As I've said any number of occasions, movie stars are worth certain paydays for certain projects.
The absurd idea that a small intimate drama starring a given actor should be expected to perform as well as a crowd-pleasing genre picture is asinine. In fact, such expectations actually discourage actors from stretching or trying artier or more challenging works.
Sure Remember Me 'only' made $55 million worldwide (on a budget of just $16 million), but that means that $55 million worth of tickets were sold completely on the shoulders of one Robert Pattinson (quick, raise your hands if you saw that one for Pierce Brosnan or Chris Cooper....?).
Thus, quite obviously, Robert Pattinson shouldn't be getting paid nearly as much for Remember Me as he did for Twilight Saga: Eclipse. He didn't, so the film's box office should not be judged on the same level.
Pattinson and Efron could spend their entire careers doing rip-offs of, respectively Twilight and High School Musical. The fact that they are instead making more challenging pictures, and still posting decent returns, means that they are absolutely bankable names on a reasonable budget
Star power isn't opening something that is already highly appealing to a mass audience that has the benefit of your name on the poster. Star power is scoring a reasonable or better opening weekend for a film that has nothing to offer except your name on the poster. On that scale, Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, and Robert Pattinson are genuine movie stars.
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7 comments:
As much as i love Rob,i think he has a lot of work to do to prove himeself.But that's my opinion.
Rob and Efron are very much alike if we think about it. Both became superstars after starring in a blockbuster (as bad as HSM is, it had a lot of success) and both are doing more grown-up roles to be taken more seriously (ex: Charlie St-Cloud, I saw it yesterday and it made me really like Zac)
Robert Pattinson doesn't make movies to make millions of dollars. Rob makes movies because he is passionate about the craft.
The fact that acting is his job and he makes a living doing this is no different from a person who works as a teacher because they love teaching.
Rob and Kristen have both said that they are thrilled with their movies successes, but that just gives them more choices in the movies they get to work on.
I love them both for their honesty, senses of humor, and their down to earth attitudes. Neither of them have to make another dime to live comfortably for the rest of their lives, so the haters can just F-OFF!
@KPattz You're right, I love Rob too, but a lot of people will always see him as 'the stupid sparkly gay vampire from Twilight', which is stupid itself. All the haters should see Remember Me to see how good Rob is.
As much as I am thrilled to hear this. Kristen doesn't get the same amount of recognition as Rob. She's every bit as down to earth and talented. It just sickens me to think Kristen is overlooked and pushed aside.
Absolutely! Critics are so unbelievably narrow minded and incredibly tunnel vision. They see what they want to see, not the whole picture. The ridiculous expectations that they put on actors is so small-minded, its rather pathetic. Haters to the left!
I did not like Remember Me because it was so sad and very slow moving. But Rob was really good in it. People discredit him because of Twilight. But he is a great actor. I mean I did not know he was British until after I saw Twilight. Then saw him in Harry Potter. Plus what about his musical talent! I don't think there has been as an anticipated role that had big as big of shoes to fill as Edward Cullen since Clark Cabel stepped into the role as Rhett Butler. It is sad that Zac Effron is going to have to "live down" HSM to be taken seriously. But he was awesome as a child star when he played an autistic child for a Lifetime movie I saw a coupld of years ago. But you know John Travolta grew out of his teen roles and musicals to make a name for himself and so will these two.
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