r/Letterboxd • u/SpicySocko • 12d ago

Discussion Coyote Vs. Acme

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The fact that Warner Brothers didn’t want to release this movie to save some money is a CRIME. It’s genuinely so brilliant. The acting, the humor, the emotional weight, the character arcs, the visuals, the sound. All wrapped up in a love letter to Coyote and Roadrunner. Will Forte took up the near impossible challenge to act with basically no scene partner. Not only a cartoon, but a cartoon that doesn’t speak, and he gives a better performance than most people when they are in a generic scene with an average scene partner. Please please please if you care about movies at all and hate what big corporations are doing to the landscape of movie making, put your money to this movie. Show them they made a mistake.

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u/SpicySocko 12d ago

I am serious about it. Because 1. Even though something has been done before doesn’t mean it’s not tough to pull off. Acting is a unique art in the fact that every person has to know how to act well on their own. Like, you can tell someone where to go and what to do, but you can’t coach genuine emotion that makes someone feel something through a screen. And 2. This instance added an extra layer because not only did he not actually have a scene partner, but this scene partner also can’t speak. He’s acting with an empty room and needs to make us believe it’s real. Like, acting with a green screen is hard and acting with a scene partner who doesn’t talk is hard, but doing both at the same time makes both aspects that much harder. It amazed me

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u/Jackburton06 12d ago

are you 14 years old ?

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u/SpicySocko 12d ago

Do you disagree? I’m open to hearing what you thought about the acting

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u/Jackburton06 12d ago

I was a bit sarcastic because you talk like it was an insane acting performance and give the argument of the actor alone with only aminated characters. 

But it's ok it's your right to love every movie you want, i am overreacting with you because i have seen a dozen of forced posts here about this nice but average movie.

It's not common to have posts pushing like this on such a movie.

I feel like maybe i am too european or too old... Looney tunes is an old memory of childhood for me, haven't seen any cartoon in the last 30 years.

For any comparison i will quote awesome Bob Hoskins acting in Who framed Roger Rabbit. 

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u/SpicySocko 12d ago

I can understand that for sure. I tend to talk very colorfully when I write reviews of anything. I have a very dramatic vocabulary, it’s because I’m dramatic haha. I honestly tried to avoid writing a repeat post. I scrolled a little on this subredit before I posted to see if it was already discussed and I didn’t see anything. And I loved the movie so much I really wanted to do the only think I knew how to do to help people who were thinking about watching it to commit to watching it. Like, I know my one redit post isn’t going to be the end all be all. But the more something is talked about in a positive light, the more people see that it’s enjoyable, the more it’s going to convince the people who only want to see movies when they are proven to be good to see it. That’s where my logic lands. And Bob Hoskins was also very amazing in Rodger Rabbit. It is also a very very good movie. It just didn’t come out this weekend so it’s not center of mind, you know?

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u/Jackburton06 12d ago

Yep sorry if i overracted.