Does tom hardy have any range?

[ciubaca]

Hear me out.... im not saying he s a bad actor but is seems like in 90% of his roles he plays this intimidating brute who stares into a fixed point and cant move his head without moving the rest of his body.
i always fount it funny that ppl were calling him and fassbender the next deniro and pacino.
They re both in their 40s now and dont have a classic role to their name.

 

[Zero]

 

[obarth]

Before I bother answering this, what actors in their generation do you consider to have range?

 

[TheGodling]

GOAT level performance.

 

[ciubaca]

Before I bother answering this, what actors in their generation do you consider to have range?

Idk ... off the top of my head. Jake Gyllenhaal
Christian Bale

 

[ciubaca]

I did say 90 %

 

[obarth]

Idk ... off the top of my head. Jake Gyllenhaal

At least you didn't pick somebody trash

Bronson
Inception
Dark Knight Rises
The Drop
Legend (dude literally plays two very different twins)
The Revenant (he had a better performance than the dude who won the Oscar from the film)
Venom

These are all very different roles, that call for very different performances. I didn't mention Fury Road because it really wasn't a character driven role. Hardy's a beast. Fassbender is too. Any comparison to DeNiro or Pacino were silly in the first place because they already have decades of work, in a time where creativity and originality in filmmaking wasn't as stifled, over these guys. There haven't been any DeNiros or Pacinos since DeNiro and Pacino

 

[ciubaca]

Venom... bane...in inception he was a henchman. He played that revenant character in tabu, peeky blinders an in half of legend.

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

Seems like he plays the same character in most his movies

Reminds me of Michael B Jordan

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[Jello Biafra]

At least you didn't pick somebody trash

Bronson
Inception
Dark Knight Rises
The Drop
Legend (dude literally plays two very different twins)
The Revenant (he had a better performance than the dude who won the Oscar from the film)
Venom

These are all very different roles, that call for very different performances. I didn't mention Fury Road because it really wasn't a character driven role. Hardy's a beast. Fassbender is too. Any comparison to DeNiro or Pacino were silly in the first place because they already have decades of work, in a time where creativity and originality in filmmaking wasn't as stifled, over these guys. There haven't been any DeNiros or Pacinos since DeNiro and Pacino

You can add LAWLESS, LOCKE, STAR TREK: NEMESIS, DUNKIRK, STUART, LONDON ROAD to the list of flicks were Hardy wasn't playing an "intimidating brute" type of character.

 

[ciubaca]

Seems like he plays the same character in most his movies

Reminds me of Michael B Jordan

cmon now....

 

[obarth]

Venom... bane...in inception he was a henchman. He played that revenant character in tabu, peeky blinders an in half of legend.

Bane is nothing like Eddie Brock. His Inception role is more James Bondish if anything. I hope the more fact that he's violent in the roles you're talking about isn't what you mean by "playing the same character"

I could see if this thread was about Michael Cera, but Hardy?

 

[ciubaca]

Bane is nothing like Eddie Brock. His Inception role is more James Bondish if anything. I hope the more fact that he's violent in the roles you're talking about isn't what you mean by "playing the same character"

I could see if this thread was about Michael Cera, but Hardy?

He was a trash bane and venom was a terrible movie... again, he is a good actor but he had no classic roles
Name one timless performance of his

 

[mastermind]

If you haven’t seen Locke, you can’t be making a thread like this.

shyt, he was the opposite of all this in Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy.