People like you bore me, oh well i'll just get this over with quickly;
you've yet to make a valid argument against it.
If i had just said, 'The film is SH!T' (which it is), you'd be right.
But i didn't did i? I went in to considerable detail explaining myself. What more do you want? :/ Fail 1
So what if a couple of the characters look a bit different?
So going by your logic it wouldn't have mattered if Harry Potter was casted as a black guy and Hermonie had short ginger hair? Thought so... Fail 2
Would you rather have a terrible actor who 'looked' like Alex Rider than someone who can actually act?
So England have NO blonde 13-15 year old teenage actors, who have brown eyes and are short for their age? And hair dye is never used to cast good actors who have the wrong colour hair? Fail 3
And i don't recall Alex Pettyfyer's acting being ground-breaking anyway... Fail 4
I'd also like to point out that Anthony Horowitz wrote the script. He introduced Sabina in this film so that they could still do the horse chase - it's explained in Point Blanc that Alex himself can't ride a horse. They had to use it to substitute the van chase in the book because Pettyfer was too young to drive.
Major point. None of this makes up for the smelly pile this film ended up as.
Minor point. In films, roads are normally closed or private land is used therefore eliminating the need to have a driver's license. Fail 5
Have a nice day now
Books and movies are apples and oranges, there both delicious but dont taste the same (Steven King) (doesn't mean they should suck though...)
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CooperKid
13 years ago
Coolio, I'll just counter all of your arguments in a pedantic manner as well then:
If i had just said, 'The film is SH!T' (which it is), you'd be right.
But i didn't did i? I went in to considerable detail explaining myself. What more do you want?
You went in to considerable detail explaining that his eyes weren't the right colour, Smithers was meant to be fat and Mrs Jones shouldn't be black. How does that make it a bad film?
So going by your logic it wouldn't have mattered if Harry Potter was casted as a black guy and Hermonie had short ginger hair? Thought so...
Alex's eyes aren't the right colour - well, that hardly matters. Daniel Radcliffe's eyes weren't the right colour but I don't see many people complaining there.
Mrs Jones was never described as being black - but neither did it ever say she was white. they found an actress who could play the role, what difference does skin colour make?
Though I do agree that they could have stuck Steven Fry in a fat suit or something - they really made no effort to make him look anything like Smithers.
And i don't recall Alex Pettyfyer's acting being ground-breaking anyway...
Anthony Horowitz picked Pettyfer himself after seeing him in Tom brown's Schooldays.
In films, roads are normally closed or private land is used therefore eliminating the need to have a driver's license.
Don't look at me, this tidbit was in the trivia section on IMDB, I don't make this stuff up. I guess there were Health & Safety issues or something.
You're only supposed to blow the doors off!
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