Quote Originally Posted by Crop View Post
Erm, I'm pretty sure he was told to act that way. If he wasn't, they would have called cut and asked him to reshoot but tone it down. He's an actor, he's not going to act differently based on his costume.
Exactly. It's the fault of the writers and director for making it so obnoxiously cheesy in the first place. The costume did not completely alter his acting, and I don't think the Critic was even trying to make that point; you are taking his comments too literally (and if he was saying that, then he's wrong too). The costume is not a serious concern (hell, I didn't even think it was that bad; are you really trying to say a faithful costume would not be silly?). The writing was the problem.

I think Dafoe did about as well as he could under those circumstances.