loved the comics, but this just doesnt work as a film. posted all my thoughts in the watchmen r5 thread (seriously, can we rename that one now plz? thnx )
overall, film was a letdown... 3 hours runtime, and it still felt rushed while managing to feel poorly paced... i think its a combination of the story not being fit for the movie medium, and the filmmakers not really have a full grasp of the subtleties of the story/dialog/characters...
Bruno 9/10
Never think I laughed that much watching a film in the cinema. Almost fell out of my chair grasping for air a couple of times, I know, but now is not a good time to give up smoking
Spoiler:
"I want to be the most famous Austrian since Hitler"
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"How far can you put that up the poopenschafte before its dangerous?"
Chinatown - 9/10 , great direction and especially cinematography , the ending is somewhat puzzled tho , i expected more resolution , but it's nice to see it was bleak and sudden ..
Chinatown - 9/10 , great direction and especially cinematography , the ending is somewhat puzzled tho , i expected more resolution , but it's nice to see it was bleak and sudden ..
directors wife was murdered
so the ending of the movie reflects how he feels and how he reacted and what not.
it's still a resolution and ending to the movie but primarily reflects how polanski felt after his wife died.
Chinatown - 9/10 , great direction and especially cinematography , the ending is somewhat puzzled tho , i expected more resolution , but it's nice to see it was bleak and sudden ..
directors wife was murdered
so the ending of the movie reflects how he feels and how he reacted and what not.
it's still a resolution and ending to the movie but primarily reflects how polanski felt after his wife died.
that was 4 years (1969-1973) after though ... I thought the ending had more to do with repeating the scenario that caused Nicholson to become a private detective?
this seems to sum it up well, they just call the ending typical polanski...
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In addition to trimming and tightening Towne's screenplay in an effort to make it less convoluted and more focused, Polanski insisted on enhancing the romantic relationship between Nicholson and Dunaway, which helps to further illustrate the concept that Nicholson's character is inadvertently repeating his past. To the same end, he altered Towne's conclusion. Towne's original script not only did not conclude in Chinatown, but it ended on a very different, upbeat note with Dunaway's character (Evelyn Mulwray) surviving and her loathsome monster of a father dead; justice triumphs and Evelyn and Jake go off into the pre-smog L.A. sunset together. Towne to this day disdains Polanski's downbeat finale, which is set in Chinatown, as a too-literal and ghoulish example of "bleak chic." But it is Polanski's ending that transforms the film from a polished, superbly acted evocation of the vanished pre-World War II milieu of Hammett and Chandler into a detective story of considerable and disturbing power—a seminal film of the 1970s. Indeed, it is difficult to conceive of Chinatown ending any other way than it does. Polanski's alteration gives the film its meaning (troubling though it may be); it's what the story is all about.
when it came out i thought "oh boy, another lame try at sci-fi... heroes go save a dying sun, whatever". but, even tho the science is shit (who cares anyway, its a movie), it is a brilliant flick, 1 hour in i had forgotten they are trying to reignite the freaking sun with a rather large nuke and was concentrating on the mind-fcking.
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really at first when i heard about it when it came out i thought "oh boy, another lame try at sci-fi... heroes go save a dying sun, whatever". but, even tho the science is shit (who cares anyway, its a movie), it is a brilliant flick, 1 hour in i had forgotten they are trying to reignite the freaking sun with a rather large nuke and was concentrating on the mind-fcking.
Those Solar shots are godlike, the movie could very well be only about those shots, I still dream with them.
You watched it in HD right?
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
- Benjamin Franklin - 1759
The Hangover (the P2P release - about dvdscr quality) - 8/10
Awesome movie but it take some time before it really starts. LOL @ the final credits with the party pics - some of them are fucking epic! Too bad im not sure i saw them all (the credits cut out and im not sure that's the end of them).
This movie is a must see!
Terminator 4 - 7/10 - Well, wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but the magic is long gone from the Terminator series. The fake Arnold scene was I think corny and very awfully executed, including the obligatory "It's getting way too pricey, so let's damage his face and stop using Arnold's face" scene. Moon Bloodgoodbloogdoog can't act.
Sneakers (1992) - 8.5/10 , great caper flick , sure it's full of BS but it works so well , cast really does a great job , so does the soundtrack and visuals . i always like this movie since i saw it as a kid.
The Ruins - 6/10 - These flicks where some tourists, usually not so bright Americans, go to some random place, and everyone wants to eat, cut, rape, skin, dismember and or consume are very silly to start with, but this one is one of the sillier. The reason I give it a 6/10 and something lower, is for good acting, something usually unheard of in these kinds of flicks, gore done convulsively well (unlike Hostel, for instance) and good looking girls.
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Too bad im not sure i saw them all (the credits cut out and im not sure that's the end of them).
