Not exact matches
Endless fast
cuts complete with whooshy sound effects, thumping techno bass lines, ugly on - screen graphics, garish colour filters, and * cringe * a hero who talks directly to camera (Michael Caine is STILL the only actor to EVER get
away with that...) Every tacky, irritating and superficial MTV affectation is on display here, in an unbelievably lame attempt to make an american rip - off of a Guy Ritchie heist
movie.
Position
away, O ye spinners: The good news for all who are not awards voters is that this newer, shorter World — shorter, anyway, in the category of languid
movies over two hours — is that it communicates Malick's luminous artistic vision of innocence and loss, wildness and order, risks taken and chances lost, with more clarity than his first
cut.
I found the tension in the
movie to be pervasive with a proper use of
cut aways and suspenseful moments.
You know that
movie where a famous doctor / cannibal / serial killer
cuts open a victim's skull,
cuts away some brain matter w / out killing the guy, fries it up in a hot skillet, and then feeds it again to the victim («that's good,» said the poor schmuck)?
The highlight of the
movie for me was the power
cut, where we are treated to a pitch black screen with the characters chatting
away.
It's actually somewhat enjoyable when following around the documentary crew (which includes Walsh's filmmaker and Callies» meteorologist), but the
movie comes to a screeching halt every time it
cuts away to one of the other subplots.
The
movie then
cuts away to some time later: Amos is the only survivor of an accident that killed ten men, and he sits, cowed and cloudy, in front of questioners, testifying mainly to his lack of any memory of the events that wounded him.
None of the live - action
movies have — though Deadpool 2 could certainly get
away with a Christopher Plummer joke if they just decided to
cut him out entirely at this point — but a voiceover role would be really easy to replace.
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Both of his older brothers had gone on to join the family business, but McConaughey was
cut from a different cloth; he was the hell - raising big dreamer destined to break
away from the pack and who loved
movies.
The original 1977
cut of the
movie prominently features the smuggler blasting Greedo
away, therefore shooting first.
There is also a smart piece of direction, where throughout the
movie, we keep
cutting away to a family man who ends up caught in the firefight at the end, a neat representation of the innocents that the heroes of the
movies, and perhaps in real life, fail to think of, as they take on the «bad guys».
Oftentimes, with dance
movies, the camerawork and editing choices
cut away from the full body, showing us different parts and gestures, trying to generate a sense of excitement and movement through the editing.
While the truly original sets and costumes are worthy of the novel, the producers seem to have made a decision halfway through that the
movie is going to become too long to keep the attention of
movie audiences and decided to
cut away at the storyline.
It was either the action
movie of the decade,
cutting away needless side characters and having a lead character with a very simple motivation: getting his daughter back.
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I think Franco's biggest problem is that a lot of people refused to see the
movie on principle once they realized they would have to watch someone (pretend to)
cut his arm off, and I get that; I didn't want to see it either, but was positively blown
away by the
movie, and Franco's performance, once I did.
This book was the worst of the bunch so far, but they can
cut away alot of the filler for the
movie, and make it good.
Stiller takes the stamp of uniqueness
away from the
movie and undermines his lead character; certainly Walter needs to pay more attention to the world around him, but he completely
cuts off what defined him as a person, and he's so stoic about most of it that it doesn't seem to have an impact; he becomes not an everyman, but a
movie man.
This
movie began to really frustrate me, as it kept teasing for this big climax, but kept
cutting away.