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Sorry, I can't accept Chloe as Mia


I've been trying- really trying! I like Chloe in Let Me In, Carrie, and the KickAss movies but this.. I can't. I had the book cover model in mind, pretty with a slender face and dark hair, but it's not even that. It's that Chloe looks like a little girl and her acting doesn't save her looks any. Ahhhh so disappointing that I've waited years for this and she'll ruin it for me! In my defense, everyone I've talked to says she's very "meh" to them too and since the lead male isn't some heart throb, there's no pull for the general teenage audience. Oh well.

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Everyone you talked to is pretty cueless then. She's a fantastic young actress who has been pulling off older than her years characters for a long, long time

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Her husky deep unappealing voice and childish face makes it hard for her to convincingly play Mia.

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Your statement is a bit contradictory. She seems too young to portray a teenager convincingly, but her voice is husky and deep? Those two don't connect.

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She looks like she is 15 so no.

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You're complaining that a teenage girl is being portrayed by a teenage girl?

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I 100% disagree. I think Chloe is beyond perfect. I don't think she looks like a little girl at all and I'm way past wanting actors to look exactly like the book described.

The guy playing Adam, however, I can't see it at all. I'm hoping my mind will change when I see the movie but from the trailers, I just don't see it.

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Moretz is not only too young for the role but doesn't exude that awkward shyness that Mia has.

Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite...

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That's why Carrie 2013 sucked so bad, her acting and the fact she looked like a 10 year old.

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I was excited at first, but I hope she can pull it off. I love Chloe, but some parts in the trailer are bad lol.
Adam isn't even cute imo. Since the studios are trying to make it some big love story, they could have gotten a better heartthrob.

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It's just like Carrie last year: Chloe's name will bring in extra dollars and an audience that wouldn't come otherwise. It's simple modern-day movie-making economics discovered by RedLetterMedia in his Star Wars Episode II review. That's why Samuel L. Jackson was in the prequels, that's why Chloe Moretz is in crap like Carrie and If I Stay: MONEY!

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the guy playing adam is a UK stage and screen actor as well as a musician.. so ya no the american audiances do not know who he is! i had no clue who he is till i wikipedia searched who he is and found out he has musical tallent.. thats why he was cast in the roll as adam.

as for mia and her cello. i agree at what point did chloe learn to play the cello??? telling me oh she had to learn 3 songs in 12 to 6 months will not cover it for me.

now since we wanna get technical and go reality based lets go there!

thats another thing that threw me off and i ignored tossing it up to the romeo and juliette law. (its the law that states an adult over 18 can date a minor as long as the minor is at max 4 years of age in diffrence i.e. a 21 yr old can date an 18yr old or an 18 yr old date a 15yr old. it's designed to protect kids who are in love from their a hole parents who don't want their kids being with the other person due to age so they wait till one turns 18 then they call the police the same day.)

the film never explains the age of adam but we are led to believe he just turned 21 as he drinks at his gigs (no seriously he walks into his nightclub gigs and the bartenders just pour him shots or hands him a beer or he's out on a date and is drinking a beer!!) which means mia just turned 19??.

but if that is the case so what adam was a 19 yr old senior?

no i'm not kidding the film takes place over the course of 24 hours (in the hospital) and flash backs 1 1/2 to 2 years (for her family and adam) she even states this to her mom!!
"i broke up with adam we've been together for over a year and a half and its over.. just like that i don't understand your supposed to break up with people when your no longer in love with tham not when your deeply in love with them!!"

okay ill stretch it to 2 years dateing.. thats still makes adam what a 19yr old senior and mia a 17 year old junior..

i don't understand the math..

at best adam is 20! and mia is 18! (during the events at the hospital) and they met when he was 18 and she was 16 and he took her virginity somewhere between so i'd say she was 17.. and him 19

this is makeing my brain hurt to think about.

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