It's histarical from the moment force 10 met weathers they where trying to get rid of him. many times durring the film they kept saying when he would pop in, Who are you?, we didnt come back for you! and what the hell are you doing here? did any =body get the feeling they didnt want him around? Humm. its no wunder why? especialy durring that sceean when he said "I want to know what the hells going on"!
shareYou're absolutely right. Weathers comes across as an insatiable pain-in-the-ass and I could never understand why they even bothered to cast him in a movie of this nature. If you think about it, the film would still hold the same water without his character. Aside from a racially-inclined entanglement due to the ignorance-wielding mind of the Chetnik leader, excellently played by Richard Kiel, there's not much else to say. The guy was basically "in the way". This naturally does not in any way imply that Carl Weathers was a bad actor; on the contrary, he's an outstanding performer, starring in numerous films such as the well renowned "Rocky/Rocky II" to obscure films like the cult classic horror/fantasy film "The Bermuda Depths". In this particular film, however, I must say he was terribly miscast, and one could already tell that his character was " a fifth wheel".
shareyes weathers has a commanding preasance. maby they wher trying to be somewhat politicaly correct to cast him "OR" they wanted to put a member of several blockbuster films of the time in force 10 "Ford" Star wars. "Shaw" jaws, and "weathers" Rocky.
shareYou're absolutely right. Weathers comes across as an insatiable pain-in-the-ass and I could never understand why they even bothered to cast him in a movie of this nature. If you think about it, the film would still hold the same water without his character. Aside from a racially-inclined entanglement due to the ignorance-wielding mind of the Chetnik leader, excellently played by Richard Kiel, there's not much else to say. The guy was basically "in the way". This naturally does not in any way imply that Carl Weathers was a bad actor; on the contrary, he's an outstanding performer, starring in numerous films such as the well renowned "Rocky/Rocky II" to obscure films like the cult classic horror/fantasy film "The Bermuda Depths". In this particular film, however, I must say he was terribly miscast, and one could already tell that his character was " a fifth wheel".
I don't like these hideous accusations against the great Weathers.
shareNo kidding, Weathers is probably the greatest actor, ever to walk on the face of the Earth. Apparently these people did not see "Bucktown" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072747/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 where Weathers totally mastered the roll of "Hambone" and really got down and funky bringing justice to where justice had not ever been before. I never did understand why there wasn't at least one sequel to Bucktown, if not an entire series? If they would have made it into a television series, right now it would have the record for the longest running series and there would be millions of kids named Hambone. Hambone has a certain ring to it that I think only Weathers could pull off and he really, really did, pull it off masterfully as I mentioned!
shareI don't think he was miscast at all. He was comic relief, and did a great job of it too.
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