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Las ([personal profile] whynot) wrote2004-06-18 12:15 am
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When Frodo was wee...

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.

Whoa!

[identity profile] juniper-nyne.livejournal.com 2004-06-17 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG!!!
I had never even heard about this movie before but I followed the breadcrumbs - like the ever-curious movie/slash whore that I am - and watched the trailer.
Whooooooaaaa!!!!!
The trailer alone chilled my blood.
Will definitely keep an eye out for it in the video store.

Macaulay - your finest hour and hardly anyone even knows about it; they think you're just that screaming kid from 'Home Alone'.
*sigh*

I was freaked out by tiny!Elijah though - I realised I've never ever seen pics of him from when he was little like that and it was just...weird. Tiny!Elijah but with all the facial expressions and intonation and movements of LotR!Elijah. Arg!

-If the kids in the movie were older, we'd be slashing them like mad.
Their youth, I fear, is not an obstacle to me some...
It's just too obvious!

I support kid actors who don't suck.

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2004-06-17 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a slew of untalented hack kids on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, so it was utterly refreshing to see Wee Wood and Wee Culkin give AMAZING performances. Last time I saw a kid that good was Christian Bale in 'Empire of the Sun'.

Tiny!Elijah but with all the facial expressions and intonation and movements of LotR!Elijah.
omg you're right. O_O Wow.

Now that it's mentioned, I definitely remember reading Good Son fic somewhere... yes, it did have hints of incest...