Some people are not set up for science fiction or fantasy at all. Will Smith is a borderline case, though.
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I think with The Matrix specifically it has to do with the physicality. Late 90s Will Smith was in shape and could do big, bombastic action, but I can't imagine him doing precise martial arts moves without it looking like a comedy.
Didn't you do a sci-fi with his kid? I've never seen it and I have no idea what it was about or what it was called but I'm sure it was a sci-fi.
So what? He's still doing fine. Was he supposed to be in every blockbuster ever made?
He also won an Oscar. Keanu didn't. I don't think that doing Matrix or Inception would have a big impact on his career.
Will smiths thing is most similar to dwayne johnson, he wanted to be the LEAD or the most prominent actor and not the side character
What do you mean, he played the genie, and, oh right...
Django Unchained too.
Thank the lord!
Yeah, no joke lol. Jamie Foxx absolutely knocked it out the park.
I thought they considered Smith for DiCaprios role, like in Inception.
Oh yeah that's right, the DiCaprio role was going to be a Clayton Bigsby type
For a moment I got him and Matt Smith confused and wondered why he would have has anything to do with Inception.
Edit: came out in 2010, so scratch that thought. For a moment I had a mental collapse and thought it came out late 90s.
Matt Smith as neo would be amazing
- You hear that mr Anderson? The sound of inevitability.
- My name is the Doctor!
I imagine him throwing some Bad Boys type energy into the lobby shootout.
Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn't understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn't understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.
I love that movie, I thought he did great in it too
And that car, though.
I mean, it had nothing to do with him, but still. Goddamn sexy car.
Same here. It’s a fun action romp with some interesting characters. I get that it’s not peak cinema but it’s still good.
Some of the CGI in it is insanely good too (the invisible man), Corridor Crew did a react episode or two about it.
The movie made a decent bit of money, just terrible reviews.
Will Smith would have been disastrous in The Matrix and now I want to see it
Agreed, but I also firmly believe there is another universe in which we could believably type “Keanu Reeves would have been disastrous in The Matrix”
I get what you mean/agree, but to play devil's advocate, his character in Enemy of the State could've sorta worked as Neo.
It is crazy how I always think of that movie as "early career Will Smith before he became famous quippy superstar" but it released between Men In Black and Wild Wild West.
There would be too many wisecracks. Did keanu even smile as Neo?
well , excuse me for the AI haters out there. But we gotta do this.
Seedance, c'mon boy, DO IT!!!
Will Smith as NEO in the Matrix.
EDIT: I found one, a year old but it checks out
You get that we wanted dialogue right? We can all imagine Will Smith in a leather jacket with slow motion bullets moving around him.
Every time someone who is pro AI tries to advocate for it it always comes off as their brain having turned to porridge. You get we can see that image in our minds, we don't need it visualised for us at the expense of half an olympic swimming pool worth of water and at least six trees.
I was thinking, thank god he turned it down.
Inception, on the other hand - I can’t recall any of the characters, so I don’t know which role he was considering. It’s a perfect Will Smith movie.
If memory serves me right the protagonist in Inception was confused a lot and Wil can pull off confused.
If memory serves me right the protagonist in Inception was confused a lot
Dicarpio's character wasn't confused, you may be thinking of Elliot Page's character, but I wouldn't count that character as the main protagonist.
I barely remember it. I was pretty high at the time.
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Imagine the tie-in music video he would have done.
Given that he turned it down for Wild Wild West, use that as a basis.
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