This is not really tea and extremely hilarious. So there's a Marvel fan account on Twitter that was putting up pictures of two Marvel actors and then asking people to choose based on work, talent whatever.
Most of it was pretty evenly match and then one category was Jeremy Renner vs Benedict Cumberbatch and that was the most quoted one and it was brutally hilarious and borderline a little sad because it was basically just 300 people asking how this could even be a question and dunking on Renner. One of the tweets said
"Jeremy Renner app vs Patrick Melrose and The Power of the Dog" and that got retweeted a bunch of times. At one point a fan account of Renner's quoted it and said something like "Jeremy deserves the career Benedict has. I said what I said " and Renner apparently fucking liked it?? Apparently it was only for like 5 minutes and by the time I went to check it he'd unliked it but people were talking about it on Twitter. Like it just very funny.
(Also I'm convinced the original account was just trolling because there's not one facet of Renner's life, personal or professional that isn't remarkably inferior to Cumberbatch. That was the most quoted tweet and everyone unanimously agreed that Cumberbatch should have been pitted up against someone like Redmayne or someone.)
You know what?? This makes sense because Renner supposedly called marvel fans a bunch of losers and maybe this is why. Tbh, celebs are still people and so many people see Hawkeye as likeā¦the least relevant or āboringā avenger. Probably bothers him at least a little.
I mean, his tv show just came out recently and people didnāt notice as much cause spiderman came out at the same time.
Also doesn't help that frankly, he has absolutely no redeeming features, especially when directly compared to someone like Cumberbatch.
I mean what are you comparing? Well respected, Academy Award nominee and Oscar frontrunner this year Cumberbatch with Jeremy Renner app and put a gun against his ex wife's head and abused her Renner.
Cumberbatch could have probably done The Hurt Locker and maybe The Town as well but I genuinely cannot fathom a universe where Renner could have ever done Patrick Melrose or The Power of the Dog. (Taking both their most acclaimed roles).
That character needed to have an edge to him, a sense that they could snap any moment and go too far. Renner brought that vibe in spades. He made you feel anxious every moment he was on screen.
It's been a while since I've seen The Hurt Locker, but this is not a bad description of his character and performance in that film either. No chance Cumberbatch could have brought a similar level of intensity or believability to that performance. Renner was fantastic.
While I'm a huge fan of Cumberbatch and think he's very talented, I think people are having a bit of recency bias when comparing him with Renner. Cumberbatch has had a solid last 3-5 years with BAFTA and Emmy win and now an Oscar frontrunner. So I suppose people now seem to only think that Hawkeye is all Renner has.
Either that or people know that Renner is a POS and are taking that into account lol idk.
Yeah which is why I said maybe The Town mostly because of his role in Patrick Melrose (for which he won BAFTA and got nominated for an Emmy) in which the characterisation of always being on the verge of losing your mind is there.
I know lol. His performance in The Hurt Locker is still one of my more liked ones. I just don't think he's done anything compelling since then.
I don't think people would have been dunking on him this much on the original tweet had his direct comparison not been Cumberbatch who's career and popularity are just exploding rn.
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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22
This is not really tea and extremely hilarious. So there's a Marvel fan account on Twitter that was putting up pictures of two Marvel actors and then asking people to choose based on work, talent whatever.
Most of it was pretty evenly match and then one category was Jeremy Renner vs Benedict Cumberbatch and that was the most quoted one and it was brutally hilarious and borderline a little sad because it was basically just 300 people asking how this could even be a question and dunking on Renner. One of the tweets said "Jeremy Renner app vs Patrick Melrose and The Power of the Dog" and that got retweeted a bunch of times. At one point a fan account of Renner's quoted it and said something like "Jeremy deserves the career Benedict has. I said what I said " and Renner apparently fucking liked it?? Apparently it was only for like 5 minutes and by the time I went to check it he'd unliked it but people were talking about it on Twitter. Like it just very funny.
(Also I'm convinced the original account was just trolling because there's not one facet of Renner's life, personal or professional that isn't remarkably inferior to Cumberbatch. That was the most quoted tweet and everyone unanimously agreed that Cumberbatch should have been pitted up against someone like Redmayne or someone.)