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did any one else get thrown off by

posted 11 years ago by blairclaxton
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dustin hoffman....then alan rickman.

I was totally transfixed by this movie until dustin hoffman popped his head in. ( right after the totally surreal scene in which Jean-baptiste kills the girl and loses here scent). It kinda brought me back to reality and made me think of other dustin hoffman roles and kinda ruined the near dream like start to the film.

Now ( i've had to pause it to come write this.) Alan Rickman ( yes, Hans Gruber) has just stepped into the scene. god damn it who cast this....its being ruined. Don't get me wrong, I like both actors. It's just I lose the feel of the movie..... imagine watching Amelie and having Tom cruise be one of the characters. weird.

anyways....so far I'm loving it.

[–] Mhjm6 10 years ago

No, they're as fine as always here, I'm glad they play these roles.

[–] Lizard51867 10 years ago

I was especially thrown by Hoffman's performance because he apparently thought he was reprising his role as Captain Hook (at least in terms of accent and speech patterns.) I was also thrown by how yellow everyone's teeth were. Like I get the blinding white smiles of Hollywood weren't the norm in 17th century France, but Hoffman's especially were legitimately distracting, like he'd taken a highlighter to them.

[–] chefgir1 10 years ago

Dustin Hoffman was really hard to watch and I normally like him as an actor but this was horrible. At no point in the film was he Guiseppe...he was always Dustin Hoffman. Every time he said Basta I cringed.