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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Film and Walker...Re: What do you want to like? |
| Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:01:04 -0400 |
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From: "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com>
> I allowed this to happen to me just the other night. We had preview
> tickets to "In the Valley of Elah". The advance critic notices I
> read
> were calling it a masterpiece. One reviewer stated something like it
> has the emotional impact of THE DEER HUNTER and the plot worthy of
> CHINATOWN. That had me interested. I admit I went in with very HIGH
> expectations but to me while it could have been a great movie, it's
> merely a good per moments that feel flawed. The best thing in the
> movie is Tommy Lee Jones. It's a great performance and to me (and my
> wife) his character seems to be the only one really fleshed
> out...but
> I digress. The point being I bought the hype and ended up feeling
> slightly disappointed in a good movie with point of view I tend to
> agree with. Oh, and it's has a very slow, quiet pace to it, almost
> depressed feel...which I'm actually a sucker for...so you are
> warned.
Two words: Paul Haggis. When he was a TV writer, he was fine (he
created and produced a really charming Canadian series called DUE
SOUTH, about a Mountie working in Chicago, that I quite liked), but
his movies are the epitome of middlebrow self-importance. CRASH has
to be one of the most overhyped films of recent years. Its supposedly
deep, profound message is, fundamentally, "uh...racism is bad, 'n
stuff." Well, I knew that. Can I have my six bucks back?
S
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