Eisenberg ruined the movie for me!
He looked more like a computer geek in the movie,always the same,he never has a different look...also,there was zero chemistry between him and kristen.i wish someone else had been cast...any suggestions?
getting a hooker looked so fake for him
I only like Eisenberg in "The End of the Tour."
I think the hooker scene was awful. It'd only work with Woody himself doing the scene, not with a bad & young imitation...
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I guess I'm a rare Eisenberg fan.
I though the reason the hooker scene came across so badly is Eisenberg looks better than Woody. It was a good impersonation of Woody's socially inappropriate, awkward, cringe-worthy behavior in a scene like that. But the fact that Woody Allen is so short and strange looking makes him seem less hostile and more weird, and thus funny. Eisenberg is tall and, while not movie-star handsome, is definitely more attractive. I think that makes his behavior towards "Candy" seem more cruel than just painfully geeky. Woody needs to stop writing for himself. Only he could have played some of the roles he keeps writing, they don't always work for other actors.
I think the film suffered more from poor character development than any flaw in Eisenberg. It did manage to hold some of the charm of classic Allen films, and I liked it for that. Plus, while I normally find Kristen Stewart wooden and irritating, her style seems to work with Woody's dialog.
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Nice post, I agree with you.
shareI think this nails, for me, that particular scene best. If the whole movie had been an out-and-out farcical comedy, then it would've worked. It came across more as 'Look at how Woody I can act' and was completely out of tune with the rest of the flick. Allen and Eisenberg's public and movie personas are so far apart - The Social Network was so good/popular/Zeitgeist it set the tone (and typecast, somewhat) a successful start to a career - to fight against that with performances like this is possible if you're a very good/popular actor, and the jury is still out as to whether he is.
Also, back to your point; someone who's a total misfit and rarely/never been intimate with a woman would act a lot less comfortable than someone who's average-to-good looking and probably has.
One last point; them arguing over whether to go ahead or not was very good writing.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
He ruined The End of The Tour too.
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