Can only one human being on earth explain to me why the hell anyone casts Matthew Lillard? This guy is just plain horrible. Most b-movie actors are way better than he is. his dumb face and stupid one-dimensional so-called acting would even ruin the world's greatest movies. any casting guy who hires Lillard should be fired and chained naked in some very deep and dark cellar.
shareHe was hired to make the film look better and more credible. You see, quality is relative. When you have bad actors in a film, it makes the film look "not so bad"... But if you have good actors instead, it'll just enhance the terrible quality of the film.
And frankly, I don't care for chaining naked film execs to a deep and dark cellar. I would much rather chain someone like oh say, Ms. Burrows who played the WC...
What annoys me is all the people i see that criticize every movie they see, calling actors shallow and such. I would love to see them try to act and then lets see how many people say they suck... i thought this movie was good. It's NOT the video game it's a MOVIE and as such people shouldn't compare it to the game. Matt Lillard is funny and i find him to be a good comedic actor. I read on here someone wrote it looked like a B movie, well when the person that wrote that is able to create better special effects or pay for them himself/herself then you have the right to complain, in the meantime if you ddn't enjoy the movie heres a thought... DON'T WATCH IT AGAIN.... As for those of us that did enjoy it, Wheres part two???
shareYeah, that argument is really convincing. Just because i can't do something, i can't have an opinion about other people doing that thing. Yeah right. At least I know i can't act and therefore don't try it. Actually that kind of argumentation is completely ignorant, escapist and kind of fascist. First of all i don't think that you don't every critize somebody although you yourself can't do it better. Then your "argumentation" would basically mean that everybody would have to swallow quietly every piece of sh*t other people expose them in almost all areas. A really twisted idea of how people and societies work. And after all, if only A can evaluate the work of B when A is better than B, than nobody can ever judge somebody. Because B could simply claim that A doesn't have clue and B himself is better so A has no right to judge. Big logical mistake you made there. Better rethink your helpless and pathetic try to defend bad acting.
shareI got nothing against the guy. Maybe it was the seriously pathetic dialogue they
wrote for him, or maybe it was the fact that he played it so utterly un-space, un-military, un-future, un-remotely serious situation, that it didn't even seem like he was acting. I vote both. Take even one film class, and you can pretty much see where this movie went wrong. Giving him an emotional connection did wonders, actually.
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Some people like Lillard. He's funny in a corny sort of way. He brings comedy to movies that take themselves way too seriously.
>>Oh, well that's different. Nevermind!<<
I personally thought he was a great choice for maniac. No Tom Wilson, but if Freddie Prinz is going to be Blair, then I think Lillard is a very good match.
share"He was hired to make the film look better and more credible. You see, quality is relative. When you have bad actors in a film, it makes the film look "not so bad"... But if you have good actors instead, it'll just enhance the terrible quality of the film."
huh?
His call sign was maniac,which is how matt seems to act,so therefore i felt it was great casting,he was way ott,act first before moving your brain into gear.
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He was also perfect in the role of Cereal Killer in Hackers (1996).
shareHe's actually grown on me in this movie over time. I hated him in the role the first time I saw this movie mostly because of the so-cal surfer dude intonation he gives everything. But his performance is much more nuanced than it appears on the surface.
Unfortunately the editing hackjob done to the film and ADR work takes a lot away from his performance as editing is so tight in the theatrical version that none of the performances have room to breathe.
I've had the opposite experience with Prinze. He was somewhat a likeable everyman when he first started getting popular but... perhaps because he was so green he comes off whiny and stunned a lot in the movie. And in the rough cut I actually like his performance *less*... He seems to have learned some stuff in the last 20 years though. I kinda liked his voice work in Mass Effect 3
Because.... 90s??
In that era he was still not considered to be a "good actor" but still his reputation was better back then, because people valued individualism and individual quirks more than now
I thought he was good in SLC Punk
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