11-07-2021, 07:38 AM
They can't all be hits, I guess. I came away from this film puzzled. How could spend all that money on a film and not put in a line item for lights? I guess Director Chloe Zhao really wanted to put her stamp on the look of the film. In an interview, she said she tried to shoot the entire film at golden hour. I think she succeeded in doing that. I lost count of how many times the actors were shot with the sun behind them, their faces mostly lost in shadow while we got to see the sun peeking out from behind them. It could almost be a successful drinking game when you take a shot when the sun appears behind someone's head.
Do you like exposition? This is the film for you, especially if you like pointless exposition. The film starts with a credit scroll telling you the different factions. Okay. That's good. Tell me the players. Then during the course of the first ten minutes, they go through all of that again. And all the actors seemed like they were in different movies, especially Angelina Jolie.
A lot of the sets didn't look very good. A lot of the scenes didn't make sense. There was a funny butler character. He needs his own movie.
I think there might be a good movie in there somewhere but it wasn't brought out in this iteration.
And you have to ask yourself why would an all powerful God, who has been running this scenario for millions of years, make a deaf helper?
Do you like exposition? This is the film for you, especially if you like pointless exposition. The film starts with a credit scroll telling you the different factions. Okay. That's good. Tell me the players. Then during the course of the first ten minutes, they go through all of that again. And all the actors seemed like they were in different movies, especially Angelina Jolie.
A lot of the sets didn't look very good. A lot of the scenes didn't make sense. There was a funny butler character. He needs his own movie.
I think there might be a good movie in there somewhere but it wasn't brought out in this iteration.
And you have to ask yourself why would an all powerful God, who has been running this scenario for millions of years, make a deaf helper?
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm