Tiptoes (2004)

At first I was fine with this. Everything felt like it set up normally, but it got strange really fast. A lot of scenes had laughably bad dialogue with characters repeating and overlapping lines with each other, and on top of that, it had really bad audio design to the point where I had to replay multiple scenes with subtitles because I couldn't make out the dialogue. There was also a super obvious fake baby used in the end of the movie that I couldn't help but laugh every time it was on screen.This had a really great cast and I have absolutely no idea why any of the actors ever signed on to this. It was super obvious that Oldman was on his knees the entire time, Dinklage's character has a french accent in this and it's never explained why he's specifically french, or even why his character's in this movie to begin with. Patricia Arquette's character was not developed at all and felt completely out of place. She portrayed her character really strangely and didn't seem to be given any direction whatsoever, so just worked with what she had. Just as with Dinklage, it's never explained why her character is in this in the first place or what her purpose was. Either way, her scenes were easily the best because of how strange her portrayal and line delivery was, it reminded me of Rosamund Pike's over the top acting that made Doom so amazingly bad. Beckinsale really seemed like she was trying, but the writing is so bad that no matter what the dialogue comes out ridiculous. She has really strange lines that no person would ever actually say. Actual lines spoken during a bedside chat with her boyfriend: "do not apply the term 'fucked up' to our child, OK?" "Being a little person hurts?" "Have you ever been involved with a little person sexually?" "so you had a circle jerk with a bunch of little people? I would've loved to see that!" "I think you have a lot of ambivalence about your family being little. It's not healthy and I think you should consider getting some help." "It's not a good thing for a child if he's little to have a father who's ambivalent about little people."By the time that the film ended, I felt unsatisfied. Everything wrapped up fine, it was just extremely underwhelming.

Want to see Selene, Dracula, and Tyrion Lannister in one movie?This movie is the answer.The three are awesome.Matthew looks like Michael Corvin in Underworld, only rougher. He would make a wonderful Michael Corvin, a berserk version of the vampire lycan hybrid that unleashes all its immortal power. Sadly, that would never happen.I have gone off the topic... Anyway, I checked out the movie because of the amazing Kate Beckinsale, who portrays my Underworld vampire goddess Selene. This movie only reminded me of how versatile Kate is. She is able to play a range of characters, from badass vampire to sweet beautiful lady.This story asks a thought provoking question: (how well) can you handle your child being different from other people in terms of their physical appearance?

There's enough of this movie to compel you to venture into it's bizarre premise, but not enough to satisfy you with bizarre things to justify sitting through it all in one sitting. I like bad movies that are fun, the Room, Troll 2. This is not one of those movies. It's an oddity to be sure, but a painful, slow, and awkward oddity that just makes you feel like you wasted a part of your life somehow. It's not bad enough to be funny and it isn't good enough to transcend the odd premise it has going against it.Dwarfs, little people... or whatever the politically correct term is nowadays deserves a better movie to help overcome prejudice people have towards them, but this is a really bad attempt at tackling that topic.Game of Thrones is actually much better at that point of making you sympathize with small people, this just makes you want to have a lobotomy to get rid of the headache you'll have.

Happened upon the movie by chance, but am the kind of person who goes for actors/actresses rather than directors, so when I saw Gary Oldman and Kate Beckinsale, thought I couldn't go wrong, and indeed I didn't!For a while though was wondering where Gary Oldman was, and the thought actually passed my mind that the promoters had actually made a mistake, or that they billed Oldman and that he'd have a cameo later on, just to sell the movie. Was I surprised though when the penny finally dropped!Irrespective of Oldman's part in the film however, the movie gave me tremendous insight into a group of people we all, arguably, don't know much about; sensitivities, problems etc. I strongly recommend it, to be viewed with an open mind.