Do You Like Matthew McConaughey Better in Dramas or Comedies?

March 30, 2009

Matthew McConaughey has just signed on to play a criminal defense attorney in an upcoming legal thriller, and all I can picture is McConaughey's lawyer role in another legal thriller, A Time to Kill. And just like A Time to Kill, this movie, The Lincoln Lawyer, is also based on a bestselling novel.

We haven't seen McConaughey in a dramatic film in a little while — the 2006 football movie We Are Marshall was the last drama he did. In general, he's mostly stuck to rom-coms (and whatever you'd call Surfer Dude). Do you think he should stick to comedy? Or does he do drama better?

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20 Comments

sourcherry 4 years 7 weeks

Lol, I love how there isn't an option for "I like him in both"! C'mon, he's not that bad :PI agree that A Time To Kill was a great movie, and he was very good in it. As far as comedies, I think he just picks bad movies... Still, I chose dramas.

sourcherry 4 years 7 weeks

Lol, I love how there isn't an option for "I like him in both"! C'mon, he's not that bad :P I agree that A Time To Kill was a great movie, and he was very good in it. As far as comedies, I think he just picks bad movies... Still, I chose dramas.

Briandiesel 4 years 7 weeks

I agree with Ginger, A Time to Kill was a really great movie and I thought he was terrific in it. He just hasn't really picked good movies in a while. Whatever happened to that Surfer movie he was filming? Straight to video I'm guessing?

redchick152 4 years 7 weeks

i feel like he is just being him self in comedies. but in dramas, he has to actually work and he's good. A time to Kill was great.

Ginger 4 years 7 weeks

Drama! A Time to Kill has some of my favorite courtroom scenes, like his closing argument.

Miss Shapes 4 years 7 weeks

Weird, had this same debate with a friend recently. He's better in dramas - but I don't really rate him as an actor at all and consciously avoid anything he has a starring role in.

Miss Shapes 4 years 7 weeks

Weird, had this same debate with a friend recently. He's better in dramas - but I don't really rate him as an actor at all and consciously avoid anything he has a starring role in.

Fellora 4 years 7 weeks

I voted Dramas. I thought he was wonderful in A Time to Kill.

chicsugar 4 years 7 weeks

I think I prefer him in dramas. His comedies just come off as cheesy. A Time to Kill & U-571 were both really good movies.

Karelynn 4 years 7 weeks

Comedies, I guess. I don't remember watching him in much else.

Imabeliever 4 years 7 weeks

He sucks in comedies. He excels and is the most HOLY CRAP give me some of that appeal shows up in movies like We are Marshal and esp A Time to Kill.. everytime he said Sandra's characters name.. I just about broke out into a sweat.. he added an extra sound to it and it purred.. rouark.. plus I loved Amastad, Contact (only he could make a preacher sexy as hell), Newton Boys, u-571...

emalove 4 years 7 weeks

I love him and would watch him in *almost* anything.

starangel82 4 years 7 weeks

I liked him in We Are Marshall, but he does tend to play the same character over and over. I agree with luckyme: in Dazed and Confused, he was just playing himself. :)

cloroxcowgirl 4 years 7 weeks

Comedies - he's kind of a cheeseball and I think he's comic instincts are better. He doesn't seem completely believable to me in dramas. He was funny in Tropic Thunder.

ilanac13 4 years 7 weeks

i like him in just about anything, but if i had to choose i would say comedies. hes' just really funny in soo many movies that you have to adore him.

luckyme 4 years 7 weeks

The only thing I liked him in was Dazed and Confused. I'm pretty certain he wasn't even acting in that, he was just being himself. So for me, neither.