Defamer
If you missed 60 Minutes's fawning profile of Will Smith last night—"This charming kid's just charmed!" seemed to be the main thrust of Steve Kroft's piece—we've included an outtake, in which the I Am Legend star describes how early on in his career, he and his manager looked at the top ten grossing films of all times, found some common themes (creatures, special effects, and love stories), then used those findings to map out a blueprint with which to conquer Hollywood.
We think, however, that Smith underestimates just how much unadulterated X-factor is contained in his DNA, for if a plan that deceptively simple were to work on every actor, we imagine we might be seeing Stephen Dorff running around an abandoned, post-apocalyptic Mahattan in a $150 million Omega Man remake.
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Well, it worked for Kurt Russell. I can think of 5 movies he's been in. The Postman, Waterworld, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., and Grindhouse. Five memorable (for better or for worse) movies is pretty high for such an ugly and annoying person whose acting is godawful. Smith may indeed be onto something....
Simple formula. I get it.
Matt Damon would be the Creature in Bagger Vance.
@idiotbegone: I don't know how that comment read before you put it through the Wrong Machine for processing, but on this end it's a bit of a mess.
You're conflating Kurt with Kevin Costner. Kurt was in the enjoyable, pulpy latter three films you mentioned - as well as such decent-to-awesome films as Big Trouble in Little China(!), Tombstone, Tango & Cash, The Thing, and Executive Decision(!). Kevin Costner was in the first two bloated monstrosities you mentioned, and is a scourge upon humanity. Got it?
@swallowyourhalo: Ahhh So sorry. I get the awfulnesses confused quite often actually.
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