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Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior) Newbie

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That's your opinion. I wasn't blown away by anything Wallis did for Beasts of the Southern Wild. I preferred Lawrence's performance in The Silver Linings Playbook. Cooper did a great job too but to say he severely outperformed Jennifer is a bit of a stretch.

 

I think there's an unspoken rule about very young actors and award season anyhow.

 

I dunno, I just think she's a really overrated actress. She just seems average to me, never really stands out as good or bad. Granted, she's still really young and has a lot of room to get better, so that's a thing as well.

 

As for Quvenzhane, maybe it was because of her age, but that performance thoroughly moved me. I honestly had days go by since I watched the film almost a year ago in which her little voice narrated parts of my life haha. It just resonated and grew on me more and more with time, and I thought the rawness and the emotion she showed was just so real and effortless. All that considering her age and that Beasts was her first acting job, it's just crazy.

 

And while on the topic, Dwight Henry, the actor who played her father, was literally a baker at the bakery the filmmakers ate at before getting his part. He was snubbed of at least a nomination, and I thought the award should've been between him, Christoph Waltz, and Leo DiCaprio, who was also snubbed. But like the young girl, he provoked so much rawness and emotion, even more so than Quvenzhane. I mean, it was absolutely ridiculous how well he played the character he wanted to portray, I thought it was some of the most brilliant acting I've ever seen in any movie.

 

But I digress!!

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Just got back from it and I agree...

Brilliant film making and visuals... So so story... Weird ending.

 

i hesitate to use the word 'campy' unless it's really, really, really campy (see: red tails) but seriously... the dialogue wasn't that great, and i didn't think it was directed very well. without the spectacular visuals to carry it it would've been an absolute dud.

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You have to accept that this is a science fiction movie using a lot of real elements. There's no shuttle called Explorer, Clooneys jet pack and how he flies it is fiction, and so on. If the bad things shown in the movie ready happened they would all die. Roll credits over a sad song.

 

 

One thing is for damn sure... if they had a pack like that, I don't think they'd be letting him test it by flying it around the Hubble Telescope while it was being worked on... lol

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