Daniel Radcliffe

So, I've been a bit ill these past few days, and, as a result, I'm been spending my time watching a very wide variety of movies. Star Wars, Chick Flicks, Disaster Movies, etc. I've seen things from a woman haplessly falling in an old mine shaft to the destruction of the Washington Monument. I must say, however, that nothing was more curious than something I noticed today. As you may be able to infer from the title of this post, it centers around one, Daniel Radcliffe. I hadn't taken the time to watch the first Harry Potter movie (for those unaware with the series, it's called Harry Potter and the Philanthropist's Throne...or something like that). The reasons for my not watching it are thusly: I remembered not liking it at all, and it gives me indigestion - Too much "wingardium leviosa" for me, if you know what I'm saying. But, being that I'm ill, I figured there couldn't be much more indigestion given, and I had nothing better to do. These were my findings (I don't know if you caught on to that last sentence, but I was meaning it to sound kind of like the thing it says on Law and Order - "This is their story" or whatever. I didn't say it was clever.):

By some weird twist of fate, possibly by repeated ventures into the twilight zone, Daniel Radcliffe seems to have gotten worse at acting with age. Not saying he's old, but you'd think that after 6 movies, he would have learned a thing or two. I'm definitely not saying he's the worst actor out there. I mean, few things are more entertaining than watching Ron Weasley's hyper-cowardice in the second movie. When the shot shows the writing in blood on the wall for the first time, there's definitely something popping, and it's not just Ron's eyes from the shock and awe of the situation. It's probably my...anger..gland or something.

Anyway, back to Daniel. There are certain things that children can get away with, especially when it's their first appearance in a major motion picture. I mean, look at Haley Joel Osment. His performance in Forrest Gump didn't compare with what he did in The Sixth Sense. Granted, the roles were a bit different, but let's be honest: what is the real difference between a wizard-in-training and someone who sees dead people anyway. I don't claim to be any type of movie critic, but Daniel's performance in the Phantasmal Phone was acceptable. But as he aged, his skills didn't, and, in my mind, that's the same as being worse. His cohorts in the movies seem to have improved, but MAYBE he was put under some spell where his skills would not progress until the curse is broken...possibly by falling in love (too cliche), or even if we destroy the jewel hidden in the underbelly of a mystical creature. Now there's a movie! You heard it here first, folks. I am going to free acting skills that have been captured from Daniel Radcliffe, and then we'll see who the real hero is. Voldemort, shmoldemort. I brought back something that people didn't even know existed.