A pity? The guy is a modern day Jackie Chan making an absolute killing doing exatly the types of movies he loves to make. His production company is called Punch Palace Productions… pitying him feels like pitying a world class Sushi chef that doesn’t also make Chicken Tikka Masala.
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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s a pity Statham has been typecast and can’t seem to escape it or doesn’t care to.
stay_on_target@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ghostlychonk@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I do wish he’d be in more comedies, though. He was fantastic in Spy with Melissa McCarthy.
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I mean I just can’t imagine the type of people than enjoy this.
stay_on_target@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not everything floats everybody’s boat, thank God!
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It’s not a good boat if it sinks to a bottom
eRac@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure Jason Statham twirling in a leapord print speedo gives him with a big gun a run for its money.
ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
You dont understand the appeal of watching big, bald muscly men wrestle and fight one another?
Brother…
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Isn’t that basically how your average football match goes? Is half of England homosexual?
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Tell me you’re too young to be online without supervision without telling me.
Emmie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
bitch I am old as fuck 🤣
mpainwm3zwa@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I don’t really hate Jason playing only one kind of role, if the universe around him is interesting.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if the universe around him is interesting
💀 Is it ever
burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
What you don’t love his generic action movies like:
Beekeeper
Wrath of Man
Working Man
Operation Fortune
Beekeeper 2
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Of the many accusations that you can hurl at it, I don’t know if “generic” applies to The Beekeeper. Like, the plot in that movie really goes places. Most of them ridiculously stupid,
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
😂
uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Perhaps it is an easy role for him and it makes a lot of money?
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
What about Snatch? I liked that he played a loser who was always just one step away of getting murdered.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’ll have to watch it again to see. I think it’s from before he was typecast though, or before he decided to lean in to the typecast. Lucky for me it’s raining and doesn’t look like it’s going to stop any time soon so there’s no time like the present.
I think the last good thing I saw him in was The Bank Job and that was ages ago. I wouldn’t mind the typecasting if the films were that interesting and entertaining.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It was from before. Amazing movie, he doesn’t fight at all, just yells at Tommy the tit and manages illegal boxers. Tol 10 movie. Also lock stock and two smoking barrels, similar to snatch, but about card games. Both guy Ritchie, both around 2000, both top tier.
sicarius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s what I like about him, you know exactly what you’re getting with a statham movie.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s my problem. Knowing is not fun. Being surprised is the fun part.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
But some people only go to the movies to see something they know they will like, so there is a market for him.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t ever go to a movie unless I know I’ll like it either (or at least expect to like it), I just know I won’t like his movies, because they are just always so uninteresting because they are too absurd.
And absurd doesn’t need to be a bad thing, but I feel like his movies don’t admit or recognize their own absurdity and they take themselves too seriously. That’s why it becomes cheesy.
🤷♂️ What can I say.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There’s a time for everything, is my personal take. Sometimes I want a film that will be original and challenge me, but I don’t want that every day.
Sometimes it’s relaxing to know there won’t be any big surprises.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure. I’d never pay theater money for such an experience though. Like going to a restaurant. One day I don’t want beef bourguignon, some days I want a pack of noodles. But I won’t go to the
theatersrestaurant to get a pack of noodles.sicarius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In that case go see a different movie, if you want something original or thought provoking you’re not going to choose to watch a statham movie by accident. “Knowing is not fun ‘for you’” there are plenty of people who do enjoy the familiar, otherwise he wouldn’t be so successful.
Ii like them as a pallete cleanser, after watching too many mind fuck TV shows sometimes I need a break with some simple fun thoughtless action movie.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Indeed, I did say it was “my problem” 😁
I will definitely do that 😄 Every single movie his characters are so cheesy and he’s so overly macho it’s just absurd and not believable at all. I feel like it caters to the lower end of the intelligence spectrum, a little bit.
But I am not one to take away someone else’s fun, so I’ll definitely not tell someone not to watch it. But I will never recommend one to anyone. 😅
Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
imagine him in a romantic comedy
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’ll never know… Hey, he might be amazing in it, who knows.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless that movie is Snatch.
sicarius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t say Snatch was a ‘statham movie’ it’s a ‘Guy Ritchie movie’. Statham is just in it. Same with the movie Spy, although it is one of stathams best roles, playing an exaggerated version of all his other roles.