did anyone dislike the dammers character? i couldn't stand him. he was completely out of touch with what was going on, made stupid decisions, etc. this is just a movie, but i thought i would share my opinions on the character. still got love for jeffrey combs work though. also i thought this movie was entertaining, not the best, there are things that don't add up, but i still enjoyed it.
shareYeah I thought the movie went downhill when he appeared. He was the worst part of the movie.
shareI get that his character is freakish and over the top, and how that can be annoying. But think about it this way; Combs didn't write the role. He was handed a script, and I am having a hard time thinking of anyone else doing that part justice.
IMO, this is a top 3 part for Combs. He is entertaining in a way that few actors are. He totally steals the scenes he's in. Again, I see noone else doing this part justice.
About the Re-Animator role; it was his first big one, and while he was doing a great job, I think he became a lot better in later roles. Maybe the greatness of the movie is making it hard to judge him objectively....but I guess that's always the case.
I think he adds immeasurably to the tension and brings in another element of danger besides the supernatural, which gives the flick added dimension, and I also love his bizarre and unique blend of tough yet neurotic.
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The Dammers character was the best thing in the whole film. I wouldn't have liked it without him.
shareI loved Dammers in the movie and his character, but I did feel his presence disrupted the pace of the film. I still really enjoyed him and he made me chuckle a few times. If the movie were longer and his character written a little less wacky I would have thought him a better fit.
shareIt seemed that they were setting him up to be part ghost or something. He acted kinda weird, like what the hidden human aliens in Men in Black did later. I was thinking somehow that he would end up involved. I just don't see how any FBI agent could be that messed up. He can't even sit in a room and talk to people? What was his motivation for dumping the ashes? He thought Frank was just full of it and completely dismissed it?
Even so, it was supposedly the ashes of a real human being.
Also, why did he say he wanted to hold the woman for exactly 11 hours?
I just met Jeffrey Combs today and he signed a Milton Dammers photo for me. Awesome, friendly guy and that is my favorite role of his. It really elevates that movie. I can understand people finding it a little over the top but hating it? Stupid, annoying? That does not compute in the slightest…and arguments about it not being a realistic character…..
….so this humor laced, kinetic genre movie about a psycho killer returning from the grave in cahoots with his now older, psycho ex to kill more and our hero being a medium who talks to and sees the dead, is really made un-believable by the mentally unbalanced FBI agent. Totally killed the "realism". LOL!
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That's cool Bobby. I agree with everything you say. I have no problem with people disliking the movie it's when people complain about lack of realism and such in a supernatural comedy LOL.
share"I just don't see how an FBI agent could be that messed up"
Been undercover with many bizarre religious sects and sick weirdos including the Manson family, where he was also a sex slave and not having any therapy for it in between assignments, I can see why he'd be messed up LOL
"He can't even sit in a room and talk to people"
He can he just doesn't like women shouting at him, probably brings back memories of been a sex slave LOL. The only reason he couldn't sit was because of his piles LOL.
"He thought Frank was full of it and completely dismissed it"
So? Frank said Death the murders and he can see spirits. Dammers is hardly likely to believe him is he, especially with Frank's reputation around the town. With all the assignments and twisted people Dammers has come across he's never had any experience of spirits, just fruitcakes which ironically Dammers is too LOL.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated his character.
I really enjoyed this movie, but every time Dammers is on the screen he just grinds the plot to a halt and completely ruins the mood. There's already so much going on with Frank and Lucy's attempts to discover the truth behind their respective spouses' deaths, the police officer's attempts to find out who really killed the "heart attack" victims (and whether Frank had anything to do with it), and the grim grim reaper/Bartlett and Patricia story.
Dammers' weird-ass cartoon character with his women-issues and his machine gun and his bizarre Jim Carrey behavior just...didn't need to exist imo. Maybe if his character had paid off in the end then I would have been ok with it. But nope, he was annoying and useless from beginning to end :/
I didn't care for this character either. Way to over the top. Even Ace Ventura would tell him to tone it down.
Up until his introduction, the non-ghost parts of the film seemed fairly realistic. Meaning the film seemed to take place in a world with laws and systems much like the ones in the real world. Then you shatter the internal logic by throwing a live-action cartoon character into the movie.
How on earth did a complete nutcase like this manage to keep a job at the FBI? That bureau has some of the strictest rules in the world. One day of behavior like that would've been enough to get him fired and locked up in a padded cell for life.
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