The acting is just appalling
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Green Inferno
zacharyrelliott — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 07:22 PM)
Its really too bad. The film has quality, and Eli has great ideas, but unfortunately it is delivered by the worst group of "actors" I have ever seen. I'm sure it had a lot to do with the distribution issues it had. If they were to get Hostel level talent I think it would have added a better sense of realism to the film. The "California valley girl" voices from the females it enough to make me cringe. Does anyone else agree that the acting was harder to watch than the gore?
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tstumo — 10 years ago(November 28, 2015 09:32 AM)
I'm not one of those people to nitpick but I agree. The banter with the main girl and her friend was rough to watch and even just her interacting with Alejandro before the trip as well. And Jonah too. I think it got much better though when things started happening but prior was very cringe worthy to me
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FawnOmatic — 10 years ago(March 07, 2016 09:13 AM)
I thought Ariel Levy (Alejandro), Ignacia Allamand (Kara), and Nicolas Martinez (Daniel) were all pretty decent. I wish Ignacia would have been around longer.
I notice that the characters I found believable were not Americans. I think because the American characters all seemed so unprepared and just not realistic.
Much of the dialogue was stiff when trying to be funny, vocal fry is always annoying, and they were surprised they would have to beep in the woods and that the threat of gun violence would be real. I didn't find that believable at all. Except for Justine because she was new. -
Props001 — 10 years ago(December 25, 2015 04:09 AM)
Sorry, but the script must have sucked. No guns, but the students all take their time to switch their phones to international calling (there's cell phone towers out there?). The groups leader couldn't convince a ball to roll down a hill, yet they unquestionably follow him completely unprepared into a rain forest? He doesn't mention that it's life or death until they're already there? Not even a knife? A bunch of healthy young adults can't overpower a village of malnourished children, 3 or 4 men and women. The group leader gives up, just get eaten alive, no resistance what's so even? There's more, but I've already wasted enough time in this movie.
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Reznik_T — 10 years ago(February 10, 2016 01:08 PM)
I think the girl who played Justine (who is by the way Eli Roth's wife :)) was great. Her quality of acting was far better than the movie as a whole. Other than that, yeah, these were definitely not the best actors, but even with that, it could have been a much better movie.
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DevilYouKnow — 10 years ago(February 14, 2016 04:58 PM)
No I never heard that expression. And yes the acting in this movie sucked.
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Kyllandra — 10 years ago(February 20, 2016 05:25 PM)
Definitely the worst acting I've seen in a long time and indeed much harder to watch than the gore. If Roth is going to keep giving Lorenza Izzo roles because he's banging her the least he could do is pay for some acting lessons. I mean, why should we have to suffer just because he has a hard-on for this bimbo.
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