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No holds barred character, is what Tommy does best.



"Look upward... and share the wonders I have seen" John Crichton, Farscape

I have no problem with him bouncing off Hollywood types because it has given him the money and the power to do the projects he likes now including funding his favourite charitable aims, making documentaries, producing, and securing the future for his family. There is a method to the madness to getting to that point and most actors never get there so Hardy is lucky so far.

Because you can never tell if all the experiments will pan out. But you have to risk failure to succeeed on a larger scale.

He did his one Hollywood romcom and realized it was definitely not his cup of tea but it did introduce him to a larger global audience and in particular a portion of the US audience who had not been introduced to him before and it did not hurt that it was a better than average romcom with the action sub plot added in.

I have no problem with him doing to the odd blockbuster or commercial movie in the future ie Dunkirk. I agree though no more romcoms and it does seem like the romcom is becoming generally out of favour.

The actors and actresses with longevity do a mix of all kinds of things and Hardy loves to mix it up. Just now he can be pickier.

I guess no one saw this announcement
"Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum Eyeing J.C. Chandor’s Crime Thriller ‘Triple Frontier’"
[url]http://collider.com/tom-hardy-channing-tatum-triple-frontier/[/url

but I am skeptical because the article itself says that both Hardy and Tatum seem to be fully booked.

I see you are a super fan. I respect that because I have been known to succumb myself once or twice.

However, whatever money he earned from This Means War was paid for in relevance. Not worth the price. No one was introduced to him as an actor from that dreck who needed to be. He must have been blackmailed to do it. But he has been very good in a couple of mainstream films. They just didn't play to his strength except Mad Max and perhaps The Revenant which I haven't seen.


It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
RIP Roger Ebert

Sorry but it is called Show Business for a reason. You can't do the show unless you got money for the business side.

First of all show me any actor who did not do one single movie they regretted and/or their fans did not like. No one is perfect and not sure why you are expecting perfection from anyone including Hardy.

You can start with DeNiro who has slid into a romcom and comedy coma and he doesn't seem to be using the money to make his own unique films or TV. Who knew raising twins in NYC were so expensive. Oh he does have his own film festival but I am sure it is self sufficient.

Running a production company is not cheap. But it gives Hardy a lot of freedoom if he is successful. Taboo being the first project out of his production company. I'd rather him do the odd commercial movie if it means he can do his own projects for the next 30 - 40 years. Why maybe we can see the The Tom Hardy TV Network some day.

I have just as much respect for Hardy being able to see the big picture from the business side of things because fans of his acting are going to benefit from it.

If that bothers you, then name me an actor that meets your standards of perfection.

Don't be so sensitive. Another thing you have to develop in show business is a thick skin.

I never said he was weaker, less talented or capable, more or less perfect than other actors. I just said, originally, that I'm glad he'd doing Taboo. I hope he gets all the nominations next year for it...and wins.

BTW, one doesn't fund a production company with one's own money. That would be very bad business.




It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
RIP Roger Ebert

I am perfectly aware that one does not use all of your own money, you try to get people to finance your stuff and TV series are going to be financed totally by the network or cable TV channel etc but the more money you got to work with the better, to develop projects, to buy the options to novels and stories, to commission scripts to be made into movies etc and you may self fund or partly self fund some smaller projects. Depends on how badly you want the project made. And it worked out really well for Mel Gibson once. His gamble on Passion of Christ, which he self-financed, made him a mogul even with an expensive divorce. Though he has said he would never take on that gamble again.

Because Hardy did those films you didn't like he presumably now has the financial freedom to only do the projects he wants, inside or outside of his own production company from now on.

I also don't want to see Hardy only doing "no holds barred marginal psychopath" for every single project. I am hoping to see him stretch himself in different directions.

He already has more projects sitting in development that he possibly can have time to do even if he worked back to back films.

I just read through this whole thread and I'd like to give my 2¢.
Every actor has a This Means War on their resume. I wish that Mr. Hardy would have kept some of those disparaging comments about it to himself (making it was supposedly "soul-crushing") because many of his fans all of a sudden agreed with him that it wasn't a worthy role. I disagree. I realize I'm in the minority but could care less what anyone else thinks. My opinion is that it did gain him a huge amount of fans/followers because believe it or not, loads of people go to movies to be entertained and with This Means War, they were. There was a HUGE increase in his fan base after that movie. Not everyone is a film critic. Who didn't laugh when he got shot in the junk with a paintball? Who didn't swoon when he met Reese for the first time, (he looked beautific). There were some cute moments and it was refreshing to see Mr. Hardy in a light, romantic, Dad role. Was This Means War cinematic greatness? Maybe not. Like I said though, every actor has something like this in their filmography and if he tried it and didn't like it because it wasn't a gritty enough or a meaty enough role, fine, at least he gave it a shot. I'm glad he did it, and even I didn't rate that movie very high.
That's really all I wanted to say.