Up until the first nightclub scene, this movie was superb. Flawless opening, beautiful relationship between the two main characters and most importantly, the dialog was understandable and interesting. Pig and Runt, childhood friends are trouble-making teenagers who are experiencing issues during adolescence. Pig is insane and destructive and probably has a mental disorder of some sort and Runt is rational, calm, tolerates Pig's violence and stands there smiling as he smashes bottles in a liquor store with an iron pole and proceeds to pulverize the cashier's head with a bottle. Only THEN does she say anything at all. I REALLY liked the opening. I had high hopes for Disco Pigs when the holding- hands sequence was shown when the pair were infants up until the present, when they held hands at night through a hole in the wall(?). But from there it just starts getting worse and spirals into making me feel really embarrassed for the main characters because of how bad it was.
Firstly, Cillian Murphy has a TERRIBLE accent. Half the time I couldn't understand it and it didn't sound Irish at all which was strange because he IS Irish. It seems like he overacted a lot in this movie and I was really trying to like it because Cillian Murphy is one of my favorite actors. However I simply couldn't like this because of his awful accent and him acting like a angry retarded (in its most accurate sense) child.
Secondly, well, the dialog gets really bad. The lines "You and me! Pig and Runt! Runt and Pig! King and Queen! You and me BABES!" Were used at least 5 times in the movie. Jesus Christ. And there's more. The sparkling dialog includes hilariously bad lines like:
Runt:"Where are we going Pig?" Pig:"(bad accent)DIS PLACE."
Pig:"Happy birthday Runt!" (1 minute later) Pig: "Happy birthday Runt!"
I know Pig and Runt are supposed to be intense, reckless, us-against- the-world romantic madmen types but its hard to appreciate their screwed up relationship when you have no idea what's going on.
Firstly, Cillian Murphy has a TERRIBLE accent. Half the time I couldn't understand it and it didn't sound Irish at all which was strange because he IS Irish. It seems like he overacted a lot in this movie and I was really trying to like it because Cillian Murphy is one of my favorite actors. However I simply couldn't like this because of his awful accent and him acting like a angry retarded (in its most accurate sense) child.
Secondly, well, the dialog gets really bad. The lines "You and me! Pig and Runt! Runt and Pig! King and Queen! You and me BABES!" Were used at least 5 times in the movie. Jesus Christ. And there's more. The sparkling dialog includes hilariously bad lines like:
Runt:"Where are we going Pig?" Pig:"(bad accent)DIS PLACE."
Pig:"Happy birthday Runt!" (1 minute later) Pig: "Happy birthday Runt!"
I know Pig and Runt are supposed to be intense, reckless, us-against- the-world romantic madmen types but its hard to appreciate their screwed up relationship when you have no idea what's going on.