She's The Man
Jun. 13th, 2012 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficSo, dude, what happened to the teen movie Shakespeare adaptation? Of all the esoteric mini-genres, that one was awesome. I mean, we have Ten Things I Hate About You, She's The Man... one could argue The Lion King. Nowadays (being six years later), everything is vampires and werewolves and they're doing an actual Romeo & Juliet movie, where people die. I guess they also died in West Side Story, but before they died, they lived. They danced.
Anyway, it occurs to me that Channing Tatum isn't a bad actor, he's just ineffectual outside his wheelhouse. He's great when used well, as a generally kind-hearted, doofy, adorable giant. Fighting, 21 Jump Street, a couple rom-coms I refuse on principle to watch--he's basically playing the same character, but he's good at it. But try to make him a conventional action hero, like in GI Joe, and it's just dumb. Superhero wise, he'd be great as Johnny Storm or Superboy, it's just that for some reason Hollywood keeps trying to make him Batman or Spider-Man. Sorry. Can't pull it off.
Anyway, it occurs to me that Channing Tatum isn't a bad actor, he's just ineffectual outside his wheelhouse. He's great when used well, as a generally kind-hearted, doofy, adorable giant. Fighting, 21 Jump Street, a couple rom-coms I refuse on principle to watch--he's basically playing the same character, but he's good at it. But try to make him a conventional action hero, like in GI Joe, and it's just dumb. Superhero wise, he'd be great as Johnny Storm or Superboy, it's just that for some reason Hollywood keeps trying to make him Batman or Spider-Man. Sorry. Can't pull it off.
