Can you think of an actor that portrayed a badass that failed miserably?

[deadshot138]

Ben Affleck in any role

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Michael Dudikoff in all those American Ninja movies and his other alleged "action" movies. My sister could beat him up.

 

[ricc505]

Jesus , mate , let off some steam..

Ha Ha. You know when I was a boy and Tone C came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive. Maybe they were right.

 

[TheChance]

Charlie Hunnam in SOA

 

[pugilistico]

...any movie with a 110lb skinny woman, throwing around and beating up 220lb men.

That shit is so cringeworthy.

I was going through the netflix action catalog for something to watch and there are quite a lot of action movies starring women. A lot of them seem to be Jason Bourne type spy action flicks for some reason. I don't mind female action leads but it has to be somewhat believable and there are way too many movies of skinny women throwing dudes way bigger than them around. Big dude who can supposedly fight can't take out a skinny woman and gets KOed by a few strikes from her.

I remember back in the 90s and early 2000s when you had a badass female character, she always ends up in a girl vs girl fight against the female henchman of the villain. Now it's always one woman who beats up a room full of guys. If you insist on having a badass woman, why not make it more interesting by having her take out enemies using her wits, weapons, tactics rather than brute strength? Oh right, because that actually takes creativity and good writing to pull off.

How interesting would've Predator been if it turned out Arnold can easily 1 v 1 the predator in a fist fight?

 

[TrueBias]

Adam driver as Crylo Ren

 

[Fedorgasm]

The game warden in Jurassic Park was a can. He knew the exact hunting tactics the velociraptors would use, and walked right into their trap anyway.

Clever girl.....

(stupid human)

I always hated that "clever girl" line.

In the time it takes him to say that, he could've turned to his left and shot her

 

[Fedorgasm]

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What? No way! He was perfect for that role!

The original equalizer wasn't just some generic Jason Bourne ripoff like he is in the Denzel movies. He would often just outsmart his opponents.

 

[ChickenBrother]

No “bad poosay” posts? Guess GoT really did fall off.

This scene could have been salvaged. During editing, they should have added "Biff! Blam! Whammo!!!" sound effect boxes to make it look like the showrunners were in on the joke.

 

[Frode Falch]

- Ryan Gosling in drive.
- Pierce Brosnan as James Bond..

 

[TrueBias]

This asshole

 

[William Huggins]

What? No way! He was perfect for that role!

The original equalizer wasn't just some generic Jason Bourne ripoff like he is in the Denzel movies. He would often just outsmart his opponents.

In a corset?? Or was that just a utility vest that happened to be 3 sizes too small??

 

[William Huggins]

This asshole

I forgot about him, he looks more like a doctor who villain........

 

[koquerelle]

...any movie with a 110lb skinny woman, throwing around and beating up 220lb men.

That shit is so cringeworthy.

I remember back in the 90s and early 2000s when you had a badass female character, she always ends up in a girl vs girl fight against the female henchman of the villain. Now it's always one woman who beats up a room full of guys. If you insist on having a badass woman, why not make it more interesting by having her take out enemies using her wits, weapons, tactics rather than brute strength? Oh right, because that actually takes creativity and good writing to pull off.

Yet people flock to see Tom Cruise who's 5 foot 6 and 140lbs. Jackie Chan and Jet Li were huge stars and they were small men. Liam Neeson is old as dirt and he's a popular action star. Same for Denzel Washington.

Michelle Yeoh kicked ass for many years and people loved her. Same for Zhang Ziyi. Linda Hamilton's character went from single mother to a bad ass and nobody cared.

If the script is solid, the editing tight and the choreographies good, the majority of people don't care.

 

[M4rk]

Ben Affleck in any role

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms

 

[Sobek]

Bad casting

This is a classic example. Vernon Wells looked like shit (dunno how Arnie approved and didn't get him on the weights at least for a short stint). Plus his portrayal was shit.
Certainly not what everyone was expecting from his mad max days.

 

[ricc505]

This is a classic example. Vernon Wells looked like shit (dunno how Arnie approved and didn't get him on the weights at least for a short stint). Plus his portrayal was shit.
Certainly not what everyone was expecting from his mad max days.

I want to love it, but it is a bad casting job, bad moustache, bad chain mail. Wells was good in mm2, innerspace, weird science, I even saw those plug head movies.

 

[ricc505]

What? No way! He was perfect for that role!

The original equalizer wasn't just some generic Jason Bourne ripoff like he is in the Denzel movies. He would often just outsmart his opponents.

It was an epic battle with his veneers I remember most from the equalizer