DVD Talk Forum - Least likable protagonist

DVD Talk Forum (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/)

- Movie Talk (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk-17/)

- - Least likable protagonist (https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/620789-least-likable-protagonist.html)

Re: Least likable protagonist

Quote:

Originally Posted by hanshotfirst1138 (Post 12152420)

I've constantly heard this about the Twilight films (Well, from everyone except Mark Kermode anyway), and I'll be honest, I've never had a girlfriend to drag me to one and never had any interest, so I've simply given them a wide berth. Is Stewart any good in other roles? She took on some more esoteric stuff, presumably to show her acting chops, did any of it pan out well? I don't think I've seen her in anything except SWATH.

She was fine in Panic Room.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abob Teff (Post 12152472)

Not a movie ... But I tried watching East Bound and Down for the first time. The main character is so off-putting that I couldn't even get halfway through the second episode.

That's what makes the character development so satisfying.

Re: Least likable protagonist

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abob Teff (Post 12152472)

Not a movie ... But I tried watching East Bound and Down for the first time. The main character is so off-putting that I couldn't even get halfway through the second episode.

You just cant handle his level awesomeness.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neeb (Post 12150645)

Not a minority opinion. There's an entire genre of literary criticism where the authors do nothing but tear James Bond apart as a stooge of a declining British Empire. I think SKYFALL is possibly their greatest success.

The weird thing about Skyfall is that like The Dark Knight Rises, it does sort of offer lip service to the idea that maybe the world isn't as black and white as it's been depicted, and tries to question the institutions at first. But both films basically end with the stays who more rigidly entrenched than ever and the main character undergoing a sort of rebirth of his super-masculinity. It's weird. Even though M left Silva to be tortured and then he came back for understandable revenge, in the end she dies nobly and we're back to having everyone in place. That being said, it isn't anything new-accusations of fascism (arguably justifiably) have been thrown at all kinds of action heroes-Bond, Batman, Jack Bauer, Dirty Harry, pretty much every superhero. To the point where Starship Troopers mounts a pretty witty satire of it.