrooge. A miserable man dying of greed who loathes his fellow man. It's a DARK COMEDY version of the original story. Many of these are actors who loved playing their roles and did it well.
Oof. Raul Julia did Street Fighter for his son who liked the game series. He was already diagnosed with cancer at the time. He passed shortly after it's release.
January Jones is a jerk from what I’ve heard. The kids who played her kids in Mad Men even said she was awful for work with. Also, she wasn’t even supposed to play Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. It was supposed to be Alice Eve but she turned it down. Oh, and she tried extorting money from the director Matthew Vaughn, saying she deserved more money in child support because she’s a big star. The judge in the case laughed and told her no. So yeah, she’s full of herself and is overhyped and wooden.
@@OnafetsEnovapnot surprised. I haven’t seen her in anything lately. She may have done things, but from what I’ve heard, no one wants to work with her.
Calling thor the dark world, the worst MCU movie? Then again this is the channel that also says the last Jedi was a good movie… Why am I not surprised?
I agreed with 99% of this video, but have to disagree both with the statement that Jones might have been making a mistaken acting attempt, and the idea that she was "passed off by the sexism of it all." In 15 seconds on your phone you can look up the character Emma Frost and figure out what kind of outfits you are going to be expecting to wear. In 15 min on any wiki page you would know that she is less fembot and more dominatrix/femme fatal. The closest you could get for an excuse for her performance is her "in private" distaste of her bosses, something that Emma wouldn't show in their presence. Assuming she didn't just wrap them around her finger, but that's the writers problem.
January Jones's role in First Class wasn't sexist. That's the character. Imagine signing up to play a prostitute and balking when the character has to kiss someone she doesn't love. Or a mud wrestler who, you know, wrestles in mud. Imagine playing some guy name Wyatt Earp and being surprised when he turns out to be a cowboy. Know the role before you accept it, Emma Frost is quite important in the X-Men comics, Contractually obligated to play a character you don't want to is one thing, but ignorance is another entirely.
I think the character of Emma Frost is supposed to be a flat aspect, and January Jones delivered on that. You can argue that other actresses would have been able to provide some slight tweaks that would have helped improve the presentation of that character, but I don’t think you can rightfully claim that January Jones failed to deliver on the key attribute of the character.
Years ago, I heard rumors of Nathan Fillion slated to play Wonder Man for a Marvel film, and that was a project I’ve always wished had come about. Also, I’d love to see Christopher Walken come back into a super hero movie with a bigger role than his Maxwell Shrek in “Batman Returns”; I picture his as any of the more cerebral, scheming villains, such as Lex Luthor type, or possibly a Dr Doom
Wait a minute. Bill Murray is playing SCROOGE. You know, the guy that wants to make his employees work Christmas and barely sheds a tear at Tiny Tim. Possibly one of the most deliberately miserable characters ever written, and Murrays getting complaints because he didn't crack enough smiles? What crap.
In January Jones' defense, Emma was a criminally underwritten character in First Class. They gave her nothing to do and clearly hired her as eye candy. Which I'm guessing she knew and that's why she didn't bother trying.
Punisher Warzone was great I'm one of ten people that have seen it and one of five of those that loved it. It was serious yet still felt like a comic book. And super violent and bloody action scenes how can you not get enjoyment out of it.
I was honestly shocked when last one was revealed to be Emma not only she was hollow but canon wise she was still with her family as wealthy lady so it didn’t make sense for me.
Natalie Portman looks like she hates her career choice in every single movie she's ever done since the beginning of time! Someone get that woman a job at Dutch Bros where she can be upbeat and actually love her work.
January Jones was a substantial Emma Frost. Her choice was to portray a super sexy powerful telepath who is bored with the boring thoughts of others. She is unimpressed with everyone but Magneto.
January Jones could have avoided being annoyed by the implicit sexualization of her role as Emma Frost if she had at least a slight idea of who Emma Frost is. Just by googling it you can tell almost every single depiction of the character in comic books and animated shows has her somehow undressed, showing cleavage, being seductive (because she IS seductive). Then? Funny how in a part of the movie Sebastian Shaw tells Emma she is the most exquisite creature he has ever seen. I would say it's relative.
Wow, coulda fooled me on Scrooged, because I found it an amazing performance, well out of the stereotype he frequently played. He was serious, he was a horror with no redeeming qualities left, just like the original character. And over the movie, he remembers what it was like not to be a horrible human being, what it was like to not live his whole life on anger ... and that's kind of the entire point of the movie.
Actors really should do some research if they are gonna be playing a comic character. Emma was debuted in comics wearing a corset and a thong, The fairly tasteful underwear she ended up wearing was nothing compared to actual things emma has worn over the years.
Well, now I need the inverse list of actors giving their all in movies that don't really deserve it (like Raul Julia in Streetfighter, or Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne) :)
Why not count Punisher Warzone? The villains aren't much cheesier than anything the MCU is doing these days and it's the most accurate live action adaptation of Frank Castle to this day.
I like Chris Judge’s approach better. I have seen him in absolute crap, and he always gives his best. It tells his next employer he’ll always give them his best. Maybe it led to his God of War gigs.
That's kind of what happened with Mike Meyers and the Love Guru. It was contractual obligation. So he put out the worst performance ever. It kinda bit him in the butt though
To complain that EMMA FROST is dressed skimpy is a pretty dumb take. January Jones played the character well and looked the part. Maybe, you just don't know the character Emma Frost???
My family watches Scrooged at least once every Christmas season. It's a great movie.
It's on my list of Christmas movies. As well as the Muppet Christmas Carol... Die Hard(yeah, I consider it a Christmas movie)
@@brunozeigerts6379 100% agreed.
I like it.
Off subject, since Michael Caine did his best with the script in "Jaws: The Revenge", but I always found his quote about the film hilarious, "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"
The Simpsons had an episode where Michael Caine is filling out an application form and asking if he had to list that movie. Maybe he should have added, 'Or The Swarm, The Island...'
Harrison Ford hasn't looked enthusiastic playing any role in the last twenty years, I'd argue. He just seems done with Hollywood but needs to pay the bills.
He did a good job in Blade Runner 2049.
@@vgtrp haven't seen it, nor the original. I know, I'll now go sit in the corner of movie nerd shame with my cap.
@@sanges99 I won’t judge you.
@@sanges99 you have no right to talk about movies.........
@@sanges99as a self-proclaimed movie nerd, I've seen both and they aren't for me so don't worry about checking them out lol
Sorry bro. You lost me at Scrooged. I realize that Richard Donner and Bill had problems on set, but Bill Murray kills that role. I was a little kid at the movies and the ending of the movie, when Bill is talking to the audience, is something I’ve never experienced again. Just magic. It’s a must watch during the Holidays, and everyone I’ve showed this movie to, that’s never seen it, has a great time.
Gareth does say it's a great film.
Well this isn't a list of people who hated the movie role and phoned in their performance. Some of them hated the movie role and still managed good performances.
@@peterkottke2570 That's the thing, though. Murray did NOT phone in his performance. He looked like he was yelling at everybody and had no humanity in him, but that was exactly what the part called for. You see the humanity in the character after he wakes up the next day from the ghosts visiting him. Makes it a much more believable change.
I was thinking he was just being Scrooge 🤷🏽♂️
"You lost me because I'm ascribing something completely different than the premise of the video onto what you say and explain how much I love the movie!" is not the ironclad argument you think it is
Scrooged? I mean that was the character... a cold heartless sycophantic boss. Everything you say is just proof of he nailed it. I watched that movie many times and I think you turned it off before the end, honestly. It's the reversal to the over-the-top happy Bill Murray that we all knew at the end that really makes it sink in as a retelling of the classic story.
One of my favorite movies ever
Unless the actors themselves have actually said something, I find a few of these to be baseless. Murray in Scrooged was perfect. That is how the character is supposed to be. Bridges in RIPD looked like he was having fun with the character not that he hated it. He did ham it up which added to the comedy while Reynolds actually played it straight. This list even acknowledges the possibility with January Jones in X'men that it could simply be an acting choice. Something that could be said for a few other roles mentioned.
I mean... the video says Murray himself confirmed the on set disagreements. And Murray is famously extremely difficult to work with, and by "extremely difficult to work with" I mean he's an a-hole
That's just how January Jones acts. It worked in Mad Men because her character is supposed to be cold and repressed. But it doesn't work in other situations. There's a reason she's done nothing of note since Mad Men.
Much like Sparanos, or Breaking bad, no one really cared about Don's family life. It was his work family people liked, not the wife & kids complaining about all the luxury it gave them.
@@bryguy615 I cared a lot about Sally actually
I mean, Emma Frost is supposed to be cold, aloof, regal and a bit of bish. That's like her whole characterization. She doesn't need to say much because she has no moral argument against reading anyones mind at any time. While a person might think she's staring at you vacously, she's actually familiarizing herself with your deepest, darkest secrets to use and manipulate you. January Jones nailed it
@@clnblk7773 I think January doesn't come across as smart enough to be Emma. Betty on Mad Men was also cold and aloof but it was also a major part of her character that she was very immature and child like and that's what January excelled and conveying and why she doesn't work as Emma for me.
@saltydog7038 That's kind of part of her persona too though, like the scantily clad thing is a distraction and manipulation, I think it's also so that people and specifically men only think of her as a sexpot and not someone who could seriously ruin their day
I thought Norton crushed it in Italion Job. The way the character was written Norton's "I couldn't care less" attitude delivering the lines came off perfectly. Gave me the impression that the character was a psycopath and felt everyone else was beneath him. I think that was a great villian. The way he cuts off Wahlberg's "how could you speech" with a "You can stop with all that cause I just don't give a sh**. I played my cards and you played yours and you lost"
Bill Murray's performance is perfect for the movie Scrooged
Amen! He's not *supposed* to be likeable, or have some kind of wink to the camera that he's not so bad. If he's not a perfect shit to begin with, the ultimate transformation has no weight. It's weird that he mostly played the same role twice between "Scrooged" and "Groundhog Day," both being holiday-based movies, just to make it weirder!
So what I'm hearing is "everyone hates doing the X-Men movies."
Well one main reason is Bryan singer
'Fans were thrilled when Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Mystique'? Not this one. Rebecca Romijn was far better as Mystique. Granted, the recasting was to go with an appropriately younger cast considering the next four were prequels, but it looked like they went purely with a big name, rather than someone who actually wanted the role and would willingly go through the necessary makeup process to do it.
Was Jlaw even a big name when she was cast? That was pre hunger games and Silcer lining playbook American hustle
to be fair, when she was cast, she didn't know she'd have a reaction to the makeup. she should have been okay with backing out and letting someone else take the role tho. it's too important to who Mystique is
@@brokenfoxx The real issue is Fox wanting to cash in on her sudden fame. After Days of Future Past, she wanted out and they should have written her the heck out. Instead they try to shoehorn in a villain, who they literally spent the entire last movie setting up her turn away, into a leader of the X-Men, because money. It made for two terrible movies after.
@@gbrogo7139 She might not have been super A list, but she was a pretty big name.
Agree Romijn was very good in the role.
I thought bill Murray hated Garfield
Bill Murray hates a lot
IIRC, Chris Hemsworth's wife played the scene with the kiss because Chris felt uncomfortable kissing someone who WASN'T her. It wasn’t because Portman didn’t want to do it.
Yes, that’s correct. Kinda sweet, if you ask me.
@@philiphunn194 Yeah, me too.
Not sure Jeff Bridges deserves to be on this list. He played a good, enjoyable to watch character in RIPD.
She billy goat me 😂 loved it
RIPD ? Fam
Relax body!
10: Mark Hamill - The Last Jedi
Headcannon number 10 spot cause they could only find 9 I guess.
Yeah, this is a surprising omission since he clearly hated it.
That was just a bad dream you had. Forget about it, it never really happened.
After hearing them say Harrison Ford was good in TFA I wouldn't be surprised if they thought Mark was oscar worthy in TLJ.
Jeff Bridges was fine in RIPD which is a good laugh of a film.
Marlon Brando in "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1996). It wasn't the director's idea for Brando to wear an ice bucket on his head.
On the topic of x men actors who hated their roles, Oscar Isaac said it was excruciating filming Apocalypse because of his awful costume, and you can sort of tell from his bored performance how much he doesn't want to be there. Its been said before but he really should have been CGI like Josh Brolins Thanos, and we would have gotten a better film and performance as a result
Apparently he was also extremely looking forward tae working with the rest of the cast, but he barely got tae interact with them.
Apocalypse is one of the few instances where practical effects made the movie worse. True. His performance was bad and it just looked weird and distracting. Either CGI it or they should have had him turn into Isaacs as a human for the bulk of the movie.
Rachel McAdams would have been a way better than Emma Frost IMO. I've always seen Frost as Regina George meets Doctor Doom with super powers.
there was no logic behind casting jones for the part, other than her appearance. her acting skills are nonexistent. she has one facial expression (even kristen stewart delivers more nuanced and layered performances)
McAdams would have put a bit of fun into it at least. I always loved Emma Frost as a kid and was def bummed with what we got. she's not the only weakness in the film (some of the first class themselves are iffy) but probably the most standout
@@DamienHurts She was very good looking and obviously agreed to do it as someone specifically there to be really good looking. I think a better actress nowadays would not want to do such a part. I do think it was more the movie than her. She was very sexualized in that movie.
Dakota Johnson spent the whole movie trying to figure out if she was Anna Kendrick
Scrooged is such a classic that I've watched for many years and never thought he was phoning it in
Creative topic, thanks!
I nominate Sean Connery in "The Avengers", the one with Uma Thurman as Emma Peel.
Not so much that he hated it. He intentionally hammed it up. I can't find the interview anymore, but he said, "I was playing a character named August de Wynter who wanted to take over the world by controlling the weather. Of course I played it 'over the top'."
I think he picked that up from Michael Ironside who did the same with Highlander II and just decided to have fun with it.
God, how awful that film was for me. Only time I dozed off at the theatre (and I was a teen!)
Regarding Edward Norton, they made a mistake in that court case. They should have just sued him for breach of contract and made him pay cash to end the relationship. His lawyer was on the right track cause why would you want apathy in your movie? Nah, let him go for his $10 million paycheck for a role he wants and then sign it over to the studio as damages!
Finding out Murry didn't like Scrooged is like finding out Santa isn't real.
Carol Kane. Scrooged. Simply wonderful. "I like the rough stuff" 😂😂😂😂
That “Yep” for show dogs has to be one of the most dismissive and disrespectful “yeps” in human history
Anyone speaks ill of Scrooged and I’ll come round your house and give you a bloody good talking to!
Same here lol
I agree with other commenters, Bill Murray does a great job in Scrooged. It's a movie about redemption, after all.
I'm willing to put the Emma Frost thing down to poor creative choices more than anything. I can kind of see what they were aiming for with a 'cold, emotionless' characterisation and things like the skimpy attire were nothing more than them being comic-accurate, but fundamentally they missed the mark (as is done in many adaptations) by taking an OP villain from the comics and relegating them to henchman status.
Anyway, ones you could have added to that list were Whoopi Goldberg in that dinosaur flick (whatever it was called), or Marlon Brando in any one of a number of his later films. If I had to pick one, I'd say The Score if only because of how badly his phoned-in performance clashed against an on-fire pairing of Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton. Finally, there's Peter Fonda in Ghost Rider where he clearly had less enthusiasm for this than the many other times where he was dropped into a role to play to his 'biker outlaw' typecast. Again jarring because he was playing against Nicholas Cage, who never underacts any role, regardless of how bad it is.
I think Portman did a good job in Love & Thunder. She was written way better and gave her agood arc finally.
Jenifer Lawrence has gone on record complaining about Hunger Games and Passengers as well.
I'm pretty sure she just hates acting, or hates fans
I really don't think she should be famous at this point.
She was forced to work with Harvey Weinstein. How thrilled would YOU be to be female working with him.
Feminists aren't happy people.
Jennifer Lawrence wasn't a big fan of being a superhero? You know, you figure a UA-cam channel like this would have remembered that Jennifer literally said in an interview that she's the first female hero, pretty clearly saying Sarah Connor, Ellen Ripley and others didn't exist until she was in Hollywood
To this list I would add Colin Ferrell in "Miami Vice".
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If January Jones did not like the outfits, she should have looked at any comic with Emma Frost in. Jones was over-dressed.
Since Emma Frost is my only favorite X-Man, I was disappointed with January Jones's performance. She just didn't play the character "bitchy" enough.
No long time X-Men fans were not happy about Jennifer Lawrence being Mistyqe
Scrooged is one of my favorite movies of all time, and talk about genre bending!!
Let's be fair. Most everyone in Ender's Game is sleepwalking through it. And Dakota is NOT a good actress. I haven't seen her in anything that doesn't look like a high school level performance. And that's not even counting Madam Web.
Absolutely love Scrooged, whatever was going on translated well onto screen
Scrooged is done perfectly. He's SUPPOSED TO BE miserable. He's literally playing Scrooge. A miserable man dying of greed who loathes his fellow man. It's a DARK COMEDY version of the original story. Many of these are actors who loved playing their roles and did it well.
To be fair, Murray was playing Scrooge.
Eddie Murphy in 'Another 48 Hrs.' and Julia Roberts in 'I Love Trouble.' Tommy Lee Jones in 'BatMan Forever' and Raul Julia in 'Streetfighter'.
Oof. Raul Julia did Street Fighter for his son who liked the game series. He was already diagnosed with cancer at the time. He passed shortly after it's release.
He was the only good performance in that movie @@NephusReins
January Jones is a jerk from what I’ve heard. The kids who played her kids in Mad Men even said she was awful for work with. Also, she wasn’t even supposed to play Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. It was supposed to be Alice Eve but she turned it down.
Oh, and she tried extorting money from the director Matthew Vaughn, saying she deserved more money in child support because she’s a big star. The judge in the case laughed and told her no. So yeah, she’s full of herself and is overhyped and wooden.
She got lucky thanks to her role in "American Pie: The Wedding", and that was about 20 years ago.
@@OnafetsEnovapnot surprised. I haven’t seen her in anything lately. She may have done things, but from what I’ve heard, no one wants to work with her.
Calling thor the dark world, the worst MCU movie? Then again this is the channel that also says the last Jedi was a good movie… Why am I not surprised?
I agreed with 99% of this video, but have to disagree both with the statement that Jones might have been making a mistaken acting attempt, and the idea that she was "passed off by the sexism of it all."
In 15 seconds on your phone you can look up the character Emma Frost and figure out what kind of outfits you are going to be expecting to wear. In 15 min on any wiki page you would know that she is less fembot and more dominatrix/femme fatal.
The closest you could get for an excuse for her performance is her "in private" distaste of her bosses, something that Emma wouldn't show in their presence. Assuming she didn't just wrap them around her finger, but that's the writers problem.
January Jones's role in First Class wasn't sexist. That's the character. Imagine signing up to play a prostitute and balking when the character has to kiss someone she doesn't love. Or a mud wrestler who, you know, wrestles in mud. Imagine playing some guy name Wyatt Earp and being surprised when he turns out to be a cowboy.
Know the role before you accept it, Emma Frost is quite important in the X-Men comics, Contractually obligated to play a character you don't want to is one thing, but ignorance is another entirely.
You just described most of Jessica Alba's career.
Ford seems bored in pretty much anything nowadays.... you can almost hear him grumble, "Just give me the damn paycheck already."😂
I would say Hollywood Homicide tops the list for Harrison Ford's obvious disdain for being in a movie.
I think the character of Emma Frost is supposed to be a flat aspect, and January Jones delivered on that. You can argue that other actresses would have been able to provide some slight tweaks that would have helped improve the presentation of that character, but I don’t think you can rightfully claim that January Jones failed to deliver on the key attribute of the character.
Years ago, I heard rumors of Nathan Fillion slated to play Wonder Man for a Marvel film, and that was a project I’ve always wished had come about. Also, I’d love to see Christopher Walken come back into a super hero movie with a bigger role than his Maxwell Shrek in “Batman Returns”; I picture his as any of the more cerebral, scheming villains, such as Lex Luthor type, or possibly a Dr Doom
I'd argue its not thay Dakota Johnson hated being in 50 Shades of Grey, its just that she's a horrible actress.
Um, name me a movie Dakota Johnson is actually good in. I'll wait.
I've never seen January Jones give a convincing performance in anything. She always seems bored and spoiled.
Wait a minute. Bill Murray is playing SCROOGE. You know, the guy that wants to make his employees work Christmas and barely sheds a tear at Tiny Tim. Possibly one of the most deliberately miserable characters ever written, and Murrays getting complaints because he didn't crack enough smiles? What crap.
I disagree with your assessment of Murray in Scrooged.
"Scrooged" is hilarious, though.
In January Jones' defense, Emma was a criminally underwritten character in First Class. They gave her nothing to do and clearly hired her as eye candy. Which I'm guessing she knew and that's why she didn't bother trying.
Punisher Warzone was great I'm one of ten people that have seen it and one of five of those that loved it. It was serious yet still felt like a comic book. And super violent and bloody action scenes how can you not get enjoyment out of it.
Bill Murray has looked like he was forced to play roles since the original Ghostbusters. It just matches the character in Scrooged.
How the hell can you not mention Bruce Willis from "Cop Out" It was painfully clear he didn't want to be in the film.
Is there any movie Dakota Johnson has been enthusiastic about? She surely isn’t a fan of Madame Web or the Fifty Shades movies.
January Jones as Frost was just the frosty I felt the role needed.
I was honestly shocked when last one was revealed to be Emma not only she was hollow but canon wise she was still with her family as wealthy lady so it didn’t make sense for me.
Natalie Portman looks like she hates her career choice in every single movie she's ever done since the beginning of time!
Someone get that woman a job at Dutch Bros where she can be upbeat and actually love her work.
January Jones was a substantial Emma Frost. Her choice was to portray a super sexy powerful telepath who is bored with the boring thoughts of others. She is unimpressed with everyone but Magneto.
I weep a single tear for them all. 🙄
January Jones could have avoided being annoyed by the implicit sexualization of her role as Emma Frost if she had at least a slight idea of who Emma Frost is. Just by googling it you can tell almost every single depiction of the character in comic books and animated shows has her somehow undressed, showing cleavage, being seductive (because she IS seductive). Then?
Funny how in a part of the movie Sebastian Shaw tells Emma she is the most exquisite creature he has ever seen. I would say it's relative.
A rigged is an excellent movie and a Christmas classic. Underrated in my opinion
Wow, coulda fooled me on Scrooged, because I found it an amazing performance, well out of the stereotype he frequently played. He was serious, he was a horror with no redeeming qualities left, just like the original character. And over the movie, he remembers what it was like not to be a horrible human being, what it was like to not live his whole life on anger ... and that's kind of the entire point of the movie.
I have to admit that R.I.P.D is one of my favorite bad movies ever made and I actually liked Jeff Bridges just hamming it up as his character Roy.
Would love to see Glen Powell as a superhero :)
13/25 much room for improvement 😅 I thought that dark blue 💙 looked so good on the model compared to brown 🟤
Actors really should do some research if they are gonna be playing a comic character. Emma was debuted in comics wearing a corset and a thong, The fairly tasteful underwear she ended up wearing was nothing compared to actual things emma has worn over the years.
Where is Alan Rickman? His performance in Robin Hood is legendary.
Good lord, how many comic book movies has Ryan Reynolds been in?
Josh Hartnett is due for a superhero roll. I'd say Ghost Rider or Hyperion
Well, now I need the inverse list of actors giving their all in movies that don't really deserve it (like Raul Julia in Streetfighter, or Ben Kingsley in Bloodrayne) :)
Nah man, Scrooged is classic
Ah come on, Murray was good in Scrooged...
"Because breaking the fourth wall and literally looking at the audience sadly isn't allowed."
*Ryan Reynolds has entered the chat*
You really called Thor Dark World one of the worst Marvel movies? It’s not the best, but it’s not in the running for the worst by a long shot
David Mitchell as Detectve Chimp. He's Justice League Dark team leader now so come on!
Y'all HAVE to start using "end quote" when quoting people lol
I just assumed that January Jones is terrible actress, and didn't think any further on it.
Why not count Punisher Warzone? The villains aren't much cheesier than anything the MCU is doing these days and it's the most accurate live action adaptation of Frank Castle to this day.
How about Megan Fox in Transformers? She literally rolled her eyes on camera at some of her own dialogue.
What about Rutger Hauer in split second,he just coasted through that film.
Harrison Ford actually always seems wondering how he got casted into any of his movies.....;)
Idk I think January Jones just cant act beyond a very specific role. Betty perfectly fits her acting, and thats it.
I like Chris Judge’s approach better. I have seen him in absolute crap, and he always gives his best. It tells his next employer he’ll always give them his best. Maybe it led to his God of War gigs.
Harrison Ford being “dragged” onto set for a dump truck of money.. life must be so hard for him.
Scrooged is the only movie I enjoy Bill Murray's curmugeonly attitude in.
I didn’t think Natalie Portmanphoned it in- she was fine in that movie.
Murray is playing SCROOGE. He’s supposed to be nice at the same time? Do you people not know the source material?
That's kind of what happened with Mike Meyers and the Love Guru. It was contractual obligation. So he put out the worst performance ever. It kinda bit him in the butt though
Scrooged is a classic
To complain that EMMA FROST is dressed skimpy is a pretty dumb take. January Jones played the character well and looked the part. Maybe, you just don't know the character Emma Frost???
I don’t even know who Will Arnett is, never heard of him, but I know some dogs.