Whereas The Game drove me nuts, because it's not sufficiently hinged on the "Oh! That's what it was!" at the end. It just shifted from dumb movie A to dumber movie B.
Ugh. If ever a movie needed to end 40 minutes early, it's that one.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Jessica - Mar 18, 2005 11:08:58 am PST #330 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Scrappy - Mar 18, 2005 11:12:14 am PST #331 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
He was good, ita, he's always good, but he wasn't burned onto my retinas. For me, that's Del Toro's movie--oddly, I think it's the only performance of his I actually LIKE, and I really didn't like the film much.
Jesse - Mar 18, 2005 11:15:36 am PST #332 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And a GREAT cameo by Topher Grace.
More movies could use a great cameo by Topher Grace. Like, all of them that don't already have one.
Sean K - Mar 18, 2005 11:16:25 am PST #333 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I specifically avoided Identity because of what Jessica and Lyra said the twist was.
Do the timelines work out for Identity to be cribbing?
Actually, some people suspect that Charlie Kaufman may have done some script doctoring on Identity, and that's what inspired him to create such a horribly implausible screenplay for Donnie Kaufman to have written in Adaptation.
Sean K - Mar 18, 2005 11:16:51 am PST #334 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Also I really liked Traffic.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 11:19:45 am PST #335 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I liked it, but didn't love.(Did love TG, though) Adaptation? One of my favorite recent films.
Sean K - Mar 18, 2005 11:20:35 am PST #336 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I guess I need twists to be clever to appreciate the movie, but not necessarily the explanations.
Lately I've begun to feel that the twists in most movies are too clever, and become uterly implausible. In fact, I think Hollywood has become over reliant on twists and reversals. I don't think it's absolutely necessary for a movie to show me things I've never ever seen before in any other movie. Sometimes it's okay to show me things I've seen before in a different way, or done better than they were before.
Most movie with "twists" these days just feel like they're trying too hard, and bug me with their excessive cleverness.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 11:21:44 am PST #337 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 11:22:19 am PST #338 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2005 11:23:28 am PST #339 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't know that I'd accuse Signs of excessive cleverness (where were the smart aliens to corrall the invading ones back to the short mothership?), but I too am a bit weary of the Ta Da! school of filmmaking.