the actress that played the captain really couldn't act. it was embarassing to watch her to be honest! the only decent actor was the guy who stayed behind in the ship and even he wasnt that good. the wooden acting spoilt what could have been a decent movie though because visually it looked really good and had a decent storyline too.
shareVincent Gallo is an amazing actor!
shareFace the facts, Vincent Gallo is a waste of skin.
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I'm pretty sure that the characters in this film aren't humans. I think humans are supposed to have emotions or something similar. I thought this was super low budget,but 7 million ten years ago for an independent film isn't that bad a budget. Enough to dub the film properly. The production values, ie the over dubbing, is terrible! The film is an odd duck. More like a student film than something made by people in the film business. Interesting to watch and think about the hows and whys of how the was made, but not a good movie by any means. I am surprised the rating here is as high as it is.
shareI am watching this film right now and couldn't agree with you more! There are only 2 decent actors in this film, the girl from pulp fiction and the mexican guy. The rest ruin a perfectly good premise.
shareWatching the film right now also I am a very big Sci Fi fan and love the storyline but the acting is horrible! I am also a very big Vincent Gallo fan I know I am one of like three on planet earth who like Vincent Gallo! This movie suffers from some serious acting miscues not so much the actors themselves I actually would blame the director not the actors. Joaquim de Almeida is an awesome actor he was great in Desperado and Maria de Medeiros was awesome in Pulp Fiction!
shareVincent Gallo is amazing....one of my favorite actors...he definately carries the film,actually he was the only reason i watched it in the first place...so make that 1 of 4 people on earth who like Gallo....
sharethe director is maria lidon, whom also plays sanchez...hence the misguided direction.
shareI think the tall blonde guy wasn't even an actor. He was a robot, programmed to read lines from a teleprompter.
How could anyone possibly cast these people is a serious movie? It boggles the mind. After the first dailies, they should have shut down production.
Maria de Mierda most certainly was NOT awesome in Pulp Fiction -- she almost, singlehandedly, torpedoed that film. Screw her, her pot belly, and her blueberry pancakes.
What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?
It's like a group of actors in a class doing an exercise in immature emotions. They should have had more confidence and discipline - not just lazing about ...like a bunch of (bad!) actors
shareI am not a snob when it comes to having big name stars in a movie. But since I recognized several of the actors in this movie I figured the last thing I would fault with this movie is the acting. The blonde chick and blonde guy were without equal in how bad their acting was. I hope they go back to flipping burgers, or scrubbing toilets. Please do not force me to endure more of your acting.
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Isn't this movie dubbed from Spanish? I think that's why the acting seems so bad.
shareI had a vibe that the movie was dubbed. It seemed impossible that ALL of the dialogue was that stilted. Even if it was filmed in English, perhaps the on set recordings could not be used and they re-dubbed the entire movie with the original actors. The same timing on the set is hard to mimic in the studio watching a prompter screen.
Whatever the case, the end results are bad. But the script was the worst part. The lines made each character sound as if he'd been mugged and woke up on Mars with no clue how he got there.
Really, if they were making a landing on Mars, they would have come with supplies to last the 16 months until the return trip. They wouldn't be in a tiny shuttle cockpit with no sleeping arrangements. Any Mars landing would have an overabundance of those supplies precisely because there are no rescues possible.
The film 'Red Planet' covers the same territory, but in that film, each crew member uses his specialty to assist the group in achieving objectives - and the orbital pilot provides radio/information support.
'Stranded' was badly written from the start, no actor's skill could have saved it.
the acting is the only really big flaw in this movie. like somebody already said, i too watched the film only because of vincent gallo. he can only play 1 role and that's mostly himself but that he does really great. the moments when his character gets annoyed and almost aggressive are the best in every film he's been in. a typical gallo moment, which is entertaining over and over again :D
to see that he is in fact a better director than actor you should watch buffalo'66
The blonde guy reminded my of Quentin Taratino because he kept saying "okay" at the end of his sentences a lot.
shareThe script, acting and directing are bad. It's like robots tried to make a movie. It's just awful.
Nobody talks like a normal person. They talk like some people write, but not like anyone actually talks. This is a problem primarily with the script writer and director, both of which totally blew it.
"I've seen things that would make you want to write a book on how to puke."
She was pretty bad indeed, but nowhere near as bad as Aser (the Eminem looking guy). I felt that Gallo was good (not great, but good enough) and that Meideros and de Almeida were decent. Somehow the acting seemed to improve a bit for Aser and the girl as the film went on, but the first 40 minutes were ruined. I actually laughed at how bad Aser was at one point. Still, the second half of the film was pretty good...
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