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Eli Roth is embarrassing as the Bear Jew


They build him up as this menacing character, and then Eli The Hack Roth comes out of the cave sounding like a prepubescent boy that just got his first boner. Every line of his is delivered in the most cringeworthy wannabe manner. I almost wanted Hitler to win just so his character would be painfully tortured and killed in the most horrific way.

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Well phrased.
Horrible casting, it smells like Hollywood elitism casting a friend of a friend instead of somebody actually good.
But fortunately he does die in a most horrific way, so...there you go!

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I remember watching Brad Pitt in Fury and I said "this dude looks fearsome as fuck". Probably would make a skinny nazi shit his pants.

Then I recall Eli Roth as the Bear Jew and was rolling my eyes and giving annoying sighs the entire time.

Look, his character could have worked if it was something more believable by Eli Roth, like the joker/sick prankster of the bunch.

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The first time my (then) young son watched this movie he thought the Bear Jew was Zachary Quinto!

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I can certainly see the resemblance between them.

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