It's fun, and there's a lot of great dialog and moments in the film, but wow it did not hang together for me. I never believed in Melvyn Douglas' character, he seemed like he was playing the Best Friend in a movie where he's supposed to be the charming leading man.
The main problem is there's like an entire act missing. We meet Ninotchka, she's a great character, basically Greta Garbo playing a Sci-fi Robot (because this was their commentary…
Every once in a while, for about three minutes at a time, the characters in the Matrix do this weird thing I don't understand. Their lips move, and sound comes out.
During these periods, I found myself thinking about how last night's D&D session went, which is a pleasant sensation. Yet I can’t help but be disappointed by the fact that I stepped out of the movie and was now sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers…
WOW I hated this movie. I never cared about anyone, I never felt any sense of tension in any scene.
There's no humanity in this film, no one to connect with or care about. The heroes all have The CGI Power which allows them to overcome any obstacle, instantly, except those meaningless moments where the producers try to create some tension by inventing arbitrary limits which are almost instantly defeated.
The plot is meaningless. I felt like you could have…
Academy-award winning director Sidney Lumet wrote, in his excellent book Making Movies that unless you have something important to say, there’s no reason your movie should be longer than 2 hours. He cites Schindler’s List as an example of a movie about significant enough a subject as to warrant a-3 hour movie. "But Fried Green Tomatoes?"
Peter Jackson’s Return Of The King clocks in at three hours and twenty minutes and it’s too long. Which is not to say it’s…
