Name does NOT check out.

Because it's so accurate it needs no further explanation? RDJ has been in Sherlock Holmes or Iron Man almost exclusively for a decade. You may enjoy those movies and they may make a ton of money, but it's not exactly a way to show your range as an actor.

Brad Pitt seems like such a cool, genuine dude. Not that Leo or QT don't, but if you give me a choice, Brad's the dude I'd want to have a beer with.

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Brad Pitt seems like such a cool, genuine dude. Not that Leo or QT don't, but if you give me a choice, Brad's the dude I'd want to have a beer with.

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I'll take Margot

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Because it's so accurate it needs no further explanation? RDJ has been in Sherlock Holmes or Iron Man almost exclusively for a decade. You may enjoy those movies and they may make a ton of money, but it's not exactly a way to show your range as an actor.

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Let's just set aside the fact that RDJ is 10 years older than LD. Not as big a deal in Hollywood for men as it is for women, but working 45-55 in Hollywood is much different than 35-45. Which has been the age range difference for the actors over the last decade.

No doubt RDJ waisted his prime years battling addiction. But if you dont think Iron Man, Tropic of Thunder, The Soloist, and Sherlock Holmes shows RDJ to have range, I dont know what to say. That's just the last 10 years. Over a career there are so many examples of characters RDJ pulled off that LD could never do or at least hasn't ever shown he could do. RDJ has always been both a dramatic and comedic force. And super hero was just added into the mix over the last decade. Albeit it's a super hero that plays to his personality strengths as an actor.

Valid point. I get that.

The one thing I would argue(not with you, just the notion) is that while MCU made most of the actors in it a household name. I think RDJs turn as Tony Stark made Iron Man a household name and at least at the start, pulled non comic.book fans into the MCU journey that might have stayed away. A movie star does that in my book. Much like Harrison Ford and Han Solo/Indiana Jones. I'm not sure anyone will be able to imagine Iron Man played by any other actor until RDJ is dead and gone and even then it will be iffy.

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hph6203 said:

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Because it's so accurate it needs no further explanation? RDJ has been in Sherlock Holmes or Iron Man almost exclusively for a decade. You may enjoy those movies and they may make a ton of money, but it's not exactly a way to show your range as an actor.

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Let's just set aside the fact that RDJ is 10 years older than LD. Not as big a deal in Hollywood for men as it is for women, but working 45-55 in Hollywood is much different than 35-45. Which has been the age range difference for the actors over the last decade.

No doubt RDJ waisted his prime years battling addiction. But if you dont think Iron Man, Tropic of Thunder, The Soloist, and Sherlock Holmes shows RDJ to have range, I dont know what to say. That's just the last 10 years. Over a career there are so many examples of characters RDJ pulled off that LD could never do or at least hasn't ever shown he could do. RDJ has always been both a dramatic and comedic force. And super hero was just added into the mix over the last decade. Albeit it's a super hero that plays to his personality strengths as an actor.

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Tropic Thunder came out 11 years ago, The Soloist 10 years ago, since those movies came out he's been a bit part in The Chef (I assume, have never seen it), starred in The Judge and played Sherlock and Iron Man.

The comment wasn't that those guys were never good actors, or that they aren't good actors still, but that they've resigned themselves to collecting massive paychecks based upon their names and the franchises they're in rather than challenging themselves as actors to take something wholly new and making it critically if not commercially successful. I think RDJ is an excellent actor and he plays those parts extremely well, but that's three roles in 10 years with massive amounts of money supporting him.


Basically he's not Di Caprio in recent years who's films for the last 10 years are:
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
The Revenant
Wolf of Wall Street
The Great Gatsby
Django Unchained
J Edgar
Inception
Shutter Island

No one is Di Caprio, the only other working actors that took on roles like that was Day-Lewis. I don't think he's the only movie star left as Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks are not still doing things. Difference is that Di Caprio will play both hero and villain.

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He hasn't acted in a film with a female director since 1995, which I don't think is an insignificant fact.

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He hadn't worked with a Mexican director until Revenant, you didn't hear me crying racism. (To this random Twitter person, not you.)