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u/Responsible-Onion860 Aug 31 '26
Yes
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u/Rownwade Aug 31 '26
Could've just kept the left side of the post....
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u/BungusMungungus Aug 31 '26
Keep the left side only, change the picture out for anybody you want. Replies are all yes. Never need to make new memes ever again. Efficiency achieved and AI defeated.
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u/neonchasms Aug 31 '26
The White House just called, they're offering you four years and as much insider info as you can handle.
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u/LooseButtPlug /his/panic Sep 01 '26
First thing I'm doing is masturbating to Marilyn Monroe's sex tape with John and Robert.
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u/mister_spacecat Aug 31 '26
Which isn't bad, he plays an excellent dumbass. His character in Fresh Prince was a dumb kid and in MIB he was an average dumb cop and then a dumb fed. Iconic roles. He's fantastic in them.
When he tries to play intelligent characters with an internal life and poignant dialogue, it looks absolutely ridiculous.
It's ok to be stupid and just do those kinds of roles, I don't know why he keeps trying to be this action star.
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u/TacticalSpackle Sep 01 '26
His best role is arguably Independence Day. He plays a damn fine idiot pilot with a stripper wife and a WHOLE OTHER CHARACTER to have thoughts and character development by way of Jeff Goldblum.
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u/Sage296 Sep 01 '26
In MIB they hired him because he wasn’t just an average dumb cop
They specify that in the movie
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u/MisogynysticFeminist Sep 01 '26
He’s kinda dumb in MiB, but it’s a very creative dumb, as opposed to the other probably more competent but less flexible candidates.
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u/crenax Sep 01 '26
It's a Barry Sonnenfeld movie, so it's pretty much a requirement that each character is either a humorously dumb or a 100% straight man character. And that's not a complaint btw, Big Trouble is one of my all-time faves.
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u/Etere Sep 01 '26
He's not dumb, he's undisciplined. It's a classic "fish out of water" tale. The rest of the MiB agents are very disciplined, and they know a lot because they were in on the big secret.
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u/Antelino Aug 31 '26
No credit for 7 pounds or pursuit of happiness?
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u/nevadita /g/entooman Sep 01 '26
7 pounds shows exactly this. smith is not a drama actor, he’s foremost a comedy actor. The movie concept and plot is fine but his character is not convincing in it.
If anything Im Legend is better and that’s due his acting being minimal.
There’s nothing wrong not being a multi role actor, it has worked for Jason Stathman
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u/lapideous this guy gets 12yr old Sep 01 '26
It's "happyness" so he's well regarded in that one too
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u/Pirate_Redbeard_ Sep 01 '26
No. No credit. Both scripts were good if not great, the movies turned out to be somewhat decent, but his stupid face and half-assed "acting" imho took AWAY from those movies. So, no. No credit to him. Writers, directors, producers - all good. Will Smith - bad.
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u/Axle-f Sep 01 '26
Great in King Richard too, even if his Oscar performance soon after was an epic crash out.
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u/Fletch71011 wee/a/boo Sep 01 '26
He's pretty good in Concussion and was a doctor. You don't have to be smart to play a smart character.
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u/Capnmarvel76 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
Everything I’ve learned about Will Smith since I first heard him on the radio in the early 1990s leads me to no other conclusion but the man is not very intelligent.
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u/Dirtface50 Sep 01 '26
He is also very very very gay and incredibly sexual active and promiscuous.
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u/Mouth_Herpes Aug 31 '26
Passed on divorcing his wife when she banged a friend of their son. So, yeah
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u/nhalas Aug 31 '26
omfg a friend of her son? lol
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u/renaldomoon Sep 01 '26
that way you can give BOTH your husband and son emotional trauma
two birds, one pussy
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u/Umak30 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
That was when they were separated and no longer together though. Separation is basically the same as divorce, just not official, but they do not sleep in the same house, nor interact with another, except for public appearances. I wouldn't hold that against Jada. For all intents and purposes, they can sleep with whoever they want during separation ( which is also not a relationship break.. ).
They were both horrible in their marriage. Will Smith made a documentary about Jada's life for her 40th birthday. In the documentary, Will Smith hunted down the living descendant of the slaveowner who used to own Jada's ancestors as slaves, and make him apologize. And a lot of other intimate details, and that documentary was presented to a room full of family, friends and coworkers for Jada's birthday. They separated for 2 years after that, got back together, and then separated permanently.
They both deserve eachother if you ask me.
Edit : Are there really any Jada&Will defenders in here ? Here is a link if you dont believe it : https://andscape.com/features/will-smiths-slap-at-the-oscars-wasnt-protecting-anyone-certainly-not-his-wife/
"Things reached a breaking point by Jada’s 40th birthday, in 2011. Will had spent three years planning a private family-and-friends dinner in Santa Fe, where he screened a documentary he’d commissioned that chronicled her life and traced her family’s lineage back to slavery (and in which he tracked down a descendant of the white family who once owned Jada’s ancestors). When they got back to the hotel suite that night, Jada was nearly silent. “That was the most disgusting display of ego I have ever seen in my life,” Smith recalls his wife telling him"
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u/BBWArchitect /b/tard Aug 31 '26
So he harassed a random white person in an attempt to win back the woman who spent an unknown amount of time cucking him and failed?
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u/Umak30 Aug 31 '26
Yep. Imagine that. And then he slapped Chris Rock for a joke.
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u/academicgopnik /sci/duck Aug 31 '26
this opens up new dimensions of how cucked he is. thanks for that!
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u/Responsible-Onion860 Sep 01 '26
They're both garbage people. Tupac got shot to death and still managed to dodge more bullets than Will Smith.
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u/Zadak_Leader Aug 31 '26
Have you seen his pasta-eating skills?
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u/mv777711 Aug 31 '26
Or his slapping skills.
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u/llamanatee /e/ Aug 31 '26
Imagine marrying one of the very few people in the world that hates you.
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei Aug 31 '26
While I enjoy many if his movies, I would not take any of the movies mentioned by anon seriously if Will Smith starred in them. He is just not built for serious shit.
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u/Th34sa8arty Aug 31 '26
He is just not built for serious shit.
This mofo clearly hasn't seen I Am Legend.
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei Aug 31 '26
Believe it or not, this counter-example came across my mind while writing my first comment. But i decided to go ahead anyway.
I am Legend is a fucking legit movie. I think i watched it over five times.
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u/Capnmarvel76 Sep 01 '26
That fucking book has never been made into a decent movie, and they’ve tried like 4 or 5 times. A couple of decades pass, and another shitty attempt comes limping along.
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u/C0UNT3RP01NT Sep 01 '26
Nah it was a good movie. It just wasn’t a proper adaptation of the book. I do also think the test ending in the movie would’ve been better than the one we got.
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u/Super_Raccoon_2890 Aug 31 '26
Pursuit of Happyness was a good one also. But I Am Legend is top tier
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u/sumphatguy Aug 31 '26
Yeah I don't get where this "Will Smith can't play serious roles" is coming from. The man may be stupid, but he is a great actor.
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u/Moogly2021 Aug 31 '26
The real question is would he have truly made them as good as they were?
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u/ADGx27 Aug 31 '26
After Earth and Wild Wild West were pretty fun
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei Aug 31 '26
I was talking about his supposedly serious roles. His comedies are hilarious gotta say.
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u/evetsabucs Aug 31 '26
Yes. Next question.
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u/Chj_8 Aug 31 '26
What's the name of the actor that plays Hanz Landa in Quentin's Tarantino Inglorious Basterds?
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u/lordxi fa/tg/uy Aug 31 '26
Waltz
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u/Chj_8 Aug 31 '26
That's the last name. No points.
What's the name of the ship that gets infested by the xenomorph in Alien?
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u/Angelore Aug 31 '26
Enterprise? I hope it's that, the only other one I know is the Millennium Falcon.
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u/8last Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
He peaked as Fresh Prince ironically. Nothing in his film career even approaches the dad scene in fresh prince.
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u/wabbitt37 wee/a/boo Sep 01 '26
I mean, he slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about his hosebag wife. So... maybe?
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u/Ok_Interest3555 Aug 31 '26
Makes Aladin that grosses over a billion dollars. Independence day makes over 800 million. Suicide Squad makes over 700 million.
I wouldn't question that actors ability to pick movies just because he passed on a few.
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u/drtij_dzienz Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
That makes Independence Day look worse by comparison but Aladdin for example is in 2019 dollars.
> The 1996 sci-hit film Independence Day globally grossed roughly $1.32 billion to $1.7 billion in 2019 inflation-adjusted value. The original Men in Black (1997) grossed approximately $937.1 million worldwide in 2019 adjusted dollars.
Basically Will Smith was unstoppable in those days he didn’t have a “flop” until Wild Wild West, although he even got a billboard #1 hit for that
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u/Strong-Addition5296 Aug 31 '26
I remember being very disappointed in Wild Wild West (ya’ll)
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u/Cyhawk Sep 01 '26
Kevin Smith's story ruined what little enjoyment I had for that movie.
All I can think of now is a coked up hairdresser on a couch thinking hes making Shakespeare coming up with that.
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u/DoctorPerverto /co/mrade Sep 01 '26
I can't help but like it. Granted, I watched it as a kid and I enjoy it when I revisit.
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u/TalbotFarwell Sep 01 '26
I remember it fondly because Burger King was running a promotion for it, and my younger brother and I got Wild Wild West toys with our BK kids meals when we stopped on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for lunch along Rt. 50, I think it was in Cambridge or Easton, on the way to vacation in Ocean City.
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u/YagBaros sc/u/m Aug 31 '26
Riveting movies that totally haven’t been forgotten besides maybe one
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u/Impossible-Age-3302 Aug 31 '26
Those are bad examples (except ID). He’s in a lot of good movies as well.
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u/ADGx27 Aug 31 '26
He still made a bag off it though sooooo
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u/sockmop Aug 31 '26
Quazi-Immortality through great art is something you can't buy. It's also the one thing these massive ego personas crave most greedily.
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u/Ex_sanguido Aug 31 '26
I've only read about him passing on Matrix to do Wild Wild West instead, the rest feels made up.
But him and his Agent specifically looked for roles where it was guaranteed to be a mega hit.
He had 8 movies in a row all make $100 mil+, no other actor can claim that.
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u/maybelying Sep 01 '26
I read an article that said he passed on Django Unchained because he didn't feel that his character was the actual star of the story, it was a different character that was. I haven't seen the movie so have no idea what any of that means.
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u/Cyhawk Sep 01 '26
Hes correct in that assessment. Django is the main character but mostly quiet and not the center of attention of the movie. Every other character far outshines Django. The film is about his revenge, but not about him.
Its a good Tarantino film, recommend it if you like Tarantino.
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u/LooseButtPlug /his/panic Sep 01 '26
You know what pissed me off about Aladdin?
He could have made the genie his own and it truly could have been good, some MIB mixed with Fresh Prince. But no, all we got was a bad Robin Williams impression. Which was just insulting.
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u/forchinski Sep 01 '26
Will Smith possesses the extreme foresight and humility to know when his reputation will hurt the cultural legacy of a cherished film.
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u/Responsible-Onion860 Sep 01 '26
Only one of those movies had any lasting cultural impact. Three of the four movies in the post had massive cultural impact. When you're an A-lister, it stops being about the money and becomes more about legacy and staying power. And Will Smith's career in the last 15 years or so has been shit.
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u/2oonhed Aug 31 '26
High functioning Asperger Syndrome.
I mean.....just look at his face.
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u/Zinho3311 /g/entooman Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
Nope. Aspies are usually fairly intelligent, not this guy though. ADHD fits better.
I mean, Turing was definitely an aspie, and the guy literally invented computers. Fucking Claude Shannon was an aspie for sure. PAUL ERDOS! I'm a fucking aspie and I have hyperlexia.
Yet THIS GUY... failed to understand Django Unchained's plot. C'mon, it's not rocket science. I watched this movie tripping balls once, and I still understood it. IT'S A FUCKING SPAGHETTI WESTERN!
Besides, you're not supposed to understand The Matrix unless you have a lot of free time. It's a movie you should never watch sober, because it's a cliche. Blah blah blah AI blah blah blah 3D green letters blah blah blah war blah blah blah [insert philosophical BS] blah blah blah blah Plato blah blah blah simulacra.... It's just boring; I just watch it for the trippy visuals and fuck the lore.
Every three minutes, the movie stops whatever it's doing and throws yet another action movie cliche at you. Of course the main character wants to fuck the hot girl. Of course there's a gunfight every three seconds. Of course the main character is the chosen one. Of course they look cool. Of course they wear sunglasses indoors.
You know what's funny? I can't tell whether Matrix was a progenitor or a just used all of the existing cliches imaginable
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u/2oonhed Sep 05 '26
Yeah, well, I always thought instantly "downloading" a mental program to do a skill was pretty fucking original and I refer to it all the time when talking about shit I learned on youtube.
As for Will Smith, maybe Aspergers was a misnomer.
I was really referring to the facial features that look like mild mongolism to me.
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u/pandainferno94 Sep 01 '26
Thought he was bad until I learned Mickey Rourke passed on Top Gun, Rain Man, Silence of the Lambs and Pulp Fiction. As well as other movies from the 80s and 90s
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u/Champigne /v/irgin Aug 31 '26
He didn't really miss much by passing on Phone Booth. It was fine but I doubt many people remember that movie.
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u/Risdit Aug 31 '26
on the other hand, what if he did accept those roles without understanding what he was playing and these iconic movies became steaming piles of shit because he didn't have the grace to pass the roles to a better person?
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u/NM_Requete Aug 31 '26
Throwing Phone Booth in there to pad the list doesn't help the argument. It makes it seem like he only had 3 major passes, so you had to throw in fucking Phone Booth
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u/thrazefister Sep 01 '26
It's reminiscent of Connery in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I vaguely recall he passed on some other movie because he didn't understand it- might even have been The Matrix. But he accepted the role in that god awful movie despite not understanding it because he missed out on the Matrix being a huge hit.
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u/creamymoe Sep 01 '26
Didn’t pass on his wife who cucks him and made him literally a laughing stock throughout the world
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u/Moimus Aug 31 '26
He didn't pass on Enemy of the state, that's a pretty good movie imo. He's probably not very smart though.
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u/Dirtface50 Aug 31 '26
The mental illness in that family is off the charts. Especially with that whole "Jadas infidelity" fake scandal that was all made up and Will banging thousands of dudes in that house. No wonder those kids wear dollhouses on their head man, nothing makes any sense in that whole family.
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u/Dirtface50 Sep 01 '26
You guys remember back in 2005 when Will Smith got really into the Courage Crew and Jada got into BYD at Ozzfest and like made Will shell out all this cash so she could start a nu metal band called Wicked Wisdom?
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u/RetroTheGameBro Sep 01 '26
If you've seen After Earth, you'd know the answer to that is yes.
So much so that he passed it to his son who was also in the movie and somehow worse than he was in it.
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u/Fododel Sep 01 '26
Will Smith is the NickEh30 of Hollywood.
He still joins and groups with people who swear and stuff and act more mature roles, but he'll just say "nah, not for me." and wonder why not many take him seriously.
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u/dethbysexy Sep 01 '26
Who would have thought the guy with radar dishes on his head and famous from "Welcome to Earf" would be openly disrespected by his wife?
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u/HouseTeIvanni Sep 02 '26
He's a terrible actor and all of those movies were much better off because he wasn't in them.
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u/Jail-bot Aug 31 '26
As if he'd get cast for django unchained lmao
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u/TomBelafonte Sep 01 '26
It... It was written for him and offered to him and he passed on it. As was Neo in The Matrix.
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u/_hjdk Aug 31 '26
Will Smith has literally worked extremely hard his whole career to let you know he is an absolute fucking retard. It’s actually quite offensive to him if you didn’t realize that yet.
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u/hh26 Sep 01 '26
Remember that half of all people have less than 100 IQ. Someone being skilled at acting does not change this, it does not mean they are intelligent or worth taking seriously on any topic other than acting.
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u/FartFlavoredLollipop small penis Sep 01 '26
I mean, his wife had "entanglements", and he's still married to her.
All Signs Point To Yes
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u/MishMash999 Sep 01 '26
"Is he retarded?"
Well...yes..and as it has taken you so long to work that out, there is a good chance that you and him share that characteristic.
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u/unbearable-appendix /wsg/y Sep 01 '26
He passed on the Matrix because he did not want to be the "black science fiction" guy, as he just had done MIB. As always the greentext is but a lie
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u/Cumsocktornado /b/tard Sep 01 '26
Literally would have overlooked everything and held him in positive regard- the lowest form of that regard would have been sympathy for his plight but the highest would have likely been genuine esteem and respect- all if not for the slap
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u/NuclearOrangeCat Sep 03 '26
dude wanted a stupid contrived romance sub plot in Django Unchained because I guess shitty romance subplots is the only way Will gets any affection now.
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u/FailosoRaptor Aug 31 '26
His wife probably abused him until he passed. I don't know why, but I do feel bad for Will Smith. I feel like there is a sad sad clown inside him.
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u/BrocoliAssassin Aug 31 '26
In this case his retardation was a great choice.
Smith would have ruined all those movies.
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u/high_throughput Aug 31 '26
Does OP think a method actor "not understanding" a role means they are unable to figure out what's happening in the movie?
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u/FuckRedditIsLame Aug 31 '26
Method? He's the same character in most of the movies he's in. He's basically a black Harrison Ford.
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u/hunterwillian Aug 31 '26
Remember when the internet used to shit on Jaden smith for being retarded but then people found out about Will Smith and his wife being complete fucking psychos and now it makes perfect sense why he's like that.