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Fair warning to Damien whose favored son appears in Daybreakers.
While the concept was one that could have been executed with some great style and conviction, it is neither. It's laborious and ludicrous. The performances are about what you would expect, but the plot takes so many concepts and tries to make a film with meaning, but ends up mucking it all up with fancy action sequences and copious amounts of gore.
But, this is what happens when you let visual effects artists direct a movie, they don't focus on plot or character, they focus on effect and even with their experience, the effects are pedantic and old hat, stealing often from The Matrix and hoping that another pair of brothers directing a movie about a semi-futuristic world could be a success. Studios need to be smarter, but we all know that isn't going to happen.
Of course, I always seem to start out my new year with the first movie being absolute crap. I kind of expected it going in, but it would have been nice to discover the next Gattaca or Dark City...
While the concept was one that could have been executed with some great style and conviction, it is neither. It's laborious and ludicrous. The performances are about what you would expect, but the plot takes so many concepts and tries to make a film with meaning, but ends up mucking it all up with fancy action sequences and copious amounts of gore.
But, this is what happens when you let visual effects artists direct a movie, they don't focus on plot or character, they focus on effect and even with their experience, the effects are pedantic and old hat, stealing often from The Matrix and hoping that another pair of brothers directing a movie about a semi-futuristic world could be a success. Studios need to be smarter, but we all know that isn't going to happen.
Of course, I always seem to start out my new year with the first movie being absolute crap. I kind of expected it going in, but it would have been nice to discover the next Gattaca or Dark City...
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
Wow, I sure do...this thing is just...weak sauce. However, I feel this shouldn't register as mattering though, kind of like one of those Tyler Perry disasters that inevitably makes more money than is fathomable. Doing this shit on a regular basis is why Chris Rock mocked Jude Law so harshly, much to the chagrin of unfunny Sean Penn.Sabin wrote:Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie) - 7.5/10
Don't understand the backlash against this movie. At. All.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)- Guy Ritchie- I feel about this like Sabin feels about Julie & Julia- who gives a rat's ass
And, thank you so much Reza for coming as close as I've seen to being baffled by Up In The Air's success...I don't know if there is a critic out there I understand nowadays outside of maybe John Waters...is he literally the only one who isn't strictly a whore...or just so happy go lucky that nothing is offensive or underachieving in his/her mind (Ebert)?
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Is the DVD already out? Amazon says it will be released on February 23.Precious Doll wrote:Yes, by ITV in the UK. However it has been doing the festival circuit during 2009. I don't know what it was actually filmed on but it looked great on DVD.Reza wrote:Is this sequel a made for tv film?Precious Doll wrote:An Englishman in New York (2009) Richard Laxton 7/10
Sequel to The Naked Civil Servant has the great John Hurt repeating his role as Quentin Crisp living in New York during the last two decades of his life. It's not as interesting as the earlier film, partly because it's set during a period that I lived through myself, though it has some very moving moments.
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Yes, by ITV in the UK. However it has been doing the festival circuit during 2009. I don't know what it was actually filmed on but it looked great on DVD.Reza wrote:Is this sequel a made for tv film?Precious Doll wrote:An Englishman in New York (2009) Richard Laxton 7/10
Sequel to The Naked Civil Servant has the great John Hurt repeating his role as Quentin Crisp living in New York during the last two decades of his life. It's not as interesting as the earlier film, partly because it's set during a period that I lived through myself, though it has some very moving moments.
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