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VERY unrealistic Freddy Rodríguez being together with Eva Longoria


I mean seriously.. first of all I have no idea why shes even in the actual movie, she doesn't exactly fit the role... it doesnt help she's together with a guy like Mr Rodríguez who plays a loser in the movie as well....

Pretty unrealistic if you ask me

I really had to hold my self when they entered the bar, Rodríguez looked like a midget compared to bale. In reality he would have been jumped for looking and sounding like a wannabe Gangsta....



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I agree, Rodriguez was not believably tough in this movie. In fact him and Bale seemed more like wannabe fack-ups from the burbs than guys truly from the hood.
And yeah, while it theoretically could happen, I also found his wife kinda unbelievable. You would think she would have left him or have been planning to leave him, unless shes a rare woman.

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I agree, Rodriguez was not believably tough in this movie. In fact him and Bale seemed more like wannabe fack-ups from the burbs than guys truly from the hood.


He wasn't suppose to be believably tough. Remember, he was severely shaken when the man at the bar was killed and commented on having bad dreams that night. He was NEAR TEARS when he witnessed Jim's meltdown with his girlfriend, and he seemed to be about to throw up when he had to kill Jim. He's not a tough guy, he just is trying to keep up with Jim.

I thought the point WAS that they were wannabes, especially Mike. They grew up in the hood, but they weren't gangsters. Jim was only more violent because he went off to war.

And yeah, while it theoretically could happen, I also found his wife kinda unbelievable. You would think she would have left him or have been planning to leave him, unless shes a rare woman.


If theoretically it could happen, why is Sylvia unbelievable? She's not rare at all. You could probably watch Dr Phil or Oprah on any given week and see that. There are plenty of women (and some men) who stay with people because they think they can help them change.

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no way!

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It was obvious that they had a lot of history together and that can go a long way in bonding people. And it sounded like Eva Longoria's character wasn't always on the straight and narrow. At one point Bale calls her a sell out.

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Yeah dude you're blind if you've never seen a gorgeous woman/girl with a loser guy who's got no job, does drugs, etc. Happens everywhere.

Another thing. Mexicans are typically shorter than Americans, so picking a tall Mexican actor (such as Antonio Banderas for example) wouldn't help fit his character into the Mexican crowd, as they do at few points in the movie.

Last thing, I've always been the tall guy, somewhat big too, but you gotta think about someone who's been small his whole life. It's called the Napoleon Complex. Plus if he was hard enough to beat up on Bale's insano character than he's gotta be somewhat tough. Height don't mean *beep*

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you sayin you wouldn't take it? more for me I guess

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You are an absolute fcking joke milleniumgroup, none of what you said has been agreed with by anyone in this thread and when someone totally refutes all your moronic points your rebuttle is a facepalm picture? really? I feel sorry for anyone who knows you personally, how do they put up with you? I would bet you know or associate with very few people and those people would be just as much of a closed-minded moron as you.

Short people aren't tough and would be jumped just for walking in a bar? LMFAO!!! you really must live an incredibly sheltered life. I've known MANY short people who would beat the tar out of just about anyone walking the face of the earth. 1 prime example would be my grandfather who is just under 5 feet tall and has beaten the ever loving crap out of massive bikers with weapons through out his life. My Dad when he was 14 once headbutted some prick that was hassling him and about 50 thugs from the neighborhood all showed up at the front gate of my Dads family home. There was my Dad, his 3 brothers, his 80 year old grandfather and my grandfather. My grandfather stood at the entrance to the house with a baseball bat and said "send in your biggest guy" and a 7 foot bikey came charging though the gate with a massive chain and my grandfather swung once and laid him out, then 3 more came charging in and were all laid out cold, my grandfather just said "keep em comin'!" and laid out another 10 or more bikey's before the cops showed up and told everyone to leave. I've heard dozens more stories that are all backed up by my Dads siblings. Mad Man Madden my grandfather was known as and NOBODY EVER got the better of him, he would take on anyone of any shape or size and have them begging for mercy. My grandfather was 4"10 inches tall and no more than 80 kilos at his peak weight. That is the height of stupidity for thinking short people aren't tough and clearly demonstrate just how little of the outside world you've been exposed to. Even these days with my grandfather at nearly 80, I'd love to sit you down in a room with him for 10 minutes, you'd be crapping in your pants if you said any BS like that around him.

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I'd like to pick him up and see how far I could throw him.
lol j/k dude no disrespect.

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Unfortunately Freddy Rodriguez being paired with Eva Longoria is very realistic. Nice looking professional women with non-working slacker husbands with no-good friends is an epidemic. The only thing less real is the fact that they don't have 10 kids and Freddy is cuter than the average slacker husbands.

But it also goes both ways. Slacker wives with overworked husbands. Lol

As far as how tough Rodriguez'' and Bales characters are supposed to be. I think it realistic. Freddy and Bale werer posers only Bale's character wasreally psycho enough to pull the violence off. But they were both intended to come across as "trying too hard".

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There are plenty of gorgeous women who date: Loser boyfriends; boyfriends who sit home all day and play video games and eat twinkies; boyfriends who are complete thugs/a55holes; boyfriends who are in prison; boyfriends who are just simply normal guys with pot bellies. People are entitled to be attracted to whomever they want, after all we are all human beings and we do possess the right to choose.

So in this film, Eva has been with Freddy for a long time. As you can see every 5 mins someone asked Freddie whether or not he and Eva was still together.

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Freddy was so hot in this movie! I thought he was gorgeous!

Also, DID NO ONE ELSE SEE THE SHOT OF HER TATTOOS? It was obviously referencing back to her hoodrat days. She had a tattoo of Mike's name and everything. They clearly have a long history together and then she cleaned up her act.

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