Nick Nolte's delivery
Did anybody else have trouble understanding Nick Nolte's lines? I had a really hard time and became quite frustrated!
YES! YES! YES!!
My husband and I saw it last night and we wished it had sub-titles or
close-captions!!!! It was so annoying. Also, the female lead was God awful, she muttered her lines, spoke with no emotion and looked like she was sleep walking thu the whole film.
yes, it's true - much of the dialogue in this movie is unintelligible, not only from nick nolte, but from the non-native-english speakers the dominate. it really deserved subtitles, i think, although it don't know if that alone would have made the movie worth watching. the female lead was indeed terrible, junkies are boring, and by the time the "twist" at the end happened, it was too late. i just didn't care what happened anymore.
ralph fiennes turned in the only quality performance, but he was only on the screen briefly.
save your money, or go see something else.
I actually had an easier time understanding the foreign actors than I could Nick Nolte. I got maybe, 5 complete sentences out of him the entire movie. They needed subtitles for him. Since he was the main character, not understanding him made the whole plot of the movie just garble to me.
shareIts his very gruff voice that does it.
Nolte is best understood when he speaks up or is shouting like in one of his best performances in The Thin Red Line. Superb!
This though was dull.
You're all insane. I guess you're all quite happy that they stupidly dubbed "Mad Max" from the original Australian accents into rediculous American ones. I understood Nolte & all the other actors as well.
The female lead was very good.
I just watched the DVD and, after spending the first 10 minutes struggling to work out what was going on, had to watch the rest of it with the subtitles on - not for the French actors, but for Nick Nolte who mumbled and grumbled his way through every incomprehensible line.
Project, Nick! Project!
i agree with all- i thought my tv was wrong, but you get used to it after a twenty minutes or so- so stick with it, and turn up the volume
- nevertheless nick nolte is a great screen actor and very much an actor's actor - and has not got the plaudits he deserves, maybe because he didnt appear in some of those key movies that his contemporaries appeared in.
BUT 'Bob le Flambeur'has tons more atmosphere and a better ending. you can imagine hollywood accountants seeing the original movie and re writing the story before the end titles.
sinatra's 'oceans eleven' must have been a remake of this - but can anyone confirm this ?
he needed a nap.
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i want these guys to do a nolte!
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