A new movie opened this weekend, starring Vince Vaughn. I'm not planning to see it. Early reviews say that it's nothing more than people have come to expect from him, which is your basic combination of raunchy, gross-out, unintelligent and unfunny.
This leads me to wonder what people see in him and in several of his current and former co-stars. I know that the movie business is just that - a business. And it seems that none of these movies really make money anymore, so I fail to see why studios are still willing to fund them. It doesn't seem that they get the return on their investment. Consider for instance the following actors - Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller. All of them can at times be sweet and charming, and terrific actors. Vince Vaughn in "A Cool, Dry Place", Own Wilson in "Marley and Me", Will Ferrell in "Stranger Than Fiction", Adam Sandler in "Spanglish", Ben Stiller in "Keeping the Faith". All those movies are for the most part sweet and intelligent, and have a lot humor. Reign these guys in, give them an actual intelligent script, and a good director, and you can get terrific performances out of them. Leave them to their own devices, and you get nothing but the lowest common denominator.
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