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More believable: Elijah Wood as a brawler or


the existence of real life hobbits??

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Hobbits for sure!

Some say his earwax tastes like Turkish Delight, all we know is, hes called The Stig

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Elijah Wood as a brawler of course, I mean come on no hooligan is really hard on their own. Stick any one of them in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson and let's see what happens.

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born slippy

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Exactly right. Most Hooligans can't fight. Go watch the videos and most of them are cowards and run away from each other, or do girly kicks and wild windmilling "punches"

The first few punches Frodo threw in the film were very realistic. THat's how most hooligans throw "punches"

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he was in with the 8 or 9 hardcore followers of a firm, with his size hed need be more fierce, aggressive, pittbullish, he doesnt have enough of a mean tough guy glint, or the size, if your bit wimpy you need to be a great big heffer, if your little you need to be foaming at the mouth. he doesnt fit the bill im sorry but that and charile dunnhams atrocious accent are the 2 main drawbacks on the movie. i love charlie from his time on sons of anarchy, but i just dont get how an english guy can do a flawless american accent for several seasons, but fail dismally at a city accent of his own nation lol, guess hes had better speech training since, but i cant help thinking he cringes at this movie. and again nothing against mr hobbit, but if you saw him caught up in the mix after a match, youd have to stop for a minute to laugh. impossible to resist. i imagine the real harcore firm memebers reacting as cartman did on south park to the motivational speaker who suffers from dwarfism, just bursting into laughter even as he threw punches.

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whoa...i dunno how "flawless" his american accent is..dont think its very good.

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Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.

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Completely agreed with madnesspersonified!
Hooligans are only tough in group, when they're alone is another story...

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

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Who the hell is Charlie Dunnhams? If your going to diss the guy at least get his name right.

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guess it proves my point that hes not memorable enough, if i thought he was great, id know his name.

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That's your opinion and you are entitled to it. Somebody must of liked him by casting him for the lead in SOA which is one of the more popular shows on T.V. I thought the accents were a little over the top in Green Street Hooligans too but overall I thought it was a good movie. I was just busting your balls any how, no harm meant by it.

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of course its only an opinion, everything in television cinema and acting as a whole is subjective and yeh i like him in soa which is why its weird to me that he seems to do american better than a regional accent of his own country but hey theres plenty of bad accents in cinema, hes hardly alone.

no harm taken bud.

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this is total bs
every club has hooligans, some are pussies, but there are a lot of tough guys who work out and are not afraid

for me, this was unreal with Harry Potter in this role

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKyuVvMCJ0
Russia is extreme, but this is not for harrypotters

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@Melhgum - Harry Potter?? do you mean Frodo?

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Lol. You can't just use Mike Tyson as an example of what makes someone tough. Hell, you can stick 99% of the world population in the ring with Tyson and they'd get killed.

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I thought this movie proved both?

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Brawler for sure and he acts it out too absolute perfection, with his innocence at the beginning, and then loosing it as the film progresses which makes his journey all the more credible. As he like many others gets addicted to the buzz that fighting gives our more primal urges.

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Brawler.

I need a girl whose name doesn't end in .JPG

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brawler son

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he should have used his invisiblity ring ... he would really have been able to kick some ass when the other guys couldn't see him ... or avoid the fight altogether which would have been far more realistic for him ...

it's a good movie ... it doesn't cover any new ground or give any new insights for sports fan violence or gang behavior but they did a good job with it all-in-all ...

but seriously, if i was in the opposing firm and saw him, he'd be the first guy i went for ... i know i could kick frodo's ass (as long as sam or gandalf weren't around lol) ...

someone with a bit more size and smaller eyes would have made it more believable ... that guy has huge eyes ... i thought it was a bit of a special effect in the hobbit movies but i guess it's not ... they are huge

but watching the fights and such, he was never really in them thick and kicking the hell out of someone else or getting his own clock cleaned ... just some punches here and there ... the lead guy pete was far more believable and was given a lot more 'violent choreography' than frodo ... he really made it believable when he was fighting


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cormac


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so I named it Otis Redding"
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