Lol, yes he is a good actor in certain roles, he has no range that is his damn problem >_<. I initially thought he would be good in that role as well but that was not the case. He was boring and uninteresting and that was what was on screen for the majority of the movie.
Plot is the most important element of any story to me. I tend to judge the quality of any work based on plot and characters. The other elements of a movie for example are just accessories to me. A list cast, great cinematography blah blah blah mean very little. I am not even interested in discussing this. You picked some bad examples by the way because everything you've mentioned are things I dislike. Borrowing plots, Disney movies, book to film adaptations in particular. I really just hate most book to film adaptations, or manga to anime or worse yet book to tv shows.
If I am familiar with the source material then I am most likely going to hate the adaption. It is true for manga to anime, books to movies and especially so for books to tv shows. Game of Thrones gets a pass with me because the show is so well done and I absolutely loved the books and still I only really paid attention to the first season. There have been some absolute abominations though like True Blood, The Dresden Files and Legend of the Seeker. Legend of the Seeker in particular is horrendously bad because Terry Goodkind's novels are arrogant, self-aggrandizing, derivative nonsense. Somewhere between 60% to 75% of his work is blatantly plagiarized, the rest is just ad-libbed and the only purpose all of it serves is to tell you how great his views are.
Somehow he conviced someone somewhere that that nonsense would make a great tv show and that genius decided to make it PG. When shock and awe are pretty much all he has to offer. If someone isn't being tortured(raped), castrated and forced to eat their own testicles(because they raped someone), selling their soul to the devil for power(which includes being raped by a demon with a gigantic barbed phallus), almost raped which happens all the time, or OR imagine this, discovers that they have to have sex to save the world. Then it is all the semi-philosophical ramblings of a pseudo intellectual. Damn I hate that guy. That was actually physically draining.
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