The Boyfriend
What the hell?
shareAwful awful acting by the boyfriend. Otherwise, fantastic movie!
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Yeah, one minute he's a badass, the next he's in some lame sitcom.
shareI don't think I've ever used this term on any message board or ever in life but ..."WTF". I rented this movie not knowing what it was and watched two thirds of it with a dropped jaw (ok, a bit of an exaggeration but still it was crazy). As for the boyfriend, his character was lame but I think that was the point. He was supposed to be some type of big tough drug dealer only to show when "it" all when down he obviously had never really done anything like that. And, there were signs in the beginning of the movie the pointed to his eventual "bitchassness". I thought the dude, who I've seen be pretty good in other things, played the character well.
sharehe did a wonderful job as an actor, we as the viewer (not all of us white folk, but most.) expected because he was black to fit the stereotype to a T. He wasn't a thug, nor unmoralistic, Brandi (Mena Suvari, in character only.) fit that role. I think that the moral to this story is (relating, or not relating the real life crime.) is that Karma is a bad bitch, what comes around goes around,you will pay...fate, irony, call it what you want, but no bad deed goes unpunished.
shareI understood he was supposed to be a scaredy-cat under all that badassness, but he totally played it over the top imo.
sharedefinately a mis-cast if you were lookin for a street *beep*
more david alan grier than anything
Ha DAG, good reference...you almost expected him to look to the audience for support.
shareHahahaha, he was like DAG, only worse at acting. I agree with most the points made in this post, his character was a waste and provided NOTHING to film, which is hard to do cause this movie was nothing as it is. A horror movie that's not a horror, somewhat of a thriller, and that tried to have bursts of drama, with very choreographed comedic moments that were supposed to be dark comedy. Almost nothing redeeming about this movie...
"Look, it's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care..." - Peter Gibbons
All drug dealers aren't badasses. -
I think people are making him out to be a "Thug" - But he was just a half-ass drug dealer/player. -
"And what was it last time? Didn't know what the box was?" - The Female Cenobite in Hellbound
I thought his transformation from Billy Badass to bumbling coward was hilarious.
By Grabthar's hammer...what a savings.
I agree. It seems like have the people here completely missed the point of his character and are just plain horrible at reading people. That role was acted perfectly to portray what Stuart Gordon wanted out of it.
i.e. a coward who acts like a badass for the people that still don't get it.
Exactly, most missed the point here. Remember when she tells him she hit the homeless guy, and he laughs and says he's done much worse, multiple times? He says he's killed people in worse ways. So, because she's a friggin' idiot, she believes this and expects him to "take care of it" because he's done this a million times before. But he was lying to look like a bigshot. I thought it was fairly obvious, really.
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