― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
"I've heard this forest is full of dragons"*woosh of flame, flap of wings sound*"Do you think that might have been a dragon?" - in other movies, this is called comic relief, but Spielberg thinks it is necessary, because he thinks that all of us are in the 2nd grade.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
The reason I thought the film was middling was because I didn't feel it was as successful as several other thematically similar films I've seen on expressing the human consequence of violence escalation and revenge in a public setting. If I was judging the film as a geopolitical thriller, I'd give it higher marks actually!
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
in other words, yeah it's about violence and revenge, but it's not trying to be Aeschylus.
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I was shaking at the end of the film, feeling mournful and depressed in a way that wasn't touched by A History of Violence, to name a stylistically dissimilar film that trivialized the Cycle of Slaughter theme.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Interesting comparison in terms of themes, that one didn't occur to me at all (insert joke about immemorability here). Even down to the contrasting semi-bookend sex scenes being used to illustrate the downward spiral!
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha this doesn't explain anything to me! ;)
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Ed Harris and William Hurt were definitely the best parts of the movie; I think part of the reason the film ultimately left me cold was that I just didn't like Viggo and wifey at all. AHOV does a fantastic job atmosphere building, Harris esp. is totally creepy and tense-creating.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The relationship (esp the sexual) b/w Viggo and Maria Bello was the most compelling part of the movie.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
No, I don't want to see a 90-minute "earth not flat" film either.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
It is thoroughly possible that my dislike for Viggo (and Eric Bana, for that matter, they kind of are similar in my mind) colors perceptions here!
otm on score.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Munich shows that the international death industry, presumably motivated by nationalism and securing the primal hearth, is actually just a big unstoppable economy (feeding families like "Papa" Michel Lonsdale's).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I liked that angle and the interactions with the family but I was half expecting Papa to come down with a heart attack during the idyllic countryside dinner sequence. Some of the shots were soooo similar, I am half curious if it was purposeful because of the inevitable comparison that would be made there regardless.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
What a film -- my first viewing since 2006.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
Spielberg had a pretty interesting run in the oughts: AI/Minority Report/Catch Me If You Can/War of the Worlds/Munich. (Didn’t see The Terminal)
― Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link