How does this kid even get parts in movies let alone have star status. This movie would of been much much better had Eisenberg's emotionless self-acting not been a part of it.
shareI'm sure he'll read this from his Blackberry while he's sitting at the Oscars hearing his name mentioned as a Best Actor nomination in March.
shareYeah he is terrible.
shareWould HAVE, you stupid *beep* moron! Learn English.
shareHis performance in this film didn't bother me; it makes sense that Walt is numbed by it all rather than overly emotional. But apparently Jeff Daniels had a problem with the performance--at least I assume he's talking about Jesse. From a recent interview, discussing why he almost gave up acting:
"I was just tired of it, just bored with it. You play 'Squid and the Whale,' which is a great movie about a kind of dysfunctional father and that's what you get offered, except it's five scenes and then you're in a movie with some 28-year-old who is making $10 million and can't find his mark. So, you know, I'm going, 'I don't need to be doing this anymore.' And then Aaron Sorkin and HBO come along and you're going, 'No, I should still.'"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57475662/why-jeff-daniels-almost-walked-away-from-acting/
Still a kind of rude thing for Daniels to say, though, right? I would have thought Jeff'd be classier.
Yeah, that seemed a little rude. Though I don't think the he meant Eisenberg when he mentioned the 28-year-old, because at the time (2005), he would have been 22 years old (yes I looked it up), and also, I don't think any of the actors in "The Squid and the Whale" got a paycheck of $10 million, being a low-budget movie. Maybe he was just talking in general, or perhaps a later movie, like "Paper Man".
share"I was just tired of it, just bored with it. You play 'Squid and the Whale,' which is a great movie about a kind of dysfunctional father and that's what you get offered, except it's five scenes and then you're in a movie with some 28-year-old who is making $10 million and can't find his mark. So, you know, I'm going, 'I don't need to be doing this anymore.' And then Aaron Sorkin and HBO come along and you're going, 'No, I should still.'"
Jesse is not who Jeff is referring to as the 28 year old who can't find his mark. Jesse was only in his early 20s, not yet well known or hugely paid in Squid and the Whale. Jeff is talking about another movie..... and possibly just having a gripe in general about having to work with young celebrities who have made it without having,in Jeff's opinion, serious acting ability.
"I was just tired of it, just bored with it. You play 'Squid and the Whale,' which is a great movie about a kind of dysfunctional father and that's what you get offered, except it's five scenes and then you're in a movie with some 28-year-old who is making $10 million and can't find his mark. So, you know, I'm going, 'I don't need to be doing this anymore.' And then Aaron Sorkin and HBO come along and you're going, 'No, I should still.'"
Considering the budget was only 1.5 million I don't know how it's be possible for anyone in the movie to make 10 million.
shareGiven the budget, I guess everyone else is right that Daniels had changed the subject, but you're wrong on the point of grammar. "Then" can mean "at that time" as well as "next."
shareI think it's the opposite: that he knew how great a film TSATW was, and how incredible his own acting in it was, and then he had to go back to making regular Hollywood crap with overpaid action stars or whatever.
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Maybe he was looking forward in time, about six years, when he was 28 and making ten million a movie? Or he traveled even further in time and read about it in a history book.
shareLearn to annunciate next time, go back to junior high.
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