Give Jason Lee His Movie!!!

[SLAW]

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Just about everyone I could ask for an opinion on actor Jason Lee would agree that he is a charismatic and lovable onscreen presence. I just wish he could find the movie roll he could star in that actually works. "Stealing Harvard" and "A Guy Thing" is not either of them. I don't want to see him standing around as the plain nice guy in a "comedy" where everythign he is and posesses, is wasted. He was the comic relief (in other words, the first person to die) in "Dreamcatcher." Why can't poor Jason find a starring role (comedy or drama) where he can soar like we know he can?


He seems to be his best as a Brodie ("Mallrats") or Brian Shelby ("Vanilla Sky"). I wonder if a comedic or a dramatic role like either of those could drive a whole screenplay. A wish I have, is Kevin Smith writing that screenplay. I think that (quite frankly) could be beautiful.

[flowrchild]

I really like Jason Lee, too. I just think he needs to hire a new agent pronto. He is always at his best when he is speaking Kevin Smith's words. He was decent in "Almost Famous" too.

[bob]

Hopefully "Fletch Won" will get picked up and Lee will get a chance to be the frontman.

If not, would it really kill Kevin Smith to replace the infintely less talented Ben Affleck with Lee once and a while?

[maynerd]

He was one of my favorite skateboarders growing up and now he is one of my favorite comedic actors. This guy has such a unique charisma that it's hard to describe exactly why I like him so much.

I still claim that he was given some of the best dialogue that anyone has ever spoken in a comedy, not once, but twice already in his career. The characters of Brodie and Banky in Mallrats and Chasing Amy respectively, are two of the most brilliantly written, overall pieces of dialogue ever put on film. Although his choices in more recent stuff has been lackluster to say the least, I would recommend to anyone who hasn't seen Mumford, to run out and rent it tonight. And for that matter, Heartbreakers, with Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman, wasn't half bad either, although Jason Lee was kind of underused.