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Sep. 8th, 2008 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sua_layWatched two movies last night,
Whoa, what a mistake to watch American Gangster. It wasn't a bad movie per se, but it was totally too long and wrongly paced. Crowe was awesome as usual, though his character didn't seem much of a challenge and Denzel was... Denzel. The characters' dynamics worked way too slowly and then suddenly BFF.
Also, you have a 3 hour movie where someone's an insane criminal and then after 2.5 hours of watching him kill people and be a total egomaniac you're supposed to start to see him as one of the good guys? Sorry. Didn't work.
:) Even the kinda slashiness or at least slashy potential didn't save the movie. Good grief, Ridley Scott! Your movies are sometimes a little soulless, but this was the worst I've seen.
*snore*
Equilibrium on the other hand... A low-ish budget movie with a story that wasn't that original. Good actors. Minimal emotional wangst even though it was all about the emotions. A good contrast between what you want to do and what you had to do.
See, here I am, trying to sound like I was watching it from some moralistic or maybe artistic point of view. When in the end, my head kept screaming GUN PORN and whoa momma Christian Bale looks hot. That boy has such an interesting face and intense gaze, so he fits these kinds of stories perfectly. Also, GUN PORN! Not only gun porn with guns, but gun porn with swords. WEAPONRY PORN!
*drools*
Not that I'm obsessed or anything...
In conclusion: Will most likely watch Equilibrium again. And again. And... Yeah. It was absolutely pornographic with some of the visual aspects, and concentrating solely on one character made it of course all about him.
Won't bother watching American Gangster again. Which is a pity since it had all the elements of a good movie, and yet... Blah.
It's a good thing I'm not an official movie reviewer. :)
Whoa, what a mistake to watch American Gangster. It wasn't a bad movie per se, but it was totally too long and wrongly paced. Crowe was awesome as usual, though his character didn't seem much of a challenge and Denzel was... Denzel. The characters' dynamics worked way too slowly and then suddenly BFF.
Also, you have a 3 hour movie where someone's an insane criminal and then after 2.5 hours of watching him kill people and be a total egomaniac you're supposed to start to see him as one of the good guys? Sorry. Didn't work.
:) Even the kinda slashiness or at least slashy potential didn't save the movie. Good grief, Ridley Scott! Your movies are sometimes a little soulless, but this was the worst I've seen.
*snore*
Equilibrium on the other hand... A low-ish budget movie with a story that wasn't that original. Good actors. Minimal emotional wangst even though it was all about the emotions. A good contrast between what you want to do and what you had to do.
See, here I am, trying to sound like I was watching it from some moralistic or maybe artistic point of view. When in the end, my head kept screaming GUN PORN and whoa momma Christian Bale looks hot. That boy has such an interesting face and intense gaze, so he fits these kinds of stories perfectly. Also, GUN PORN! Not only gun porn with guns, but gun porn with swords. WEAPONRY PORN!
*drools*
Not that I'm obsessed or anything...
In conclusion: Will most likely watch Equilibrium again. And again. And... Yeah. It was absolutely pornographic with some of the visual aspects, and concentrating solely on one character made it of course all about him.
Won't bother watching American Gangster again. Which is a pity since it had all the elements of a good movie, and yet... Blah.
It's a good thing I'm not an official movie reviewer. :)
