When Frodo was wee...

[whynot]

So, I watched The Good Son on Star Movies and was reminded again just how much I crazylove that movie. I LOVE IT, YOU HEAR?! The two kids' performances just completely blow me away. BLOW ME!

...AWAY!

It came out in 1993 and the summary is like, "When his mother dies, Mark Evans (Frodo Baggins) is sent to live with his aunt and uncle for a while, where he meets his kuhraaaayzay cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin), who does kuhraaaayzay shit and freaks Frodo out."

Many reviews don't like it. They were like, "OMG! But they're kids! My morals can't take it!" Which is understandable. My biggest problem, though, is probably that the little sister was annoying and Henry's existentialist monologue sounded too... uh, existentialist? for a ten-year-old or however old he was?. Anyway, the bad reviews make me sad. So I will stop reading them. Instead, I will express my love in bullet point form:

-Whee!
-I'm curious about this The Bad Seed movie the reviews keep harping on about.
-Culkin was good in this one. So what the hell was Party Monster? Maybe they beat him up with the "can't act" stick before every scene or something.
-It kind of reminds of a pint-sized Murder By Numbers, which brings me to my next point.
-If the kids in the movie were older, we'd be slashing them like mad.

Comments

[queenofhell.livejournal.com]

Dude. I adore The Good Son. I have this AU in my head where Henry doesn't die, but insead gets sent away to a counselling center and comes back when he's, like, fifteen. And everyone's like, "Oh, we trust him again, I guess" but Mark is all freaked out and paranoid because Henry is kind of creepy, and then they have hot cousinsex, and Henry is still kind of a sociopath. Big Gay Pre-Teen Murderer, Henry is.

As for Macaulay's acting...well, he did Party Monster after a five- or six-year hiatus, so he was maybe a little rusty. But I think he was actually supposed to be acting like that, a little bit fake. I thought it was the funniest shit ever, and when he actually had to do emotional scenes, he could totally play them. He acts more with his face and his body than he does with his voice. Also, you should see Saved! Totally convinced me that he's still an actor.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I support your AU endings. *thumbs-up, manic grin*

Yes, I have heard of this Saved!... In fact I think I heard it on your journal. I'll keep an eye out for it. And you're right about the not acting with the voice thing, I say. Mac had one way he'd say sentences on Party Monster and he said every line the same way omg.