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the ralph was horrible in this movie


that kid balthasar getty or whatever his name was was 1 dimensional and boring, and in my opinion responsible for making this movie suck. he did nothing to embody william golding's ralph, he made him seem like some lame, pathetic little saint. in the book ralph is shrewd and charismatic, but flawed, he seeks to retain his popularity, mostly by being rude and unfair to piggy. he isnt some perfect little hallmark kid, he is simply trying to uphold soceity. of course it might not have been the actors fault, alot of the blame probably goes to the writers and director.

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He wasn't very good in Lost Highway either.



"My god. I'm a tomato"

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The kids who played Ralph and Piggy were bad, they really brought the movie down. I think Jack was fine.

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I actually like the fact they changed Ralph's character though , I mean ya I know it was different than the original... But I didn't mind. Ralph's character was supposed to more more sensible in the original but he and Piggy still went along with the " Kill the beast" part which bothered me as it was hard to feel sympathy for them after that...even though they felt remorse. I

I liked the fact that this version had a few of the kids that didn't go completely satanic and you can really feel for Ralph at end.
I didn't mind that they changed it up.

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