Nick Cage and John Travolta in Face Off
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Fucking beat me to it. LoL!!!
This has been bothering me for like 10 years and it has to come out now even though it’s only kind of relevant to the topic.
Spoilers for Face/Off if you haven’t seen it go watch it it’s amazing.
Okay, so Face/Off has the craziest ending to a movie ever. And you’re thinking to yourself “What that the good guy wins in the end and everyone is happy? That’s not unexpected.” But you have to look at the finer details.
After Sean Archer is back in John Travolta’s body at the end and he’s like “I don’t need this bullet scar anymore, it’s cool, I’ve healed.” He goes back to see his family. He walks in the door and his wife and daughter are like “Yay you’re our dad and not some crazy person again yay!”. The following things that happen need to be broken down individually for it to fully be understood how insane it is what happens:
• What is with the weird run your hand down the face thing they do? It’s so bizarre and it’s never explained. His daughter is like “Sorry I shot you…” and he just runs his hand down her face like a weirdo. Why.
• Archer goes “There’s something I have to ask both of you…” and the just brings in some random kid they’ve never seen and is like “he needs a place to live” WHAT?!?! This kid was in a shoot out in a drug den like a week ago. He was raised in a terrible environment. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be placed in a normal family or anything, but the kid needs like all the therapy. He’s going to have emotional problems. Are you really ready to deal with all that Archer? Really? Your family just went through a crazy thing and you’re like “Here is a huge responsibility we need to take on now.”
• The daughter says “My name is Jamie” and the DOES THE WEIRD FACE HAND THING! Why do they do that? It’s so weird. Is she like assimilating him into their collective. And he, completely unphased by the hand thing in a show of immense self control, is just says “My name is Adam.”
• Then Archer says “Show Adam to his new room.” And the daughter and Adam run off and then the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in a move happens. Archer looks at his wife and is like “….Okay?” and she goes “nod nod….okay…” and they kiss. End of movie.
To that last point…WHAT?!?!!?!? Am I taking crazy pills or something? This dude just decides that they’re raising a kid WITHOUT ASKING HIS WIFE FIRST!?!?! If I brought home a dog without discussing it with my wife first, she would be pretty pissed but a WHOLE DAMN KID?!?! A kid, who as mentioned, is going to need intense therapy and extra support? A kid who, it would seem, is there only to replace your other kid who died which is whole ‘nother kind of fucked up (see the life of Salvidor Dali).
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Not only that, but it comes off as some weird replacement kid for their dead son. The Pitch Meeting is fun
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Let's do a remake of Rush Hour with Chris Tucker affecting a Hong Kong accent and Jackie Chan in black face. Just to see how the world reacts.
But respectfully.
Indeed. And since Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker became friends, they would probably at least make something fun to watch.
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Andy Serkis and Liv Tyler
Honestly I think they would both do well in their new roles.
Andy Serkis is basically everyone, so he'd do a better job of playing Liv Tyler than she does.
Just caught sight of my own face in a mirror - turns out I was Andy Serkis the whole time.
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So now I'm picturing a scene with Gollum kissing Aragorn, and I really wish I wasn't.
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This; there are no more correct answers to OP's question.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Twins
They wouldn't have had to act. Danny DeVito is already a perfect specimen of a man.
Brad Pitt as Robert Paulson, Meatloaf as Tyler Durden.
Sigourney Weaver swapped with the various cats playing Jonesy in Alien. Feline badass ruthlessly combats an alien monster with the occasional jump scare by Sigourney.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday
So…just a normal Friday then.
No, I think it implies that they're normally body swapped, and it's weird that they aren't for a day.
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Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan (Short Round) in Temple of Dune. I want a little boy as an action hero while Harrison Ford provides occasional support.
You may be looking for the Goonies. Conveniently, same actor.
(And I still stand by "pincers of power" although I know it's wrong).
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Nice Cage and John Travolta in Face Off.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in Last Action Hero.
It's an older movie, but the idea is that a kid gets sucked into an action movie staring Arnold and at one point, he's trying to convince Arnold that world isn't real, so they go to a video rental place to look at the Terminator memorabilia and it's all Stallone.
Arnold and DeVito in Twins
Barbie and Ken.
With the exact same wardrobe in every single scene.
The male leads of Twins. The plot isn't changed much.
Last one;
Sir Stewart and Sir McKellen, X-Men
R2D2 and Darth Vader.
Michael Caine and Kermit in A Muppet Christmas Carol.
Christopher Walken and Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow
“Why am I... the... only one who can see that to solve... crimes... we must use our brains, assisted by reason, using up-to-date scientific... techniques?”
- Ichabod Walken
Lawrence Fishburn and Hugo Weaving in The Matrix
It’s not a film, but David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens.
Ed Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club
John Travolta and Nic Cage in FaceOff
Carey and Lee Jones, Batman
James and Oliver Phelps in the Harry Potter films
Do animals count as actors? Turner & Hooch could be interesting with Tom Hanks drooling and running on all fours and Beasley The Dog playing a detective.
The lady and the dude in Titanic. (I don't know actors, sue me.)
Betany and Downey Jr., Iron Man/Avengers.
Jarvis becomes snarky, sarcastic, and inappropriate. Tony is constantly rolling his eyes and removing the "codpiece enchantments" Jarvis keeps putting on all the Marks.
Collin Farrell and any non speaking background actor in any of his movies
Harsh - but the first of these to make me actually lol
Woody harrelson and Juliet Lewis in natural Born Killers. I want to see her as the pathological badass in him is the unhinged anger-filled character.
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Will Smith and Jaden Smith in “Pursuit of Happyness” at the ages they were at original filming
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