Poor acting
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flapjackashley — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 04:25 PM)
When I was younger, I remember thinking his mother was a total b*tch. But upon watching the blu-ray a couple times (once for the movie and once for the commentary), I actually saw a bit of humanity out of her, especially when she expressed human concern with Dennis in the driveway after Arnie ditches him and she talks about the death that happened in Christine.
There is a short deleted scene of her crying and showing concern for Arnie while he is sleeping that I think should have been left in to further humanize her. -
benGsboat — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 06:00 PM)
Agree, ccr I particularly liked the scene with Junkins questioning Arnie about Christine getting trashed. Gordon was convincingly intense, and more than held his own with HDS.
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RobsBottin — 9 years ago(August 23, 2016 06:47 AM)
I disagree. Keith Gordon showed he has enormous range and with no formal training he rose to the challenge.
Christine destroyed the chemistry between his best friend and his girl friend, nothing was going to get in the way of Arnie and Christine. I thought that dynamic was fairly obvious, no?
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bigwheels-38341 — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 01:07 PM)
That scene towards the end where he's driving with Dennis & talking about how deep his love for Christinetotally his best scene in the film. His whole demeanor was truly scary in that scene. Keith Gordon is an amazing actor!
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ecmblume — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 09:41 AM)
I very much disagree with this topic. Shallow and pedantic.
Keith Gordon was outstanding. His transformation has not received the notoriety it should have. Robert Prosky creates a very memorable character in a bit part. In fact, many of the small parts were very well acted. Harry Dean Stanton, Roberts Blossom, and William Ostrander all stand out. The scene when Arnie attacks his father is very chilling. That meek little nerd now has his dad by the throat calling him a mofo? What movie were YOU watching?
People sometimes overlook that was a John Carpenter movie. He usually was able to coax believable performances from actors in well crafted genre films.
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