It is perhaps not his fault that the Wachowski brothers have ruined him forever. But it's definitely not my fault that he's not a good enough actor to banish the spectre of Agent Smith.
No, that is Peter Jackson's fault. Now, Elrond is kind of a jerk, but he's not the kind of sterile, creepy, profoundly weird-looking jerk that Hugo Weaving is capable of playing. It is no accident that most of Mr. Weaving's recent films have him wearing a mask, or are animated (Transformers falls, effectively, in the latter category).
He's uglier than the back end of a cab. And he has a receding hairline. Now, Haldir was a little bit plain, and Celeborn had that heavy jaw, but elves do not have receding hairlines. The make-up department gave everyone pointy ears or made them into Orcs, but couldn't correct Mr. Weaving's hairline? Did they not notice it while they were tying those stupid little knots in his weave?
Elrond shouldn't be ugly--not because I am shallow, but because he is an elf--and he shouldn't speak in an off-putting nasal drawl. He also shouldn't put people in mind of one of the most surprisingly disappointing film trilogies of all time. It sets the mind rolling on unwelcome parallels.
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You're one of the biggest morons I've had the displeasure to read. Hugo Weaving was cast as Elrond because he's one of the finest actors of his generation, period. No, he's not a vapid pretty-boy actor, but he has his share of female admirers, most of whom are impressed by sheer talent as opposed to pouting male model shallowness. Weaving has done exactly one role in a mask, and 99% of his characters over the years have born no resemblance whatsoever to Agent Smith. Hugo has won three AFI Awards for Best Actor. If you're unaware of his larger career, that's an oversight on your part, and if you can't see beyond the Smith role, you're too poor a judge if acting to be taken seriously. And I look forward to your adolescent whining when Weaving inevitably reprises Elrond in Guillermo del Toro's LOTR prequels.
Anonymous, all you've proved is that there are stupid people out there in the movie-watching public and in the judging panels of acting awards.
Kudos, anonymous, for blowing the pretentiousness quotient of this blog completely out of the water!
Why why why are movie fanatics and music fanatics consistently the most self-absorbed, obnoxious twits on the Internet?
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