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This movie looks like it will be outstanding. I'm pretty eager for it to come out. Can't help but get hyped.

This sounds a little suspect. By all accounts, Will has been very accepting of acting tips and suggestions in the past. I can't see him getting into a verbal fight in front of everyone on a movie set with the director of the movie. Moreover, it's been suggested that this was on the brink of getting physical. Has anyone found a link to a blog, gossip article, or anything of the like concerning this?

Sounds good. Good job antix

They're doing an awesome job promoting this movie so far.

I'd like to remain a mod as well. Perhaps WillyWood or Caught In the Middle.

So what can the members of the forum do to ensure that the website and specifically, the forum, continues to function?

I'm certainly looking forward to the release of this movie. They haven't taken any short cuts in marketing it, that's for sure...

Some of these sound good... others, not so much. I'm not sure about the Hitch project. It could be very good depending on the writers and directors or it could be very bad...

Oh my goodness... :paperbag: :lolsign: :lolsign:

This is some sort of joke, right? Yeah, it must be. :shakehead:

Jay might end up catching another Ether... this should be interesting.

Why doesn't it sound like the type of movie he should be doing?

http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/12602

I'm down...

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Hand on the booty in the last picture... lol.

I'm listening to Homecoming right now... It's a great song, as is I Wonder and Stronger and Can't Tell Me Nothing are fire... Edit: R.I.P. 50...

Seven Pounds is the last movie I'd think you would be referring to. We hardly know what it's about. You said: "I'm pretty sure Will is doing this more for the oscars than he is doing it to become a better all around actor." How do you know that? Look at the last few movies he's done and will be doing: Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock and Seven Pounds. All are serious roles, but we know that I Am Legend and Hancock aren't going to get him nominated for Oscars. So what are we saying? For those two movies, he's interested in diversifying his roles, but for POH and Seven Pounds (which we don't know much about), he's doing it more for Oscars? How do we differentiate between the two. The more sensible thing to speculate is that he is simply divesifying his roles, and if Oscar level material arises (which are usually more serious roles), he will take it. But it's obvious that he's not simply picking serious roles if his focus was on Oscar or he wouldn't be doing I Am Legend and Hancock. Again, Will hasn't generally done the types of movies that critics will rate highly to any great extent, and admittedly, he doesn't make movies for the critics... he makes them for the fans and the viewers. Moreover, the critics started off as biased since Will doesn't come from an acting background; he comes from hip hop. Early in his career, even with movies like Six Degrees and Bad Boys, he was viewed as a rapper who was trying to act. The label was still there for Independence Day and MIB... It wasn't really until Enemy of the State (a serious role) that he really shed that label. Even to this present day, I've read reviews that have mentioned that Will should stick to acting. There is an inherent bias there, and it hasn't been helped by the fact that the majority of his roles have been action, sci-fi... The critics have thier place... in this particular discussion, their place and their opinions aren't all that prominent... Again, it's the types of movies Will has done... fun loving, action adventure, sci-fi roles... not serious roles... The vast majority of Denzel's movies have depicted him in serious roles, but the few that didn't also happened not to do all that well in the box office as well as critically. It's not Will, it's not the directors... it's generally the types of movies. You can get the most critically acclaimed director, but if he's directing Bad Boys 3, know that the movie isn't going to get the best reviews by critics who generally don't view those types of movies positively, regardless of the director attached. Some of those are classics, but I guarantee you that if you looked up the Sci-fi genre, MIB and Independence Day are in the mix... Cop movies, action/adventure... Bad Boys 1 is somewhere in there... I bet for thrillers, Enemy of the State isn't all that high, but it was an awesome movie, wasn't it? When people talk about how good an actor Will is, I hardly ever hear anyone outside of serious fans mention how good a job he did on Enemy of the State or how good a movie it was. I know people who have never heard of Enemy of the State. Take into account the fact that Will has done a lot of light roles and it's easy to see why he doesn't have a lot of movies in the top 200 or 500. Again, it's the sorts of movies he's done, not the directors he's worked with... Yeah, I talked about the critics earlier. One thing I must mention is POH.... Universally agreed upon was how great of a job Will and Jaden did and how palpable the bond was... natural... Yet, most of the critics who didn't like the movie took issue with that very thing... How many times did we read about the relationship being too sappy, or being forced... too idealistic... There were critics who complained that the movie placed too much of an emphasis on money and that the movie should have been called "The Pursuit of Richyness," completely missing the message behind the story. Are these the critics that we're extolling so highly? Thank God Will doesn't pick his movies based on how critics would respond. I think you're overrating what big name directors can do, Ty. What would Judd Apatow have done to make Hitch as great as you imagine he could make it? What would Spielberg have done to make Bad Boys 2 a top 200 movie? I simply don't believe that Will should be chasing after A list directors to do his movies like some desparate sycophant. He should be focused on the movies themselves, not the directors. Yes, it would be nice for him to work with great directors, but I do not believe that this is what will decide his destiny as an actor. 26? Really? I don't think it's 26. I took the discussion to the ''Will will be there in time when he takes on more serious roles'' because that's exactly what will happen. It will take Will a few serious movies before he can properly find his niche... movies that fit him best and directors that fit him best. Again, remember that though will has been acting for some time, the drama genre is still somewhat new. As he matures in the genre, I expect him to become better at picking movies that fit him and directors that are best for the movie, whether known or unknown... and oftentimes, if not most of the time, the unknown director is best for a movie. I'm glad you mentioned basketball... I think I can rest my case here as well. Not all basketball coaches are the best fit for a given team. Take the Team USA that Larry Brown coached a few years back... they lost three games in the 2004 Olympics. As great a coach as Larry Brown is, and as much talent as he had on that team, that shouldn't have happened, but it did, because he wasn't the best fit for the team. He is a defensive minded coach and likes to slow the game down, taking away a natural advantage that Team USA has over all international competition... speed. He stubbornly sat Carmelo Anthony and Lebron James for long stretches simply because he doesn't like to play young players. Look what he did to Darko in Detroit. We can't say that Larry Brown would help any given NBA basketball team, inspite of how good of a coach he is. Same thing with a director. He may be a great director, but a lesser known director may be able to do a better job than him.

Lol, 50 lost...

hang on.. Ali was never nominated for best film..pursuit of happyness was never nominated for best film.. only Will's performance.. thats the problem with these movies.. they were "good" not "great" If Will is going to do drama's he needs to select better directors..why not go after the very best? We can't expect Will to hit gold on two of his first serious lead roles, but I maintain that Ali and POH were great movies for what they were, and with POH, the content is what limited the movie, not the director. I didn't hear many, if any complaints about the directing of POH, and, in fact, heard more praise for how beautifully the movie was shot... how it really explored and depicted what poverty and desperation were like...

You think Will is doing I Am Legend for an Oscar? You think he's doing John Hancock for an Oscar? Really? Again, people have been complaining and urging him to diversify his roles for the longest time, and now we're questioning his motive (speculating really) for taking on more diverse and serious roles? This might come as a shock, but as serious as his upcoming roles are, he probably won't be getting Oscar nominations for I Am Legend and Hancock... and somehow, I think he knows that... somehow, I don't think he chose those movies looking for an Oscar... Note that, compared to the porfolios of others, Will hasn't had that many movies... he also hasn't had that many flops... You should see some of the movies Denzel has done... Not every movie is magic. Most of Will's movies have been science fiction hits... enjoyable blockbuster movies, but not anything that will go down on top 200 lists. He's done only a few serious movies, I can count them on one hand... But, we really can't lament the fact that he doesn't have any movies in top 200 lists if we're going to turn around and accuse him of doing movies that could land on such lists only for Oscars... that, after years of hoping that he would get involved in more serious content. Lately, he's done Ali, Bad Boys 2, I, Robot, Shark Tale, Hitch, POH... Those are very diverse movies. All were good... Ali and Bad Boys 2 were big name directors... I, Robot was great regardless of what anyone says... Love that movie... So really, what we're left with is Hitch, POH and Shark Tale... The thing with big name directors is that they are big for a reason, but that doesn't necessarily make them the best for a given project. I Am Legend looks like it is going to be outstanding with Lawrence directing. POH was great for what it was... I'm not sure what more a big name director could have brought to it other than a big name. It was shot beautifully, but the content of the story limited it... and really, what more can you do with the content... people were crying in the movie theater I went to. Muccini really brought the best out of Will... he told him not to simply act the emotion, but to experience it for the camera... and like I said, people were crying in the movie theater... I went to a bookstore and bought the book, the teller asked me if I saw the movie and then told me how much she cried during it. If people want to attribute all of that to Will, that's fine... he's a great actor, but let's not discredit the director... Denzel's been acting for a very long time and has a huge body of work... I think we have to be patient. Will is only just now making the transition to more serious roles, POH and Ali were great starts, but there will be more to come. Denzel found his niche early and generally stuck with it... Crimson Tide, Philadelphia, Malcolm X.... He doesn't do comedy... I don't think he can do comedy... Will can, and that's why it will take him longer to make his mark doing more serious content.

I don't think that this has been made out to be a beef at all... a competition, yes. A beef... no. To my knowledge, neither Kanye no wack rapper #1 has spoken too negatively about the other. I'd almost be willing to call it a friendly competition.

While Will's performances stood out, those were great movies, and we have to remember that there are a finite number of nominees every year. As it stands, Ali and POH stood better chances of being nominated for Oscars than Independence Day and MIB. It's funny because there is such a split... some fans want to only see the blockbuster action movies, or comedies... others have been complaining for years that he needs to diversify his roles and take on more dramas... now that he's taken on more serious roles, people still aren't happy. As for Will being nominated TWICE and not winning, have we so quickly forgotten how long it took Denzel to win an Oscar? Malcolm X was an outstanding movie, and Denzel's acting was excellent... how did that go? The fact that Will hasn't won an Oscar yet isn't an indictment of the movies he has done... he's only done a few serious movies for goodness sakes. Most actors do several before they even get proper notice, which indicates that Will isn't nearly as "average" an actor as some have made him out to be (even people on this forum) and that the movies he has done aren't simply "decent." Like I said earlier, lets wait and see what these movies turn out to be like... People are doing so much complaining now, there won't be much to talk about in the movie threads if the movies turn out to be like what people expect... I would think people would have learned to reserve judgement after POH...

You guys are taking it too far... haven't the majority of the few drama movies Will has done been Oscar material... Ali, Pursuit of Happyness... The only one that sucked was Bagger Vance, and for obvious reasons. The negativity has gone overboard. This is the same thing we went through with POH, people whining about the director, people whining about Jaden being cast, people whining about Will only doing dramas for oscars. This movie hasn't even started filming and people are whining... Let's pump our collective brakes and see how things turn out. There is no point in jumping to conclusions off of the minute amount of information we have.