Wasn't his son such a pansy?
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katesgram2000 — 16 years ago(May 24, 2009 02:26 PM)
As he was talking to his dad and calling him Daddy and referring to his mom as Mommy I turned to my husband and said "That kid is way too old to be calling his parents Mommy and Daddy". It just sounded so stupid- they either needed to change his dialog or get a younger actor.
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jhbt0805 — 16 years ago(August 02, 2009 01:13 AM)
It truly was surreal seeing the kid calling O'Niel and wife Mommy and Daddy when he looked about 10 or 11. But wasn't the kid's voice dubbed? Looking at the cast page and clicking on his name, it appears the kid was a British actor like the wife. A dub might explain the terrible delivery. I don't know why they decided to hire three British/Irish people for the family and then give the boy an American accent.
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saint665 — 16 years ago(August 12, 2009 02:43 PM)
Y'know, I showed this film to a friend of mine a short while ago (first time I'd seen it in years) and the same thought struck me. Every time he called O'Neill "Daddy" I just wanted to slap him.
Anyone think the kid's "pansiness" is Exhibit A that the wife was cheating on O'Neill while he was out of duty?
"An old lady on Main Street last night picked up a shoe. The shoe had a foot in it. We're gonna make you pay for that mess." - Hank Quinlan -
rooprect — 16 years ago(December 28, 2009 09:10 AM)
I thought they purposely made the kid a pansy. A few years ago I saw a Discovery Channel show about how children would be if they were born & raised in space.
For one thing, the low gravity would hinder their bone development, so they would beliterallysoft.
Also, the hyper-sterile, closed environment would basically turn them into bubble boys. No immunities, no resistance to the simplest of germs.
And of course the lack of gravity would also stunt their muscular development, and they'd be puny 98 lb weaklings.
The show didn't project what their brains/personalities would be like, but we can assume the lack of sensory input & freedom would make them dimwitted & fearful creatures.
Add the fact that his father is never home, and he's raised exclusively by his mother for 10 years.
Duh, of course he's going to be a momma's boy. The filmmakers did a great job of portraying this (even though the exploding bodies may have been a lil over the topbut we'll let that pass because it looked really friggin cool). -
UtopianUK — 16 years ago(March 12, 2010 02:40 PM)
The kid did spoil things a bit, because he didn't come across as heart-warming - more like irritating and babyish. He wasn't convincing; I don't think any kid acts like that. All the "mommy" "daddy" "I love you daddy" - was too sugary and nauseating.
Any normal kid of that age wants to be taken seriously, so has grown up a bit, and would just say "Mom & Dad" and would hopefully not be sooo mushy.
I guess the writer didn't have a good grasp of what kids are like. Maybe he wanted the kid to appear lovable, but definitely got it all wrong. I would have made the kid more normal - more like you'd expect Connery's kid to be like. -
dchipman — 16 years ago(March 31, 2010 10:14 PM)
I would have to disagree with most of you. The kid was an immature little whimp because where he had grown-up The parents may have been fine, but the environment on a space outpost is probably a bad place to raise a kid (it's too dangerous a place for a kid to grow-up normally).
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jstang411 — 15 years ago(July 26, 2010 10:45 AM)
Perhaps they were trying to puncuate the point to Connery and us that the kid needed his father. Otherwise he'd grow up without Connery showing him how to be Connery and use the Mom as his role model instead.
Sweetly innocent and obviously cloistered in space for a long time with no contact with many of his age.