Samuel L Jackson His 5 Most Iconic Roles (& 5 Movies That Wasted His Talents)

Samuel L. Jackson: His 5 Most Iconic Roles (& 5 Movies That Wasted His Talents)

Frequent collaborator with Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson has long, versatile Hollywood career. Alas, not every movie showcases his skill.

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Ever since his star-making turn in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson has been one of the most beloved and iconic actors working in Hollywood. He’s been working consistently since the early ‘90s, and he’s not slowing down. From a key role in the Star Wars saga to a long-running working relationship with Quentin Tarantino, Jackson has played a ton of memorable roles on the silver screen.

But as with any filmography with as many titles as Jackson’s, there have been clear highs and even clearer lows. So, here are Samuel L. Jackson’s five most memorable roles, as well as five movies that sadly wasted his talents.

10 Most Iconic: Major Marquis Warren In The Hateful Eight

From Jackie Brown’s gun runner Ordell Robbie to Django Unchained’s sinister house slave Stephen, Samuel L. Jackson has played some unforgettable roles across Quentin Tarantino’s filmography. As an actor-director pairing, they’re a match made in heaven.

The most substantial role that Tarantino has given Jackson is arguably Major Marquis Warren in his snowbound revisionist western whodunit The Hateful Eight. Around the movie’s midpoint, Major Warren becomes the story’s Poirot figure as he lines up the suspects and uses the art of deduction to figure out the movie’s mystery.

9 Wasted Him: Cell

After previously starring in the Stephen King adaptation 1408, Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack re-teamed in Cell, adapted from the King novel of the same name. Alas, the story of cell phones turning people into zombies feels like a Syfy original movie with painfully on-the-nose and outdated commentary.

The plot goes nowhere and the characters are thinly drawn, which is doubly disappointing when the credits roll and you see that King himself — supposedly “the Master of Horror” — contributed to the screenplay.

8 Most Iconic: Frozone In The Incredibles

“Where is my super suit!?” Even in a moviegoing world that’s flooded with superhero movies, Pixar’s The Incredibles stands as a fiercely original take on the genre.

Samuel L. Jackson plays one of the movie’s most memorable supporting characters — along with Edna Mode — as the ice-powered hero Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone.

7 Wasted Him: XXX: State Of The Union

After starring alongside Vin Diesel in the super-fun, so-bad-it’s-good, extreme-sports-meets-007 action thriller xXx, Samuel L. Jackson got roped into appearing in the Vin Diesel-less sequel, xXx: State of the Union.

With Ice Cube playing a different Triple X agent, State of the Union managed to be even more muddled and ridiculous than its predecessor.

6 Most Iconic: Nick Fury In The MCU

From his first appearance setting up the whole interconnected franchise in Iron Man’s post-credits scene to his most recent appearance as — spoiler alert — a Skrull in disguise in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Samuel L. Jackson has been consistently well-utilized in the MCU.

Although he’s had one fake-out death too many at this point, Jackson has gotten to deliver quippy one-liners and riveting monologues, and build real on-screen relationships with his co-stars, particularly Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Brie Larson, and Tom Holland.

5 Wasted Him: National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1

In theory, a spoof of buddy cop movies starring Samuel L. Jackson and Emilio Estevez from the National Lampoon team should be a comedy classic.

But unfortunately, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 wasn’t really from the National Lampoon team; it just bore the National Lampoon brand. Its gags are more exhausted than a late Scary Movie sequel and its star-studded cast is depressingly squandered.

4 Most Iconic: Mace Windu In The Star Wars Prequels

On the whole, the Star Wars prequel trilogy has a lot of undeniable flaws. Some of the dialogue is forced and wooden, the set pieces relied too heavily on primitive CGI effects, and comic-relief characters like Jar Jar Binks are unbearably irritating.

But Samuel L. Jackson’s portrayal of Yoda’s right-hand man, the ultra-powerful, purple lightsaber-wielding Jedi Knight Mace Windu, was consistently enjoyable.

3 Wasted Him: Star Wars: The Clone Wars

While The Clone Wars TV series stands as one of the greatest pieces of Star Wars media, the theatrically released movie that served as its pilot episode is instantly forgettable and painfully mundane.

Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid, and Frank Oz all got out of providing their own voices, but unfortunately, Samuel L. Jackson (as well as Christopher Lee and Anthony Daniels) got roped into taking part.

2 Most Iconic: Jules Winnfield In Pulp Fiction

After Samuel L. Jackson auditioned for Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino mentally filed his name away, and wrote the role of Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction with the actor in mind.

Jackson had already played small roles in Goodfellas and Jurassic Park, but Pulp Fiction was the movie that made him a superstar. It landed him an Oscar nod and ensured that a script offer filled with the word “motherf***er” would never be too far away.

1 Wasted Him: Basic

Reteaming Samuel L. Jackson with his Pulp Fiction co-star John Travolta would’ve been a studio marketing department’s dream if the movie itself wasn’t so lackluster. Helmed by John McTiernan of Die Hard and Predator, Basic arrived as a bitter disappointment.

With its excessively convoluted plot and laughable succession of twists, Basic bores its audience pretty quickly.

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