Dreamcatcher

so many critics said he over-acted. that this movie didn’t deserve tom hardy’s level of acting. but in reality, maybe if more bad movies had people like tom going balls to the wall, they wouldn’t be bad movies

i didn’t watch venom for a GOOD movie i watched venom for a FUN movie, and it absolutely delivered on that.

i think it’s fine he was the only one who went ham, eddie brock didn’t know shit and he didn’t ask for this. everyone else didn’t know about the aliens and didn’t interact with them, or interacted with them on purpose after already being made aware. he just got a surprise alien

It’s the same reason Jaskier works so well: Joey Batey specifically said he acted like he was in a comedy while everyone else was in a period drama.

this is such a hot take, i want more examples

Raoul Julia had a lot of fun as M. Bison in the Street Fighter movie. When it was over he was genuinely surprised to learn that it was not, in fact, intended to be a comedy. (“Then why did they cast ME?”) Michael Caine told the director of Muppet Christmas Carol that he wasn’t going to acknowledge the muppetness, and as far as he was concerned he was in a Royal Shakespeare Theatre Production. The director said “Yes, that’s why we cast you.”