Comments on: 6 Actors Who Played the Exact Same Role in Two Very Different Franchises

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:38 +0000

Also, TJ, I love how you call yourself a “writer”. I consider myself an astronaut.

By: FunnyFaceKing

FunnyFaceKing — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:10:25 +0000

where are the other three?

By: Reven

Reven — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:10:07 +0000

How did Johnny Depp not make this list?!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:38:13 +0000

I would go with Swimming With Sharks and Horrible Bosses instead of Superman for Kevin Spacey.

By: Edgarska

Edgarska — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:52:23 +0000

“Just…just do what you do, man. You’re beautiful.”

That’s what they tell Devitto in all his roles.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:40:41 +0000

I totally didn’t realize until just now that it was Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl. Suffice it to say, my mind is thoroughly blown.

By: Wite Boy

Wite Boy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:29:28 +0000

i thought i was the only person that realized that about Heavyweights and Dodgeball. i like to think they are the same person

By: TJ Fink

TJ Fink — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:44:35 +0000

@Josh
Good call on Fred Clause; I hadn’t actually seen the movie (just the trailer and a couple other scenes with Spacey in them), so I ended up cutting it off my list. Definitely would have kept him if I’d known about the cape thing, though.

@Dan
Warned you that last one was a stretch. I’ve seen both movies, though, and still think there a lot of similarities between Lars and the driver.

@Brian
“Guardian troll”! Haha, that’s hands-down the funniest thing I’ve heard all week.

@JessKitty
Are you channeling one of my super cool aunts?

But seriously, it didn’t sound like you were telling me what to do. And I’m honestly not frustrated by negative feedback for my written work, though I can see how that long response up there might suggest otherwise; that was kind of my online version of thinking out loud, I guess, after observing the same brand of negativity from one Unreality regular on a consistent basis. I very rarely respond to negative, unproductive comments (it’s almost never worth it), but I genuinely feel a little bad when I see people pouring so much effort into things they don’t even like.

By: JessKitty

JessKitty — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:35:04 +0000

Sorry, I just reread what I wrote and I’m afraid it comes across like I’m trying to tell you what to do. I’m not. Ultimately, it’s your choice. I just think that you shouldn’t even waste your time responding to someone who is negative and not at all helpful.

By: JessKitty

JessKitty — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:30:29 +0000

TJ, I understand your frustration with someone who hates your work and seems to be eager to tell you all the time, “Hey, still hate it. Yup, hate it today too. Yes, hated it yesterday!”

I read his remarks and I don’t see where they’re helpful. It wasn’t valuable criticism, it was spewing for the sake of spewing. That seems to be a common thing on the ‘net, as most fanfiction writers can tell you. For some reason, people seem to think that the ‘net exists to provide them endless shitz’n'giggles and feel it is their right to get pissy when something they read does not turn out to be as entertaining as they hoped.

While in the real world, we’d probably stop reading/watching, on the ‘net, because we can leave comments, instead of leaving, folks feel that they have a right to vent their spleen upon the person who had the balls not to be exactly the sort of entertainment they wished them to be at the moment.

A favorite critique of my own writing was someone who told me, “I read that entire novella… that’s three hours of my life you owe me.” Yeah, like if you hadn’t decided to read my writing, you would have cured cancer or something.

Keep writing. Don’t worry about folks like Steve. I’m not saying ignore all criticism, but look carefully and see if it contains useful information you can incorporate. If it does, use it. If it doesn’t, then look at it as useless venting and ignore it.