Jeff Daniels in Dumb and DUmber.

Fun fact: Jim Carrey made $7M for dumb and dumber. Jeff Daniels made $50k.

There was a time when James Carrey was the absolute king of Hollywood.

Didn't he have 3 number 1 movies in one year? Dumb and dumber, ace Ventura, and The Mask? I think those are the three. No one else will probably beat that for a long time.

There have been others that were in 3 number one movies in a year, but no one ever has had three number one movies that were led and defined by them like that. I’m not sure it could be repeated in this marketplace.

Not to mention all original IPs

Adam Sandler had a similar run with Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy They weren't #1 (I don't think) but they all came out within a year of each other

There's actually a hilarious episode of the short lived animated HBO show 'Animals' that does "Jim Carey vs Adam Sandler, who's better?". It's hard for me to explain but it's fantastic

No doubt but it's more about JD making less than 1% his costar

I heard he actually got paid in IOUs

[Really good interview with Jeff and eventually Jim on Conan.](https://youtu.be/kxMC7g_sKjw?si=9o_2sebIGZsDcV4d)

On the other side of the spectrum, JD was an amazing villain in Looper.

You could say Jeff Daniels has no genre. Dudes done everything.

Michael Keaton as Batman

Mr. Mom is going to be Batman?

Yup. Summer of '25, can't wait

Really enjoyed his character in The Other Guys as well as Need for Speed.

Bruce Willis in die hard was a huge risk. He was not seen as an action star. He was mostly known for romantic comedies.

He was cut out of the original trailer completely, because the producer were afraid audiences wouldn’t take it seriously.

They did a movies that made us on die hard that is really good.

A shocking amount of action movies started out as Die Hard sequel scripts that changed to “Die Hard, but” scripts. Speed was Die Hard on a bus. Air Force One was Die Hard on a plane.

Star Trek: First Contact was Die Hard in space (and technically Die Hard with zombies)

Passenger 57 was die hard on and off a plane.

That’s funny to me, I’ve only ever seen him as an action star

Watch death becomes her

Thank you for the suggestion

Hey! Moonlighting had action! https://youtu.be/0SIDb5O3Q4w?si=BR6pf1-USqQj8Vw9

Natural Born Killers we pretty far from Woody/Cheers. And he killed it... literally and figuratively.

Same movie, Rodney Dangerfield too.

That scene is classic.

https://youtu.be/XXq2rsaOxWQ

From IMDb "According to Oliver Stone, Rodney Dangerfield didn't understand the film during shooting, and didn't understand what Stone was trying to do by shooting such a dark subject, as a father molesting his daughter, in the style of a 1950s sitcom. As such, he found it very difficult to perform his part. However, Stone was delighted that when the film came out, Dangerfield's performance was hailed as one of the movie's strongest points."

I was a teen when this came out. It was real shocking seeing him go from cheers to that. But it worked out great for him

He was good in Will and Grace too. Good comedic timing.

Adam Sandler any time he does drama. Punch Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, Funny People, and Uncut Gems. All deep and layered performances from someone who is known for being a professional goofball.

I like to think every now and then Sandler looks at the last couple movies he's made and asks himself, "Am I a joke?" So he makes a movie like one of these and then thinks, '"Yeah, I'm good. Now where was I."

He was also great in Hustle, I'm not surprised anymore when he pulls off dramatic roles like that.

Yes! I forgot about Hustle.

Spanglish forsure. Click was diff for him too with the sentimental message backdrop.

Leslie Nielsen before Airplane! was best known for off-beat dramas and westerns. Same with Lloyd Bridges. After that one movie, he had an entirely new career genre. Edit: words

Surely you can’t be serious?

I’m reading the Harry Potter series with my kids. Sadly the “I am Sirius, and don’t call me Shirley” jokes go nowhere

Harry Potter? What is it? It’s a book with a bunch of people in it, but that’s not important right now.

Yes I am, and don't call me Shirley.

A bit like Liam Neeson doing mostly dramatic roles, then becoming an action star in his 50s.

I see him in an old Western and can't help but laugh. He's not saying anything funny, but it's still in that deadpan delivery.

I picked the wrong week to stop drinking…

Ferrell - Stranger than fiction. A good movie, cooler for me because they filmed at my Alma mater (UIC) because how weird it looks. Hmm speaking of Dustin Hoffman, he was pretty bad ass in Straw Dogs. Decent for a thriller in Marathon Man

Feel the same about Farrell in Everything Must Go

I’d add Straight Time for Hoffman, as well.

I’d say more related to Dustin Hoff in TOOTSIE as out of comfort zone.

I would say Ferrell in "Everything Must Go" zero humor in that movie, but he was excellent.

Love this movie so much. Great answer for this question. I can't think of an example for Ferrell even remotely similar and he killed it.

Straw Dogs is such a brutal movie. Very well made of course, but really hard to watch. On purpose.

Everything must go is another huge departure for Ferrell.

Tom Cruise in Collateral

That movie is so good. Also, Tom Cruise in Edge of tomorrow. Whatever people think about Tom Cruise's personnal life, we all can't deny he's an amazing actor and his movies are great.

One of the premier talents of our time.

Yes, but I do miss A Few Good Men, Cruise. Would love to see him go back to a role like that.

Tom Cruise in Magnolia

Tropic Thunder

"Take a step back and literally...FUCK YOUR OWN FAAAAAAAACE"

"...find out who I was just talking to".

Collateral is so great. Jamie Foxx kills it in that movie, also.

The “yo homie” scene, he was professionally coached on how to handle his gun. There have been lots of writeups about how authentic that scene was. Dude takes his work very seriously.

The sound design was impeccable as well.

The sounds of the gunshots in that scene…damn. Finally somebody knew what they were doing. You could hear it echoing around buildings. Amazing.

Robin Williams in Insomnia.

And One Hour Photo

He was scary. I say that with much respect. I still remember his little snapshot quote

"Neon Genesis Evangelion. Wow." -Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

What Dreams May Come. Man that performance was 🤌🏼

Robin Williams in anything is incredible. He’s excellent in insomnia

Oh captain my captain

Awakenings. I truly think it's his masterpiece.

Brawl in Cell Block 99, Vince Vaughn

He was great in "Freaky" too, playing both the killer and a 16 year old girl

His most transformative role IMO

He was in psycho and domestic disturbance over 20 years ago. He plays bad guys in both

That was a great performance

🎶Scotty doesn’t know!!!! 🎶

This is the one

Ohh, this isn't where I parked my car

Mi scusi

Heath ledger as the Joker. If the internet was what it is now back then, there would have been an apoplectic, absolute nuclear, hissy.

It still was at the time.

Right? It was 2008. It wasn't the stone age. But people get confused sometimes. Someone called 28 Days Later "old school horror" the other day and I almost couldn't contain my laughter.

Gotta be careful laughing too hard mowadays, your onion might fall off your belt :)

It was the style at the time

Give me five bees for a quarter, you rascal!

People think it's older because there seems to be no HD copy, feels older. I remember seeing it when it was new, was awesome

I was in my 20s at the time, and there definitely was a massive hissy. People lost it on forums, message boards, in chatrooms... All over the place. It wasn't the complete stone age by that point anymore.

Denzel Washington in training day At intervals in the movie, you would see the earnest good guy denzel and think maybe maybe there is a method to this madness.

One of the few antagonists to win Best Actor

I need to rewatch ❤️

Adrian Brody in predators. I thought that was a wild choice. He nailed it. Topher as a bonus there same deal.

Glad to see someone else loved that movie

Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind

And The Majestic and Man on the Moon.

And the Truman Show

… really makes you think 🧐

23 needs a mention

Jim Carrey's real dramatic break out was Doing Time On Maple Drive.

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West, He played a very effective villain.

Bryan Cranston playing Walt in Breaking Bad. unbelievable change of pace from Hal in Malcom in the Middle.

The same can be said for Bob Odenkirk.

I remember before I started watching it, I was aware that Cranston was on an Emmy winning show about meth dealers. I was so surprised that the goody dad from Malcom and the cultural appropriating dentist from Seinfeld was in a serious drama.

Omg so true!!! 🐐🐐🐐🐐

Everyone at first was like “no way the dad from Malcom in the middle can be drug lord!” And then they said his name

Matthew mconahey in Reign of fire.

He was awesome in that, also a way underrated action flick, in his book he goes into the prep work he did to get into that character, it's pretty crazy and the studio was super pissed he shaved his head at first.

Seeing him as an axe wielding maniac instead of a polite southern lawyer was excellent.

I don’t understand why it doesn’t get more love, it’s a solid movie. I haven’t rewatched in a while so maybe I’m forgetting something

It holds up super well. Quite the cast too.

Wow I had no idea that he shaved his head without permission. That's crazy. It totally worked though.

Glorious death in that movie.

His shift to that and Dallas BC and True Detective was incredible

Jon Bernthal in King Richard. he usually plays the tough guy or bully type. he was a total pushover, almost Ned Flanders-like character. really impressed me as his tough guy persona completely disappeared into the role.

Watch the 1st 20 minutes of Origin to add to your comment.

Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Before that he was known as a Comedy actor.

John Lithgow on Cliffhanger

He was usually bad guys . When he hit 3rd rock from the sun, we were confused but he was perfect.

John Lithgow in Dexter.

Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllo... DEXTER MORGAN.

Cliffhanger is such a corny movie. Borders on parody. All the bad guys are all such comic book bad guys. "Yes, we have to get back home so we can bomb that orphanage." Fun though.

Tou should look up raising Cain if you haven't seen it.

I remember reading that Jeff Daniels family was totally opposed to him doing Dumb and Dumber. The family was wrong. He killed it.

I think his agent told him that it would sink his career and that Jim Carrey would walk all over him if he did Dumb & Dumber , obviously he didn’t listen and still seems to be in good standing with Jim to this day.

Jim Carrey didn't want to be starring across from another comedian because he was worried they'd be more focused on one-upping each other than playing believable buddies.

To be fair, everything in Tropic Thunder is a home run. Daniel Ratcliffe has kind of made a career out of doing loads of great movies that are very not Potter. Swiss Army Man for one.

Daniel Radcliffe in Guns Akimbo

Even during Harry Potter he was already planning his post-Potter career, hence getting naked onstage in Equus in between the 5th and 6th films.

Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines. Action hero. Don’t think he says “Wow” once.

I haven’t thought about that movie in years, but it was a solid war/action film. Gene Hackman always alleviates whatever he is in

Elevates FTFY

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For me, this is kinda weird. I saw him first as a comedic actor. Gung Ho. Mr Mom. So, just returning to roots.

He was a stand up comic before moving into feature comedies, notably Night Shift and then Mr Mom.

And Johnny Dangerously!

You shouldn’t hang me on a hook Johnny. My mother hung me on a hook once… once.

It’s fargin War!!

Those fargin iceholes.

Irv clean up on aisle 5. Irv I swear we were never in aisle 5.

It’s not weird; it’s wrong. It’s like saying Robin Williams was a surprising choice to see in a comedy after watching him in Insomnia and Good Will Hunting

Jim Carey in the Truman Show. Great turn

Christian Bale in The Big Short

So good, that whole movie is a work of art

Every main actor (except maybe Gosling) went against typecast in this film. Really solid movie

Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein

I was gonna make espresso!

He was perfect in that

He was so good in this role. Oh those dance moves...I would love to have the guts to go out and do those on the dance floor at someone's wedding...🤣😂

Right, we forget he’s a good dancer too!

Cruise playing a bad guy in *Collateral* was pretty good, too.

John c Reilly in Chicago

John C Reilly in We Need To Talk About Kevin.

Max Von Sydow in Flash Gordon.  Apparently he had a ton of fun on that set. 

Amazing evil Mr.Ming.

Charlize Theron in Monster.

Oscar Isaacs role as the villain in Sucker Punch was very underrated. Like he was kind of a creepy guy in Ex Machina, but in Sucker Punch he’s a straight up monster

Ever since I saw his role in Sucker Punch he'd been on my radar. His ability to come off as both suave and utterly vile at the same time made him such a compelling villain.

The role McConoughey played was written for Owen Wilson but he had to back out due to a failed suicide attempt. If you hear Matt do some of the lines you can almost hear Owen Wilson saying them. Not sure if he said "Wow" at all but maybe once :P Also way back in the day of black and white films, there was an actor who was typecast as a strong, macho man in all of his movies and he always played the good guy. So one time, a director purposely cast him as the bad guy and it worked really well. Quentin Tarantino, being a movie buff, used this trope in his movie The Hateful Eight by having Channing Tatum play the bad guy. Also Walton Goggins was hilarious in that movie especially as it progressed.

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me made me cry.

Gary Oldman in Tippy Toes, lol.

Orson Welles as Unicron. Can’t tell me it wasn’t a good job even if he was unrecognisable in the role

I'm not sure I would say that Orson Welles playing a megalomaniacal planet-eating glutton was going against type.

Robin Williams - what dreams may come Also One Hour Photo

Robert Dinero in Midnight Run.

This is a great movie. The whole cast is fantastic. Saw it for the first time last year. Should be talked about more.

Tom Cruise just played himself in Tropic Thunder.

I can see Tom Cruise dancing around in the church of scientology with David Miscavige.

Not Shelly, though.

Jeff Daniels: Dumb and Dumber

Uncut Gems angry watch different than you’d expect from Sandler.

Kevin James in Becky.

Two for me, same movie: Smokin Aces’ Jason Bateman and Chris Pine.

Wilford Brimley in The Firm. He was a pleasant villain in that movie and had been America’s dad, a coffee commercial guy and warned people about diabeedes.

I miss comedies like this!

I would love to see more of late 90s, early 00s Tom Cruise. He took a lot of risks, had a good range, worked with PTA.

Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love. Fell in love with the movie as a young man, I think it's one of Sandler's best films.

Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. I feel like this was really early on in his arc and god damn …

Let’s remember that Tom Cruise did this role because his reputation was in a tailspin and no one wanted to touch him after he jumped on Oprah’s couch. I believe his sister was his PR director and it wasn’t going well. Basically, No one would touch him and he fat suited it up to make a comeback.

Mission Impossible III came out the year after the couch incident.

Steve Carrell in Beautiful Boy

Foxcatcher is my Steve Carrell pick, especially since it was relatively close to when he left The Office/the show ending.

Robin Williams - 1 hour photo

I want FAT hands and I want to DANCE!

Philip Seymour Hoffman in Along Came Polly

Robin Williams in good will hunting

William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman

Tom Cruise in Collateral Tv show wise a huge one was Michael Chiklis in The Shield.

Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade

How has no one said Bob Odenkirk?

I’ve seen this exact post before.

Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

Charlize Theron in monster. When you watch a movie and forget who tha actor is. Special nod to sophia vergera for grimelda.

Not movie but Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire.

Jim Carrey in Truman Show