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!@#$%! · 03.14.2015, 12:35 PM

oh, i see. i hadn't heard anything about it before-- i was presented with an ugly disc menu with an 80's font and said "whatever, press play". then the movie started and i was very pleasantly surprised. it wasn't a morality play or a character study-- it was a pretty awesome action/noir movie that happens almost in slow motion. action movies require their own sets of expectations though-- just like horror or murder mysteries.

and a great opening scene can't be sustained for a whole movie. take a masterpiece like "touch of evil". that opening sequence is legendary! can you think of any other scene like that in it? of course you can't. touch of evil is a great movie, one of the best ever made, but the superfantastic first scene stands on its own as a mini-film and a great technical achievement.

anyway-- sorry you didn't like it!

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ps- speaking of my own bias/limits, i generally don't like horror movies. i like some horror movies, and i like them a lot, but not the genre itself.

03.14.2015, 12:35 PM	#18624
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	oh, i see. i hadn't heard anything about it before-- i was presented with an ugly disc menu with an 80's font and said "whatever, press play". then the movie started and i was very pleasantly surprised. it wasn't a morality play or a character study-- it was a pretty awesome action/noir movie that happens almost in slow motion. action movies require their own sets of expectations though-- just like horror or murder mysteries. and a great opening scene can't be sustained for a whole movie. take a masterpiece like "touch of evil". that opening sequence is legendary! can you think of any other scene like that in it? of course you can't. touch of evil is a great movie, one of the best ever made, but the superfantastic first scene stands on its own as a mini-film and a great technical achievement. anyway-- sorry you didn't like it! -- ps- speaking of my own bias/limits, i generally don't like horror movies. i like some horror movies, and i like them a lot, but not the genre itself.
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