Jack Black Regrets Turning Down ‘The Incredibles’; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites: ‘Why Was I Being So Difficult?’
9 months ago by TheImpressiveX to c/movies
Yeah, I’ve always felt he was mid but likable until that moment.
Kyle Gass, his band member on Tenacious D. He made that comment after the assassination attempt on Trump.
Oh yeaaaahhh, I remember hearing about that.
I just avoid Jack Black stuff usually, but there's a good reason to actually avoid him in case he does a new movie that's actually good.
He's an Imperialist.
Isn’t this the guy who was in Tenacious D with Rage Kage?
I heard Kyle quit the band.
Because he’s a bootlicker who can’t take a joke
Unlike the barrage of hate below, I actually don’t dislike Black — but I’m still glad this didn’t work out because Jason Lee has a perfect voice/delivery for animation. Surprised he hasn’t done more of it.
I still liked him up until the point he suspended Tenacious D over Gass' birthday wish. They're a rock band, of course they're supposed to say and do controversial shit! Black backed out of it just to save his Hollywood prospects and I find that cold and calculating of him.
Otherwise known as the day Jack Black killed the metal
Wow. I’ve seen that movie 300+ times and never realized that was Lee.
‘Why Was I Being So Difficult?
Because you're an arrogant fuck who thinks he's more important than he is, I'm sick of Jack Black and his single note acting style. He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie, he's pretty much just the same annoying fuck in everything he does, it was funny 20 years ago, not so much now.
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I think you mean cost. Easy mistake.
I almost always hate his films because he plays Jack Black. But I actually really, really liked his performance in Bernie. It's a great film based on actual events and absolutely worth going in blind. He plays a different role to his usual fare and made me wonder if he would go on to do more interesting stuff, but then nobody watched it and he went back to the same shit he always does.
Isn’t it a similar thing for Adam Sandler? He’ll do an uncut gems every decade, but his go to movies are just to make money and hang out with his friends.
just to make money and hang out with his friends.
Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life.
Love money to never life a day in your work.
I remember going to see Punch Drunk Love, and the utter confusion on the faces of people coming out of the earlier showing. They had clearly gone to see an Adam Sandler movie, not a PT Anderson movie.
Be kind rewind was also good.
The time investment doesn't change just because you didn't pay for it.
It kinda does.
Watching something shit in your free time with no cost associated with it vs watching something shit in your free time that costs you 'productive' hours as well because it costs something.
Equals more time lost because now its not just free time but free time + [productive hours x2]
(its productive hours x2 because most people dont make enough money so that money spent still needs replacing to pay for better/more important things)
The CGI in that movie is just awful. It would have probably genuinely been better if they had just stuck to practical effects and just lend into the cheesiness.
Does a scene where one of the characters picks up a sword for the first time and honestly I've seen better quality Minecraft props on Etsy.
To be fair, though, the Minecraft movie is better because Jack Black sucks in it
thank fuck he wasn't in it. he's only gotten more insufferable over time as it is, I'd have probably liked it less if it was his voice coming out. the character was great in high fidelity, too bad he can't turn that bullshit off and do ANYthing else.
Jason Lee always does a great job. I haven’t liked Jack Black since his role in The Jackal.
Was he De Gaulle or the Jackal?
I like black. he's a good actor.
I feel like I don't "get" this movie. I saw it as a kid and I remember it being a pretty standard family friendly take on superheroes, but without any of the superheroes that I actually liked. Do people really think it's "one of the best movies ever made," or is that just Jack Black?
IMO Its appeal is that its a solid 8 out of 10 across the board.
The story is deep enough for adults but structured well enough for kids. It doesnt pander to boys or girls. No cheesy soundtrack or "scrappy do" bullshit. No terrible voice acting choices (Jack Black probably would have done a great job as Syndrome.) Dad kicks ass, Mom kicks ass. Its somehow almost a parody of a superhero movie while being better than most of them at being one. Somehow theres way less cinematic cringe bullshit than any Marvel movie. Its not just good as a kids movie or as an animated movie. Its a straight up GOOD MOVIE that you can put on for a room with 4 generations in it and its unlikely anyone will hate it.
Its no best movie ever made but I have a 6yo and when I hear "Can we watch The Incredibles?" It's an automatic yes.
This right here. It wasn't groundbreaking but rather simply extremely high in quality.
There's this one meme video that people always talk about where someone dubbed over one scene with Sonic as both voices, yet people still forget the joke and get sucked into the plot regardless because it's just that good.
Yes, I think it is actually a superb movie for when it came out and still a pretty great one to this day.
Ifyou look at the character development throughout the movie for the main character and the story building, I think you’ll find it’s pretty robust for a family animated film. The animation style is relatively unique, noir inspired, great supporting characters, and the characters are mostly clever.
As a superhero movie I still think they use their powers together than anything shown in the MCU or DC counter parts. There is a lot of interplay of their abilities near the end of the movie.
But ya know it’s all up to preferences
It resonates really strongly with queer and neurodiverse white people because the Incredibles are a minority nuclear family. That's common in immigrant and black stories, but not in queer or ND stories. So people can see themselves in the characters and explore those issues, without the movie telling them they have to be isolated from their nuclear family.
"What if Dad was like me"
a tylenol american
A what?
Syndrome is rich people appropriating queer culture. He's JK Rowling. He killed off real heroes so he could pretend to be one
Not a horrible take.
It was well regarded being a mashup of being endearing, having cutting edge (at the time) CGI and pulling back the 4th wall on super heroes struggles and covering government suppression of the heroes.
It's certainly not the best ever made, not even the best animated.
The monicker of “best movie ever made” is incredibly subjective and thrown around a lot. But it is a solid movie and certainly one of my favourites from Pixar. My absolute favourite? I dunno, but top 5 definitely. Maybe in my top 3.
Pixar was on a roll when the movie was released. It was the follow up to finding Nemo and when Pixar was doing the Toy Story movies, pretty much anything Pixar got so much attention.
I agree with you, I found it to be pretty standard animated family freindly stuff.
As far as best move ever made.. It made 600 mill so I suspect Jack Black is regretting not getting that pay check.
It was the first CGI that had believable human characters. If you go back and look at the first toy story, the humans looked like creepy puppets.
So it was a big hit at the time because it was the fist time a movie had bridged the uncanny valley
That's not the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when you're approaching photo-realism but you're still not quite there, to the point you can tell something's wrong but may have a hard time pointing out exactly what. Maybe skin too smooth or light and shadows aren't playing quite correct, it's usually pretty subtle but just overall makes it feel wrong. Polar express sits right at the edge of it for me.
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I liked him enough, right up until he freaked out over KG’s “Next time, don’t miss” comment. After that, he can go fuck himself.
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