Why is everyone mumbling their lines in this film? Is it because they are that embarrased about the whole thing?
I saw this film billed as "This generations Rocky" or something. Well, thats guff, Rocky is this generations Rocky ffs.
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The Mumbling was annoying but the movie was better than I expected.
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I'm the Most Special.
Seriously. About 15 minutes into the movie, I gave up and put on the subtitles. Everyone had marbles in their mouths.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
I think they were trying to show more realistic street dialouge as opposed to the usual clean Hollywood style dialouge. It did not quite work for me but I liked that Fighting was trying for something fresh and new. The music, camerawork and editing made Fighting work for me as a whole.
shareI agree that the camerawork and editing was pretty cool. And I agree they were TRYING to be fresh, but this thing was a mess. The film Kids was fresh, and Montiel's first film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was great. In Fighting he seemed to be trying to put too much responsibility on the shoulders of the actors by getting them to improvise scenes within a watered down, weak storyline.
(Side note: The best equivalent I can give to this is if the cast and director of Raising Victor Vargas (good) was given the script to Take The Lead (average) and told to make it work without having to stick to the script or even rehearse.)
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Well, I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, and had absolutely no difficulty understanding anything that was said. In fact, I thought that Harvey spoke very clearly. All the accents were completely spot-on for the region in which the movie is set.
share'Mumbling' is just the way some actors speak... Not everyone has to have elocution lessons and speak RP. Usually there are subtitles to help out with any difficulty...
Love United. Hate Glazers.
Absolutely. Seriously it should be called 'Mumbling'. I'm guessing about 90% of the audience would have had to have used subtitles when watching sections of this.
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