Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Eternally Frodo
Eternal Sunshine was mediocre movie that was held down even further by the actors in it. Jim Carry has lately been doing more serious movies like The Number 23, but I will always think of him as Ace Ventura: pet detective. He is a good actor and was not too tied to that role as Ace Ventura for most people. Aaalrighty then, there is the not so good actor. Frodo is so connected to that role as Frodo in Lord of the Rings, that I do not even know his real name. In Eternal Sunshine, Frodo portrayed a type of stalker that was even creepier than Gollum. The other problem that hurt Frodo was the fact that he is not a good actor. He only has one facial expression. It worked in Lord of the Rings because the character was scared s#!t less all the time. Frodo looked the same way in every shot in Eternal Sunshine, and that made no sense. Why should he be afraid enough to use that dumb facial expression when the best pet detective in the world is on the clock? This movie lumped a bunch of actors together that are linked to their popular characters and made them part of the same story. It was like all of these characters that should not be in the same movie were in the same movie. I felt like I was watching a lost segment of the internet cartoon, The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. This is what I saw when I watched Eternal Sunshine: Frodo, Spiderman’s girlfriend and two guys (who were probably extras in Men in Black) want to erase Ace Ventura’s memory. The movie would have been better if they used no name actors, like the Men in Black guys, instead of Frodo.
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5 comments:
I liked reading yor blog and agree that the charcter played by Frodo was too well know because i also do not know his real name.
You are so good in relating characters in the completely different movie together.
You didn't actually talk about the movie, but how the actors were typecast. You state that the knowlage of the actors makes the movie "more mediocre" but you don't state anything else about it.
If the actor in 300 had also did comedys, would that bring the movie down?
Anyway, I would have talked about the actual movie more
Dude, you are awesome for mentioning the ultimate showdown.
Lemon Demon is an awesome band and such and so-forth and etc.
But basically, you blamed the acting too much, even the best actor wouldn't be able to save snakes on a plane.
Ben, the actors in 300 are not that well known. In fact that movie did not bring any of their names to recognition. you could watch a movie with those guys and not know they were in 300, but Frodo is only known as Frodo.
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