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Jeff Golblum and his Lines

posted 10 years ago by pmullan-54285
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I have been watching a lot of reviews of this film and I honestly don't see what the main gripe is with Jeff Goldblum. I think he's a good actor and the role of Ian Malcom was my favourite growing up. He was decently smug and foolish in Jurassic Park but in Lost World I think he finds a good balance of smart and mature. All of his lines are crackers too. "Mommy's very angry" was my favourite when I always watched this. My mum loves him in the film and I don't see why other people don't like him. He's a decent actor in my mind. Maybe some (Or a lot) will disagree, but I don't mind him at all or this film.

[–] gummydy 10 years ago

I have been watching a lot of reviews of this film and I honestly don't see what the main gripe is with Jeff Goldblum.

Where are you getting your reviews from? Its pretty much a given that Jeff was considered one of the best things about the film.

[–] pmullan-54285 10 years ago

Some of the reviews are just online in general. And a few Youtube reviews. I haven't read all of them, it's just the odd one or two.

[–] PreachCaleb 10 years ago

Well those reviews are wrong.

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[–] jerjerrod 10 years ago

YouTube reviews are nothing more than opinions of people who look up errors about a movie and give their personal opinion. Their 'reviews' have no more relevance than my great aunt's does.

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[–] lemner 9 years ago

He's a pretty interesting character actor, and he can also handle the main protagonist role well. At one point there was a joke made that you couldn't make a Science Fiction movie without Jeff Goldblum. That was because he had been in several blockbusters at the time -- the 2 Jurrasic Parks, plus Independence Day. However, he had also been in several non-blockbusters before that -- Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Earth Girls are Easy, and the remake of The Fly; also Transylvania 6-5000, but that's more a fantasy than Science Fiction.

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[–] daniel-grigg 8 years ago

Malcolm is a great character both in the books and the film. I love smart characters that are also cocky and jokey, like Bunk in the Wire for example.

"They cut you from the team" is quite a funny line to cap a slightly over the top scene.