Well for one, Liam Neeson was already pretty big before Phantom Menace.
More importantly, I'm talking about major movie careers. To requote myself
Would you say Ewan Mcgregor is on the same level as Harrison Ford post Star Wars?
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Well for one, Liam Neeson was already pretty big before Phantom Menace.
More importantly, I'm talking about major movie careers. To requote myself
Would you say Ewan Mcgregor is on the same level as Harrison Ford post Star Wars?
TheKaeptain
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Ewan McGregor was in a Todd Haynes film before Star Wars. So he's was doing well before Star Wars.
Oscar Isaac was in a Coen Brother's film.
Oscar Isaac was in a Coen Brother's film.
Bobby Roberts
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This is almost as silly as your "Finn is an accidental Jar Jar" post from earlier today.
hodayathink
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She's basically in the same place that Alicia Vikander is career wise, IMO. They both need to be very careful when picking their next starring role because it'll probably determine whether they end up leading ladies or supporting actresses.
BronsonLee
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If you had to make me pick between reading Cheebo's condescending sore winner Star Wars gloating or Gonzalez's everything burns, join me on my insane journey rambling nonsense, I'd probably choose option C and just blind myself with pepper spray
Option D: all text in every post is replaced with a box office theory forum head.
Bobby Roberts
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Hell, one of 'em is in this Star Wars movie.
CrichtonKicks
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Actually Neeson as a major bankable headliner didn't happen until after TPM (and certainly was not a result of TPM.
As I just said there are very, very few major headliners anymore. Everyone on your list first hit it big in the '90s. You are hard pressed to find many actors that have emerged in the past 5 years or so that can headline a movie on their name alone and most of them are primarily in comedy. Times have changed and audiences are more savvy.
Did he ever want to be? I would say no. He's a good looking charismatic guy so who's to say what would have happened if he chased the same roles types of roles that went to Ford.
It seemed like Sam Worthington was in every movie for a while. We somehow got not one but two ____ of the Titans films.
freenudemacusers
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So if I'm Disney and looking at this performance, it's probably a good idea to dump a series of crappy marvel movies (the next Thor, civil war, more avengers) on the audience over the next few, turn them off from more marvel movies, wait 10 years, and reap the nostalgia surge rewards at the box office. Time value of money brehs. 👌🏻
CrichtonKicks
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Wait, who is that?
TheKaeptain
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What? Have you looked at what Alicia Vikander has been doing this year?
The first film made nearly 4x its budget worldwide riding that early post-Avatar 3D wave. The second one, not so much.
This made me really happy. Thanks.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yeah, Hux is a Weasley kid. Bill, specifically.
hodayathink
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Yes. None of it has been in a starring role though. I'm not saying she's bad (she's good, and she's done very good work this year), but she hasn't been asked to be the main character in a big production yet. She more than likely will be very soon, though.
Also, everyone remembers she's in Ex Machina and Danish Girl. Everyone also forgets she's in Man From UNCLE and Seventh Son.
CrichtonKicks
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Holy crap, I had no dea. To be fair I think I've only seen each of the post Goblet Potter's one time.
BronsonLee
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This is truly the darkest timeline
I've never seen a movie rendered more thematically schizophrenic through reshoots than that one.
Why? This happens a lot when young unknowns are given lead roles in major movie franchises.
Studios will give them a non major movie vehicle, and if it doesn't succeed, they'll say "The major brand carried them last time. They aren't the draw".
It was also in the can, and ready to release that following year. They even had the trailers for it playing before Avatar.
You just compared Daisy Ridley to Emilia Clarke. Really? Ridley shows roughly 17x the range Clarke manages. (Did you see the new Terminator film? Good lord.)
This is up there with your Jar-Jar -> Finn post.
Because when you rise to such extreme prominence on the back of a franchise like Daisy Ridley you typically get multiple chances to prove you can carry a film away from the franchise that brought you there.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Because the bullshit-to-sense ratio in your statement is heavily skewed to the recycled grass side of things.
This is up there with your Jar-Jar -> Finn post.
See?
Daniel Radcliffe never did.
You are telling me Radcliffe has not gotten multiple starring role vehicles post-Potter.....what? He most certainly did.
In his defense, 8 people watched Victor Frankenstein.
Bobby Roberts
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Further, Radcliffe very obviously went the other way, and did a bunch of "actorly" shit. Period dramas. Low-budget indie shit. London theatre. That weird black comedy series with Jon Hamm. He didn't do that shit because he couldn't get another job. He did that because that's what he wanted to do.
"Never did"
They gave him Lady in Black, and nothing else. He's been a supporting actor ever since.
I can't wait till I make the inevitable "Daisy Ridley is now a Direct to Crackle actor crow eating thread".
BronsonLee
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Woman in Black did fine, too. Radcliffe is a bad example, he's not really trying to be a leading man in anything
Basically what Bobby said
Basically what Bobby said
Bobby Roberts
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POST THE PIC WHEN YOU SAY THAT SHIT.
POST THE PIC WHEN YOU THINK IT.
POST THE PIC WHEN YOU THINK IT.
Nothing else? He is the lead of the upcoming political drama Young Americans with Amanda Seyfried.
He was the lead in as well:
Not the mention he clearly isn't even trying to go for the leading man role but your claim he was the lead ONCE is absurd and false.
BronsonLee
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I'm not a part of your system, Bobby!
I also don't have either image saved
freenudemacusers
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Are these major studio projects?
BronsonLee
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Ah, right, there we go, freenude helped
It is baffling to say he was given one lead role and nothing else after. That is so easy to disprove.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Added tears but couldn't work in a frown?
STEP YOUR GAME UP
(unless you're suggesting I'd try to put a brave face on my mistakes and soldier on, in which case, I thank you for the tender portrait of perserverance you painted)
BronsonLee
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Is he the lead in Victor? I have no idea.
Radcliffe just does whatever he wants. He went on Extras as a sex fiend version of himself. He had his dong out for a play. He has fuck you money.
And then he does Now You See Me 2 just to show those fuckers how magic REALLY works
That is not what you said, you said he was never given a non-Potter lead role again after Women in Black.
Oh shit I forgot about Frankenstein. He is top-billed in that too!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1976009/
CrichtonKicks
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Hell, Radcliffe is the freakin' stinger for the "Now You See Me 2" trailer.
I meant major studio pictures that weren't tied to a major franchise.
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