From Action To Acting

[Faith]

A thought inspired by Soulgasm's action movie thread. With all the recent talk of action movies etc, it got me thinking of the trained fighters and professionals that crossover into acting and are the actually any good at it.

Arnie, good with the action, but the acting leaves a lot to be desired.

Bruce Lee, undeniably an awesome fighter but his acting was flat, he was a fighter first then an actor.

Van Damm, again with the fighting good but a wooden actor

Brandon Lee, although he's not made as much movies as the others, he did do a handful of martial arts movies before his death. Good fighther and a very decent actor. Opposite from his father, his acting came before his fighting.

Stallone, well not too keen on him

The only one that I can think of (at the moment) that is pretty decent in both is Bruce Willis, good action hero and has the ability to play a lot of different characters. Vin Diesel is also pretty good, although his best acting movies is Boiler Room and Diversity (a short movie he made himself)

I've missed tonnes no doubt so any thoughts and additions?

 

[*Lost Angel*]

Jackie Chan.....hes great at fighting and action.... and a great actor....I LOVED RUSH HOUR 2!!!

'Dont you mean Tito, man....Toto's what we had for dinner last night!' - Carter (rush hour 2)

 

[grrarrg]

Jackie Chan's great ^ I agree! 🙂 But I think Arnold's best roll was in Terminator where he played a robot... does that explain anything? And, I like Vin Diesel. If anyone's acted bad in Fast and the Furious, it was Paul Walker. I think he's a horrible actor.

 

[Soulgasm]

sylvester stallone is a great actor....rocky 1 was a great dramatic movie....and rambo first blood...i totally understood his character....although the lighting was falkin horrible in that movie...

jackie chan is falkin amazing...

bruce willis is gay...he's a prick...

i think angelina jolie...if given the right R rated action film...could do some damage...she's one of the coolest females....who cares if she's a little crazy....lol

 

[Robbie the Gunn]

Originally posted by *Lost Angel*
Jackie Chan.....hes great at fighting and action.... and a great actor....I LOVED RUSH HOUR 2!!!

'Dont you mean Tito, man....Toto's what we had for dinner last night!' - Carter (rush hour 2)

Daaaamn, he aint gon be in rush hour 3 😀

Chris tucker was class in that too, they are sooo funny together, bring on Rush hour 3, can't wait.

Densel was class in training day, looked brick too..

 

[BuffyUKer]

jackie chan isnt gunu be in Rush Hour 3!?!?! this cant be!

 

[Willow03]

i didn't even know there was going to be a rush hour 3....

 

[Dancing Warlock]

I would be surprised if there wasn't a Rush Hour 3, since there IS a T3.

Anyway, I think the big reason why action stars don't go well into other acting areas is because the studios aren't concerned much about acting ability when casting for an action role. Their criterion is if the actor has the right look and physical prowess then it's good enough. Then, a hack writes the "script" and,*voila*, you have an action picture. Of course, there are the exceptions, like the first Rocky(they should never made a sequel after III) but the general rule is muscle, babes, explosions, dumb baddies, fast cars, bad jokes and so forth.