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How can we just swallow it when

posted 9 years ago by TheManInOil
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Huff's father goes from *beep* Forster, to inexplicably showing up one day and it's Tom Skerritt? I mean, he actually probably better approximates what the writers had in mind, but he hasn't got nearly the presence. He comes off as too goofy.

And when he disciplines Byrd (very reasonably as far as I could tell), Huff describes it as though he was revealing the monster he really is. Forster could have conveyed that menace in a way Skerritt never could. You get Skerritt to play the hippie type. You get Forster to play the hard ass.

[–] ScottNichols 8 years ago

I wouldn't call a grandfather telling his grandson if it were up to him he'd blacken his grandson's other eye discipline. In other words, if it were up to Ben he'd punch Byrd in the eye. That would be abuse--WAY beyond something like spanking. Byrd's too old for spanking, and the next logical step is NOT punching him out.

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