I'm just listening to an ad for the new Adam Sandler movie, and it just got to me.
After years of the grossest jokes, there seems to be the need to "prove themselves" in a dramatic role. Jim Carrey does it too.
Maybe I'm being an a**. But it grates on me.
I dunno. Does Robert DeNiro suddenly feel the need to do "poo poo" jokes? Should Anthony Hopkins star in the next Farrelly Brothers movie?
If people are so anxious to change genres, then why are they so happy to do the "idiotic" roles to start with?
For the record, I thought Dumb and Dumber and Big Daddy were great fun.
I may be a crank, but it's hard for me to see these people in very dramatic roles.
What gives?
2007-03-22 07:03:08 · 4 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I couldn't agree more. When Steve Martin starred in his first "non-comedy" I was completely baffled. It's hard to get that in check in your mind. A person sees someone on screen for so many years being funny and witty and making us laugh and then they appear on screen and...we wait to laugh and it doesn't happen. They leave us feeling like we're missing something.
I fell in love with Tom Hanks in Bachelor Party. It was a very funny movie...he did Big and so many other fantastic comedies and then he hits us with the drama. Hard for a fan to take.
Big Daddy was an extremely funny movie. I loved when Adam Sandler got really mad at McDonalds...I have felt like that. :)
You're not being an ***. It grates on me too. Totally makes me NOT want to watch that particular movie. As I have yet to watch Castaway with Tom Hanks. Can't bring myself to do it. If it had Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves in it, I'd have been in line on day one.
If Mathew Lillard one day decides to make a drama...I'll say I've seen it all now. STAY FUNNY MATT!!!
2007-03-22 07:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by daisylane 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they do that to get reconized. Adam Sandler has done some great comedy movies, but there are only so many times you can see him doing the same role. Tom Hanks is a prime example. In the 80's, he did a lot of funny stuff, but he didn't get reconized until he started doing serious roles like Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Now he is one of the best actors. So Sandler and Carrey are going down the same path hoping to achieve what Hanks acheived. As for Deniro, just the opposite. Great actor trying to do something different.
2007-03-22 07:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by grywolf_2000 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Robin Williams. He's had more success in dramatic roles than Jim Carrey has & he won an Oscar for a supporting role in a drama in Good Will Hunting.
2016-03-28 23:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Deniro did do "poo poo jokes" as you put it ....meet the fockers. Any way I say if they want to give it a try go for it....
2007-03-22 09:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋