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30 year olds playing High school kids? Really?


What is up with all the 30 year old actors playing 17 year old kids?!Unless it was filmed ten years ago there is little excuse for that...

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It's called acting.

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"Wipe that face off your head, bitch."

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Acting does not make you look 10 years younger (especially when trying to make 30 year olds look like high school kids) unless you get a *beep* of makeup and CGI, and this movie sure as hell didn't bother with that.

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So hypothetically speaking, just because a person does not look young means they aren't? That's nice logic.

Also, by your logic you shouldn't cast an actor/actress who can hear for the part of a deaf person, or an actor/actress who has no religion for the part of a Christian and that means that you think teens should be played by teens, rapists should be played by rapists, serial killers should be played by serial killers, heterosexuals should be played by heterosexuals, mentally challenged by the mentally challenged and so on. . . that's really nice logic. , and if you say that you disagree with those statements and that's not what you meant, you're a hypocrite for even stating what you said in the main post in the first place when what I just listed are all of the same basic point.

Regardless, what you need to learn is an act called role playing in which actors/actresses all try to pursue a certain character, no matter what their age is.

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"Wipe that face off your head, bitch."

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Well stated. Thanks.

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*EHHHHH* Wrong, dragoneyed. Your "logic" is really just a straw man. You can't look at someone and know they're deaf. You can't look at someone and know they're gay -- well, sometimes -- religious, morally compromised or otherwise. You can tell if Betty White tries to play a pregnant woman... Your examples fail miserably.

The OP makes a good point. Suspension of disbelief breaks down when you see a 30 year old playing a HS kid. Frequently actors play roles of ages that are younger or older, but this particular movie made it obvious.

That said, Erik Christian Olsen is pretty damn funny, and unfortunately I'm not sure that a younger cast could've pulled off the jokes the same way.

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Yikes dragoneyed you really are a little, how should I put it.. stupid?


such is life

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Both lead actors look younger than they are.

IMO it is only a problem when it is obvious the actor or actress is too old for the role.

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As others have posted it's called acting. An actor can be whatever age but a little attitude and some good acting and suddenly you're 10-20 years younger. I would've not have guessed the actor was in his 30s but, again, it's called acting.

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This is nothing new actors that play high schoolers have pretty much always been in their 20s. Eric Christian Olsen has looked the same throughout his career and has been playing High School aged characters for his entire career.

In a few more years he may not be able to play the same roles but for now he passes.


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Yeah it's stupid, but I don't care all that much in a movie like this. If it was meant to be a serious film, it might bother me.

I was surprised how funny I thought this was.

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It's all right with me. They did it well didn't they, that's all that matters, You know there's this Hindi Movie 3 Idiots in which the main character is a Engineering undergrad which was played by 44 year old amir khan. btw point is They don't seem old .

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Ultimately, the movie is a total fantasy - and when we think back on our high school years, we often assume that our younger selves were pretty much like us, only a bit shorter. This isn't true, of course, but that's nostalgia for ya. And the movie plays right into that.

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yes bro

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Worked for me. I can't believe they're in their 30's. They look young.

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