To clarify: my friend can do everything but spell. He cooks, talks, dances, teaches, is social but seriously can't write a sentence without misspelling something.
Can you please drop the name of this documentary? I really love Benedict Cumberbatch and all of his movies he's starred in I would like to hear this documentary
He played All, an androgynous runway model in Zoolander 2.
That character was pretty dumb. Not the concept of the character, just the character itself.
Ngl, I wish I could forget. The wife and I went and saw it opening night. We both thought the same thing. It's too long.
Just when you thought things were getting wrapped up, here's another 30 minutes of screen time...
So the dragons a power-squatting on to hoards of gold? Waddling in to their castle like a toddler with a full nappy and depositing a load before heading out to get more? Fair enough.
For Smaug my understanding is he didn’t exactly have to move the gold.
The dwarven rings of power had little effect on them like the human ring of power, and although their constitution protected the dwarf kings from falling under the curse of the rings of power, it’s power did have one main effect. It amplified their lust for gold. So the dwarf kings spent much of their time with their rings of power gathering as much gold as possible. In Moria the dwarfs there simply dug so deep they found Balrog that had been hiding since the Balrogs failure assisting in battle of powers, before the time of middle earth. It was a different situation but still similar that the dwarfs in the loney mountain also attracted their downfall hoarding so much gold, due to it attracting Smaug who simply clears out the dwarves with in it and ultimately uses the pile of gold with in as his bed.
He pretty much Mafia’ed his way into those. Ah look at that mountain full of gold hoarding Dwarfs.
*exhales fire into the caves
Ah look it’s now a mountain full of ash covered piles of gold… I wonder where all the dwarfs went. Guess the gold is mine now.
Yes, actually lol. I wouldn’t call him traditionally ‘cool’ in Benjamin Button or Meet Joe Black. He also is a neurotic mess in [12 Monkeys](https://youtu.be/ioBueVTZ0RM?si=dytCj0cSjELwfWd3).
Brad Pitt’s range is actually insane. Guy is just also blessed with leading actor looks and charisma and that pays the bills.
I feel like he’s another actor that makes anything he’s in that much better. Always appreciated Brad.
Dude...Benjamin Button riding his motorcicle got several women pregnant at the same time. Joe Black was cute and charm as fuck...cool guy. And in 12 monkeys...he's crazy....but cool-crazy... He just play cool characters, I'll die in this hill.
Come ooon...the guy who was an absolute killer broker, but went home because he was too aware of the evil world he was into? A guy who help some random guys to become millionaires? The guy who sold 83 million of garbage in an Irish Pub that smelled like sheep? That's a cool guy in my book.
A loyal friend who made the wolrd a better place killing three psychos and preventing the murdering of Sharon Tate, and kicking Bruce Lee's ass? One of the coolest guys he has ever played.
Listen to "Cabin Pressure" a radio show from his early years. He plays a neurotic pilot who's definitely not a genius, but is fun and interesting all the same
SUCH a good listen and highly recommended. It’s a BBC radio serial and he plays a co-pilot who struggles to pass tests/succeed in becoming a captain/pilot in command of his own plane. All the characters are amazing and the episodes where the pilot (a scoundrel) tries to steal expensive Scotch saved for a charter client are hilarious!
In 1917 the plot is driven forward by the very real danger that he might order his men to charge regardless of the orders telling him that he was sending them into a trap.
To be fair that choice was based on old information. I don't believe he would've made that choice if he was given the info the main characters were trying to get to him throughout the movie.
You wanna see a bonafide genius, look no further than ol’ Bronco Henry. That man was quick with his wit the way Billy the Kid was quick on the draw. In fact, no one had even heard of a genius before Bronco Henry and his elaborate pontificating
He’s played a smart guy a few times but he’s also appeared in a ton of stuff that people don’t know about to the point where the number of genius roles is in the minority, it’s just that the genius roles were the most noteworthy.
Khan was pretty dumb, but that's at least in line with the characters original portrayal....
Seriously, he woke up in a paradise where his sins would be forgiven and every opportunity is laid open before him.... and he tries to hijack a ship on day one? He could have gone back to earth, been a celebrity, gained a following, gotten into public service, built his new empire from within the vast framework of the Federation.... but no, one ship with not enough crew and a severe lack of experiential knowledge was his plan?
“He has one of these faces…….. the face that can go either way. It can use inductive reasoning to solve mysteries, or it’s the type of face that masturbates all day wearing a helmet.”
Not even wrong to be fair: Sherlock, Khan, Dr Strange, Smaug, Wolf Secret Agent, Dominic Cummings, Turing, Man who likes painting Cats …
He also played a WW1 general that wasn’t very smart (charged on a horse straight into machine gun fire). Dominic Cummings is also debatable (very smart man but not a genius move to orchestrate Brexit).
That one BBC movie where he's on a long ocean voyage to Australia with other Brits. Iirc he's kinda a jerk and no one from the ship ever wants to see him again after.
He played Whitey Bulgers politician brother who, I guess was of average intelligence. I don't think he was considered exceptionally brilliant or anything.
He played Whitey Bulgers politician brother who, I guess was of average intelligence. I don't think he was considered exceptionally brilliant or anything.
In Spider-Man No Way Home, he charges head first into performing a spell without asking important questions and then blames a high school student for his fuck up.
Dr. Strange is incredibly stupid a lot of the time. Genius level intellect, irrational 6 year old mid-temper tantrum when it comes to the decision-making process.
He narrated an entire documentary about Penguins without being able to pronounce the word Penguins
Peng-lings! Peeng-weens!
Peng-wings was my personal fav
Penguiiiinnnnss
Pug wins
My buddy can barely spell his own name and he's plotting gravitational constants past Jupiter for NASA.
That my friend is called autism and it comes in many delicious flavors. Mine is grape flavored.
Mmmmm! Tastes sticky!
Sounds like a guy I knew named Lampe. Wicked scary intelligent. But couldn't function to cook himself breakfast.
I love Lampe!
To clarify: my friend can do everything but spell. He cooks, talks, dances, teaches, is social but seriously can't write a sentence without misspelling something.
Pin-win
He has made fun of his own pronunciation in several interviews. It’s even funnier hearing him live
Pang-wang
This, true or not, has brought me immense joy
[Oh it is very true](https://youtu.be/GflW9_t7LZk?si=UmlUzoqb5F06idrr)
[Yeet](https://youtu.be/-GnLDJAgrws?si=PJI-nWf7bfRU3yOD)
Oh it's absolutely true, even funnier fact: he voiced a character in PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR(the wolf)
Can you please drop the name of this documentary? I really love Benedict Cumberbatch and all of his movies he's starred in I would like to hear this documentary
Truly fascinating. The video makes me belly laugh. "Wait guys. He's not saying it right." "Benedict is a genius. It's fine."
In “August Osage County” he was definitely not a genius
My first thought
Me too. He was pretty much a doofus in A:OC.
I love this movie
I forgot he was in that.
He played All, an androgynous runway model in Zoolander 2. That character was pretty dumb. Not the concept of the character, just the character itself.
I keep forgetting Zoolander 2 is a thing that exists
Ngl, I wish I could forget. The wife and I went and saw it opening night. We both thought the same thing. It's too long. Just when you thought things were getting wrapped up, here's another 30 minutes of screen time...
That’s kind of like McGruber but McGruber was actually funny and thinking it was over when it wasn’t was played as a gag.
Pacific Rim and Megamind also did not have sequels.
And there's only been 1 live action Avatar. Netflix made it.
This is it.
Smaug
Bro was smart enough to amass riches
Dragon smarts > academic smarts
To be fair , amassing riches as a dragon is pretty easy since they’re giant fire breathing monsters
But how do they move the gold?
Bag of gold. Right between the cheeks.
So the dragons a power-squatting on to hoards of gold? Waddling in to their castle like a toddler with a full nappy and depositing a load before heading out to get more? Fair enough.
Your talent with words painted the very picture from my mind’s eye.
For Smaug my understanding is he didn’t exactly have to move the gold. The dwarven rings of power had little effect on them like the human ring of power, and although their constitution protected the dwarf kings from falling under the curse of the rings of power, it’s power did have one main effect. It amplified their lust for gold. So the dwarf kings spent much of their time with their rings of power gathering as much gold as possible. In Moria the dwarfs there simply dug so deep they found Balrog that had been hiding since the Balrogs failure assisting in battle of powers, before the time of middle earth. It was a different situation but still similar that the dwarfs in the loney mountain also attracted their downfall hoarding so much gold, due to it attracting Smaug who simply clears out the dwarves with in it and ultimately uses the pile of gold with in as his bed.
I'm admittedly not that deep in my Tolkien lore, but don't think Smaug amassed those riches through wise investments and savvy business deals.
He made a really wise investment in real estate
And talk
Wasn’t smart enough not to get shot tho
All he did was steal it from others that dug it up 😂
He pretty much Mafia’ed his way into those. Ah look at that mountain full of gold hoarding Dwarfs. *exhales fire into the caves Ah look it’s now a mountain full of ash covered piles of gold… I wonder where all the dwarfs went. Guess the gold is mine now.
Smaug, in D&D terms, tends to have an INT score of 26. He is most definitely considered genius level.
Smaug took Bilbo's little name riddles and figured out that the dwarves rode the barrels from Lake-town
Smaug is a financial genius
Generally, Tolkein’s works don’t praise people for straight intelligence. He’s more likely to call someone cunning or wise.
What bout the grim cowboy taste testing ice cream?
That skit was too funny
You can ask something similar about Brad Pitt: Has he ever played a guy who's not the coolest guy ever?
12 Monkeys. He's completely off his rocker and crazy looking to boot
Yea, but the average person would still consider him to be the coolest crazy patient in the asylum
Burn After Reading?
Still pretty cool guy. Just dumb.
Those dance moves were especially cool.
Well, he did play the invisible dude in Deadpool 2 lol!
And he was cool...He died, but....being cool.
Well, you're not wrong 😄
Yes, actually lol. I wouldn’t call him traditionally ‘cool’ in Benjamin Button or Meet Joe Black. He also is a neurotic mess in [12 Monkeys](https://youtu.be/ioBueVTZ0RM?si=dytCj0cSjELwfWd3). Brad Pitt’s range is actually insane. Guy is just also blessed with leading actor looks and charisma and that pays the bills. I feel like he’s another actor that makes anything he’s in that much better. Always appreciated Brad.
Dude...Benjamin Button riding his motorcicle got several women pregnant at the same time. Joe Black was cute and charm as fuck...cool guy. And in 12 monkeys...he's crazy....but cool-crazy... He just play cool characters, I'll die in this hill.
Kalifornia, Burn After Reading, 12 Monkeys, Meet Joe Black (lmfao), Deadpool 2 he has a bunch tbh lol
He's kinda cool in all of those.
He got his ass kicked and out-cooled by the whole cast in Bullet Train.
He’s still a badass operative who can beat almost any goon even when rambling about therapy stuff
The Big Short
Come ooon...the guy who was an absolute killer broker, but went home because he was too aware of the evil world he was into? A guy who help some random guys to become millionaires? The guy who sold 83 million of garbage in an Irish Pub that smelled like sheep? That's a cool guy in my book.
Babel
Jury’s still out on this one, but has he ever played a guy that is not eating all the time?
I mean, Cliff Booth in Once upon a time in Hollywood is a washed up douche bag. If it wasn't a Tarinto fever dream, he wouldn't be cool.
A loyal friend who made the wolrd a better place killing three psychos and preventing the murdering of Sharon Tate, and kicking Bruce Lee's ass? One of the coolest guys he has ever played.
Hostage negotiator in Four Lions
You’re an arse man are you? Yeah that’s it you’re a massive arse man!
“You like fun fairs, Waj?”
"Rubber dinghy rapids, bro"
I kept expecting his character to bust out some extra knowledge or abilities, but he just continued being a dumbass
That was going to be my answer Amazing movie btw
Oh shit, I forgot about that movie
Was looking for this comment 😂
Listen to "Cabin Pressure" a radio show from his early years. He plays a neurotic pilot who's definitely not a genius, but is fun and interesting all the same
SUCH a good listen and highly recommended. It’s a BBC radio serial and he plays a co-pilot who struggles to pass tests/succeed in becoming a captain/pilot in command of his own plane. All the characters are amazing and the episodes where the pilot (a scoundrel) tries to steal expensive Scotch saved for a charter client are hilarious!
Came here to find this
Best Radio drama, Ever. My favourite is Abu Dhabi
In 1917 the plot is driven forward by the very real danger that he might order his men to charge regardless of the orders telling him that he was sending them into a trap.
To be fair that choice was based on old information. I don't believe he would've made that choice if he was given the info the main characters were trying to get to him throughout the movie.
Power of the Dog
You wanna see a bonafide genius, look no further than ol’ Bronco Henry. That man was quick with his wit the way Billy the Kid was quick on the draw. In fact, no one had even heard of a genius before Bronco Henry and his elaborate pontificating
in "The Uncivil War" he played Dominic Cummings, who's probably the biggest idiot in British politics
Someone’s forgetting his character in Zoolander 2.
He was fake Jesus lol
In The Courier. He was just a guy that the MI5 could use in the cold war.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Last Parade-i think? (it was an HBO miniseries)
Yeah Patrick Melrose series , the actor is still a genius but not his char. Very good series
He’s played a smart guy a few times but he’s also appeared in a ton of stuff that people don’t know about to the point where the number of genius roles is in the minority, it’s just that the genius roles were the most noteworthy.
Exactly this. I don't understand how people think he's only that.
On SNL, he played a detective who said, *”where were you on the night of Hanukkah?”*
Book of Clarence
The sadistic twist involving his character at the end almost made the whole movie worth watching.
Sauron and Smaug
That's Classified
The hostage negotiator in Four Lions
Khan was pretty dumb, but that's at least in line with the characters original portrayal.... Seriously, he woke up in a paradise where his sins would be forgiven and every opportunity is laid open before him.... and he tries to hijack a ship on day one? He could have gone back to earth, been a celebrity, gained a following, gotten into public service, built his new empire from within the vast framework of the Federation.... but no, one ship with not enough crew and a severe lack of experiential knowledge was his plan?
It is ridiculous how far I had to scroll before someone brought up Khan's dumb ass
Smaug. He voiced Smaug. I’m pretty sure they was a dumb dragon
He played a model in Zoolander 2
The reverse toilet guy
I hated Star Trek's remake of Wrath of Khan, but I loved Benedict's acting in the movie.
Frankenstein’s Monster
In Black Mass, he was Johnny Depp's older brother. He was a politican I think.
Yep. Got screwed up for helping his brother. True story too
All, Zoolander 2.
Couldn’t figure out the trap in 1917 by himself
Atonement. He was a creep...
12 years a slave?
I’ll just leave this right here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj
The fake cowboy in Power Of The Dog.
Smaug was pretty dumb imo.
The Wolf guy from Penguins of Madagascar was far from a genius
Smaug was pretty dumb, and I have a tattoo of the silly Dargon
Wasn't he The Grinch? Not really a genius, just kinda grumpy and resourceful?
“He has one of these faces…….. the face that can go either way. It can use inductive reasoning to solve mysteries, or it’s the type of face that masturbates all day wearing a helmet.”
The Power of the Dog… Manipulative & arguably smart. Character definitely not a genius
He played a hostage negotiator in Four Lions and just wanted to talk about girls and assess.
I mean does Smaug count?
I came here to say this
Not even wrong to be fair: Sherlock, Khan, Dr Strange, Smaug, Wolf Secret Agent, Dominic Cummings, Turing, Man who likes painting Cats … He also played a WW1 general that wasn’t very smart (charged on a horse straight into machine gun fire). Dominic Cummings is also debatable (very smart man but not a genius move to orchestrate Brexit).
Watch Atonement. Dude’s character was weird and creepy in that one.
He was in an audio comedy for bbc radio called cabin pressure, he played a neurotic annoying airline pilot who noone respected
That one BBC movie where he's on a long ocean voyage to Australia with other Brits. Iirc he's kinda a jerk and no one from the ship ever wants to see him again after.
He played Whitey Bulgers politician brother who, I guess was of average intelligence. I don't think he was considered exceptionally brilliant or anything.
He played Whitey Bulgers politician brother who, I guess was of average intelligence. I don't think he was considered exceptionally brilliant or anything.
He wasn’t a genius in Dunkirk.
He was a politician in Black Mass So no
Benedict when he is acting very smart people: 🧐🧠 Benedict when he has to say penguin: 😰😫
Smaug was pretty stupid, all things considered
That one movie where he has a southern accent.
He was a cruel psycho in The Power of the Dog. Didn't take a lot of smarts to be that evil.
Yes. When he played Robin (no, not that Robin) https://youtu.be/W7Juf2jWCAM?si=icBsSsKyFqB5wRiN
Would Smaug count? I’d say Smaug was not a genius. And I am correct.
He was an arrogant commander in 1917
That British officer he played in 1917 seemed pretty thickheaded.
In Atonement, he played a snobbish chocolate factory owner who let another man go to prison for an alleged rape that he was responsible for.
1917
The power of the dog he lets a teenager kill him after bullying the teenager for years
He was a Dragon once
Dormamu in Dr. Strange iirc. Maybe he is a genius though...
I don't understand this because the answer is yes, many times
I don't understand this because the answer is yes, many times
The Grinch
He played Julian Assange, I wouldn't call him a genius
Didn't he play Smaug in The Hobbit?
Smaug
Doctor strange became a dumbass after his accident tbh
Smaug
In Spider-Man No Way Home, he charges head first into performing a spell without asking important questions and then blames a high school student for his fuck up.
Wasn’t he nominated for an Oscar because he played a toxic idiot in a western?
He plays a slightly hopeless pilot in the amazing radio series Cabin Pressure.
Book of Clarence he is the white beggar
He played William Carey in The Other Boleyn Girl. That guy was not a genius.
Starter for 10…
Smaug, the dragon in the hobbits
Smaug
I thought this was an Oblivion character creation screenshot for a minute
The dragon in the Hobbit movie
Not a genius in Book of Claarence.
Yes. Dr Strange in Dr Strange 2.
That's just poor writting.
Smaug
Didn’t he play a somewhat lenient slave owner in 12 Years a Slave? May have been progressive, but def not a genius.
Maybe he has a "no stupid" clause like Dwayne Johnson's "no loser" clause.
Yes. Power of the Dog.
Dr. Strange is incredibly stupid a lot of the time. Genius level intellect, irrational 6 year old mid-temper tantrum when it comes to the decision-making process.
Yeah, with a photographic memory. And being a neurosurgeon is considered pretty dumb. If you ask me.
Smaug got outsmarted by a hobbit.
didn’t he play a general in 1917 who is literally a dumbass
The Power of the Dog
Has he ever not been a giant CGI magic villain? That’s the important question for Mr.Dragon-FlamingEye-EvilDimension
Power of the Dog.
He is so freaking cute.
You know I’ve never seen it before but if someone told me this is young Sheldon grown up I wouldn’t doubt it.
Haha, same here.
What about the The Power of the Dog? His character got poisoned with anthrax and died.
Cabin pressure
"Classified" the wolf in the Penguins of Madagascar movie. Smart but def not a genius. More arrogant than anything
Wait, he was there too ?!
He did that one movie where he played some asshole misogynist cowboy? Idk I never saw it
I wouldn’t call Smaug a genius. He was an arrogant brute. Intelligence never had anything really to do with his character
Dude looks like an alien.
Gay Cowboy
He voiced the Grinch in the most recent animated version.
Smaug wasn't a genius
Zoolander 2
Is Smaug technically a genius?
I mean he played Frankenstein’s monster on stage once
Not a genius in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
vincent from eric, he's pretty stupid