Movies where actors tried to play tough guys and failed

[boskey]

Fruit from The Wire

Brandon from The Wire

 

[Microfracture]

The Game in Waist Deep
The Game in Belly 2
Snoop Dogg in Baby Boy

This was a classic performance he doesn't belong on the list.

"I hate you too lil nikka....you aint my son!"
"Morning scrub"

 

[Golayitdown]

This was a classic performance he doesn't belong on the list.

"I hate you too lil nikka....you aint my son!"
"Morning scrub"

"fukk yo fort"

 

[Real]

FOH

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I don't know if that shyt counts. I think he was the only person in the entire movie that knew he was filming a comedy.

Snoop Dogg too.

 

[STAN JONES]

Tyga in Barbershop 3

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

don't know whether they were playing tough guys per se, but brad pitt in troy or orlando bloom in kingdom of heaven!!!

i just could not take any of these pretty boys seriously in those roles after russel crowe had just killed his performance in the gladiator.
for some reason i keep comparing people to crowe when it comes to those 'gladiator' type roles.
no one has come close yet!!!

I'm extremely angered by this post. Brad Pitt was the SOLE REASON troy was a good movie (imo). Dude walked around really thinking he was a God and Orlando Bloom pretty much got forced to fight every single time when he didn't want to (except when he murdered homeboy out the blue in the beginning) so he wasn't really playing a tough guy, he did play a dude who could fight tho.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Not a movie but Shades in the Luke Cage series is extra forced

 

[NobodyReally]

For some reason Spiderman keeps popping up for me.

This dude:


Jaime:


And of course Tobey's attempt at "dark" Peter



Honorable mention for "dark" Anakin. Even with red eyes and about to duel to the death, he still looks and sounds like a spoiled teenage brat:

 

[Sunalmighty]

Corny ass nicca

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

yea he didn't seem tough... but that nikka was DUMPING on everything with that drum clip... then backed right off and let the people with him get killed, just so he could study the scene

unless this is him in king kong.... then fukk that nikka

that's the exact word that i always used.... every single time he was on screen:


"fukk what y'all doing...... I'M DUMPING ON nikkaS"


look up most specialist in the military... they look more like him than arnold

 

[parallax]

Maybe I'm looking at this too literally. At any rate I'll just leave this here...

i know this is an old post, but wasnt that the point?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

How dare you

nikka like 5'7 or some shyt... i just can't get over that watching his movies... yet he out here beating up muscle bound 6.5 nikkas all day long

 

[Blankthawtz]

I liked the movie but Thomas Jane as a tough guy was hard to believe... I spent half the flick sayin "Thomas Jane?"

 

[Heretic]

Dicaprio in the departed

DiCaprio in The Departed

I don't think he was trying to be a badass, he was in over his head playing two sides that's exactly what I got from his performance.

To answer the question, I have to go with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor Clint Eastwood in gran turino, Colin Farrell in Daredevil and John Travolta in face off and Punisher