Originally posted by Vengeance
your right will smith is the best singer and actor out there. but eminem is still awsome at acting. well so far
he;s not that awesome....he's only really done one movie and in that movie he had a solid supporting cast plus he was playing himself so he really wasnt acting....he has hte potenital to be a good actor i;ll give you that but i would say its a lil too early to say he's an awesome actor
Originally posted by Vengeance
actually hate to tell you but he wasn't playing him self man, he was playing a kid like him though. but still yes it was one movie but he kicked ass in it. but still he wouldn't be that good if it wan't a rap movie.
no he was playing himself...it was a semi-autobiography film about his life which means he was playing himself under a different name and they made things more hollywood but thats why they called it a semi-autobiograpy of his life and not autobiography but that jimmy rabbit charactor is based off eminem which means he was playin himself
he and Jazzy jeff came out with an album before FRESH PRINCE
um......they had more than one album. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were around for years........when Gangsta completely took over the rap industry they tried one more futile attempt, alas.....not even their semi-hit "summer time" could save their career. As far as the music industry was concerned, their careers were over.
Smith was asked if he'd be intrested in his own show.......he took the gig because his music career was dead. That led to movies and we see where he's at now.
For what it's worth.......I think Smith is a good actor when he sticks to action comedies. He does them very well. I don't believe he'd ever be considered an actor's actor.......he doesn't really have range. He stinks up the screen in every movie he does that isn't an action flick.
While I loathe 8 Mile (the movie had a very very very weak plot, was pretty much pointless) I must admit that Eminem did a good acting job in it. I would like to see him in a real movie one day......I think he has the chops for it.
P.S. no, the movie is not autobiographical in any way. Eminem was playing a character. A character who is in no way similar to Eminem. Eminem didn't grow up on 8 mile........he was born in Kansas City and lived the first years of his life there. His family later relocated to the outskirts of Warren, MI (suburb of Detroit). Eminem was just a poor white boy with a dream...........he wasn't running into thugs.......he wasn't living "ghetto" trailerpark.......'tis why Eminem has such a credibility problem today. Nobody buys it when he tries to sell gangsta.....because he knows nothing about it. He didn't grow up gangsta or tough......he started carrying a .9mm pistol to boost his credibility untill everybody found out that he keeps it unloaded after he pulled it on two seperate people and was brought up on charges for both. One of which he was so scared during the altercation and shaking so bad that he actually fumbled the gun and dropped it on the ground. Point being..........it's completely fictional.
Ice Cube........can be a decent comedic actor. Friday is still great and Barbershop is okay (no matter how much they tried to whiten him up in the movie...seriously, look at Straight Out of Compton video then look at Barbershop....they put so much makeup on him to appear lighter that it looks like he's pulling a Michael Jackson....I guess the producers figured the blacker he is the more threatening he looks, which isn't good for a comedy)........also did a great job in Boys in the Hood........
I don't even consider Method Man and Redman........they're just two idiots who'll appear on screen for a pay check......to call them actors would be disrespectful to real actors.
Best actor I think has to go to Tupac Shakur...........His Debut in Juice was amazing. He really put on an awesome performance.........as did everybody else in the film which made it shine........Poetic Justice was a dumb movie but once again, Pac was great even with the mediocre (at best) material given to work with..........his other 4 movies were pretty much more of the same. Mediocre films.....some not so great parts but Pac still rose to the occasion and showed he had talent.
I can't stand his music but the man was a good actor........perhaps if he would have taken his role in Juice and turned it into a full time acting career and not pursued rapping he would still be alive today......and still making good movies, or at worst bad movies better.
Yeah, I liked Mos Def in The Italian Job remake.
The point of this whole thread was really to see if you guys thought there were any "credible" actors out there.
Cube, Ice T, Tupac, those are all great entertainers. But, I saw "Sticky Fingaz" from ONYX in "Torque", and I damn near wanted to cry.
(BTW Alison, you're really ****in' hot.)
I agree that most rappers that go into acting are crap!
Eminem was playing himself in 8 mile, how hard can that be? A lot of you have said Ice Cube is a bad actor. I disagree. I think personally he is not watchable now because he has gone into comedic acting. However his part in Boyz N Hood was outstanding. He could argue the fact he grew up in that area, so he was portraying himself (like eminem in 8 mile), but his perfromance in that film is ten times better than Eminems.
I quite liked ICE T in New Jack City aswell, anyone seen it?