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Birdland · 03-24-2003, 11:20 PM

Hmmmm, I just rented "Ash Wednesday", and gave up watching it after a half-hour. For one thing, the movie was impossibly sloooow. (OK, OK, people saw the kid. We get it. Let's move on now.)<P>I can appreciate E.W wanting to take the role of a lower-class Irish Ghetto kid. It's a sign that he understands the dangers of typcasting, especially when you've been in a extremely popular film where your face is associated with a particular type of character. The character of young "Sean" is about as far away from "Frodo" as you could get. <P>Unfortunately, if you are going to play someone who has grown up in New York, you would think the actor would make some attempt at feigning a New York accent. I didn't "see Frodo" when E.W. was on the screen, but I <I>heard</I> a nice midwestern teenager that had grown up in the suburbs and attended a good public school. Not one of his finest moments on the screen, IMHO.

03-24-2003, 11:20 PM	#11
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	Hmmmm, I just rented "Ash Wednesday", and gave up watching it after a half-hour. For one thing, the movie was impossibly sloooow. (OK, OK, people saw the kid. We get it. Let's move on now.)<P>I can appreciate E.W wanting to take the role of a lower-class Irish Ghetto kid. It's a sign that he understands the dangers of typcasting, especially when you've been in a extremely popular film where your face is associated with a particular type of character. The character of young "Sean" is about as far away from "Frodo" as you could get. <P>Unfortunately, if you are going to play someone who has grown up in New York, you would think the actor would make some attempt at feigning a New York accent. I didn't "see Frodo" when E.W. was on the screen, but I <I>heard</I> a nice midwestern teenager that had grown up in the suburbs and attended a good public school. Not one of his finest moments on the screen, IMHO.