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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 14:58:56 GMT -5
He is a top five villain in the WWE, if not the industry at large. At lot of it boils down to his scenery chewing ways and ability to tap into that coveted psycho mode. I doubt he'd be winning any Oscars or even Emmys but I see him making a name for himself in Hollywood as a character actor...a midcarder, if you will
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Post by Brother Nero....Wolfe on Oct 30, 2013 15:00:45 GMT -5
I wouldn't say good but certainly memorable. He'd come from the William Shatner school of acting, but he'd be the goddamn valedictorian there.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 30, 2013 15:07:22 GMT -5
I wouldn't say good but certainly memorable. He'd come from the William Shatner school of acting, but he'd be the goddamn valedictorian there. I once described his acting style as William Shatner with a touch of Jack Nicholson and Terrence Stamp. He'd have been a major star playing villains in '80s action movies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 15:22:16 GMT -5
I wouldn't say so.
Sure, Vinny is hammy and the World has seen better actors, but he can turn on a dime and make it work.
Something has to be said for that. Even a lot of the actors that are household names present day are niched to some degree. Vince'll give you whatever.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Oct 30, 2013 15:25:40 GMT -5
Have you heard his voice over work on Celebrity deathmatch?
Surprisingly bad delivery for a guy who went on weekly 20 minute tirades in front of a live audience.
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 30, 2013 15:25:49 GMT -5
He'd be an amazing "crazy neighbor" bit part in a sitcom. 95% of his lines would be him yelling shit at people
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 30, 2013 15:37:08 GMT -5
He's hammier than a pig's ass.
Outside of the broadest of over the top characters, no.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 15:38:11 GMT -5
If that's what he wanted to do I have no doubt that he would have made it. Dude is driven.
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Post by Bo Rida on Oct 30, 2013 15:47:02 GMT -5
He could be a bit like Brian Blessed, best known for an OTT line in a cheesy film.
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Post by chazraps on Oct 30, 2013 15:47:19 GMT -5
The big problem with people gauging whether or not wrestlers could be good actors is the common misconception that wrestling is a television show. It's not. It's live theater that happens to be televised. You're first and foremost playing to a live crowd, and that presentation is what's beamed into homes across the universe. This became sort of an issue in the mid-late-2000s when you could tell more wrestlers were getting television acting training and having what worked in backstage segments not be as effective as some of their live work (John Morrison). You can tell John Cena's had training in both and, to his credit, he's a better actor than most are willing to admit. But I digress..
As an live theater actor, Vince has the potential to be incredible. He knows how to communicate a tick as well as possesses the nuances to emote a visceral reaction and run and entire gamete of emotions. The same goes for William Regal. As for straight television acting or a film role? I could see him as an over-the-top villain in an action film or a creepy relative in a family reunion movie, and perhaps a lovable neighbor on a children's ensemble television show, but that's about it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 15:55:44 GMT -5
Don't give him ideas, he'll just go away for ten years only to return on a limited schedule and win the WWE championship.
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Post by wallabylikeyou on Oct 30, 2013 16:02:13 GMT -5
If I'm being generous I'd say Vince is a good enough actor to be on a Disney/Nickelodeon sitcom.
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Post by mizerable on Oct 30, 2013 16:19:28 GMT -5
Dinner theater? Absolutely.
A movie production with many takes over and over? No chance.
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Post by The Shareholder is nude on Oct 30, 2013 17:23:30 GMT -5
Vince would make a GREAT Bond villain.
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Oct 30, 2013 17:25:52 GMT -5
No way would any studio want to put up with Vince and his constant micro-managing. Not to mention his weird pitches for storylines revolving around necrophilia and incest. He'd be blackballed faster than the XFL went out of business.
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Oct 30, 2013 18:03:42 GMT -5
Hammy acting is not bad acting.
Vince has been acting in front of an audience for most of his adult life. It's really not a question of "would he". Vince is a great actor--with a surprising amount of range. He'd best as an egomaniacal, pseudo crazy boss but he can also play tender, loving father pretty well. He's a great actor. Perhaps not in an traditional, elitist sense--but that doesn't really matter.
I do wish WWE would go overboard with a movie at some point, with tons of wrestlers and cameos.
His face announcer fake laughs are terrible, however.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 18:15:32 GMT -5
I'll always love his performance in The Higher Power (1999)
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 30, 2013 18:17:17 GMT -5
He's a better actor than a lot of currently working actors, so, sure.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Oct 30, 2013 18:28:15 GMT -5
Good actor? No. Passable, quite possibly. He'd be like Sean Connery, who's Sean Connery in every role he's cast in, you won't ever get him portraying a character with such skill that you'll forget it's him, heck, you won't ever catch him doing an accent without it seeming mildly offensive, but people will enjoy his performance for what it is.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Oct 31, 2013 3:37:55 GMT -5
He was wonderful in the short lived animated series Stripperella as Dirk McMahon
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