That didn’t bother me as much, though I concede it’s a strange choice of weapons. It didn’t bother me mostly because I can imagine someone who’s really good at archery could probably hurt a lot of people, and they do kind of set up that he’s preternaturally good at archery.
What bothered me was that they didn’t earn the big reveal at the end…what the director clearly intends to be shocking. John C Reilly has, what, six minutes of screen time, where he’s mostly just patting his son on the back and telling his wife to chill out. The daughter is a total cipher…barely in the movie at all. And Kevin is such a caricature of an evil “bad seed” that you can’t possibly have any empathy with him. He’s always leeeering at the camera. It’s just funny and irritating after awhile. I wanted to play a “Kevin makes a face at the audience to indicate sociopathy” drinking game.
Anyway, total failure of a movie.
It’s not that I think I could dodge the arrows and take that guy out, it’s that I hate the way she films it. Like it’s a high school stage play and I’m just supposed to accept the limitations. I mean, I don’t want Legolas at Amon Hen, but I just don’t believe it as it stands, no matter how preternaturally good at archery he’s supposed to be. I just sat there shaking my head in disbelief, because some things just aren’t going to translate from the page to the screen, especially if you cannot make the translation from literal to conceptual (my standard examples being smacking a bunch of glasses of water with a baseball bat). Maybe someone like Julie Taymor could have done it here, but unfortunately Lynne Ramsay could not.
You’re right though. The leering is the worst part.
-xtien
I feel a bit cheated having guessed Screamers.
Well I quite enjoyed WNTTAK.
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Oh, don’t listen to me. Most folks did. Ebert wants to put it on a Best Of list once we all figure out what year it came out. I freely admit I’m out there on this one in that I didn’t just not like it, I loathed it.
But I should probably direct us all over to the relevant thread and leave others to guess Rory’s excellent coming-of-age-on-Mars epic screenshot above while I bump Ratcatcher up to the top of my queue as Rory suggested I do many moons ago.
-xtien
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If it were a purple robe, I’d guess The Little Prince, except that’s a book rather than a movie, and it’s Earth rather than Mars. I expected to see a rover in the background instead of the tree. Can we CG that out?
It actually is a movie as well, but I don’t think it is this particular movie.
I know, I know, but they’re separate movies. And close doesn’t count.
Yupperz. It’s actually quite a good example of the on the nose symbolism one might criticise WNTTAK for but done extremely well, I think.
Cool. I’ll have to put one up later. Can’t get to it just now.
Hence why I should have a folder of these around here somewhere, ready to go…
That’s clearly that nutjob Stephen Baldwin, so is it Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice?
Oh Omniscia. What are we going to do with you.
-xtien
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Huh, the lighting and blur made it look like an 80’s movie, thus my guess. But that does indeed look like a side shot of the grotesquest Baldwin.
I’m begging you to write that script. Now.
-xtien
Bing!
I mean, [Tom]Ha ha, you saw Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice![/Tom]
0% on RT for good reason. Oy. Was that straight-to-video? Do we need to get a ruling on straight-to-video stuff?
Anyway, one terrible movie deserves another…
The new twenty:
-xtien
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Total shot in the dark: The Mist?
