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Well shot, but not particularly memorable.

posted 11 years ago by El_DustinD
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I never cared much about what happened one way or the other. The lead actor was one of the least interesting protagonists in recent memory. He looked like a cross between Nathan Lane and Thomas Lennon yet had the screen presence of a butterfly fart. The film had nice ideas and a couple good bits of violence, but I was all shrugs by the time the climax arrived. I'm clearly in the minority on this one. I didn't think it was bad. I just didn't think it was special. The director has a future though.

Procrastination fools you into thinking you succeed merely by not failing.

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[–] beersandshots 11 years ago

First rule of acting school annunciate

And the first rule of annunciating rules on message boards (letting my keyboard enunciate the words): Use a dic·tio·nary.

"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

[–] amd8404 11 years ago

I think annunciate must be a malapropism combining "enunciate" and "announce" - I think he's saying the character should speak more clearly and more loudly.

Anyone who's been watching The Trip on BBC will be familiar with Rob Brydon's theory of actor appreciation. There's often an inverse relationship between an actor's intelligibility and the respect afforded to that actor. His examples are Marlon Brando in The Godfather and also Christian Bale and Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises. So we shouldn't be surprised that Macon Blair is getting attention for mumbling his way through Blue Ruin.

[–] horrorshowmovie 11 years ago

I thought it was great. The main character mumbles because he was a beach bum for so long he barely remembers how to talk. He's too pale and healthy to really pull off being homeless, but movies are never 100% realistic.

It was his sister.

[–] ToL22 11 years ago

lol too pale and healthy. I thought the exact same thing

[–] jmart680 11 years ago

Macon "butterfly fart" Macon, is by far the least interesting actor in resent memory. The only part that I remembered was the "I had an accident in my leg" then he passed out in the hospital. I laughed. That's the only emotion I had throughout the entire movie. That's 1 more then Mr.Fart showed the whole movie. Thanks for the nickname for this guy OP.

[–] ToL22 11 years ago

You missed a lot of funny moments man. The scene in the car where hes talking to the guy in the trunk who kept yelling "let me out!! let me out!!" then he tells him "I'll only let you out once I find a gun. Silence...., guy in the trunk "hey man, I can get you a gun!"

The scene where he wakes up in the hospital and realized "oh *beep* I left that guy in the trunk" was pretty funny too.

[–] worldofbong 11 years ago

I haven't seen it yet, but in the promo shots he looks like a bloody Jesus

or maybe not lol http://www.WorldofBong.com

[–] Hurry_up_N_buy 11 years ago

It was good and I'll probably never watch it again.

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[–] emvan 11 years ago

Some people are simply not good at reading subtle emotions in faces. I mean in real life, not just in movies. A movie that is centered around a character who only emotes very subtly is simply a movie that they're not going to be able to get, no more than they could get a movie in a foreign language without subtitles.

I'd bet that's what happened to you, because most critics and viewers (as you acknowledge) find the movie great, and the reason is they find the protagonist strangely compelling, and the performance terrific and very nuanced.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

[–] ToL22 11 years ago

The lead actor had the emotional range of a flea. Showing desperation and being on the verge of crying for 2 hours is not good acting. This has nothing to do with reading subtle emotions. The fact is that there weren't that many emotions to read period.

Nuanced? lol