Jack Black wants to quit acting, tired of playing the same character over and over

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you mean jack black's tired of playing the fat lazy guy surrounded by sticks-in-the-mud and somehow being better/smarter than them? sometimes with offensive cultural undertones?
 
More movies should give him a chance to play something else.

He was apparently good in in Bernie where he played an actual role.
 
shadow_priest_x said:
I think retiring from acting is exactly like retiring from fighting. Every movie is like a fight: You accept it, you do it, you get paid, then if you want to you do another one. And just like how fighters simply stop accepting fights, actors stop accepting roles in movies. Lots of child actors have done it. Sean Connery also did it, and he just spends his time chilling now. Gene Hackman also quit acting and is actually a novelist now.

But like you say, an actor can always just come back. Just like a fighter can always announce their retirement and then take another fight a few years down the road.
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Yes, but fighting is much more demanding in terms of what it requires to be active. Passed a certain age, there is no coming back to fighting, your body simply cannot meet the requirements to compete at the top level. Acting has a much larger window in terms of when someone can return after deciding to step away. Someone can act late into life (granted if they depend on their youthful looks for roles they're going to be significantly hampered by taking time off).
 
KILL KILL said:
What do you mean? Tom Cruise has played a multitude of different types of characters.

Risky Business
Rain Man
Top Gun
Born on the Fourth of July
Jerry McGuire
Interview with a Vampire
A Few Good Men
Tropical Thunder
Mongolia
Collateral
Etc etc etc.

None of these characters are similar in any way.
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i thought the day after tomorrow was particularly good, even though it was largely an action movie. we're so used to seeing him play that alpha male character or someone who's over the top, so he comes out in this movie and plays about 90% of it as a border-line coward, and it was just refreshing.
 
Bebop said:
i thought the day after tomorrow was particularly good, even though it was largely an action movie. we're so used to seeing him play that alpha male character or someone who's over the top, so he comes out in this movie and plays about 90% of it as a border-line coward, and it was just refreshing.
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Yeah I liked how they made him cowardly.
 
But then what will he do for a living because he is basically just the fat loser, he plays on screen in real life.
 
I thought he was decent as rl stine, but maybe that was because the stine character was supposed to be a bad actor?
 
BearGrounds said:
Yes, but fighting is much more demanding in terms of what it requires to be active. Passed a certain age, there is no coming back to fighting, your body simply cannot meet the requirements to compete at the top level. Acting has a much larger window in terms of when someone can return after deciding to step away. Someone can act late into life (granted if they depend on their youthful looks for roles they're going to be significantly hampered by taking time off).
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Sure, true. I was saying that the model for "quitting" is more or less the same. You just stop accepting offers.
 
Bebop said:
i thought the day after tomorrow was particularly good, even though it was largely an action movie. we're so used to seeing him play that alpha male character or someone who's over the top, so he comes out in this movie and plays about 90% of it as a border-line coward, and it was just refreshing.
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You mean Edge of Tomorrow?

In that case, I agree. It was a good role for him and good to see him play someone who wasn't totally cool, hot shit.
 
He should do TV, not big enough to carry a movie anymore.
 
Fuck the haters. I understand it, but the guy is better than he gets credit for. He needs to do a comedy with Adam Devine. I thought they had a few more Kung Fu Pandas planned, does that mean it's stuck to a trilogy? That's one movie I wouldn't have minded seeing 10 of, it had an ocean of material to play with.
 
Not of fan of him at all but I wish him all the luck.
 
KILL KILL said:
What do you mean? Tom Cruise has played a multitude of different types of characters.

Risky Business
Rain Man
Top Gun
Born on the Fourth of July
Jerry McGuire
Interview with a Vampire
A Few Good Men
Tropical Thunder
Mongolia
Collateral
Etc etc etc.

None of these characters are similar in any way.
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Mongolia, LOL.

Jack Black should do a gritty against-type indie movie, which is what most actors in his situation do when they get bored of raking in piles of cash with zero effort whatsoever.

IMO he's had his chance to show his range. Remember King Kong?
 
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