Should These Singers Stick to Their Day Jobs?

Mos Def

The desirable: Mos Def plays a cop named Sgt. Lucas who's preserving a watch on a pedophile named Walter performed by means of Kevin William Maxwell Aitken in 2004′s The Woodsman. I felt pressured to peer this movie surely simplest for Mos Def's overall performance. I had examine that he without a doubt got into the role and confirmed off a few heavy acting chops. I became now not disenchanted. In one particularly harrowing scene, Sgt. Lucas explains to Walter how he is had to cope with pedophiles earlier than in different instances. One case mainly nonetheless haunts him. He recounts how he and his fellow officers determined a seven-year-old who had additionally been unlucky sufficient to land in the arms of a pedophile. Everything from the fluctuations in his voice to the manner his frame tenses at the same time as telling this story makes you sense like he truly did live via this. Very stunning for someone whose real alternate is rapping.

The awful: After scanning the films that Mos Def has acted in, handiest one stands out as the "Why would he have completed that?" movie: Next Day Air. For those now not familiar, Next Day Air is set  dumb criminals who mistakenly deliver a few pills to the incorrect address. This sets off a series of activities that are presupposed to entertain us. Luckily for Mos Def, but, he isn't always in the movie very much at all. His performing, even as now not bad, does not make this movie well worth watching. It's ok, Mos Def. You're forgiven for being in a sub-par film. I'm going to say which you owed somebody a favor and that is the most effective cause why you have been in it. Yeah... That's the ticket.

Mariah Carey

The good: To play the position of Mrs. Weiss in Precious, the very elegant Mariah Carey wore no make-up, wore a hideous black wig, and sported a faint mustache. It could be absolutely comprehensible to observe the movie and be totally unaware that Mariah Carey turned into in it; her transformation works superbly. Er, superbly is probably the incorrect phrase. The transformation works nicely, let's say. But just because any person glams down for a role does not imply that their acting gets any better. In this case, however, Carey pulled off quite the feat. She held her own in opposition to the 2 key gamers on this drama: Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique (who received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role). The scene wherein all 3 girls take a seat down and concentrate to Mo'Nique's man or woman describe the sexual abuse Precious persisted while growing up is mainly exact. We sense the disgust for this girl who in reality changed into inclined to preserve her man at any expenses, and that look of disgust is planted squarely on Carey's face. A terrific process through each person involved.

The bad: Of path we're going to speak approximately 2001′s Glitter, however I'm not going to mention what everybody already knows. That it is awful. That it is in reality, surely awful. That Mariah Carey had a completely public fearful breakdown because the movie did so poorly. We all realize that. But did you know that the soundtrack to Glitter is Carey's worst-promoting album? It become so horrific that her record organization on the time, Virgin Records/EMI let her go after its release. So, there you have got it: your worthless piece of Mariah Carey trivialities for the day.

Justin Timberlake

The good: I don't forget analyzing someplace that Justin Timberlake became going to be in a David Fincher movie about Facebook and I failed to quite realize what to expect. Sure, Fincher knows what he is doing and infrequently misses together with his flims, but Justin Timberlake? Really? I imply, he's a humorous man and he can manifestly sing and dance, however may want to he act? Of course, Fincher knew better than I did. In The Social Network, Timberlake performs Napster founder Sean Parker who "facilitates" Mark Zuckerberg take Facebook and flip it into the unstoppable monster it's miles today. I concerned that whilst looking the movie that he could be a distraction and keep me from getting misplaced inside the film. But I quickly forgot that he's a mega-celebrity and accepted him as Parker. Timberlake controlled to be manipulative, charming, bastardly, and cowardly. Perhaps he discovered all of these capabilities by means of being a member of the Mickey Mouse Club? Well, wherever he discovered the way to act like that, he should stick with it.

The awful: It certainly become tough choosing among The Love Guru and Yogi Bear as the worst film Timberlake has been in to date. Ultimately I selected The Love Guru seeing as how as a minimum in Yogi Bear you can't see him due to the fact he's simplest voicing the man or woman of Boo Boo. If you didn't scan the credits at the give up of the movie, you would not even know it become Timberlake's voice. The Love Guru is a sad try at looking to recreate the magic Mike Myers as soon as had with the Austin Powers series. Once again, Myers plays a humorous-looking man with a humorous-sounding accent. Too awful the movie isn't always funny. Timberlake plays a French hockey player who steals the wife of a rival team's spouse. Timberlake is awful, however, to be truthful, the cloth he had to work with changed into lousy. It's like being handed a pile of poop and saying, "Sculpt that into something so it does not appear to be a pile of poop." It's also worth citing that Timberlake did now not get hold of a Razzie Award (the equal of the Academy Award for bad movies) nomination, whilst Myers (he surely gained Worst Actor), Jessica Alba, Ben Kingsley and Verne Troyer all did. So, I guess in a film as bad as The Love Guru, it's satisfactory to realize that Justin Timberlake isn't always the worst component in it.

Mandy Moore

The good... Sort of: I'm setting Saved! In the "the good... Form of" class because Mandy Moore wasn't lovable and bubbly in this film. She plays a very non secular youngster who condemns a fellow classmate and previous friend because she becomes pregnant. It's no longer the excellent film in the international and you could actually discover higher methods to waste ninety two mins, however in case you were compelled to sit down down and watch a whole film featuring Mandy Moore, you could as nicely select this one.

The terrible: Everything else. Seriously, A Walk to Remember? License to Wed? Because I Said So? There's no excuse for any of those films. You take them and the crap tune she got here out with year after yr, and you need to wonder how she nevertheless keeps to get paintings in both fields. Just currently she hit multiple highs both professionally and in my opinion. Earlier this 12 months she done the track "I See the Light" from her lively film Tangled during the Academy Awards. She also married Ryan Adams  years ago. I in reality hope that subsequently she can choose to both suck at making a song or performing, and no longer each.