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I'd feel bad for Anthony Mackie that he's inherited an almost thankless task, I say almost, because except for the millions he's making playing a character in major motion pictures should calm his furrowed brow considerably
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For real, I think he could rise to the task if given a better character arc. He has moments of gold when the screenwriters let it happen but I think they probably wrote his character into a hole. End of falcon and the winter soldier involves him giving a speech during his final battle? Who wants that? Define the character with actions, not words, people! I think the Marvel team has a huge uphill battle because almost every new character has the same issues.
He was fantastic in Twisted Metal, somehow he gave a lot of personality to a character called "John Doe".
Im gonna wait and see for myself, the internet has been shitting on marvel movies regularly since Endgame came out.
I saw it and posted my thoughts in the discussion thread, but if you want, you can see it for yourself and form your own opinion.
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People still watch the marvel movie?
Lower interest than the marvels? I doubt it.
The Marvels had a target audience that didn't watch the movie, and a "wrong" audience that watched it and didn't like it.
This movie seems to have no hype at all in no audience group.
I just have never been impressed with Anthony Mackie. He’s always kind of been a mediocre actor which is fine if you’re in a side character role, but he doesn’t stand up to playing the star character. I’m convinced his performance in the second season of Altered Carbon is why it got cancelled, because that first season was some excellent sci-fi and the lead in that season was good and most importantly convincing. Mackie fell flat.
So him suddenly being the new captain America is…lol. What did marvel think was going to happen here. It’s like that second black panther movie where that antivax lady became the star character. Thrust into the lead role and the movie fell apart.
Anything with Mackie in it will suffer the same fate. I hope this proves me wrong though
I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels this way. He lacks a wide range of acting ability, he has only one mode and that's "angry black guy". No subtlety of any kind, no range.
Twsited metal? I didn't like him as an actor til after watching it, not a fan of the falcon show or him as capt america in general, they made his personality boring, the movie looked like it improved it from the trailer.
I'll have to psyche myself up to even consider trying that one, but I'll put it on the list and hope it alters my view of him as an actor.
Like hes good serious, not stoic, might be the right word
Yeah I like him when hes in a proper comedy action role, not trying to be serious
If you like brooklyn 99, rosas in it with a more human personality, she almost seems typecast at first, but isnt
The writing in the second season was much worse, too, unfortunately.
they never deserved a B