i thought the acting by all of the cast was horrible. the kids WERE ABSOLUTLY TERRIBLE. the kid who played Walter reminded me of a depressed 15 year old. He was so cold and had absolutly NO personality.
Wow, you really missed the point of the movie.
Parents are getting divorced, kid is taken from the home he knows well and forced to live in another house part-time, spending time with a sister who doesn't want to talk to him, a brother who is an absolute pest, and a father who--for as much as he wants to spend time with his boys--is pulled away by his job.
Walter needed to start in a down place so that he could come to appreciate his family for what it was, and Josh Hutcherson played the transformation extremely well.
I'm reminded of a kid I knew who thought Quentin Tarantino was terrible in
Four Rooms because he didn't realize that Tarantino was playing a guy who was about two drinks from a blackout drunk.
In other words, rather than critiquing a performance because it doesn't fit what you know, try to figure out why the performance is what it is. Do you honestly think director Jon Favreau didn't
want Walter to seem depressed and down? They do multiple takes for every scene, and if Josh wasn't hitting something the director liked, there would have been more takes until he got it right. Worse came to worse, Favreau could always re-cast--it isn't like Josh Hutcherson was any kind of big-name draw when the film was made.
At the heart of every cynical movie critic is a screenplay no one would option.
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