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Originally Posted by riverboatking
haha don't worry im a firm believer in taste being subjective doesn't bother me a bit and pretty sure u wrote a review of some movie i loved (burn after reading?) that was so well written it made me appreciate the film even more.
Haha I think this was me:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=5806
We have our lil spats in the past but we always come back over Burn After Reading and Bourne.
There's so much more to write about BAR than what I wrote there (haven't seen it since). The 15 second scene of Malkovich's (I don't even know if we see him there) Ivy League club reunion, shot in a dreamlike ominous way with them singing an old fight song. The implication in a serious movie would be some sort of underground Ivy League control of everything, but here it's simply nothing and is never touched on again, because everyone is just an idiot and we're filming them as if something important is going on.
I'm mad af about the irl Russia stuff because now when I finally get to see this in a screening at a theater, the stuff with "the Russians" is going to get the wrong type of attention.
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Originally Posted by g-bebe
A Quiet Place was good. I appreciate a horror or sci fi that just throws you into it. The opening sequence was really effective. The only thing that bugged me was the ending --
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Originally Posted by VincentVega
But regarding a quiet place there's just no reason for me to care about the characters. I feel like yea the gimmick was no dialogue but damn, a couple of flashback scenes for development would have helped.
Ugh the old "I don't care about the characters" nonsense. This is a cliched excuse. The movie didn't work for you and that's fine, but I absolutely guarantee you that putting flashbacks of them being a lovely family eating peanut butter sandwiches one stormy Saturday before the world ended would
not have changed your opinion of it.
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Originally Posted by parisron
A Quiet Place - It falls under my all time rule of 90 minutes or less. Any movie that is exactly 90 minutes or less is going to suck most of the time. There is no time for character and plot development.
And now there will be a part 2, maybe they can stretch it to 95 minutes.
Most movies would be better if they were shorter. Length isn't the problem if you didn't like it.