Will Smith is the Sci-Fi actor of our time

zingo
zingo Posts: 11,258
edited May 2008 in Music & Movies
Case and point:

Hancock (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
I, Robot (2004)
Men in Black II (2002)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Men in Black (1997)
Independence Day (1996)

And all the movies are pretty good too (and Hancook LOOKS cool). I threw Wild Wild West in there because it's strangely sci-fi...

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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2008
    Well I don't know about all of that. WWW stunk it up pretty bad and MiB II was not very good. Independance Day, MiB and I, Robot were good flicks. He's good, i like him.

    However...

    Others are right there or above him. Take Ian McKellan for instance. He owns Gandalf and Magneto. With a 2 movie release of The Hobbit scheduled to start filming, we'll see him in action once again.

    How about Christopher Lee. Dude has been going at it forever! He's the man! Everything from Dracula in the '50's, to Scaramanga in James Bond Man with the Golden Gun, to Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in the last 2 Star Wars. When he's on screen, he RULES!

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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited May 2008
    woow, I never said WWW was good. :D It's just that a giant mechano-spider makes it sci-fi to me.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited May 2008
    Cool, then we agree it was a big ****! :D
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited May 2008
    Oh come on, it wasn't THAT bad. Okay, it was pretty bad, but it was at least watchable...once
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited May 2008
    Strong Bad wrote: »
    Well I don't know about all of that. WWW stunk it up pretty bad and MiB II was not very good. Independance Day, MiB and I, Robot were good flicks. He's good, i like him.

    However...

    Others are right there or above him. Take Ian McKellan for instance. He owns Gandalf and Magneto. With a 2 movie release of The Hobbit scheduled to start filming, we'll see him in action once again.

    How about Christopher Lee. Dude has been going at it forever! He's the man! Everything from Dracula in the '50's, to Scaramanga in James Bond Man with the Golden Gun, to Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in the last 2 Star Wars. When he's on screen, he RULES!

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/


    SB

    DING!

    Yeah, Will Smith is good but Ian and Christopher both popped into my head before Will Smith.

    Also, Christopher Lloyd comes to mind. He was in a bunch of stuff from Buckaroo Banzai to Back To The Future. He was also in Star Trek and Amazing Stories, two staples of the 80's in movies and TV. Plus he voiced alot of stuff in cartoons too. He got so many credits both in front of and behind the camera that it's hard to list enough to give a good perspective of his total career.

    Then you have Patrick Stewart who was on Star Trek for something like 9 seasons I think it was plus 3 or 4 movies. He's also in X-men and he did voice over work for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie last year. He's got a pile more of the voice over work too from "The Last Dragon" to a part in "Jimmy Neutron".

    Yeah, Will Smith has some nice credits to his name but say he is the Sci-Fi Actor of Our Time is a bit of a stretch.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited May 2008
    i didn't like I am Legend really at all. the other's i did enough though.
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  • broncsrule21@
    broncsrule21@ Posts: 113
    edited May 2008
    I like him, I think he stacks up well to the others
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2008
    Half those movies suck....not just WWW.
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited May 2008
    Star Wars and Blade Runner. Better movies and Blade Runner is a cult classic. Seems like Ford was in some other "Sci-fi" stuff I can't remember right now. Chris
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  • wz2p7j
    wz2p7j Posts: 840
    edited May 2008
    Oh, how about Arnold? Predator, Total Recall, etc?
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  • malcolmp6
    malcolmp6 Posts: 70
    edited May 2008
    I vote Arnold. Weird accent and look. Great for sci-fi.
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    malcolmp6 wrote: »
    I vote Arnold. Weird accent and look. Great for sci-fi.

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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited May 2008
    Stargate SG1 doesn't make any top Sci-Fi lists for me... The original was kind of cook, but that's where it stops.

    And speaking of not liking I Am Legend, if that movie didn't float your boat, don't watch Omega Man with the Heston. It's the original version and not as good.

    I'm also going to throw Charlton Heston into the list: (and it doesn't include all the just plain awesome non Sci-Fi movies)

    Armageddon (1998)
    Solar Crisis (1990)
    Soylent Green (1973)
    Omega Man (1971)

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited May 2008
    How about nominating someone that can act, as the sci-fi actor of our time? That guy blows from top to bottom. A couple of quick verbal quips do not make an actor.
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