He looked more like a computer geek in the movie,always the same,he never has a different look...also,there was zero chemistry between him and kristen.i wish someone else had been cast...any suggestions?
I agree. Wooden would be an appropriate description. Woody often uses a young actor as his alter ego...Owen Wilson for instance, who did a great job in Midnight in Paris, had the just the right touch of awkward but also a natural charm which Eisenberg lacks.
The main problem is that pretty faces, lavish sets, and ethnic accents do not a great movie make. Allen should know this, but for some reason this time he laid everything on too thick, and it's stuff we've seen in countless films--the stereotypical Jewish family, the tough wise guy gangsters, the stumbling gawky kid who somehow ends up with the beautiful girl. These same elements worked beautifully in Annie Hall, Broadway Danny Rose and Purple Rose of Cairo, but he used a lighter touch and wrote his characters as more rounded and less as caricatures.
I did not care about any of these characters.
I'll just put this down as a stumble, and all great artists have them, as do tennis players and quarterbacks.I'm certain he will hit the mark on his next project.
I liked Eisenberg as the Woody surrogate, but where he missed the mark was the second half of the movie. His character was clearly written to be more mature, but Eisenberg did nothing to change his persona from the first half. I didn't buy him as the manager, social schmoozer type at all.
Who else would have filled that role better? Miles Teller.
He's definitely the most completely unlikable leading man Hollywood has come up with in ages, maybe ever. I just saw the movie a couple of hours ago though and I do think it kinda works? Like you don't feel ANY sympathy AT ALL for Bobby (I never do for any of Eisenberg's characters, nor obviously - and even less so - for Eisenberg himself), but then again the story doesn't ask you to for it to work. Does it make sense?
shareYes Eisenberg has a pretty limited range. Pretty much five degrees either side of it. But I like him on screen.
However, I was so distracted in this film by Eisenberg's seemingly impending kyphosis that I could hardly watch. Very sad. I feel for him.
He may have a limited range, but I thought he did well in this.
I especially like the scene where Vonnie and the uncle come to the nightclub, he didn't say much his eyes/face clearly showed his emotions of both being annoyed, angry, and still having feelings for her.
He's a young Jewish actor who isn't what you would call handsome, so a young Woody.
Those of you who didn't like him, who would you have cast?
He may have a limited range, but I thought he did well in this.
I especially like the scene where Vonnie and the uncle come to the nightclub, he didn't say much his eyes/face clearly showed his emotions of both being annoyed, angry, and still having feelings for her.
He's a young Jewish actor who isn't what you would call handsome, so a young Woody.
Those of you who didn't like him, who would you have cast?
Lol@ "his impending kyphosis". I was distracted too by that, is that his own thing though or did Woody Allen ask him to look like that? I thought the latter and it got on my nerves after a while, like why would he ask him to stand like that!?
I only liked him in the very last scene, where we basically only see his face and he doesn't talk, during the rest of the movie I was just looking at the clock waiting for it to end.
Of course I loved the settings, colors, and anything art related like clothes/hair/makeup, but these are no longer enough when we see gorgeous images all day everywhere.
And I just have to mention that I loved the idea of the ending ie two people f@cking up their lives by succumbing to stupid reasons
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It appeared to me to be a very real developing physical deformity. No lol about it. I felt sad throughout.
shareOh my I didn't realize, no lol at all then seriously :(
He needs to get to a Pilates class asap. This is fixable.
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I agree with the OP 100%
I thought Jesse Eisenberg was perfect for the first 1/4 of the movie, but he just couldn't pull off a believable transformation into a suave NY socialite. - Nor a romantic interest for any actress.
Woody Allen didn't need a nerdy / naive actor who could also try to be sophisticated. He needed a sophisticated actor who could also act nerdy & naive.
This movie never quite gelled for me, for this simple reason. I'm rather stunned that Allen made such a mistake.
He's been ruining a lot of movies lately.
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Totally he is always same in every movie
shareI hated him and he completely ruined the movie for me. I don’t know why but just his presence annoyed the heck out of me, couldn’t stand him. Maybe the movie would be better without him, although it wasn’t one of Woody’s best movies in general.
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