I'm all about open-ended endings. Hell, most of my favorite movies have open-ended endings. If you're saying that I didn't get the movie, you'll have to explain whatever there was to get from it. It was an action flick about someone trying to save humanity against power hungry organisations who wanted to use what represented the future as political food, against the army who just didn't give a damn, and against the whole carelessness of the world. It also brushes oh-so-slightly about the feeling that you get when there's simply no future for the human race, the depressions that it brings and the lack of meaning brought by it.http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151776
All of this took about 10 minutes in the movie. The rest was run, get shot at, push the car, start the car, run, oh my god this character got killed, cue in intellectual references about Pink Floyd, Radiohead and Picasso to get intellectuals to care more about what essentially is an action flick, oh my god the door won't open, yeah hit that ****er with that battery, careful you'll get shot, wow he's gonna die, hey the boat is coming. The End. Laughing children, hope, etc.
It's a nicely done action flick with a good set-up, but nothing to fuel any interesting discussions.
I swear, every discussion about this movie turns around : Is it just an action flick or not? Nobody defending the fact that it's more than an action flick is even discussing what the hell the movie is saying.
I don't get why you brought up The Departed in there other than to troll lol. The Departed was far from a "deep" movie, although the Wiki page brings up lots of interesting stuff I missed. That being said, it's still an amazing film
I don't get why you brought up The Departed in there other than to troll lol. The Departed was far from a "deep" movie, although the Wiki page brings up lots of interesting stuff I missed. That being said, it's still an amazing film
The Departed is awesome for what it is. As a film though, CoM craps all over it.
I don't get why you brought up The Departed in there other than to troll lol. The Departed was far from a "deep" movie, although the Wiki page brings up lots of interesting stuff I missed. That being said, it's still an amazing film
The Departed is awesome for what it is. As a film though, CoM craps all over it.
I don't know. As I said after I watched CoM, it's hard for me to choose. This of course is complicated by the fact that I own The Departed and have seen it numerous times (watched the first 30min or so while cleaning the house earlier today lol), while I've seen CoM once.
Perhaps we can agree that both movies are quite masterful in specific areas. The writing/screenplay in The Departed is amazing, and the cinematography in CoM is amazing.
I don't get why you brought up The Departed in there other than to troll lol. The Departed was far from a "deep" movie, although the Wiki page brings up lots of interesting stuff I missed. That being said, it's still an amazing film
The Departed is awesome for what it is. As a film though, CoM craps all over it.
I don't know. As I said after I watched CoM, it's hard for me to choose. This of course is complicated by the fact that I own The Departed and have seen it numerous times (watched the first 30min or so while cleaning the house earlier today lol), while I've seen CoM once.
Perhaps we can agree that both movies are quite masterful in specific areas. The writing/screenplay in The Departed is amazing, and the cinematography in CoM is amazing.
I can't think of any single area of filmmaking that The Departed outdid CoM. I'm being serious.
Children of Men may be overrated, but it's easily better than The Departed, which is completely forgettable.
Pity Oscars don't make it any less forgettable. The Departed does not stick with you and nobody will be talking about it two years from now. It's this year's A Beautiful Mind.
And who is badmouthing Running Scared? That's a fun B flick if there ever was one!fo sho
i liked CoM, but man i'm not seein' anything special in it outside of a very well-filmed battle scene and clive owen's performance. the first hour was pure snooze. the dialogue is barely there (and awful in some cases ("pull my finger" is "nobody tosses a dwarf" level bad) and the non-owen performances range from phoned in (julianne moore) to snicker-worthy (the black gal; michael caine the hippie).