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Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on March 15, 2009, 09:41 PM:

I'm sorry to say that we spent 2 hours of our lives watching this dog of a movie tonight. It's another one of those artsy, politically correct, self indulgent, plotless Hollywood films that looks like it was shot totally by a teenager with a hand held video camera. What is it with films these days? Not only was there no plot or storyline of significance, the characters in the film were all totally uninteresting or unlikeable, and the camerawork was atrocious - it never stays still, waving back and fore between the actors as they speak. The Director obviously never even picked up a book on basic film making - like using a tripod and keeping the camera still.
What is the point of any film if it is not entertaining. After 2 hours of this film you say "what the hell was that all about?"
The worst film I have seen in the last 10 years - absolute unmitigated crap. But the critics loved it! [Mad]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on March 15, 2009, 11:44 PM:

and what makes this sting all the more is these bozo's who put out this film,(I've seen it as well, my wife thought it would be worth seeing, I owed her one), have the access to make this sort of film ...

meanwhile, I have written at least ten unique spins on at least three genre's ...

... and I can't get a bloody person to even look at these !!!!

MY GAWD!! You can't imagine how frustrating that is !!

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on March 17, 2009, 09:55 AM:

Gets quite a slamming on IMDB actually. One to avoid.

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on March 17, 2009, 02:35 PM:

Jonathan Demme has made a few good films in the past: Melvin & Howard, Swimming to Cambodia, Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, Married to the Mob, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia...
I'm not crazy about what he's done recently, I guess I'll avoid this one.

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on March 17, 2009, 03:46 PM:

Thanks everyone for the warning. [Smile]

Now, if someone had warned me before I saw Redford´s The Horse Whisperer... [Big Grin]

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on March 18, 2009, 05:11 PM:

'Shaky-cam' is a red flag to me. If I hear that's a feature of a movie I don't even watch on TV. Haven't been to the public cinema for some time, anyway.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on March 18, 2009, 08:51 PM:

Another gem [Roll Eyes]

doing the rounds out here is "Confessions of a Shopaholic" almost zero interest in that one, however "Twilight" "vegeterian vampire" [Roll Eyes]

"so I have been told" is still doing very well a bit of a cult film this one, after initially turning a print down as almost everyone was saying how bad it was and later hearing glowing reports from my daughter and our young projectionist, I changed my mind and we got a print. I was even caught by a member of our junior staff watching a bit of it "drat" so there you have it, a movie I thought would be a "big dud" has been a hit with the young ones, even our posters have a long list of potential buyers after the film has finished, later on the trailer is going to a certain member of the upstairs staff [Roll Eyes]

the proceeds of all this goes to the social club, we all went to "lazer strike" last weekend running around zapping each other, oh! I was marked as the most accurate shot [Wink]

well I have gone way... way... of topic [Eek!]

better stop.

Graham. [Smile]

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