disclaimer: I still haven't seen most of arrested development, but again, from what i have seen, he plays the same character he always plays
well, he was a child actor in his first big role, that got him famous, and so was immediately typecast? I don't know what you expect someone to do in that situation. People are coming at you saying here take millions of dollars and replicate your performance on Arrested Development.
disclaimer: I still haven't seen most of arrested development, but again, from what i have seen, he plays the same character he always plays
Yeah
That character is George Michael from Arrested Development
So regardless of your feelings of his work outside of this, he's pretty much perfect in AD because that wasn't his established thing yet
He's also not the star so even if you can't stand him in the slightest to skip out on the series because you're annoyed by his minor role is silly. Most of the time he just serves as a plot device accenting Maebe's shenanigans or motivating Michael as a father.
There is a definite cera quality to every role he plays but saying they are all exactly the same is hyperbolic
Oh for sure I'm just speaking in generality. I never saw Scott Pilgrim and Superbad didn't really call for much "acting" so there's not much to hold against his performance in that. Paulie in Juno is pretty much George Michael Bluth though.
i thought he was pretty good in Youth in Revolt and only half of his character was an awkward teen
Youth in Revolt was very enjoyable
and it gave me the line "I want to wrap your legs around my head and wear you like the crown that you are." so it automatically gets a pass, no matter what
So far the promise of an Arrested Development revival has mostly gone like this: paaaarty, and bullshit, and paaaarty, and bullshit. But then a fucking fight broke out: According to Vulture, Hulu has now entered into a fierce bidding war with its streaming video nemesis Netflix over the rights to air the recently promised fourth season of the show—an escalation of interest that makes it even more likely that the show actually will return. Getting Arrested Development would certainly be a coup for either Netflix or Hulu, both of which have benefitted in the past from streaming episodes of Arrested Development (with Hulu specifically racking up more than 100 million hits from the show), and both of which have been making plays to become a source for original programming. And creator Mitchell Hurwitz believes the production of the new episodes will be relatively inexpensive, as they will focus mostly on a single character at a time, and has said already that they would be filmed together, thereby splitting the costs between whoever nabs the TV show and the long-promised movie, respectively. In short, this sudden bidding war has upgraded the stock we’d normally place in news of an Arrested Development revival to a “Don’t Buy,” and moved it even further into the realm of plausibility. Which, honestly, is just confusing.
I wonder if the same people who get mad about Micheal Cera always playing an awkward teen get just as mad about Steve Buscemi always playing weird fast talking criminals.
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Last I heard they had caught up to the present day and turned into King of the Hill.
Yeah but he did it first on AD. And the writing for the show is just so good that his character fits perfectly and is always funny.
well, he was a child actor in his first big role, that got him famous, and so was immediately typecast? I don't know what you expect someone to do in that situation. People are coming at you saying here take millions of dollars and replicate your performance on Arrested Development.
and uh I would say yeah ok.
i am fine with this dot jay pee gee file
Yeah
That character is George Michael from Arrested Development
So regardless of your feelings of his work outside of this, he's pretty much perfect in AD because that wasn't his established thing yet
He's also not the star so even if you can't stand him in the slightest to skip out on the series because you're annoyed by his minor role is silly. Most of the time he just serves as a plot device accenting Maebe's shenanigans or motivating Michael as a father.
he's been pretty one-note, yes
but he plays that one note perfectly
he can play awkward nervous teenager and he can play it extremely well
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i'm assuming that it will be the same as before with the narrator and all but you never know
the narrator
Um...playing the same character in everything is pretty much the definition of "can't act" even if it does fit the role.
rane had two criticisms of him
he plays the same character in everything
and he doesn't play that character well
the latter point is straight-up false
and like someone said it's impossible to know how much of that is him having limited range and how much of that is him being typecast
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Oh for sure I'm just speaking in generality. I never saw Scott Pilgrim and Superbad didn't really call for much "acting" so there's not much to hold against his performance in that. Paulie in Juno is pretty much George Michael Bluth though.
Youth in Revolt was very enjoyable
and it gave me the line "I want to wrap your legs around my head and wear you like the crown that you are." so it automatically gets a pass, no matter what
I'll worry about how they execute it once they're actually given a chance to execute it
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