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Can someone tell me why he keeps getting these tough guy roles?


Mark Walhberg has gotta be one of the worst actors I've ever seen. Ever notice how whenever hes angry it sounds more like 'Wah Wah wah' like hes crying. Also, why is it when he gets mad, his angry face looks like his normal face. Its like hes only capable of making type of face no.matter what.

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one type of face*

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Mark Walhberg has gotta be one of the worst actors I've ever seen.
Granted, he is no Meryl Streep. He has surprised me by being intelligent enough to make smart choices that take into account the limits to his acting range. George Clooney is said to understand that he too has a limited acting range. This isn't career limiting if you have enough juice to produce your own films, and make sure you cast yourself in roles suited for your range.
Ever notice how whenever hes angry it sounds more like 'Wah Wah wah' like hes crying. Also, why is it when he gets mad, his angry face looks like his normal face. Its like hes only capable of making type of face no.matter what.
Sorry, it sounds like you may be complaining he isn't measuring up to the current fad of how a movie tough guy should act.

Yeah. Fad. Consider young Kirk Douglas or young Burt Lancaster. Go watch a film from the period when they were young hot stars. Those guys were horrible scenery chewers. We would regard them as horrible over-actors, if they were giving performances like that today. But their fans thought they were great actors.

Why? Because there are fads in acting styles.

They acted together, when they were senior citizens, and they adapted and left that scenery-chewing in the past.

There is a scene in Three Kings when Wahlberg's character is locked in a storage room, and finds some boxes full of stolen cell phones. When he can't get through to his local HQ, he phones his wife back in the USA. He tries to get her to take his situation seriously enough that she immediately does her best to contact his HQ for him, without fully conveying his situation's seriousness, so she doesn't panic and freak out. It is a terrific scene.

So, no offense, I can't take your complaints seriously.

He may not be Meryl Streep, but he may actually be a better actor than Clooney.

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He sucks alot of Hollywood d@#k

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I agree. Especially in this movie (I haven't seen many of his recent movies the past 5 years because I'm not a fan of his at all, especially when he takes these kinds of roles), his facial expressions didn't match the emotion and you're absolutely correct that his facial range looks the same for both anger, normal, and confusion. Frankly, the fact is he was miscast in this and really retracted from what was otherwise a pretty high quality movie. This didn't require a movie star running around being himself playing a fictitious, imaginary character. The movie would've been served much better by a strong character actor in this part.

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What else could he play? A science teacher like in "The Happening"? He is an awful actor; just imagine him in a intimate drama or something like that. It would be hilarious.

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..well it helps when your good friends with a director. Mark and Peter berg obviously keep teaming up and making movies together, this is their third one. So expect more from these two.

...I think Mark's best performance is in Boogie Nights 1997, he can act and shows range. Now he's in Transformers 5 lol.

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You can't blame him entirely. He's also taking directions from the directors, maybe he needs to work with better directors. He was good in Boogie Nights and look who directed that? The great Paul Thomas Anderson. He needs to get back to his love of acting and take on more juicer roles, the kind of roles that will win oscars and not these tough hero crap roles.

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an untalented, racist attempted murderer...WHAT is to like?

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I agree he's not a Great actor, but that doesn't mean he's a terrible actor either. I think he's a decent actor, with ages he will transform into a Great one.

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