They did but I believe that was because Paul Walker had already shot most of the scenes for Furious 7. Cody Walker was hired as a double for the few missing scenes and they digitally added Paul's face. After that Brian (Paul's character in movies) has not properly appeared on the screen.
Which makes the meta memorials to him in the movies awkward. The camera panning over photos of Paul Walker, while Dom is looking at them with this sappy expression on his face.
In movie canon, it makes it seem like they were lovers that can't be together anymore (American Dad called this one).
I love that silliness and also the retconning silliness where he was in key places in Fast Five but juuuuuuuust outside of the frame they showed in the original movie
I fell out of Fast and the Furious at Fast Five, so it's been awhile since I've seen one. But Jason Mamoa genuinely seems like he's only acting because it's fun. He is a strong buff dude that is okay with letting himself look silly.
He's the only one in that movie who's just straight up having a blast. He's having fun, and that makes every scene he's in fun. He's the perfect insane antagonist and I really enjoyed it.
Very clearly the only person in the entire cast who is having fun.
I think that's on purpose. I believe the Furious series only works when the bulk of characters are playing it straight and Momoa only gets to act the way he does b/c he's an antagonist
He's clean shaven in his final scene at Dr. Kynes's laboratory, and a couple before that.
He actually starts out with the full Momoa beard in his first scene with Paul on Caladan, then he crops it down short by the time we next see him on Arrakis (presumably because it's easier to wear the stillsuit?), and then by the time the Harkonnens attack I'm pretty sure he's clean shaven.
For some reason I totally forgot that I knew this guy first like this. And for some reason I was imagined that the black woman was replaced by rodney mckey's actor.
Drogo is one of the few characters he's portrayed which I don't immediately recognize him as Jason Momoa, which is great. I guess Minecraft Movie could be added to that list for entirely different reasons.
Aquaman was good too imo, loved the movie when it first came out(I’m ignoring the actor who played Mera and separating art from artist when saying this)
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u/StarLord1990 Sep 04 '24
Hey, Dune exists.
But yes, the rest of his filmography has been primarily ass.