Does anyone else find the lead character insufferable?
Dude looks pouty, whiny and lame.
Fassbender saved this film.
Fassbender is the reason to watch but the kid is just that.
He was so infatuated he couldn't see she only loved him like a brother.
Nothing against his face other than he'll grow into it.
Nope. Couldn't disagree more. The kid's a great actor--Let Me In, Young Ones, etc.
I wonder how someone would describe you?
Actors do not have a job...they have a blast!
Did I say anything about the "actor"?
Nope. I said the "character" was insufferable.
And I don't wonder about you at all.
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This was my main problem with the movie. I couldn't stand the kid. And for a while I thought that maybe that was the filmmaker's point. But then towards the end, I had this sinking feeling that we were meant to see him as heroic. And the ending really brought this home. Unless I missed something, Jay was painted as a martyr and Silas remembers him fondly as the guy who changed him and saved his life. And this just ruined the film for me. Fassbender was excellent, as always, but I wish he's in a better western in the future.
shareWell, that was part of the movie. It is more coming-of-age movie than western. I am not sure how the kid should have looked to make you like him more, but I doubt the point the movie wants to make would have come across then.
shareHow is it a "coming-of-age" movie when the protagonist dies before he ages or matures?
Even at the end, he shows no sign of changing when it's clear that the woman he loves does not love him back. He literally defends her to the bitter end.
If anything, the movie's message is that the old west was no place for the weak or fanciful. The margin between life and death is so small, that love doesn't come into the equation. It's survival.
If anything, the movie's message is that the old west was no place for the weak or fanciful. The margin between life and death is so small, that love doesn't come into the equation. It's survival.I see, you paid attention. Fassbenders character says the exact opposite right at the end.
This may be one of the worst "Westerns" ever made. If farce was the intention, then it was a success. A waste of actors, a ridiculous story, just all WRONG, and an insult to the tradition of the Western film genre. Appallingly bad.
shareI absolutely agree.
shareFassbender was the only reason I finished it. That and Ben Mendelson.
I kept wondering why was this film made?
The actor who played the kid looked like he could be Anne Hathaway's baby brother. It was very distracting. I think he was miscast. If the whole point was to get involved with this kid's love odyssey search, then the casting failed.