December 22, 2009 - 12:46 am
Well, well - yes, this film is visually stunning! And if this movie is original and interesting conceptually, but you know what?
SO WHAT? It takes more than that to make a decent movie. And no, the fingers are liberals who criticize the movie for being too violent and misogynist who do not learn anything.
A / This is not black cinema, but is in a hyper-noir universe, black cinema that does not involve super-human machines of killing an endless parade of scenes featuring little more than super stylish wholesale slaughter. Cinema black is mystery, confusion, moral ambiguity and the dark side of real people, not two-dimensional comic characters.
B / It said the film is based largely on the pulp fiction of the ’40s and ’50s, “although it does in the beginning of a strong process of transformation and distortion (there is nothing in Chandler, as someone suggested), but as fiction might be misogynist, but NO that is not a justification. If you were making a film that was based on the Victorian adventure stories based on the British Empire would be acceptable to degenerate Indians have been portrayed as savages?
Copper and no, it would be so massive offensive massivley this film is offensive. This movie is little more than a hard commitment of masturbation, fantasies of a man’s inner child, a boy who apparently shares much with a lot of other mens kids inside. And this is what I found for about disppointing
the film - which could have been much better.
The cast is great if they get little space to display it. The concept and visual effects that are set for what you believed to be a sensual feast of a movie.
And some of the characters are not far from the record for most noir ISH, mainly Hardigan EST Willis. But there is little real story to speak of, the script was only half finished, and some of the characters were just silly. Mickey Rourke’s Marv Take, for example, you know what a movie can not be exciting, you can not convey a sense of suspense and danger, when the main character is presented as virtually indestructible.
Give the man limits, we do the work within them, which will add the drama and risk. Ultimatley its too much of a tribute, too much of a caricature, and much of a hoax and boring. And violence is not only excessive, its ridiculous.
Yes, it’s a cartoon, but people are being infantilis for films like this, fantasize about being like these characters. Violence is not only well - why do we have a fetish is?
So should not feel guilty that we got to see someone tortured to death? In whose book is entertaining, and have had a recent psychiatric evaluation?
Well, that was a bit of a rave, but the question remains: visuals are not enough. Look at Key Largo, by God, now that the film has drama, suspense, risk, and no special effects.