Spin: Actors with NO RANGE...

[Non Sequitur]

I like his movies but Jason Statham

Good answer, dude is the posterboy for this thread.

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

All of those guys except maybe Jonah Hill and Will Farrel have range. An actor who has no range is someone like Keanue Reeves. He's basically made a career out of playing Ted Logan in every movie... Ted Logon on a bus, Ted Logun as constantine, etc.

Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro's good days are behind them. Christopher Walken is still putting in good performances in supporting roles.. Morgan Freeman, Samuel L Jackson are pretty much typecasted actors... they all have shown range. They just arn't getting the quality movies they used to

I gotta disagree with Denzel being listed as well. He's as great as Daniel Day Lewis... Day Lewis is just a much more technical actor (probably the greatest) wheras Denzel is more of an inward actor. An actor with no range couldn't do a movie like Flight. Yall are confusing the fact that over the past 10 years he quit doing Oscar bait type flicks and has gone on to do a bunch of mainstream/mediocre action movies.

 

[bangbreh]

how we all could have bickered this long before saying jason stat ham
props to dude a few posts above.

 

[Savior]

This might be the worst opening post Ive ever seen..nicca killed his own thread before it even started. He got Deniro, Pacino and Freeman on the same list as Jonah Hill. Im done brehs

 

[Grand Conde]

I somewhat see where the OP is coming from regarding De Niro and partcularly Pacino.

However 'Brazil' alone pretty much disregards his argument regarding De Niro.

 

[Grand Conde]

There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York. Same fukking character!

Did you even watch/pay attention to those movies.

 

[Savior]

I somewhat see where the OP is coming from regarding De Niro and partcularly Pacino.

However 'Brazil' alone pretty much disregards his argument regarding De Niro.

Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Scent of a Woman, Scarface. All those were the same character huh? Just cause he aint out there dressing like a pirate or wearing different costumes in every role means he doesnt have range? Fukk is wrong with yall

 

[DamonDashsRocAFellaChain]

Actors who basically play themselves in every movie...

Samuel L. Jackson (save for Django and The Sunset Limited. )
Robert DeNiro
Christopher Walken
Al Pacino
Jonah Hill
Will Ferrell
Morgan Freeman


These are some of my favorites actors, but

Really dawg? Really?

 

[Majestic Pape]

Sometimes it's not that an actor isn't showing any range so much as it is the actor is SO famous you can't see beyond their fame to get a good look at the work they're doing.

 

[Silkk]

Yall nikkas Man

 

[prophecypro]

If they like you in one role, you might end up getting typecast for life.

 

[itsyoung!!]

It's not that those guys don't have range, because they do. But after they open a lot of eyes with a certain type of performance, then roles are written with them playing that type of character in mind. They can basically name their price after that. If you really want to see a lot of actors' range, see the stuff before they got real famous. Ryan Gosling is a good example of that in the modern era. After Drive, he gets casted as the tough guy with a sensitive side. Bruce Willis was a good example before Die Hard. He was doing comedies.

Nonetheless, if you want to talk about actors with limited range...

Paul Walker
The Rock
Vin Diesel
Channing Tatum
The rest of the cast of Fast and Furious 6
and Bradley Cooper... might have range, just don't see him as a good actor.

bradley cooper has done limitless, hang over and silver lining playbook (which deniro was also in...everyone did a great job acting in this, chris tucker had the whole theatre damn near crying from laughter)

so you cant really put him in that list

The Rock I mean hes supposed to be an action star same with vin diesel ... thats what they are supposed to do, thats why they are who they are..

Channing tatum and paul walker though.. has paul walker even been in any other movies besides fast n furious since thye came out ?

 

[Higher Tech]

bradley cooper has done limitless, hang over and silver lining playbook (which deniro was also in...everyone did a great job acting in this, chris tucker had the whole theatre damn near crying from laughter)

so you cant really put him in that list

The Rock I mean hes supposed to be an action star same with vin diesel ... thats what they are supposed to do, thats why they are who they are..

Channing tatum and paul walker though.. has paul walker even been in any other movies besides fast n furious since thye came out ?

Walker was in a couple, and he played the exact same role imo. I havent seen SLP, didnt look interesting. I might download it.

 

[DaveyDave]

being typecast is different to not having any range. some of the people in the OP list have iconic roles and then that's the type of role they get offered all the time. people like seeing Sam Jackson as the "angry yelling black man" and he knows it and makes fun of it himself (see Snakes On A Plane) and that's the roles he gets offered.

 

[AMcV'88]

Whalberg

Shia labeouf seems to play the same hyper, paranoid, talkative character in majority of movies i've seen him in he might have one film that doesn't fit that mold that i haven't seen tho

surprised hes not been in a Woody Allen movie yet.