Either would be better than Pascal.
Eh, frankly I think Butler is just not a very good actor, so I doubt he would really convey any emotional weight/loss well enough. Pascal, again, don't really know his work, as I don't watch the Mando, and didn't see WW84. He was fine in GoT I guess, but he wasn't in it enough to really make much of an impression.
I could never get into Butler's films. The most I've seen from him was 300, Olympus Has Fallen, and London Has Fallen. I've yet to see the third movie, though I have little interests in watching that. As for the last of us I'm not even touching the movie. Not worth my time. I'll be waiting for the Resident Evil movie that's going to be an actual accurate adaption to the first game. Definitely more interesting.
I remember seeing 300, and ...was it Gamer? Where he was the convict that was being controlled in an IRL shooter tournament? I remember that film mostly because of the wonderful performance from Michael C. Hall, as the villain. I honestly am not sure if I've ever seen any other Butler films from start to finish. And if I did, I've completely dumped them from short and long term memory.
Gamer from 2009. Yeah, it was pretty boring. It has all the worst parts of the filmmaking in the late 2000s. Grim & gritty aesthetic with real is brown and gray? Check. Shaky cam? Big check. Coming off as a worse version of The Running Man, double check. I am so glad I never went to theaters to see it. I downloaded it on Torrents. After I watched it, I instantly deleted it and forgot about it. The same guys that made Gamer also did two of the Crank movies and Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance.
I don't think he's good, I think he's good enough. He leads better than he acts. And if Troy Baker is the emotional baseline for Joel, I'm sure Butler can pull it. Saw him in Greenland recently and he plays a distraught dad in the midst of an apocalypse pretty convincingly. His characters are always angry and a little bit pathetic as well, which suits Joel.
I think he got his "lucky break" from his time on GoT playing a sexy and suave, charming guy, with lots of charisma and passion....before having his head reduced to the contents of a bucket *coughs*
Nothing really, apart from it flying in the face of the serious, grounded story it was trying to convey. The one saving grace of this game are the fun and intense stealth action playgrounds.
So how exactly did it flew in the face of it being a serious grounded story?
Ah, your both wrong. Clearly his lucky break was WW84. The bestest movie that ever was /s
Can't speak for his guest spot in GoT, never watched the show except for the fight between The Mountain and Pedro's stunt double. I saw his "suave, sexy" act in Kingsman and thought nothing of it. He's serviceable but I don't think he brings anything in particular to a part.
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Oh yeah, he was in Kingsman 2, I forgot all about that. Your comment about "servicable but nothing in particular" is pretty much my opinion about Butler. I mean, if you want a work a day actor for the role, fine I guess. But I just don't think he's got enough depth of range to really make it work, regardless of how well he fills out the spandex, I mean scruffy, loner, dad bod in a post-apocalypse.
Because it tried very hard to portray its characters as real human beings and totally not unrealistic videogame characters, and then proceeded to give them huge kill counts. Something the first game smartly writes around and manages to just skirt by, but completely falls apart in the sequel when they try to do it again and not only apply it to a character who is very much a wrong fit for it, warping her in the process, but also increasing the grounded tone. There's a pretentious tone to how the game portrays its violence, as if it is the first videogame to legitimately adress it, but then gives you the most basic 'kill 100+ dudes' gameplay to experience it.
